setting my Rude filter to SHOW. setting my Unruly filter to WARN. setting my Vulgar filter to HIDE. setting my Churlish filter to SHOW BADGE. setting my Impudent filter to TSK STERNLY. setting my Callow filter to FROWN. setting my Naughty filter to... hmmm... DEPLOY OPERA GLASSES FOR FURTIVE PEEPING

You might say the prosecution's case didn't... 😎 cut the mustard

Cheney croaked, Zohran won, and sandwich guy is free. All time great week imo.

THIS!! PLEASE use your local library! they want to have the books that people want to read! this is how i expanded the manga collection at my local one. and especially practical for books i’ll read maybe once

Hello! Can I interest you in a 5.4k word modern AU retelling of The Frog Prince, available on my Patreon for $2.50/mo and up subscribers or for a one-time $3 purchase? Fun fact: This is the first time in my life I hit a "short story" wordcount on the first try! www.patreon.com/posts/frog-a...

This is your (very occasional, since I keep forgetting to do it) reminder that I have a Patreon where you can get free ebook downloads, access to short stories I've written (with more to come in the future), life updates, and cat photos! Help pay my vet bills! www.patreon.com/c/scarlettga...

imagine if it happened this week after everything else we've been blessed with

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Turns out the No Kings marches and rallies *weren’t* just performative cringe.

With 158 races called, we've got 103 @runforsomething.net wins, nearly a quarter of which are red-to-blue flips.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

🎶🎵 GOOD FUCK'N MORNING, BLUESKY!!! 🎵🎶 💃🕺💃🕺

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

we needed all of this. it’s why i rail on doomers and tell them doing that shit is literal voter suppression. defeatism begets defeatism. momentum fucking matters to keep people engaged.

This is why you can't succumb to nihilism. I know it's SO fucking hard, but that's what the fash want: for us to give up. Fuck them, it's not over

roses are red big laughs are hearty

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

I hope Democrats unveil their new “TRANSGENDER FOR EVERYONE” policy tomorrow. America is ready.

And to do it on Cheney's death day. Like the whole dang city dancing on that evil man's grave. 💃

HUGE THING: 100,000 people volunteered for Mamdani. 1000s volunteering for the FIRST TIME. And they just won BIG. So that's a massive army of progressives HUNGRY to keep on winning. That's worth more than all the billionaires' money. We're going to keep working. And we're going to keep winning.

VOTE! FOR! KATIE! WILSON! Bruce Harrell has never inspired a babe in his life. @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social has sexy policies for affordable housing, accessible public transit, and taxing the rich. Get your ballots in by 8pm, #Seattle! #WilsonForMayor #Babes4Katie #ThisIsYourCity

GET THOSE BALLOTS IN, #SEATTLE! Vote Katie Wilson ( @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social ) for Mayor to make me happy and make a bunch of billionaires sad. It's win-win! Ballots need to be in drop boxes by 8pm Tuesday night! Don't let me down! #Babes4Katie #WilsonForSeattle #ThisIsYourCity

This is your (very occasional, since I keep forgetting to do it) reminder that I have a Patreon where you can get free ebook downloads, access to short stories I've written (with more to come in the future), life updates, and cat photos! Help pay my vet bills! www.patreon.com/c/scarlettga...

I would like to thank my wife both for taking these photos and for helping boost my forty year old ass up on top of that ballot drop box so I could pose on it. Vote Katie!

(And yes, people did come and drop off their ballots at the box while I was mid-photoshoot, including while my wife was helping me very carefully climb back down. The things I do for art and politics! #Babes4Katie)

Remember to vote downballot! We have some incredible candidates running to kick out establishment centrist (cough cough republican) officeholders. A mayor can't fix things without other officials on her team. Also, I want Harrell and Nelson CRYING on election night! Come on, Seattle! #Babes4Katie

Hey #Seattle! Scarlett O'Hairdye here, once again doing my Civic Booty by reminding you to vote for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social AND to get those ballots into a drop box by Nov 4th! That's THIS TUESDAY! Katie has progressive bona fides and policies that benefit sexy art and artists! #Babes4Katie

Matcha gets up and leaves the room when I get out my violin, and listen, I know I'm not the best violinist yet, but that's just rude.

Hello! Can I interest you in a 5.4k word modern AU retelling of The Frog Prince, available on my Patreon for $2.50/mo and up subscribers or for a one-time $3 purchase? Fun fact: This is the first time in my life I hit a "short story" wordcount on the first try! www.patreon.com/posts/frog-a...

hell yeah, we're doing hopepunk, we're making star wars references, we're cringemaxxing caring about stuff is so uncool that it's cool again, get ready www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As a small followup to this, on Thurs I called the Seattle Fire Department and they connected me to the dispatch captain's VM so I could heap praise on the calm-voiced 911 man who talked me through CPR, and the captain called me back Fri so he could make sure he passed my gratitude to the right guy!

The first politician to call for a War On Robocallers is gonna have 14 million ppl in the streets doing Yes King rallies for them

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Congrats to every Republican who warned about the massively dangerous pro-terrorist “I Hate America” rallies who now gets to see their words featured in a Daily Show montage with images of sweet little grandmothers waving little American flags

the republicans seeing people in inflatable frog costumes dance to upbeat music:

guy who brought the trans flag we iwo jima’d described himself as “yeah i was pretty neutral about trans people, think i still am honestly, but these people are being so goddamn weird about it that i gotta get off the fence”

got to participate in an iwo jima reënactment with the trans flag on the capitol

You just don't get protest goats in the big cities! Keep fighting the good fight, Longview!

So Wednesday night my wife and I ended up calling emergency services to help a man suffering from an opioid overdose, the full story of which I wrote up on my Patreon as a free post in the hopes that it helps others be more prepared to help in the same situation! www.patreon.com/posts/141448...

So Wednesday night my wife and I ended up calling emergency services to help a man suffering from an opioid overdose, the full story of which I wrote up on my Patreon as a free post in the hopes that it helps others be more prepared to help in the same situation! www.patreon.com/posts/141448...

The amount of words I started with today: 3,419 The amount of words I ended with today: 3,941 My brain, trying to understand the difference:

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Recently learned that there's a Forest Steward program in my city and if I apply/am accepted I get assigned a little work site in a neighborhood park and an allotment of native plants to plant there once I've removed all the invasive species, and everyone shut up, this is all I'm gonna talk about

Just finished #2 of what is probably my favorite fantasy series ever only to find out that the third just came out, LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

Absolutely no one is doing it like me at the volunteer forest restoration events, probably because no one else habitually sees the worst, most uncomfortable place to work, asks, "Is anyone gonna bury themselves in that?" and doesn't wait for an answer 😂

The correct response to the rising tide of fascism and authoritarianism is and will always be "NO" and also "FUCK YOU".

Opened up my Draft2Digital newsletter today, was scrolling through kinda nodding along, and then!!!! [pointing aggressively at #10] THAT'S ME!!!!

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