they want you afraid and quiet. you need to be brave and loud.

I have volunteered for a local food project for a long time. The main food banks have arrangements with a variety of suppliers. A dollar donated to a food bank feeds more people than dollars spent directly on groceries donated. Food banks, pantries, and projects always need volunteers as well.

Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽

Donate to your local food bank.

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Please remember that, as people lose their SNAP benefits, pets are at risk of being abandoned. Please donate to your local food pantry--food for humans AND their animal family members. Of course, monetary donations will help immensely.

"The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be" is one of my all-time favorites. It never fails to chill, no matter how many times I've read it. 🖤

I grew in poverty. My father had to drop out of school when he wad 12 to go to work after his father was killed in a car accident. He worked oj fishing boats while functionally illiterate My mother was not able to go to college so she worked low paying jobs until she was diagnosed

Stephen King will join Andre Dubus, an English professor, for the Andre Dubus III UMass Lowell Alumni Book Club event on Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. The virtual, live event is free and open to the public. Link to register can be found in the article.

I'm so sorry! Sending positive energy to both of you 💫

Thank you! ❤️

In addition to being a great writer, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social is a wonderful photographer. Do yourself a favor and read the alt text--not just for these images, but for all his posts. Hilarious!

I loved The Twisted Ones. That deer-thing still haunts me, years after reading. A genuinely creepy book--with enough humor to take the edge off. Still, that deer-thing...😳

Just watched. What a fun movie! And that soundtrack! Feels like Anna made ME a mixtape 💿💀🖤

Sorry. They've moved to my closet...💀

This is fabulous! Good on him for creativity and spreading joy. And good for both of you to have such a lovely friendship. Thanks for sharing; spreading examples of love and joy is what we all need right now. Bonus points for the Brady Bunch theme!

I think I have enough demons thank you. See we

"Show them you’re not afraid. Do it for your country. Do it for the Constitution. For your family. For yourself. Do it for your freedom. While you still can."

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

The bone buddies are still having a blast outside, celebrating the fact that they're skeletons.

When we gut the rights of anyone, we gut the rights of everyone. A decent society stands up for and with its most vulnerable. It's as simple and complicated as that.

Now that's horror! 😱

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

I could write a long, angry thread about how AI is the biggest act of piracy ever. About how it's stealing art from artists, words from writers... But fuck it, instead, let's go hard on circling the wagons, protecting those in our community, and amplifying the talents of those being robbed 🖤.

Yes! Reading for pleasure is its own reward, but it pays dividends in vocabulary, empathy, and critical thinking. Books and reading are gifts to be shared. 📚💞