Mine #CatsNoirFriday selfie just for my beauteous babies. Love & hugs to you all ❄️💙❄️

Going with, off the top of my head: Gideon The Ninth - Tamsyn Muir Hogfather - Terry Pratchett Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

One bingo, but really 2/3 of these could just be 'I have somewhat managed ADHD'. :D

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

A buddy I met through a MOO suggested I try to get on with the hosting company he worked for. Solid advice, 20+ years later and I'm still working overnights in datacenters.

Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families." Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.

He was held civilly liable for sexual abuse and slandered his accuser. He’s been accused by roughly two dozen women of rape and sexual assault. He was best friends with a pedophile. He bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and said Ivanka had to beg him not date younger than her when she was 17.

This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it. And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE? Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

The last annual review concluded the SS Richard Montgomery was perfectly safe! And as a demonstration of exactly how safe it is it also banned aircraft from flying anywhere near it in case, y'know, the wreck spontaneously makes itself a lot safer in a manner incompatible with continued aviation...

Dick is gone, Bush remains.

SURPRISE! I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG. It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long? Anyway enjoy!!! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Listen, I study witch hunts and y’all know what witch hunts were, right? They were abstract unregulated emotions disguised as social ills that relied entirely on manufactured and coerced accusations of an imaginary cabal doing imaginary crimes. This is true of every version of witch hunt.

My team at work asked for muffins, so I dug back into the days when I loved my work. The powdered sugar topped are apple cider pumpkin, the ones with the drizzle are white chocolate raspberry, and the other two are caramel apple cinnamon and lemon poppyseed.

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

“He bans the use of preferred pronouns, you ban Republican men from using Grindr. He defunds your local library for having books that just mentions transgender, you bankrupt his biggest donors. *That's* the Chicago way.”

So do I have this right: the Extremely Online head of the FBI missed that all the evidence on the bullets were 4chan memes, the suspect's social media is full of groyper memes, and he was only caught because his LEO father taught him how to shoot but not about STFU Friday?

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy

Routine reminder that measles is so contagious that every infected person can be expected to infect 12-18 more people

Slightly diminish a book The Moon is A Little Grumpy.

On the topic of “our” duty to persuade abusers, a tale: —— THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.

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LLM truthers keep trying different ways of saying "But how do we KNOW that using statistical regression to create a string of tokens that resemble an answer to a prompt is not the same thing as actual thought, though?" And the answer is always: because it isn't.

I just backed Shadowrun: Anarchy 2.0 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... I'm a sucker for SR, and this looks like a good take on it for a change. The writers and artists for the campaign at least understood the assignment, which is better than CGL does.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

This is a stunningly lawless and crazy lawsuit by the government. Just bonkers. “Your protests are interfering with our right not to be protested”

Some of the crimes I've seen in Washington DC: — Beige sweater with beige chinos — Jacket sleeve tag left on — Tan shoes with navy suits — Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)

Decided I wanted these stored where they could be good decor.

Name five games you'd play at any time--not your top 5 of all time, just five games you'd play any time. Cribbage Fallout: New Vegas Rimworld Stardew Valley Disgaea

I just listened to the first episode of this and it’s excellent! A good historical guide on why doctors try so hard to control trans people

I think you should be able to say things the president doesn’t like and still be a citizen. Maybe we should write that down somewhere.

If you’re not white, or you have friends or loved ones who aren’t white, or you’re not a total sociopath and therefore care about fellow humans who aren’t white, you need to understand this regime thinks not being white is inherently suspect, and lots of your fellow Americans are fine with that.

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

BREAKING The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations. This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.

Well, this is certainly a Take. I always love how the Democratic Party can never fail, only be failed.

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

Democrats have largely held solid on transgender rights in recent years in terms of actual votes taken. There is a hugely financed movement trying to get them to stop, trying to build pillars to allow them to throw us under the bus. Interviews like this from Sarah McBride are in service to that.

Here is my personal philosophy, based on several decades of watching publishers go under: the moment a publisher is late on money because they don't have it, they are the enemy and your goal is to get your rights back.

Horsey

Because I just had to explain it to someone, does this make sense to y'all? Wash: Towels - Every couple days Sheets/duvet cover - Weekly Mattress Pad - Monthly Pillows/blankets/duvet - Every 3-6 months. Curtains - vacuum bi-weekly, wash twice a year

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Fascists are kind of just weirdo loser assholes and the thing about that statement is that it's fundamentally true in a way they can't refute or reconcile

What the fuck