If we're going to keep reheating the same discourse leftovers, then how come we're not getting a monthly Bigolas Dickolas?

It's Easter and also Qingming, and a friend just got Like the Sunshine (像阳光那样） in my head so you're all getting the link to Caroline's translation again because this song and translation were like a prayer to me, at one of the hardest times in my life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QkL...

reading These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by @izzyxen.bsky.social and as;sdfjlksf I'm gonna be reccing this for years and years to come. Do you LOVE MURDER MYSTERIES but HATE COPS and also you're QUEER AS IN MAGNETO WAS RIGHT? here's the book for you! tachyonpublications.com/product/thes...

I just found out from some reviewer who had an ARC that one of my friends has a book coming out next month, and I know we've both been busy with all that life and mental health throw at us, but no, I do NOT think y'all, as a rule, promote your books enough!

Just watching Spirealm, getting scared of eggs, on the night before Easter. Like you do.

So we're watching the Spirealm. The bathrooms in the hotel in the Fitscher's Bird door look like the dorm bathrooms in Hall of Graduate Studies at Yale. This is cracking me up and Kate says that's depressing as shit. We are both correct.

Why is Ponky giving me looks? I'm singing along to "Bump Bump" the first time I'm hearing it because I'm watching concert video, and there's a lyrics screen behind him and I can see how many syllables there are for anything I _can't_ read fast enough, thank you Korean. What a good live song.

We have started watching the Chinese live action Hikaru no Go adaptation, Qihun 棋魂。 Can't stop, won't stop, comparing Chu Yin and Shi Guang to Shuos Jedao and Kel Cheris.

A piece of poetry just fell out of me tonight, because I hope a friend of mine across the country is still alive. I sent her cat pictures and hugs in an email. If she recovers she'll reply eventually. I really hope she does. I hate the struggle, for her. But I hope she stays.

Go turkeys go www.universalhub.com/2026/never-m...

TFW you have to search a truly stupid mnemonic to find one of the polycule license plates in your chat history, in order to add it to paperwork.

It's annoying to see my kpops doing an ad for a sunscreen formulation that we for sure can't get in the USA because our country hasn't approved any new compounds for sunscreen this century. Moreso that it's the brand my friends who test Korean sunscreen like least, too, but I bet it works!

Malkin is back on the ice and I am yelling at him in Russlish to behave himself, дебил !

Oh no, I need this so bad

My religion and politics professor, who had fled 2 fascist regimes by the time he was 10, told us about having dinner with a schoolmate's family, when he was about 6 living in Germany, and hearing that family specifically pray _to_ Der Führer when saying grace before dinner. Same playbook.

I'm just putting it out into the universe: Jon M Chu has the opportunity to do the funniest thing. (Also, pre-order The Subtle Art of Folding Space. It comes out on April 7th!) comicbook.com/tv-shows/lis...

It's not that you "let" a manipulative person or high control group change or control your choices. Most manipulation & coercion functions in such a way that we are not even aware of it at first-- but feel responsible for it later. It's a scam. Back up & see it for what it was.

It's on the sightseeing tours. Your villain lair can't be on the sightseeing bus tours.

This is beautiful

✨ rebrand time ✨ instead of anxious pigeons, my comics will now feature aggressively confident seagulls 🍟

SLIMEY TO THE MOON HE WANTS TO WRIGGLE AMONGST THE STARS

I am watching the Artemis II countdown to launch. It is wild to me how matter-of-fact we are about launches these days. Anyway, the hatches are closed.

"Mohamed, a rising star with immense talent across the speculative genres, may be an author you are discovering today." Waaaaa thank you @raforall.bsky.social !! For the kind words and for including the (hem hem multiple award-winning) NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US!

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Oh. Just got a D.O. song and it's I Do, and it's the fucking sweetest thing. I see the appeal, y'all.

hailey's whole thread here is smart but I also really like the specification about software vs. other industries because there is a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE division there and (as I noted t'other day) it confuses the fuck out of discourse.

