Happy Dolly Parton Day! Because today is 9-2-5 (it works here in America with our m/d/y system), in honor of Dolly I gave $10 to the Imagination Library. It's not much, but it's what I can afford. Please consider donating today to a cause of your choice in honor of Dolly! imaginationlibrary.com

First amendment? What first amendment?

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3d ago

No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, this argument should be chilling. Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.

Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."

That feeling when the home cost calculator says that you can, if you somehow had zero debt AND a magical 50k just lying around for a down payment you could afford a....230k house. Meanwhile, a hole in the ground that used to be a drug lab starts at 600k.

Gilmore Girls: Am I Crying or Laughing?

ALT: Gilmore Girls: Am I Crying or Laughing?

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When Hot Jimothy Summer becomes Hot Jimothy Autumn...

Jimothy the Raccoon@jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 5d ago

Look Who Just Showed Up! 👀🦝 #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon

If unconstitutional was a person.

Outlaw Jim? The guy who defeated a dragon blindfolded AND with one hand tied behind his back? I heard by night he goes by James and every Saturday he stops by the hospital to read to sick orphans. Don't tell anyone I told you that.

Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 3d ago

Outlaw Jim? Outlaw Jim has a mouth so foul he sends sailors crying to momma. Outlaw Jim got swallowed by a dragon and in two days the dragon was begging him to leave. Outlaw Jim does more with eight fingers than a pianist does with ten. Why, what have YOU heard? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

Happy Fat Bear Week to all who celebrate the rotund bears of Katmai National Park in Alaska! Who will be the roundest, most hibernation-ready bear of all Alaska?? While I love 32 (aka Chunk, best known for his distinct jaw), 89 (aka Backpack) and 910 look like serious contenders...

KITTY

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last wk.

The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.

Could you imagine the epic shitstorm that would have taken place if Hunter Biden's wedding was financed by a sanctioned Russian oligarch who had been with Putin just days before? But because it was Don Jr's wedding? Crickets. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Should've stood with your friend instead of a man who is in the Epstein files, Ed. May you get that awful, awful sunburn that only redheads get, and may it be permanent. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore

Four openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments

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Behold! Yet another book available for preorder! This one has an aroace protagonist, many oddities, and a Very Good Goat. Also kind of my tribute to McKinley’s Spindle’s End, which you should read while you’re waiting.

Titan Books@titanbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're thrilled to reveal the cover for A SPOONFUL OF TROUBLE by @tkingfisher.com, the tale of a princess who decides to take fate into her own hands with the help of a goddess, a goat, and a healthy dose of self-confidence. February 2027 Cover: Natasha MacKenzie

Anything directed by Guillermo Del Toro is a must-see for me. His movies are always gorgeous.

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · last wk.

FOREVER AND ALWAYS MY DIRECTOR 🥳🥳🥳🥳 (Not my video.)

The face of Trumpian authoritarianism, intimidation and violence.

This would end careers BT.

Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.

It's not trash, it's a collection. Once you start a collection, it must be completed. I can't have one summoning stone. I need ALL the summoning stones, or the circle wouldn't be complete. Everyone in the Rifts knows you can't summon with an incomplete circle. It's why I've only got nine fingers.

Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · last wk.

When they call you a trash goblin, they don't mean it kindly. But you don't care. You chose this life, down here in the Rifts Between, amid the refuse and refugees of civilizations, and you wouldn't choose any other. How did you first slip into the Rifts? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

THIS 👇 HERE.......

With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

Ah, Rose City Comic Con! My first time here since 2019. I wore makeup for the first time since last December for this. I painted my nails for the first time in...like 10 years? For this.

Capitalists and rapists revel in victim blaming ... meme via David Royce Leach

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

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9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

Today I'm honoring 9/11 Day by turning remembrance into action. 25 years later,,, we remember those we lost and honor the heroes who stepped up by continuing to do GOOD. If you a NYC school teacher,,, drop yo wish list and imma hook up the first 25. Join me and @911day and #UNITEFORGOOD.

I don't typically write about 9/11 (I don't believe I've done so since the LiveJournal days, when it occurred in the first place) but I was actually thinking about it yesterday - and not because of the usual rigmarole leading up to memorial ceremonies. No, it was because of a pedicure.

Every anniversary of 9/11, I revisit this article. I was 18 when it happened, and watched from my dorm TV. I remember watching the second plane hit. I remember seeing people jumping to their deaths. Haunts me to this day. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

The Falling Man

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i...

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25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

"Women are TOO EMOTIONAL to be president!!!!!"

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