Hard Headed Woman

Pupper dressed as El Negro Matapacos, symbol of Chilean resistance to police brutality.

What these politicians are doing when they put out dumb transphobic ads or say dumb transphobic things on stage is that they're weakening the movement either out of personal bigotry or out of doing incorrect electoral math, and they really should get shit for it.

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

This might be the greatest film poster I've ever seen.

Is this a pigeon? 🎃

This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

The Portland DSA voter guide is out! portlanddsa.org/our-voter-gu...

This is kind of wonderful, Alison Brown wrangled a handful of pretty decent old bluegrass guys to play “Old Town Road”. Nas X’s impact… immeasurable youtu.be/a_GCX5IoCds

I read romance, I teach romance, I value romance. And I am always slightly confounded at the difference between what people think it is and what it actually is. The idea that a whole subset of novels dedicated to intimate human relations are indifferent are going to be simple and worthless? Weird.

Banned, but not in my elementary school library

Jesus fucking motorboating Christ, NO. Fuck off, right to the edge of fucking off, fuck off over that edge, hit the very fucking bottom of fucking off, and then fucking crawl away to die in a fucking corner.

Timeline cleanse. How about a lil dose of Canadian style empathy, patience and laughter?! 🤭 🦫🍁

Be vigilant, friends.

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

China Miéville is back. And so are the dead. 💀 The Rouse is a 1,264-page epic of grief, war, ghosts and necromancy spanning the twentieth century. Fourteen years after his last solo novel, Miéville returns with something enormous, strange and unmistakably his own. gnofhorror.com/the-rouse-by...

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

Y'ALL. I AM IN LOVE WITH THE @portlandfire.bsky.social WNBA MASCOT. Every girl in Portland wants a Rose stuffie for Christmas. Including Tall Wife, who literally gasped when she saw Rose. SHE BREATHES GLITTER.

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Leslie Caron by Ormond Gigli, 1954

Also, if you live in a part of the country that is not welcoming to you, because you're LGBTQ+ or because you're an immigrant or because you're being denied reproductive health care or for any other reason related to who you are, please consider coming to Portland.

New low price for Hallmark+ just dropped. Tamera Mowry Housley advertising a $30 annual subscription with code "TAMERA30." Tested it and it works, taking $49.99 off a new annual subscription. That's $2.50 per month, and more than 62% off the advertised rate. 🎥 www.instagram.com/p/DczS_i4Eb4...

American conservative catholics and evangelical protestants are amalgamating into one seriously fucked up theology

Portland lit the Morrison Bridge pink in honor of Dolly Parton. 💗

Happy weekend! Here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up blue hedgehog! Look at the little face and paws! 🦔💙 Made of faience around 3,600 years ago. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me #Archaeology

dogs STILL deserve fries

Yes. The conventional wisdom is that the lab leak has been suppressed when in fact it has been given far more credibility than it deserves. Scientists should explore every possibility but the lay public should know that spillover has a ton of evidence and a leak has none.

Masaki Kobayashi‘s 1964 horror classic KWAIDAN is coming to theaters this Fall with a 4K restoration of the Director's Cut. The film spins four tales of the supernatural. "These haunting tales, adapted from Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening."

Sorry for sharing again, but I’m fighting these edits with no contract and all that and every single copy counts, you know? Also, still only $1.99! That’s a lot for a little. Chunk of my soul, too. Love crime? Horror? Magic? Revenge? A little drama? I got you! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...

Aquí les dejo la secuencia de los momentos claves de la totalidad: el antes, durante y después. En ellas se pueden ver el anillo de diamantes, las perlas de Baily, las protuberancias y la corona solar en su máximo esplendor.

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Holy cow! spacedaily.com/k-in-2017-a-...

oh thank god (seriously, this will save me some money on importing the Good Sunscreen)

Any Portland Bike event would send these people in to fits A zoo bomb, naked bike ride , or the Lads 500 would kill these people

I did actually write out my personal opinion of the moving target that is romantasy, why it's not really a genre, and what the dividing line between fantasy romance & romantic fantasy is. Thank you for @cxorlando.bsky.social for letting me use this very professional & normal title. lol

gets incredible air here