More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

happy bi day to me, to you, to trans bisexuals, to bisexuals who mostly prefer women, to bisexuals who mostly prefer men, to bisexuals who do gender fuckery together or alone or with many, to ace bisexuals, to aro bisexuals, to all bisexuals!!! i love you, we are grand and beautiful

Authors & publishers posting abt illustrated books or using an illustrator's work to promote a book, pls credit ILLUSTRATOR. Not only are you helping boost artist but it shows people that you or your publisher hired a HUMAN artist. #PicturesMeanBusiness art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #KidLit

Yo - so unfortunately in this climate trad publishing doesn’t want us! If we write a Daily Tism book & start our own little publisher to put it out, say in time for next Christmas, who’d buy and read the living shit out of it?

Ceaptar go raibh suas go 25,000 ag freastal ar mhórshiúl i lár Bhaile Átha Cliath ar an Satharn ar son cearta teanga don Ghaeilge agus don Ghaeltacht jrnl.ie/6822548

Deleting the apps cos I wanna meet someone the old fashioned way (steal a dead man’s identity in Korea, live as him for 20 years, get big in advertising, have a bunch of affairs, lose my perfect family but then, at my lowest, create the most famous Coke advert with great metaphorical significance)

A good a day as any to watch and share this: youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?...

I can't pay to get rid of ads on the channel 4 website because I don't hold a UK bank card I'm blaming brexit on this

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Truer words have never been spoken. I’d shake his hand if I ever see this him in person. Please repost this.

The National Fulm Board's animation division at its peak was unprecedented. Canadians of a certain age got to see absolute masterpieces on CBC as filler between shows or in class on film reels/VHS tapes. Wouldn't it be cool if our government poured money into the NFB again? 1/

Why is RTÉ referring to Maria Steen as a "family rights campaigner"? Maria Steen, as a member of the self-styled Iona "Institute", has campaigned against every hard-won right we have today.

Happy #HobbitDay! I celebrated the Bagginses birthday back in 2021 by making this Ghibli-inspired animation (by hand!) 🍂🌿🍂🧡 #lazart #lotr #animation

You don't say!

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

More relevant than ever. This is why fascists try to censor artists first. This is why we can never stop, give in, or quiet ourselves. Stay scary, fellow artists~ 😘 (image from @/bcvitalwrites on Instagram)

I've only ever really encountered the (giant and amazing) Irish elk skeletons in Dublin's Natural History Museum and I never really considered how thick the neck would have to be to hold up those antlers!

This Irish elk was reconstructed using real deer fur and hooves, love how it looks and so HUGE

Bluesky this, Mastodon that, it is time to return to the Traditional Ways (communicating by passing notes asking about someone's Top 5 tucked into highlighter tops at the back of class)

Earth, Wind & Fire "September" 1978 Maurice White's wife, Marilyn said that the line "21st September" was the expected birth date of their son Kahbran, on hearing the song, Marilyn said "My whole body smiled, it was like a secret message between us and our son."

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

The Dark Crystal characters were particularly amazing.

Going to the Center For Puppetry Arts was such a joy. I saw so many icons from my childhood and teenage years.

Pls don't do the blackout thing guys pls actively yell at moderation. Bsky isn't losing money if you don't post, there are no advertisers to scare with no engagement.

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

If you're in Dublin @ 2 Sunday, pop into @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social where I'll be launching @sylvialeatham.bsky.social 's most excellent debut novel, "Chaos Theory". Support real bookshops, cultural institutions of the northside, brilliant Irish writing, and love stories! 2pm! Chapters!

So much of Star Trek can be traced to the fact that I think so many guy writers just wanna fuck Spock & don't know how to handle it. Even Asimov once wrote a piece about how "Spock is hot because he's smart, but I'm smart so why don't I get ladies" but it reads like a love letter to Spock's hotness.

The Last Unicorn (1982) directed by Katsuhisa Yamada. Produced by Arthur Rankin, Jr. & Jules Bass. Written by Peter S. Beagle (adapted from The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle).

Don't need to hear one more 'Bluesky is an echo chamber' post ever again. Meta is scraping parents IG 'back to school photos' of their daughters in schoolgirl uniforms and using them in ads to entice men to sign up for Threads. It's all pedos and perverts running the country. All of em.

This shit makes me so mad because people don't understand how much power we have over these companies and the only thing we need to do is not give them money. The only thing we need to do is to not do anything. It's the easiest shit! *wearily* collective action does work, it really does

today’s my birthday!! here’s some of my favorite art I made in the past year 🫶🏻❤️💕

A promotional #LOTR drawing by Mike Ploog (1978)

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

keep building, we’ve still got each other

Finally back from my small hiatus, still recovering but doing so much better! Here's pietro and coco!

Channel 4 website has loads of old Hollyoaks on there so now I’m bingeing episodes from 2013 which is probably the last time I watched an episode or two but like…it’s actually sorta good though lmao

i think the reason i find relatively well-heeled american people’s doomerism hard to bear is that it’s no less self important than evangelicals’ assertions that these just happen to be the end of days. and compared to people in e.g. the global south most of us ARE relatively well-heeled

important to remember that apocalypse is a fantasy that absolves you of your responsibilities

A bit about why I think rewilding needs to be central to our response to the eco-emergency and my work in helping landowners rewild their land. Climate Changemakers: The rewilding advocate who helps landowners to restore nature www.independent.ie/life/climate...

Blue iguana climbs back from the brink. Grand Cayman’s blue iguana, once down to fewer than 25 individuals, now numbers more than 1,000 in the wild. Captive breeding, habitat restoration and community engagement reversed what was nearly a Caribbean extinction. CNN buff.ly/GKiJpcz #ShareGoodNewsToo

Once again, these apps do not know the difference between a lie and the truth. They judge how likely it is that a given string of words will go together to make a coherent sentence.

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

Star Trek, Deep Space 9, S6 E1 (apologies if my American friends don't find this funny)

A custom nesting doll commission for @skeleton.fyi ! Each of these are handpainted and size correct based on owl species. From biggest to smallest they are Great Grey Owl, Snowy White Owl, Great Horned Owl, Barn Owl, Northern Saw-Whet Owl and the smallest is an Owl pellet.

I love this The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway share.google/HUR6PJ3PrdVl...

Dude u couldn’t be more wrong. As former intelligence this is precisely the type of shit we would want and look for. @angryblacklady.bsky.social is absolutely right that signing up for these protests is a very bad idea. This is exactly what they need to target people & put us on their watchlists

The people who *make this tech* can't get it to work in a simple demo, and their magical thinking about it has convinced them that they didn't need to do the most basic level of preparation for their demonstration. So it is, in fact, an excellent demonstration of what genAI will do for society.

I cancelled my Disney+ ages ago what's all the furore around them today? What fresh hell did they wreak?? (Been offline all day)

Not everyone can always cancel things during a boycott, but if you can, today is a perfect day to terrorize the shit out of Disney. Do it for a week. Or be like me (the person described in the follow up post) and cancel b/c you forgot you were subscribed. Then make sure to tell them why. I did.