5 jobs I've had, fun version: * Haunt Park (scare actor, attraction designer, attraction manager, hiring & training, set designer) * Tarot reader * Bookseller* * Event coordinator * Editor (content, sensitivity & authenticity) *Yes this goes in fun, one of the best jobs I've ever had. 1/2

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"Make it or it won't exist"

I've really been enjoying Proton Mail/Calendar and Vivaldi Browser, apropos of nothing in particular.

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Teen Titans no. 42 (Dec 1972) cover by Nick Cardy. A real beauty of a cover! Other than the brightly garbed characters in the foreground, this could almost have been mistaken for one of DC’s horror comics of the time, many of which sported Cardy covers. The penultimate issue of this series.

You're asking me to believe Cable, time traveler and founder of X-Force, knit this sweater?

Uh... you absolute blockheads... Gen Z has fallen out of love with transphobia.

Please don't use ChatGPT. Even if you think you're immune to its damages, you're convincing its creators that it's popular enough to keep pushing on everyone, and therefore indirectly harming others.

#FuckIce #Resist

Anyway sign this petition www.change.org/p/ice-out-of...

It’s state controlled media now. It’s all for monitoring and manipulating public sentiment. Ditch it. bsky.app/profile/karl...

#TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

This is our advantage, my friends. They literally do not understand things like care for one's neighbors, mutual support, team efforts that aren't for profit. When we do these things they will not understand how to stop us. While they look for the Bankroller we can just keep helping.

How would you tell someone about it over the phone? Remember that you're *describing* the thing for someone with impaired vision. If you're posting a picture of a painting, what's more helpful, writing the name and artist, or describing the colors and the subjects depicted?

Starting in February I'm going to start holding "What Can I Do?" virtual meetings at the same time every week (probably Saturday mornings). Their purpose will be to share ideas of how to get involved in our communities in nonviolent but effective ways to help make things better.

Aid sent goes directly to them. cash.me/$amadness2me... ☝️⭐ preferred method, no fees, and Cyn has their card that can be used directly! 👇 Fees but still good: www.paypal.biz/amadness2met... ko-fi.com/amadness2met... EVERY little bit helps keep them all warm and safe for longer. 💜 2/3

Here's more info on Alyx's book too! Sounds very up the alley of Good Omens fans 👀 The ebook is $5.99. 💜

Liking stories about kings isn't the same as wanting kings in real life, by the way. Lots of people like murder mysteries who don't like murder. Some things make better entertainment than reality.

And a third friend also struggling is Cyn, who has been made homeless and needs funds for staying at a motel, they also have a child to care for. Please give what you can but if you can't then please share so others can see the post & spread it to folks who can donate.

Alyx is a much loved part of the #GoodOmens fandom, a talented writer, disabled, and struggling with risk of homelessness, which is no joke in winter in Canada. Please donate if you can to help her meet rent so she doesn't end up on the streets, many thanks.

Good Omens Fam, unite! Please, give what you can, share, Any little bit helps!

Jenn is an absolute sweetheart and also part of the #GoodOmens fandom, and meeting the vet bills for her kitties has meant that she's also struggling with rent and risks homelessness as well, so again, if you can spare anything, please do. I have 3 good omens friends in the same situation atm 😢

when US congress was concerned tiktok was a big risk because it enabled china to shape public narratives, censor/amplify views, target isolated key groups to nudge election outcomes, find journalists/dissidents, their issue wasn't that happening, but a belief the US government should do that instead

you have to remember that these ai freaks are mostly the same as the NFT/crypto bro failsons and have gambled not only their own money away but their grandparents savings away too. thats why they're so aggressive about proving the "use case" bc the alternative is admitting they made a BIG mistake

ai slop at this point literally actively pisses off everyone who has a backbone. fake protest crowd images to erase the value of human beings standing for just causes. threatening the work of our beloved voice actors! stripping the very soul out of audiobooks, the heart and humour of Ao3 comments

UPDATE! Cyn has a new place to go! Timing's bad with this big storm, but they're at the motel thru Monday morning. Their family needs to replace furniture/living necessities once utilities are on. So I'm again calling for aid and boosting. 💜 THANK YOU for keeping a Good Omens fan safe this winter.

Yes, another great! Over 560K hits 🤩 Best outsider POV in Good Omens fic Crowley seeks help from a human therapist for his trauma from the bookshop fire and The Fall How honest will he be? Demonology and the Tri-phasic Model of Trauma By Nnm 100K Words-T #GoodOmensFic #GoodOmensFanfic

Its crazy how hard the right has to work and how much money they have to invest to try to win the culture war and then a Canadian TV show abt two gay hockey players made for $28 takes over the world in the course of a month.

Oh my god.

UPDATE! Cyn has a new place to go! Timing's bad with this big storm, but they're at the motel thru Monday morning. Their family needs to replace furniture/living necessities once utilities are on. So I'm again calling for aid and boosting. 💜 THANK YOU for keeping a Good Omens fan safe this winter.

Re: TikTok tos, Mashable shows what changed & it seems anything you share willingly (filing out a profile) or unwillingly (uploading a video that can/will be scanned for data on you) is owned by the platform, and its not hiding they will hand info to the authorities mashable.com/article/tikt...

CNN confirms Trump is upgrading the bunker that FDR had built underneath the East Wing. It was never about a ballroom!

If you're in the path of this weekend's storm, make sure to charge all your important devices to be prepared. Power banks, hand warmers, flashlights, vibrators.

Even quality handcrafted animated *cartoons* strike my gut, eyes, and brain as more real than AI videos, because humans are constantly doing self-feedback as they create: "Does this look ineffably WRONG in some way? How can I adjust it to hit my gut as having breath and heft and life to it?"

Also, libraries pay for books! Don't apologize if your friend bought a book and lent it to you, either. If you want to own a book, pay for it. But if you're not sure you want to own the book yet or you can't afford the book, borrow it from an owner willing to lend! (Like a library.)

24 hours after artists called foul the AI-friendly policy, Comic-Con updated the language on its site. “Material created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show,” it now says. AI is now banned at the art show.

I like this even better than my own idea! #GoodOmens #GoodOmensS3

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This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence. This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.

i feel like this might help some of you understand: i live in a small section of the blue area on the 2020 voting map here if you lived in the eastern netherlands, could you control what people in london do?

this goes all the way back to 'the conditions in which the united states was founded was that an ENTIRE GROUP of colonies, all considering themselves sovereign, decided to team up.' so imagine a 1700s version of the EU, without any of the lessons learned. it's structurally broken at its core

so when you're going "why don't they just--" because to you, it would be relatively trivial in comparison, you DO need to understand that the solutions available to you are not available to other people. Trust me, I'd love it if it was. you don't have to make it harder than it already is.

this is not a defense, but when you are thinking "well, in my country, it's pretty easy to do this, because the national government can just--" okay, you have to understand this was explicitly designed from the ground up to prevent that from happening it's not an easy problem to solve

impatience is reasonable, frustration is reasonable; a wholesale rejection of the idea that americans are working to protect each other and resist fascism is not reasonable, helpful, or (frankly) self-aware.

there are levels on which i get it – americans can be politically myopic and self-involved, underinformed of their own circumstances, all that stuff, i know it, i see it daily – but i refer you back to the top of this thread for the conditions that entrench these tendencies!

here's another one: it shows a breathtaking lack of vision and empathy. trust me, it is MORE than possible to hate an institution and also feel – like, literally if nothing else a sort of kind ambivalence for the people subject to it

there are so many levels on which i'm worn out by "we hate all of you and you are obliged to be okay with it" but here's one: until i moved to the US from the UK I literally didn't – couldn't – grasp the scale of the US, the granularity of its politics, or the entrenchment of the status quo here.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place