If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Michael is back in the hospital. He has new metastasis in his brain. They're trying to stabilize him. Yesterday was my graduation, and I couldn't even pick up the certificate because I couldn't leave the hospital. Not sure what to do about that, probably write to the school and explain.

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You know it's bad when you're suddenly struck with complete understanding of Luo Binghe for spending five years desperately trying to fix a corpse.

Welp. My phone somehow leapt to its death from my nightstand even though nobody was anywhere near it. Ordering a new screen in the morning, reducing use until it arrives.

Not only is it dangerous for free speech if Section 230 is repealed, there's also a real cost to it. Literaly TRILLIONS! Call your reps to Protect Section 230 to keep our freedom + economy safe. #SaveSpeech #Protect230 Source: ccianet.org/research/sta... Find rep: www.congress.gov/members/find...

“The playing field is poised to become a lot more competitive, and businesses that don’t deploy cocaine to help them innovate in everything they do will be at a disadvantage,” says Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Accenture. Hey, it works!

I FOUND IT! In the browser for YouTube, under Settings> Playback and Performance> Language there is a place to Add or edit languages, and THEORETICALLY selecting languages there might mean that videos with audio in the languages you select will be played with original audio. I clicked them all.

this is the best part of social media, getting entertaining postcards from other people’s benign preoccupations

the Black Panthers were right

I've seen at least half a dozen of my Bluesky mutuals joke about someone "being in the files" for innocuous reasons such as their work being casually mentioned in a marketing email... without realizing that THEY TOO are in the files because their work was casually mentioned in a marketing email.

Shang Qinghua really did Batman out of the rafters, light the place on fire, face off against a demon prince to protect his boss, then turn around and demand his boss call him daddy before walking away... all while considering himself a justified coward.

I kinda love the family of witchers and their friendly neighborhood sorceress all trying to raise Ciri. The witchers have absolutely no idea how to raise a princess, but they know how to raise witchers and are doing their best to adapt that in a way that is really very sweet compared to the show.

I went to art school... I had no clue this is what people meant by "warm ups". Like, a whole routine? Each part specific and functional? Dang. Probably would have less "forgot how to draw" days if I did these every time. I'm gonna try it.

BTW if you ever wanna commission an artist you don't have to have OC's or fandom characters- you can literally just be like "dang I'd like to have some more lesbian art exist" or "wow it would be real nice to see some trans rep in my culture" or "wouldn't a yellow centric painting look nice here"

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

Feng Xin/Mu Qing and ZoSan are essentially identically shaped ships. So why do I generally prefer reading ZoSan? Thinking about it, it might be that the ensemble cast around ZoSan is bonkers, and a lot more playful about it than in TGCF. Shenanigans potential is a major factor in my fic reading.

Yet saw an AI ad for learning Korean where they were changing between Japanese and Korean verbally but the captions were still Hangul, but the Hangul was wrong. King Sejoeng institute has free Korean language programs and certificate programs bc they want as many ppl to learn Korean as possible

Good to know. Also, his explanation for why gay life is better in Shanghai made me snort laugh out loud.

The head dr at the long covid clinic I’m in told me they’re seeing more patients develop ME (aka me/cfs), to the point they’ve added new coding in their whole hospital system for it. No amount of magical thinking will prevent this, the ppl who have it aren’t less than or different than you. Wear a 😷

For those who are from California, contact your AG. Forcing people to show their IDs which would later be stolen when the site gets hacked (again)?! What Discord is doing is beyond stupid and dangerous.

I will admit that a few of the lines in the show are a great deal funnier having read some of the books. Yennefer mentioning her stuffed unicorn that broke under mysterious circumstances is absolutely one of them. (Of course it was a sex thing, it's a fucking unicorn! The symbolism is obvious.)

Jaskier's breakup song remains hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time. Geralt, you absolute ass, retrieve your bard ASAP. He requires hugs and booze and at least 3 good stories.

Today is another day where I want to want to write, but I can't even manage to want to eat. I am so fucking tired.

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

In today's DnD session, I got to play an NPC with a delightfully confusing number of layers. Edward is the victim of a bad contract that has him taking on the guise of actress/waitress "cousin Rose" to the wannabe actresses Violet and Jasmine. He is deeply shy, and hasn't settled into the role.

