Katherine Fergason

That weird helplessness of living somewhere your reps are making the right choices, so you make your calls, but don’t know what they accomplish. You go to protests, but don’t know what they change. You send what little help you can financially. But mostly just feel helpless.

Remember when twitter used to be able to get you of the moment news in your local area? I miss twitter.

@MBTA any information on the 39 being detoured? Which is currently replacing the green line? So we’re all just screwed?

Never forget that @bariweiss incited the murder of Dr. Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian professor, writer and poet in Gaza. Israel killed him 2 years ago for no reason. They also killed his sister and her kids, his daughter, husband and baby. Bari will always be known for this.

I feel like there are so many picture books coming out these days about books books books. At libraries. At stores. But maybe we should just be making books? Books about things and not about books?

@megcarr Beauty and the Beast is a perfect movie. You are correct. It released when I was in eighth grade and when I tell you that was the perfect formative moment to see that movie?

Beauty and the Beast is a perfect movie. The end.

Watching the Disney classics in chronological order. Snow White was last night. On to Pinocchio. First question: why is there a talking/singing fox? Second question: why did Disney steal his “an actor’s life for me” for “a pirate’s life for me”?

Does AMZ seriously have an ad campaign about how you can spend less in your children because you can’t stand them?

Miss Rachel is brilliant.

Um…. Yes, these are all the things we want? Thank you!

My email changed itself from sorting by most recent to sorting by most “relevant” and I hate absolutely everything. I thought I was going bonkers before I realized what was happening.

ALSO?.? I know a bunch of stores that don’t carry Harry P any more, but you know what? NO ONE FREAKING NOTICED. Because kids don’t care because they’ve got plenty of other really great books to read.

God bless indies who choose what they want to sell. God bless all the indie booksellers spending so much energy they do not have fighting the government that is actually banning books

Explaining to people that bookstores CAN'T ban books because they are not the government is so last year. Three years ago. Five years ago. Ten years ago.

omg I think I made a nemesis tonight. I regret nothing. I’m gonna have to see if I can find out her name tomorrow.

If it were a few years back, I’d end up writing a whole twitter thread about the Ai Weiwei exhibit I saw yesterday because I can’t stop thinking about it. But now I don’t know where to put those thoughts.

17 hours after its unlawful seizure and capture, the #Madleen crew remains held offshore, reportedly near Ashdod. I call on: – Israel to release them immediately, and let them sail unimpeded to Gaza; – The UK to act under its Article 94 UNCLOS duties as flag-state to ensure the safety of the crew; – Crew members’ home states (Brazil, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Turkey), to intervene to ensure the safety of their citizens. There is no legal basis for Israel’s actions. All states must uphold their obligations under the Genocide Convention—to prevent further acts of genocide and end Israel’s impunity. It should never have fallen to ordinary citizens to do what states refuse to.

All the places I used to buy relatively inexpensive 95masks aren’t selling them by more. Does anyone still masking have a favorite source?

We are $3,000~ away from being able to completely replace the NEA grant funding that was taken away from Deep Vellum and @open_letter! Help us reach our goal today. Link in the second post:

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -- Omar El Akkad