Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov my child was placed in a preschool that is too far for us to get to due to an error on the MySchools website (one HOUR round trip TWICE A DAY) and no one at NYCPS seems willing to help correct the error.

I want to believe there is someone at NYCPS who cares whether my child can attend preschool in the fall. I’m incredibly upset and don’t know what to do if no one will help us get our child into an accessible school. Any help?

I love my "feral queer" and "trans but not into pastels" shirts!

Heads up. He is/was in a lot of starter packs, too, so check yours if you've made one so you're no longer recommending a rapist.

People keep saying the internet was a mistake and… it wasn’t. It was beautiful. Social media was a mistake. Commodifying everything was a mistake. The internet was once just… humans making stuff for other humans.

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

As tick season ramps up, keep in mind importance of preserving any tick that attaches. In theory, a tick not engorged cannot pass on disease, but there can still be infection and for peace of mind I always send them to the Tick Report. Testing is fast and not that expensive. 1/2 www.tickreport.com

Did you miss the ATOMIC ROBO Bundle of Holding with huge savings on digital copies of every volume and spin off and RPG book? NO YOU DIDN'T IT'S RIGHT HERE GO GO GO bundleofholding.com/presents/202...

Hugo voting is big and complicated, especially in the editorial categories, where you can't actually see the work they've done. You see the finished product, and have to judge based on that, and it can be really hard not to just vote on vibes.

everything's cool everything's chill everything's BIRD

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

of course they are quarantining you ... the disease has a half-life of 46 days

rare example of actually decent apology / reversal on "adult content" rules. unsurprisingly, payment processor pressure behind the scenes central to what happened at all

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gsh... I'd been a fan of DeepBlueInk's animation for a while but hadn't come across this band before and this song is such a Mood. I love its whole vibe ^^

On the other hand, if you’re suing a billionaire, start demanding their AI logs in discovery

There's a close family resemblance between "We'd be much less productive if we actually had to check every paper we cited" and "We'd not be able to deport nearly as many people if we had to give all of them due process."

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

I really love it when an artist I follow gets insanity levels of obsessed with [thing they like] and will not stop drawing it. It's so very charming. Go girl give us one billion drawings of that little freak in your head who I know nothing about. He's my blorbo in law now

i think as punishment we should just surround clavicular with men who are more handsome than him for the rest of his life I'm against judicial punishment except when it's funny

This is your periodic reminder that listening to the Murderbot audiobooks is self-care 🎧

I show a brave face to the world, but…

We can talk about the fact that the Brits stole spices from India at enormous cost and then were like “oh no poor people can afford spices now spices are degenerate” but that’s a separate conversation than making fun of people eating their foods.

cooked him like groceries

Or full time! Or freelance! Or a secret fourth thing that I have not yet discovered!

Blink. Blink. MASSIVE GRIN. "That is the BEST question I have EVER been asked." We then talked about frog-attracting plants for a while, until a lady came up and started talking about attracting herons to EAT my potential frogs. No predatory birds, thanks.

Went to the farmer's market today. It's early enough in the season that a lot of stalls are still just selling plants. One lady had an empty stall and a big sign saying ASK ME ANYTHING. So I went up and asked her what to plant if I wanted to attract more frogs.

Huh, this is weird The Tahoe utility is Liberty Utilities. They BOUGHT the CA assets of a Nevada based utility, NV Energy, in 2009. So Tahoe is regulated by California, but their service is entirely dependent on Nevada. It's the reverse of why El Paso keeps power when the rest of TX goes dark.

The nature of Tumblr is such that a good post will show up on your dash again and again, with different comments. The specific Martin and Bosco* comment chain I see ends with a comment by Peter Morwood, who has also sadly passed: "What’s loved, lives." GNU, Peter. We miss you.

I buy one book series (@seananmcguire.bsky.social's Wayward Children) in hadback and eBook, and donate the hardback to my local library, because they're *exactly* the books non-conforming teenagers should find and read.

a lot of us learned the hard way that BLUESKY DOES NOT REMOVE YOU FROM THEIR FOLLOWERS IF YOU BLOCK SOMEONE YOU WERE FOLLOWING, it's a two-step process and if you're used to Twitter's soft-block you may not always remember

sure got me feeling some kinda way that this year's official Star Trek merch for Pride is different from past years there's now zero trans pride options their slogan is Space for Everybody but when you remove all trans options it feels like maybe it's not

Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.

Aesop, or the oral traditionist that Aesop is based on is widely believed to have been Black. There is a book called The Encyclopedia of Black Folklore & Humor which also documents through lines connecting Greek fables & trickster characters to their African counterparts.

also, I have always held that the Devil is perfectly able to be their own advocate (many TV shows, films, books, epic poems etc have explored this at length!) -- and quite probably resents being dragged into the draining, stupid nonsense that online chodes start!

We love our cushions from Gayle.. only one in this shot but there is another gracing a matching chair

There's a term, "malgendering," which means gendering a trans person correctly, but only if it can be used to hurt them. Like, you're a "guy" when it makes you seem less vulnerable, you're showing "male aggression" when you stand up for yourself, you're a soft crybaby girl on all other occasions.

Generally, the question of whether trans people experience misogyny comes down to: People will use whatever gender stereotype they can to disrespect you or justify treating you badly. Other trans people will do this, as we've all seen, and trans people of all genders get it to some degree.

Tori changing the lyrics to Horses should say pretty much everything that needs saying about that asshole.

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

G-d forbid a human have hobbies

The oxygen that keeps us alive comes from natural ecosystems: half on land, half at sea. It's not complicated: we are TOTALLY dependent on the living world. Yet it's still treated as nothing but 'resources', to exploit and destroy for profit.

I posted this video a week ago as a response to a friend's TikTok & I'm delighted to see this link tonight. 💗

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I’m also going to go a bit further — hope and anger aren’t opposed, they’re not even on a same emotional spectrum. Anger is the appropriate emotional response to INJUSTICE. And in terms of climate, we should be righteously furious about how much has been deliberately stolen & damaged.

Whoa-oh 🎶You gotta keep ‘em pollinated🎶

Up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom.

A) Sorbo whining about desecrating Greek myth is indeed incredible. B) I remain very proud that he once blocked me for telling him that he seemed tense and watching Xena always cheered ME up.

Real answer: Different target markets. Initial publication is targeted to SFF nerds, who, at least in the 20th century, generally expected colorful covers, preferably with full-bleed art. "This is a classic" cover is intended to draw in mainstream/literature readers, who dislike nerd-coded covers.