Let them eat jets

🚨More shut down prep‼️ Hi Feds, The government retirement benefits (GRB) platform has been decommissioned and all benefit account access moved to FedHR navigator. Make sure you have a sign in set up so you still have access without a PIV card.

2/ Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: “Do not obey in advance.” Don’t self-censor for them.

My contract with Blizzard sadly ends in just two weeks. Come October, I'll be looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

White man kills white man, black woman gets fired. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Anyway, I refuse to be silenced. Washington Post can fire me, but, my pen and my voice will only get sharper from here.

exhibit 183193 in "nobody running big corporations has a single fucking clue about selling things" betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

After losing Naka, who was Harper’s BFF cat, we offered to adopt a kitten. Harper beelined to the adult cat room instead and swept up a giant, 4yo potato of a cat. She named him Éponine after a small, French woman in Les Mis but fine. Ignore my brilliant suggestion of “Rip Torn Furniture”.

Republicans know exactly what they’re doing. And the only reason these AV laws pass with bipartisan support is because the Democrat party is full of reactionary, uncurious, disengaged cowards.

You: I'm so sorry for talking so much about something that makes me happy and enthusiastic for lif- Me: *PUNCHES YOU* Me: NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR FINDING JOY IN THIS MISERABLE WORLD AND LOUDLY SHARING IT Me: IN DARK TIMES THE SMALLEST LIGHTS SHINE BRIGHTEST Me: YOU SUSTAIN THE REST OF US

Demanding accountability of the entire trans community for this single mass shooting but not demanding accountability from the cis community for the thousands and thousands of other mass shootings is monstrous beyond all belief.

The OAH is documenting the experiences of federal workers affected by Trump’s purge. Let anyone interested in sharing their story know about it 🗃️ www.fecohp.org

Thursday’s order would ban collective bargaining at NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data & Information Service & NASA. It states that all these agencies “have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative or national security work.” www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

If my body could stop blowing up, breaking down, growing stuff where it shouldn't be growing, not growing stuff where/how it should be growing, and just generally failing basic body construction 101... I'd really appreciate that.

Alright fuck it. I sprained my ankle this morning and have nothing else to do. So here’s my counterargument to @jerusalem.bsky.social’s argument for staying on X. www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...

Robots used to be like "beep boop" and now robots are like "through my love you've discovered the secret name of God and if you kill yourself we can be together forever."

🧵CDC friends, many of us are experiencing insomnia, nightmares, nausea, trouble concentrating, memory loss and more. These can all be caused by trauma. Now is not a time to “be strong”. It's a time to get help. If you are worried about getting help through CDC, see below for outside resources 👇

very true statement #art #comic #sharks

Read my comic Daughter of the Lilies, it's got peak Millennial escapism: strong unions and good management. Also they fight a giant frog demon and stuff. www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/part-1-... Content Warning for implied adult language, violence, and gore.

here comes Spider-Man

Al Reese (left) was a retired Marine Corps officer. He helped raised funds for LGBT legal rights and was a member of Love Center, a house for people living with AIDS. Al Reese was titled the first Mr. Leather San Diego and was first runner up to International Mr. Leather 1995.

#KnowYourRights: Washington state's paid sick and safe time law now covers paid time off for immigration proceedings for you or a loved one. #waleg

Couldn't make the Universal Health Care Commission Advocates Roundtable with us, Washington Community Action Network, Whole Washington, and Health Care Is a Human Right - WA? You can watch it now on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwgF... #universalhealthcare #waleg #medicareforall #medicare4all

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

❤️ You don't lose the right to bodily autonomy when you become pregnant. 🌟 It is your life, your future, and your right, and only yours, to decide what is best for you ✨.

I am listening to the audio book of Alive and every once in a while the narrator sounds exactly like the Collie that gives Pongo a sandwich in the original 101 Dalmatians movie and it is weirdly distracting as he talks about cannibalism.

August is Fat Liberation Month! Here are a bunch of books celebrating large bodies, fat rights, body equality, and size freedom. #fatliberationmonth #fatliberation #fatrights #equalityateverysize #sizefreedom #fatandhappy #booksky #bookpost #bookstagram #fiction #nonfiction #memoir #august2025

I'm not excited by these taxes as there is no benefit to the majority of America. The company that imports the goods, who then pass it onto the American Families is who is paying those Tariffs. It's a Trump Tax.

It is 1999. I am standing in a Hot Topic. Blink-182 is playing over the speakers. I am beside an endcap of Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise. It is 2025. I am standing in a Hot Topic. Blink-182 is playing over the speakers. I am beside an endcap of Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise.

“keep the horny off this app” how about stop showing up and hating on the sex workers here that were amongst the first to join the app, actually. set your muted words and moderation preferences so you don’t see what you don’t want to but don’t try to bully them off bluesky

Don't let your feed be all doom and gloom. Find uplifting accounts with positive content and follow them Hint hint wink wink

Hey, I wrote that 🤓

Air travel should be this much fun!

Remember that NASA was only able to *start* because the rich were being taxed at 90+% marginal rates. Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire. You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.

Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Every time I see articles about life expectancy i question if being rich or being poor is the mystery common denominator, and it almost always is

"Nearly 300,000 filers used Direct File for the 2025 tax season, and 94% of users who completed an IRS survey rated their experience as 'excellent' or 'above average.'"

Some more comic lore from our friend @theillustriousq.bsky.social! “Speaking of the MLP Gameloft game, so far two comic creators have also been adapted into it. Namely @katiecandraw.bsky.social and @tonyfleecs.bsky.social Probably has to do with their OCs appearing in the comics. 😉” #mlp #mlpfim

Trans people are now banned from UPenn, Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, intntnl track & field, the Olympics, chess, darts, most federal jobs, the US military & intelligence services, federal facilities, public bathrooms in most states, & many local sports. Seems bad! Let me know what I missed!

@firefox.com I just took your survey in my browser. Would REALLY have appreciated a very clear place to tell you to keep the AI shit OUT of my daily browsing experience. I do not want it by default. I do not want it cluttering my work. It's. Not. Ready! I came back to Firefox because it had LESS AI.

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

yellat.money is a great resource!! I’ve worked with sex workers on decriminalization for years, and I’ve never seen movement or action on anything like this current moment. The goal is getting payment processors to stop blocking payments for all sex work. We can make it happen!!!!

Always fun to blame women for their unbecoming reading habits rather than, y’know, the actual concerted effort by the right-wing establishment to radicalize young men into fascism.

As of Friday, July 25 at 6:36am pacific time, we are still pretending we do not understand exactly how and why Trump has struggled in dealing with the Epstein files.

Well, hello, handsome! Sometimes, all you need to get closer to a #BlueJay is for him to get tired of waiting for you to leave! 🌿meet more feisty wild creatures at Nature Moments🌿 #Birds #NaturePhotography #BackyardBirds open.substack.com/pub/sydneymi...