breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

THE BEARS DID A FUN PLAY. THEY GOT A COOL TOUCHDOWN. EVEN IF THEY LOSE I'M HAPPY NOW THAT WAS SO EXCITING.

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

"The anthropogenic landscape w/ its deep cultural roots contains not just the past but future of a community or region. As protected heritage, any memoryscape must tread softly as, to paraphrase Yeats, it treads on dreams as much as legislation. With that we have the starting point of this volume."🫶

Do NOT do this. Shout louder. Me and all the other nsfw artists need you to shout louder

It is really hard to un-learn that your worth is tied to your productivity, but it's really really important to do this. Both for yourself and for everyone else.

Hey if you cancelled a bunch of services and are going “now what”, can I recommend an audiobook and fiber art combo. Good for your brain, good for your hands, you get something squishy at the end! There’s no downside. None at all. You’re absolutely not going to go into yarn debt. Haha.

Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

Unemployment is so fucking isolating.

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Andrew Joseph White's You Weren't Meant to Be Human is a violent examination of transness and autonomy after the fall of reproductive rights. Alex Brown recommends it for the right horror fan: reactormag.com/book-review-...

Hello friendos Your librarian here with a tip Your library has DVDs of movies, TV series, and documentaries that you can't find on streaming. They may even have foreign films.

I feel like part of the problem is that in the modern era, especially in the United States, people think that in order to count, they have to post about their activism or what they're doing. But here's the thing: you don't. 99% of what I do is stuff I never mention on social media.

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, I want to post a little reminder that many library cards will allow you free access to Kanopy, an amazing streaming channel. If your library card doesn't work, you can often sign up for other libraries in your region.

It's pretty easy to cancel your Disney+ subscription, and a coordinated, national day of cancellations would send a very clear message about our values as Americans.

Rest when you need to but keep pushing back in every way you can. Even if you only have the spoons for a single phone call a day.

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.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

also one way to look at this: This bill is comparable to a US version of europe's Chat Control proposal so it needs to be taken seriously

Mah first focaccia.

I have read the full story. It is Amazing. It heckin' Functions.

Make a ruckus people, they are trying to saturate people to exhaust us, but we can't relent. Now it's to "Fight against additive feeds" But we know damn well this is just the excuse for censorious movements. Do not let this pass without political cost.

kinda wanna put this ~1925 ALA poster on the inside of my library science zine

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once again begging pleading on my knees with you to Do Something wholly apolitical in your community at least once a week. Go dancing! Join a book club! Volunteer at the makers' space! Tutor at an after school program! The phone so grossly distorts what it means to be alive! Just go live! It helps!

btw Costco seems to have the cheapest updated COVID vax. You can get it without a card at the pharmacy and they do take walk-ins. If you’re also uninsured due to the massive amounts of layoffs this year, they also take this goodrx coupon to lower the cost of www.goodrx.com/comirnaty?sr...

Asking for an author’s book at a library is a wonderful thing to do. The library buys the book, maybe even multiple copies, which really does help authors. A simple request can spread a lot of good around. Also I just love libraries and I’m always happy when someone checks out one of my books. 📚

Look at this amazing, delicious sandwich bread I made yesterday.

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Went to painting class with my dad tonight.

Ghost jobs are a real danger for people living paycheck to paycheck. Someone teetering on the edge of poverty may spend precious hours, transportation money, and emotional energy applying to positions that don’t exist or are already filled.

Surely my 111th job application will be The One.

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The Bears are giving me an ulcer.

Feeling hopeless about jobs again. I miss autonomy. I miss healthcare.

What pisses me off about the Anthropic settlement isn't even that $3k per book is too low, but that it's restricted to books registered with the US Copyright Office. ALL WORKS are protected by copyright as soon they're published in any capacity. Registering has no bearing on copyright itself.

These animals are not just a symbolic treehugger cause. They serve a practical purpose, helping to keep other wildlife populations in check, which in turn helps control the spread of diseases in deer and elk. They shape the landscape by preventing deer from stripping plant life from riverbanks.

Alright. I've yet to make a sale of any kind this month and I'm $0.05 away from my next milestone on itch. So...anyone want to buy my books, please? anotherindiewriter.itch.io

did you know that september is library card signup month? @queerliblib.bsky.social is such a fantastic FREE resource www.queerliberationlibrary.org/members

I'm really enjoying Kagi (search engine) and Proton products as replacements for Google everything btw

*scrolls through PhD program overviews* I'm just Thinking about it.

The reason it only took 1,000 calls to start the wave of censorship & it's taken 10,000 to even get them to acknowledge it is that Collective Shout didn't bully them into doing anything, it gave them an excuse to do something they already wanted to do So we must fight 20x as hard as they did

AHHHHH!! This looks like the best loaf so far! I am Dying to cut into it 😭

Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies. I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.

Still can't believe my cat ate an entire crab rangoon (thankfully, she's totally okay).

There's so much bad news in the world. So, here's some wrapping paper designed by Japanese artist Ippei Tsujio that turns everything into bread. A delightful (delicious?) distraction. More info: spoon-tamago.com/bread-wrappi...

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.