How do you like THESE apples, Mr. Madame Secretary, Sir?

I’m working on a novel atm. There may or may not be a small game involved with it as well. 🍻 thank you for thinking of me haha I hope you’re doin well! 💪

Treat yourself to something new.

I love it.

We the people must never accept government threats to our freedom of speech. Efforts by leaders to pressure artists, journalists, and companies with retaliation for their speech strike at the heart of what it means to live in a free country. Last week, Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after the government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation. In an attempt to silence its critics, our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives, and entertainers across the board. This runs counter to the values our nation was built upon, and our Constitution guarantees. We know this moment is bigger than us and our industry. Teachers, government employees, law firms, researchers, universities, students and so many more are also facing direct attacks on their freedom of expression. Regardless of our political affiliation, or whether we engage in politics or not, we all love our country. We also share the belief that our voices should never be silenced by those in power – because if it happens to one of us, it happens to all of us. This is the moment to defend free speech across our nation. We encourage all Americans to join us, along with the ACLU, in the fight to defend and preserve our constitutionally protected rights.

A graphic listing the names of the more than 400 signers of the ACLU's letter condemning the federal government's retaliation against Jimmy Kimmel. For the full list of signatories, visit aclu.org/kimmel-letter-bk

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation.

More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

Yep same. Now I have redundant external hard drives and will never use a Mac again lol

Important reminder 🙏

*Nods in DRK*

Choose your online engagement.

Definitely need to hang out for longer next time 💪

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

Power couple @joshgondelman.bsky.social & @maris.bsky.social talk the early days of their relaysh: Josh's love of squalor, Maris' lack of pots & pans + snoring pugs & WASPs ❤️ of wedge salad + MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTJoshMaris

Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

*tsk*

Finally a politician for the children and not preying on them.

Hulk Hogan meme “let me be deadass with you brother.”

One less orange clown.

Happy birthday Brent! 🎉🎉🎉🎉💪💪💪

I have magic systems to spare. Say when.

I think about this constantly

Always so much fun 😆

If you need a bright spot for the weekend, put on Josh's special. I always feel better being reminded ppl like him exist.

They just shrug and say 'no.'

💪💪💪

I hate that we live in a time where we have to say and do this stuff.

B/W No Kings t-shirt portrait

This #independenceday, remember one of the original moments that made this nation great.

#nokings

(T-shirt available from @dungeonglitch.com )

James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" YouTube video by Democracy Now!

One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"

If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.

All the other minorities are next so none of ya'll should be ok with any of this.

Screenshot of a Twitter exchange. The original tweet is by May Peterson, Book Necromancer, saying: “Does anyone else get a strong sense of guilt and shame from receiving positive attention?” Above it is a reply from Kai Cheng, Warrior Queen of the Gynaeceum (@razorfemme), saying: “yes! I took a seminar on shame once where the trainer told us that compliments often trigger shame in people who have experienced developmental trauma because compliments are discordant with our internal sense of self, causing us to feel as though we have committed deceit.”

Some people recoil at compliments and never even think to wonder why.

Share if you know what this is talking about - so others can understand you lol

-- In case you needed to hear and understand this:

Idk what it is, but as soon as you send something out to beta readers - and you hit send - all the fixes and new ideas kick in.

#writingcommunity

I get the feeling if there wasn’t currently a genocide, this would be given even more attention for how bad it is.