Hey. You. Stop working. #caturday

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Ok, I made a new starter pack: Science Job Accounts! I want to try & collect together account that are likely to post jobs/internships/employment opportunities in science. It is heavily US/Ecology based (and would probably be better as a feed). Please suggest other accounts!! go.bsky.app/QPGnfWu

Here is an organization based in Kenya that employs thousands of people in the restoration of indigenous forest ecosystems. www.earthlungsreforestation.org

My coworker is an immigrant from Afghanistan. She said “I survived three wars. If you have lentils and water, we can get through this. I will make sure.”

Once I got introduced to a showrunner as an up-and-coming crime writer, and when she asked what kind of crime I wrote, I said, "The kind about criminals," and mannnn she really missed the boat by not hiring me right then and there.

VERY good news from @bookshop-org.bsky.social!!

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For SoCal friends, Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can. For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla

The Entertainment Community Fund has received over $1 million in donations that they are distributing to industry members affected by the LA wildfires. If you or someone you know qualifies please apply and share! entertainmentcommunity.org

Practice saying “No.” No, I will not take away that person’s dignity. No, I will not deny care. No, I will not turn against my neighbor. Go through dark times as the person you want to be when we get to the other side.

In an effort to bring you a little emotional relief and hard-earned joy in a time when we desperately need both, thanks to very generous support from our friends at NEON, we invite you to join us for expanded FREE programming in our beautiful Eagle Theatre. 🎟️: bit.ly/4hem70H

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#LAFireDonations — another great list. There’s so much need.

Here's a list of places to get free and discounted resources for LA fire victims. www.latimes.com/california/s...

FEMA representatives will be on site at LA County libraries TODAY and TOMORROW from 9am-5pm to provide info/assistance to those impacted by wildfires. They can help you apply for financial support, including Serious Needs Assistance (the $770 grant) and much more. Please share!

🧵 My thread on 5 Calls. With the hearings starting this next week, it will be important to call your senators even if they are Republicans. Flood their phones! They have staff to answer. Hope 5 Calls updates scripts to oppose each candidate next week. Please share the info & the need to call to all

Thank you, Oregon! 🙏🏽 The viral claim that 60 fire engines from Oregon were turned away in California over emissions is FALSE. Three hundred Oregon firefighters volunteered to come and have arrived in Southern California. They’re already fighting fires in Los Angeles. 🧵

I once helped set up a shelter for fire evacuees in the nicest community center I’d ever seen. Brand-new. Basketball courts, sparkling showers, a dining room. No shelter is as good as home, but it came close. For the first few days it ran fine, with a total of 2 residents. But on day 4...

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If you or someone you know is running a GoFundMe for wildfire damages, they can apply for additional funding through the GoFundMe Wildlife Relief Fund. It’s free and takes about two minutes to apply. Please share. www.gofundme.com/f/wildfire-r...

Welp, THIS is one of the coolest goddamn things I have ever seen. So.

We want to alert Guild members impacted by the wildfires that they may be eligible for emergency financial assistance through our partnerships with Union Plus and the Entertainment Community Fund. 🧵

For those evacuating with pets in LA: Hilton’s Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton, Tru and Canopy brands are all 100% pet friendly. Even cats! And a lot of hotels are waiving pet fees atm. Good on u Hilton! Pun intended: that’s hot.

Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

Great app for up-to-date fire info, including shelter locations for people and animals. They are also monitoring X for updates from official accounts that still post there, in case you’re wanting that info but no longer have an account. www.watchduty.org

“During a period when many of our lives are going to be increasingly devalued by the system in which we live, taking our own lives seriously is all the more important.” Powerful read.

Happy first Caturday. May your 2025 naps be shameless and long.

🏛 Status Change 🏛 📜Bill: Wyoming HB0032 📑Title: What is a Woman Act. 🏷️Bill Type: End Legal Recognition 🏛Status: Received for Introduction 🔗Bill Text: https://legiscan.com/WY/bill/HB0032/2025

It needs to be said over and over because it’s really important: if you read an indie novel/comic, play an indie game/visual novel, etc. and you enjoyed it, one of the best ways to help the creator is to tell people about it! Leave reviews, tell your friends. Every little bit helps us so much!

Finally watching some Xmas movies

Why do media outlets keep using the word “czar” in place of job titles that used to imply some level of expertise? Is it an accepted catch-all term now, or just a trigger word that switched sides?

I joke about coming from a long line of postal workers, but they were actually daring folks back in the day. Found this in a collection of Railway Mail Service orders among my granddad’s effects. (He was District Transpo Manager in the 50s and oversaw the transition from rail to bus and air mail.)

Read it while you can. ethics.house.gov/wp-content/u...

Under a new expansion, families in 35 of Oregon’s 36 counties have full access to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which gifts books every month to children from birth until age five: www.kptv.com/2024/12/18/d...

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Go get em kiddo 💪💪

Tomorrow is our Virtual Holiday Party! We got games, a pitch contest, and prizes from @coverfly.bsky.social, @networkisa.bsky.social, @roadmapwriters.com, Final Draft, & Script Anatomy WITH MORE STILL COMING! Join our Discord to RSVP (DM for link)! End this abysmal year with actual cheer!

Hey corporate media, Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.

For 3 years I ran a podcast called the Hollywood Confessional, where industry pros anonymously confess their BTS secrets. In each ep we aimed to shout out someone who was making Hollywood a happier place. These are some of the folks who made the list. Give em a follow! go.bsky.app/AZNFMsH

When you forget it’s caturday

“I told him to tell his students that Mr. Kaczynski was cruel… and took pleasure in imagining the suffering of others; to read not only his manifesto, which he polished for public consumption, but also his diaries. There they would see what kind of man he was.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/o...

Hiring a “diverse room” is only step one. Step two is actually LISTENING to the writers in that room. I can’t guarantee it’ll give you a blockbuster hit like Ben Watkins, but it will definitely give you a better show than if you hadn’t listened.

Hey @blueskystarterpack.com please add: go.bsky.app/Co3rDvc

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

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Last Christmas I gave you my heart Not really my heart Just somebody's heart This year If the cops should appear Please tell them that you don't know me

No doubt I’d be best friends with the owner of this house. 😂