Today begins Anniversary Week for @mydnight.bsky.social and myself, marking seven and ten years of legal and romantic entanglement, respectively. The legal entanglement was marked by handing out customized dice and towels.

my favorite case on this point: yes, Zuckerberg did trip over a curb and land in a radicalization engine then he spent $80b to create a 3D shopping mall no one wanted. no amount of money or connections could conjure the social change he wanted don’t award these guys more power than they have

Yes, that's Gov. Tim Walz on Alien Super Show. Walz: "I'm not running again, so the guardrails are off. I asked and said, 'Can I go on shows where I can say, "fuck those guys"?'" You've come to the right place, governor. New episode drops this weekend.

This is painted. It's not a real tool. Don't be deceived by this masterful work! Be awed though!

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

Here is a cat being very normal. I hope is is soothing to you.

News! Christopher Franke has just released a ton of Babylon 5 soundtracks on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora and others: six large volumes and smaller, six episodic soundtracks. Available yea unto this very moment.

Fenris assures you that it's not a trap.

Sitting here listening to @millamant.bsky.social tell me about @tkingfisher.com's writing, and has anyone checked in on her? Do they need a hug?

“Don’t tell me you’ve been using particle board in here,” said the 55-year-old woodworker

New from me today: Illinois is the destination for nearly 1 in 4 people traveling to another state for abortion care. That’s partly because of its geography, but Illinois also put in place new policies — along with millions of dollars — to welcome patients who aren’t their residents.

Update: Cats

This is more than legislation. This work is personal to me. theonion.com/illinois-bec...

Thus, today's election is not really the end of an authoritarian regime. Rather, it is the first step in a much longer unwinding process. It is massive and absolutely necessary first step — one that anyone who believes in democracy should celebrate. But it's more a beginning than an end.

"this popular left-wing figure is rude and has problematic views on some issues" yeah man OK the Secretary of Defense believes the fighter pilot we just rescued is basically Jesus and the FBI is building lists of anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh. But yeah that streamer sounds scary.

In the theme of 'oh shit it's April', let me remind everyone that AUTISM SPEAKS IS A HATE GROUP, they do little to nothing to support families or people with the tism, they're trying to find 'a cure' and they support the worst forms of ABA. They include no Autistic people in leadership positions.

Feeling particularly clever tonight. I'm working on getting some basing done for some miniatures I plan to paint, and needed a tiled floor. I'm out of sculpting materials so I ended up grabbing some cork, a straight edge, and used files to get the separation between the stones.

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of the ruling. But it is limited to one lady in Colorado who may get a preliminary injunction allowing her to perform conversion talk therapy. It's a narrow ruling. The merits are still live. We gotta live in that narrowness. ADF wants us to despair.

I love her too. 🖖💕

Don't support an evil terf by reading bad books for children. Wanna read something new, funny, queer positive, and available in book print AND online for free? sidequested.com/book

Fuck Harry Potter just read discworld. It's a fantastical world of magical creatures and adventure but the author has class consciousness and knows how to write comedy that isn't just making fun of how fat a character is

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

Just under 10%.

Afroman found not liable. A complete victory for the rapper and a massive unforced error from the cops and their attorney. www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-...

People of Illinois: We have same-day voter registration! If you bring proof of address (a piece of mail with your name and address on it), you can register to vote TODAY and then vote TODAY. More info below! Please do it! (And please vote for Kat!)

Sometimes I just don't ask how my cats get things, like @alepresser.com & @kbspangler.com release of Sidequested a day or two early!

if you forgot baldwin was literally who coined the term gamergate and really enjoyed fighting with people (me included) about why making up reasons to treat women like shit is bad

The life of a Midwestern cat: occasionally being tossed into a basement room until the outdoors stops making weird sounds.

This is true and a convenient prompt to share this largely unknown fact: routine STI tests don't usually look for herpes! And there's also a difference between STI *testing* and *screening* Learn all of this and more in this fascinating article: www.self.com/story/why-do...

Finally done! My French knots are not the greatest overall, but some of them are decent for a first attempt. @oldgodspod.bsky.social

The numbers are staggering: Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters. Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.

A very happy third birthday (observed) to our resident seal baby / haunted Elizabethan urchin / recluse sitting in a corner, muttering about Tevinter.

Trans kids, trans adults, trans all of you folks I’m so glad you live. I’m so glad you’re here and I hope you know there are so many rooting for you, fighting for you and hoping you get to live the best life you can

All my thoughts and prayers to those who are tired as fuck and feeling like they should be WORKING HARDER instead of resting. We need to STOP THAT.

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

someone in AI fucked up and actually told the truth

"Openly carrying a weapon you know nothing about is just BEGGING to have that weapon taken off your body and used against you."

This pretty much sums things up well re: two-part system

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

If Ilhan says “At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles” and the Republican Party says “Ilhan calls for the President’s execution”… …there is a pretty important premise that the Republican Party is accepting as true.

I know how the Congolese militant group m23 can very suddenly make themselves real popular kigalidailynews.rw/reports-emer...

Have just shown Arrival to spouse. His sole complaint was the lack of chemistry between the leads, so we are discussing replacements to be Amy Adams's sidekick/spouse. Top choices so far: Joshua Jackson, Ewan McGregor, Aldis Hodge, and Kat Dennings.

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue