So we all know Google is evil & useless atp, but today I’m extra mad because with all the computing power they are using, Google maps is functionally incapable of calculating a true “disability friendly” route. AI AI AI all day and you can’t choose both “less walking” AND “wheelchair accessible”.

He was never supposed to see his one-night stand again, so why is she at Thanksgiving dinner in his hometown? The ebook of A Match Made for Thanksgiving is free until the end of October! jackielaubooks.com/books/a-matc...

“I can’t block bad actors, I need to stay informed” Nah unless you’re researching them for the public good (reporter, sociologist, etc.) I promise you can just assume that they’re trolling with the intention of making you so upset you don’t have any energy to resist them. Protect your peace.

1. Vote. 2. Don't comply in advance 3. Target your dollars and time 4. Talk to friends and loved ones about their positions.

This bit of wisdom was posted in my Pilates studio today, but I feel like it applies to other things happening today, too. #nokings

The revolution isn't a superhero coming to save us. It's a critical mass of human beings deciding to save each other. Every day brings us closer. We might not get to see it. But SOMEONE will. And that's enough for me.

There WILL be liberation. It's inevitable. And it might not be tomorrow, or next year, or the next decade. But that better world is coming, and every tiny act of kindness and solidarity you show another human being brings it that much closer.

Amazing how all the serious and professional organizers I follow are overjoyed and energized by today, and the armchair edgy revolution types are demanding to know what if even accomplished to mobilize 7 million people and produce hours of morale-boosting footage of NORMIES saying "fuck you, man"

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

Protect yourself. Protect others if you're able. Protect all creatures, great and small. Protect your heart from heart pirates. Protect mossy forests and the darkness, living and dead, that dwells within.

What I find amusing here is that I have never looked up how many people block me. Presumably they had a good reason, and if not, meh, their loss. But like, these people could just…not look it up? And never know?

The Nakba never ended. Gentrification is ethnic cleansing. It's wrong here in the United States, and it's wrong in Occupied Palestine. Here, wealthy American Jews are buying real estate and forcing poor Arab Muslims and Christians out of homes they've had for decades. www.jpost.com/real-estate/...

Hey, new Blueskyers, FYI, something not done as much on here as on other SM: we don't yell at a famous person mentioned in a post by proxy assuming it's possible they'll see it so it's solidarity. Ex: Me: Billionaires don't belong in government. Rando: Yeah you're the problem! Me: ...? Me? *blocks*

By the way, the woman we were standing next to at one of the protests - it was her first one - also sells cute homemade bags she makes herself from home. If you're looking for a makeup or other small bag, maybe show her some love. shopgreenmandy.etsy.com www.instagram.com/shopgreenmandy

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Correct me if I’m off my blooming rocker but isn’t “staying in your fucking lane” part of decolonizing? No really, correct me if I’m wrong.

The feeling when a friend tells you how a Chinese (mainlander) author is gonna be writing a story set in and about Taipei… When you heard about how Taiwan was sideways referenced not in a good way by this author previously… Oh my god. Your government wants to violently take over my home. GTFO 😭

It’s always interesting when people come back with “y’all criticizing Taylor Swift is misogyny, you all don’t have nearly this much hate for even Trump” and like. I don’t deny that there is some misogyny there somewhere becuase there has to be, but what do you mean we hate her more than Trump?

Just saw something and decided to be an ornery crank on my own page: yeah, I’m Chinese and I love Chinese food, but honestly Lao Gan Ma was so underwhelming when I tried it that as a spice fiend I’d prefer to go without than ever ruin a bowl of wontons with it.

…I… am eyeing the really expensive collagen protein powder at the store and I just wanna know what the actual difference is between that and if I got unflavored powdered gelatin… They claim “smaller molecules, better absorption” but I honestly don’t think the gelatin is holding up to stomach acid.

historical dramas don’t hit like they used to oh, you have a tyrannical government? the rich are exploiting the poor? everyone in town has the plague? the market is really unstable? someone is cheating it? your mother in law is batshit? you’re old at 25? someone says you need to have more babies?

Okay so the other thing about the inflatables and protests is, uh, as a non-white who is side-eyeing what happened to some POC protesters… an inflatable would make me feel safer protesting 🤷🏻‍♀️

It is officially “time to get off the internet and breathe into a paper bag”.

At her deposition, I asked her point blank what weapons the kids had that justified the "armed" statement in the call. She said, and I quote, "well they had arms, didn't they? With hands on them? So what I said was true."

So I asked for her definition of "man," since she had called them "armed men." And she responded that Black people were men from birth. Anyway I have been thinking about that a lot as Republicans call the guys in that chat "kids."

