Blood test for miss covergirl today. Bone-deep gratitude that she's stuck around long enough to need one. Mostly good, fructosamine creeping up a bit so we may raise her insulin. Otherwise, for a 13 y/o diabetic cat with terminal cancer she's doing well.

so lets talk about the symbolism of the crowned skull rq. This is a complex symbol with a variety of possible meanings depending on context. Typically it's a memento mori with a little something extra. 🧵

gonna start posting some tarot videos here, setting a tone with this one: Tarot Oscuro by Estelle Rivière (not suitable for children please and thank you) youtu.be/T6Y__qpvIlY

There are no stories told in a vacuum There is no prophecy lighting our way There is just a lot of darkness to be afraid of So it's a good thing we are not afraid

one of my favourite genres of photo, accidental forced perspective giant insect horror

One thing we're NOT going to do is wallow in doom and hopelessness right when countless people are joining the fight against our enemies. The situation is awful. That's why so many people are angry, and why they're mobilizing. You can let the horrors overwhelm you, or you can let them fuel you.

"Never assume malice…" I'mma stop you right there: At this point in human history, when it comes to corporations in particular, any sufficiently advanced capitalist interest is indistinguishable from malice, so I'm gonna go riight on ahead and assume it.

Following marginalized voices makes you smarter and better informed than a million hours of consuming any Murdoch-owned news media.

Don't let anyone tell you that this is too complicated, that you don't have the expertise or background knowledge to understand some obscure nuance. It is exactly what it looks like.

**GET YOUR LIVEJOURNAL DATA RIGHT NOW** Import it to Dreamwidth, download it directly from LJ one month at a time, or read on for more options, but GET YOUR JOURNAL ENTRIES OFF LJ AND INTO YOUR OWN POSSESSION because you'll lose them soon. I trust @rahaeli.bsky.social I have 17 years to preserve!

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

Happy 83rd anniversary to the only New Years resolutions you need, written and doodled by Woody Guthrie. Keep hoping machine running Make up your mind Wake up and fight I believe you can do it all in 2026.

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

so anyway Bandlab can eat a bag of wasps

GOAT DOWN

I know a lot of people need to hear this: you can actually just criticize people directly for their direct actions instead of saying “they must be on drugs”

Never let them tell you they've won.

Insight Editions are the Funko Pops of tarot decks

*Santa Baby voice* Santa Muerte

we are so easily persuaded that the only way to honour the pain & suffering of our past selves is to hold onto it

This reveals such a profound difference in values between [most] artists and [most] "AI" enthusiasts. Walk with me. 🧵

ok well my drawing tablet is packed away but here

Spare me muzak. Spare me newzak. The filling of space with a bombardment of tepidity.

just had a month off social media on purpose and ngl I'm probably gonna dip out again, this really isn't interesting or fun anymore anyway Khoshekh is still here, we don't know for how long but we caught her chasing her tail a few days ago so she still has quality of life, here's kitty tax

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Be weirder and more unsettling

WE CAN MAKE THE INTERNET FUN AGAIN THAT IS WITHIN OUR POWER MAKE A WEBSITE PUT ALL YOUR DUMB SHIT ON IT SHARE IT

I'm in trouble at home again for framing the fall of Lucifer as a labour dispute. Apparently it's fine in my head, but shouldn't be expressed in front of children.

A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available. There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism. Support real artists, not con artists.

It’s weird to assume that certain people *need* exposure to people who disagree with them, as if I could go a day in my life w/o encountering that shit and that my actual survival doesn’t depend on knowing what assholes think.

Here are all your questions answered on why you should leave substack, and how to go about it. No more excuses. Just go.

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

David Tuller is crowdfunding for his salary & expenses. He outlines the many ways in the past year he has challenged the promotion of psycho-behavioral interventions & inappropriate FND diagnoses, exposed research & reporting errors, and promoted positive research. Ends 7 Nov. tinyurl.com/ymj5x78r

time to move Khoshekh onto kitten food. She's having more and more trouble chewing, still wants all the chicken though. When we first got the diagnosis we thought she wouldn't make it three whole weeks, two months later she's still here. Demanding more chicken.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels: • YouTube Studio • Settings • Channel • Advanced settings • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality" • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

The thing about paypros is this: These companies shouldn’t have the power to decide what you do with your money They need to be reminded that, summer or fall, winter or spring, you care about this issue & will not stand for a major corpo censoring adults creating adult content for other adults

Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

The entire conversation around the minimum wage is framed as a question of entitlements or “handouts” when the issue is really this: of the value produced by a worker per hour, how much should employers be prevented from stealing?

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Asimov's really focused on the wrong thing.

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Realllll. Alt text: tweet from @adhdjesse.com : Life with ADHD: “Sorry, this link has expired.” “Sorry, that food has expired.” “Sorry, your license has expired.”

TL;DR Violent J for Senate

I was looking for a suitable Hannibal gif but never mind that, I found possibly the best Hannibal gif of all time for every purpose, enjoy.