Jane Lebak
@janelebak.bsky.social
I write quirky books about angels, smart women, and angels dealing with smart women. Check them out! https://bookshop.org/shop/Philangelus
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
A string rosary came apart, so I decided to teach myself to use flex wire. I used an old centerpiece and used seed beads for spacers, and I think it came pretty nice. It's Tabris-colored, too, but I didn't realize until it was done.
Does anyone want to alert the FBI that someone's making threats against our congressional representatives? How about the Secret Service?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo agoTrump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
I went to the fish restaurant with the big picture of the fish on the kiosk. I read the menu, which had ten different kinds of fish. I ordered the Big Fish Sampler Platter. And to my shock, they brought me fish! I hate fish! I had to sit there eating yucky fish! This is somehow not my fault.
Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 10mo agoBen Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 10mo agoStuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
In terms of religious arguments, this one is kind of funny. They asked me to lector at the Wednesday daily Masses. Okay, but you have to prepare if you want to do it well. And if there are optional readings, that's not decided until 5 minutes before Mass. So I have to prepare them both. *sigh*
The existence of this bubble -- a place where marginalized populations could go to feel safe & accepted & joyful -- drove the wider patriarchal culture *insane*, so they attacked it & attacked it, made it a joke, dismissed it, marginalized it, killed it.
honestly even if you're reading performatively (???) keep doing it lol, buy books, take pictures of yourself reading books, let the reading make your brain better
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse
I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
Trump's lawyers are in the Supreme Court right now establishing that, among other things, a future Dem president can declare a climate emergency and tariff the fuck out of whatever he wants.
well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy
I can't wait for whatever unhinged posting Trump is going to do after the humiliation of tonight's votes. If we're lucky, it'll only be unhinged posting. Although who knows, maybe it'll be like after No Kings and he'll knock down the West Wing, too.
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
We should implement a legal Rule of Cool where if you commit a crime in a super cool way and *nobody gets physically hurt,* you get total immunity. This will incentivize criminals towards showmanship and avoiding casualties. This is a really good idea.
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
Just a reminder that there's a whole bsky feed of things Mike Johnson hasn't seen, doesn't know about, and wasn't informed about. bsky.app/profile/numb...
The range increments of a full subway sandwich are only 10/20 so you have disadvantage on your throw more than a few paces away. You can double the range with a half-sandwich wrapped tightly and druis have a fifth-level subclass feature that removes disadvantage if the sandwich has sprouts
John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 10mo agoIt's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
if lore is to be believed, fred astaire used to dance and glide around his tailor's workshop before taking a suit home to make sure the collar always stayed glued to his neck
happy halloween to what many people believed was the greatest tweet of all time
Mike Johnson bemoans able-bodied men collecting healthcare benefits from the government while not working--exactly what Mike Johnson is currently doing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo agoMike Johnson: "With Medicaid, we eliminated the fraud, waste, and abuse. We got able-bodied young men without dependents off the program. They were never intended to be there. They're sitting around on their couches playing video games. Yes, that's an actual study."
The joke about Kubrick I heard was that NASA hired him to fake it but after working with him they decided that just going to the moon would be easier.
NOTE to everyone else: if you're making homemade vanilla extract for Christmas gifts, you pretty much need to start it today if you haven't already.
Yeet@chadwifeyeet.bsky.social · 10mo agoGrowing up my mom was a huge gift giver. And I’d wind up with stuff she wanted that she’d give to me which was always thoughtful. But now as an adult I don’t want any gifts I can’t use. I only want consumables! I’m giving everyone homemade vanilla in thrifted jars for Xmas
