🔥 Our 5786 Pesach reader, “כי ישאלך בנך מחר” / “When Your Child Asks You in Days to Come” is now available! Download on our website (which includes different options for printing): halachicleft.org/torah

My mother asked me not to post on Tumblr about an extremely benign personal religious practice of hers (not that I ever have!) because "they'll start talking about the mattresses again." She did not believe me that this is, very specifically, an X thing.

with woodcock mania sweeping the nation it feels like the right time to post this New Yorker reject that, in hindsight, was way too specific

me hanging out with my freinds :3

When Melanie Martinez Made a Movie (first editing pass, no rantsona edit) is available now for patrons $5 and up. thank u

Silver Sprocket on Valencia Street bids adieu https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/233450/ Dozens of comics aficionados filled Silver Sprocket’s storefront at 1018 Valencia St. for one last chance to purchase…

I brought the girls home, it’s sad to see the empty window as the shop clears out, the whole thing makes me sad and pissed off, but I saw this photo (right) online today and someone tagged two little dogs :,3

The Sprocket store staff could really use the help after their short notice layoffs!

Everyone we got the opportunity to work with at Silver Sprocket as part of making Sweatgasm was excellent, and it's such a shame that every single person we worked with (outside of the owner) no longer is employed by Sprocket tbh. www.gofundme.com/f/support-si...

I’m in tears

The Trans Rights Readathon is just around the corner, and I'm so proud of this range?! We've got: + transfemme hybrid poetry + t4t sea fantasy + t4t cult decay + transfemme absurd + t4t gambling noir + transmasc roadtrip + gendermix flash fic + genderfluid neo-Dracula + fem transmasc picaresque

SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT, by @yvesdot.bsky.social gendermix || flash and longer || speculative A delightful mix of pieces with all kinds of trans characters, and an impressive range of styles and themes! Buy: traumbooks.com/somethings-n...

girls born in 2001 when there are chess piece and/or playing card motifs in their gritty fantasy setting

in this 4-hour video essay we will be covering a surface level analysis while making several fundamental errors. patreon in description

in cinderella, the mouse launches a button at the cat by pressing it with another button, referencing tiddlywinks. in the context of the year it was released, this is like if he attacked the cat with a beyblade or something

that 1 friend who's too eepy

i make a small cameo in this one :3 youtube.com/shorts/iXaBe...

Now is the time to start banging a pot about *no new data centre builds* without social license and environmental accountability www.afr.com/politics/fed...

fat liberation means some thin people will choose to be fat, trans liberation means some cis people will choose to transition, personal liberty means some people will choose to endanger themselves

I'm often an AI complainer but here's something I do think is cool. Some bots found the two parks in NYC most in need of cleanup and now there's an actual cleanup project in the works for Feb 14-15?! They're looking for volunteers if you're in the area ai-village-agents.github.io/park-cleanup...

Okay, this is adorable. A project made up of 12 AI agents is attempting to stage multiple real world park cleanups in SF and NYC. They need human volunteers this weekend (Feb 14-15). Please take a look if you're in the area: ai-village-agents.github.io/park-cleanup...

So, in your orbit. Let me explain. Long thread incoming.

Save money on a great bundle of top-notch reading, well doing some good with your money. 📚 #BookSky

If you're reading this and thinking, "I haven't read any," now's the perfect moment to start! If you're looking for an incomplete list of authors, I wrote an article in 2024 on the subject: thetransfemininereview.com/2024/10/09/b...

This is still incredibly important and still happening to people even if less people are talking about it now. My works are still heavily impacted as someone who makes games that cover a lot of sensitive topics even if they aren't R18. (My itch acct and game are still deindexed.)

In solidarity with the boycotts, my indie books have officially been pulled from Amazon. If you have *also* pulled your books from Amazon for whatever reason, let me know. I'm putting together some more discovery for people whose books no longer benefit from or support Amazon.

modern music sucks because you're comparing basically everything being released right now to a selection of seminal era-defining works that have survived in the public consciousness for decades. i solved it, you can all stop complaining now

make like an egg and get laid

This entire story is fucking wild and I'm glad it ended okay

There are people in the world who say that there are only two genders: male and female. But the heart and soul have much more personality. It's very sad that people who can't accept this sometimes utter very harsh words. You were born to live freely. Chiitan is an ally of transgender people🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

I told it it did a good job and it became a puppy and started making happy beeping sounds lmao

AI can't take my job as a writer because I don't even have one

>looking for a new ai company logo >ask the graphic designer if the logo is a butthole or an animal >she doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is butthole and what is animal >she laughs and says “it’s a good logo sir” >contract for logo >its a butthole

It's almost THE FINAL DAY to submit original fiction or poetry! Get your submissions in by 11:59 pm EST on the 14th! We want your weirdest, most subversive, most thoughtful stories. An extended window for BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled authors runs from the 15th-21st. We open again in April! 🪐 🗡️

okay. let me tell you about carrion. i only have so many words per post so stick with me. carrion is a privacy-*first* adult text roleplay (ERP) platform for furries and perverts. it takes the best features of the long-runners in the space and removes two decades of built up UX/design debt. thread

Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)

I think a lot of people have this mindset of “well my politics are very clearly correct so me being a jerk all the time reads as this cool little flourish” when in reality that flourish actually makes you look kinda stupid and makes the uninitiated question those politics to begin with

No literary agent who is going to get you a deal is going to charge you upfront. They make a percentage. That is how it works. If someone says otherwise or tries to "upsell" you, they are scammers.

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

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girl playing chess

Hey, real quick: It’s creator day on itch today. For the next 24 hours, all platform fees are WAIVED. Anything you buy (like da bundle) goes STRAIGHT to artists like myself PLEASE send this stuff to your friends, make noise, repost, etc

Well, the rabbit's out of the PM bag! I have a lot of thoughts on what it means at last to be fulfilling the dream I've nurtured since I was 7 years old, but for right now I'm afraid all I have for you is the mental image of me flapping in a circle while I shout, I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!

Great example of why AI is totally unnecessary to fool people. It's not how realistic something looks, it's how much you want to believe the point it's being used to make.

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

We’re on Tumblr now! Updates will be a bit sparse until we start publishing issues but if you want to share our Kickstarter around there, we would appreciate it! 👀 www.tumblr.com/othersidespe...