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We did it! Thanks to all the vendors, panelists, performers and fans who showed up and made flame con amazing!

TIL: When the Original Star Wars Trilogy finally aired on Chilean TV in 2003, the network spliced custom beer commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.

Fucking. Terrifying.

Had a pretty magical time working #awesomecon with my queer fam from @geeksout.bsky.social this weekend. Two personal, non-volunteer highlights: meeting f-ing legend Timothy Zahn and commission from the incomparable Adriana Melo.

🚨 We need to talk about DOGE & the IRS This article covers actions that could be more damaging than the tariffs. This hackathon has the very real potential to deliver the personal and financial information of everyone to the dark web. 🧵 www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

god is in his heaven, all is right with the world MISATO KATSURAGI // NEON GENESIS EVANGELION commissioned by @narr8iv.bsky.social !! ✨ #commission #awesomecon #misatokatsuragi #neonegenesisevangelion

Maryland, please call all of your elected reps - literally ALL of them, down to the most local - and demand to know what the hell they're doing to bring this man home. reps.fyi

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

HOORAY WISCONSIN. EAT MY SHORTS, ELON MUSK.

Koh: I think if this is a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have just stripped 700,000 people of their collective bargaining rights..

i like the whole gondor/mordor thing. all cities should have an evil version right across the river, like DC and arlington

Round 1 of Exhibitor Tables SOLD OUT!! There are two more attempts to purchase tables! March 3 @ 12 PM ET March 5 @ 9 PM ET

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Fight back against the administration’s plan for large-scale layoffs at multiple agencies: www.votervoice.net/iframes/NTEU...

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This validates my belief that the vast majority of Americans do not understand how many federal programs they rely upon in their daily lives. They literally do not put 2+2 together. They think the money comes from some magical virtue spigot.

This describes exactly how I feel every time a patent attorney represents someone applying for a trademark.

Yeah. That also checks out.

I say, with love in my heart for the wackadoo that is much of CA, it's kind of an eco nightmare, but sure. If Denmark wants it, why not?

I'm a fed. Not NPS. I'm an officer of, AFAIK, the only remaining queer ERG in the fed govt at this time. In order to still be in existence, we had to engage in some fuckery. It's terrible but we on the board chose it in order to give our membership the chance to decide for themselves if we fold.⬇️

I needed this. Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...