Years ago I saw a statue of st Francis that looked like Obi-Wan Kenobi and I didn't buy it because where would I put it but I've never found it again and have regretted it ever since

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

This, and also: even if I do have a well-reasoned opinion about something, it does not follow that I have to share it at every opportunity. Some conversations don't need my opinion. Sometimes my opinion will not change anything, or edify anyone. Sometimes space and silence are a good contribution

Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.

She has not walked away from the vicious antisemitism, the gleeful racism, or the thing where she went out of her fucking way to personally harass queer and trans colleagues It really is okay to have some fucking standards.

She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.

We want your annotated gatefold maps, appendices with worldbuilding notes, and a rambling introduction about how the story came together written as if it's a breathless account of a scientific discovery Bonus points if you include a quiz

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

Block ruthlessly. Block on vibes. Don't get into pointless arguments with randos in the comments. When a profile's entire personality is pro or anti current gov, I block immediately. Every one of us is being played. Only way to win is not to play.

The answer is i will mourn my connection to their And if im not ready to say fuck them loudly, I’ll keep my fucking mouth shut and understand i don’t need to support them in any way

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

One of the best Tech Leads I've worked with is a note-taker. For years he's kept his own personal running doc of things he's learned while trying to solve problems. This has no doubt sped up his own problem-solving but it's also made him LIGHTNING fast at supporting teammates who have questions

Yesterday the team @unbreaking.org released an update Please sign up especially if you are looking to reduce how much time you spend absorbing the sheer WTF that is this moment

Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!

New story this morning! The Crow's Second Tale in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... This is one of my stories that is 100% not autobiographical except the part that is, which is that I tell stories to crows too, just in case.

One thing I'd do if I had the money for this tier of philanthropy is fund open-source mocap libraries created by and for disabled game creators. Another thing I'd do is fund open-source mocap library for animations for petting cats and dogs.

Anyway my mentions have been full of cat pics all day. Most of the people who've sent cat pics are not aware that I'm a survivor of CSA, and that they've made this site usable for me on a day when CSA is the Subject Of The Moment. They just heeded the call because the internet is nice sometimes.

This is why alt text is important. I am very very allergic to cats. but if you don't alt text your cat pics, I can't see them either. So I miss out on the wonderful existence of cats.

This is the horrible tradeoff so many kids make: predation is the price of admission to a "welcoming" community where they can be themselves and gather with other fans. I couldn't ask my parents for help or they wouldn't have let me go to any more cons. The creeps know that the fuck they're doing.

Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...

I attended SFF cons as a teenager. I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college. "Oh wow you look way older" No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped. They know what the hell they're doing.

a “Space Force”, if you will

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

The jokes about how the internet is "just for cat pictures" kinda bug me, because they trivialize this incredible technological achievement that has changed so many lives Some of us are allergic to cats. Our parasocial relationships with your animals sustain us. We need your cat pictures. Send them

No Starbucks 'til workers get more bucks (and whatever else it is they are striking for)

Good point. And a reminder that Bluesky has an option of timed mute words, if you want to mute otherwise common words for a few days but not necessarily permanently. (Like to stop Traitors Spoilers, my one-day mute words included "alan" and "cat"!)

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

"Boys will be boys, because we have no desire to see them become adults"

Thinking about that weird boymom nonsense about how expecting boys to learn social skills and emotional regulation is "stifling their true nature." Ma'am, the rest of the world doesn't hate your son. You do.

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

I'm just a me standing in front of indie game developers literally begging you to just put "this game is about death" on the tin instead of treating it as a twist ending (No this is not about Expedition 33; that's pretty much the definition of putting it on the tin)

Apparently there was a time in the recent past when doctors were trained that 'pain is the fifth vital sign' and that pain relief was a crucial part of patient care. I do not believe in any afterlife. But I wish, with all my heart, that the Sacklers and their sales masterminds get all they deserve.

"Oh, bois bach Bond, I thought you'd got blown up! Iesu Mawr, but it's good to see you!" "Me? Get blown up? There was no time to, Dai." (this joke may be a bit regional).

Obsessive devotion to continuity is the enemy of epic/mythological storytelling—especially when there are many authors involved. Whether we're talking about Star Wars, superheroes, or Bond, the answer is to nail the essence of the story and care less about making it all "fit."

Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.

pfft. rookies.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

The ability to save whenever you want, as many times as you want, in addition to auto saves. Let people back up and make other choices if they want, it's good actually

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

"the vaccine side effects haven't been that bad; just a bit of malaise," I said yesterday afternoon — ten minutes before asking Spouse to help me get to bed so I wouldn't collapse in the hallway (Results not typical! My immune system is just Like This! Get your shots!)

the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

I'd do my normal killjoy spiel about how "show your age by listing technology you've used" doesn't take into account social class and access, but the latest one is also like "you're weird if you've ever used a typewriter or sent a postcard" and like some people just do those things for fun

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Quarterly @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: still a lone Exitfare machine at Brookland Station, leaving riders in the lurch when it breaks. Fix: eliminate rail fares and remove all fare equipment (including fare gates) @wmatagm.bsky.social

Anyway. Happy Friday evening in the afterlife to Rosalind Franklin and Rosalind Franklin only.