my therapist (h/t to her!) once said "you're like an atheist ned flanders" and for a moment i was all oh hell no. but then. who's the most consistently generous, patient, good natured simpsons character? it's ned. minus the god stuff, i'll take it.

It is not a "longstanding principle." It is an explicitly stated Constitutional right. You're supposed to be a respectable news outlet so maybe quit fucking lying in service of fascism. bsky.app/profile/npr....

insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites. Well UH

A happy Krampusnacht to all who celebrate!

kinda miss having a fishtank

Interesting that the Seattle Police Department's recruitment campaign is using school resource officers (cops in schools) as an example of the work police can do. The school board has been verrrrrry clear that they are not approving cops in schools. www.instagram.com/reel/DRzqfIV...

The sandwich newsletter is back!!! Prepare to learn more than you ever thought you would about pastrami! Origin myths! Disputes! An outstanding historical mystery! Yiddish ballads! Unlikely lyricism! The Armenian Church takes a stand! buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I wrote this earlier this year and I still hope it can be of use! www.eater.com/24364171/ice...

D&D nerds! Stop using Mistral and Parchment and get some great, professional-grade fonts for your handouts. Dwarven Axe, Honey Mead, Longbow, and Quahog here are well worth your money. (There's some terrific options for sci-fi & supers in here as well.)

I said what I said. I have no problem with gender affirming care surgery. I'm vocally pro gender affirming care surgery.♥️👍🏿 I have a problem with transphobic people pretending that cis men and boys are not *by far* the biggest category of gender affirming care surgery.

56 years ago today, the CPD / FBI assassinated Fred Hampton. Hampton brought together the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (white Chicagoans with southern roots, based in Uptown, who flew the Confederate flag), and Young Lords (Puerto Ricans). The FBI saw (and sees) multi-racial unity as a threat.

picked up some fafhrd & the grey mouser compilations on a whim and dang. i'd forgotten how good old man fritz was at slinging swords & sorcery. makes me want to collect up a bunch of those books, store them in order on a shelf, which i guess would make me a leiber-arian

"Just accept the people you are related to who hate who you are or what you deeply believe in, surely you will be happier." (Paraphrasing!) This straight cis white rich woman has advice for you, do not take it.

It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.

🔪 LAUNCHED on ITCH 🔪 Gentleman Scoundrel, a Blades in the Dark solo+ poetry RPG! Become a Doskvol rogue who wields a pen as well as they handle a blade. allisonarth.itch.io/gentleman-sc...

as a mostly fully self actualized male human parent, let me just state for the record this dude is a sack of wet farts. sir- chief- bro- your "masculinity crisis" is fuckin self-created

This is an example of where BlueSky's motto of "block and ignore" also applies IRL. You do not have to give these clowns money. You can simply not engage with the thing.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

What’s your favorite film or TV sci fi spacecraft, purely from a visuals & aesthetic perspective, that’s not from Star Wars or Trek? Mine might be the Cygnus from The Black Hole.

Today on the patreon - the last christian priestess and a clone cultist have a chat (on their way to prison). www.patreon.com/posts/nights...

"remember, kids: don't skip leg day."

virgin fa-78 ver.ka vs chad rx-78-2 ver.ka

The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.

In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:

What a time to be at the intersection of all these matters, and yet here we are, thriving! Community is everything, and I'm forever grateful for the opportunities and the people to build more and more of it with. 🙏 Read more: wired.com/story/the-hard-left-shooters-leading-a-gun-culture-revolution

watching dune '84 (a beloved film at the house of antiheirarchy) and when jurgen prochnow (leto atreides) says to max von sydow (liet-kynes) "this is my son, paul" my dear partner dropped the flattest new jersey-voiced "i don't fuckin care" and reader we howled for ten minutes, laughed until i hurt

March 14th in Olympia, WA. I’m helping put on a Tabletop Games Summit with the @tga.bsky.social. tabletopgamesalliance.org This will be a 1 day industry focused conference for a few hundred folks with a small expo hall, and 4 breakout rooms for seminars, panels, and talks mark you calendar!

turkey does not suck. turkey's fine, whatever, it's a tool. hot take: what sucks is thanksgiving, especially as practiced by many many middle class americans. it is a steaming poisonous stew of performance anxiety, unwelcome guests, poor communication, unreasonable/unclear expectations.

@marilynstrickland.bsky.social i hope you feel shame over that yes vote

"i just do whatever. i don't think. if it's good? god guided me. if it's not, it's antifa's fault. or it's woke's fault, whatever."

Trump is filling his government with Nazis, consolidating authoritarian power, and eroding democracy at every chance. And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists. Pathetic.

called up strickand's office and gave them an earful. fuckin' disgraceful.

we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him

They are babies trying to build Babyworld and the way to stop them is to force them to exist outside of their id alone. These are people who have had so few barriers in life that they are not functional on the scale of adolescents, never mind adults

You don’t want to fear false rape allegations? Cool. Start making a world in which rape allegations are unlikely to be true. But you won’t, because most men, deep down, see themselves as having more in common with men who maybe just… didn’t listen to a no than with the woman who said it.

"reskeet a time u looked cool" first off, i'll deliberately give myself a full mouth pizza burn from oly's favorite mediocre pizza (lookin at you, old school) before i use the word "reskeet" in anything but savage irony or bitter despair. secondly, i went to work in crinos form once. kinda cool

somebody broke in and beat pelosi's husband unconscious with a hammer, feels like kind of thing that would make even the most sluggish amphibian slowly clamber for self-preservation

I built an Affinity 2 item card template — for use with something like Mausritter — on US Letter paper size, if anyone's interested in that? Item cards are 1.25" squares for 1×1 and have sectioning for the title, card type (ex: item, spell) and uses, and a space for descriptions/images.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

No more norms. Fight. The system has reached its logical conclusion and a choice has to be made. Socialism or barbarism. Period.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Come work with me! My game studio is hiring a Senior Environment Artist for our multiplayer PC strategy game in Unreal. Full time and fully remote in the US, Canada, or LATAM. Please share, ping friends, tell all! Link in the reply!

I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked! This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid! refuseuline.com

god DAMN

the content that brings me back to blooski every day (complimentary)

And, also, if you run a business that regularly purchases shipping supplies: ULINE is run by some of the worst people on Earth. Get your boxes and tape elsewhere.

I’m opening a gift shop for the holiday season in downtown olympia. We open Black Friday and run through Christmas, open every Thursday through Sunday, noon to 6pm. We will have studio golden ceramics, along with goods from 10 other local brands. Come by and take a look!

Books with Pictures (@bkswpicspdx.bsky.social) in Portland, Oregon is a GREAT comic shop, and its owner in @omgkatiep.bsky.social is one of the best. The shop is going through a hard time right now, and if you want to help BwP out, they opened a GoFundMe to help do just that.

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.