a square comic with text at the top reading "Spring is not cancelled" with four drawings- one of redbud brances against the sky, a closeup of daffodils, a path between trees under a cloudy grey sky and a closeup of a lilac branch. text below reads "inspired by Madeleine Jubilee Saito" drawn by Maia Kobabe @ redgoldsparks

I drew this for the Spring Equinox in March 2020 inspired by Madeleine Jubilee Saito's comics but it has felt relevant again every spring since then.

Speechless.

Some truly wonderful childrens book people lost their jobs here. But I guess PRH needs money for AI engineers.

www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

I'm reiterating what other Minnesotans are saying: no matter what the news is reporting, nothing has tangibly changed on the ground. ICE is still out patrolling the streets, they're still looking for people to abduct, and they're still threatening observers. Do not let up the pressure.

Ha!

I think it is perfect.

This covers everyone and everything to do with the GOP and MAGA.

Vermin for MAGA vermin.

Two for one, as it should be.

I will always be proud of this piece of doggerel.

BAHAHAHA

Book-as-puzzle!

Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Sixth Week With all that is happening costs are about to rise the cost of groceries and of cars, the cost of electronics and of gas, yes, with all that is happening costs are about to rise, and as for the cos…

Someday
if you are very fortunate
you will look back
and say that you
lived through this,
but to reach that day
remember:
first you must
live through this.

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A compendium of the 256th week of plague poems…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/p...

Happy (Vinegar) Valentine's Day.

Yiddish curses for the GOP, ongoing.

Today I am the hype man for www.maybehappyending.com. It is delightful and wistful and funny, and the staging is innovative. Also a potted plant is in the cast.

Especially when they are "just following orders."

From our friends at @arcanebullshit.bsky.social. You can buy a poster, too.

"Enjoy" this disgusting recipe.

Today, we shine the light on the griot that said:

I am so perfect
so divine
so ethereal
so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission - Ego Tripping

Day 1: Sister Nikki Giovanni

#BlackHistoryMonth
#28DaysLater

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Linda Pastan, February (from "The Months"), 1999.

@nikkimcclure.bsky.social February.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

Question: What book are you reading at the moment?

Enough said.

Meet the Republican Weather Service.

A 27-year-old Elaine Stritch as Melba Snyder in the 1952 Broadway revival of PAL JOEY. Her song was "Zip"; her heels look very painful.