- Power outage from storms - Sump pump stopped - Basement flooded 16-19in - Ruined a LOT of items & furniture - Fried the circuit board on the furnace, $1400 repair - car is about to die Does anybody for the love of God have any writing jobs/work for a poor soul? Please?

You should also check out Sam's version of the Roun which informed how I approached their aesthetics and also just absolutely rules: bsky.app/profile/samb...

The Roun. The first civilization to span the Thousand Moons and now haunting their own ruins. Faction art for Realis. (www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...)

"oh so you're a socialist but you think rich people should get free healthcare!?!" yes. everyone should get free healthcare. EVERYONE. like, this isn't hard. also celebrities are starting gofundmes and athletes coming out of retirement to get health care! this system sucks for everyone!

Support trans people beyond just Trans Day of Visibility, or you will be memorializing trans people on Trans Day of Remembrance.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Their fear is that when the government makes programs truly universal, then those programs become universally popular and almost impossible to eliminate. Giving the rich free daycare is the best way to ensure that you will be able to keep providing it to the poor.

Programs are either universal or they aren’t

This is so good 📚

I WANT TO DO THAT TOO

OH MY GOD

capyberus

Sterling K. Brown explains the streaming economics of why we don’t get more eps

Yes it is, my contracts specify humans have to do cover art, editing, translation, etc. I will note that to date I have had no real resistance to these contract points by my publishers. So, really, if these points are not in your contract, ask for them (or have your agent ask for them).

DLARC: The Radio Geek’s Doomscrolling Antidote 📻🌀 The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications brings together 225,000+ items, from magazines and QSL cards to audio & video, all free via the #InternetArchive. 📚💿 Tune in ⤵️ www.radioworld.com/news-and-bus... #AmateurRadio #RadioHistory

Instead of a hot take, have an earnest defense of rules light games against common criticisms. I make those games. I started TTRPGs with those games. I earnestly love them. So let's talk about what makes them great and address the critiques! thoughtpunks.com/reb... #TTRPG #Blog

bread? fuck you [deletes fertilizer inputs] circuses? fuck you [deletes popular media and video game organizations]

Today the Quebec government passed Bill 9 -- just another in a long line of bigoted pieces of legislation that legalizes descrimination against people who wear religious symbols. I wrote about the impact of these pieces of legislation and the rise of the far right here: thewalrus.ca/in-quebec-ci...

We've made it to the origin of the little green freak who torments us The Empire Strikes Back! We also consider if, in a way, ESB is where "Star Wars" as we know it today really begins! amorecivilizedage.net/130-the-empi...

Oregon has a Vancouver just past its northern border, which is in Washington, which also has a Vancouver just past its northern border

cosmic horror: does the ISS use Teams

Boy child will be off to college soon, so pulling out the list we made together of things he should learn before he leaves the nest... There's 62 entries. 1. How to introduce yourself. 2. How to make an introduction between two other people. 3. How to apologize.

Reading an essay that says Halo was commonly played by men in "the United States, Europe, and Australia" which is just such a weird thing to say. Why two countries and a region? Like, obviously, nobody in Canada played this game, but still.

𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘰-𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦-𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥’𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 26% 𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦.

"Researchers at the company" is sleight of hand. Anthropic is trying to invoke the legitimization that comes from scholarship without subjecting themselves to the rigors of blind, independent review. Because they know peer reviewers would find all the holes in their claims.

This is suuuuuch a good example of how Realis works. Both the way that it allows for a sort of narrative maneuvering /and/ the way it pushes everyone to really get creative with what they have on their sheets. www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...

HarperCollins doesn't even have enough editors to edit the quantity of books they keep buying. They don't have a marketing infrastructure that markets a book for more than 3 months at a time. But sure, let's create a solution for a problem that doesn't exist.

Red States: We are canceling all programs that don't support our theology. Blue States: We're canceling all the same programs, but because they don't support our business school.

I mentioned my work on Edinburgh Diamond during this presentation but I am on strike as a @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social member, Edinburgh didn't pay for me to be at #UKSG2026, and I replaced my slides with this. Please donate to our fighting fund if you're able. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/hff-fundrais...

may this be the beginning of something

If you really want a hot take from me this morning it’s this: stop being so willing to accept this as the end of the world. The people out here apocalypsemaxxing or whatever they’re calling it are actively benefiting from your willingness to let them paint what is happening as inevitable.

"One agent is married to a TV news anchor who reports on the Border Patrol. Another, who also engaged in a gun battle with a school shooter in Uvalde, Texas, has posted in an online gun forum with thread titles like 'Whipping Haitians.'" amazing work by @awinston.bsky.social + Maddy Varner

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

WHAT ARE THE CANADIAN PRODUCTS

it’s the instance from this side and the instance from the other side of the spacetime rift

So I've made a sexy new sign-up page for the @aat-transcribes.bsky.social newsletter and FREE guide on what transcribers would tell researchers about how to improve their research recordings to get better transcripts. What do you think? funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/improve-your...

I work entirely as an independent contractor / freelancer which makes taking breaks very difficult financially. Any time I'm not working I'm not earning, and I quite urgently need some time off. Please spare if and what you can: www.paypal.me/alexsteacy ko-fi.com/alexsteacy

TAPPING THE SIGN: trans issues are important not only because trans people are cool, but also as a vital litmus test of someone's politics: do they stand with the oppressed against conservatism and patriarchy, embracing the beauty and diversity of our human community or are they a fucking fascist

Digital Scholar, a nonprofit organization that sustains open-source tools and platforms for digital scholarship, publishing, and cultural heritage (including Omeka, Zotero, Tropy, PressForward, and Sourcery) to become organizational home for RightsStatements.org

People keep asking me if I use AI to make writing easier. And I keep telling them: I do not want it to be easier. Whenever I have done any good work, it's because I either thought about it a LOT or I have inadvertently spent ten years thinking about it so it comes easy. The thinking is the point.

the idea that everywhere was reporting he died because of a fake twitter account that was a scam soliciting crypto donations really says something about the state of online journalism that i'm not qualified enough to make

It is hard to imagine a more grotesquely corrupt act than profiting from one’s foreknowledge of a war. trib.al/IZqiVqc

"A young tech entrepreneur who recently moved to Florida got upset when he ran into obstacles while trying to build a house on the habitat for the endangered Florida scrub-jay. So he filed a lawsuit attempting to strip the bird of its federal protection."

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

The statement "we shouldn't be using software from companies that are complicit in genocide" should not be controversial! And yet in my own workplace, and I'm sure many others, feels taboo and almost pointless to say. I really appreciate @simonxix.com's moral clarity on this.

Do you work with #metadata? Are you involved in ensuring resource #discovery in #galleries #libraries #archives #museums #GLAM #culturalheritage #repositories #records or #knowledgemanagement? We are the CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group - we post about #metadata things; why not give us a follow? 🦋🩵

Looking forward to this plenary discussion on cybersecurity for libraries given my own writing around this subject: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #UKSG2026

Libraries, like post offices, like schools, like the fire department, are not businesses and should not be run like one. Also businesses should not be run as they are.