The Connie Sneezer Story. Front and back of a photo from my collection.

Sup nerds! I’ll be on here TONIGHT at 6:30 pst/9:30 est MAKING A SWORD live on air and doing an AMA for any of your 3d printing/3d modeling/molding and casting/costume armor/propmaking questions! LET’S HELP OUT THAT FUNNY LITTLE DORK

good night, sewers. good night, streams. good night, operations and maintenance teams. good night, settling tanks. good night, stream banks. good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too. a good night for us means serving with care. good night, sewers, everywhere.

Being trans forces you to self-actualise in a way many people just don't. Once you've interrogated something so fundamental in yourself as your sex and gender, you start seeing yourself and your relationship to the world differently, and embracing yourself becomes much easier

Can't believe I'm saying this but the Iran war makes the Russian invasion of Ukraine look somewhat competent in comparison.

Really hoping we can get Hailey out of debt soon and help her to get back to work. Hailey is doing incredible work on transness, feminism and liberation, and her mom's cancer has derailed her a lot. I'd be super grateful if you could spare a few bucks. <3

Just over $200 to go as she had to buy food with some aid. Desperately needs power turned back on. paypal.me/MsSoniaD or cashapp $spunkylilminx #HelpSky #UrgentNeed

if you’re a cis person about to heckle a trans woman on this site just like maybe give us today as a free one

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

Six days to book launch. 🙃 We already created a Discord side-chat for readers that already got their books so they can discuss the exclusive chapter!

We live in a world beyond parody. The United States has had four minesweeper vessels in the Persian Gulf for 35 years. Just yesterday these ships arrived in Philadelphia to be decommissioned, a day before Iran announces that they are mining the Strait of Hormuz.

Send them to the publisher, not to us, please. All we will do is send them to our publisher, so, really, just eliminate the extra step.

None of them can talk coherently about strategy or goals but they are completely in sync in all their macho posturing because that is all they’re really focused on. Everything else is just whatever limply offered fiction is convenient to them at the time.

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

@ass.golf I find it fascinating that Liz's arms apparently share the rest of her physiology enough to suffer from the same contact dermatitis!

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

Hello, Bluesky. Here is a very important picture of Charlie, and her ball. Thank you for your attention on this critical matter.

Four...three...two...one EARTH BEEEELOOOW US, DRIFTING, FALLING!!!

Fluff level: off the charts

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

Hey, so we're about a week away from learning if I'm going to have to rent goats and film them taking over my garden because I lost a bet. There is still time for you to preorder this book to make sure I lose. I am VERY DIVIDED about this, believe me. #book #books #comic #comics #BookSky #scifi

if you have a salary job making 70k or more a year then make friends with a couple of trans people online who are busting their asses to barely eat and send them 10 or so dollars here there please please please together we can make difference

The spring enjoyer

Which is why, @nytimes.com, learning that a piece of writing is AI changes how people feel about it, in the same way that most people are repulsed by learning a once-favoured artist is a rapist: because context is inherent to interpreting art, and the sole context of genAI is profound contempt.

We call AI output slop not because it's incapable of regurgitating something beautiful, but because vomiting up chunks of mixed restaurant meals is not the same as being a chef. That some of the upchuck can still be parsed as it was on the plate is not thanks to digestion or emesis, but to cooking.

What’s fucking enraging about this is that every lovely turn of phrase the AI churns out is human-authored. Google each fragment of the below - “forged in dying stars,” “created in stellar furnaces,” “the universe is not indifferent to us,” “implicated in something vast” - and you’ll find a source.

Stunning portrait of The Morsel by my boyfriend.

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense. People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

It recently came to my attention that a friend who escaped an abuser wasn’t familiar with DARVO, an acronym for understanding how abusers operate. So we’re all going to have a little education tonight:

This. Fucking. Guy. I cannot express in words how much I hate having the most cruel and thoughtless people in existence calling the shots.

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

They spent your tax money on killing children. I think it's worth us spending our tax money prosecuting and punishing them all. No one will argue against it. It is a popular stance. Don't be a pussy. Stand up for those girls who were killed in our name.

when you're getting fussed at for trying to dig Papa out of the blankets so you can bite him

True redemption doesn’t usually involve an increase in power and influence for those redeemed, and we should be wary of those who try to gain those privileges from a pose of repentance.

it feels like my country is an assembly line for producing crimes against humanity which no one will ever punish, or even bother to pretend caring about, and it's making me crazy

been thinking a lot about the minicontroversy about him wearing this hat during the dignified transfer ceremony and i have concluded he thinks it's his more formal hat

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

We can’t fight fascism if our central belief is “Everyone else is dumb. “ Like that doesn’t work

we have saved daylight but at what cost

You’re absolutely telling on yourselves when your reaction to “Mills does not show up for POC and treats Native people poorly” is only “that tattoo was bad” because what you’re saying is that some kinds of white supremacy are the normal unremarkable kind that don’t merit confrontation

Trans women are women! Happy Women's Day! #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore. If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

The problem with foreigners is they always want to know what love is

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

I will never believe we're cooked. But I do think that a lot of leftists who consume a ton of social media need to ask how and why they end up repeating lightly laundered far-right discourse.

Sunbeam appreciator. ☺️ Photo from my collection, 1954.