New article! A real one this time, about how to come up with new ideas when you don’t have them, without judgement or condemnation :)

throwback to a few years ago when easter, passover, and ramadan all overlapped on margaret thatcher's death day

Steve has saved up all his money to buy himself a drum kit. He’s been practicing really hard, but is awful. Steve is trying his best

you can pry em dashes out of my cold dead hands

Imagine if reagan's assassination had worked. No US-funded al qaeda, no billions of CIA dollars to bin laden, no 9/11, no forever war, no post-reagan dip in literally every US standard of living. The entire last 40 years would have been wildly different had hinckley had better aim

Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.

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Headline of the year

I think one of the things cis people don’t get about the Harry Potter thing is how much the beginning of the first book IS a trans narrative. You’ve got this kid who doesn’t fit in, who knows something is wrong with them and who is getting mistreated by people who are supposed to love them—

Suppose a Bluesky user does not want any of their public data to be used for generative AI training. They would go in to app settings, find the data reuse preferences section, and configure “Generative AI” 🤖 to “disallow” 🚫. The app would create this public record in their repository:

This includes my novel Loose Change, which I feel is my best written novel. It features heists, shapeshift, and lots and lots of gender. Just gender and crime, cover to cover.

One of the frustrating things about talking about AI is outlined by @ela-bambust.bsky.social in her review of crimson desert: this stuff IS how LLMs write. They don't. They make up a sentence that probabilisticly follows the prior sentence. Lots of tiny things that make sense by themselves...

A friend took her toddler to our local church messy play and they made Easter biscuits that included small Jesus figurines. The prominent JESUS IS NOT EDIBLE sign over the craft table unintentionally kicking off the next Christian schism.

Most of the big ones are already posted, but "the collective crimes of the cis" has become part of my personal lexicon.

the BlueSky fandom is dying repost if you're a true anti-bedtime leftist transsexual

I almost wrote discourse that was too spicy so that's staying in drafts. Have this instead: You need to have solidarity with people you are in community with even if and especially when they're very annoying

jesus (n.): snuffbait oracle

Biological sex does not mean "the thing we assume you are based on your genitals observed at birth." It's mostly a misnomer, but insofar as it describes anything real at all, it's a collection of biological attributes, many of which can be changed with HRT. It's neither binary nor immutable.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

one of the finest posts of all time

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

i vetted this to make sure it wasn’t ai so you could enjoy it fully

the usa should simply split their empire in two. start a second one called the eastern united states somewhere near, idk, turkey? appoint a second ruler over there. nailed it

the long term effects of medications that have been used for 50 years huh no clue where you'd find that data, no clue at all /s

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vibe coding collides with git workflows in approximately the same way that an RV collides with a tractor trailer. there are no survivors

I know most of you weren’t going to play it anyway, but now you can feel vindicated in doing so :)

Karl Marx: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Always remember that in Marxism, Socialism, and Communism, we never leave any member of the working class behind. No Proletarian Revolution is complete without full/proper accomodation for our disabled comrades!!

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So far I have received zero invites. I have, however, received a note from a legal podcaster saying that I won't be on because being trans isn't a qualification to talk about this issue.

Translation (for those who inexplicably do not speak Hebrew): "Next year in The Hague"

NOT A SINGLE GOD DAMN WORD OF MY WORK IS AI AND THE DAY IT IS IS THE DAY YOU FIND ME AND PUT TWO IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD BECAUSE I’VE BEEN REPLACED WITH A SKIN THIEF

Happy Passover, Chag Pesach Sameach, and a Zissen un Koshern Pesach!

לשנה הבה בדען האג

I love this. I wish all cis women saw it this way. We love womanhood so much we gave up almost everything for it

God, this. Uh. Yeah. I am glad I trusted Ela enough to accept she must have a very good reason to use a title like this, and. Fuck. Yeah. Idrk what to say tbh, you should definitely read this, especially if you've been writing transfemme fiction. Definitely changed my approach to FLOWERBLOOM.

my girlfriend woke up and chose violence

He should be forced to include all the ChatGPT prompts he used to “write his book.”

girls make me silly

I am an unapologetic hypeman for my girlfriends and I'm not sorry, I will advertise all of their things

Fun fact, most catholics get yelled at by the pope exactly zero times in their whole lives but Censures Georg here has managed it like five times in six years

I too have access to the bsky account:3

you're so elegant and gentle!! 😭💖 couldn't resist drawing a little gift

I think some queer women believe purchasing porn is skeevy & shameful — therefore viewing free pornography is ethical as it frees them of supporting “the sex industry.“ In reality, the most ethical way to consume porn is a direct purchase from a sex worker, as free porn may be pirated or regretted

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Ah shit it's #InternationalTransDayOfVisibility and thus I can be seen in mirrors for one day only

my girlfriend is so devastatingly pretty and if you agree you should definitely tell her!

Oh hi, hello I had facial feminization surgery on Jan 5th. This is what I look like now. :3 And this is the smile I've waited my entire life to make. (photos by Michelle & Nina 💗) #InternationalTransDayOfVisibility #WhatAGameDevLooksLike