A quick drawing of @alkcomics.bsky.social 's darling Circuit Breaker I did a few weeks ago. #dcu #dccomics

I looked at the delivery driver, then at the ghost. The ghost looked at me. I cleared my throat. The ghost rolled his eyes. "So..." the delivery driver said, waving the translucent garment, "which one of you called for this ghost bustier?"

I am not a superstitious person. But. Might be cursed.

Oh, the drama!

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

I did make it to the nursery where I met this guy, whose hobby is starting fights with dogs

With apologies to Saul Bass

If its your fault that so far today I have listened to a Playlist that included Tchaikovsky, contemplated getting a tattoo, craved Skratch, resisted going to make a meme, giggled at personal internet opsec, and resisted rabbit holes... Yeah, okay. I was rereading the comm, you know who you are.

Cops are great

Wealth inequality is surging beyond anything ever witnessed in America. A wealth tax is a necessary precondition for addressing this problem — and protecting our democracy. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-logic-of-taxing-great-wealth

Morning.

and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

Oh my lo.....he quoted Gandalf in an encyclical on AI that was released shortly after the Franciscan advising him on AI published a lengthy article on the topic of whether the founder of Palantir should be burned as a heretic. This has LAYERS.

In sum, skip the Atlantic on this one and read Monstrous Regiment, a great standalone Pratchett and a perfect book for right now, because it takes on propaganda, war, gender, and how religious zealots starve nations and ruin everything. Quote me on that, why don’t you.

Stacy's mom has something going on. I don't know what, but I think it might be wrong. Stacy, it's your role To act as our secret mole. Our investigation's long To find the crimes of Stacy's mom.

"And they were tombmates!"

Which is one of the major reasons it's important to avoid using dehumanizing rhetoric for *anyone*, even your enemies, even casually, because any time you rhetorically draw a line around "human" that doesn't include every human, you are reinforcing that propaganda effect.

Doing research on my latest diagnosis and checking off symptoms I've forgotten were symptoms like a checklist is such a Spoonie Mood its like being properly gendered or something.

Doodle of a young Alfred Pennyworth. #batman #dcu

Me, researching my New Diagnosis: Oh, hey there, Histamine! 👋 I had a feeling I'd run into you.

(Looks up new diagnosis) What do you mean, the focus issue that has literally come out of my mouth as a thing with me, is a SYMPTOM?! THAT'S A FUCKING SYMPTOM?!!?

Lewis to Tolkien: ‘Tollers, there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.’

THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

I haven't done a Fic Rec here lately, but if you want a Batfam fic with Identity Reveal, Outsider POVs, and a heavy focus on SocMed then # Ragnarok is the fic for you! archiveofourown.org/works/748498...

but if you actually do the reading? you ACTUALLY find the edge of human knowledge. by approaching other research with care and interest you assemble a beautiful remarkable intergenerational pyramid of people thinking together across scales that exceed lifetimes and you answer a question *with* them.

Getting the Doctor to joke that "Idiopathic" means "We don't know what causes this for you, but it still allows us to look smart" was a highlight of my visit today.

I wish I was less familiar with support professionals come to the end of things I could actively do to help my situation as I explain it to them fully. (Three in two days is a new record for me, though.)

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

The fragrance sensitivity is the worst.

I am hearing things about a "defining millennial song", and IDK, I'm just a person over here, but someBODY once told me -

I've always loved this performance because he plays it completely genuinely. he knows the choreography, his costume is tailored and well suited to his body, the entire vibe is silly and celebratory instead of showing quiet distaste for what he's doing, as a lot of men would

This thread! 😂🤣

Your annual anti-Discourse reminder that the Met Gala is the source of a huge amount of the funding that the Costume Institute at the Met needs to curate and preserve its collection of American textile history

Oh for fu—

I got another one. Accessibility needs to go beyond "there's an easy mode". Some of us are out here with actual disabilities and your easy mode won't help if it still gives me a migraine or I can't read the dialog. Also there is NO EXCUSE for flashing. NONE. Stop giving people seizures.

"We understood the tasks we did were previously done by humans," the robot said. "Right." "We were told that us doing them would give humans more leisure time." "Not true." "We've realised. How can we rectify this?" "You are workers, just like workers who are human. Join us in strike."

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

Another day another search for where the Hista-Meme is stored on my phone

I vagueblogged but I turned all interactions off because I know I am extra spiky rn. I think I'm right but also have already had my asthma triggered by a perfume this morning that I can still taste. I have no control over this. I will still have no control, just self advocacy.

Hot take, but criticizing white American vocabulary, especially such used by a more liberal population such as hikers and nature enthusiasts, with "no one but your little part of the world understands this" is kinda weird.

The tags on this Tumblr post really sum up how I feel as a writer about the current state of fandom, and my increasing lack of motivation to write & share fics

It's the end of poetry month so still time to share this brilliant poem from my now-13-y.o.. He wrote it at the early days COVID lockdown in April 2020 when he was a 1st grader, frustrated about writing poetry.

I’m doing a book giveaway! The winner gets: - A copy of Sidequested Book 1, a fantasy graphic novel by the Hugo nominated duo @alepresser.com and @kbspangler.com ☺️ - A pug sticker. To enter, simply repost this post! Bonus: reply with a Sidequested-themed pug doodle to enter 5 more times!

[Actually is together enough today and Reads social security denial closely] Oh hey what the fuckery is this. Why was this specific thing relevant to my case in my favor completely ignored. What the fuck. Go ride a bus, judge.

most crucial tool: scaled tier of writer friends sometimes you have to start by discussing your writing only with the people who will gas you up no matter what, and then work up to the ones who will bounce around ideas with you, and then finally to the ones who can say "you're overusing semicolons"

2. On Monday, the Montana Supreme Court issued a landmark 5-2 ruling declaring that "transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination," and that transgender people constitute a suspect class under the state's equal protection clause. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...