If her heart's not in it, I guess by definition neither is mine. Not that changelings have hearts. But my hemolymph is tired, sad, and sick of this place. A substantial minority of Bsky's inhabitants are *absolutely exhausting people* and I'm just done for a while. Sorry.

I mean, I'd do my old web research job free, especially for a good social cause. I'd probably volunteer at a cat shelter/cafe. And I'd write the comic full-time, which might mean actually getting to finish Volume 2 in my natural lifetime.

Introduce yourself with 4 spaceships

Okay, I'm reposting "Golomb's Don'ts," because because I think this might be the single best piece of advice I've ever received, period. This was a big help in shaking me out of my teenaged fundie phase, and I think it contains a lot of cures for what's ailing the USA right now.

English needs more words for stupidity, yanno? There's literal cerebral disability and then there the subtler kinds, like "your beliefs ate your critical faculties," "you never grew up and learned any emotional intelligence," and "you just literally don't think you can be wrong, don't you."

Wisdom from an amazing little girl. op: carmenveal via IG

I can't offhand... but it stil absolutely blows my mind that The Chair Company is set about 20 minutes' drive from where I grew up. My very first arcade experience was in Canton, OH, actually. #🪑co Yeah, nothin' there but football. The idea of putting a mall there NOW is indeed finest comedy.

Funny story: The Institute of Pony Studies has released a statement that their previous alarmist announcement was a practical joke and you should go back to loving ponies and welcoming them into your homes. They add that you should say the invitation out loud.

Speaking of things that were trendy despite being basically poison and got shoehorned in where they were unwanted and unneeded during the 20's, one of my local friends has begun referring to genAI as "radium"

Had to research to find out if the quote was real, and it is.

PLural friends and folks. So is there kind of a mostly polite way to start a conversation asking who's fronting without it being weird or nosey. It's a lot easier when I see someone face to face to tell but harder via text. Any guidelines?

It's funny how in a way, my spirituality is the exact diametric opposite of the narcissistic "NPC" crap in my previous thread. In my world, EVERYTHING'S a PC. You. Our neighbors. Kids in Gaza. Our cats. Stuffed animals. People's headfriends. EVERYONE. Everyone but most execs & pols.😏 #metapeople

I appreciate how unapologetically MEAN Bunlith is in the Witch Upstairs pilot. Antihero goals there. 😏 I do enjoy indulging in the mammalian pleasure of Being Nice and I can't claim my reform arc wasn't super fun. Friendship is... it's good, okay?! It's pretty good. But still. Some damn people...

When I see the word "NPC," I reach for my revolver. Look at this narcissistic BS.🤬 Reminds me of the goth-pagans my ex hung out with in college, the type who'd look in your eyes and condescendingly inform you you're a "new soul" (which really meant "you're not in our clique & we don't like you").

I just want my sprouts back. Truer words were never spoken. #plur1bus

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This is why I don't talk to fandoms anymore. Maybe the guy just wanted to tell a story and it came out this way completely regardless of your politics? By all means, criticize any bad gender/politics takes in Pluribus. But if you're dismissing it as All About one bad-faith political take? Fuck off.

Quote of the day.

Gentle reminder: EVERYBODY who instructs Bluesky that we Must Never Post in any certain way here will be muteblocked without apology, no matter how much I liked you. Zero exceptions. I will preserve the Old Nanny-Free Internet by any means necessary; that includes those who embrace the Inner Cop.

OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

If you see this, quote with a vampire who isn't Dracula. Colin is my personal hero, role model, and spiritual advisor. He taught me how to exploit the awesome forces of snoo. Of snoo. *cough* Anyone? Nobody's curious what snoo is?

Compare and contrast: techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/k... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJkl... [cw: toilet humor; oblique non-explicit references to CSA (as part of a broader satire about privacy)]

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Be careful out there today, mammal friends. Remember that the most ruthlessly subversive thing we can do today is turn up in vast numbers... then mill around peacefully, make a few friends, and go home. Don't forget they'll be actively trying to ruin this plan. Don't give them a thing.

