Giving fanfiction the literary critique and weight that it deserves is such a green flag

Nothing like having a dream where a childhood crush makes an appearance and STILL doesn't give you the time of day 🤦🏼‍♀️

Wonderful. Love accidentally coming across like a dick🤦🏼‍♀️

It’s easy to watch the news and feel overwhelmed or even helpless at everything going on. I need you to fight that feeling. I’m an optimist. You have to be when you strap yourself to a rocket for a living. But there’s real reason to be hopeful this year and l’ll tell you why.

I made this video so we can talk about what ICE is actually doing in our cities. I have the details and you need to hear them. Please share this. ICE isn't targeting criminals or even people here illegally. They are just making up the law - every day. Here's what's going on.

the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent

Example on a silver platter why pushing AI use is so harmful. If you have to manually review all of the results it gives you, it's not really even a timesaver. And in the meantime, it has the potential to cause so much harm. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Welcome to the preliminarily try-outs, players. Our interest check is live and open from today, January 12, 2026, 11:00 AM EST to February 1, 2026, 11:00 AM EST. We can’t wait to see how everyone is feeling about the project! forms.gle/mCoAWGprzr1G... #heatedrivalry #fanzine #hollanov

There is a bunch of work on the topic, notably from that lab, but I preferred to link to one of the key papers at the base of their work. Here is a link to a more extensive review of the timeline of this work. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today in #SciFiScience - regrowing teeth in adults. Turns out there is a transcription factor in mammals that inhibits tooth growth. If it is inhibited, it that make new teeth grow. (and that's now in clinical trials) 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This felt too good to be true so I looked into the source and found footage from multiple angles, including a supercut collage. Ice is bad, but my god, people are good. imgur.com/LGqRI0Q

Hudson's hair inching its way to s2 canonical man-bun and I'm loving the "queer pirate" vibes in the meantime (Alt text in replies, since they were posted with none)

It's wild to me that who I am as a consciousness/person is likely heavily influenced by the structure my brain took on as it developed.

Starting to make things can be hard. Once you start it's easier to build off what you make. Make connections. Make projects that amplify necessary information. Make your friends do the things you know we all need to be doing lol. I know it's hard & scary but shake off the horror & do something.

Sitting here with friends, scheming to bring more beautiful things into the world. I open bluesky, am met with more horror. Every day more horror. On Sunday, I gave a talk to the scientists where I implored everyone to do *anything*. It's easier to break than make things. Please make something.

The fact that YouTube put 3x speed behind a paywall is cruel to me and my adhd PERSONALLY

📸 #StrayKids SCANS | #BangChan 🐺 Season's Greatings 2026 [Starlight] - Photo ID

Today my partner showed me a clip of a heated rivalry ad being played in an actual NHL arena before an actual NHL game. I'm almost wondering if the popularity of this show will actually lead to some real, meaningful conversations in the sport.

Today's pigeon is a portrait of @loupeeps.bsky.social, a very good boy who lives on #pigeonsky that I am obsessed with. Fun facts about Lou: he rolled a nat 20 on charisma, and also I would die for him.

I'm feeling optimistic today after gathering with some like-minded people. It reiterates to me how community-building and long-term, consistent effort is what's really needed to enact change.

If you've ever cried bc of talking about something distressing, but then couldn't STOP crying even after the conversation moved on, I see you. I was so dysregulated after finishing my psych appt the other day that I came into the kitchen crying while asking my partner to put some pizza rolls in.

If you don't know who your rep is, here's the link where you can check! Call your reps and let them know how you'd feel if you had to drive on the “President Donald Trump Freedom Highway” anytime you had to drive through downtown. I sure did! www.legislature.ohio.gov

I recently learned about the alphafold project about protein folding, and it made me wonder, is there any connection between the way proteins fold and how we're understanding we can make self-folding fabrics by manipulating how knitted textiles are created?

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

An essay by Laura Sackton inspired by Heated Rivalry, reflecting on the complexities of “coming out” as a political/discursive act in a heterosexist world… vs inter-community signaling, recognition, language, intimacy, etc for showing each other who’s family poetryschool.beehiiv.com/p/volume-5-n...

Many people—particularly in creative and fan spaces!—could use to read Colton Underwood’s short essay about the lived complexities of queer masculinity, the closet, and the negotiations people make to survive… even and especially for those who are already hyper-visible. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Can I just say how *exhausting* it is to exist under fascism?

Rep. Thanedar has filed two articles of impeachment against Hegseth, one for "murder and conspiracy to murder" and the other for "reckless and unlawful mishandling of classified information." 🧵 (Full disclosure: I was happy to consult a bit on drafting this.)

God, what I would do for my city to actually have a functioning and robust public transportation system 😮‍💨

It's day 10 of the invertebrate photo #ArtAdventCalendar. Here, have a mantis shrimp 😘

These are similar words to those I was asked to removed from a US DOT grant. Guess what? They terminated the grant anyway

According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs. Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵

I have to be efficient today. I want to be a lump on a log today. Terrible situation. Simply awful.

There's really something to be said about the fatigue of staying up to date with the constant barrage of "wtf happened NOW" stories that make up our news landscape rn. So if you, like me, can only take it in small doses, just know that you're not alone, and that taking care of yourself comes 1st.

I just want to encourage everyone to go touch SOMETHING! Doesn't have to be grass; it could be wool or fabric or a 3D printer bed. Just do something with your physical HANDS!

There's something so satisfying about being able to make something yourself. The amount of customization you can add to something to make it absolutely perfect for your needs is just so deeply fulfilling.

Sometimes I'm so shocked at people who tell me they don't have any sort of "maker" type hobbies. Like, making things is what helps keep me sane and not constantly doomscrolling. If I'm using my hands to make something, I can't use them to get duped into engaging with ragebait.

Part of me wants to post an #ArtAdventCalendar entry of just macro photos I took this year of various invertebrates. But I am tired and I have so many other things to do... Eh fuck it, let's see how many days I remember. Here, have an invertebrate 😘

Anytime I'm watching someone talk about something they're an expert in, if they recommend a book as a good resource to learn more, and it's something I'm interested in, I'll throw it on my "want to read" list on Goodreads.

Sooo here's a little public records request I just made to the University of Oklahoma.

Increasingly concerning times for higher education in red states. A conservative student claimed discrimination over an essay where she didn’t cite any source nor address the main question, and instead mentioned the Bible. As a result, the teaching assistant was put on administrative leave

They haven't even gone to the pretense of giving him some made-up official role and title, as they easily could and did during the first term. They're flaunting the lawlessness and patrimonialism, as if being a close relative of Trump is in and of itself enough to be conducting foreign policy.

So if the US is so repentant over how it treated native peoples over the course of the 19th & 20th centuries, why haven't I heard of any efforts to return land to tribes that were removed by the Indian Removal Act? /gen

Sometimes it kinda feels like living in the US is just like high school, having to watch all the popular kids get together and fall out, keeping up on who likes who, etc., except for the fact that it has very real geopolitical, legislative, and economic impact on real people's lives. I hate it here.

I really loved listening to this podcast episode about colonialism in pathogen genomics! I found it really accessible, even with me not being trained in any form of medicine. Considering this podcast is geared towards neurology professionals, that's quite a feat! open.spotify.com/episode/4GNK... 🧪

I sometimes wonder how people navigate the world thinking that anything is apolitical. Your existence is political and anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to hope you don't notice so they can continue to legislate you without you caring.

Link to the article itself bc it sounds like it could also have wider implications to other autoimmune diseases even outside lupus: med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

How do you cope with the crushing weight that everyone you know demonstrates their care for you in a way that you feel is superior to how you demonstrate care for them... ...asking for a friend

I watched my local city development commission meeting last night, and the main guy turns to one of the ladies on the panel and goes "what about you? You haven't spoken much tonight. I know you didn't get reelected, but there's still a lot you can do!" Fucking BRUTAL