Show me an apolitical story and I will show you unconscious bias.

Heads up for any USians still using TT for their taxes

"it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed" This. This right here. I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.

My neighbor across the street has a driveway light so bright that it shines *through the cracks in my closed blinds* 😒 Did I mention *across the street*? THROUGH MY CLOSED BLINDS?

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

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every author in the class action, please file the claim.

Attempts to use Deezer continue. Temporarily set Edge as my default browser so I could get logged in on the app. It told me I still hadn't signed up for the free trial. Went through that again & it flashed an error so fast I couldn't see it then sent me to this page. Any other suggestions? 😂😅😩

Lovely, free journaling techniques for anyone who could use a gamifying angle to dig in the dirt of their interior landscape www.restlesscourage.com/ttrpgs/

www.bbc.com/news/article... Hey, look. It's that thing I warned you about. #bl #danmei

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

We’re up to 38% of last year. Wanna help me get a little closer to last year? SquidFacts.net Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight! Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!

web.archive.org/web/20241122... Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.

ALSO. If you're just coming across this news now, and thinking about what you can do to support disabled people like Alice in your community. WEAR A MASK.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

A last call for assistance from Deezer-using friends. Any of you have this problem or is it just me?

to the best of my knowledge, this is the FIRST western journalistic source to report 袁依楣 Yuan Yimei (MXTX) was in fact detained in 2019 for tax evasion ("非法經營罪"), imprisoned for 3 years, and paroled in 2021—there were HK articles but with dubious sources. i think we can now take this to be factual.

Glad BlueSky did this. When I saw Patton Oswalt saying Megyn Kelly should be fed into a woodchipper feet first for defending raping children based on what age she thinks is okay, I thought, "yes, comedian Patton Oswalt is going to, in real life, feed Megyn Kelly into a woodchipper feet first."

Last year, Starbucks’ CEO took home $95.8 million. The typical Starbucks worker got $14,674. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1. It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today. Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.

I got the Deezer sign up page to work by using Chrome. Then I downloaded the app and tried to login via that, but it opens a Firefox browser window where it just spins and spins like it did when I tried to register. 😩 Any advice?

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

My 2025 Watercolor Collection plates are now available on my Etsy! One of a kind pieces, all food safe, dishwasher safe, and microwave safe. #ceramics #pottery #handmade foxestacado.etsy.com/listing/4403...

Guess it's time to stock up just in case...

good news for the people who are saying they'd never touch starbucks coffee anyway: you can go ahead and drop $5 in their strike fund sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/

Finally got my shit together to set up a Deezer account and... it's not letting me 😂 I enter my info and it just sits there with the little spinner spinning away. I'll try again this afternoon I guess but sheesh. Whyyyy am I so cursed, tech-wise? Have my pinky-promisers had better luck?

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Reminder to unfollow.

Please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck please

CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction

Actually now that I reconsider, I don't think that book changed me so much as it gave me new and important information about who I already was 😂

Wish I could remember its name. A collection of creepy stories, sold through some sort of kids' book service in the mid-70s. Like Scholastic but not, I don't think. The stories were more anecdotal like campfire stories, with detailed descriptions of ghosts chopping up old bodies in sinks, etc.

Feels like an appropriate time to share @wolvendamien.bsky.social's excellent lecture Religious Belief and Practice in the Age of AI youtu.be/l8JH0jAITng

Happy paperback day to Dead Girls Don’t Dream! Now with a bonus playlist in the back, which are all songs I both listened to incessantly while writing this, and songs that are thematically or vibe-ally resonant. Available wherever books are sold, and signed copies thru @astoriabookshop.bsky.social

Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now. If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine

I just made my calls to Schumer and Gillibrand. PLEASE call your senators and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding. #DidThisToday Find your senators here: reps.fyi

If you see this, post an #anime you love! Literally just finished watching an episode

sorry i mean

This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓 The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺 The facts are so good 🥺 Eels are so cool 🥺 Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

I mean...

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

@caffeinated-spoon.bsky.social and I are proud to announce a cross-server initiative this month called ‘Smut for SNAP’, where you can ask participating writers to write you a piece of smut in exchange for a charitable donation to a food bank, blood bank, or volunteer hours.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Deer n Shrooms 2 inch x 2 inch ink and watercolor prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo... for sale: ko-fi.com/s/1a76854ff0

Who wants to pinky promise with me to finally switch platforms *this month*? It's on my to do list for 2025 but I gotta get on this asap

Post you from a different era. I'm not gonna lie, the 90s were *very* good to me.

If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS. Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org

Cool, is there like a form I need to fill out or

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

Working up to talking about my OCs in public...