I'm "spouse." Your friendly neighborhood changeling is about to face a gauntlet of chirpy ChatGPT-loving toxically-positive extroverts who don't see anything at all wrong with office culture. Only you can save us. Please help us find a job--so we don't have to become much less weird to survive. 😱

@moderation.bsky.app Link? 😐

None of the above. I'm YOUR BEST FRIEND! Trust me. 🦄🐞🫶

Nobody, in the long and sordid history of human culture, has ever won a non-pyrrhic victory over a cartoon squirrel. This is how we should be: ruthless in the shadows, ridiculous in the light.

The "analog kitten horror" genre is very popular among us changelings, and appropriate for the season. Brace yourself, it's pretty dark stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEIR... (cw: no actual horror; mildly perplexed kitten; spoopy music and captions; explicit imagery of unwanted pickie-uppies)

Clearly this is the work of those Antifa scoundrels. Heh, maybe the witches did their job like they did with Charlie. Anyhow, I offer my sincerest nothing to Jordan and his family and I am pleased to do nothing about this. Thoughts and nothing. www.newsweek.com/jordan-peter...

Oh, we can do better than this. We make it into a Veritas Project satire and film the "riots" ourselves. In our basements, with gold-painted cardboard props, suits from the local Goodwill, and the lowest production values possible. BLATANTLY fake. But we insist it's all real. I LOVE kayfabe. 😍

Oops! I almost forgot the mandatory engagement-promoting out-of-context screenshot! egypt.urnash.com/npol/chapter... #marketing #earthmoney #engagementishard #help

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Haha, right. I finally sat down in a calmer state of mind, and this time the "largely speculative" bit finally got through to me. I'm much better now. I feel like the real message of that article was "nobody knows what the fuck is about to happen because the guardrails are good and off now?" 🤷‍♀️

OK, this article scares the hell out of me, given the "white-collar thinker" skillset that's about to get screwed is exactly what I did for a living... until my whole team was let go last week. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/08/h... If anyone's got an optimistic counterpoint for me, I could really use it.🙏

No Pizza on Luna: 99.924601% AI-free! egypt.urnash.com/npol/chapter... Believe me, if we could make it 100%, we would. But we have to look at the damn things now & then to make fun of 'em accurately.😅 I will say one thing: LLMs are a great tool for showing you why and how to make fun of LLMs.

Another good video. TL;DR: The elite techbros are every bit as FU'd as you think, they know exactly what they're doing to us, they could stop at any time, they're scared, they're willing to kill us, and I should have socked that one 🤬🤬🤬 libertarian way back in '05. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xldi...

Fascists can't dance worth shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN_M...

In case I forgot to mention, Auntie Spybug has been laid off from her real-world earth money human job, along with her entire department. Terms were generous—heh, they're Europeans—but I will be actively looking for work, ideally in a research, fact-checker, GIS, or annotation job. 💚

I think she and Jamelle have got this one right. Doomsayers are just quiet quislings. Don't listen to them. Our enemies are loud but *feeble* at what they do. They plain don't know how to do things. That doesn't make them harmless; it does mean we have advantages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=806O...

Paranormal Park proudly joins Elvis thighs, D&D, pinball(!), razor blades in apples, Doom, comic books, daycares, chess(!!), pizza places, heavy metal, rainbow parties, Care Bears, heavy metal, facemasks, "Blue Star LSD," and the Central Park 5 in the annals of performative right-wing moral panic.🫡

Fig. 1: Elon Musk (actual file photo) 💰 👔 👖

"doubleplusgood dickthink"

Conservatives have been telling me my entire life that the reason the second amendment exists is to prevent this exact situation. Every accusation is a projection.

I just want to say for the record that I used to transcribe the daily forecasts from the Chief Economic Officer of Putnam, Bob Goodman... and that silly little human moneypriest was literally still predicting "infinite sustainable growth" five days into the subprime mortgage crash. Fuck 'em all.🙃🙃🙃

The Cracker Barrel "outrage" was bought and paid for. gizmodo.com/cracker-barr...

What's the difference between a duck? One of its legs is the same!

I used to transcribe old interviews for the Associated Press, so a lot of my big heroes are journalists, especially photojournalists. I absolutely idolize people like Horst Faas and Nick Ut. And I'm thinking about all this in the context of the Portland... situation. Film EVERYTHING.

This may sound paradoxical, given I have advocated for retribution against right-wing pundits who openly declare war on us—and still do. But for the troop deployments? This is the way. This is not a place for violence; it's a place to put on your squirrel fursuit and make our opponents look ABSURD.