Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!

Whenever you make art you should make it the most self indulgent thing that has ever existed. make it so self indulgent ppl are like Hmm is this a fetish, they went so hard with it, wow, I don't even go here but maybe I do now

all fic is good. even the fic i don't like is still good because it's made & shared purely out of love and/or spite and there's nothing better than that (the only exception is ai fic which is bad in all cases)

Ok y’all, recs for small shops that make Lower Decks merch good for sticking stuffers? Please and thank you.

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news: They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Hope today feels kind to you. 😽🤍

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.

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I got back on FB recently for a specific hobby group and I will open the app and scroll a bit sometimes randomly but it's always just completely random crap from people or pages I don't follow, and a lot of it is apparently content stolen from Reddit. They killed infinite scroll.

every day mr gorgeous bears witness to events that he doesn’t understand and cannot explain

P-p-p-poper face, p-p-poper face

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

This is a line that includes teaching graduate students in the new Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

If you are having issues with art theft, please get in touch with Justice 4 Artists. I have been working with them for a year and we just finished taking down 100 shops that were stealing and selling my work. No up front cost and they are an awesome team to work with. I will do a full write up soon.

Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices. If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.

A gif that shows up when you type your name

Just finished reading Straight by @chucktingle.bsky.social Queer culture and the danger of straights who care nothing for our safety, and fairweather allies who abandon the fight when things get tough put a very relevant spin on the classic zombie apocalypse. Would highly recommend!

Remember that Intuit (the owner of Turbotax) lobbied extensively to kill Direct File, which did tax filing for free and somehow managed to make a good and intuitive user experience without AI.

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service

My favorite thing about autoplay is when I'm 15 minutes into a completely different show without realizing it's a completely different show

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

My deranged splatterpunk horror book MOONFLOW about a trans shroom dealer getting lost in a haunted forest and running afoul of evil lesbian hippies and their bound fungus god is available for preorder!! Buy it today or look really uncool! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...

(alt text for previous repost) "Re: 'There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!': No there aren't, my side is the 'People Who Don't Fuck Children' side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?" — John Scalzi

Accidentally started watching something called The Last Frontier and reminded myself that the reason I don't find Talamasca boring is bc I like silly spy shows

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

like honey on your tongue #iwtv

Freezing my tits off but still enjoying a delicious peach iced tea

Say what you want about Dems but they found a way to shift conversation from caving on the shutdown.

Tina Belcher living the dream

this is specified in event profile/FAQ but just btw in case you haven't considered because you're not a fic writer (or are worried you won't have time to finish a whole fic), this event is for any fanwork— art, textile or paper crafts, poetry, video edits, etc., so don't by shy!

Dear Seattle friends:

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Anyway so Jasper and Guy...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Moderate Democrats saw that voters were energized and might expect something from them, so they needed to put a stop to that ASAP

Oh for the love of Sharing, since I just googled these so I could leave angry voicemails telling these motherfuckers to hold the line Schumer's DC office number: 202-224-6542 Gillibrand's DC office number: (202) 224-4451

All hands on deck for calling the Democrats who are looking ready to capitulate. 📃 SCRIPT: "I’m calling to ask that [REP/SEN NAME] hold firm against any blank check budget deal that does not extend the ACA tax credits, reverse federal worker layoffs, and block illegal budget cuts. (1/2)

⚠️ Feds sent a late night memo demanding states “immediately undo” any actions to provide full SNAP benefits. (It’s unclear if there will be an effort to claw back benefits already distributed, but an expert says such efforts would not be legal.) Gift link: