Riley 🍂🍁🍎🥧

Easiest ‘Nope’ ever.

Mine is 2. Spoke with Valerie Jarrett on a health care thing.

Ring of Fire In My Pants.

Oh this is a fun game. Mine would be ‘pretty darn good cook’

2001: A Space Odyssey for tax purposes

Fledge 💕💕💕

Abnormally, potentially record-breaking temperatures will impact southern California and stretch north toward the Bay Area and Central Valley through next week.

Hey @skyladawn.ca do you have time?

Oh for… Look, I get it - you’ve sweated over every concept, phrase, and comma to make your submission perfect and your tired brain vapor locks at the ‘include a brief cover letter’ submission requirement. But COME ON. Someone who claims to write a short story should be able to write a cover letter.

Pour one out for an icon.

New West Side Story remake is going to be wild.

This is a terrific creepy book I highly recommend!

Folks! Today is National Voter Registration Day. You do not have to decorate. Or wear a costume. Or send cards. (All are welcome, though.) All you need to do is check your voter registration: midterms.voteamerica.org/vote/verify/ If you're not registered, do it: midterms.voteamerica.org/vote/

@bunsenbernerbmd.bsky.social anxiously awaiting news on how the meet and greet went!

Hi all. We have some really big news. We need your help a bit. Read about it here: bunsenbernerbmd.substack.com/p/operation-...

I want people WITH skills to build cars, houses, roads and bridges…. As for wanting to do something creative ‘unrestrained by skills’ that’s called a beginner. No one is stopping you from learning the piano, dude. But you can’t sit at one that plays the keys for you and claim you’re an expert.

Mel Brooks’ The Seventh Seal

Hey @alasdairstuart.com did you guys get a new kitty?

We live on the East-West flight approach to O’Hare airport, which is busy 24/7. Taking the dog for her last walk late at night in 2001, I realized the sky was *silent*; no planes nearby landing, none taking off. Just… eerie quiet. It’s never completely still in Chicago, but this was scary close.

25 years ago, nearly 3,000 innocent lives were taken in terrorist attacks that forever changed our nation. We remember the first responders who ran toward danger to save lives. We mourn with the families who will forever carry the weight of that tragic day. We will never forget.

Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)

Teddy Cat came home for a weekend foster 12+ years ago. Decided he liked it. Stayed. No one in the household got a vote.

The Detroit River. No one not local understood the current, and how bootlegging back when was dicey even in the coldest weeks of Winter.

I walked two of my Muslim colleagues to their cars after work for an entire week to help keep them safe. Only reason I didn’t continue is all the ‘lightish brown’ folks started parking together in the row closest to the building so their cars would be monitored and they could walk out together.

What jumps out at me amongst the Nazi apologia is the Holocaust Denier who claims any deaths should be attributed only to disease and starvation, not what Nazis did ‘directly’. If you have someone in your custody and refuse to feed them so they die from starvation? That’s direct action. See: ICE.

Paging @dinajames.com this may be of interest

HOWLING

24 hours and closing in on 200 ‘my man looks like…’ and Kevin is still going strong. This is BlueSky gold, right here.

James does gorgeous photography AND speaks the truth.

The Dialect Questionnaire was extremely precisely correct…. Pretty sure it’s thanks to one specific question. IYKYK!

Attention, #IL03! We have received reports of ICE activity in our district. Stay safe! The best way to protect ourselves is by knowing our rights. If you have a neighbor or loved one detained by ICE or need help with a federal agency, contact my office at (773) 799-8219.

Please read this! I NEED Book 2…. The cliffhanger ending is going to haunt me, otherwise.

Don’t sleep on this book, folks. It’s a very fun ride!

@chriswarcraft.bsky.social please tell me you have a direct contribution Channel... I hate Actblue but want to send you more $$$

Enjoying a wee dram (or several) of the Wiser’s Green tonight. I might not be able to get it south of the Border any more… so when this bottle is done that may be the end. (Note to self: calculate flight costs to/from easy spot in Canada versus Duty Free…)

Bad as you think it is? Yup…. It’s worse.

Everybody ready for their Chevy Silverado to cost $214,999? Cool…

Make a band bigger: The Rolling Boulders

Your fav Disney Prince

These are fun, folks!

Just finished ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ and it is a tidy little mind f*ck (said in the most complimentary way). Highly recommend!

Guinness and chili cheese fries.