I live. Sore AF and will be needing to move slow at the bench for a couple weeks but hopefully this will solve a lot of my pain issues. Also this took about 20min write so apologies for hammer qme spelling.

Surgery in bout 45min.

This year has just been so much. I started the year with a ruptured ulcer & almost needing a blood transfusion. Today I'm headed back to the ER (was there Saturday) for an emergency Gallbladder surgery. This will be my 5th personal ER visit this year.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Please let us love you! 🍵🫶 Every time someone contributes to or draws from the card, our hearts get a lil glowier. What is a tea house for if not to care for one another?

For those asking to contribute to the communitea gift card from a distance, we do have a link for that! square.link/u/arkoexQ4

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Thank you for the kind words. I had Caitlyn's size already made but decided I needed to cast hers with yours and do the inlay together so they were made with the same materials. Because I'm a sappy romantic.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

When you don't have time for the full freakout

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Making "jokes" about bad people having tiny dicks is not funny. And it's an immediate unfollow and likely a block from me.

An anonymous donor just offered to match up to $1,000 to my fundraiser in support of health benefits for @scarleteen.com's staff and an as-needed health fund for volunteers, which means your $1 is worth $2! Anyone want to join in with ANOTHER match to turn that into $3?

Scarleteen has been doing sex ed for ALL since 1998 and is there with sex ed for ALL, to the tune of some five million visitors a month. The people who do this work deserve health care. I am so proud to support their work, and know many of you ALSO believe in sex ed for all, SO now's your moment.

this is literally never not accurate

it is weird to me that you can say "crazy has a bad history", "moron has a bad history" "drawing a witch with green skin has a bad history" but "gay panic" gets a forever pass bc "language evolves" (true) and "it's reclaiming" (it's not, not when you had no idea the phrase already existed)

Capping THC at 0.4 mg PER CONTAINER? But also almost non-existent access to quality healthcare, including pain management. They hate us

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Folks, a pill to swallow: if current Democrats will cave to your healthcare, they will cave to your voting rights. If they will cave to you not getting paid for 40 days, they will cave to LGBTQ+ marriage. If they cave to stalling our airplanes, they will cave to destroying our National Parks.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

The Traitorous 8 sacrificed all of us to keep the filibuster and their ability to travel by plane for Thanksgiving.

Huzzah!

Conversations with the 9yo DM: 9yo DM: You see a skeleton jumping towards you kicking its heels and singing… Me: Oh no… 9yo DM: Yes! It is Tom Bonebadil. 🎵 Old Tom Bonebadil is a creepy fellow, Bright blue his aura is, and his bones are yellowed. 🎵

This fall has been an extra slow one for small businesses out here, and the tea house is $3.7k shy of where we need to be to make rent before late fees hit this month. All this to say, if you have some tea shopping to do or friends to point our way today, we'd sure appreciate it!

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social while you’re assembling your transition team, my awesome husband @edidin.bsky.social is available and has worked with women and gender-expansive people, advocating for ATIs, supportive housing, and other resources for folks impacted by the carceral system.

Relistening to older eps & I'm curious. Re: Warpath - it's said his reservation was massacred, but sometimes also just said it's his town or family. So was it the town he was from on the reservation or the whole reservation? Because those are such different things.

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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Listening to @xplainthexmen.bsky.social Operation Zero Tolerance coverage is even harder today than when it originally aired.

Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

“I don’t have time to watch my friends content but everyone else absolutely should make time to watch mine” “Some of us might not like APs” This is how a lot of yall sound right now btw

Time is running out to get some original Valentine Barker pieces. Grab them now before it's too late!

Alright, before I head to the garage to do ALL the soldering, AMA about the new Ace Pride Rings.

A black band on the middle finger of the right hand has been a pride symbol for Asexual people for over 20 years. Unfortunately finding a nice black band that won’t break if you tap it wrong, loose it’s black color, or cause allergic reactions; is quite a task. ...

I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨ youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

Hi, I'm glad y'all are vibing with this, and since I have eyes over here, uh, my dog is currently recovering from unanticipated surgery and I'm a broke-ass queer & trans artist so... toss a coin, etc? bsky.app/profile/vasp...

HEY, WRITERS! I'm opening my calendar to new coaching clients. If you're interested, drop me a line at jay(dot)edidin(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject line COACHING QUERY to talk further and set up a free consultation. More info at edidin.wordpress.com/coaching-for..., and in thread below.

This just…. I…Steve please

Louisiana has a $300 MILLION SURPLUS in the state budget so there is absolutely ZERO EXCUSE for SNAP to be turned off on the 1st

Anyone want? A mix of size 6/0 and 8/0 seed beads. I can get all of these in a flat rate envelope for like $12.

Dividing up my seed beads stash was pretty cool actually. For the smaller containers I usually had 2 of every color so it was really easy. And it felt good to get pass on something that used to bring me so much joy. This is what 1 person is getting:

@bardiclady.bsky.social How many medium flat rate boxes of beads and supplies do you want me to send you? Shipping is like $20 each.

My most tin foil hat opinion is that genAI isn’t alive, but printers are. They are alive and they hate you

Liberals when candidates defend trans people: "We can't do this, it's too unpopular." Liberals when candidates have a nazi ss tattoo: "it's ok, not all candidates are perfect." Do y'all hear yourselves?!