ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.” That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.” @jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

SNAP is a domestic violence intervention. Being able to feed your family is foundational to leaving an abusive relationship.

River talk.

hell yes. youtu.be/jmSeBG9wIfY

One of my superpowers regarding magical housecleaning is the ability to lie to myself about how long it will take. Throughout the entire process. Seven hours in, I'm still: “This next part will take like 20 minutes!” Also, Florida Water in the Bissell hard floor steam cleaner is the shit. Dilute!

if you believe that a better world is possible, you may be tarred as a doomer, because achieving a better world involves calling attention to what is wrong with this one. your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.

as is traditional: youtu.be/F7aLXehSXAo

yes. youtu.be/hW8fzLR5YDU?...

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

It's very clear that unlimited wealth causes brain damage. That's not an exaggeration. It's similar to other unnatural human conditions like solitary confinement (which is widely understood to cause mental deterioration) and other types of sensory deprivation.

For anyone who doesn't know - I didn't! - JSTOR now allows anyone 100 completely free articles a month. Excelsior!

It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.

RSH forever.

Today marks 9 days until Nov 2, good to know if you're timing an ancestor elevation rite for the peak of this season. #WitchSky #PaganSky

If you promote your new book with an ‘AI trailer’, the only thing guaranteed to happen is that a lot of folk will think: ‘AI equals arseholes involved, I’ll never read this book’. That and the fact I will block you.

I get this from my allies as well.

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Song Sohee is straight-up magic, meant both literally and metaphorically. youtu.be/YENUe7tTa9k?...

Some good thinking that looks beyond the optics and frames the past weekend a bit outside of what I have seen elsewhere. democracyamericana.com/posts/a40ac6...

‘“A hundred and fifteen years that they haven’t been here, and they still have that GPS unit inside of them,” said the visibly giddy Klamath Tribal Chair William Ray, Jr. “It’s truly an awesome feat if you think about the gauntlet they had to go through.”’

"Think globally, hex locally!" ~ @faerywolf.bsky.social

I’m in that strange intersection between recording guided inductions for the course, writing and revising the book, and falling down a rabbit hole called Hwasa. She’s awesome and hilarious. youtu.be/J6oy7eOCbP8?...

This, from @margaret.bsky.social, needs to be internalized, be we anarchists, witches, or whatever: "We can try to build a better society with a dwindling cadre of angels, of perfect anarchists who have harmed no one who did not deserve it, or we can have an army of fuckups….

I am totally stoked to be a part of this!

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose" margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

“[AI is] not a good knockoff. The ultimate goal is never to be as good as the art — the goal is to be good enough to get on the page, get the consumer to use it, and get rid of the worker.” —Molly Crabapple, artist

Also, the expanded 10 years reissue of my 1st #BookOfSpells rising to the Top10 on all booklists of AMZN in USA, and appearing in physical bookstores, without any publishing support, was not in my bingo, but feels pretty good 😊🥰 eBook : amzn.to/430UVh4 Paperback: amzn.to/4gTYVWr #witchybooks

Some nights this is all I need. youtu.be/rLiDBEYE5LY

I wonder if the people objecting to "eugenics against AI" also object to eugenics. The extreme vulnerability of disabled and elderly and low-income Americans. The threats to Medicaid, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine efforts and attempts to pathologize autistic people.

Hey #witches 🐈‍⬛ my #bookofspells Bloom & Shadow (published 10 years ago as 'Wicca! Love & Soul') is OUT NOW 💐 The eBook is available in the link below 👇🏼 and paperback coming later today, now I gonna sleep 😴 I'll maybe do some cute promoting in the weekend 😪 Kindle / eBook 🔗 amzn.to/430UVh4 #witchsky

The paperback it's here, and it's alive✨ 👉🏼 Later this month in other platforms and selected bookstores. 👉🏼 Previously published as 'Wicca! Love & Soul' in 2015. 👉🏼 Include a Foreword by Judy Ann Nock. Author of the Modern Witchcraft series. 🔗 eBook : amzn.to/430UVh4 🔗 Paperback: amzn.to/4gTYVWr

Baaabeeees, if trans people just looking for ways to live their lives, and hard-working immigrants paying taxes, bother you more than p*dophiles and Nazis. You need to Reevaluate certain beliefs of yours 👀

Love the shirt I just got in the mail from www.wyldheartandwright.co.uk/category/all...

I made it outside to the woods & waters, finally feels like home!

It’s good to be back in the book after a summer off. Rainy days, grey skies, lots of words. I love Autumn.

wishing the safest of travels to the great Jane Goodall 🙏

i got to talk about anarchist santa not actually a biography, but instead talking about how this guy did a lot of cool science and changed the way we understand competition and cooperation in evolutionary biology

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

It is a beautiful formulation

I am unable to not read ‘trainers’ as ‘women’ in this sign.

Portland, this morning.

Honored to be a guest on Julian Vayne’s iconic show My Magical Thing! I share the Fever Stone practice. For those interested who do not have my book Weaving Fate, it’s a public post (and linked to today's share there) on my Patreon. youtu.be/U79xb__8kj4?...

Just a bit of the nature channel: “Here we see the human tending to its masters, who speak amongst themselves in a language of light."

being trans is a natural outcome of giving people autonomy. you have the power to be whatever gender is yours, and you have the right to change your body to suit that if you want. because that is what it means to care about freedom.

Last call!

super excited for Tylenol Spice lattes