Dear everyone I owe texts to: my phone fried itself of old age, and I am very behind Still love you tho

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

Public comment period on the proposed BLM logging radical increase in Oregon old-growth forests ends March 23, 2026. We have very few old-growth forests left, and once they cut it... Welp. Here's info on how to comment.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

A chance to re-up this great quote by Julia Child, in a letter to one of her co-authors while the book was in preparation, circa 1960

I really think the whole notion of “bearing witness” has gotten deeply twisted “Witness” does not mean merely to observe firsthand. It means to carry truth and to testify to that truth in the pursuit of justice You don’t need to traumatize yourself in order to know that atrocities are happening

You don’t need to destroy a part of your soul in order to speak out against injustice that you know exists I still have never seen the George Floyd video. I didn’t need to. I knew the truth of it and I knew I could testify to that truth without consuming a spectacle of Black suffering and death

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

My one take re Liz Bruenig's Atlantic piece: looking for a post Ziz read on bsky, I searched "this is how a child dies of measles", sorted by latest, & then scrolled back thru ~40 posts I was arrested by falling off 3 days ago onto 5 month old links about an actual school-age child dying of SSPE

This pigeon ran me around for TWENTY MINUTES I'm so glad Maggie entered her gold leaf era to do it justice!!! 🪶

Why do I want to see your book posts, art posts, happy posts, pained posts, music posts, love posts, human posts, confused posts, did-the-thing posts, look at my garden posts, here's a poem of compassion posts? Because we're not here to cede our hearts to those who exist for ruin.

Kirby says: Eat the frame! bsky.app/profile/vort...

i can confirm the chats I’m in which include renowned security specialists - people who actually advise on how to protect your comms from authoritarian dictators for a living - also think this outburst of paranoia about Signal is really weird and unwarranted

The fang has escaped its cage yes YES the fang is OUT

Reminder to block or unfollow AltNPS. There are links to the YouTube exposes about the account downthread

Minneapolis sea shanty MINNEAPOLIS SEA SHANTY

This goes as far back as you can prove it! I don't qualify because unfortunately my ancestors are from pretty much everywhere in the British Empire except Canada lol

“nobody is insider trading off his death so it almost certainly didn’t happen” really sums up the state of the world in 2026 huh

Alt text: I saw an ER nurse recommend that anyone assaulted by ICE and seeking emergency care should ask for a forensic nurse exam, since these specialists are trained to document injuries for legal purposes and that documentation can be admissible in court. —@illestdivinity💯

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.

Here's a free educational resource if you've never known what's up or could use a refresher. manningkrull.com/digital-phil...

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

I found reading this essay extremely useful; maybe you will too

Time to turn off autoplay if you haven’t already. Retraumatizing yourself is not praxis.

I talk a lot about AI and "male loneliness" as a lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of dealing with other humans, but the rejection (most noticeable in MAGAts and anti-vaxxers, but spreading to, sigh, everything) of the *idea of expertise* is a symptom of the same problem. (thread)

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings . 1. Giacomo Balla, 1912, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, oil on canvas, 89.8 x 109.8 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Some people do not see this as important but it actually is. Because fun attracts people and dulls the edges off cruelty [which can work in fascists' favor] etc...

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

my personal achievement: I ✨DID✨ open the doc this year!

end-of-year shoutout to ao3 writers who wrote 200k words, 2k words, or just thought really hard about a fic and never opened the doc. i appreciate each and every one of you!!

I just learned shrews: - Are the same size as mice but heavier - Have poison teeth - Die if they don’t eat more or less constantly, or else hibernate so deep their brains shrink - Hunt and eat mice …I demand a horror movie where vampires are to us as shrews are to mice. We can call it The Shrewd.

10 factor auth: 1. Something you know 2. Something you have 3. Something old 4. Something new 5. Something borrowed 6. Something blue 7. Something in the way she moves 8. Something in the way she woos me 9. Something in her style that shows me 10. Something, Something, Something, Dark Side.

My dad’s Indigenous coloring book is finally available! Over fifty original Alaska Native animal designs to color. My dad was a Tlingit formline artist, retired Alaska State Trooper, and National Park Ranger who loved traditional Tlingit art and wildlife. (Sample pages below)

Bluesky wasn't even included in the sites to be restricted by this ridiculous law. They're complying and taking ID purely for funsies.

...I've abruptly remembered I had a dream like YESTERDAY about the word "strid" having become generic for a kind of dangerous dramatically deep relatively-narrow stream, the way it's used in a Victoria Goddard novel, & was explaining the whole thing to someone unfamiliar while I refused to look down

Improving airflow really helps with airborne diseases (like Covid!) For your next event, consider: can you open windows? Do something with the HVAC? Put in HEPA filters like Corsi-Rosenthal boxes? There's lots of options!

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

I think my takeaway from this is WRITE THE THING well, and that you'll never know your ripple effect

speaking of winter: www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a... But that one gets its own day in the sun, as we know.

So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:

Fanfiction is the sign of a healthy show, like a cold nose on a dog. It took me a while to come around to it early in my career, but I got there.

pls read this thread. this is literally something any of us can do, and it matters so much. if you want a little structure & guidance, look up @indivisible.org’s One Million Rising materials. But you can also just… invite some friends over.

Mood

Best use of Fuck/Marry/Kill

Hey, all in the #NEISvoid! The CME associated with the Mayo Clinic Proceedings Concise Clinical Review expires two weeks from today! You can reach out to your provider using our sample language & send thru your chart, or email to a medical society. More info below!

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

If you'd like to run a workshop at Flights of Foundry this year, now is the time to register and get those program suggestions in! I'm going to be working on workshops this coming week!

alt-text for pic (please alt-text) a screenshot of an e-commerce cart with: yasumoto fusion synthetic brush round, short handle, size 5 prang semi-moist watercolor paint - square pans, assorted, set of 16 bee inspired watercolor artist pad - 9"x12", 140 lb, 20 sheets