Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

An exhausting amount of annoyingly stupid headlines again today, I see.

if you have a Christian family you’ve been wanting to wordlessly abandon tomorrow would be a great day to do it

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

does anyone know what im supposed to do with all the information I've absorbed over the last twenty or thirty years

Trying to buy clothes for an event and accidentally building a John Leguizamo's Tybalt cosplay.

omg your honor you always do this

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

this is seriously fucking good and you should read it in full

I was really looking forward to reading Gretchen's RED HOOD run, and was holding out for the book instead of getting the single issues. I'm gutted that I'll be getting neither now. This is bullshit of the highest order.

I feel it is my responsibility as your mainstream comic book friend to further explain that what dc is doing to Gretchen is unprecedented They haven’t only cancelled the series, they are refunding the comics that are already created and recalling the issue that is already sold.

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

Oh yeah, could a failing society do this??

be very careful about what you post online

Time is a flat circle

I'll be thinking and talking about this one all year, I feel. Soulful horror that speaks to the very bones of me. Read it, read it, read it.

This is good; "Minister of Hypocrisy Wes Streeting" "So there we have it. One Irish person is charged with ‘terrorism’ in a UK court for speaking out against violence, while another Irish person is being held up as a victim of unfree speech for speaking out in favour of violence."

Authors are not meant to be influencers. Please stop making us do that dance. If I were good or confident in the slightest on camera then please believe me that I would be on an extremely different career path.

My early thoughts on the Anthropic settlement: a) good, fucking pay us b) no, that’s not enough c) shouldn’t have stolen our shit to train your stupid mediocre plagiarism artbarf robot in the first place, you fuckers d) this isn’t something to celebrate; it is a Pyrrhic victory at best

Hm I think I will do everything right from now on

Funny that the only word to describe how I read @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social's You Weren't Meant To Be Human is "devoured" but here we are. Obsessed. Feral.

Stacey’s Mom had it going on, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what she’s got going on isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

"Wonder of wonders, they've created a film capable of making its own decisions. What has it decided? To plug up its studio-inflicted wounds with studio-inflicted idiocy. Marvelous. An age of miracles, truly."

Loyalty are such a cool bunch of people and a much needed oasis in the middle of all this fuckery. If you're in the area, go buy some books to support.

Been a fan of Loyalty Books ever since we did a kick ass event together back in 2023, sounds like they’re in real trouble thanks to DC being occupied by the military. Go buy some books!

has anyone tried simply popping glinner's head with a safety pin so that it deflates & zips around the room making whoopee cushion noises

I'm reading Prophet by Helen Macdonald and @sinblache.bsky.social and they appear to tricked me by hiding a dysfunctional gay romance inside an episode of The X-Files, and frankly more of you should be doing the same.

it would be funny if he was actually fine all weekend and then had a stroke at 1:30 today

Road trip to Sligo today means taking the same five pictures that I always take on the way to Sligo but why fuck with the classics.

Rudy Giuliani just set a world record in the field of Statement That Invites More Questions Than It Answers.

another thing made by me about how i feel applying to jobs

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Everyone I know right now

melania constantly refreshing the tl

$483k!! Can we get to half a million for PCRF?

My Bluesky timeline is so divided.

Speaking as someone who missed the ALF Hog Incident, I'm really enjoying the Wattofication of Bluesky today.

There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

mad scenes

Some of the best lines in the entire series all come from a single episode

PROPHET by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché (2023)

If you see Dean Cain coming to arrest you you better be prepared to walk briskly to escape