There’s also the fact it’s explicitly illegal for them to do it for that reason.

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

The beautiful results that come from a patient and dedicated session of wildlife photography, the little critters edition. 📷🖼️🐹🐿️ #wildlife #photography #hamster #squirrel #nature

The thing about genetics is, these two mice are both females of the exact same age who have had the exact same diet and activities for their entire lives.

I've been thinking about this over the last couple of years and its connection to COVID. There is a lot more brain injury out there from repeated infections, and I'm wondering if everyone pretending COVID is not still happening has allowed a whole generation to suffer life-altering injuries.

You don't actually want an edit button: thread down.

Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love. Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.

¡Éstas son las preguntas importantes!

To quote Siderea, last March: "Going to war is a way of suppressing dissent at home. Going to war is a way of getting legal and normative license to suspend rights. Going to war internationally is a way for the present rulers to consolidate power domestically." siderea.dreamwidth.org/1874120.html

there’s a quote I love which I believe is originally from Paul Tillich, though I first heard it from a book by Ann Lamott: “The opposite of faith is not doubt; it is certainty.” I used to talk about that all the time with my Confirmation kids who weren’t sure how they felt about God

An excellent and thoughtful thread regarding game design.

Librarians, this is a great list to check out!

This is one of the things that's often missing from online discussions of anti-capitalist theory. The question that actually determines our socioeconomic status and fate is this: Do you live off what you're paid for your own labor, or off the profits you draw from the labor of others?

Oh this is gorgeous.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

Yup. From a late 18th/early 19th century dictionary. “TRUMPERY, n. falsehood; empty talk” or in New England: “useless matter; things worn out and cast [a]side.”

"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say: Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."

When my grandmother was 9 years old, she and her family lived in Texas and they were extremely poor. She lived with her mother and stepfather and three sisters. My great-grandmother made all their clothes, and they scrimped on everything so that they had enough to eat.

If you ever wanted to know if the sword nerdery in the dialogue of the Wesley/Inigo duel in the Princess Bride was made up or real… It’s real 🥰

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David needs folks to lend a hand. https://www.gofundme.com/f/david-gerrolds-health-and-leukemia-fundraiser?lang=en_GB&ts=1765731124&fbclid=IwdGRjcAOs_FtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR6KKiZ2rx4-CeehknGhy0m7jAsLfQXTijNNB--x4dSYOZovtFMCTh0YuSl10w_aem_bDanHCEMaHX8JsZvYYD7Jg

Rob Reiner would want you to make art about everything that is happening in whatever voice you have in whatever way you can

There's a joke about the origins of many Jewish holidays: "They tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat." But some of us *were* killed in those days, and some were killed today. This is a holiday about hope, persistence, and light shining when it shouldn't be possible. May all the killing end.

I put together a ranked top 10 for 2025 because everybody's always like "unranked, it's a big list" and I gotta go the other way. My song of the year is "Heartthrob" by Indigo de Souza. It was a great year for music! Music is the best!

For today only (Dec 14) All Systems Red (1st book in The Murderbot Diaries) is on sale across all US ebook retailers for $2.99 (published by Tordotcom, edited by @leeharris.net cover art by Jaime Jones) www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Did I show my tiny book here? Here it is, a tiny book! Made entirely from scratch and hand painted. Bound in cotton i treated to look/feel like leather because i didn’t have any pleather that would work. #art #fanart #devilmaycry #dmc #dmc5 #crafts #miniature #book #capcom

what is extra frustrating about the continued efforts to kill it is that none of them understand this everyone attacking it is convinced that killing section 230 will allow them to remove some part of the internet that they don't like, be it content moderation or sex predators, but it's much worse

Get a heated toilet seat they said. It's the best thing ever they said. #FridayVibes 😼 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

I've said before that I'm not in a position to make demands of whatever post-Trump blue coalition emerges and I'm not. But if I were, 'robustly fund the humanities' would be really high on the list. Make it a cultural priority, making knowing actual non-racist history a cultural status marker.

This is true but also Pillars II: Deadfire is fantastic and everyone should play it.

LOOK AT THIS TOOL DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I NEEDED THIS TOOL WHEN I WAS POLICY DIRECTOR AT A STATE ENERGY AGENCY LOOK AT IT YOU CAN HAVE DIFFERENT, NEW PROBLEMS THAN I DID! NO MORE OLD PROBLEMS! ONLY INFORMATION!

Like anything @tkingfisher.com writes I devoured this book. Definitely weird, but my kind of weird, and I’m also glad 47North took a flyer on it. Also books she sets in the desert are my FAVORITES, and I adored Selena. (Reposting because the first time I was so excited about it I forgot the pic)

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

It was a joy to select these stories! There is some excellent, excellent work in here!!

it's not just that I find it chilling to imagine Sam Altman wearing my dead mom's face in order to sell me ads it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection

Honestly mostly sharing because the article is hilarious (I have only vaguely kept current with Nuzzi-related goings-on).

Every time I read a new excerpt from the Nuzzi book, I think of this onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...

"There are no more free public spaces!" Your library is right there. "I can't afford to subscribe to every media outlet!" Your library is right there. "I have to subscribe to corporate streaming or else I can't watch movies or play video games!" Your library is right there.

The actual play scene outside of North America is so damn exciting, and I need to see more people talking about them. So let's talk about some of the AP's in 2025 that my US followers need to pick up immediately.

“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Blue Betta. Watercolour, approximately 115 × 110 mm. From 2019. #ArtAdventCalendar

Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?

I have finally started playing Fallen London (the browser game) and there's a lot to appreciate.

Not just the constitution but the codification of it by congress.

All right! tomorrow morning ManaWriter will be live and ready to buy at @itch.io! A virtual writerdeck for focusing on that novel that aims to be FUN. It's like writing in SNES or Genesis RPG! #writerdeck #pixelart #novel #genre #jrpg #snes #indie #solodev #wordprocessor

I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids