The adrenaline, the fight or flight response, the chase: @dastardlydevil.bsky.social explains how he and his girlfriend cut loose through Primal Play in this week's comic! www.ohjoysextoy.com/primal-urges...

The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

"Social media is so awful", blah blah gripe. Okay. But do you know the story of how this wonderful award-winning SF book won the sales jackpot for the second time? Gather round, kids, if you want reminding how wonderfully good things can happen in this world. 1/

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

Sergei the cat occasionally wishes to be held like a small malevolent tree sloth. Kevin is listening to music and dancing around, but Sergei still wishes to cling. *Sumo Cyko comes on* KEVIN: Okay buddy, it’s about to get exciting. SERGEI: *purring intensifies*

Is there some exercise going on in Gotland? Failed to find one with quick search, Poseidon doing some spins. Three transports (one C-17, 2 A400, all from Uppsala) + at least three copters (2x Apache, 1x Chinook)

No Geekenders today, but instead may I present Dodger and I hosting the indie games showcase Convergence?! Please enjoy! youtu.be/GL2dmJPUzvU

In London, hate will never win.

For less than $2, you get: * Southern Gothic creepy horror * feminine rage galore * kooky haunted artists at an isolated retreat in the mountains * Good For Her catharsis The sale starts at Amazon, but the e-book price will likely spread to wherever you prefer to buy your books. Pls spread the word!

congrats to all the media outlets carrying on charlie's work of silencing speech www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

The iMac G3 from 2001 is my favourite-looking computer of all time, but it's completely unusable these days because of its age. So I tore out its insides (leaving the CRT screen intact of course) and replaced them with a brand new Mac Mini M4.

Also, as a reminder, I once named a whole fucking book of mine "Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies" so when people accuse me of it, I can say "Yes, and it's available for $4.99 at your favorite online bookstore."

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several bluesky employees follow me, and have for a very long time. i think you know i don't ask questions in bad faith. so let me ask you: what are you doing internally right now to get leadership to correct this problem?

Joint Expeditionary Fellas

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Doctors ignored my reports if pain for years. In high school my mom would have to come pick me up because I was puking from agony. I'd pass out at work. I was told some discomfort is normal. At 23 a (cis woman!) doctor told me if I did not stop complaining the only solution was a hysterectomy.

I am in this picture and do not like it.

The knight stood, triumphant, over the prostrate dragon. He raised his sword high above his head and- "I wouldn't if i were you" The voice was in his head. Confused, he glanced around. A black cat was cleaning a paw, casually nearby. He raised the sword again. "Are you REALLY, really sure?" /1

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

The MAGAs hopefully have massively underestimated how pissed off a lot of people are going to be about suddenly not being permitted to get a Covid booster this year.

Ok so I think there’s something else here too. We associate noir STRONGLY with the mid-late 40s to mid-late 50s—post WW2. But the novels were mostly written in the 20s & 30s by veterans of WWI. The two groups don’t have the same PTSD or the same generational trauma response.

On our way to see the lunar eclipse. Enjoying a little piknik feast on top of the hill.

I want to popularize a term of art for this particular litfic genre trope: the Sad Boner Professor. It's a novel about a Professor (usually of American Literature). He is Sad. Also, he has a Boner. His boner is inordinately interested in the sexy, sexy student: also, he's sad because: wife. /1

Maryland people: This is how we got all our cats. It’s a fantastic experience. OP is in Elkton but will drive one hour.

Teachers, man.

This headline should, in a reasonable world, create a national scandal that topples the Carney government. In a reasonable world under a reasonably competent government, we would be actively seeking to distance ourselves from the U.S. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Good bit on the Knights Hospitaller langues in @jonnelledge.bsky.social's latest. Only bit I'd add is that the increasing French dominance of the Order was as much about politics and logistics, as money or population. And coincided with the Spanish being increasingly... well... shit. /1

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2/3 slots for art at a fixed price. It can be a medium and complex background. You do not pay more. #art #artshare #artwork #commission

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For those who are interested in this space: a friend of mine writes for the Seattle Times and LOVES it. Says it’s a great room and the editors are good people with whom to work.

Teen Challenge (113 GB) Over 123,000 documents and files from Teen Challenge, a Christian faith-based organization which claims to provide rehabilitation services, which has been called cult-like and abusive. ddosecrets.com/article/teen... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/supporting-d...

Just saying, if you want sources on new religious movements, you are never going to find books about them until years later. And most magazines are reluctant to publish criticism or even general articles on NRMs. You will have to locate the experts and listen to them in blogs and podcasts.

Really interesting episode from Mighty Finland Podcast people into what kind of stuff is currently trained for. Cool fast action shoots but the interviews and training discussions are the interesting meat of this adventure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Axq...

a lot of wishcasting tonight on the skyline why don't we try a collective luck magic experiment? everybody watch Iannucci's THE DEATH OF STALIN. All together now.

beauty in maps tbh

This far right power grab is global

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

If you're going to be at #NYCC I will be exchanging these stickers for gossip 😉 Good gossip is "My coworker's neighbor has been burying cans of beans in his backyard for years" or "My sister is a bridesmaid who was expected to pay for the bride's boob job"

A new study that looked at how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini handled suicide-related questions. Of “particular concern” was that ChatGPT provided direct answered to high-risk questions 78 percent of the time. 🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-answ...

To break this down, you are a member of this class as an author if: (A) you are the legal copyright owner, and (B) the work is in LibGen or PiLiMi and was downloaded by Anthropic, and (C) the work possesses either an ISBN or an ASIN, and (D) the work was registered with the US copyright office.

Here’s a tool to block

putting out a bat signal - does anyone in NYC have a DNP printer or similar that we can rent / borrow for our party on Thursday? ask your friends in the Photo Booth business I beg you

Hey folks: Everyone's favorite lil internet scamp @BugsMaytrix just caught a fucking @bsky.app ban If you weren't following some of the others affected - this is the third high profile trans woman who's been banned recently after talking about a certain free-shitting Wizard Book Author #freethebugs

Heard from @scifantasy.bsky.social that today is black cat appreciation day. So here is our magnificent void reacting to it.

On a whim, we have gone to a place called Surplus City. It is bonkers. I am coveting these drawers but they would take some serious cleaning and oiling.

I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying. I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention