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The main ask in #Venezuela monetary support to prevent supply chain clogging and further strain on limited logistical channels that physical goods (food, clothing, etc.) require PLS SHARE w/ your networks Special thanks to @caracaschronicles.tierra-de-gracia.com for their resource compilation

TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵

That's right kids, we're at "How dare you hurt our game by making us tell our customers that we're using AI" That's the level of "no one wants the thing we're forcing on them" and "just stop fighting it" we're on. That's the degree to which fighting it is working.

My husband delivered some books to the Lodi Family Center yesterday. @paizo.com, this photo is for you! Have any modules that are good for beginners? I’ll add them to the Center’s wish list! bookshop.org/wishlists/78...

Update on the Family Center: The #books have arrived, and they are being read! If you bought a book (or two) from the Family Center wish list, take a bow — you’re making good things happen!

Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power. New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

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He does not look well. Like, at all.

These jellyfish larvae: * . * . * . * . * * . * . * * . *

My Irish husband @youngmrduffy.bsky.social looking at tomorrow’s World Cup schedule: “We have to support the Ivory Coast. They’re like my country’s Wario.”

The web should be accessible to people with poor internet connections & assistive technologies. As a UX designer, I will absolutely die on this hill.

Wait, em-dashes are now seen as an AI thing? I was using them before AI was a glimmer in Satan's eye and I'm not stopping now. I love them; they can represent a shift in tone, a raised eyebrow, a leaning-forward, a tiny jolt of midsentence caffeine. It was all I could do not to use one in this post.

Haiti deserves joy.

Giles Corey: “More scaffolding…”

If you haven’t yet heard: The FBI raided a voting rights group yesterday in Cleveland, #Ohio The non-profit they targeted focuses on ballot access and voter registration If you support civil rights, the regime does not want you to vote

I know I’ve mentioned this a lot, but… We had that plan and Rahm Emanuel killed it. www.governing.com/archive/gov-...

BREAKING The Islamic Republic of Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all vessel traffic, regardless of flag state. The closure applies to oil tankers, commercial ships, and all other vessels attempting to transit the strait. The regime says any vessel violates will be attacked.

Unfortunately, I've been laid off as part of Paizo's recent restructuring (paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...). I'm reopening my public commissions while I look for what's next; if you've been looking for an excuse to get your TTRPG character illustrated, please reach out!

They're calling it an IPO because they're not legally allowed to put up a banner reading HEY WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOLD A BAG, YOU BIG FUCKING IDIOT

This is worth considering when you share screenshots of Twitter morons on this non-Twitter site. You're just breaking down the meager firewall we were able to build against this Nazi and his propaganda machine. The moment Twitter stops regularly getting in front of non-Nazis, it's just Truth Social.

So I asked the head of the local Family Center a question this morning… What #TTRPGs would you recommend for kids ages 5-18? I already added @paizo.com’s 2e Core Rulebook to the Center’s wishlist, don’t worry. Though now that I think of it — best modules for beginners?

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

This is RIDICULOUS

“There’s something living inside fog, scientists find, and his name is Jerry.”

This scene makes me tear up every time I see it, for some reason.

Someone made this Turkish summer salad for me and it was great (recipe below) Red onion (half) Cucumber (half) Parsley (1/4 chopped) Olive oil (drizzle) Lemon juice (half a lemon, about twice as much as olive oil) Sumac (1 tbsp) Salt (1/4 tsp or less)

Next up: Your bank account?

Things are about to get very, very, very interesting. Take that as you will.

FLORIDA? FLORIDA FIGURED IT OUT? variety.com/2026/biz/tec...

Things are about to get real interesting in the American economy. I’d stock up on non-perishable food, if you haven’t already. Oh, and assume crash position. Figuratively, of course.

🏳️‍🌈some special Pride Month shout-outs to a few of my favorite categories of LGBTQIAs🏳️‍🌈 1. to everyone for whom this is your first out Pride: congratulations, we love you, we are so proud!!!! by law you should not have to pay for drinks all month. try this on your straight friends, they might buy it

Settings > Moderation Advanced: Bluesky Moderation Service > List of a bunch more settings. (It's all the way at the bottom of the screen. This is not just a list of the moderation services you have enabled, each has settings.) Not sure why it's split in to two different setting lists, but it is.

Good morning

Here’s an ancient amber bear to wish you a happy weekend! Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen 📷 by me

Trying to get back into writing in earnest after over a decade of cranking out marketing copy for my day job. “Really good” may be subjective, but I do like this one.

“D&D: Honor Among Thieves” should have been a major hit, but movie studios only care about force feeding audiences the same four IPs over and over and over again. Good on this man — he has excellent taste.

Is this the same place where residents get $2000 to look the other way when oil companies despoil their environment in search of fossil fuels, or was that just a joke the writers of The Simpsons Movie made up?

Getting some native plants this weekend, and I am very excited!

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Gas is $6, nobody can afford a house, and we just kicked starving people off SNAP so they now have to pay $8 for cereal. Why are we even doing this at all right now?

"Little wonder, then, that after California passed a “unilateral” divorce bill in 1969, allowing individuals to leave an unhappy marriage even if their partner objected, states that followed suit saw women’s suicide rates decline by 20% over the next five years."

Boycott Uline.

And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.

The national debt just crossed a once-unthinkable threshold: It now exceeds 100% of America’s GDP. But there's an important piece missing from the conversation about the debt that you should know about. Let me explain... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-no-one-will-tell-you-about-the

Holy shit. If you don't read French (I barely do), use translate and hold on to your pants.

Oh my lo.....he quoted Gandalf in an encyclical on AI that was released shortly after the Franciscan advising him on AI published a lengthy article on the topic of whether the founder of Palantir should be burned as a heretic. This has LAYERS.

"It's a horny, racist ourobouros" is a top tier analytical sentence but "You’re just going to have to trust me because my editor told me I shouldn’t include links to hardcore porn in a magazine article, sorry" is where I lost it