Finally. All those female-presenting nipples in the Washington Post were freaking me out.

every time I do a thread like this about a good election result I get a whole lot of “don’t get ahead of yourself, we still gotta make sure people are motivated for November” replies/quotes and while I understand the sentiment you know what gets people motivated? winning! let yourself get excited!

Federal workers are already staring down the barrel of 40,000 job cuts, and now Carney wants to force them back into the office four days a week. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Agents, this decision’s a piece of cake: in a nutshell, you’re looking for queer sci-fi with eleven cooking scenes, a foodie ship’s cook, alien fusion cuisine, and a cat who only wants protein cubes. Message me, I’ll spill the beans, and we can bring home the bacon together. #FoodPit #SF #Q #LGBT

THE Z WORD x WALKING DEAD Also featuring RV mac & cheese, eggs, honey dandelion lemonade, and sourdough. 🏳️‍🌈🧟 #foodpit #h #q #lgbt

#FoodPit Clara and Liam dine together at the last tea served in Third Class on the Titanic. (Also, it's a romantic and suspenseful time travel novel, but the "spice" level is around that of a snickerdoodle cookie. Sweetness level too, come to think of it.) #NA #P

This was me earlier today. But hey, now my computer has Bluetooth!

the Terminator franchise really had me thinking that the AI-pocalypse would involve more leather :((

Me, in my killer motorcycle jacket with pieces of truck tires welded onto it, checking my homemade laser rifle while hiding behind a burned-out car: “lmao, so cool”

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Agents, this decision’s a piece of cake: in a nutshell, you’re looking for queer sci-fi with eleven cooking scenes, a foodie ship’s cook, alien fusion cuisine, and a cat who only wants protein cubes. Message me, I’ll spill the beans, and we can bring home the bacon together. #FoodPit #SF #Q #LGBT

Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein colluded together to take out Gawker, which resulted in me losing about $7200 of income over 3 years. Stick it to them by reading my article and tipping me on paypal.me/stompsite so I can pay for my ~$300-350 doctor's visit tomorrow morning

If you want an easy way to find ways to combat the current wave of puritan censorship here are two important websites that will help you find more specific actions that will help you not feel overwhelmed. stop-paypros.neocities.org

This fight still needs fighting

PNW LOCALS !! Is there anyone local who could be adopt or foster a 20 year old ball python?? Have a friend who's ex is dumping them and the friend cannot take them. I would be willing to drive them a few hours out from Lynnwood to bring him to you if needed

Tch, it’s pretty unrealistic to imagine a character who doesn’t suffer from chronic pain, lol #WritingA

Alien monsters, disease, people making toast wrong, etc. #WritingA

The Liberals clearly want Canada Post to shrivel so private corps can take its place, that's why they won't replace the CEO who's overseen its nosedive over the last 7 years. But they can't actually let it die, so instead they have to keep doing this. It's a great system for losing public money.

Reminder: the post office isn't supposed to turn a profit.

The collapse of the US keeps outpacing my ability to write dystopian throwaway references like "celebrating the Leader's birthday" or "exit visas" or "birthright residency" or ugly laws or abolishing public education. And then there's everyone who has to actually live it. #PretendPanel

Did Arachne write this

One of the things that keeps me going in the ongoing fight against COVID and for Long COVID treatments is how far we’ve gotten with HIV. If you organize with us we can do this too

Imagine the gift of being the journalist to finally set him off. Especially if there's video. A career-making moment. You could write your own ticket after that. You just made history.

I am begging reporters to keep asking him about it. Trust me, there's ratings gold in those hills. He's so close to snapping.

A5: While I may not be able to talk about what I'm currently working on, something I can talk about is this cute sapphic bundle I'm a part of over on Itch io right now :) 22 books featuring various sapphics getting up to shenanigans :) itch.io/b/3483/sapph... #QueerWritersChat

Have you considered making bad Art? It's literally better than making nothing and crying about it. No AI needed. There's all kinds of mediums. If you don't click with any of them make a new one up cuz that also is Art.

this video game came to me in a dream once and i felt compelled to recreate it

#QueerWritersChat Like trans guys in historical settings encountering the Horrors? You might like my stuff. PWYW right here: ko-fi.com/A0307Q3/shop payhip.com/ALittleBitof... I hope your weekend is kind to you!

#QueerWritersChat Pockpocket Nia just learned her little brother’s tuition has gone up. Desperate, she turns to [REDACTED], discovering [REDACTED] and is soon [REDACTED] pretending to be [REDACTED].When she and her friends [REDACTED], 9/11 basically, except [REDACTED]. And then things get weird.

Kind of? A lot of these Bluesky prompt games are like, “share a line about a zebra” and then my manuscript is all “she peeled off her mask revealing that she, the person the protagonist thought she could trust, had been a vampire zebra the entire time.” #QueerWritersChat

Hi #QueerWritersChat! I’m Catherine, writing about queer people and the various crimes they get up to. Currently working on finishing my gunpowder fantasy about magic-using teen pickpockets and the walking, talking, complaining clockwork doll they find in a cellar.

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

#FebruaryWorldbuilders 6: Imported from Old Trévandor, the poma, a stewing fruit prized by alchemists, was long a curiosity known only to the Nivoréan elite. While the Far Kingdoms boasted entire forests, the few trees brought to Nivor were ill-suited to the heat of the Turquoise Coast. (1/2)

Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything! Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns. My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

I'm 45 years old and the Golden Age stuff made me so fucking annoyed in 1995. Like man just THINK about what you're telling teenage girls to read because I promise that you probably shouldn't be doing it. 😑

The children long for The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

Hell is other chamois.

hey guys, if you studied and were a part of #YourSlipIsShowing, i suggest you watch this. It's important to understanding how & why so many people on here were targeted thru 4chan. That targeting led to years of brutal violence and harassment and some of their deaths. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3raB...

Reminder: today alone, you have seen a half dozen absolutely iconic cartoons drawn with a mouse by someone without art skills in MS Paint. You don’t need to be crushing orphans to make art.

The thing about saying that genAI will enable the marginalized to create art is that not only is it not true, literally just fucking look at art and music and writing, but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.

It would help if I shared the link, wouldn’t it…. #WeeknightWriters

Much to my surprise, Evelyn Normielib seems to be only a few months old! Created by J.J. McCollough along with a group of others:

Does anyone know who created Evelyn Normielib? Because it's the best succinct piece of political commentary of the past year, giving name to a phenomenon we're seeing throughout the country.

#WeeknightWriters A6: Keep on doing your thing, everyone. We all need the outlet, the escape, and the inspiration.

#WeeknightWriters If you've read Pirates and Poise, leave a comment with your thoughts and feelings! It's been out for a month and I haven't heard anything from the people who downloaded it over Itchio or read it on Ream.

If we still had Billy Mays he’d be running on the dem side. Anthony Sullivan would be the Green Party candidate. And then after Mays won the nomination, you’d hear “But wait! There’s more!” and Ron Popeil would come out of the wings and be announced as his running mate.

#WeeknightWriters A4: Honestly, not rip the shit out of my ankle any more than I have been. I definitely shouldn't be walking on this thing.

#WeeknightWriters A2: I need to figure out some party scenes, and if anyone has any examples of particularly well-done ones that DON'T open with the viewpoint character arriving at the ball, I'd love to hear!

#WeeknightWriters A1: Meh. I definitely didn't think there was a global conspiracy of the worst people in the entire world plotting to destroy everything, so that's been disappointing to learn.