Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild. Harbor seal Cardinal Deer Rabbit Crow

I am taking a long weekend away from socials — we’re having a little vacation to relax and regroup before we hit the winter holiday crush and the beginning of our foster and adoption placement calls. Stay good, hate fascism, and maybe read some books and I’ll see you soon!

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introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen Rammstein “Weird” Al Yankovic Blind Guardian Bullpup Rolling Stones

I hope everyone gets to have a lovely time today doing whatever they are doing. If you can spare it, the National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock could use donations: www.uaine.org

/ IF U CULD NOT ATTEND THE NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING IN PLYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS / THERE IS A LIVESTREAM THAT STARTS @ 12: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u-j...

If any other elder millennials need something to watch while they do food prep for the holiday, G1 Transformers is on multiple free with ads services. Not that it is healing to hear Frank Walker‘s Megatron again. Or anything.

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Good morning, comfy sweaters of Bluesky! Today’s kindness upgrade is some money to the Plymouth Rock protesters. We got this!

Gimme a Rian Johnson Muppet movie. I basically don't care about the details beyond that.

If I found out you asked an LLM anything about me or made a decision related to me using it at all, I will not be one of your loved ones again until you fix some things about yourself.

#3GoodThings 1. A two-day work week 2. Carefully curated self-care 3. Hades 2

~Making Things Log for the week of 24-Nov-25~ Writing: The draft continues. The holiday times are always weird for writing, and the end of our certification class was also a confounding factor, but I'm finding a balance between keeping at it and allowing myself time to rest.

Good morning, well-honed self-care routines of Bluesky! Today's kindness upgrade is more money to the food bank, and taking care to protect our energy as I do some meds changes and we both wrangle with the autumn mood slide. Your existence is valid. <3

There can be only one, Charlie Brown.

This list seems about right to me; TLJ would go higher but I think the sequel series owes too much to the originals to feel OK ranking them higher — or maybe that is just the part where I had fewer responsibilities and less understandings of the world when I saw the originals, could be that.

#3GoodThings 1. Queer book club getting postponed to help our community instead, and a perfect kindness upgrade to do instead 2. Breakfast for dinner 3. TIme to read and write

The mental health check in thread is here for the week of 24-Nov! If you want to talk about how you're doing, post downthread and at least one person will read it. I know this week is a doozy for a lot of us, so do please feel free to share, it is for you, too. I'll start!

Good morning, well-timed sunbeams of Bluesky! Today's kindness upgrade is some community time at Queer Book Club, complete with supporting our local queer-owned co-op cafe. You deserve nice things!

The creature in the early going of Sea of Stars that says “mountains’re nice” and ”this is the life” on endless loop is a reference to identical dialogue in Chrono Trigger, but unlike in CT repeatedly bugging them will not get you a stat-boosting item.

Look I’ve been really busy and most of my company is also on BlueSky so it’s sort of a vicious circle.

Remember as you gear up for family gatherings this week, if anyone asks “are you still doing that writing thing?” you ARE entitled to challenge them to single combat.

One year my late aunt responded to my offer to make garlic mashed potatoes by asking in the group email thread “is anybody but you going to want those?” I didn’t answer and made them anyway because I wanted them, and that was the first of my big steps toward un-enmeshing and re-parenting myself.

Some days you pick up your locally raised non-genocidal-harvest-festival turkey, buy some books at the brewery book fair next door, and having a writing date at the same brewery because COVID wastewater levels are finally Very Low. Or at least some days I do.

Happy Friday, Interfriends. Good job making it to the end of the week; may everything look better come Monday.

#3GoodThings 1. Naps with cats 2. Dinner made with veggies I grew 3. A nice scotch

Good morning, triple-good-mornings of Bluesky! Today's kindness upgrade is a little money to the food bank again and shutting down Gmail's AI scraping functions even if it inconveniences me a little, because we don't truck with IP thieves. Stay good and have fantastic weekends!

Nazis stay losing.

Thursday pet cleanse from Violet, whom I am taking care of for the day. Bask in her majesty.

#3GoodThings 1. Finding ways to mollify the autism in an emergency 2. An impromptu setup meaning I don't miss writing time 3. Finding a gift certificate in my backpack

Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.

Good morning, thoughtful messages of Bluesky! Today's kindness upgrade is an emergency pet-sit for my sibling's younger dog. Just choosing kindness makes you a better person than the people trying to get us down. <3

Sasha, one of the creator characters in THE IMAGINARY CORPSE, is open during her appearance in the memory archive about being a trans girl. Friends are in general progressive about gender; it wouldn’t be much of a fantastical world of imagination if we lied about there only being two.

This question is why I am pretty honest about my struggles and journey toward becoming a less toxic person -- I fully expect if I got big enough something I regret saying when I was ignorant (and also not sleeping and in constant pain) would surface, and I want to be ready to own that.

#3GoodThings 1. The AI bubble popping upgrading to a "when" in reporting 2. The second Vera Wong book 3. Hades 2

“Because the thing is: we already have the paperclip-producing machine. It’s just called capitalism, and instead of paperclips, the thing it produces at the expense of all else is profit.” www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...

Good morning, autumnal vistas of Bluesky! Today's kindness upgrade is taking a smol day off, because my brain has felt a bit set upon lately and I do no-one any good pouring from an empty cup. Plus the bill that just passed the Senate feels like a win worth enjoying for a second. Stay kind!

Tuesday cat cleanse: look at that freaking face.

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#3GoodThings 1. Cooking vegetables from our garden 2. Figuring out a way to get some recovery time for myself that feels fun instead of scary 3. Money talk that doesn't give me psychic hives

~Making Things Log for the week of 17-Nov-25~ Writing: Chugging away at the draft, almost to 5 digits! (I over-draft, so that doesn't mean I'm super-far in, but progress is progress!)

Everyone post your hometown slop! My high school hometown doesn't really have one (and yes, zero culture), but in PVD if you're in a chemically altered state, you need hot wieners and you specifically need three all the way and a coffee milk.

Good morning, blustery autumn hikes of Bluesky! Today’s kindness upgrade is some money to our state food bank. You matter so, so much. 🖤

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

#3GoodThings 1. Homemade spaghetti sauce 2. An injury turning out to be much more superficial than expected 3. My schedule getting back to its normal

The mental health check-in thread for the week of 17-Nov-25 is open! If you want to talk about how you're doing, here's a place where at least one person will read it. I'll start.

Good morning, late-night reading binges of Bluesky! Today's kindness upgrade is reaching out to an org I volunteer with to check what help they need this holiday. Just do one thing right now, and it'll add up in time. <3

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? I listened to this album on repeat for a good solid year. It is still to my mind the perfect mix of industrial, rock, and electronica and while KMFDM continues to rock a million fades I dunno if anything will live in my heart like this does.

Congrats on making it to Friday night, Interfriends. Take care, and I’ll see ya on Monday.

#3GoodThings 1. Finding a way to handle some annoying brainweasel attacks 2. Friday! 3. Hades 2