Today's post highlighting people who have reached out for help on Bluesky. 11 today, no bonus post 1. Noor, Jood, and Jowan: bsky.app/profile/jowa...

There is one week left to enter this contest, or to vote for entries you like #WritingCommunity

“Mmeory” copies are on the truck and will be here Thursday. Then the great KS backer mailout hullabaloo can begin along with mailing author copies, and after the pre-orders go out.

Lupa needed to be tucked in four consecutive times when she was settling on the couch to watch my husband play video games last night

Seems especially relevant lately: Looking for some catharsis? Get your revenge on corporate greed! 💥 DICK PUNCH EVERY SUIT 💥 A #TTRPG where you take down the oligarchs from inside the office. Grab your copy now: www.drivethrurpg.com...#TTRPG #IndieGame #Capitalism

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

As a permalancer: if you are EVER verbally offered ANY kind of promise (a raise, a contract extension, full-time employment), IMMEDIATELY ask for it in writing and be low-key relentless about it. As someone who has been strung along too many times: they can't keep getting away with this.

"once upon a time, there was a princess"

No srsly when are we giving her back Fiasco cannot see out of hims preferred seeing spot U kept receipt right U keep receipts for EVERYTHING

She has recovered lol

A disabled double amputee named Rodney Taylor has been held in ICE custody since January. He’s been denied his new prosthetic legs and is now in solitary confinement. His “crime”? A burglary when he was a teen for which he received a full pardon. 🧵

Tonight I'll be going to a neighborhood assn's monthly meeting to talk about creating habitat for wildlife in Philly with native plants! I made a worksheet for people to plan out their gardens. Pages 3-4 are specifically for Philly, but 1-2 apply to everybody. drive.google.com/file/d/1DRVR...

Ragnarok is a majestic creature. Regal. Beautiful. He would like you to buy my books. Why? Because when I order books, he gets boxes. I can’t order more boxes of books until I sell my current ones. #writingcommunity #bsnm #catsofbluesky #cat ko-fi.com/anotherindie...

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

I have a friend who lost his job in the DOGE nonsense. He's very reliable, and has extensive experience in IT project mgmt leading multi-million $ contracts. If you need someone like that or know someone who does, I'd appreciate a DM and I can connect you.

If you have a hashtag with multiple words, write the hashtag in #PascalCase or #camelCase to help users of screen readers. That helps the screen reader to read out the words out individually, rather than trying to read them in one long word.

Just a reminder that in addition to canceling Disney, you should also cancel Paramount. Hiring racist transphobe Bari Weiss as head of CBS News and actively denying that Israel is committing genocide are both really harmful.

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

This is such a useful resource from @penamerica.bsky.social "What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist" Please consider letting others know that this exists. pen.org/what-to-do-i...

a lot of people found faron from SO LET THEM BURN unlikable and i'm afraid i must warn you all that caya from WICKED ENDEAVORS is worse please add the book anyway: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

The Power of Storytelling in Medicine: Abigail Echo-Hawk, a preeminent Native American public health expert, discusses RSV, “data genocide” and positive change driven by Indigenous storytelling | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

CALLOUT: Looking for a source who could speak to the importance of cervical cancer screenings/HPV vaccination. On a tight deadline for it, so hoping for tomorrow or Thursday at the latest to interview. DM me if that's you, or leave suggestions here if you have them. Thanks!

They blame autistic people and paint us as evil because we point out the cruelties you pretend not to notice. It's shooting the messenger. You want us quiet enough to kill us. I, for one, intend to make you put your money where your mouth is. I am your bad conscience. I will not be silent. Ever.

I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

Dear indie game creators, please, in the name of all that is holy, get in the habit of clearly naming your downloadable files 🫠

Cops are not legally required, per the supreme court, to protect people OR prevent crime. They literally only exist to punish "criminals", which they get to define with zero external oversight.

QRP w/ your symmetric art #ttrpg #cartography #art

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

look up why Erikkka Kirk isn’t allowed in Romania. in 2008 Erika Kirk, then known as Erika Frantzve, was involved with an org in Romania called “Children’s Relief International” that was allegedly trafficking children.

“He put the blame on the women. He insinuated that if they ‘really’ cared about the health of their unborn child, they would be willing to endure any amount of fever, pain and suffering rather than take a safe and effective drug. That’s why I say this is eugenics.”

the way that goofy movie is so good for no reason, is proof that all the movies that are not good could actually be way better

I hate this so much. It’s not a “surprising reason.” It’s listeria contamination, and that should be in the fucking headline. Clickbaing public recall notices should be illegal.

Just so cynical of the west to recognize palestine after one of its beating hearts was burnt to a crisp for two years, and only to spite netenyahu. Want to hope this leads to something but soul is heavy.

This is another thing that differentiantes fanfic from ordinary fiction (how I call "original" fiction, I'll make a blog post on it too). Fanfic can be talked about in fandom spaces in relation to the IP because IT IS NOT ASKING FOR YOUR MONEY and DEPENDS ON IT. A book shouldn't* depend on an IP.

Apple cancels the release of Savant, worried about upsetting white supremacists

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

“Where have we heard that before? Nazi Germany. They went after disabled people..called them ‘useless eaters’..tested the gas chambers on them. Discarded them because they weren’t economically active, they weren’t strong and fit, and they didn’t want them to reproduce and contaminate the gene pool.”

Practissing my Howlerween stance

Cw filicide I think some reporters really need to learn about the Disabled Day of Mourning. Some parents of autistic kids despise them so much they kill them. This is how deadly ableism (and lack of social supports) can be. Our articles do not need to feed into ableism.

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...

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Oh we were on that bullshit well into the 1800s. See St Paul’s of Liège (Belgium), which first commissioned Joseph Geefs to sculpt Lucifer When Joe delivered it in 1842 (real fuckin sexy, etc) the Bishop was like “oh no!” so re-commissioned his brother Guillaume, who… made it sexier

This is what I mean when I say that organizing is artful drudgery. Take a look at yourself. What can you offer someone, to help them survive this? Go offer it. Give it. And keep doing it. That's organizing. Anything can be organizing. Organizing is showing up for each other.

Dumb asshole can't do anything right, still thinks he's the smartest man on Earth, gets humbled by God. DEATH CLERIC It's like putting a televangelist in Game of Thrones #unhingedpit

We've been quiet but plugging away at Issue #4, launching September 29! Check out the beautiful stock art going on our cover, courtesy of @montfordtales.com (© Rori Montford, used with permission. All rights reserved.) Love the watercolour style of this whimsical piece. #ttrpgsky #ttrpg

I've been marinating on the idea of starting an Actual Play-focused web fest based around peer review for a while now. Today, I finally wrote down all the ideas in my head and am gonna throw it out there to see if it resonates. Check it out and apply by October 3rd if you're interested!

Today's post highlighting people who have reached out for help on Bluesky. 25 today, no bonus post 1. Mohammed Ismail: bsky.app/profile/moos...

“Grandmother, why is there a sword stuck in that rock at the base of the mountain?” “It’s an ancient magic. If anyone is worthy of ruling over all the people of this land, they will draw it from the stone.” “No one ever has?” “No one ever will.” #AugurMicros2025 @augursociety.bsky.social

The Future As Advertised #AugurMicros2025 @augursociety.bsky.social

People keep shouting “autism isn’t caused by Tylenol!” like that proves anything moral. But all of this argument - about causes, about blame - is one step away from the same violence. Autism isn’t caused by anything. It isn’t a contagion, a toxin, a disease. Thread 🪡🧵