ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

This explains so much.

It's me. I'm a penguin.

This book cover always cracks me up!

Feel free to share book covers that make you laugh too!

I won! I finally reached 50k in my pirates & barbarians swashbuckling fantasy adventure for #NaNoWriMo - at 2:25am! Here's my reward box which I wisely opened after some sleep! Love the note from my wife & the very appropriate chill-out tea rather than my usual super-dense coffee. And yes, that is a party popper!
#Nanowrimo2023 #WritingCommunity

What the actual fuck. One of my favorite political commentators, Mehdi Hasan, has been speaking out very eloquently, with his usual evidence-based arguments, in favor of Palestinian rights. And as a result, MSNBC canceled his popular show. This is a terrifying sign that so-called free speech in this country is anything but free. https://presswatchers.org/2023/11/msnbc-cancels-mehdi-hasan-a-truth-teller-in-a-time-of-crisis/

our dream is to be a task location in #taskmaster for a game of hide the sausage. please make this happen, somehow.

Sen Whitehouse is a hero.

Via Sen Sheldon Whitehouse

You just watched every permutation of Republican obstruction: first, invoking the 2-hour rule; second, trying to deny a quorum; third, interrupting the vote with points of order; fourth, a general walk-out.

It shows how *desperately* Republicans want to prevent Americans from seeing what’s been going on between the right-wing billionaires and the gift-taking justices. It has to be really bad to trigger that barrage of procedural weapons.

I'm willing to stick my neck out.

If there's a Trump obit before the end of the year, I'll go back to church for an entire month.

You Know Why.
https://basilmarinerchase.wordpress.com/2023/11/28/napoleon-flower-moon-flopped-harder-than-marvels-why-the-different-narrative/

Here are four #quilts made by my mom, all different sizes and prices. Get yourself one for yourself! Or one for your friend! Or one for your friend and yourself! Ill give you a nice discount if you get two of them ~ #art #arts #quilt #quilting #quilter #quilters #artforsale #gifts #holiday #holidays #christmas #xmas #art

This Vox article is notable for the way it simply refuses to say that women perhaps don't want to be treated as walking wombs owned by some man, their bodies wrecked by dangers doctors ignore, and then cut loose by governments that only want soldiers and consumers. https://www.vox.com/23971366/declining-birth-rate-fertility-babies-children

Rewatched Guillermo del Toro’s “Crimson Peak” last night because I was in the mood for Gothic horror and this film is almost an overdose of that shit. I seem to notice new scary details every time I watch it.

@kristinHenry If we want people to move off of corporate social, artists, artisans, sex workers, and so on need to feel like they can still make a living. IF the goal is to get people to move from corporate social, this just has to be acknowledged and we have to find ways to accept that sometimes people might share links or solicit sales.

@palestine @israel
6/6
"However counter-intuitive it may sound, there are three good grounds – ethical ones, at that – for refusing to join in the chorus of condemnation of Hamas' actions on October 7."

https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/condemn-if-you-wish-but-palestinians
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https://open.substack.com/pub/hebhjamal/p/despite-what-you-think-palestinians

I've posted those two before, but it feels relevant.

Robert De Niro says his speech at last night's Gotham Awards was edited, with a sizeable chunk of it omitted from the teleprompter. The actor was accepting the Historical Icon and Creator Tribute award on behalf of "Killers of the Flower Moon." He ended up reading the original speech, which referenced the whitewashing of the Florida history curriculum and Trump's lies, from his phone. Here's more from Entertainment Weekly.

https://flip.it/aVrB4N

#RobertDeNiro #GothamAwards #Entertainment

Activist group on Capitol Hill using a big balloon to float its demand for Rep. George Santos (R-NY) to resign or be expelled from Congress.