Summary: the LJ services outside Russia may be sold or shut down (since it's not likely they can find a buyer). This thread has options on how to import or backup your LJ. @saraphinamarie.bsky.social @foxrook.bsky.social

Just deactivated my old Twitter account, the CSAM was too much to be connected to that hellsite (derogatory) any longer, even if I never intend to log back into it ever. So, good riddance.

3 brand new labradorite pendants up this week! I need to get some orders in ASAP to cover rent next week, so fingers crossed these can find homes today. Fly free, shiny things! oishiny.etsy.com #Handmade #ShopIndie

4 new labradorite pendants just listed! oishiny.etsy.com #Handmade #ShopSmall

Hoping I can get a couple of these sold overnight, clock is ticking.

Wow AirBnB after one of your employees abused his position in your company to defraud my mother, that you are now reneging on the remedies you promised her, IN WRITING, is certainly A CHOICE.

The cat integration of Leo and Kevin into my house with Luna can be summarized in this image by @cheriepriest.com 😂🤔

Ok, so let's talk a little bit about how the Romans understand magic and why they think putting phallus-shaped objects (fascina, sing. fascinum) are witch-craft related and how that connects to our word 'fascinate.' 1/

god damn lmao

Interesting. I was told that both boats that had been struck down were verified to be carrying narcotics and had connections to criminal groups, but we couldn’t see any of the totally real evidence. Surely fishing would be perfectly safe under such conditions?

Florida Reps aren't hiring me as a consultant, but if they did I would tell them: a) Very soon, there will be schools filled with unvaccinated kids. b) A lot of those kids are going to get sick like it's 1935. Many will die. c) You will be blamed for it. d) Democrats will campaign on your failure.

With alt text. This is absolutely judicial speak for “get your shit together, SCOTUS”.

This is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read. We can use our words and actions to tear each other down, or build each other up and create community. I try to choose the latter. #SpreadLove

Y'all, if you want to get your hands on some great pieces, check out @oishinythings.bsky.social (especially before that de minimus exemption ends!!) www.etsy.com/shop/oishiny/

This is a good thread about modern capitalism and markets, but for me this is the key, right here. when corporations moved from mechanisms to mitigate risk to buffers to avoid responsibility. 1/x

Thread; reminds me of this year's Budapest Pride being called "thousands" even in nominally left-wing English-language media, with multiple hundred thousand people present - as far as I could determine, possibly the biggest protest in Hungarian history ever. But, trans flags so it doesn't count?

A search for “trans” on the BBC News app this morning

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out. In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing. Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

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There’s a famous chart from the Conservation Research Institute, which demonstrates this. GAZE UPON THESE ROOTS, YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.

Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go! Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.” Ahem. *takes a sip of water*

These folks do underpaid, backbreaking labor to put food on our tables. Our agricultural economy is built on an immigrant workforce. Punishing them for participating in the unfair system we created is obscene

WIRED & Teen Vogue have been some of the few sites doing some great investigative work on this administration so this is pretty bad if true.

Age verification? Take your pick: Choosing a long-distance carrier Five postage stamps for $1 Hypercolor t-shirts MyChart reminders to schedule a colonoscopy (Reposted to fix typo)

64 percent.

lmao, genAI is shitty now and they haven't even begun enshittifying it with ads and product placement yet. This is its golden era. That's so funny.

Needed this reminder today.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget. Republicans did it. Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Volume ON.

She has not read the Declaration of Independence.

MY FATHER IS HAUNTING ME. (It's a mostly funny story about the neighbor he HATED in life helping me out w/some yard maintenance & being chummy with Littlest. When I came back inside the house smelled like my dad's favorite cologne and a few other little things occurred. So yeah, that happened. 😳👻)

This is a meaningless distinction. “Arrest” is from the French “arrêter,” to stop. If they can detain you for however long it takes a cop to show up, that is already functionally an arrest.

I was in La for 48 hours and I didn’t see anything or hear anything. I was staying in West Hollywood. It’s not the apocalypse, it’s just some protests downtown

What the actual everloving Is there anyone - a single goddamned person - in the Trump cabinet who isn't a complete and utter clown? www.rawstory.com/tulsi-gabbar...

I didn't buy these but now I feel like I should have.

Andy Ogles used this photo by @nashvillescene.com photographer @formvscontent.bsky.social without permission, credit or pay. Can't do that, man!

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again theonion.com/a-shatt...

This WKRN article fails to mention: -That Ogles himself was the subject of an FBI investigation -That Ogles hijacked Memorial Day and held this presser inside a closed Capitol -The HUGE PROTEST outside Failing to meet the moment. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

He Is Working to Erase Us’: A Trans Activist on the Real Reason Trump’s Budget Bans Trans Care Commentary: rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

mood

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

If you like working on your own car, DO IT. If you like gardening, do that. Do them both. Do neither. But don’t do them because some asshole trying to keep you angry says you have to. I mean it from the bottom of my heart when I say this: You deserve better than to be angry and insecure.

1 more order to reach 1,500! (Still a good way to go after that to pay rent etc, but it's nice to get to celebrate milestones.)

At the point where I am starting to believe that having some sort of ethics scandal to debate for the 3 months on either side of the event is a core part of the worldcon organisational process, there is no way a new thing appears like clockwork every single year like this by accident

Indie Bookstore Day is one of the most important days for your community’s bookstores. Punkass Amazon decided Apr 23 - 28 was when they needed to have their “Book Sale”. It is designed to snuff out Indie Bookstore Day on April 26.

Oh hell no. Support #IndieBookStoreDay April 26

From some recent Larchives: One holiday closer to Hallowe'en :) Happy Discount Chocolate Eve everyone.