@crystalbrier
(She/her/they) Writer. DevOps/Sysadmin. Occasional artist. Perpetual student of Spanish. Struggling daily to embody the words "Never let the bastards wear you down." Usually failing. #blacklivesmatter #equality https://michelestuart.me
Finished season 1 of Hijack and greatly enjoyed it. Nothing I'd call a spoiler here. Just saying that Alice is my hero. Also, love that Marsha's "type," re men, appears to favor extreme competence.
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
Just take the win! 😂
Random happy thing.
Quick poll
A. Image search on the web has degraded to the point of near uselessness.
B. I have become a grumpy old woman shaking my fist at the cloud.
C. Both A and B.
D. Other.
That may be one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
To be clear, I am 100% on the strikers side and am appalled and mystified by this official's statement.
"This is beyond insane. Why would these labor bosses not want these public safety threats out of their communities?” a DHS spokesperson said in an email in response to the economic blackout.
“These are the criminals these labor bosses are trying to protect,"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Thanks for the repost, @jordankurella.com ! I'm only afraid that the speed with which you did it might have unspun the fabric of space-time. 😄
First Two Hour Transport of the year, Wed, Jan 28th. Do you love short fiction and nice people? You get both!
twohourtransport.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/t...
I swiped past a Facebook ad today, in 2026, offering to teach me to use 10% more of my brain. I thought this fallacy had been dispensed with long ago, but perhaps not. We already use our whole brain. Now, if someone could offer me a way to add extra storage and CPU, that would be cool.
Are there really still U.S. citizens who don't see that immigrants aren't the danger? Our government is the danger.
Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. Mary Oliver Red Bird (2008)
Leave it to Mary Oliver to sum up what I said in a long-winded essay in one beautiful, heart-wrenching poem. 🤨
(Seriously, though: When Oliver veers from her usual, gently-moving-through-our-aching-world structure to drive home line breaks, you KNOW she's not a happy camper.)
#Poetry #PoetryBreak
Perhaps you didn't realize it was him because the melodious tones of his voice lull the hearer into a state of partial bliss, thus acting much like Clark Kent's glasses
Ugh. I hope it passes quickly. 🫂
So, he kind of got the alternate history part right ..
Half my team at the day job got let go last week. Today, I'll learn if I have a job on a different project. I'm extraordinarily lucky in that it's almost a win/win for me: I either get the job, or have a little time off to seriously consider my retirement options. But I am sad about my team.
How'd the rabbit feel about that?
What the actual fuck?
Always.
I have concerns. Surely Mr. Zelensky would not count on our president to keep his word about anything, regardless of law and contract?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Oh, I love these. Beautiful.
I'm so sorry. I have enjoyed your posts.
There's no rule of journalism that says you have to show a president telling lie after lie – uncorrected – many times a day. That's a decision that corporate media are making for purposes other than delivering the truth to the public.
Oh no. Hope you feel better quickly.
Marketing image for A Gay in a Manger at Actor's Express in Atlanta, showing drag stars Olive and Agatha.
Hmm, not a great link. So here's the blurb.
