Indie Authors, the latest development in fake book clubs wanting you to pay them to not read your book scams, is emotional blackmail -threat of 1 star reviews for ignoring them. (Because we're rich enough to be worth multiple gen ai emails 🤪.) You can use this Form to report scammers & blackmail 👇

“False herring” is stupid, but the most dishonest & manipulative word here is “now.” As if this is some novelty. But warrants for entering homes, like cops who show their faces & badges, is how we’ve done things for 250 years. The radical novelty is suggesting we STOP doing these things.

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups… “Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

America’s Presidents’ Day! (I got to play her! Thank you to my favorite Supergirl, Melissa Benoist!) In the end, this President was discovered to be from another planet… something to keep in mind… 🙄

In case you missed it... bloody-disgusting.com/books/393446...

If you all have a second, please leave a comment on why kids need gender affirming care. It's due by tomorrow.

My three main issues: - Neither man has heard of the Fourth Amendment. - Sanchez did not explain that administrative warrants do not involve a judge. - Sanchez did not explain and Alford ignored that this was a change secretly implemented by DHS in this administration.

And done! Everyone, this is Palette the Goblin, or "Pala" for short. They're the new mascot for my streams. Pala, this is everyone. I'll have a breakdown of this piece on Patreon and Ko-fi for free once I'm not sick. 🤘

The fact of the matter is, Republicans wouldn't be lying so hard about what their SAVE Act requires if they didn't know that the requirements of their SAVE Act are unreasonable.

Oh, okay. I'll bite. The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution. The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.

Goldman: "Republicans have created distrust of our electoral system -- not based on evidence -- and then they're gonna say, 'Oh, we have to solve this mistrust we've created.' No. That's not how it works."

Fun fact: This is how you earn trans peoples votes

Yes. The irony here is Miller-Vance-MAGA's theory of the case was that ordinary people share their view that immigrants threaten "community." But their solidarity toward immigrants turns out to be so strong that not even Miller's deliberate use of state violence and terror is capable of rupturing it

Amaya Vampire pirate.

I just finished vol 1 of Playing at the World and friends, this was part of the hobby from its *very foundation*. Neither Gygax nor Arneson ran games that looked exactly like OD&D as written. And they said so openly!

Watching some of today's discourse go around, and ... um ... I like Vampire's dice pool system.

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

Happy Year of the Fire Horse! May it bring much joy, warmth, and needed change 🔥

RIP Robert Duvall, damn www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

Yeah, that's the point, buddy. It shouldn't be happening.

This is a correct and historically well-informed take by AOC. It's so much better than the Democratic Party messaging which tries to talk about Republicans' authoritarian moves while completely ignoring the worsening material conditions that make right-populist movements popular.

Remember those old photos of choking smog hanging over LA and NYC in the 70s? Well get ready for that again

Our upcoming 20th Anniversary includes free gifts, one of which is your pick from an item list of classic items over the years. See the list and get ready to pick one for every character on DDO.com: https://www.ddo.com/guides/ddo-20th-anniversary-reward-token #DDO

Administrative warrants are hall passes written by the bad kids at school

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

"Aurtor" painting of a character from Tales of Piecora 02 - The Haunted Fortress written by Jason Behnke. jasonbehnke.com/the-book-of-... Description in Alt Text. Prints jasonbehnke.com. #art #artsky #drawing #painting #illustration #scifi #sff #fantasy #horror #booksky #noai @bsky.art 🎨💙🪐📚

Keyword: “relevant.” Translation: nothing to see here. No one should trust the DOJ to decide what counts as relevant. We all know there are millions of unreleased docs. 🚨 The DOJ says it has released all of its “relevant” records on Jeffrey Epstein, but some lawmakers are demanding more.

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people. They’re failing to do that. Trans people deserve safety and dignity. www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

A quick "whoa, really? that's really fucked up, man" from a white dude to another white dude for expressing a conservative opinion is (sadly) one of the most effective ways to change that white dude's behavior. Not usually the underlying beliefs, but the behavior. It gets in their kitchen.

"Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth think that diversity will doom us. In reality, though, their racist paranoia and white nationalist conspiracy theories are the real threat."

I want to support indie and self-owned comics people, but I just can't do $15 for a single issue. We need better distribution methods if that's where we're at.

My new tablet is out for delivery, which means a 3-6 hour window. I mean, that's today at least, right?

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

If they're doing the work and accepting the consequences for their past actions, help them get better. If they're not, they're not sincere and don't deserve your time.

The printing press—invented to sell Bibles—was used to print anything and everything. Toppled kings, made queer literature widely available, revolutionized entertainment, spread music and science and “science”. Oops, all Enlightenment.

TOMORROW is Final Order Cutoff for SPACE GHOST VOL. 2 #9! Trapped in their own worst nightmares, can Space Ghost, Jan and Jace escape the Sorceress's All-Seeing Eye? Everything depends on their secret weapon — can Blip pull off a dangerous psychic rescue?! Call your comics shop NOW to preorder!

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If somehow you've gotten here and you don't know me - HI! I'm Jeremy Whitley and I am a comic book writer. I am the creator of Princeless, it's spinoff Raven Pirate Princess, School for Extraterrestrial Girls and the Stonewall honored Navigating with You. I am known for writing diverse YA books

A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.

what if they were never the party of family values

Slavery of any kind is evil and should never be forgiven, but the specific form of chattel slavery that was practiced in the Americas was never standard practice throughout human history, and it was not white people, alone, who ended it.

Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.'

If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. If Section 230 is gone, you can kiss Bluesky goodbye.

If companies are really feeling the pressure, DO NOT STOP. Be louder. Bully harder.

I know *way* too many locals who still talk about finding Barr sympathetic in the wake of his wife's (sudden and, yes, tragic) death who have not actually paid attention to the things he's said and done in the years since then.

There are non US citizens influencing our elections, they’re called corporations. The establishment wants us to not focus on this.

Happy #valentines! #dragon #love #scalie #furryart #art #noai #digital