Guard your valuables and keep your eyes peeled! There are THIEVES about! The Canarviers have arrived and I’ll be at Little District books with Venessa Vida Kelley tonight to celebrate! See you there, DC!

Please don't forget that the statement "humans all deserve care for their whole body and mind throughout their lives" is not controversial. It's just honoring the precious thing that is the human experience.

Greyhound update: she saw a deer and is now upset Fair, to be honest? Like if you're a Greyhound then deer are your version of slenderman, right? They are shaped like you but also Big and also Wrong

Wow! @mychal3ts.bsky.social is an incredibly kind and supportive person! I had a few brief conversations with him on Insta about my book and I couldn’t think of a better person to host such a seminal show as Reading Rainbow.

Important greyhound news: Boy Wonder made the dog a snood and she's obsessed with it

Hey if you're in Rockville MD and have tastebuds you should check out Sheba Ethiopian

Oh so it's like people vs peoples. Today I learned

"The whole reason I got security clearance was so I could visit every intelligence agency and buy something from their gift shop. They all have gift shops. Even [$AGENCY] whose existence was classified until the 1960s - they have a gift shop." -- @procuremancer.bsky.social

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

sorry ranting here but this is what always riles me about the men in crisis stories. if you don’t offer a policy solution you are asking people, women, to give them what they want, which is a sexual caste system. say it with your chest or shut the fuck up and support universal public robotics club

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

CHOTINER: And when was that? MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a- MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish- CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

It's popular, I think, to be demure about one's own writing or to distance oneself from something well-written as if it popped into being fully formed and independent of our making it. So before imposter syndrome returns: I have read it again, and I wrote the fuck out of this mermaid book, y'all.

And also I was almost certainly outraged by [thing] but I am a responsible person and only speak on things when I feel confident I have enough information to be a useful part of the conversation! Just cause I didn’t post about it doesn’t mean I wasn’t outraged!

Check your Accessibility Settings folks - as I discovered after some other people posted about it, my "require alt text before posting" setting too had switched itself off.

Does anyone have recommendations for decent command line tools that will OCR PDFs for me? The tool ocrmypdf has been nothing but problem after problem. Especially tools that can handle a wide variety of languages

Charlie Kirk was a sexist, racist, homophobic hate-fueled person doing terrible harm and evil in the world. I'm not glad he was murdered. That shouldn't have happened. But I don't feel bad about it, either. He espoused violence against those he disliked, and he reaped violence as a result.

Kimmel was a great first step, now let's talk about Karen Attiah

cleaning up some old stuff on my phone and back on 9/23/22, I guess I had “Eleanor Rigby” on the brain

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

It’s funny how often grifter pseudoscience results in “answers” that blame, punish, and control women, isn’t it?

If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

REMINDER: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. White men saw the largest job increase 一 365,001* 一 among groups * = added Jimmy Kimmel who got his job back! 😒

While I'm talking about pop culture jokes and political commentary I just want to be very clear that when I say "fuck Ted Faro" I actually mean Ted Faro, the villain of Horizon Zero Dawn I am definitely for sure not referencing any real dipshit billionaires, however uncanny the resemblance

I feel like I need a diagram to explain this joke to people who keep doing "ew stop referencing a space show for babies when you are complaining about fascism." Disney made Andor. They made a thing about how fascism is bad and then they did some fascism. That's it. That's the joke.

"DHS is calling on the media, leftist groups, and sanctuary politicians to end their demonizing DHS law enforcement." You enjoy causing human suffering. No. Fuck you. I hope generations in the future remember you as the new KKK.

Happy Batman Day!

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

So, some back story if you aren't in tech, DHH and Jason Fried are long-time darlings of the liberal and centrist crowd in tech as they made a career of regurgitating half-digested talking points from management 101 textbooks without putting any of it in practice themselves...

Man I had an amazing run in Blue Prince tonight I'm not going to explain it because spoilers but I will say: the game starts out as a pretty slow burn, but once you manage to get your deck tuned and get things set up right, it becomes a lot more about puzzles and lore and a lot less about RNG

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

Fuck Ted Farro

A polite term for antivax folks has not (yet) made it on to the Spelling Bee list.

The reason I believe my dog actually knows what her buttons mean is that if we say the name of the game we play with @longwing.sunkenlibrary.org (her favorite human) while looking at our phones, she correctly surmises that we are texting about playing said game and starts preparing for his arrival

It was a great talk. I don't think it's even the first time I built an entire talk around a tweet, the original tweet is slightly different than what I remembered just now but you get the idea. Anyway, lol the Meta AI demo.

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

Yall were ripping my god damn head off for saying YESTERDAY YESTERDAY in the EVENING for saying “please don’t put your name on lists , this is different they are moving different” NO THEY CAN’T TAKE US ALL It’s fear mongering IS IT IS IT REALLY

I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice I would like to file several complaints

I built a Mastodon bot that reports on Covid wastewater levels, which gives me weekly updates on how cautious to be depending on where I'm going. It turns out that @wvgg.co ported it to Bluesky and improved it, with twice weekly updates! Insta-follow for me. Recommended.

Every time I see Trump claim vast powers over economic policy that the Constitution does not give him, often only for the Supreme Court to step in and go 'seems legit,' I can't help but think about the Court carrying on as if canceling some student loan debt was shocking executive overreach

This is my nerd rabbit hole of the day: if you spend any time with historical documents to see what people were calling Jefferson to his face for owning human beings, or what very people said about G. Washington right after he died, you see immediately critique and demand are the real american way.

My examples yesterday were things that are fairly unlikely to happen at the big No Kings protests, but yeah this. We mitigate the risk we actually have, and that's chickenshit little manbabies whose greatest ambition is to flatter a despot.

“Well they can‘t arrest all of us.” No, they can’t. But if they have a colorable argument and a video, they can cross-reference a list of names to try to figure out who is on the screen.

I can‘t believe people are getting so mad about @angryblacklady.bsky.social saying that you shouldn’t register for a protest. Just show up. Don‘t register.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

I think orgs like Indivisible ask ppl to RSVP in part bc (in addition to building their mailing list) you're more likely to attend if you've said you're gonna go. But, obvs, in this era, it's dangerous to collect names. They could instead ask ppl to, say, encalendar plans w/each other to attend