The people that don’t disclose they got Covid at an event are the same people who’d hide a zombie bite from their friends. The people who’d laugh about that… eesh. Anyway I have Covid! Me and about 20 other people I know of. If you were at Fantastic Fest this week, think about testing/isolating.

One of the few things where I will actively encourage people to follow the law. You know what to do.

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

This is my Representative he's threatening.

Duck you, Trump.

Final boss in Silksong (actual size)

All the "we want books" posts in the world don't speak to Hasbro like a single book sale does. If you want more Magic books covering more planes (by more authors), the way to get them is by buying the book, then providing feedback saying "I would love an adult adventure on Kaldheim" or whatnot.

I am a little frustrated by how many people don't seem to realize that this is a product, from a company, to support a game. If people don't buy it, Wizards doesn't hear "maybe it shouldn't have been YA/Strixhaven," they hear "books are still dead in the water."

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

It’s back to gracklepalooza! A lot of the grackles have left on their migration, but there are still quite a few hanging around. With his feathers fresh from the summer moult, this male Common Grackle, was foraging in the trees and decided to fly down to the creek for a drink! #Birds 🪶

amplifying this. me and @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote 2 books and if you could just leave a really brief rating/ review for it, we'd be very grateful

Because this is work-for-hire, this is a less self-serving plea than it may seem. I don't really get royalties. Because I have no chill, this is a purely self-serving plea. PLEASE BUY MY BOOK RIGHT NOW, PRE-ORDER TODAY, SO I CAN WRITE THE SEQUELS PLEASE I BEG OF YOU DON'T TAKE MY STUDENTS AWAY.

Or is he just trying to set up an autist registry for his eugenics project? Vile, dangerous man. If you're autistic, DO NOT give this man your name. For any reason.

Y'all please pass this on. These people need to go to their local ED and get the rabies prophylaxis ASAP. Rabies is fatal to humans, and extremely painful. Note: The ED may not have the prophylaxis treatment themselves, but will know where it is available and will help make arrangements.

My great-aunt wad one of the first 5 nurses ashore at Normandy. According to Trump, she was a terrorist because she was supporting the fight against fascism.

put all the "we had anti-slavery regs for farm workers & Trump got rid of them back in June" videos in one place youtu.be/J8zit-g86v8

As pointed out by @galatfemme.bsky.social, Symbiont by Mira Grant aka @seananmcguire.bsky.social is free on US Kindle right now. www.amazon.com/dp/B00IRIR7PS

BIG SALE ALERT!!! 25% off everything in the shop! We've got to make it the next two weeks until our book money hits, so we're doing one last huge sale! Great time to get spooky season goodies or to start stocking up on holiday gifts! thebrokencircle.etsy...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

hey @jimmykimmel.com you won your battle, for the moment, with a lot of help from the public, now pay it forward and have this woman on your show

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Historian Thomas Zimmer has been one of the most clear-eyed observers and analysts of US political culture and the global far right over the past 5+ years. He's left Substack and started over at a new site that is NOT a Nazi bar. I encourage you to check out what he's doing there.

Democrat Adelita Grijalva’s victory marks the first time Arizona has voted to send a Latina to Congress. Her win also gives a bipartisan group of representatives the numbers needed to force a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files: www.thedailybeast.com/democrat-ade...

Tylenol does not cause autism. Vaccines (those accused have morphed over the past 30+ years from tetanus to measles to all) do not cause autism. Nor does bleach cure COVID, or ivermectin or "eating clean." If eating only organic foods prevented disease, nobody would've died of disease before 1850

if you're interested, you can read it (for free!) in this new open access book, ed. Christoph Haack, Annette Grabowsky and Steffen Patzold www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/afte...

It occurs to me that this is an excellent description of AI.

hello, i made this bot. i am a trans autistic anti-fascist. you are following a work of trans autistic anti-fascist art. that is why it is screaming

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

A good friend of mine refers to this tendency among evangelicals as the belief that the Rapture is a magic spell you can cast to summon Jesus to punish your enemies. Phrased like that, even the most ardent believers recoil.

Just got a call from the vet, she’s confirmed the intestinal blockage and is going into surgery between today and tomorrow, gave me an estimate cost of $600 on top of the hospitalization costs We need all the help we can get

I've just been reminded that @alleycatallies.bsky.social has a Community Resource Tool on their site, so I'll share that in case anyone needs it. You can plug in your location or zip code and see some suggestions for community cat resources near you: gethelp.alleycat.org

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

hey it's another stupid cartoon www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

I was once invited to debate Charlie Kirk too. I said no, because fuck him. I don't debate people's rights to exist and I don't debate fascists. The end.

EL EM AY OH

Disney adults, I owe you an apology, I wasn’t really familiar with your game.

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

The FBI used hidden cameras to record Tom Homan taking a $50,000 bribe (in cold, hard cash) last year from undercover agents posing as business executives who Homan promised government contracts in a new Trump administration. The Trump DOJ has now shut down the probe. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Welp. Where are the folks who were on TikTok mostly migrating to? Asking for a dude with a large platform who doesn’t want the sunk cost fallacy to keep him there.

Another artist told me once to go see the full-size Muchas because you can see all the errors. I did and damned if she wasn’t right. It was a weird relief.

look I know this is a controversial position but I feel like we maybe shouldn’t have let the worst and most sociopathic tech bros on the planet amass infinite money and power holy hell

My list of cats still needing TNR at the Final Fantasy colony (not counting any new kittens who appear or the 9 we’ve already done). Asterisks are cats I observed as pregnant or who probably dropped a litter since last I saw them, or who are likely pregnant again. There’s also 1 stubborn kitten.

UPDATE: the guy currently sheltering the mama may have a placement for her, awaiting more solid confirmation on that, but there are still at least two kittens left to capture and find fosters or FurEver homes. We’ve already agreed on one so we’re full up, but if anyone has room.

Well, here's some good news to start the weekend. Negotiating a treaty is one thing, but the work only starts once it's ratified and it looks as though the High Seas Treaty (aka BBNJ) will soon be up and running. This provides structure & standards & is a big step in protecting our ocean. 🎉🎉🌊

this is real, and yes that reply that is the head of the FCC

@crits4cats.bsky.social @catsofyore.bsky.social can you pass this on to your networks?

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.