Hi, I have diagnosed c-PTSD and this is true and if you suck at tetris, any bright coloured fast game requiring rapid eye movement and decision making will do! it also helps if you witness something triggering and are trying to stave off an episode

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

Last year I decided to put my health first and take an extended break from paid illustration. I found I had an inexplicable compulsion to document all the birds I can see from my house in the most time consuming way possible. Some predators:

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

We’re pleased to announce The Sworn Soldier, which gathers the three Alex Easton novellas by @tkingfisher.com in one volume for the first time with art by John Jude Palencar. Full details and preorder: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...

THIS IS NOT A DRILL YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO. USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+ NOT. A. DRILL. www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

This May we are getting BOTH a new Murderbot book by @marthawells.com , AND a new Radch universe book by @annleckie.com ! It's time to get excited. www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2026/02/18/s...

First post here! 🌿✨

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

DO YOU LIKE GOTH SHIT? Start with Mort, the first of the Death books. DO YOU LIKE DRAGONS? Start with Guards! Guards! the first of the Watch books. DO YOU LIKE ANTITHEISM? Start with Small Gods, a standalone skewering of organized religion. From there, follow this guide to find your next book.

The United States Is Suffering Stomach-Churning Brain Drain 🧪 futurism.com/future-socie... Science found that reductions of force imposed by DOGE weren’t the main driver of the exodus. Instead... many experts just walked.

who runs the world | patreon.com/lubchansky

H/t @jollygoodginger.bsky.social, OPERATION DILDO BLITZ IS A GO

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.

Starting EARLY this year and trying to grow some tomatoes from seed. First time purchasing from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, I'm excited 😁

I never got around to reposting my Weird Duck Time comic this year! Also, unrelatedly, today is a good day to help out at standwithminnesota.com

i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine

If you need to read some of the articles that have been going around and the gift links aren't getting you past the paywall, I recommend pasting the link to the article into this website: www.removepaywall.com

wow wow wow. I had to find a longer version. youtu.be/xjAk67c3KPY?...

Our community is in peril. Our neighbors need our help in this time of ICE presence and subzero temperatures. Mpls has a shortage of available shelter for residents, and our city govt has not developed adequate resources to humanely house people. Please support MIWRC in this time of emergency.

I deleted TikTok back when the Oracle purchase was announced but if you've still got it, you GOTTA dump it. Especially for trans folks. It straight up says in the new TOS that they--Oracle, the company that has active ties to the Trump admin--are monitoring and documenting trans and NB users.

RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab

It's once again backup day! Repost to remind a friend to back up their writing, art, etc somewhere and check your existing solutions still work!

From the beginning of the civil rights era until the day he died, MLK reserved one speech almost exclusively for Black audiences. It was literally about staying "woke."

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Happy MLK Day!

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

if you do want to spend money on comics, games, or magic cards and you were like "wow i don't have a lcb/gs so i'd have to pay amazon" consider tossing an order our way? shop.crowsnest.quest (for magic in particular avatar and spider-man are on clearance so if you've been meaning to get them...)

My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

You want me to look back on 2025? The thing that doomed Orpheus? The thing that turned Lot’s wife to salt?

Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over. Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed. I have the links

i survived, bitch

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

That time of year again!

"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue

i stopped making "trans people are the canaries in the coalmine for fascism" analogies when i learned that miners would actually try to save the canaries after they passed out instead of going "wow, 1,000 more canaries and i might start to worry!"

In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity. Do listen. I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.