did y’all know that bookstores make a third of their money between Thanksgiving & New Year’s, & most ship nationwide 💌 personally I find this to be an excellent way to figure out any holiday gifts
That beautiful young mom who died with the wish that people would help erase medical debt for others?
Her posthumous charity efforts have now raised $650,000 — which will erase $65 MILLION in private medical debt.
Now that’s a legacy.
TOP TEN CAT BREEDS
1. Garbage Angel
2. Loaf Pro
3. Le Coodler
4. Cozy Plumpus
5. Great Northern Derpling
6. Famished Everstarve
7. Elusive Satin Scrambler
8. Alley Pal
9. Potato Royale
10. Spicy Knife Poppet
I don’t think anything has done more to combat my dissociative tendencies (thanks, C-PTSD) than astrology has. I’ve only just gotten into it this year, but I’m paying attention to my body and emotions and general connection to the world in a way I NEVER have before. It’s kind of wild??
“To all disabled people: Disabled Palestinian life is intrinsically valuable, just as Disabled Israeli life is.
We don’t have to know all the answers to know that this bombardment of Palestine must stop immediately.”
- Allie Cannington
Wear. A. Fucking. Mask.
The money you will save on medication (even if it's just OTC) and tissues from simply avoiding getting bunged up with a cold every five minutes is so worth it, even if COVID, flu, &/or RSV weren't in the mix.
A reminder to leave reviews of books you love when you can because when you leave a review of a book you love, a fairy gets its wings, and that fairy will use its wings to deliver you a bindle of elf cocaine, and that elf cocaine is non-addictive but okay my lawyer is telling me to stop typing now
New newsletter is out! “As journalism faces massive layoffs and freelance rates plummet (truly it’s bleak out there you guys), it seems that publications are returning to that very specific kind of first-person content. Frankly, it worries me.”
thefrankiedlc.substack.com/p/lets-not-r...
God, I love libraries. Do you know that NYPL has an entire database of menus of major hotels/restaurants in the city organized by decade? menus.nypl.org
Historical fiction writers, this is just...amazing.
So far I’m VERY much enjoying Spider-Man 2, but I don’t feel compelled to play it the way I expected? I wonder if that’s a product of me just having emerged of Lies of P brainrot or if maybe the open world is Too Much for my brain right now?? Idk. But it is an EXCELLENT game so far. Def a me thing.
I really really need to sit down and get my photocard collection in order. I have SO MANY waiting to be sleeved and put away. 😩 But the actual physical process of it takes sooooo much out of me. 😭
🤝
“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“
Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea
Now that I’ve platinumed Lies of P, I’m confident in saying it’s my game of the year.
The only negative for me (and this is solely me being greedy lol) is the lack of a photo mode. Can you IMAGINE if it had a Ghost of Tsushima style photo mode?? I’d have sunk another 100 hrs in for that alone.
Mentally I’m still here. I’ve missed him so much. 😭😭😭
“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
Multiple things can be true at once:
1. Oct 7th was the worst collective trauma Jews have experienced in our lifetimes
2. The war on Gaza is a horror
3. Antisemitism is rising
4. Islamophobia is rising
Those trying to use one of these to cancel others are making things worse
A pediatrician in Gaza:
"As I write this, the hospital is on the precipice of true disaster. We are down to the last gallons of fuel.... Our morgue filled to capacity within the first week & we’ve had to store many dead children in a nearby tent."
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/o...
A black lab/Bassett hound mix lays on a dog bed. He stares upward with classic puppy dog eyes.
We had to put our dog to sleep today. It was definitely time and he had a long, good life. It feels…silly or maybe even wrong somehow to be sad about it given, you know, everything else??
Regardless, you were so loved and you’ll be so missed, Cody.
if you live in the US and need an easy way to call your reps, Jewish Voice For Peace has a form and a script for demanding a ceasefire:
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...
I feel like I’ve completely forgotten how to post on social media. I don’t think I realized how much anxiety I’d built up on Twitter over the past couple years. Like I go to post something here (anything at all!) and it’s an instant anxiety spike. The swooping, sick to your stomach kind.
Please make the time to read this tonight.
I know it doesn't feel like enough, but please consider donating to Anera: www.anera.org
or the Palestinian Children's Fund: www.pcrf.net
if you can.
My story “The Girl with the Teeth” in Laura Silverman’s anthology GAME ON. I genuinely think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever written—certainly the best horror I’ve done so far.
I might be misunderstanding because this makes so little sense. but does this mean they're still just going to be like, "book banners! what can you do??" and continue to do...exactly what the book banners want them to do
Mike Johnson wanted to overturn the 2020 election. Now he's second in the line of succession, behind only Vice President Kamala Harris.
My Law Dork report on our new extremist speaker: www.lawdork.com/p/a-virtual-...
I read this as Eva Longoria at first, and wow that was a confusing twenty seconds 😂
