ALSO "not getting elected to the United States Senate, a position of public trust" is not uh that's not the same as being stoned to death they're very different things

Jesus definitely did not say rape is no big deal. (Also pretty sure none of the women in the senate are rapists.) So tired of the whataboutery and excuse-mongering.

SOMEONE MENTIONED IT. You know the rules. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Anyway, Happy Union Victory Day to all who celebrate, as the military successes on July 3 and 4th would ultimately enable the liberation of 4 million enslaved people and the attempt to forge a new birth of freedom on the basis of equality

Take me out to the soccer Take me out to the pitch Buy me a beer and some fish ’n chips I don’t care if my jersey gets ripped Let me root root root for the home team If they don’t win they might tie For it’s no! goals! sometimes get scored By the soccer guys

The amount that we spend on defense dwarfs everything else. Outspending solely Russia + Israel combined (instead of China, Russia, Germany, India, the UK, and Ukraine combined) would free up $700 billion/year. That money would fund universal healthcare for 6 years.

It's that time of year when we have to tell people to not hold lit fireworks.

Yay! We're so excited for Didi and for Winnipeg to get what promises to be a great space and cool shop. If you're local to them, please check them out once they open their doors! We're probably biased, but sci-fi and fantasy stores are the best. 😉

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

Yes, call. But please do NOT call Senators from another state, your calls will be ignored. Call your senators only. If you have friends/family in another state, tell THEM to call. Don't give offices reasons to ignore you/prevent others from getting through.

Anyway, if some Goodreads book club writes you to tell you how much they'd love to introduce your book to their thousands of members, please translate their praise as "You seem like someone who'd give us money."

This is where I remind you that there is no standard to which dogs must be trained. I hear “no service dog would do that, they’d flunk”—and that test varies from org to org. People can train their own. So there are no certificates, no obedience tests, etc.

Me: Look I would be smart enough to avoid an nefarious deals with the fae it's simple don't feed them that's all there is to it. The fae:

when we have discussions of how come we never ran into aliens if advanced intelligent life exists I think of this photo. That yellow dot marked there is not Earth, it is the extent that all human radio signals ever sent have traveled. Question kinda answers itself, really

My standard "oh no too much summer squash" solution is just to do my usual mac and cheese recipe, but replace about half of the cooked pasta with raw sliced squash.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed Renee Good and should be indicted. And prosecuted. And if found guilty, imprisoned. Along with every other ICE agent who committed crimes against my neighbors.

🎵 Oscillating Multitool My name is oscillating multitool And I know you thought I wasn't cool But just you wait 🎵

Okay pals I need your best yellow squash recipes, especially easy ones that don't require a lot of standing to tend The garden is producing many straightneck squash. They're delicious but my spine and I are currently on a journey so I need some easier prep methods than sauteing

It's Anti-Prime Day! If you're going to buy books, don't buy from Amazon. Buy from @bookshop.org b/c they support local, indie bookstores with online sales that benefit them directly. Free shipping June 23-26! Visit my shop for book recs & to start browsing for more. bookshop.org/shop/kt...

🎵 There goes Mr. Heartless, there goes Mr. Cruel He never gives, he only takes He lets his hunger rule If being mean's a way of life you practice and rehearse Then all that work is payin' off, 'cause Musk is getting worse Every day, in every way, Musk is getting worse! 🎵

Shang saw both of these people and was like: Yes. Please.

Tabletop gaming pals, a tip: Jewelry findings are a great source of thematic game tokens.

One of the frustrating things about publisher discourse is that authors get hurt in the process. If you'd like to support Emma Burnett (who has a new book out), she has a patreon page. There's also "buy a post" options if you want to do a one time financial support. www.patreon.com/cw/sadtale

Right so. I used to volunteer with Emily Bell on ConFusion programming, and considered her a friend. I'm sorry that she's suffering, and I hope she finds her way out of the dark. I'm also friends with @jasonsanford.bsky.social, and have always known him to be a man of integrity. 1/

For the last year and a half, I have been harassed by Emily Bell, also known as E.D.E. Bell, of Atthis Arts. I naively thought her harassment and false accusations would stop, but I was wrong. I'm now done being silent about this. www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...

Post Juneteenth post to say it's weird to me that we only see photos of the Civil Rights Movement in black and white, when they share history with the 60's - a time when colour photography was so prevalent it was booming. Here are some photos of Civil Rights movement in colour

More 10-year-olds say they want puppies than parents do. What's behind the divide?

IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

This is what I’m talking about. This is the follower & point count from the bio of a guy a whole TON of you are arguing with today. What are you even doing. These accounts exist to put you on a list. Don’t say your piece and then block. Just block and party on

I love everything about this piece.

Get you a brother who will call customer support for you

This is probably my favourite pic of Marsha P Johnson. Apparently she had quite the collection of stuffed toys!

My vegetables have had to get along without me for a month due to my jank spine, but gardens know how to grow. First meal out of the garden: tender summer squash sauteed with sliced cherry tomato and fresh basil. Garlic powder and salt. It tastes like this is a good planet full of good things.

"name a movie that's better than the book I dare you" Muppet Christmas Carol. next

Notice the revelatory regret he has over calling single women as cat ladies framed as redemptive while his comments about Haitians eating cats is …unmentioned.

If games based on Blades in the Dark are Forged in the Dark, are games based on Daggerheart ”Stabbed in the Heart?”

Cosmic horror is great because it just kinda invents itself. Spend a bit too long thinking about the sun and you realize it’s a radioactive death ball larger than your mind has capacity to comprehend, so inherently dangerous that looking directly at it will harm you, and it’s just sitting there.

So is everybody else! They ain’t special!

@clarkesworldmagazine.com hey, putting this in a separate thread so as not to derail, but if you're interested in sharing, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on limited time drives and their lingering effects

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When Women Were Dragons: A Novel "Perhaps this is how we learn silence— an absence of words, an absence of context, a hole in the universe where the truth should be" $13.50 to $2.99 Kelly Barnhill 4.3/5 (7,765 Reviews) #fantasy #sword #sorcery #dragons #feminist #fiction #books #booksky #women

Tired: this meeting should have been an email Wired: this video should have been a blog post

Boosting for the evening crowd: I got a star from Publisher's Weekly for my picture book debut - out next month. 😭

What happened to the Aral Sea is *terrifying* so it's great to hear that there's even a small amount of hope for it globalvoices.org/2026/05/29/h...

The TERF movement has been going for decades and the GC movement has been funded by multiple billionaires for over a decade and they STILL haven't come up with a biological definition of female that includes all cis women and excludes all trans women. Maybe that alone should tell you something

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

I strongly believe every school system in the US should offer a free meal. The thing is, if only poor folks get food, it becomes a shameful thing that no one with power cares about. If rich folks are in the same system, they'll make sure the system is decent because they don't want crappy stuff.

Okay mutuals who's awake and into pens because I need to yell (positively) about a pen in someone's DMs

I like to soapbox on here about how LLMs are not intelligent and never will be, but here's a math teacher with a more concise and well-organized explanation: