important message to all bluesky users

We need to move together in numbers never before seen.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

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Reminder: Plato argued that, since souls reincarnate, souls in men & women are the same & equally capable of all things, so the sexes are equal. P’s mother Perictione was (ancient sources say) a Pythagorean philosopher. 19th C didn’t believe she could be a philosopher so erased her from P’s bio.

2026 is going to be such a good year for SFF 🔥 💙🪐📚

Confession: I avoided Iain Banks' Culture series for ages because it was always hyped up by the most insufferable techbros, until I finally scanned a synopsis & realized there was no possible way they'd understood any of it

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

Mood. “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution in 1803, the buildings were used as the city's hospital. #skystorians #history

"GenAI is the futu--

Pepper has officially arrived, which you know what that means... she's officially in stock & ready to ship!! I'll be working on fulfilling preorders first, but any orders from now on will start shipment in about 2-3 weeks! 🥰 get your expedited Pepper here: strawbunnycake.com

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

living in the 2020’s

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

We connected King’s Quest creator Roberta Williams to comedy writer @mikedrucker.bsky.social, who may be her biggest fan, for a conversation about the series’ legacy and a generation’s connection to it. The full article has been moved from behind the paywall! gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

Happy New Year! We once again set the old year on fire and consumed it, to give us joy and strength (and a sugar rush) for the year ahead. This year the baked alaska was made of gingerbread, honeycomb ice cream, and Swiss merengue.

Judging my book by its cover. Can be legitimately inferred: - It’s sci-fi - It’s weird - there’s forests - flying tentacle creatures, yes - spiders Not apparent but good to know: - The sci-fi is near to distant future - The forests are in California and Florida - tentacle creature is robot - cats

Fritz Leiber with his wife Jonquil (Johnny) Stephens Leiber, the inspiration for his greatest works, Conjure Wife and (after her death) Our Lady of Darkness. A poet and weird fiction fan in her own right. Bonus cat doodles by Fritz from the Lilly Library’s Leiber archive. 🖤

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The way I'm dropping every other project to work on something for this call 🪐

please meet... Macaron, the cherry 🍒 hyena! ❤️ Macaron will be the 3rd and final stretch goal plush on the 'Fruit Friends' plushie collection project coming to Backerkit March 2026! ❤️ 💌 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... #ocsky ♡ #cuteart ♡ #digitalart ♡ #illustration { #strawbunnycakeart }

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This entire weekend

Happy old year

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

THEY'RE BACK!!!!! Get em while they're hot - they go quick!

These despicable shenanigans (trash the US on their way out and make new little fiefdoms elsewhere) is exactly what I based the habs on in Mai Tais for the Lost. There's a reason each one is named for a billionaire's yacht.

It’s really demoralizing how many colleagues are using AI. Your job is literally to use your brain- your extremely unique, highly trained brain 😭

catharsis: the game woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...

The pre-order page for my debut solarpunk collection, The Wildcraft Drones, is now live @stelliform.press !! www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...

(pls share! ;v; it costs $0 to share a small artist! ;; 🩷) Get ready for 'Soft n Sweet as Sugar' Fruit Friends Plushie Collection coming to @backerkit.com March 20th, 2026! 🍑🍊 pls follow the launch party page to get notified on new updates! 🥹🫶🏼 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... #kawaii ♡ #plushies

Tatas for Toys benefit has made it rain $183,000 over the past 14 years.

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech. This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

I would dearly love for this to be how Newsom alienates both the left and the right and then we never hear his grasping tryhard name again

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Florilegia has consistently been one of my favorite newsletters this past year, and right now they're open for anyone to read 🍃

Why can't the right win without gerrymandering? Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them? Why can't the right mind their own business? Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?

As Promised: part 1 Least functional kitchen ever !

Exhausted marketing of the day - buy my books about a magical restaurant, a farmer becoming an immortal or a really, reallly pissed off programmer at the end of the world so I can go back to recovering from COVID.

It's Cyber Monday, and the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers is rolling out some sales! Check them out and spread the word if you know someone who would be interested. #writersky www.catrambo.com/2025/12/01/c...

Watched 5th Element again recently, and during the Zorg office scene remembered I have some round windows. 3D printed tracks with grooves to snap-fit some tubing for a diffuser, 444 RGB LEDs.

PLURIBUS

We are pleased to announce our nominations for the 2025 Pushcart Prize. Congratulations to our nominees, and thank you for your amazing stories!

Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops! view.flodesk.com/emails/69274... Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!

This is the first time this phantom of the deep sea has been captured on camera! The extremely elusive abyssal ghost shark dwells at depths up to 8500 feet (2600 meters), and scientists have been unable to capture on camera - until now. More👇 earthlymission.com/ghost-shark-... 📷 NOAA

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?