"To despair is to give up the fight for democracy and justice, and that is not an option." Excellent article from an old college friend. I did not know about Parker!

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Started my library volunteering yesterday with some training about shelving kids' books. (Little kids' books are very diff from regular books: they're shelved by topic, then alphabetical ranges, not absolute alphabetical, & are displayed like magazines/vinyl records to make them easier to browse.)

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‘Verify your age’ My family's first TV was black and white.

😢 I've always loved the story about how Emergency! really changed things for emergency medicine & how Mantooth & Tighe continued to educate & promote for paramedics throughout their careers. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/r...

🧵 Society is always punishing those who are "inconvenient."

If you or someone you knows lives in Hillboro/Beaverton, OR, sign and then share this petition! The city's trying to build an unnecessary bypass that will harm wetlands and wildlife and will make our neighborhood louder and less safe. c.org/2vhJJLgzR7

1/🧵 The EHRC Code of Practice recommends but does not require that businesses segregate trans folks. My advice to businesses is to ignore the EHRC and do business as usual, to be unapologetically trans-inclusive, and, whenever someone demands exclusion, to direct them to single-occupancy facilities.

For those of you who have an instagram account -- time to opt out! Wow, fuck Meta. Yeet it into the sun.

🧵 Be careful out there!

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

Five living writers that you've read five books by each John Scalzi K.J. Charles Becky Chambers Alexis Hall Lois McMaster Bujold

Librarians are heroes! (Thanks, @jennifermach.bsky.social!) www.newsbreak.com/bangor-daily...

I'm not aware of too many things I know what I know, if you know what I mean

Founding Father Wisdom, featuring Thomas Jefferson's ghost! A #PoliCartoon by me and Leah S. Metters. Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

Arthritis: Had labs a couple weeks ago to see if my kidneys were handling meloxicam, which was replacing the stronger diclofenac. Results showed kidneys were still unhappy, so asked the doc what to do. Finally heard back this morning: nothing to be done. No options, just Tylenol for pain. Fuck.

Look at this beautiful girl! 🥹

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN

SERIOUSLY? 🤣

The triumph of the humanities! (Says the Medievalist/English major. 😂) Sure, the techbros want to keep us uneducated & uncritical so we keep swallowing their horseshit & making them money, but what happens when no one can write their AI code anymore? 'Cause we know Claude can't do it...

There are too many things in the world. There are definitely too many things in my house. I feel them like they are extensions of me, and my body is huge and unwieldy. I am here buried in things; I move only slowly and to little effect. Inertia is a bitch.

sorry we can't have anymore third spaces all the resources and electricity and water and money and information has to go to the AI god we are making to kill us.

Just think about it for a second. I'll wait. 😂

Good thread. Children are not our possessions or our slaves. They are people. Yes, people who need to be guided and protected until they can do that themselves, but not coerced, ignored, or bullied. THEY ARE PEOPLE.

Dr Stephenson has been quoted on how people can "just tell" another human's assigned sex at birth, and so this thread needs another outing:

Timeline cleanse! Look how smart I am, Mom! 😂

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Hey all, my aunt and I are riding the struggle bus rn. We just had property tax which was $1700 and we did it, but I'm about to lose my car insurance. need to come up with 180 by Friday. If you can help, i am winjennster on paypal, $winjennster on cashapp, and winjennster on venmo. Please share. <3

Thread. Installment #1,262,498 of "let's punish the disabled for being disabled." 🤬

You've Imagined your last Dragons.

Woke last night before 3 with an incredible back spasm, 7-8 on the pain scale. Changing position didn't help. Got up & sat on the couch downstairs until it subsided, around 3:40. Slept again until 4:40 when it started up again, but I sat on the edge of the bed for 2 min & it went away. Tired now.

Good for Tidal. Happy to be a subscriber. techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/t...

Damn, I'm disappointed in Booker. "Going after tech companies" should be about taxing billionaires, fighting power/water-sucking data centers, and stopping AI theft, not keeping kids away from information.

Imagine being *opposed* to this stuff. Ugh. Go #JaneeseLewisGeorge!

You've Petted your last Shop Boys.

No rain yesterday! Mostly cloudy and in upper 60's, which as awesome, though I still wished I'd worn shorts once I started dancing. 😅 Pooped out early, though; I don't know why 45 min dancing wore me out so much, as I can usually go over an hour @ a time. I left after the drag show & was home ~3.

You've Talked your last Head.

Beaverton Pride today! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I'll be helping set up WQRC's booth, then hanging out. It will be in the upper 60's, so much nicer than last year! Let's just hope it doesn't rain...

This is quite literally the best thing you will see today.

You've rolled your last stone.

How we do just about anything communicates who we are, & sex is no different. Good writing will use sex scenes not only to titillate (perfectly valid!) but to show something about the characters &/or their relationship, even if it's just a fuck in a bathroom stall. Great advice for all writers!

Laika Studios didn't spend fifteen years developing "Wildwood," including creating 136 sets and 231 practical puppets, so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

I love the reaction of both MP Reichardt (offended outrage) and the rest of the Bundestag (unconcealed glee). 😂 YOU GO, GIRL!

“The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces” A new independent report produced for the United Nations has found that Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in…

A woman at Queer Group last night said she hoped I would be at Beaverton Pride this weekend so she could watch me dance. It was the highlight of her Pride last year, apparently. 🥹😭 SIXTY-TWO, and I still got it. 💪

Chronic illness sucks because you have to go to the doctor's 10 times more than anybody else and every time you're flipping a coin on if the doctor wants to help you or to punish you for being sick wrong or being the wrong kind of sick person, and the more they see you, the more likely the latter is

This is perhaps not the precedent they want to establish...

"First, we fear that AI will do terrible things *because the companies selling it TOLD us it would do terrible things*." Waitin' on the Revolution, baby.