Kerry Howell

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

That’s also why Vivek isn’t exactly lying when he says he didn’t mean to say Acton lied about being raped as a child. He doesn’t think she lied; he thinks that being raped disqualifies her from office, because she belongs to the class of people power is wielded against, not the class that wields it.

I highly, *highly* recommend these books, truly excellent folklore-focused romances that are so beautiful that university theses have been written on them

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

NEW: An order of New York nuns founded in 1817 has rebuked the bishops who laid hands on President Trump. “Images carry messages,” the Sisters of Charity wrote. “Silence carries messages, too.” The nuns have a powerful ally in Pope Leo XIV, who has put women at the center of his leadership.

I picked up the coolest conference swag this week and didn’t even know what it was! What do you give at a conference maybe 75% female and middle aged? Information fans!

smh erasing crucial info & creating how many dead links?

“I see the problem.” “Yeah?” “This is Maple Street.” “Isn’t that what it says?” “You want Maple AVENUE.” “Sorry, I’m covering for Dan.” “Is Dan okay?” “Shingles.” “That’s a shame.” “I’m Jill, by the way.” “Where are my manners, I’m Ted.” “Nice to meet you, Ted.” “You too, Jill.”

"Reading books is active resistance" is something I tell to my students every day.

This dork climbed into prime storage real estate last night.

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not

The Trader Joe’s stuffed peppers are delicious.

On this day in 2022, a fat faced tabby was caught in a trap. Scared, hungry, and sick with pneumonia, he spent some time in the ICU. The rest is history, but I like to consider today, his shelter intake date, Fishtopher's "birthday."

Losing my mind at how no one (everyone) could predict overturning Roe v Wade, no one (everyone) could foresee Jan 6, no one (everyone) could imagine the wild tornado of corruption in Trump 2.0, no one (everyone) could guess the economy would come crashing down...

Okay, I've set this up specifically for helping us take care of a surprise!dozen kittens and mama Chex Mix. 🧡 Shares muchly appreciated! (There will be SO many kitten photo updates, I promise.) www.gofundme.com/f/helping-ch...

A teeny, tiny, wildly incomplete handful of examples: -suspension of Lilly Ledbetter Act -Dobbs -attacks on Dept of Labor's Women's Bureau -mass dismissal of/refusal to promote women in the military -constant attacks on trans women & girls -targeted attacks on individual women in positions of power

Wake up kids, new/old way to reset your nervous system just dropped.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Meanwhile, here is who Jan Crawford is applauding in that exchange with Abdul El-Sayed: www.thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-teep...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Always on repeat in my brain: Linda Tirado saying of elected officials: "These people are not smarter than you." There weren't measles parties. We had a vax for that. There were chicken pox parties. It could be joked about, like anything. And I almost died.

*desperately trying to be relevant voice* if anyone wants to give me $30,000 that would be great but also still not be anywhere near my total legal fees

I know we're all pretty strapped right now, but @yamyamyam.bsky.social is a dear friend, and Ladybug is one of those incredibly sweet, loving, pet rock-type cats who shouldn't be in pain just because her human's financial situation has changed: www.gofundme.com/f/send-ladyb...

Big Streaming doesn't want you to know that Kanopy is kind of like Amazon Prime Video except that you have to pay for Prime and Kanopy is free. Oh also Prime shows ads even though you pay for it and Kanopy doesn't show ads even though you don't pay for it. Oh and Bezos doesn't get Kanopy's data.

people tell pollsters what they think is the "right" answer. "uh bipartisanship and hammering things out in the middle and sensible solutions." these same people would scream out in orgiastic joy if you just gave them a bunch of socialistic programs for the most part. they have no fuckin clue.

If they can take Ilhan Omar’s passport, they can take yours. A passport isn’t actually your property. It belongs to the state. And a capricious, racist, fascist state can and will use their power over passports to cut off avenues of safety for its people. I am deeply concerned for her and all of us

“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”

The most important report–the death of local news over the last year–is out now. Read it. Understand *this* is a significant reason why book bans have risen, why vaccine hesitancy has grown, why authoritarianism has taken over, etc etc. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/sta...

there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.

I finished marking every Flock camera in the Prescott area using my political sign exemption www.reddit.com/r/Prescott/c...

I did ALL my laundry today and the laundry made it back into the apartment. Please clap.

I know the ChatGPT ad about the old lady renting a boat is supposed to be “fun” “kooky” and “empowering” but as someone who has actually spent time with an elderly loved one (who only had access to infomercials) it’s fucking terrifying

If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms. Slava fucking Ukraini.

There's a diphtheria case in NY. Let's hope it's a one-off; diphtheria is deadly (1 in 10) & highly contagious (transmission is respiratory or cutaneous - via skin contact), but very rare in the US - just 10 cases in the last 20 years. The last respiratory case... 🧵 www.btpm.org/local/2026-1...

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan.”