A desk top with a handful of scattered ruby and sapphire chips being set in silver metal clay

working with the forbidden pop rocks ✨

The cover of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Imaginary Beings, featuring a human-faced creature with long ears, small wings, a sort of turkeyish tail, and elegant hooves, illustrated by Peter Sis.

Started reading Grimoire an imaginary being from Jorge Luis Borges every day, and I recommend it. It's possible to read an imaginary being to your 6 year old while stirring pasta sauce, or making chicken nuggets, for example.

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

What we lost when we lost Self magazine The almost 50-year-old publication was a lifeline for chronically ill readers.

After Condé Nast's decision to close SELF, I spoke to chronically ill women about what the women's health site meant to them.

"We have to acknowledge chronic illness as a politically, culturally, and socially marginalized category"

Latest for @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A picture of a black cat sleeping in a blue comforter while blepping

her

Zine cover reading: MAY DAY STRONG Friday, May 1, 2026 HERE'S WHAT YOU DO No school, no work, no shopping

Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Check out the zine in this thread and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you!

Get more from John Wiswell on Patreon creating Stories and Worlds

This is going to make the next month even harder. So if you want to do something to help, now is a great time to support my Patreon.

When a cat is sleepin' real hard and you pet her and she makes a little "activation noise" rt if you agree

KitKat, Gatorade or granola bars? What’s banned under new SNAP rules is mixed. Many GOP states are enacting soda and candy bans for food stamp purchases amid MAHA’s healthy food efforts. Some retailers and SNAP users find the new rules complicated.

This article frames the Republican push to limit what people can buy with food stamps as part of RFK's agenda but in reality this has long been a conservative goal and it's always been about punishing the poor, not about health www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

A picture of a black cat with crazy eyes

she gives *such* good (absurd) face

Deep red blooming peony with a psychedelic center.

Where is the jumping up and down in excitement emoji? My peony is blooming. 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

A picture looking up at a black cat on a white railing

Railing Cat

thank you, wife

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Done 👇

I can not believe I’m a fan of the pope.

I didn't previously know of Najwan Darwish's "Who Remembers the Armenians?" so here it is for anyone who was similarly unaware

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

A reminder, as Obama and Mamdani come together for the first time in person, that Mamdani is everything the GOP said Obama was... but wasn't: an African-born socialist Muslim.
#justsayin

A red coral necklace in progress

♥️

A little over two years old.

This is Pebbles!

My wife asked me to repost this in case some folks missed it.

She is de-stashing her treasure hoard of yarn. There's a lot of it. It's kinda taken over the house. I'm in the attic of the garage right now. Help?

www.etsy.com/shop/Destash...

HER studio chair.