Jessica Atchison

If we’re cool with an unqualified HHS director, skip RFK Jr. — give me Noah Wyle.

I know that there are exceptions to this, but they generally are the exceptions that prove the rule.

The amount of entitlement contained in people who have hereditary wealth never ceases to amaze me. Instead of helping those around them, or helping to better the world for everyone, they spend their energy thinking of new ways to hold on to what they have, and not share anything new that they gain.

Why is anything Woody Allen does of note to anyone?

A tumblr screen capture: Tumblr user charlesoberonn: Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare. Tumblr user charlesoberonn: Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late. Tumblr user charlesoberonn: Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough. Tumblr user hyperlexichypatia: SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need. Tumblr user blandandtasteless: This feels like calibrating my normal detector

We all need to recalibrate our normal detectors.

👇 #knitters - Tom has been organizing the shop and has sized and polished the last of our Northern Light™ needles! www.dyakcraft.com

I lived in a diverse neighborhood where if you did that you’d find yourself in the middle of an impromptu block party with everyone trying to get everyone else to try their food. It was lovely

Come visit me and we’ll go together!

And if you call them on it, they will say it reinforces their belief that dark skin = criminal.

Both dove and pigeon.

The random pigeon! I'm ded!

That’s been the goal since the Emancipation Proclamation.

That is a gorgeous skein of yarn!

You know what I don’t get? So many fundamentalist religions teach that men can’t control themselves sexually, but at the same time they teach that women can’t be leaders.

Oh how darling!

Remember when Nancy Reagan changed the China and everyone lost their damn minds at her frivolous spending?

Wynnie says “finally someone who understands what a dangerous creature is a bunny”

Motherfucking wind farms…

Racism is hysterically funny if it doesn’t touch you and yours. It’s horrifying and exhausting if it does.

It’s very hard to watch them become more and more vulnerable.

Perforated paper for cross stitch and needlework…

How would you like to join me in a mad venture to start a new manufacturing company here in the states?

I’m caught between dancing with excitement and hyperventilating with panic. My paper samples arrived yesterday and I’ve chosen one to send to the converter. This is really gonna happen!

#BookSky

No lie, my friend cared for an elderly man who never married and lived with his mother and then his sisters until he was the only one left, and was utterly floored when I suggested that he might have been gay.

This country to be dragged backwards to the days of Jim Crow.

To ensure that we have an advantage over the descendants of those who were wronged. When the world watched a black man being murdered by police in 2020, I did what I could to support the protests and amplify the voices of the marginalized. My people are also furious, and we are not going to allow