Supporting the sterling initiative is a spread the wealth sort of thing. So, if you're not following @peculiarityshop.bsky.social but you like shiny stuff, maybe consider it. Tangible proof of how supporting small business and LGBTQIA+ artistry is cool AF.

I can't make it to ECCC this year, but that doesn't mean I didn't put something together for all y'all! My first digital download print sized at 24"x31" for when you need to make your opinions known. valentinebarker.com/product/musi...

Working on a passel of kitties today 👀 #3Dprinting

We make a lot of mistakes as a species, but some of them we can fix.

I am deeply flattered to be in this Venn diagram.

H asked to watch the videos from our Ireland trip and as I was explaining this picture she said oh yeah I know that legend because it was in a @cemurphy.bsky.social book!

No single step forward defeated fascists of the past. It was an accumulation of steps, big and small, that ultimately led to the downfall. Years of steps, in fact. Negating those steps because you're sad mad whatever is counterproductive to the end goal. Marathon, not a sprint.

I want to be very clear what the sterling sales are going towards. Nibs and Meg have both asked to take classes, and when I do another set of streams here, the funds will be going directly towards them going to jewelry school.

The world sucks, but helping mutual aid groups (e.g. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles or www.standwithminnesota.com) and retail therapy at cool shops like @peculiarityshop.bsky.social help. These earrings from Lauren and this necklace from @shivaniswriting.bsky.social go together so well!!

"Boss I can't believe you roped me into your marketing schemes" Have you preordered Sidequested yet?? Alas that Beamer and I no longer live close enough to participate but @kbspangler.com is committed to bringing goats to her immaculately landscaped yard if it sells enough! sidequested.com/book/

I need an employment lawyer

Jungle Love, Size 11. Green onyx in sterling. $54 Check out my product! www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Nibs, doing some amazing wire-work that uhh. Yeah. $100 www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

A woman helps build the death machine and “repents/ whistleblows/ is conflicted” and its absolution and patriarchy ( see yall trying to save ole girl from AI) but the midwestern librarians who been holding it down since day 1 aren’t real resistance ? but im supposed to believe you are expert

if y'all don't think we haven't already planted the seeds of @romancingthevote.com domination in the hearts of our new 3D printing army... you don't know us very well. LOL great time to let us know if there's any stuff you *really* want the 3D printers to produce as Buy it Now items, I guess??????

I have done far too much administrative bullshit before ten in the morning. I'm going to be listing jewelry after noon, both sterling and handmade. If you want to support a bunch of artsy queers, maybe follow @peculiarityshop.bsky.social

It's day 80 of the ICE occupation of MSP. Many of our neighbors have been in hiding for 11 weeks. We have 9 days to raise March 1 rent for those families. Please dig in and give as you can - many rent relief fund are in desperate need of $$ StandWithMinnesota.com

If you are printing our sexy custom italian whistle from our friend ACStudio, I have made a set of counting trays to make it easy to count how many you have! makerworld.com/en/models/24...

and one of the first rules in the Whistle Coven is no genAI. At all. Not for whistles, not for art, not in your profile pic.

They did it, they found another way to cut veterans benefits. Don’t EVER come at me with how the GOP is the party that supports service members. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

When you call a Democratic Senator to ask them to fillibuster this, advise them to volunteer for a talking fillibuster, and read the Epstein Files into the public record.

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If you are here from the Whistles Out thread, here is the story of how this whole thing snowballed out of control in the best way. 💓

I always wondered what made my grandfather and the men of his generation and many women sign up en masse to kill Nazis and potentially be killed and let me tell you I now 100% understand

For the entire history of first amendment law, porn has been the canary in the coal mine and sex workers are always, ALWAYS correct about what's coming years before anyone else can see it.

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

Am I going to try to get her kicked off the platform for hate speech? You bet. Because that's what we SHOULD ALL BE DOING IN THE FACE OF BIGOTRY.

Yes. Staph infections were fatal so often that we distinguished them by what part of the body they attacked first. "Childbed fever" is a term for a variety of post-birth complications that killed a lot of women. There are reasons wet nurses used to be so common. (And they're not all class-based.)

This makes me sick to my stomach.

And if we wonder why some of us who grew up in the 70s watching Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Electric Company think like hippies - this is why. And for those Gen X MAGA people - us Gen X hippies don't know what happened to you. We talk about this a lot, actually. It's a puzzle to us.

I've grown increasingly wary of anytime the emphasis is placed on "you should be the bigger person" rather than "they should not have done that to you"

don't make the ADHD and/or Autistic nerds mad enough to get all of their hyperfocus & special interests into the same group chat

Absolutely beautiful Steve Sack

I'm in the twin cities and want today's news to bring relief, but it hasn't yet. A friend in Washington organized this to help me but lately, it's been hard to get out of my own way and admit I'm still in need. I'm facing big bills related to what's been going on here and I could use the help.

Speaking of whistles... it's just a countdown now to see how many hours it takes us to cross 750,000 whistles. Shortly after that we'll cross 500,000 for February. When @courtneymilan.com told me we were going to ship half a million in February I was like "lol ok" but I should not have doubted her.

Age verification? My HTML skills are likely older than the people who created this app.

Age verification? My diabetes is older than the people who created this app.

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Soft-launching this today, because Michaels has some exceptionally good weekend coupons - Help me rebuild the arts & crafts room at Park Slope Women's Shelter! www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

Hi. It's me. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-king-o...

I said "Doc -- first of all, thank you. Second of all, you're the first doctor in a decade who took 'it doesn't show on imaging' as a starting point instead of telling me to eat salad and exercise about it, so as far as I'm concerned, you don't owe me anything."

This brings me joy. Some days I come back to look at it to feel that little bit of joy.

Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word. It's just evil.

5/ FOR AUTHORS - Skyla is closed to new clients and custom covers, **however** her premade covers are open. These are where you buy as is and she changes the title and name for you. You don't need the title immediately upon purchase. I have ones from 2022 😭 payhip.com/IndigoChickD...

Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

So anyway, if any of y'all had wanted to buy a copy of the original printing of VELVETEEN VS. THE SEASONS for $20 plus shipping, now would be a swell time to email via my website. There are so many...

A lot of folks don't have money to spare, but many of you have skills & time! There are so many ways to do the work, and I KNOW some of you can help with this stuff!

Violets are blue Roses are red Someday it will happen And he will be