Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old 192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!

I know there’s a lot of people who need a lot of help these days, but what was done to that family was truly heinous, so if you have some room in your budget please consider helping them out if you can.

remember Adriana Smith, the woman who was denied care and then had her body used as an incubator due to Georgia’s heartbeat bill? The baby they removed from her is still NICU and her family (who is forced to pay for all of this) hasn’t hit the goal on her gofundme. www.gofundme.com/f/help-adria...

What To Know About ‘Heated Rivalry’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-heated-rivalry/

ABC News and MS NOW reports that a Virginia grand jury has refused to re-indict Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges

Oh hey, I actually blogged.

On the blog: I updated my tracking of all RomanceClass-es delivered and sit with these numbers for a bit. 667 total participants! 171 drafts produced! Now thinking about how we recover from 2020 (I got majorly blocked and perhaps a lot of us did based on this minavesguerra.com/news/a-short...

Obsessed with knitting book sleeves again! 🧶

Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom

Kiva is an easy way to make a real difference in someone's life. Will you join me in helping Loreen in Bethlehem, West Bank to pursue their dream? www.kiva.org/invitedby/ta...

When I asked the old punk how Thanksgiving went she said her sister told her “if you love me you won’t talk about Covid or politics or any of that crap,” and the old punk explained that in response she told her sister “I try to talk to you about that crap because I love you.”

Reuters: "Israeli forces launched airstrikes in southern and central Gaza, hitting areas beyond the yellow line despite ceasefire terms." The Gazans are homeless and under attack and rely on our donations to survive. Please give to my friend Tasneem. And to others. ❤️ chuffed.org/project/1587...

Shout out to u/BuffaloCrapSmeller on the retro anime subreddit for posting this, I had no idea where this meme came from until today! Anime: The Brave of Sun Fighbird, 1991.

hey everyone. maha's worst fears have been confirmed as the doctors diagnosed her baby hamoud with lung cancer. this young woman has been so brave and is so alone, please help and share. i know times are hard for everyone but if you have any extra, please don't forget about gaza ♥️

GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that

Audio edition Better at Weddings Than You chapter 4 (Gio Gahol's first chapter ahem) and chapter 5 now up on RomanceClass Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/kilig-...

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

Now that COP is over, rich countries can go back to not pretending. Until next COP when both them and their pet journalists can celebrate their climate leadership

I removed the single em dash from this Reddit comment I wrote by hand, and then it allowed me to post it. We live in hell.

I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.

Schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria have been rescued, president says

If you wake up tomorrow and need to travel I hope that you will take care and travel safely. And if you wake up tomorrow and feel unwell I hope that you will take care and not travel at all.

I was gonna eat a croissant when I remembered France’s bloody history of colonization 😭😭

Fletcher fought for greater recognition of one of the deadliest incidents of race violence in US history.

Hi! 👋 I'm looking for freelance pixel art work! 10+ years experience in game dev making lil' guys, big guys, animations, environment, tiles - any style! RTs appreciated ✨ Portfolio below ⬇️

Amazing

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Your Thanksgiving gravy tastes better when you use union mushrooms. Let's give a huge thanks to workers like "Adan" who harvest mushrooms for Monterey Mushrooms under a UFW contract. On an average day, he picks 240-280 of the blue baskets you see in this vid. #WeFeedYou

Anyway. Here's what Sam Altman's been up to, lately. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fBh...

#ResistanceUnited And this, my friends, is why the working poor need SNAP. #RaiseTheMinimumWage

Me talking to everybody Black at the Star Trek Convention

⚡️Update: Search and rescue operations end in Ternopil with 33 dead, 6 still missing. Operations concluded after four days, the State Emergency Service said on Nov. 22. The death toll has risen to 33, with six people missing, including a child.

Listen to Chapters 2 and 3 of the Better at Weddings Than You audio edition (narrated by Rachel Coates and Gio Gahol) www.patreon.com/posts/kilig-...

Playing yarn chicken again.

Apparently “With an absent CDC and mismatched ‘subclade K’ flu strain, experts face upcoming season with uncertainty,” and considering that the experts are facing this upcoming season with uncertainty, you should try facing this upcoming season with a mask on your face.

Midweek treat: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...

⚡'Destroyed in an instant' — 26 killed, 142 injured, blackouts across Ukraine after Russian mass missile, drone attack. Rescue operations are still underway as authorities search for 26 people believed to be trapped under the rubble of a destroyed apartment building in Ternopil, western Ukraine.

Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme Stop embracing surveillance tech

It is positively dumbfounding to me that literally ANYONE still has Alexa in their homes, neverminded that they're lining up to buy literal surveillance sunglasses

Nataliia Khodemchuk, widow of the first victim of the Chornobyl disaster, died in a Russian attack on Kyiv; Russian troops reportedly shot dead two captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers; and more.

I made a little coffee bean. 🧶 ☕️ I swear, I used two different yarn colors. Dark and light brown. Apparently, they weren’t different enough, because it ALL LOOKS THE SAME. 😡 Whatever. It’s fine. I’m fine. #crochetsky

"Martin" works harvesting grapes in Soledad, CA. "We start work at 2 a.m. and we don't leave until 9 a.m. It's difficult as part of my work is at night where we don't see as clearly and it is very cool with temps in the high 40s." #WeFeedYou

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

If you live in the areas affected by Super Typhoon Uwan (Fung-Wong), you can keep track of posts about it here bsky.app/profile/did:...

Switched soaps today because I suspect the one I’d been using until yesterday was causing the rashes I’ve been having. I really hope it’s just the soap so I don’t have to keep experimenting until I find out what it is that’s causing this.

I love these, go get the books!

this is the first thing that made me really laugh in days source: www.instagram.com/reel/DP0QEdY...