The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 31, 1907

you may notice i use the phrase "my beloved" frequently. this is because i am in love with the world and everything in it. hope this clears things up <3

girl help the pessimists found me

"girl help i am staunchly refusing to realise my own naivete in a world almost completely made up of things that couldnt care less about me or are actively exploiting me"

Girl help the pessimists are mistaking an inherently meaningless universe for an inhumane and joyless one rather than recognizing the opportunity to make one’s own meaning and joy and to spread those things to others

i love this tweet

by the way guys, this deployment of ice to minnesota is largest ever. more agents than chicago. we are a much less dense state. we are being inundated.

It is the largest Department of Homeland Security operation in history. And yet Minnesota’s Somali population (this operation’s primary target) is upwards of 90% naturalized American citizens. It’s even more of a manufactured crisis than most DHS operations. Genuinely living in Minnesota now feels like we’re a small country on the brink of invasion.

I saw two ICE trucks yesterday on my way to give my friends back their house keys from when I was looking after their cats. I got home today and I heard whistles and honking from people chasing ICE, but by the time I got Matilda in the house they were gone so I couldn't join in the chase. I know there was a major attempt to steal my neighbors from just a few blocks away this morning while I was at work.

It doesn't feel like we're on the brink of invasion. It feels like we're being newly occupied by an invading force. Except that the invading force doesn't just want our total submission; they also want to rip half our neighbors out of our arms. They came for Hmong Minnesotans next, and they are also more than 90% citizens. We have a lot of minority populations who settled here because Minnesota prides itself on welcoming refugees; both populations have been here for more than thirty years.

Fuck this shit. It is terrorism.

Not just feels like, is. Feels like because is.

And for all the rest of us US occupants not in Minnesota, it's coming to us, too. Ohio is getting door-to-door ICE today, for instance, and I've seen multiple friends in other states posting photos of big ol' trucks, beds packed with ICE vehicles, rolling in to town.

We're still not quite two weeks into 2026. Get ready to plant your feet.

Remember:

* contact your reps, tell them to give a shit and do something if they don't/aren't already. I'm talking village alderman to Federal reps.

* befriend your neighbors.

* for those of you capable of improving your fitness, do it. You're late, but if you're able to do more than 15 pushups, situps and run a mile in about 14 minutes, you're faster/more equipped than 50% of ICE agents out there. Practice running between protests.

* protest safely & calmly after finding out what lawyers exist in your network. Dress for safety and if you can afford to do it in nice clothes or funky costumes, do that.

* tell your sons & daughters & nieces & nephews that military service never ends. Not even after retirement. Save them from giving themselves to the machine.

* Practice patience and compassion when your sanity can afford it.

* Be silly from time to time.

* Only answer the direct question as given.

* Read the declaration of independence, constitution, when you get a moment.

* I love you, no matter who you are, no matter what you are facing. I love you, Neighbors, each and every day.

An enemies to lovers romance centering around a crafting guild competition, and online pattern corrections.

Heated Ravelry

The twist: they follow each other on Ao3

Apologies - I assumed everyone would know it's Yuri 😅

I was going with Athena and Nancy (short for Anansewa).

I think Athena does Roller Derby 🤔 & moonlights as a Town Clerk, and Nancy wants winnings to start a craft store & escape the job she loathes.

An enemies to lovers romance centering around a crafting guild competition, and online pattern corrections.

Heated Ravelry

The twist: they follow each other on Ao3

JINGLE ALL THE WAY (1996) Dir. Brain Levant

Marie Curie's notebooks are crazy once you think about it. They're so radioactive they have to be sealed in a lead box. Imagine a world where atomic theory is forgotten and a dude just goes "yea there's a book that details the secrets of the universe, the machinations of the creation of existence down to its barest essentials, but if you get close to it you fucking die. The more you read it the more your body slowly disassembles into mush." like wat excuse me

The journals are actually not as radioactive as people say. The radioactivity has decayed somewhat, although they'll still be dangerous for a while. The problem is the dust particles that you might end up breathing in or getting in your mouth (possibly by putting fingers there). Like yes, they're not good to be around, but also not catastrophic. We do have, for good reasons, significantly better safety standards nowadays. But Marie Curie, who was doing much more dangerous things than using her journals, lived to 66 when the radiation exposure caught up with her. (For example, she wore a vial of radium around her neck for decades...). The stuff is on her journals because of the things that were in her lab!

Don't eat the journals though. That would be bad for you.

Dedly Cükbük

i will never forgive u people for forcing me to learn what a leboba is

the woke left: mathematics is kinda nonbinary because there are more than two numbers

real, conservative americans: math is only two numbers

Yeah, the conservatives think that because they're basic.

no if its only 1 and 0 then they're acidic

reblog to give prev a fUCKING BREAK in 2026