no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

Big old "lolsob" from me bro

There was a spiritualism boom after the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. AI grift is just that for the COVID-19 era, fucking fight me.

Sensation seeking ADHD you say, this freakin dork you say

An authors we work with, ilgaksu, has been dealing with major cascading health issues. A couple of their friends have organized a gofundme; the deets on are there. I usually don't post or share fundraising stuff, but. Boosts and help much appreciated for a great writer + friend. gofund.me/1e8d51e30

I'm awake with digestive issues and reading Grave Importance and I love it when some supernatural beings are amazed at being put in touch with other supernatural beings, and also Greta's awe of Faust.

I hope that fucker (fond) is halfway up a glacier sometimes and gets Wuji stuck in his head again.

I would like to see one thousand movies about disabled characters by disabled directors before I see another movie about a guy who became disabled because he did a bad thing that he feels bad about. Moral injury is exhausting to watch on constant repeat.

*sigh* I went from knowing nothing to "'boy paper' is a slang term for photocards of Kpop group members, which are often signed by the members and collected by fans." South Korea definitely providing some bread and circuses in this American hellscape for me rn.

I feel like I’ve told the story of my mom’s death and how she’d be alive today if the ACA had been enacted a year earlier over and over again and I don’t have the energy to do it again, but trading the ACA to reinstate SNAP benefits is a fool’s bargain. We can feed people AND give them health care.

Ilgaksu, a fanfiction writer some of my friends really really love, is dealing with rare illnesses with costly private medical fees. If you can help, or just spread the word, please do. gofund.me/eba0202f8

#griffinarts inspired by today's trip to the Met it's WILLIAM! the hippopotamus letting you know that he believes in you. william is a blue faience hippo from the Middle Kingdom painted with lotus flowers. he has seen a lot of things in his life time but he's only seen ONE of YOU!!

My other favorite elegy song is "The Commander Thinks Aloud," and I tend to listen to it on a bright and frigid day in late January or early February, because we remember Challenger and Columbia four days apart. The song is about the latter but I think about both

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzT... it's giving me chills, listening after reading this thread.

Oh. Hi trauma. Yeah, I know what you want me to do. It's actually quite tempting. However, we're not gonna do that. We're going to pick some onions and make hong shao pork belly.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

A very good report!

This is crushing. Not just because of the stat alone (which is crushing on its own) but because we had made concrete progress on this. A lot of us thought we wouldn't make 30/40 when I was growing up and it made my heart sing to see kids starting to talk about "when I'm a grandpa" and now this...

This is totally me, no idea what's going on for atiny tomorrow but happy to be supportive (also would love to be told what's up ) www.instagram.com/reel/DQ0sx5M...

No "failure" to achieve a specific goal makes you a "failure" or "unworthy" as a person. That's CPTSD trying to make you feel like garbage & get you to quit. All "failure" at a specific goal makes you is human. A work in progress, like the rest of us-- & worthy of another chance.

Safe people know how to handle hearing "no" without losing their sh*t & pivoting to emotional abuse. No exceptions.

#griffinarts you are legally obligated to listen to pizza rat

Last night the novel I'm reading had realistic descriptions of a war PTSD flashback and it gave me an emotional flashback. The weight of it just settled back on me. "Wow, that really happened, it was really that fucked up," I kept thinking. It has disrupted so much. I used to be so different.

Made a foxhunting attenuator this morning with my club and also got hooked into younger more liberal ham connections and honestly that means I have won at this weekend.

Ghid isn't specifically gender envy for me now but my mom has a very similar brooch to that one and seeing him in this suit is doing things for my inner teenager who dressed in menswear for high school a lot. So's his waist. Like, just generally.

Wow, reading a fresh comment email from AO3 while I'm at a ham radio club event is peak multitasking in living my best dang life doing my funky special interests. Heck yeah.

While I'm out on ham radio shenanigans business my group chat of Stays is loading me up with funny stuff to watch later. They said don't put your earbuds in and watch now, you will get busted and then you'll have to explain, possibly by making them watch the God's Menu MV.

I haven't heard someone use the nato alphabet properly yet tonight, and I'm at the ham radio club auction night making people spell their names and calls and model numbers tonight. If not here, then WHERE!

I love the ham radio club because there are multiple white dudes shorter than my nonbinary ass.

A good day to remember Rosalind Franklin, who died far too young and unacknowledged.

I mean, even Smithsonian Magazine even highlighted how horrible he was.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Didn't plan to talk my sister into doing things like adopting an adorable three legged French bulldog puppy but the pictures she's sending are so joyful

I just asked the group chat which K-pop management company is Efrafa. So that's how that's going.

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

I love that the Qing emperors with no royal blood and massive "Is Yibo leaving Yuehua?" discourses are happening at the same time on the Chinese internet. People are feasting. Good job everyone.

"Don't care if it's true or not. Any gossip that makes the 'Male Lineage Server' guys this mad is a win in my book." A Chinese netizen about rumors that DNA testing has proven Kangxi and Qianlong of the Qing dynasty were swapped in and had no royal blood. www.tumblr.com/fuckyeahchin...

After Zohran's historic victory in New York City, we’re gearing up for an ambitious new phase of worker organizing across all five boroughs. We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build the labor movement in New York and beyond. You can help. 🔗👇

How fandom is going: "His little mmm! Noises are killing me, you know I love a skinny noodle man who makes noises."

I'm remembering how bad I felt on November 5, 2024, how panicky and terrified. Babes, we have survived a whole year! We gathered up our fear and spite and venom and love and hope, and we didn't die. We aren't quitting. We're gonna hold hands, bang pots and pans, and never stop.

TFW your raised nonreligious housemate gets you into what you're coming to the slow, horrible realization is a ridiculously Catholic boy band, and it's all very cute until it's occasionally very not but at least they're good boys who seem to treat people well to the best of their abilities.

STAY baby bread skrrt Skijigi all these goddamn rachas skzoos Someone had better be writing a paper on this band's idiolect, because it's pretty epic.

Ma'am, thank you for articulating so well what this feels like. How did this happen. How. HOWWWWWW www.instagram.com/reel/DQmu7z3...

Mercy sakes alive, child. Please. Our nerves. Have some mercy. youtu.be/2bBkSgQisbg?...

The funniest comments I saw about all the billionaires begging people to vote for Cuomo and trying desperately to fund it were from Mamdani himself, who said "these guys are throwing more money to try to beat me than I would even tax them"

I have committed another act of fanfiction, in which garrus has the most basic-ass turian kink and shepard does something about it archiveofourown.org/works/73114846

Listening to 5-Star while we run errands. Definitely makes the work more fun.

Here's a post listing everything I had out this year, new fantasy, reprints, short fiction, TV show, etc: marthawells.dreamwidth.org/670572.html

I should mention this again: Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/search?q=mar... has Murderbot and Sanctuary Moon merchandise where the proceeds go to charity. At this point as far as I know there is no other licensed official merchandise.

A reminder that my online asynchronous class on political writing is full of resources, frameworks, writing prompts, examples, and more—and that while I ask for $20, anyone who wants to get in for free gets in for free, no questions asked.