Hey all, we still have a limited number of these charming stickers left over from our last Romancing the Vote. In honor of SCOTUS fuckery on today, the Trans Day of Visibility, we'd like to offer you the chance to get one. (Thread continues.)

This is what I do - I don't give the transphobe ass one red cent, but I read and love a bunch of writers who use her stories as a springboard for their own writing.

The bad news: We don’t know if we’ve made goat goal yet due to [incomprehensible publishing noises]. The good news: We’ve learned we’re in spitting distance of goats! So if you’d like to watch me lose my mind, please get your copy of SIDEQUESTED!

Context: Sometimes I watch documentary-type YouTube to zone out, or podcasts sometimes including like, genuinely horrific topics. Or horror trope topics. But mostly science! Spotted: "Why chemists are afraid of fluorine" video. Me, running away, "BECAUSE IT'S TERRIFYING, THAT'S WHY."

if we’re talking young wizard books I must recommend Diane Duane’s young wizards books, which I adored as a child also, while they are not technically about wizards, Dealing with Dragons/Searching for Dragons by Patricia Wrede are also phenomenal fantasy reads for kids

When the series ended, a lot of people were mad at the last book; Applegate responded with a letter that went *incredbly* hard, that showcased the respect she had for her readers. It follows, below, in full.

Per current discourse on #wizards and #wizard fiction: Seems a good time to menttion that if you're looking for other-series options, you can pick up the first nine #YoungWizards novels as #ebooks in a bundle. (Unless you're in the UK: we can't sell to you due to Brexit...sorry.) bit.ly/YWNMESET

Pennsylvania residents can now get Philadelphia library cards! www.phillyvoice.com/free-library...

I think it’s notable that a whole lot of Jewish (and non-Jewish!) folks are saying that the antisemitism here is as bad as it’s ever been and getting worse maybe worth paying attention to the voices of people who live this stuff

If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong... this thread is for you. First: prompt questions to get you started.

This. This is how it works. At least if you're any good.

Good. Until, and unless, the disabled, and the elderly, and the poor, are given every possible assistance to be full members of society; assisted dying will become encouraged dying. Just look at Canada.

🎊HAPPY BOOK LAUNCH DAY TO SIDEQUESTED!!!🎉 Now you can get it wherever books are sold!📚 But if you need some links or more information on the book, go to sidequested.com/book ! #booksky #books @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social #comics #newrelease

I would just like to announce that sometimes now my discord friends DM or ping me with news articles on Social Media age verification bullshit, and this is indirectly @rahaeli.bsky.social 's fault.

I say this all the time: you (mostly) only fear disability because you contribute to making it something worth fearing Disability is a part of a well-lived life; if we're lucky enough to live long, we'll all be disabled at some point. We could better care for and integrate folks, you know

The #IdesOfMarch are a holiday on tumblr and I had a vision to make this drawing based on this viral tumblr photo of #Caesar dressing. (if you want to share #MyArt over there 😊) www.tumblr.com/rainbowhyper...

“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression. What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT SIDE QUESTED IS ABOUT, HERE'S A QUICK VIDEO (voiced by the queen @itsdanicarr.bsky.social ) EXPLAINING! THEN YOU CAN PREORDER, ALL LINKS ARE HERE: sidequested.com/book/ ONE WEEK TO BOOK LAUNCH AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe Prophétique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!

I once pet a Fennec Fox

[update] Investigating: AO3 is now fully down. After performing a software upgrade a few days ago, we've been unable to keep our server cluster healthy due to what we believe is a bug or issue with the new release of our database server software. We're working with our ve...

Me, immediately knowing what fuckshit this is due to following @rahaeli.bsky.social , swearing profusely

Presented without comment, the technical explanation for the repeated AO3 unavailability windows over the last two days www.reddit.com/r/AO3/commen...

Leftist folks being blisteringly disdainful to active military and vets truly will never get old because so many of them got to have the privilege to have never fucking thought about joining the military.

Evergreen for how I operate: “Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” 🔥🔥🔥 ― bell hooks

[update] Investigating: We are investigating reports of errors when trying to load AO3, including errors saying that AO3 is down.

Olay: Something bsky did now means that on my phone, dragging while I'm on a person's profile area doesn't scroll, and I have to drag within the post area to start to scroll. But! When I first click on someone's page to see their posts, only about 0.9cm of a horizontal area will scroll. Annoyed.

I offer you my most-used meme, which is my most-used meme for a very very good reason; take it with my conspiratorial red-string-murder-board blessing

Okay so I am in. A number of Discords, so ofc I have been dealing socially with the Discord verification drama. And today we have this, which! Says outright some things I knew/assumed but couldn't prove to people, which is nice. discord.com/blog/getting...

very important video please watch

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

Hey #BookSky look at this AMAZING video narrated by @itsdanicarr.bsky.social !

We're so excited about this! Preorder SIDEQUESTED Book 1 here! sidequested.com/book/#preorder

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Obviously this is who we have always been, that is a given... but the fact that people who did not know that are out here, protesting for the first time, in actual tears? They have lost complete control of this narrative, man.

If you want to fight fascism, you must practice disability justice. If you’re claiming to be on the left but believe disabled people are “expendable”, you’re aligning with fascists. If you are against tyranny but refer to people like me as “a drain”, you’re carrying water for the Nazis.

Okay, I am on the side of "migrating from Discord is a no-go" but I am having to make my case to other people. Main question rn: Can someone please explain the flaws of IRC to me? I did not like it but I also didn't use it much and people will want actual drawbacks. (Feel free to boost.)

"People eagerly lining up to defend egregious government overreach into the speech of private parties as long as the private party is someone they dislike sufficiently" depressses me so fucking much

You may be thinking "wait a minute, the Pentagon is testing taking drones with high-energy lasers??" Yes, they are. Here's some further reading on the whole drone-zapping-laser.....thing.

Also, idk who needs to hear this but you can buy yourself flowers just because you deserve something bright and pretty and you're worth having nice things

The post: "Post a banger that's not in English!" My brain: Ma-ia-hii! Ma-ia-huu! Ma-ia-hoo! Ma-ai-ha-aaaaa!!!

A reminder: there is not a single housing market in America—not one city, state, or county—where someone relying on SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment. Deaths like these are always preceded by engineered abandonment. Disproportionate homelessness among people with disabilities is no accident.

I'm waving an OT3 flag 'cause the girls are bi and the boy is cute and possible able to learn if you clonk him with a clue-by-four enough.

i wrote this story, and this comment came directly to my inbox when it was made. in unrelated news, i'm legally changing my name to "wizened husk morrison" and would really appreciate if someone could come collect my bones from where they've been gathering dust on the floor since that email arrived

I remember saying "well, one good thing out of the Alex Pretti shooting is he very well my be our Viola Liuzzo" and not one person on my entire block had any idea wtf I was talking about

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

my mom, a retired nurse who sometimes forgets what is and is not layman knowledge: So yeah, your dad's doctor appointment went well, except... Do you know what a prostate is? me, who has been reading gay fanfiction since I was at least 15: I do, yes.