since a recent update, I can no longer find how to activate the 5 minute long exposure on my phone :( have some 5 second ones instead.

"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

twitch is now giving me video-shrinking banner ads asking me to subscribe... to channels I'm already subscribed to. um.

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

For me this is the one big problem with a lot of revolutionary or rebellion focused media. It relies on the the human tendency to fixate on figureheads, heroics and "great man theory" history. Sheryl is right, that isn't happening. There's no one climactic moment. There's no Luke blows up the DS.

One thing I would love to see is dental professionals quit shaming patients for (what they see as) poor dental hygiene. If you’re poor, you don’t go until there’s a problem, and by then what was a minor problem is major. EDS and other chronic diseases cause problems on their own.

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

I’ve learned most online arguments aren’t worth having. If someone’s hostile and locked in or a complete stranger, usually nothing good comes of it. I save my energy for conversations where something might actually grow.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

Is that an ART??! 🥨🥨🥨

Once you've disappeared by means of chronic illness, disability, lack of access, and general ostracization due to your situation, nobody will hear you because who listens out for those missing from the table? Inclusion is a decision, and so is exclusion. #Writing #Comics #Art #Disability #EDI

There is currently an industrial dehumidifier making sure my kitchen wall doesn't turn into mold surprise, which means it's far too loud to stream you would not believe how stir crazy this is making me.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Intense, dancing aurora last night from my driveway in North Pole, Alaska. The best display I have seen this season by far. Check out this real-time motion!

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Even individually, this is so important. I don’t want to debate if “posting is praxis”—but speaking out, even posting, matters more than we think. It reminds each other we’re not alone and helps keep us from the black hole of self-censorship that’s so much harder to escape.

I have come to the unfortunate but probably overdue realization that I really wish I had an actually decent camera and not just my phone.

I planted a variety pack of morning glories early this year but you would never know cuz the colors have each bloomed in succession. five colors seen so far but no two at once.

Sometimes I remember that I went to get my first Covid shot in a giant stadium with thousands of other ppl, and I cried and the nurse side-hugged me even though she wasn’t supposed to and when I sat down in the observation area ppl were high fiving. Like from a genuine miracle to…this…in 5 years.

Historically, life was meant to be easier for the future generations. Kids born before me have less oppurtunities, will earn less to purchase worse products, robbed of experiences, safe public spaces. Born into viler, stratified world, victims of austerity, and inhumane profit chasing.

Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable

The actual issue is that a lot of folks don’t want to recognize you can protest with out getting “credit” If your name is not on a list you still count if you show up in the streets

Great, I see Discord is doing the thing where it shows some entire Discords as blank again that's great for my anxiety first thing in the morning

When you want to ask someone to do you a quick favor so you have one less thing to worry about, but it would take longer to explain to them how to do the quick favor than it would take you to just do the thing yourself...

So @zloyxp.bsky.social is learning to DM, meaning I've been his test dummy a few nights lately. well, the zombie discovered @gshowitt.bsky.social and now I get to present to you this runthrough of The Witch Is Dead we did on stream last week! youtu.be/V6CdncLsrLk

With all due respect, lot of y'all acting like this is ancient history. When my parents divorced in the 1970s, *my own mother* had no financial/credit history in her own name so we moved in with my grandparents for a while until she got one via her job. This shit happened *within my lifetime*.

No youtube I do not want your stilted, incorrect summaries of my or anyone else's videos. If people want to use the lie machine to make their summaries they can do that on their own time.

This is really it for me. I despise debate-me culture, bc it actually does nothing to cultivate genuine conversation, listening, or understanding! It’s all just a dominance game, which explains why white cis guys love it so much.

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling. I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

the clouds are rad today

This clerk is a good and kind neighbor, and the people running these machines - and these scams - are true villains

Really starting to realize part of the problem may be, I never learned how to feel "yaaay I finished it, good job!" I only ever learned how to feel "ugh that took me way too long and it sucks anyway"

"For every 1,000 measles cases, there are between 1 and 3 deaths from breathing complications or brain swelling. If there are a million cases, that’s about 1,000 deaths that doctors consider preventable with the use of vaccines" Also: about 200,000 hospitalized (1 in 5 cases in unvaccinated people)

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

I’m already seeing people who position themselves as progressive or liberal “joking” that Trump should occupy these cities instead. Y’all are so disappointing.

Author friends, if AI developers have stolen your work as they have mine, this thread details what you can do about it - regardless of where you live. ✒️📖

Every teacher reading this thread

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

"Your streams deserve so many more viewers!" SHARE ME! PLEASE! Gah, trust me when I say this: if a streamer is putting in hard work for their streams, they are doing all they can to promote themselves but it is EXHAUSTING! Please, repost, tell friends, etc!

So @zloyxp.bsky.social is learning to DM, meaning I've been his test dummy a few nights lately. well, the zombie discovered @gshowitt.bsky.social and now I get to present to you this runthrough of The Witch Is Dead we did on stream last week! youtu.be/V6CdncLsrLk

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

"If the housing market was really going to collapse in 2 years, do you think the seven largest banks would be all in on lending and packaging the loans into CDOs?" Axios writer, 2006

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.

"oh, so you're saying--" no. i'm saying the thing i said, not the thing you made up. go back and read the thing i said