Working on a new playlist. The genre this time is "Desperate horny guy trying to reach a girl on the phone by explaining his life story to someone on the other end of the line who couldn't give a shit." Probably the best example is "Operator" by Jim Croce. youtu.be/khYxP7TiFSA

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...

Hey, fellow Southern Californians - Please amplify this wide and far.

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but the flu is getting out of hand. And we needed to make a post about it. Here are our pretty direct thoughts, because sometimes our social media manager/infographic designer is tired & can’t think of a way to put it more gently. Please make good choices. (1/2)

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It's amazing to hear how much Black american culture has shaped his identity dealing with his own version of blackness in the South Pacific.

I infodumped here. Everyone needs to know how toxic this shit is. bsky.app/profile/thin...

one time an eight year old threw a chair at my head and you know what I did? I took a sticker off his bit of the sticker wall and made him go sit in the hall to cool off. I was 22 years old and a complete dipshit and I had more self-control than these men with guns

www.joyceuptownfoodshelf.org/give-to-the-... this food pantry is near my old apartment in mpls, they are working to feed people who can’t leave their homes due to ICE, please help if you can!!!

please? still on $166 /334 for the tki (cancer) medication (missed 4 dosages so far) see the link in the thread ❤️

A little light reading for your Friday? You can read the first chapter of my novella, Peace and Love, online or download a PDF: huskyteer.co.uk/peaceandlove... ☮️💜 #FurryWriting

A frankly astounding Humble Bundle of about 70 books by women SFF writers, including the Iskryne series by @pennyvixen.bsky.social and me and my first two Karen Memory novels, for $25 for the whole bundle, benefitting youth mental health. www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...

If you're a writer your job is to do cartwheels wearing a silly hat with bells on for pennies while secretly believing you are harnessing the cosmic force that holds reality together. You can't actually do one or the other. It has to be both.

My god. The news is horrible. More horrible than usual. So here is the Chrysilla Jumping Spider from Southeast Asia. Stop doomscrolling and look at these.

The reason this keeps happening, getting worse each time Republicans get power, is that Democrats refuse to punish them - for REAL CRIMES, not just political differences - every time THEY get power. We may already have seen the last Democratic administration. Newsom would ensure the next one is.

In light of what happened to Renee Good, I thought it important to reiterate my grandmother's advice.

Also I keep hammering this but it really will be gone after this month ends (to make way for another version later on this year). So don't mind me if I keep bumping it up the page 😅

I'm having a hard time writing this... Our cat Nyx died last night during an emergency vet visit. This country being what it is, we now owe $1,100 to the vet. Normally I'd take the payment plan, but paying within 30 days is the only way we can have Nyx's ashes. www.paypal.com/paypalme/jay...

Every day.

A fuzzy snow orange in its natural habitat ❄️ #art #traditionalart #caturday

Gentle reminder: a person’s current relationship is not necessarily the whole of their sexuality. Bi and pan people exist. Please stop pretending we don’t. Please. It makes everything so much worse.

Today was supposed to be the last day of this deal, but I'm extending it until the 14th, which is the last day to pay my back rent before they start pursuing eviction. I really need a place to live, especially given how bad Minnesota winters are. Please get in contact with me if you need an editor.

I wanted to make cute umbrellas, but suddenly realized I need to finalize the order... now?? But I dunno how many to order! So to help me out, you can pre-order before Jan 14 to get 20% OFF! Pre-order here: birdietam.art/collections/...

Hey what if ppl cared about queers while we are alive? I could get my glasses RX since these OTC readers are causing headaches. I could finish the essay for the anthology instead of ... STILL not being able to read or write. I could get my HRT! My rollator! helphopelive.org/campaign/159...

You don’t have to watch that video either. You know what happened. You know why it happened. That is enough.

I grew up with narcissistic abuse that involved a LOT of gaslighting where reality was denied or changed on the regular. A tip to help keep tethered to reality is documentation in ways that you and you alone can control. Write things down. Take pics. Track the truth so you can identify the shift.

Several brands of pecorino romano have serious listeria risk, check yours

It's been five years since I woke up with a stroke. So it's time for my annual repost of my stroke PSA thread.

Renee Good's fundraiser for her surviving family has well reached its goal within the hour. Good. If you still want to help out, look towards Black folks' mutual aid requests. Some of these have scarcely moved in weeks or months.

This is also why we should practice solidarity between different forms of art, with regards to Gen AI, and refuse slop in all its forms, at all stages of the process. According due respect to other people's work - the same respect we'd like accorded to ours - that should be the goal.

Please note: we have received 6 six submissions thusfar, the next will put us more than halfway to capacity! If you're intending to submit something for #PoetryMonth please don't wait! #FurryLit

a romantic dinner together 🦭💖🦭

i don’t know if rowlf singing “what a wonderful world” to a sleeping puppy is soothing or lie-on-the-floor-and-sob heartbreaking. maybe it’s both. i think I needed both.

I really think we click 🪲❤️🪲 Click beetle Valentine's Day cards are now back in stock in my Etsy store! emilyjaneartstudio.etsy.com/listing/1854... 🐡 #art #invertebrate #insect #beetle #bugsky #illustration #smallbusiness #card

My newest creation is Amelia the Lovely and the Terrible. I designed and hand-sewed her, and I hand-embroidered all her flowers and markings. She is lovely to good people and terrible to bad ones. She enjoys coming up with new blessings, curses, and cookie recipes. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

more generations need to discover M*A*S*H

This. If you abandon your rooms, guess what? The hotel STILL gets the money, it'd just be the furry convention paying the cost. I'm all for protesting companies for supporting ICE, but please make sure you're not hurting or killing our community's conventions by doing it, is all.

I would love for people to start journalling Record your experiences, your life during this time, your thoughts, good and bad and dark. Vent them down where no one can see them, in a journal, notepad, whatever. Dont publish them online or anything, just keep them to your chest.

Grandma was watching the news about the ICE shooting that happened today. Grandma: “What does ICE stand for?” Me: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They—” Grandma: “Oh, so they’re Nazis.” If Holocaust survivors can tell, so should everyone else.

Do not post shit that will get you on watch list Do not sign up for protests- just go Wear a mask if you are protesting No matter how mad you are: Stay safe and stay smart

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No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.

Get your flu shot and mask up!

This is why, even if there is a big electoral defeat for the GOP in '28, the Dems need to ruthlessly strike while the iron is hot and dole out real consequence to the major and minor players here. Four years later and swing voters will no longer believe any of this is bad.

"But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. [...]" "...There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."