Chotiner interviews Janeway

Just a reminder. Hat tip to @bornmiserable.bsky.social for the excellent shirt.

Lessons from the recent past, can give us inspiration for the battles to come. “The neo-Nazis just kept coming in groups over and over. We were far outnumbered, but I watched countless antifa youth risk their lives, one by one, to fight back.” itsgoingdown.org/antifa-saved...

some more helpful reminders from 2016 me who knew more than i do now #reruns

All my coworkers live in Virginia and ask me the most ridiculous questions about living in DC “Is it bad in your neighborhood?” “Is it weird on the metro?” “Can you even go out at night?” The number of nights I have staggered half cockeyed across this city the misinformation is very real

YESSSS!! DO THE THING, FRIENDS AND COMRADES!!! Such an awesome opportunity.

DC is the Blackest and queerest city in the United States of America.

Your friendly neighbourhood author, after turning in the final book in The Nameless Republic trilogy:

I am always such a sucker for mycelial networks, as in this @clarkesworldmagazine.com story by @lchanwrites.bsky.social : clarkesworldmagazine.com/chan_08_25/

Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue Stripe feeling the pressure ACLU put out a statement CBC covered all this What you are doing is WORKING You are getting RESULTS KEEP CALLING KEEP WRITING WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!

remember to be kind to yourself fuckface

you know you're fucked when the entire internet is putting their differences aside to work together for a common goal. when you got bluesky, reddit, twitter and 4chan all working together you have no shot at this ending well unless you back down completely

190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my! We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏 www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

go read the original thread + as I told a friend recently while discussing this:

"...child-welfare workers are effectively punishing families, particularly Black families, because they are poor. The problem intensified after Clinton-era welfare reform... There are now major U.S. cities where 60% of Black children have had some form of contact with child-welfare officials."

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to [email protected] they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

The reality is: disability comes for almost all of us. 1) Be it an accident that reduces our ability to do things compared to before the injury.2) simply the aging process that gets all of us if we didn’t pass away prematurely. What should we do? Have more compassion and help each other a lot more.❤️

I must not pick up my phone. Distraction is the creative project killer. Checking socials is the little-death that derails all focus. I will remain on task. I will keep my pencil to paper and allow the urge to pass over me and through me. When the urge has gone, only the project will remain.

The dog will be far more emotionally fulfilling in your life than any person who says the words IT'S JUST A DOG, so we're clear.

I am not trying to yuck anyone's erotic yums, but the idea of being a normal person in a universe where people are scenting and biting and soulbonding and going into heat is so terribly funny to me.

Morning commute: audio book is surprisingly good - maybe I can finally pay attention to audio books now!!! Downside is I cringe every time the narrators get to a vaguely sexy part. Felt like every car around me (my sunroof is always open) heard them say nipple. *facepalm*

Oh my god, look at this tattoo... Look at it!

Every six months or so we do sex scenes discourse and so I must remind you: every time you complain about unnecessary sex scenes I add another one and make it more fucked up than the last.

"I always wanted a happy ending, & I always wanted the femme to rescue the butch."

Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —

In times of danger and panic, my higher functioning brain shuts down and my "lizard brain" takes over, making me lay down on a warm rock in the sun until I'm eaten by a passing hawk.

happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.

We all know someone who is like "I would love to go to space" or "math is fun and liberating" and "the sublime will inevitably be found in the stars" well good news there is a game that will rid them of all those opinions. It's also fun!

Are you as angry about this shit as we are? 19 hours left to support!

The Crock Pot is one of the only times when real life works like video game crafting. You dump in some powders and the remains of several vile birds and out comes hot delicious food

Don't do any of this.

Before #InsectWeek passes me by (working on an arachnid 😅) here’s a bug—a true bug, water boatman (Corixidae)—I made in bronze and silver, articulated to show that, surprisingly, these swimmers are good fliers! 1/2 #SciArt

IGUANA: see you later alligator ALLIGATOR: (doesn’t know spanish) see you tomorrow iguana

Last semester, I had the opportunity to take a class on costume design in fantasy, sci-fi, and supernatural film and television. And for my final project, I chose to analyze the costumes in Jem and The Holograms! ✨

In other news, I’m making fish pants.

Okay I AM going to be sappy on main: people and relationships are really all we have in the end. This is is how I believe in love and is what has kept me from nihilism since I was an 8-yr-old contemplating permanent choices. So, yeah - that’s enough sincerity for today, I think.

I had such a hellish morning - I spent about three and a half hours in my car trying to get to work. Once I got here, I crouched down weird to pick something up and a stitch in the fly of my pants popped. Which meant more stitches unraveled every time I moved and my pants were falling apart.

a quick comic to dispel the demon of having not made a comic

EVERY worker deserves fair wages. every last one

Today I learned that a super early trans healthcare clinic existed in Galveston, Texas in the 1970s at the University of Texas Medical Branch on the Island. It was run by Dr. Paul Walker, who would help found what would become WPATH. www.galvnews.com/news/galvest...

*taps mic* Hi, there! I’ve lived all over the country, wet, dry, hot, cold, and high humidity will not only kill your ass dead faster than anything else, it will suuuuuck the entire time you’re dying. Your low resting heart rate won’t do shit when your sweat is a marinade instead of a coolant.

the real reason for the season glorious history

As always, I am happy to answer serious questions asked in good faith As always, I block trolls.

The Dead Withheld now has a cover and it's by @anonbeadraws.bsky.social! Get your sapphic neo-noir novella fix and pre-order it asaptually from @neonhemlock.bsky.social . www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-de...

Pals, I am so tired. StokerCon was great and I am already looking forward to 2026 in Pittsburgh, if we survive as a species that long. What an amazing group of people - both the folks I already knew and the folks I met. Also, Lamp Room - so freaking weird and great.

Why yes I've got funny bones. I keep them in my hilarious graveyard. 😬

in a time when you can go to youtube and listen to maybe not all but a large amount of the records ever released for free, it's hard to get across how much effort you had to put into getting the music you wanted like twenty years ago

Now I’m sitting in “Southern Gothic In the Contemporary South,” which is already such a genuine and vulnerable panel about the contemporary south and current events. This is the kind of conversation I always want so much and it feels so vital.