The tide is bloody, red and deep, And my convictions will not keep, And poems by Yeats are very deep And poems by Yeats are very deep.

Whose bird this is, I think I know His falcon cannot hear him though; He will not see the widening gyre That set the blood-dimmed tide to flow. That great rough beast must think it queer, That Bethlehem is very near In what strange desert did it wake As centers fell apart this year?

I am back on my bullshit again.

Hey @gailsimone.bsky.social, I don’t know if this is your kind of thing, but would you be willing to share my DonorsChoose project for my school in South LA? Either way, thanks for being a bright spot in the comics (and social media) world. 💜💜💜

This is just a note to say that I have eaten the falcon in a widening gyre and that you were probably saving for anarchy Forgive me it was delicious so rough and full of passionate intensity

Hey @gailsimone.bsky.social, I don’t know if this is your kind of thing, but would you be willing to share my DonorsChoose project for my school in South LA? Either way, thanks for being a bright spot in the comics (and social media) world. 💜💜💜

In case you didn't know, Jane Austen published her first book Sense & Sensibility under a similar model - paying for printing costs. These authors would have been ALL OVER electronic self-publishing. Seize the means of production!

When I was a baby archivist, it was still the early days of digitization. We'd only get money to digitize the collections the donors/grants people thought were sexy and cool. 99.999% of our collections were paper or microform (film or fiche).

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I sent my husband a link to the Norma Kamali pop up sale with a note saying it wasn't a hint, there's not much there for my height, but I just wanted him to see how cool the looks were. This thread is a SAMPLING of what he sent back...

The #1 movie when you were ten years old is how your 2026 is going to go. I…I can work with this.

important bulletin: DOGS IN MATCHING HANUKKAH PAJAMAS.

People who don’t have sisters will never get to know the joy of begging them for advice on what to wear for a job interview, date, or party, then immediately disregarding their advice and wearing something completely different

Have they tried ringing up all the people they fired and replaced with ChatGPT?

There it is, gang. Your perfect excuse, locked and loaded. Time for icepops and tamales. ALL OF THEM.

I'm gonna be reposting this forever cos my blood pressure rises every time I see someone call this a boycott and praising Skate Canada when all they are doing is following federal law and funding criteria

Speaking as a parent, I've found a really simple way to stay in touch with my daughter: *I'm not an asshole.* My kid didn't ask to be born, and she doesn't owe me a relationship, or anything at all. I don't treat her like she does, and so she wants to talk to me. Wild, right?

I cannot stress enough that most ppl don't ever even think about calling their reps. I talk to ppl in my fam about it and they go "Huh? What?". But your reps work for YOU. They need to know what you actually care about. When we call in big numbers it ALERTS them, cuz they rarely hear from us.

And that’s the number one reason why actual physical dictionaries are top of my DonorsChoose list. bsky.app/profile/msdo...

Weird. I got up to use the bathroom a few minutes ago, and as I was heading back to bed, I noticed I was leaving a trail of bloody footprints. Turns out there is a tiny cut on the ball of my foot and I don’t know how it got there. Kinda freaky; how did I cut my foot while asleep in bed? A mystery.

Translation: sometimes in gaming books now I have to read something that reminds me that ladies and brown and gay people are also enjoying this hobby :( :( :( and that makes me sad in my mean boy feelings :( :( :( why can't I have one place to just be able to be sexist and queerphobic and racist??

It’s kind of buried in the thread, but yes, teachers hate it. And yes, the district is mandating most of it.

A bunch of assholes walk into a room and go, “We’re making an AI powered publishing house, we’ll put out more books faster than anyone else!“ And the investors go “Oh wow!“ and give them millions of dollars. It now no longer matters to the assholes if their plan works. They already got paid.

Their paychecks don’t come from the end users, they come from the rounds of funding pumped into them. And the money keeps coming as long as they can keep the grift going. Not in drips and drops from actual consumers buying stuff, but in big fat chunks from investment groups and accelerators.

So much of the hideous bullshit of modern business makes a lot more sense after you realize that the “customer“ for the products being peddled aren’t actual human beings that go “Oh, that looks good, I’ll buy that,” but the investors shoveling money into the burn pits of these go-nowhere companies.

So many creep-ass Twitter accounts post paintings and photos from like, the 50s and 60s, with captions like “bring back cotillions, bring back balls, bring back house parties“ My guy Those still happen It’s just that no one‘s fucking inviting you You ever wonder why that is

THIS! Please leave five star reviews for books that you love wherever you can!

This is brilliant. Thanks @matociquala.bsky.social

I love how shiny Toucannon has a bi-pride-painted beak.

It's not that we dont sport. We are banned by default if we take GAHT. But ppl dont see this in the rules not understanding the anti-doping sentence and think we have a free pass

When I tell you getting a TUE is exceedingly rare and trans men who were approved are now being denied, you all need to listen. I've been trying to pitch a story about this and my ban and crickets

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Being extremely careful about image/video attribution isn’t JUST important for giving credit to artists and creators. It’s also a way to slightly decrease your chances of spreading deceptive AI slop!

This is still running…

Look. As far as I'm concerned, having gotten to make this shirt for my wife is all the justification that song needs to exist. Yes I'm fully serious. nerdykeppie.com/products/we-...

C'mon, folks, mama needs a new set of dictionaries. #donorschoose #clearthelist @donorschoose.bsky.social

This cartoon and two others are available now as prints here: www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025

I have literally seen shitposts on Bluesky cited by Gemini as factual, in statements screenshotted by the original shitposter themselves and reposted to Bluesky. Never, ever, ever, EVER trust AI, gang.

YO. Remember what I said about how the internet needs "Etsy, but not flooded with drop-shipper and AI trash?" Good news! ✨It already exists✨! AND it's a CO-OP. 🎉 Check out @3psboyd.bsky.social's dice shop on there! artisans.coop/pages/seller...

How to make me go from "indifferent" to "queen shit" in one easy move

if you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

That ✨PREDATORY CAPITALISM,✨ bay-bee *jazz hands* Any lawyer I'd hire would cost me ten times what I'd eventually recover, so just gotta eat the big crock of dog shit and move on.

THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT WILL HAPPEN ALL SEASON

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

YES YES YES YES. This is a pet peeve of mine and the fastest way to make me stop reading/playing. Don't punish your readers for paying attention, or they'll stop doing that.

Every trans person, and those who stand with us and see what we go through, is WELL AWARE that this student is a young woman priming herself to jump on the Right Wing Hate Grift Gravy Train. When you discuss the merits of the essay at all, you're feeding into that. Stop it. Call this what it is.

Bar signal going out here.