Alright, it's Pride and I'm pushing this thing. Trans voices are becoming increasingly curtailed, but you can still go directly to the source. go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

1/x Do you, personally, prefer not to be violently raped? Do you believe that spending 6 hours in jail after a demo waiting to be processed shouldn't include sexual assault? Good news! Authorities have a duty to prevent your rape while in their custody. Bc of a Black, trans woman. Let's talk!

This is a detail from a cyberpunk novel

I went and say The Amazing Digital Circus at my local cinema today. It was a solid ending, although I feel that it really needed another episode to properly wrap everything up without making it all feel rushed, but that's likely just the constraints of indie animation.

I need to start disconnecting my internet before playing Mass Effect, because Steam wants to download and then process the Vulkan shaders far too often and it takes waaaay too long each time.

Minion's rehab is going to be another expense on top of what I'm already dealing with. Anything you can offer helps tremendously. Thank you so much. paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels venmo: @Mz-April-Daniels #mutualaidrequest #crowdfund

Here's a pet peeve: multiparagraph messages sent over tens of minutes with sufficient gaps between some paragraphs that you think the send has finished. I get that I'm the weird one in thinking that it should just be a single long message, but I hate it so much

terrible day for fantasy and sci-fi nerds 💔 rip king I won't forget your pink nintendo DS moment nor your many kindnesses

'The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules.' Good news. 86% of 38,000 respondents in favour of retaining trans-inclusive policies.

Part 2: Making a medieval dagger #makingof #woodwork #medieval #crafting

I don't usually post my wargaming stuff on bluesky, but considering how I usually don't post anything, may as well: cohortsofthedamned.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-co...

I promise to stop going on about this soon, but my list of moving queens 900-1150 is now up to 122 women 👸 blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/... There are probably still errors/omissions (tell me if you spot one!), but thanks to everyone who's made suggestions on here or by email❤️

It's time for my annual reminder that if your library is doing Pride stuff and you like it, go ahead and let them and their bosses know you like it, because the people who *don't* like it definitely are

(Not a joke: www.military.com/dod-official... )

Give Us Victories is one of the most interesting games I have played in quite a long time. It covers well covered ground but introduces enough new ideas to make me genuinely excited. It is not a perfect game, but it is one I cannot stop thinking about. www.stuartellisgorman.com/blog/give-us...

Minion is making such progress, but we need your help to afford his pills. Please, anything helps.

My mom passed away 3 weeks ago after a 7-year battle with lung cancer. We’re trying to raise $8,536 for funeral expenses since we don’t have insurance and barely any income. Any support or even sharing this would mean the world to us right now. Please, I’m desperate. ko-fi.com/ellienoctis/...

A slight retranslation courtesy of @roelkonijn.bsky.social asking me how to render "polytropos": "Oi, sheila, tell me about that shifty cunt who went walkabout after he absolutely rooted Troy"

MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK. This is not a drill. MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK!!! www.tallandier.com/livre/marc-b... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

House on the Highway (1/18)

Tell me, sheila, of the bloke on walkabout

Academic research means reading 1 article, which leads you to a book and 6 other articles, which lead you to 17 articles and 4 book chapters, and oops now you’re an expert in the 1990s feminist criticism of Taylorist management philosophy, a thing you didn’t know existed until 3 days ago.

This is the kind of marketing prank destined to snare my dad at the grocery store. “There were a bunch of cans of baked beans on an endcap, I just grabbed one! I don’t think they taste that bad, do they?” The odds of accidentally buying popsicle flavored baked beans should be much lower.

Hey, I'm a trans man married to a trans woman and we have a trans kid! We do not, currently, have any money! This guy decided to kick off pride month by suddenly getting very sick. Expecting a huge vet bill, and I NEED him to be OKAY. Ignore my deadname on PayPal. www.paypal.me/skullamity

My sister's MIL is currently trying to upgrade some old family laptops and install Linux. I'm the tech support and, despite some whacky miscommunications over text because I don't know what she doesn't know, I'm enjoying it. It's good to see someone willing to make mistakes and learn.

So, I have hit 200 responses, of which 167 are complete... I promised myself that I'd advertise until the end of the week to see if I can get closer to 200 complete responses, so please do keep sharing!

cosmicbook.news/amazon-cance... *grumble grumble grumble* Why can't we have nice things?

I’m doing #FictionFest this year! It’s like a great big online book fair celebrating #Canadian fiction #books and authors: FictionFest.ca I will be part of a panel discussion: Out of the Ashes: Finding Hope Through Dystopia events.humanitix.com/out-of-the-a... 📚 #CanLit #CanCon

The pro vice-chancellor for quality and integrity no less. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

it seems like a good time for an indie queer #PRIDE merch thread! Y'all know what I make; other independent queer and trans artists, please post your pride stuff in the replies! bsky.app/profile/edid...

Google "upgraded" and "improved" voice commands to google maps while driving. So now when I said, "Google maps, Michaels Terra Losa" it reads me Michael Jackson's google AI summary. I can't wait to see how badly Microsoft fucks this up.

The Google Keyboard was markedly better (in my view) than Apple's, but now that autocorrect has degraded so much that I need to turn it off, it's probably just as easy to use the Apple one.

Today @dygottlieb.bsky.social joins us to discuss his new book Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquored New York, new from @harvardpress.bsky.social. Come check it out on @askhistorians.bsky.social! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Free newsletter: The dawn of token-based-billing has shown that generative AI doesn’t have a return on investment. It's too unpredictable, too unreliable, you can't easily measure the cost of tasks, and organizations are already pulling back. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

Ever wonder how Wall St. got so powerful? Why your urban rent is so expensive? Or why so many young professionals are obsessed with fitness? Come find out on my Reddit AMA on r/AskHistorians--I'll be there talking YUPPIES all morning.

There's someone running a service in my area, where they provide you a 240L wheelie bin of wood at regular intervals, based on your subscription rate. The smallest cost works out to be $110 per bin, which they say is 90-100kg of wood. 1m3 (~500-600kg) of wood costs $260-280.

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The Green Company exists because there is sufficient cash and sufficient political chaos and infighting that a company of mercenaries will always be in demand, and because Sir William is sufficiently charismatic to hold nearly three thousand violent men and women together. /1

Why do we not have half a dozen sequels to this by now?

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

Happy #Pride from Portland's all-queer magical girl rock band, Magica Riot! In celebration of Pride, I'm running sales on Itch for my ebooks & audiobooks. Any title is 40% off or get 'em in a discounted bundle! Here's the ebook bundle - the whole adventure so far for $7! itch.io/s/187271/mag...

You can read about all the queer stories I've covered so far if you scroll down to Queer Women on this page! womenof1000ad.weebly.com/women-by-the... #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride from Women of 1000! 🏳️‍🌈 Guess what ... women have always been queer! That's just history, folks!

Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their AI training datasets - this bill would force them. If that sounds good, we REALLY NEED YOUR HELP! Please sign this petition in support of the bill, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

In a couple of months' time I'll be giving a talk about the Norman Conquest at Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds. www.moyseshall.org/whats-on/det...

One of the really challenging things about being a con/heist writer is keeping up on all the security systems and clever ways of breaching network security, and i’m a little offended at companies just installing giant AI backdoors into their own systems and taking the fun out of it.

Ha! I've been waiting for this to start. I'll be discussing the Green Company, led by Sir William the Green, also known as the Great Company or the Grand Company, as it's the first band of routiers to reach the size where kings have issues fighting them in several centuries.

The people cry out for Jarnathan