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This past weekend we had dinner with our friend who is a Sbux union leader. She clued me into 3 things. Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years. Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US. Shareholders are demanding they settle. Keep boycotting.

Hit the 1 year mark at my “new” job Became a union steward at that job Got certified for First Aid, CPR & AED Became a notary public Kept myself and my son housed & fed Helped some other ppl survive (in various ways) Adopted 2 rescue cats & taught them that some humans are good, actually

They are $55,000 away from their goal. If they don't reach it by the end of the month, then they cannot open in the New Year.

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The first 3 words you see will define your 2026. MONEY CHIPOTLE GRINDR uh.

This is slavery.

Another health breakthrough. (h/t Gav)

PFW you’re doing a bridge and your cat plops down right where your butt was supposed to go. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Feels a bit more spiteful after this

On the lap! 🥰 Anyway happy #Caturday

Like it's still fascism if they suck at it

If you don't know my 2026 goals, I haven't been broadcasting them enough. They are: 1. Find a location in one of the areas I want here in Winnipeg 2. Have whatever renovation is needed done 3. Open the queer science fiction and fantasy bookshop

HOGFATHER has always been one of my all-time favorite Pratchett books (possibly only second to NIGHT WATCH), and this section is a huge part of why. Still have my signed copy!

you've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant what are you calling it? Make It Sous Vide

Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.

Ok ok, my son wins Christmas.

My 19-year-old son made hamantashen. He. MADE. Hamantashen. Just decided he wanted to. And did it. This is his first ever attempt. As a Jew, I win Christmas.

This is the first time I ever heard of them & already BIG CHALLENGES is my Most Anticipated RPG of 2028 @nintendousa.bsky.social you better reopen Smash for a new DLC character Welcoming BIG CHALLENGES to my ACNH island The new Fire Emblem better have S Support for BIG CHALLENGES or we riot

My grandmother took up painting at 55. I have 5 of her paintings up in my apartment.

“She didn’t start painting until she was 50” It starts when you begin 💜

If you see this post, share a smile.

This is the first time I ever heard of them & already BIG CHALLENGES is my Most Anticipated RPG of 2028 @nintendousa.bsky.social you better reopen Smash for a new DLC character Welcoming BIG CHALLENGES to my ACNH island The new Fire Emblem better have S Support for BIG CHALLENGES or we riot

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

The LotR movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain 1 use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering? "Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an Elf.” “What about side by side with a friend?” “Aye. I could fuck with that.”

I *just* woke up. 😑

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

Unpopular opinion but I think it should be much MUCH harder to obtain a driver's license and at least half of drivers do not have the skills to safely be on the road. And there should be frequent tests to keep a license. Cars are dangerous and we don't take that seriously enough.

My 19-year-old son made hamantashen. He. MADE. Hamantashen. Just decided he wanted to. And did it. This is his first ever attempt. As a Jew, I win Christmas.

All the best creators dig stuff that's entirely unlike what they make. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DCn...

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

How I’m showing up to the Bluesky Xmas party

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

PFW you’re trying to do a plank and your cat decides it’s pettin’ time 😮‍💨

10 things I want to play in 2026: - Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave - Blue Prince - Wanderstop - Omori - Child of Light - Tactical Breach Wizards - Balatro: free update [aspirational] - This Way Madness Lies - Cassette Beasts - Being Home Alone With You Is Worse Than Death

PLEASE ask your library to buy books you love, or books you haven't read but want to! We WANT to hear what our patrons enjoy, and even one ask goes a LONG way towards us getting that book!

My son and I were eating pierogies and we thought they were pretty good. Then my son found a long hair inside one of them. We threw the rest away and we don’t buy that brand any more.

Beyond the politics of it — I can’t imagine that for the majority of artists there’s any benefit to being on that site. The algo kills outside links, you have to pay to reach your followers, it suppresses whatever it sees fit, and now it’ll eat up your artwork…??

Plastic Man (2018), writer: @gailsimone.bsky.social

PLEASE ask your library to buy books you love, or books you haven't read but want to! We WANT to hear what our patrons enjoy, and even one ask goes a LONG way towards us getting that book!

If you like a book? Review it. Ask your library to buy it. If you can afford it, buy a copy for a friend. Recommend it wherever you're social. Send the author an email, or a skeet, or a Ko-Fi. Write fanfic. Blow under the wings of the paper airplane so it can fly a little farther.

This is all true. When I was a publisher there were a lot of reasons we passed on submissions, and we had to let go of a ton of excellent work. This is why we always emphasized, as strongly as possible, that a rejection does NOT mean your work is bad!

10 things I want to play in 2026: - Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave - Blue Prince - Wanderstop - Omori - Child of Light - Tactical Breach Wizards - Balatro: free update [aspirational] - This Way Madness Lies - Cassette Beasts - Being Home Alone With You Is Worse Than Death

So we’re still in the process of getting estimates but it’s beginning to look like getting the house foundation fixed is going to run upwards of $100k So uh We’ll be okay, we’ll figure it out, but I do have a sexy horror book you can preorder lol

Me at work rn: