i don't think ted needed to say all this but it's very cool he did!

From reddit:

book cover that ended up not being used!

Election official here! Absolutely go sign up to be one. It gives you visibility into the process and all the security measures and triple checks they do to ensure election integrity, and you get to help people vote! It's great!

This is a great read. One thing I'd add is that if you're concerned about voter intimidation then do something about it! Volunteer to be a poll worker or observer. Find an organization that gets people to the polls. Engage in get out the vote efforts. There are more of us than there are of them.

I don't post on Substack because I already have my own site where I post stuff, and have done for 27 years, and because Substack makes a lot of money off Nazis and fascists and I'd really rather not, thanks. I do have an account there but it's to secure my name. It has a cat photo.

If we've learned anything these last few years, it's that They're Never Kidding and It's Never Just A Joke, They Mean That Shit.

The text generators currently being promoted as "AI" are not search engines either. All they do is predict the most likely next word based on the text used to make them. There is no connection to the original material and only infrequent updates.

Can’t believe we are still doing this

This is one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said about me. *sniffle*

This morning, I got one of those scam emails that are currently abundant in the writing community, where someone offers to "feature" your book at a book club for a fee. These messages always include an effuse essay about how great your book is, written by a LLM.

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

If you want to know what we are doing here, contact me. I made this quote post so anyone can interact. Let me know here and we can move the convo to more secure channels. Please learn, prepare, and get ready.

This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

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Saying Sorry (Part 2/4) - Gator Days

Everything else wrong with this aside, if some part of this makes sense to you: When you show your papers, and the ICE agent (who is accountable to nobody) says of your real government issued ID "that's a fake" and seizes it, what do you do?

I first met @kbspangler.com because she decided to put one of my book covers in her comic A GIRL AND HER FED. It was being read by a foul-mouthed superintelligent koala, and that was how I knew we would be sympatico and should be friends.

leveled up with this explanation, cos as an autistic person i pride myself on reacting appropriately to animals, to signal harmlessness, so why wouldn't i want to do this for human animals? never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.

I got into Yale undergrad back in 2004 and of COURSE I was going to go, no one says no to Yale. I went to a spring orientation for accepted high schoolers. The campus was plastered with a frat's jokey posters about how we were legally fuckable bc of CT's age of consent laws. I did not go to Yale.

This is an actual thing happening on Saturday. Imagine being this much of a pick-me shill.

I should not have to say this but if you are a legal observer your job is not to go snitch on any and all illegal things. Your job is SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY to record law enforcement brutality, illegality, and overreach. It is ABSOLUTELY NOT to snitch on protests you find too spicy.

🧵🧵🧵 I'll be collecting reviews of the "Melania" movie in this thread. 🧵🧵🧵 Variety: "A Cheeseball Infomercial of Staggering Inertia"

Prepping my perfectly normal gentleman pin design!

some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Three kittens have arrived! They are very grumpy about it, but they're skeletal and definitely needed to be in care. A fourth kitten was trapped after these were already on their way to me. And, surprise, a fifth kitten has been spotted. 🤦🏻‍♀️

A reminder — there are *millions* of social sites on the internet, like Storygraph for your reading and Ravelry for your knitting, etc. It’s only the biggest, run by the extremist fascists, that do these terrible things. Don’t define the internet by a handful of apps run by 5 sociopaths.

every time i think i grasp how fucking stupid ICE agents are, they do something to prove they’re actual much stupider.

English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:

Husband is working from home today because snow and so is in the study with him and APPARENTLY EGG ROLL JUST CAME FULLY OUT AND HAD PETS Retreated again but THIS IS AMAZING PROGRESS He is the most courageous boy, he is grand and heroic and I hope he knows it

Our elderly neighbor who moved here from Croatia 60 years ago and is a citizen of 55 years told us she’s been carrying her citizenship papers with her when she goes out

My friend wrote this about Alex. She was his last nursing student. He taught her lessons we all need right now.

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

As I see more middle-of-the-road Dems process the tragedy that befell Alex Pretti, I see them processing grief by trying to differentiate ICE from Police. To claim that their actions are qualitatively different, somehow. And I wonder on what planet they've been living.

But I need folks to understand that if they can see themselves in Alex Pretti or Renee Good, and they haven't been able to see themselves in Philando Castille or Breonna Taylor? If it feels different, now? I need you to examine that. It's not an accusation. I'm glad you're here with us now.

Just sitting here remembering how the standard US response to bad numbers coming out about Police Brutality, or abuse in Prisons, or the racial demographics of who gets stopped by the cops, or anything else the carceral state doesn't want to fix, is just to stop allowing it to be studied.

CN: School shooting. In 2019, Trystan Andrew Terrell came to a UNCC classroom with a pistol and began shooting indiscriminately. A friend of a friend, Riley Howell, charged him. He tackled Terrell to the ground, shouting at the other students to run. His last words were "Go, Go, Go."

I can’t emphasize enough how much anti-ice sentiments have traveled across online communities. I’m seeing yarn hobbyists, comic book reviewers, anime nerds, family bloggers, COMEDY SKIT DUDES and even Disney Park enthusiasts speaking out against ice. I love to see it

Great Pyrenees enthusiasts, firearms comics, Sponge Bob memes, even the Real Housewives Reddit subs are all Fuck ICE posting

Hate to keep nagging about this, but *it is really hard* to make people aware of the fact that without their help I'm *fucked*. It is not a situation I'd wish on anyone. STILL 1865/3500 - 65/1000 Weekend Goal! paypal in bio, sepa info in dms, ko-fi at ko-fi.com/standplaatsk..., boosties = <3!

The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it. Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)