hey graduates, good job on the four years you spent learning how to learn and think among a community of learners and thinkers. the most exciting news i can think to tell you is that your learning and thinking will soon be replaced by feeding little prompts to an AI. ok now why are you booing me

No ethical consumption, etc etc, but seriously: publishing is especially difficult in this respect. Very rarely are you even ABLE to buy books that aren't putting money in an evil person's pocket. I'm very sorry to tell you this.

The real protagonist of the Lost Boys is the dog, Nanook.

I've spent the past few days getting the growout coop ready so the babies can leave their brooder. So it's basically been a normal farm level of work and I am ZONKED, folks

Isn't not doing this work sufficient reason for someone to be KICKED OUT OF LAWYER LAND??

When people say Republicans and Democrats are the same, this is what they're talking about, you know. Too many elected officials move the same way, no matter their affiliation.

Democratic attempts to re-gerrymander their states to offset losses in the South are proper and necessary. But they can’t stem the destruction of black political power. Here’s my latest @thenation.com newsletter:

AI could never hone the edge of a scythe so fine that it could cut the invisible threads which tie a soul to the empty husk which was once their living form.

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

Gov't to Citizen's United: "Money is speech, spend it how you want, the gov't can't stop you." Gov't to Citizens Who Think Cash Bail is Stupid: "Money is criminal conspiracy and we will put you in jail for spending it in ways we don't like."

If you’re more upset about your tax dollars going to buy newborns diapers than about them being spent to bomb a girls’ school, there is something seriously wrong with you

I keep thinking about how AI is the end result of Granny Weatherwax’s idea of sin meaning ”treating people as things” — it’s a thing they pretend is a person so they can justify treating all people as things.

I've been exposed to poison ivy for the first time since I developed multiple autoimmune conditions. Folks, it is taking me OUT. 😩

I spent 30 years--from 16 to 46--having doctors not believe me when I described my lifestyle/diet/exercise, because surely if I was telling the truth, I wouldn't be fat and sliding toward diabetes. I finally got my metabolic stuff treated, lost 100 lbs, and now doctors believe everything I say. 🫠

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

Media owned by anyone other than a fascist gazillionaire.

The best of all comments about the giant balls thing.

Once, my group chat with @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social was cooking, only I had to drive somewhere. So I thought, "Man, someone should invent real-time, automatic voice messages." Folks, that's a fucking PHONE CALL. 😖

I don't understand what's up with these folks who go into Twitch streams and gift literally hundreds of subs. How much money you GOT, son?

On my housing situation: I received a consent judgment from the court so I have 45 days to pay April's rent $1993 before I need to worry about eviction. I am pursuing all assistance options available. I am still unemployed and trying to find a job. Donate/share/commiserate: gofund.me/14c71c29f

I have metastasized breast cancer that resulted in two brain tumors, since removed. I've lost vision and get chronic migraines. All my books are written solely by me, with 10 fingers and 85% of a brain. No AI needed. The answer to disability isn't AI, it's community.

A little love for the teen readers in your life! Check out Summer Official and Her Good Side now! rebekahweatherspoon.com 🛹🩵🍦 #booksky #yabooksky #blackbooksky #romancelandia

Baby’s first craft fair! (It’s me I’m baby)

This hit me so hard this week.

I know it's appropriate for the whole vibe and everything, but the romances in Cyberpunk 2077 are all kinda downers.

I don't really eat pork, and I mostly do veggie sausage but what the fuck is this, man??

...I better go let my husband know we're going to need to fence off a few acres.

guys we just cant get around it, if we want to solve literally anything in this country we HAVE to begin seriously talking about racism. pushing anti-Black racism to the outskirts of our discourse is the cause of literally all of problems, from class struggle to trans rights. its ALL the same fight.

Sync my WHAT

I have been making fun of the Odyssey since I was a teenager and I’m not going to stop just because a director with a very parasocial fanbase has made it his mission to turn the Ancient Greek version of “Dude Where’s My Car” into a Very Serious Movie.

How much time do we have today?? My number one enemy is hair once it's no longer attached to a person.

And I implore everyone on BlueSky and beyond to understand the FBI’s refusal to investigate—at all—Renee Good’s death should be understood as racialized mechanism to police white allies of Black and Brown people. You have to see a name a Redeemer Project.

I would totally watch a three-hour video breakdown of that one live performance of Silver Springs where Stevie Nicks was just MEAN MUGGING Lindsay Buckingham.

Liza was a terrific woman--kind and generous, a good person to have in your corner and a great friend. She had an absolutely wicked sense of humor, and I will miss her.

I’m not sure who of the writing community is even on here, but yesterday we lost one of very best. Phenomenal writer and even better human, Liza Palmer passed away after a very unfair fight with cancer. www.instagram.com/p/DYAJFszEi_...

Today I learned that 40% of Republicans don't think they could whoop the shit out of an elderly man who only eats Mickey D's and might not know what year it is.

you fucked up a perfectly good freedom of navigation is what you did look at it, it's got tolls

I'm a writer who has actually published stuff people have read. And if folks knew how much money/property/assets I DON'T have, they'd throw up.

“The Conjuring” movies. They made a bazillion movies about two despicable grifters and everyone is just like “ooo scary doll”

It's been a full-on WORK DAY over here today. Bunch of yard work, including cutting saplings and grubbing roots, because we live in the WOODS woods. Also sifted five gallons of ready compost for @mostlybree.kitrocha.com's garden. But first I had to build a sift screen.

Hi. I need help. I was just diagnosed IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) on top of suffering from CF. My illness is progressing quickly/resisting treatment. Basically I fucked up my budget this month, on top of subsisting on pre-prepared meals bc I'm often too sick to cook. 🧵 ko-fi.com/rayquazing

The Accidental Kit Rocha Story. 😭😭😭

I truly dread the day when the cheapest appliances aren't the ones with no bells and whistles, but the ones most loaded up with this kind of shit.

Man, chocolate milk is so good.

It can be super hard, navigating the internet in search of information and community when you're researching things like livestock care and gardening and food preservation. Almost every single person gives me the "uhh, where were you on Jan 6th?" vibe. 😫

If you reply to me with an AI avatar and basically just repeat what I said, I'm gonna assume you're not a person.

I would also just like to note as someone who has been on this ride many times, I have never once seen an imprint/publisher pitch where they talk about "clean" or "wholesome" stories where you don't peel back maximum two layers before you find out they're anti-queer

Most of the major policies and laws created to protect Black people from white supremacy are now GONE or so severely weakened to the point of being nearly ineffective. Voting rights. Affirmative Action. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Equal Employment Opportunity. It’s infuriating.

I love horror but it can perpetuate some harmful stereotypes about mental health and neurodiverse people. Which is why I am thrilled to recommend Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social which tackles it so well.

Today's "if I blocked you, this is why": you made a super ignorant post about letting the South secede because fuck 'em. With no consideration AT ALL about all the Black, brown, or queer folks who live here. Bonus: your bio said something about the Gospels and I just 😐