Happy holidays from your local queer clowder!

Spreading holiday cheer to all regions from here! 🎄✨

I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement

“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin. Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Wrapping up this year's #ArtAdventCalendar with a sea otter presenting you with a pearl because you deserve it 💜 And many thanks to @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for organizing this lovely event. Definitely a beacon of light in dark times 🙂

The people obsessed with FREEDOMS are the first ones to shuck personal responsibility when it comes to bigotry. No one "made you" a racist, homophobe, a misogynist, an antisemite, an Islamophobe. You FREELY CHOSE THAT. Despite many other decent paths, you freely, knowingly chose bigotry.

a very meowy christmas for all who celebrate!

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

here's a thing i started doing a while back that i recommend if you're looking for a low-stakes new year's resolution. every time you see a piece of art that you heart or reblog, look at it for 30 seconds. you'll be fucking shocked to realize just how little you're actually taking in what you enjoy

Yes!!! Please review our books--it means a lot for us authors. Request from libraries. Spread the word about #books you love! #BookSky

Your auntie Deborah has, once again, bought you a present featuring all the overly aggressive markers of femininity, despite the fact she’s met you on several occasions and – crucially – has eyes.

With waiting times for an assessment up to three years long in some parts of the country, the list has been outsourced to the North Pole. There, Santa will decide who will receive an autism diagnosis – or a lump of coal – in their stocking this year.

GM: I am offering you a wand of wild magic that will do SOMETHING interesting, and you’re refusing? WHAT KIND OF ADVENTURERS ARE YOU?!? PARTY: Ones with trust issues! GM: *mutter* Cowards.

Starting a new reality show: "Ghost Fuckers." The GF team will go into America's most haunted locations and try to seduce the ghosts there. How? Don't worry about it. Also DO NOT audit our books. This is NOT a tax-avoidance scheme.

IN VALEN'S NAME, USE ALT TEXT FOR YOUR IMAGES. You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

Dudes Rock

Parents & anyone else up early on Christmas morning: there’s a bright pass of the International Space Station over the UK, just after 6.15. Well, I say it’s the ISS. Could be Santa heading home… Exact timings for where you are at www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary....

The Top 10 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2025 By @restingdinoface.bsky.social And have a great Christmas Eve tonight, everyone! 🦕🎄🥂✨️❤️🦖 www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Goo morning, monsters. They expect the sound of footsteps on the roof. What they do not expect is the shape of the tracks left in the snow, gouged shingles slid off on a path to a window they could have sworn was closed. It doesn’t matter if they left something out to eat. You can serve yourself.

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my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

Targeting a religious gathering because you believe that all Jewish people are responsible for the actions of the state of Israel is center-mass antisemitism.

In 2021 I dressed in full PPE and held my phone to an intubated 45 year old man's ear while his daughter said goodbye to him. I truly don't believe in hell but sometimes I wish I did.

I don't understand any rhyme or reason to the organization or provenance of the various tranches of Epstein Files, but they clearly contain tons of raw investigative materials of dubious reliability/value and—at the risk of being a huge buzzkill—we all should exercise some careful discernment

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Good. And good on ProPublica for its work.

The future of the Heritage Foundation looks more like Project Veritas than a thinktank.

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

Hey I am here to remind you that trigger warnings might be widely maligned in pop culture but they are up there with alt text on “things you should do on social media” particularly when the triggers are infanticide and rape

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

making a gold foil postcard print :>

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

Hey, it's my print debut for National Geographic! This fall, I got to accompany folks from the Fort Worth Zoo on an incredible adorable mission: releasing tiny Texas horned lizards to new lives in the Hill Country. (You will want to click on this one, trust me. The photos are adorable.)

This is my card for this year. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is go back home. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is to not go back home. Wherever you go this year, I hope you are with someone you love, even if that someone is you. I love you. Happy winter time.

Excellent organization. Greg Abbott, the awful governor in Texas hates them as much as the Catholic Charities that serve immigrants. That alone should be enough to garner your support.

When they ask me what radicalized me

I worked in a tape room transferring/archiving old TV shows, and once we copied the *first tape ever* - super heavy 2' wide tape that had its own playhead cause pieces werent standardized yet and it was just a guy facing camera going "I'm talking to you from a brand new technology, video tape"

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

I was soooo hoping that the person doing the redacting would be pdf illiterate enough that this would happen. Small mercies.

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in statement abt sentencing of Dallas Humber — neo-Nazi voice of Terrorgram who encouraged mass shootings — DOJ says case proves it "can & will find these criminals..." but it was antifascists/antifa — WHO THE DOJ IS ACTIVELY TARGETING — that found & exposed Humber www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leade...

Update: link above no longer works but the full segment has been uploaded to the Internet Archive with torrent link.

Will they cancel this because God did not return messages seeking comment?

Therapists push back as the anti-trans group Therapy First has slipped its way into providing continuing education to medical professionals. @veraeikon.bsky.social provides original reporting for this story exclusively on Assigned Media.

It's an adorable term, and also, genetically super, super cool!!! Like, it's actually more cool that we have these village cats that come in a ridiculous range of colors and shapes and sizes, and somehow were never formed into a breed! Look, I breed cornish rex cats, but your moggie is cooler.

Once I asked a nurse why they say “just a little scratch” for an injection, bc it doesn’t feel like a scratch. A beat, and then she said quietly “we’re trained not to say just a little prick.”

Your sole goal in the draft justification letter is to smother Dr Malpractice at the insurance agency with a simple, logical, clearly articulated, baby-steps explanation so they look at it and immediately pick your appeal as one of the 3% they approve immediately and on the spot--