Remember folks, if buying isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft.

once i've written a bit more of this project i might fuck around and learn how to use twine

It's incredible to me how often these pieces of shit can start their point by indicating that they know that the GOP made us a big deal through their propaganda and talking points and then immediately pivot halfway through to framing it as though it's a choice we made. Truly vile and monstrous.

Yesterday was terrible comic day and I drew a comic, probably the first one I've drawn in over 20 years. Did you know you can just pick up a pen and draw something bad because it's fun! No one can stop you!

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anyone else finding most duck duck go image search items linking to ai generated spam sites?

Our existence is strongly contested, opposed, vilified, and provoking a massive worldwide reactionary backlash. Simply by daring to change sex and assert ourselves legibly as women we're doing plenty to "deconstruct gender roles" because the entire fucking world doesn't want us to do that.

Friends are good

Calling Pauline Pantsdown in top 10 of the next triple J top 100 now.

ME: b-but Reverend Mother, we mustn’t, what if Shai Hulud hears the rhythm of our prayer and comes here and devours me?? MY DOMINATRIX: …I’m sorry can you explain all this again please

I feel like every time I go back to find old published poems a new magazine or site has closed.

why are small hoop earrings so fkn hard to put in

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Some kind words here from @nickriemer.bsky.social and @ysl.bsky.social - we wouldn't exist without our monumental contributors.

I’ve got a miscellaneous jazz playlist that I write to, and I’ve gotta say Nearness by Mehldau and Redman from their album together is maybe one of the most beautiful pieces of music of all time?

it's remarkable how like, you can visibly notice how people who still use X regularly are either getting dragged to the right (if on the centre-left or centre) or just getting more toxic in general

Rent controls that make it less profitable to rent ought to exist and be combined with vacancy taxes making it deeply unprofitable to not rent, AND with a standardised financial vehicle for co-op purchase of large properties, as a three-part assault on landlording.

whenever anyone I know admits to using ChatGPT this appears above my head

Calvin and Hobbes strip that says it quite well;

chris fleming widow's bay jumpscare

happy sweaty dirty lesbian sex month (2/3)

the thing that sucks about the ai discourse is this idea that being bad at something is awful and sad and a problem to solve. i love being bad at stuff! i love being able to see my own improvement over time! i love having to figure out how to find the answer! that's the good stuff!

Few words written but many ideas have been thunk. A productive day overall.

Have been rewatching the tally ho project over coffee in the mornings, and there are some real corker episodes, but this one has taken my breath away again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuia...

What is the best classic pastry and why is it the humble almond croissant

Has the red delicious perhaps befallen a long, torturous decline, a once truly delicious fruit ruined by centuries of replication, or does it serve as a reminder of what industrialisation has done to the human palette, and what was once considered delicious?

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

For real, imagine hitting post on a tweet that will demonstrably change the English language. Nice one, @pixelatedboat.bsky.social

@lizduckchong.bsky.social has set up trans health services, supported LGBTQIA+ youth orgs, and written resources for trans folk worldwide. Today she shares ways to find meaning in dark times, so we can keep knitting the future we know is possible. www.scarleteen.com/read/ident...

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

birth certificates site updated, thinking of adding some more history to it in the next month. birthcertificates.lizduckchong.com

Melbourne airport paging jingle sounds like the Windows 95 startup sound and now I just wanna listen to some vapourwave….

it was a simpler time

It is essential to include the context that this is what has happened to the people able to leave and speak about it. We have to assume what is happening to Palestinian people is at least this horrific, if not worse.

“You can’t transition by committee!” - my girlfriend is so smart and cool proxyhq.org/posts/159836...

distinctly remember hearing a complaint that there's quote "too many (trans) girls" at trans nites like. do you hear yourself right now. do you know what level of incel someone has to be on for "too many women at the bar" to register as a negative, much less a Grievance

Yesterday was my last session with my GP of almost 20 years! In that time we’ve both learned a lot about gender affirming care, done a range of hormonal experiments and even taught together a few times! Bit of an end of an era ❤️

Puppies

I’m really torn - as a pacifist I’m not thrilled about buying these second hand nuclear submarines, but I’m also a big fan of the circular economy…

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

feeling uneasy about how we’re remembering the pandemic, our collective memory it’s referred to as a period of inconvenience to most people (may be biased here as we had the most time under lockdowns in the world) instead of a mass casualty event where we had excess global deaths of 15 million.

i gotta learn how to darn some of these socks

people want ORIGINAL stories that are cheaper and faster to make but basically only indie horror is allowed to do this anymore, same thing that's going on in games with "rpg maker as a genre" imo

hey did you know it’s WORLD MASK WEEK ??? you don’t have to be the most perfect mask wearer of all time to make choices that protect your health—ANY time mask means cleaner air for you n all around you, and that is worth it !!! why not give it a try at The Big 3: • shopping • healthcare • transit

Happy #MaskWeek! If, like many people, you stopped wearing a mask years ago, it’s not too late to start again 🩵 Doesn’t have to be all the time. Any time you mask you’re less likely to get sick or pass on whatever you might have picked up, & you might even avoid a life ruining infection.

I don't use AI in my personal or professional writing, and will never, so some dipshit saying that actually everyone uses it is untrue in the same way that saying that nobody washes their hands after using the bathroom is untrue -- a lie to excuse a repulsive personal failing.

It's a year old, but was thinking about this piece today, and the person quoted who called it "the pandemic of abandonment". thesicktimes.org/2025/01/30/t...

this always makes me laugh