New GFM update today, with progress toward the 8K goal. So close! New kitten pics too! Here's one from last week, there are more in the update! It's so wonderful to have cats who are siblings and get along well. Please share widely! www.gofundme.com/f/help-coreo...

Me around 20: ugh formality levels in languages just make me mad because they make me anxious about getting them wrong, I can barely handle вы/ты. Me now: gimme gimme gimme, Korean is AWESOME and the Romanian dumneavoastră/voi for multiple you is so great. (Voi is informal, like y'all or yinz).

...it sounds like what I would have put in my press kit when I sent my mixtape to URB magazine in 2002. Also worth noting: if we were women, they would have said much worse things about us. Here's my actual verse, for those curious; and SMP's lyrics are at secretrivers.bandcamp.com/track/worthy...

Beloved friends of a beloved friend have hit hard times. If any of you can throw a little in the can to get their fundraiser rolling, or share with others who might be able to, it would help a lot. www.gofundme.com/f/Looking-fo...

Last night while discussing HR with @akaharriet.bsky.social, I compared the central romance to being like if between 1997 and 2004 Derek Jeter and Nomar Garciaparra were secretly fucking each other and falling in love, and she was like …wow okay that all makes much more sense

Your mission in trauma recovery is your mission. What "they" say about you is their unhealed sh*t. It has zero to do w/ what you owe your "parts" & inner child today, how you use the tools of self talk, mental focus, & physiology today, who you are as a recovering survivor today.

As of today, I don't know any trans person in KS who received direct help from a relocation org. If you are such a person, I would appreciate hearing from you. Lots of trans people in KS who are in need and/or trying to leave, rely on mutual aid and QT orgs operating in KS. List below.

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This morning I was awake a few hours too early, reading my kpop stuff, minding my own business, and a wave of remembering just how ill I was, 3 years ago, washed over me. Can I make a deal with my trauma processing that I did a good job, and let's not do it again tomorrow, please?

...and one quick addition: this is what I wrote after the first No Kings: "What's Next? Things To Do After a Big March." Just a few notes, resources, and links that I've found useful, especially in the context of working with new folks just taking those first steps into political consciousness.

I get told my progressive, socially active Christianity isn't real or legitimate all the time by people who should know better. This explanation makes so much sense to me. We're unserious, feminized, queer, academic. Not serious muscular man faith.

Why do your cats have 姓，Coreo? I mean technically they have Hanja for Sino-Korean surnames rather than xìng, per se, but it's because we're incredible nerds. Next question.

I don't care how long it's been or how much of a sh*t show it's been: re-start your trauma or addiction recovery (or both) today. Forgive yourself & focus forward. I swear to you it's not too late.

Whoever put that sponsor logo there on this racing suit is right: that ass does remain undefeated.

If you're in SFWA and you've kinda been ignoring the board elections, you might want to tune in this time.

I thought about making a joke, but this is just flat out gaslighting. The NYT is trying to be like "actually the AMA is wrong about the AMA's position."

I'm just having a moment of being really emotional about how good this song is and how much I've felt like this at times. I know you're shocked that it's another one of his songs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-eu...

I have a parent who is basically doing a protest crawl tomorrow. Two different protests and then a meal with her protest buds. Goals, tbh.

An update to the GoFundMe for Eli, to get them and Ianto away from Hazel. TLDR? Life has dealt Eli another blow, and they still need help to get away from their current situation. www.gofundme.com/f/help-eli-a...

from Fix The News, a story that just made me cry. Unbelievable that, in times of crisis, of WAR, this is happening. Fucking incredible work.

good UNIQ night

Holy shit. I was thinking about this in the shower yesterday, how this vestige of the group has persisted for so long in his Weibo name, and wondering if it would finally change after his current contract expires. Didn't expect this now.

One reason why trauma survivors can be particularly sensitive to & upset by the actions & communications of the government is because they mirror dynamics of an abusive home: we can't escape them, we often can't change or influence them, & we can't avoid hearing about them.