The amount of job postings I see that want publishing professionals to train AI is absolutely mind blowing. Asking editors to train your AI is like asking prisoners to build a gallows. I will not be complicit in constructing the mechanism of my own eradication. Fuck off.

Like 3 days ago the CEO of DuoLingo said everything will be AI soon, now he's backpedaling, bullying works

Happy Beltane! Today is the official relaunch of @ladyfairemagazine.bsky.social, and I'm so honored to have one of my short stories featured in its inaugural issue! Vantage Points is a piece that's near and dear to my heart, and I'm so excited to finally share it with the world!

My brilliant, remarkable best friend needs surgery and only has 30 days to raise the necessary funds. Please give if you can, and if you can't, please share. I know things are dire everywhere, and I wouldn't ask if it weren't absolutely necessary. Please. The world is better with her in it.

there has been something of a fox development 🦊🦊🦊

Shameless self-promotion! I’m a contributing writer at @ladyfairemagazine.bsky.social… check out my latest piece on beginner-friendly Beltane celebrations! ladyfairemagazine.com/2025/04/27/a...

Lots of people can’t protest and I think @prisonculture.bsky.social’s guide on other actions is really useful: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Everyone has a part they can play from where they’re at.

On behalf of people with misophonia everywhere, I am BEGGING marketers to PLEASE stop putting the sounds of people chewing into their ads. PLEASE.

The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said, "The power of the people is greater than the people in power." This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward. “I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now. Here:

Gosh, if only there were a commonality between all of these years that we could put our finger on…

RIP USAID — all remaining 900 employees will be fired.

We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself. SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then. Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Lost my job today because Trump gutted the renewable energy sector and caused my company to lose a ton of contracts. Is America great again yet?

If you were vaccinated before 1969, you need a booster! If you were vaccinated between 1969 and 1989, you MAY need a booster! (I did!) If you aren't sure, you can get your titers tested! If getting your titers tested is too expensive, you can just get a booster anyway because doing so is harmless!

So, Congress is literally ceding their power now.

Holy. Shit.

IT’S TIME!

Just an FYI: Measles is six times more contagious than COVID-19. SIX. TIMES.

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

It is always darkest before the dawn. 🤬

The Monkey was just okay… it needed to lean harder into its own absurdity instead of struggling to insert drama and pathos into what obviously should have been a straightforward horror comedy. None of us needed that many angsty father-son driving scenes.

I am so tired of the death of ownership. No, I will not pay $1.99/month for an app for the rest of my life. I do not need any app that badly. I will happily pay a significant upfront cost, but I am NOT paying a monthly fee. I will die on this hill. if I can't own it, I don't want it.

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference." ~William James

Here's the first @bluestein.bsky.social video that X blocked (with the last few seconds trimmed off). Audience member: "[Congress] controls the budget, not the president. And you are doing us a disservice to set that down and not stand up for us!"

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first The moral here isn't to tell the truth It's to never co-operate with Nazis

As karmic retribution for a lifetime of botulism jokes, today I will be getting my first botox treatment for TMJ.

“This guide contains sustainable alternatives for a lot of what you can find on Amazon or Target.” www.consciouslifeandstyle.com/sustainable-...

"But what can *I* do, I'm just *one person*?" Anything. Absolutely anything. Anything, no matter how small, is more than nothing.

This is why we'll be road-tripping to Dragon Con this year. Sure, it'll eat up two extra days of vacation time, but PTO is only useful if you're alive.

That's it. I'm sending every scientist to scientist jail until they learn to properly document their significant figures.

Marsha P Johnson didn't throw a brick just to see her legacy erased by this kind of cowardly capitulation. This has to stop.

I really wish online publications would offer pay-per-article options. I absolutely cannot afford to pay between $5 and $20/month for every single magazine and newspaper out there, but I can toss in 50 cents every now and again to access the one singular article I'm likely to read from a source.

"If you filter the statistic to include as unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a poverty wage (roughly $25,000), the percentage is actually 23.7 percent. In other words, nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today."

I'm gonna need y'all to stop downplaying the villainy of this administration by pretending it's stupidity instead. JD Vance isn't "so stupid he doesn't understand checks and balances." JD Vance is knowingly trying to eliminate checks and balances by DELIBERATELY LYING to the American people.

This was just a rumor. And honestly people, check for news sources when it comes to rumors being spread on Threads and TikTok. It’s wild how people will just believe stuff because somebody said it on the internet.

Chewy is out of the prescription food that is the literal only thing my senior cat can eat without vomiting. The last time this happened, the supply chain had collapsed due to the pandemic. I can only assume that this time it's due to Trump's stupid trade war. Donald Trump is going to kill my cat.

... turned on this app and immediately saw five posts in a row with pictures of the dictator's face. I gotta figure out how to tailor my feed to stop making me feel queasy. 🤢

I used to work at a festival that provided showers for employees. There was one shower stall in the women's restroom we all knew not to use because some (cis male) pervs had drilled a peephole in it. Every time maintenance filled it in, they would just drill it again. (🧵, 1/3)

To the man at CVS coughing like he might fall over and die at any moment: THANK YOU for wearing a mask!

If it wouldn't be detrimental to my health, I would gladly join in on this comfy cozy action. One of many reasons to protect our planet and wild unknown within it. Incredible moments captured by Martin Gregus #beautifulbizarre #nikon #imagesofcanada #droneshot #photography #art

The same geniuses who think a handful of trans athletes are “unfair” to women are seemingly fine with firing a female four star Coast Guard admiral without cause. They don’t give a shit about women.

The rapid demise of democracy is a shitty time to have IBS. Pun absolutely intended. (Now maybe all the weird strange men who have followed my profile will go away.)

HECK YES!!! Bluesky's Instagram alternative is in beta! Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a goddamned travesty.

This is what “do something” looks like

Hey friends, What are you doing to stay informed without being completely overcome by despair? Because I haven't figured it out yet. Right now I can do either one or the other: know what's going on or have the capacity to feel joy. But not both.