So everybody knows the if one person has dinner with ten Nazis, there are eleven Nazis at the table parable, but a lesser known axiom: If you buy a car from a Nazi, you’re a fucking Nazi collaborator. You literally just gave that Nazi hundreds of thousands of dollars. That’s not neutral.

No action is going to be perfect, but telling people that they're "protesting wrong" is deorganizing. There will be people who will be convinced not to go, making the event smaller and less impactful. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Doing something is always better than doing nothing.

The two countries that are available to me right now to live in both have terrible statistics for kids and their survival and well-being. The US has the added terror of school shootings and Taiwan has mandatory military service while China threatens violent occupation. Yeah no.

Yup. From my very earliest memories, I knew I wanted kids. I wanted a LOT of kids. You know how many I have? Zero. Because I can’t provide for them or give them the lives they deserve.

A mix of both. Sometimes the title is the first thing I have, and the story rises up to meet it. Other times I have the story completed and ready to go but there’s nothing but radio static happening where a title should be. #WritingCommunity

*backs away slowly* *once out of eyesight, scampers for the hills* Oriental Pearl as an Asian woman would be slightly concerning but in that “you gonna try and reclaim that?” way. A white woman? Oh…oh… I hated The Good Earth.

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This. People demanding that we must be subject to their germs has always felt similar to those defending sexual assault as, at their core, they're both issues of consent. "I'm offended that you won't take my germs" I most certainly as fuck won't, how dare you presume to force your germs on others.

I wish people would leave other people out of things. Specifically, I enjoy listening to people tell me about their wonderful family members, but it’s always a record scratch when they go “and this is your sign to call your gramps” etc etc. Yeah no, dude was an abusive narcissist leave me alone.

I wish more people with big platforms would understand that they don’t need to lend the weight of their popularity to discourse. Particularly if their take is a lukewarm or flat out bad one.

I’ve lost friends over masking or not masking and tbh it’s very baffling how mad people get about masking. Masking in hospitals or clinics: why do you WANT other people’s germs? Masking on mass transit: again, why do you want people’s germs?

When I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease years ago, one of the things my doctor told me about was the prevalence of autoimmune diseases in marginalized populations, and that he was researching the epigenetic effects of intergenerational trauma as a potential cause of autoimmune conditions.

Really interesting paper here (though if the USians like Ari ever cared to look at Europe through a non-fetishistic lens they’d know this already AND they’d know how this “health needs” approach is very brittle and cruel)

the push to stop regular people, especially women and queer people, from talking about sex and expressing ourselves sexually is unreal and it's v much in line with this attempt to make big tech companies the only ones allowed to monetize erotica. It is enclosure of the sexual body and mind.

It is so fucking frustrating to watch people widely accepted as smart fumble the bag on disability over and over.* *otherwise known as logging onto Bluesky when the discourse turns its baleful eye on us

I’m not sure there is anything that is utterly useless that isn‘t evil that doesn’t do some good… But I‘d build a wheelchair accessible disability friendly treehouse city.

If protecting disabled and immunocompromised people doesn’t matter to you: mend your heart. If you think it can’t come for you: mend your brain, you’re bad at stats. If you think that, should it come for you, there’ll be people to help you and a safety net to catch you: I’ve got a bridge for sale

Genuine question from a brain fogged mind: is it at all possible that people started masking only when things were truly dire and therefore the correlation is more masking but more mortality because they were not masking when cases were not piling up.

Soak chia seeds in water, add whole bean soy milk and milk to the chia seeds.

I wanna be clear here this isn’t nationalism cuz funnily I don’t give a damn about the government. But you don’t get to disrespect the weight of thousands of years of culture like that. All those poets are rolling in their graves! *yowls*

but I think my most "oh Romancelandia won't like this one" opinion is sex scenes are more than the sum of their parts (lol) if a single word—moist, cunt, whatever one you hate—ruins it for you, then it wasn't a good sex scene in the first place

If I Follow, it means I think you have interesting things to say and want to see what you have to say. It doesn't mean I expect you to follow me back---but if you auto(?) DM me a whole-ass dissertation on why I'm not worth being Followed back, I now feel awkward. You have officially made it weird.

I am absolutely not sorry but I will both DNF a fantasy book set in vaguely-Chinese and possibly give it a grumpy review if it disparages plum blossoms because THAT IS OUR NATIONAL FLOWER. I’m not gonna fight with anyone re: scent or appearance or whatever because you get to have your opinion.

I am sour on a particular book because of the main character's narration implying plum blossoms are ugly and/or insignificant, when the story is East Asian fantasy, where plum blossoms are very much revered and respected.