Happy Birthday, Jeff.

At USDA, attacks on workers’ rights are threatening food safety. The USDA has canceled inspectors’ union contracts, which is likely to lead to more attrition, increase workloads, and compromise inspectors’ ability to raise food safety concerns. www.wpr.org/news/food-sa...

If you could use a little bit of optimism today, here are some stories of North American bird species that have recovered from the brink of extinction. #ornithology

Being a chronically ill person taking care of a seriously acutely ill person is A time. I do not recommend.

Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history, and its lessons are a massive human achievement. “How We Came To Know Earth,” our new series, is a guide to the modern understanding of fundamental climate science. www.quantamagazine.org/series/clima...

This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍

The first principle of my religion is affirming the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This is not at all the same thing as believing in the inherent goodness of every person. I wish all the best to the family of the Evergreen High victim in critical condition.

It's no exaggeration that Akram is vetted a million ways, between *himself* (he shared all his documents on here about a year ago), Wolf, Molly, me, Ruaa. It's also no exaggeration that he never gets support. This survival campaign has been stagnant for FOUR MONTHS chuffed.org/project/help...

Happy birthday to Ruby Bridges, who is the reason I was even able to pursue proper, fair higher education. What she had to endure as the first Black child to integrate schools was unimaginable. I will forever be grateful. ♥️

Resources for "Chicago-area residents with information on how to stay safe": 1. www.instagram.com/p/DOJarCDDuS... 2. @mskellymhayes.bsky.social 3. www.dialmycalls.com/opt/8if/f 4. drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo... #Illinois #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Define 'rock-themed.' Can I still do my go-to "Pleasant Valley Sunday"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBP...

The cliche 'you gotta suffer to be beautiful' haunted my childhood, just on the plain, physical, 'But I can't stand the feel of the makeup, I can't stand the feel of the curlers, my joints don't like sitting ladylike.' As an adult, I see that phrase in so much less literal things.

Prom Night at Wendy's. We looked amazing.

Yeah, but even in Seattle, plenty of poly people keep it on the DL in professional circles and with certain extended family. Who's willing to talk about it varies so much.

Pettily tangential to the burning of the world, I'm seeing multiple destructive political operatives pull off the exact hair I've been trying for, and now I'm worried it's going to be some sort of evil trend by the time I've managed it.

There were hundreds of Black and Native soldiers at Valley Forge, but I guess the First Rhode Island Regiment don't count to him.

Y'know, I keep chickening out of querying my novella, but i /am/ proud of it. It's pretty self-indulgent -- like, solid darlings -- and I did enjoy myself with the fact that the most morally gray character in the book, for all his considerable problems, is eventually revealed to be basically (1)

Is it just my weak eyes not being able to read right ,or does the blue one have the goal to become paralyzed and ineffective?

... Did... did they ask them what they thought the detriment was in having an autistic dog? Worried their dog is going to have a hard time verbalizing? The dog might be confused by social situations? Humanity already pretty much gave dogs Williams syndrome on purpose.

...looking up something related to Racefail in 2009 and being reminded it took place against the backdrop of Israel invading Gaza. Anyway please help my friend and brother Mohamed who is trying to keep his family alive in Gaza today in 2025 during yet another war there chuffed.org/project/help...

Hey, just @ me next time!

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Tie between Brighton Rock and The Show Must Go On. Second place is a tie between Fairy Feller's Masterstroke and '39

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R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Totally forgot to put this up here whoops! Come see me this weekend at #DragonCon!

On this Porceiain Katrinaversary Eve, I actually have good news. Got a text from my mathematician today saying "There's a food truck I want to try. The radio was interviewing Louisianans who moved to Austin post-Katrina, and when I heard the gentleman's accent, I thought, 'please own a restaurant'

... it honestly feels more logically consistent if I'm being allowed to get the vaccine because RFKJ erroneously thinks it will kill me and free the gene pool from me.

I'm so sick and tired. ...of what? Yes.

Years ago, I was discussing a different political issue with my big brother. "I just worry that doing it X way gives ammo to the right wing." "Bro, there's no point in worrying about giving ammo to an ammunition factory."

Okay, fellow Austinites,

My undergrad honors thesis (history-classics double major) was "How to be Rulers of the World: Britains' Lessons from the Roman Empire." Most of it was about how the post-1857 Raj twisted historical facts to fit a more racialized narrative they could applyto their own crackdown on colonized peoples

Seriously, fellow Austinites, is there something to be done about this? I've been locked alone in an old building on a summer night before, but it wasn't as part of some pseudocarceral ritual in the interest of an actuarial coup, so this is a lot less of a funny story.

110/285 by yesterday. Not even adopted by me or literally anyone. So Seraj goes to the death sites instead and almost gets killed every night. What the fuck. Do something. One person, five minutes a day, this kid survives and can feed his siblings chuffed.org/project/1232...

Half a dozen of my books with Jeff. Also half a dozen of Jeff's books with other people.

My totally silly one-page #ttrpg is out in the world for the @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social! My first game jam, first actual itch posting, and first one-pager whooo! You are a chicken trying to get to your safehouse before the sky falls. itch.io/jam/one-page...

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

When we go through the 'is the medicine working' checklist at appointments, my shrink says "How's the catastrophizing? Remember, if it's about actual catastrophes, that's fine. The medicine isn't meant to make you oblivious to facts.'

The Bible. Like, not a Sunday-School book, The Bible. Even with all the euphemisms in translation, that stuff is /not/ suitable for a 6-year-old.

With the closing of Wikipedia …. Today is great day to plug my book with my fellow civic media fellows from USC … And my chapter … specifically about how we control who can access archives shaped this very moment Also Encarta and sinnead O Connor nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...

anyway if you want to help, please consider linking up with @freedcproject.bsky.social if you are local to help assert DC’s right to govern itself and donating to @dcmigrantmutualaid.org and @remorahousedc.bsky.social and others who are doing the work

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Say three positive things about your writing. 1. I include fun references to history and folklore 2. I'm good at dialogue (provided the characters are sufficiently eccentric). 3. I continue to expand my horizons just a little.

🆘🚨Urgent humanitaria request: I'm Abeer, mother of 4 kids including my son Jamal, he suffers from a congenital deformity that has killed his spinal cord since birth (spina befida). He is 10 years old. Please donate to save my hungry,sick son. gofund.me/dc55ae13 Verified by @mommunism.bsky.social

So I just need a doctor's note? "Katherine is a woman even though she can't physically have children. She was assigned /faulty/ equipment, not /incorrect/ equipment, which is the big important difference that gives people the right to go to the restroom." Gee. Thanks.

I've heard that George Burns once complained 'there's no place for kids to be lousy anymore'. Now even lousiness itself must be farmed out, to massive detriment.