Woo hoo!

A toppled tyrant in Eastern Europe makes me think of Leonard Bernstein on Christmas Day 1989 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“Would you like to try again?”

Oh dear.

The parenting book that I’m reading starts with the Peggy O’Mara quote “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.”

"still punk," i whisper, stirring a supplement powder into a cup of coffee, a second supplement powder into a glass of water, and a third supplement powder into my second cup of coffee

It's National Library Week, fam, which means today is a GREAT day to get a library card. 🔥

the cover of hello sunshine with the ala award sticker on it

a drawn photo of Alex facing Daisy eyes, a red monster with Daisy eyes, on the ceiling

Alex and Noah kissing

the kids from hello sunshine looking uneasy with daisy eyes' hands in the back ground and an inset panel showing a cassette tape

Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics

Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...

I’m just not here for any demobilizing or disorganizing talk right now. If you have alternate paths and plans, issue those invitations. We need them. But demobilizing and disorganizing won’t make us stronger or better.

And like it or not, in this incredibly fascist moment, this imagery does matter

I just got it from the library!

see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Your usual no-fun reminder that alt text is not for jokes unless you are explicitly explaining a sight gag.

If someone who has never seen the color of Baja Blast opens your alt text on a photo of some pee that looks weird, calling it “a lab sample of Baja Blast” in the alt is royally confusing.

It popped up on my StoryGraph year in review as the overall highest rated of all the books I read last year!

West coast friends missing Big Bad Con, Go Play is the only other con I’ve been to with similar values and spirit. It’s a small event that punches up up up. Buy a membership so we can play games together in Seattle this July goplaynw.org/membership-d...

I think it’s great to see that a local (Richmond, CA) dance performance is having one night that is masks required! milkbar.org/mary-armentr...

It also looks like a cool show.

SDPL Clara Breed Civil Liberties Lecture Maggie Tokuda-Hall in conversation with Mike Sakasegawa of the Keep the Channel Open Podcast. Tuesday March 10th, central library 6-8pm Also a pic of my face from 10 years ago, I look great.

Who do I know in San Diego? I will be there next week at the SDPL and I am afraid that I do not have enough people there.

I will be talking about the Japanese American Incarceration, book bans, and what our current climate of censorship yields for us while simultaneous state sanctioned raids occur.

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

This is incredibly cute.

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States YouTube video by Olympics

some thoughts on Alysa’s gold medal skate a day later

- this is maybe my absolute favorite skating performance ever? I know enough to understand it’s not the most challenging technical skate but the sheer infectious joy is unmatched

- I’ve watched this maybe 15 times

- I mean holy shit look at it

I just requested it from the library based entirely on this meme.

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Trying to raise $250 for medications. I'm on week one of what will be four and I am nigh totally nonfunctional. This is not sustainable for a month of effectively being unable to work.

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Please honor James’ memory by getting screened for colorectal cancer. Make the call today if you are 45 or have a family history. Rates are surging among young people. Catching it early is the best way to survive it.

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Sorry, I don't mean resources for how to go and protest. I mean readings about how public health and activism have interacted. Think the history of act up, in a way that is digestible for 20-year-olds who are thinking about it for the first time.

Bring back earnestness and sincerity.

I am so tired of the Nextdoor posts about how no one uses that library. I went to that library three times last week. It was bustling every time.

You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????

The information available ($24k for 10k words) makes YB&B 1st print THE BEST freelance writing payout I've ever heard of in TTRPGs. Even the base $3k for 10k words without bonus or royalties is higher than the top rate I've ever received and, in context of TTRPGs, a rate I'd call excellent.

I have a hold on it at the library already! I can’t wait to read it.

and now that i can say this with mY full chest, ice and that entire administration.

Absolutely losing my mind over Ava, THE ROCK'S DAUGHTER, quitting WWE despite them offering her a raise to keep working a pretty cushy kayfabe general manager gig and then the day after her contract ends she posts this