Lemme know when the stock market hits 1929!

(rimshot)
(cow moo)
(old-timey car horn)
(boooooing! noise)
(edge of the sky cracking open to let in spectral ice-spiders)

The second book is even better ❤️

ME: sneezes

MY CAT: the fuck bro?

As soon as I find my keys it’s over for you bitches

A closeup photo of a black domestic short-hair male cat named Floki.

This is Floki. He is a handsome boy. He also has surprisingly large areolas for a cat.

I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh

This year's christmas card!

A close-up photo of a lavender and cream tortie point female cat named Alma.

This is Alma. She is the lady of the house. She will also cut a bitch.

And must not forget Woman's Body: An Owner's Manual. Which I read secretly dozens of times.

In 6th and 7th grades, I had English teachers who graciously looked the other way as I stole editions from their curriculum libraries. In particular -- 1984, Brave New World, and The Handmaid's Tale, dystopian novels that explore themes of oppression, individuality, and the loss of freedom.

The Bridge to Terabithia, The Island of Blue Dolphins, The Grapes of Wrath, 1984, A Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale, the Little House series, the Earth’s Children series (books 1-3), It’s All Too Much

My Christmas list this year:

- rolling library ladder
- home library for rolling library ladder
- home for home library for rolling library ladder

It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

Always good reading. pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/r...

I am over this shit pa rum pum pum pum

Oh, I am glad to know! Thank you! I was having that avid reader problem of experiencing words in print that I've never heard 🫣

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"

not all in your head I don't want my life to be a perpetual loop of trying to recover from something after something and someone after someone. I don't want recovery to be all that I am

source: not all in your head
#chronicillness #chronicallyill #autoimmune

If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.

All this hand-wringing that he had a spouse and children? Yeah, so did my dad. And my stepmom. And my FIL. If they get to choose arbitrary death sentences for us, then turnabout is fair play.

Every time this jerk gets into office we have a plague. Is it a sign? Asking for half the country that believes in signs but not science.

Sometimes when somebody asks me what’s wrong it’s that I’m afraid I won’t accomplish anything important before I die, and sometimes it’s that the TV volume is on an odd number or the dishes were dirty so I had to use the weird spoon for my cereal and that’s why I just say “nothing” most of the time

Saying “I promise not to drink on the job” because you have a record of drinking on the job, should be disqualifying as fuck for ANY job, let alone the Secretary of Defense.

Why didn’t he also say, “I promise not to sexually assault any women on the job.”

Is sexual assault not as disqualifying?

*low-key brags in space scientist 💪*

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Libraries are absolutely the best places on earth.

The solution to poverty is to give money to people who need money. Everything else is just inefficiency in order to salve people’s desire to punish poor people for being poor.

Who else here concurs?