Blindsided by the news that Bonnie Tyler passed. ...sometimes it's not the knowledge itself, but the way it comes at you that's most striking. Hail the Traveler.

video about fishing for compliments

This kind of thing, ICE killing a different person from the one they were searching for, wouldn’t happen if they’d just stop killing people.

"Oh well what did you expect from a guy with a tattoo like that" Nothing! I expected literally nothing because that should have ended his career on the spot and the fact it didn't says something extremely disturbing about America and particularly about many "progressives" and "leftists" in America

Bigots make me want to set myself on fire explicitly so I can feed them a flaming Falcon Punch.

Help. Film noir of the 40s/50s where a man wakes up next to the corpse of a woman and doesn't know if he did it or not. I never saw it but it came up when I was writing about Barton Fink decades ago. Can't remember the title. Definitely 40s/50s, not a later one like Dark City, Living In Peril etc.

It's unforgiveable and each one of them is just as bad as Platner

So, I sent my full manuscript (prologue and novel) draft to my longest serving (and published author) friend about two weeks ago and she told me that she was going to start reading it yesterday. Let the anxiety commence.

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

Tori Amos' "Tear In Your Hand" is stuck in my head on a loop and I can feel my sanity crumbling all around me for how much I love this song...but that it also makes direct reference to Neil Gaiman, which taints the whole thing. Can't decide if I want to set myself on fire or walk into the ocean.

If only there had been warnings that he was a violent piece of shit... I hate that it takes this for people to listen

It's important for Republicans to remember that after they expose Mitch McConnell to 245 trioxin gas he's going to need a steady diet of brains to resist the pain of being a rotting corpse. No, I mean more than usual.

also gross, controlling abuser behavior

"let he who is without sin cast the first stone" Just because I'm not stoning someone to death for it doesn't mean we should elevate them to a place of incredible power and influence.

Evergreen.

Id take it further, I would argue that pain is the goal here. The more I think about it, the more I see the need to jail and institutionalize as a manifestation of the need to punish difference. The impulse to institutionalize disabled people overlaps and is born of the same anxiety/disgust/anger.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

I think someone wrote this about me and I'm not pleased

🖕 bsky.app/profile/nich...

I don't have anything legal to say about people who use the slur phrase "anchor baby"

"That's no claw, by the gods...it's a TOOTH."

💸💕 Please help Indigo, this is urgent. 120 people with $10

This isn't stupidity. This is quiet, calculated aggression. This is a declaration of intent to harm. They are attacking us, and need an appropriate response. They don't do it directly because they're cowards who fear pain.

Morning.

If this is how Discord's AI thing is going to act then I actively suggest setting up backups and alternatives NOW A lot of us should have before, but something something planting trees If anyone who knows me needs me, I'll be on Steam

Watching Meatloaf's "I would do anything for love (but I won't do that)" video for the bazillionth time and I'm only just now coming to the conclusion that a lot of the media I've consumed over my lifetime has conditioned me with an unrealistic expectation of the transformative nature of love.

Skill sets students should acquire: - think critically and evaluate lines of evidence - write and present creatively and professionally - negotiation, collaboration and healthy group dynamics - what Computer can/can’t/should/shouldn’t do - domain expertise - when/how to post vs. touch grass

The companies forcing their consumer-facing a.i. on children and college students have adopted "the first hits are free"

My head and heart both hurt. I am thinking this particular journey down memory lane may have been ill-advised.

I can tell how long it's been since I revisited a foundational musical artist from my youth by how fast I burst into tears listening to them again. I think Tori Amos "Little Earthquakes" officially set a record; only took a handful of notes into Crucify.

Wasn't there a comic or something that showed a rich guy telling a poor guy that another poor guy was gonna take his shit if he didn't watch out

The Addams Family gave Cousin "It" gender neutral pronouns nearly 80 years ago.

My mind races but it’s just chasing down the ghost cart from yesterday’s mistakes.

I'm a Libra, which means I can see your side, my side, his side, her side, our side, their side and because I can see all those sides, I can't make a decision to save my fucking life.

Happy 4th of July! Here's an unrelated image!

Me with my BlueSky mutuals

it’s clothes isn’t it

I guess what I'm saying is, some things you just *know* aren't going to be for you. And it's okay to let those things go when other people make them look inviting or desirable. If you're going to spend energy envying other people's lives...at least envy stuff you actually find appealing, I guess.

Gradually realizing that a lot of FOMO I experience in life is over things that other people make look or sound amazing that I absolutely would not enjoy.

ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR HATERS GONNA HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE

I haven't lived in my "home state" for most of my life now...and while I've live in Maryland for longer than I lived in New York, I've never really felt I've become a "Marylander". Either way, I find I increasingly interpet being American at all as more a burden to be carried than anything else.

If you ever feel so inclined to light off fireworks randomly, I’m here to remind you that my dog’s vascular tumor very likely ruptured causing her a painful and lonely death because her blood pressure had been so high around fireworks season. Or more succinctly, fuck off.

oh look. yet another study that the entire policy platform of @darrenpjones.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is pure science denialism. transgender women are physiologically distinct from cisgender men. we are not cross dressers.

I'll say it's swift, I didn't even know they were dating.

This line from widow's bay can be used in so many circumstances.