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former journalist! former television writer! former [a million day jobs]! now opening a worker-owned bookstore + cafe in astoria @nobordersbooks.bsky.social

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another reminder that we're opening a worker-owned radical bookstore & cafe in astoria! you can help by:

following our instagram: www.instagram.com/nobordersbooks

subscribing to newsletter: noborders.beehiiv.com

donating: www.gofundme.com/f/bring-a-wo...

shopping: bookshop.org/shop/NoBorders
No Borders Collective Bookshop
No Borders is a worker-owned bookstore and cafe coming soon to Astoria, Queens! Inspired by the values of mutual aid, collective liberation, and lifelong education, we'll offer:  a pay-what-you-want m...
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so many of my instagram reels are comedians saying things like "if you love closing cabinets, you should marry someone with adhd!" (10k likes, 4k "so true" comments) and i'm like ugh whatever. and then i hear my partner closing five cabinets in the kitchen
January 19, 2026 at 5:50 PM
is anyone keeping track of how many television shows this season includes a storyline about AI being unwelcome in the workplace
January 18, 2026 at 5:40 PM
can’t stop thinking about my 4DX experience. so funny to be like, “we gotta get people back to the movie theater! pay $35 and we’ll spray you with water and spill your popcorn and kick the back of your seat during tense scenes!”
January 17, 2026 at 6:28 PM
saw this as the filmmakers intended: in 4DX, spilling my beverage on my lap
apologies to my neighbors who heard me discussing my movie plans by yelling "WE'RE GOING TO THE BONE TEMPLE, BABY" into my phone
January 17, 2026 at 2:09 AM
favorite thing about traitors is that no matter what someone's job is they're convinced it makes them good at the game. "i'm great at sniffing out traitors because i'm a chef/football player/comedian"
January 16, 2026 at 10:26 PM
arm the left with e-bikes
January 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.
The frigid Twin Cities temperatures will hurt the homeless; so do not gloat about the impact on ICE without also stepping up here:
If you're still able to help Minnesota, @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social is always accepting donations. $10 buys a pack of handwarmers. If you were given Amazon gift cards this year for Christmas, you can shop their Amazon wishlist: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...
January 14, 2026 at 7:29 PM
apologies to my neighbors who heard me discussing my movie plans by yelling "WE'RE GOING TO THE BONE TEMPLE, BABY" into my phone
January 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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relatedly please send funds to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. ICE might suffer in this weather but our unhoused neighbors definitely will without support!!!!
It’ll be dangerously cold this weekend in the Twin Cities. Windchills will reach -20°. With how violently ICE is grabbing people, they might not be dressed for the weather, especially if ICE keeps dumping people miles from their home or car without their phone. Frostbite hits quickly at these temps.
January 16, 2026 at 1:10 AM
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
sad to realize that all my instagram friends seem to clearly remember 2016. really thought we were all in the 'stoners with multiple concussions and lifelong trauma' trenches together
January 15, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person.

Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured.

BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.
January 15, 2026 at 2:12 AM
personally i think it's cool to pause between rage posts and think "oh i SHOULD preorder this book!"
January 14, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Beck's Books is donating 100% of their shop profits through Saturday (Jan 17) to mutual aid for their neighbors targeted by ICE in Minneapolis.

They ship anywhere in the continental US:
becksbooksmpls.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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“All clear?” Someone asks and it’s like. I don’t know. I am a literary agent
January 14, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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The thing about this is that, also, we don’t know what we’re doing. Why are the other dads and I assessing possible threats on the street. We don’t know how to do that. We are just making shit up on the back of a napkin except the stakes are “the government invades a daycare”
Just another morning in the Twin Cities, keeping my eyes on the preschool parent signal chat to make sure none of my child’s classmates, their parents, or their teachers were kidnapped by the federal government in front of the school.
January 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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At @wired.com, we are hiring for a senior editor on our science desk. I'm happy to answer any questions about the role; my email is [email protected].
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January 14, 2026 at 4:32 PM
omg please do not bring that woman's film "criticism" over here
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid sharing these slides from ig and copied the link from her bio, please share and donate if you can!!!!
January 13, 2026 at 11:05 PM
"we need the murderous police to arrest the murderous ICE agents even though they are all working together" do you hear yourself
January 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
thank you to those who have sent funds!!! gonna order tonight if anyone wants to pitch in an extra 5 or 10 bucks! was at the pantry last night and we are sooo low on menstrual pads
hello i woke up feeling bad but have random money in venmo that i'm going to use to buy menstrual pads for my local food pantry, since those are one of the most highly requested items. if you want to help, you can venmo @ vi-pi and i'll use all the funds i get in the next couple days. xo
January 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
constantly thinking of the mushroom "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" tumblr post
January 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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refrain today is, I don’t know what we do with the people who ordered all of this when it’s over but we could try to obstruct and empty and close every immigration detention facility right now
January 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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hello i woke up feeling bad but have random money in venmo that i'm going to use to buy menstrual pads for my local food pantry, since those are one of the most highly requested items. if you want to help, you can venmo @ vi-pi and i'll use all the funds i get in the next couple days. xo
January 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM