Refreshing to see a detailed and practical piece about rest, esp. after so much “working from home” commentary from electeds. Nice job

Maranda writing beautifully (as always) about the compounding isolation and mutual retreat of serious chronic illness, further exacerbated by pandemic risks and public health policy:

Happy birthday Rachel Zucker!
Buy her books!
The Poetics of Wrongness: wavepoetry.com/products/the-p…
Listen to her show: Commonplace Podcast

Today is a good day to read a Rachel Zucker poem. 'There Are Two Magics' Rachel Zucker poets.org/poem/there-are…

I once had a morning meeting over very strong black tea with a very hungover Seamus Heaney.

Tip toeing back onto here to post a gift link for Ed Yong's latest. 'Sometimes, even if just slightly, the abyss brightens.'

nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opi…

American ART MONSTERS publishes today -- and mama's in Vogue! vogue.com/article/art-mo…

everyone for everyone

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Y’all want this one!!

This year for #halloween I dressed as a disabled person in the ongoing pandemic under this government in any one of its terrifying iterations aka effectively already dead aka bedblocker aka acceptable sacrifice on the pyre of zombie capitalism. #NotDeadYet #TheChronicLife

Here is one of the Count Cockula cards I made this year. Happy Halloweenie. 🎃🦇🧛

A delicious, poignant haunting of a kind some of us are too familiar with.

Housebound/bedbound Halloween costume challenge?? Here’s my entry, inspired by our old green screen, our dog’s nickname (“pea”), & this world desperately needing peace & liberation 🫛✌️

So many great signs at our thousands deep protest in ATX yesterday, but this one was my fav

Now that the overlord is openly tweeting white supremacist replacement theories I’m here to once again invite you all over the sky place. DM me for an invite. I’ve got one but will ask for others if I get more than one request.

To quote every single Indian friend, whether Hindu and Muslim, with whom I’ve spoken about this: “Modi is a nightmare.”