Still reading the Witcher books. Dainty seems to be a good fellow, embracing his newfound cousin Dudu so readily. Or he's simply a shrewd merchant who recognizes a good deal when he meets one. But I prefer to see the former. He COULD have been an asshole but chose not to be. Repeatedly.

leveled up with this explanation, cos as an autistic person i pride myself on reacting appropriately to animals, to signal harmlessness, so why wouldn't i want to do this for human animals? never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.

Also on the subject of reading the Witcher books, the first introduction of Dandelion reads to me as unflinchingly queer and I kinda love it? The very first way he is described is as Geralt's fellow. Then claimed as his friend. Then as his opposite, to which Geralt replies that opposites attract.

When Sanji is cooking your favorite aka. I found my miniature cutlery😆 #zoro

Never having read the Witcher books before, I've now checked out the lot from my library. I gotta say, so far I like the books much more than the Netflix series. Visually, it's a fine illustration of most of the key points, but the things they changed really rob the story of moral philosophy.

Every overseas voter and member of the military will be unable to vote if this is passed. How are they supposed to go present their papers in person, hmm? They're stationed overseas, or living there for any number of other reasons. It's not like they can run a half hour errand to verify themselves.

Okay, I typed up my notes from the map I drew, and I am now realizing that this was definitely more a case of just making my own toybox than actual game prep. There are nearly two dozen punny shops and character names here, most of which are (currently) irrelevant to my players.

So it turns out that given the opportunity, I will go through and draw an entire segment of a pseudo-medieval neighborhood TO SCALE and come up with all the shop names and a few social undercurrents, only for my players to immediately be distracted by what soups are available in the rival cookshops.

I still think we should do a PIDW wife event where everyone makes up a wife or picks an established one to give some depth too whether in canonverse or pidw. Maybe next February

They should be impeaching him every single day. New crime, new impeachment. They should keep impeaching him once he’s out of office. They should keep impeaching him after he’s dead.

Watching Judge Dee's Mystery on Netflix and had to pause in confusion because suddenly I could understand it but I do not speak Mandarin. I do, however, apparently speak Korean well enough to notice when my listening comprehension snaps into focus. This scene is in Korean, but it sounds... Off.

Today while out to start the process of hopefully getting a Korean driver's license, I went for a walk and saw a tiny dog trotting through the snow kitted out in dayglo orange and high vis reflective striped boots and a little vest. The world is full of delightful details if you just walk outside!

Had a dream that I met a vampire and rather than being scared I invited them to have a snack because I was curious what they could do and how they worked, and then from their subsequent line of questioning it turned out they could TASTE THE LIVES of those they drink from. Like they saw our memories.

I was undocumented the majority of my life, I went to college with people who did and didn’t qualify for DACA. Our recent conversations are all mixed with frustration and anger that it had to get to this point for people to care and somehow

My housemate's friend is over for a baking party, and is telling us about a production of Romeo & Juliet she saw in Estonia that was entirely performed by automobiles. No words, just vehicles performing a sort of ballet of the story in an old quarry. My inner drama kid and lit nerd sides are at WAR.

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Hey Critters! As a quick note, our usual 9AM PT rebroadcast will be postponed this Friday, January 30th, so that everyone at Critical Role has the option to participate in the Nationwide General Strike in response to the ongoing brutality seen across our country, but especially in Minneapolis.

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

I've been reading some books by Tanya Huff, and have noticed 3 things across them: - Every book ending feels like there should be at least one more chapter or possibly another book, but there isn't one - The powerful do NOT view the powerless as their ideological equals - Holy age gaps Batman!

I love that whenever we have a question there is something in the text to somewhat answer it and then use as a jumping point for more questions!! “The heavenly demons not partaking” feels like classist propaganda to meee!!! We’re better than this but behind close doors??? What is a little snack??👀👀👀

Finally watching Heated Rivalry. My housemate is fluent in Russian and also intended to watch this but unfortunately we have opposite sleep schedules so they cannot tell me what Ilya is saying. However, I AM highly entertained that Shane made his bed, folded his pants, and kept his gym socks on.

Genuinely fascinated reading the replies to this. You absolutely can fully engage a reader with a physical space that turns out not to be concerned with the main "plot" for your story, but you can't do it without making that space the first story you're telling instead.

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