262 business days. That’s how long the Department of Education told us it would take for it to respond to our recent records request. That’s not how freedom of information is supposed to work. By @charlesornstein.bsky.social

New #danmei cover reveal! ✨ RUN WILD: SA YE (NOVEL) Vol. 6 by Wu Zhe, with cover art by Tayue Jin (踏月锦) + interior art by Ding Yue Rong! #SevenSeasDanmei #SaYe The FINAL VOLUME of this beloved coming-of-age story is out this October—pre-order now: sevenseasentertainment.com/books/run-wi...

📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

You're not longing for the 90s, you just want to solve mysteries while having sexual tension with Gillian Andersen. It's a universal feeling.

In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.

Time for a new edition of Canadian biochemist and medical researcher extraordinaire Maud Menten (1878-1960), 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci coauthor of the Michalis-Menten equation, inventor of the azo-dye coupling which was the first example of enzyme histochemistry for imaging tissues and the first 🧵

BREAKING: We're suing Louisiana officials for suspending the state's primary election after voting has already begun. On the heels of a Supreme Court decision that eviscerated protections for voters of color, elected officials jumped at the chance to disenfranchise people — we won't allow it.

I just love this by Tom Baker when asked whether he’d play the lead role on Doctor Who again, from June 2000’s Uncut magazine.

“Each of us here has a story of generational struggle. Amazon is trying to erase that.” Warehouse workers, delivery drivers, and software engineers are organizing against America’s deportation machine.

Newspaper headline, Rochester, New York, 1908

Today is the birthday of CLAMP member Nanase Ohkawa! Wishing all the best to her! 💕👑🐇🎂

[Cleaning Up my music, looking at several thousand untagged files] Me: "Sure, the autotagger does fine distinguishing Evanescence from the Beatles, but it probably can't handle 90s-2000s anime music." App: "Got your Cardcaptor Sakura, your Wolf's Rain, your Code Geass, your Weiss Kr—" Me: "OKAY!"

Okay, so. Crime Drama vs. Legal Drama. What are *your* definitions? And do either of these include the so-called "Cop Drama," or is that its own thing? Asking for a friend. (The friend is my media categorization project.)

Sick to death of people who pretend a few statistics tell the entire story of an economy and anyone who tells a different one is an unscientific ignoramus. People with jobs can't afford to live. Inflation is a flawed metric. Econ has classes with numbers that go higher than 101

Sometimes, you look at a project looming on the horizon, and you think to yourself, "I am so glad MediaMonkey has a SQL editor plugin. That was almost going to be a lot of hecking work*." I'm pretty sure that's a universal experience. * it still will be a lot of hecking work, but much less.

I just backed Dream the Deep / Dream the Light by Clara Ward on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/att... Radical queer ocean conservation + cephalopods! What more do you want?

The final banana! This is the Gros Michel, the one I really wanted to try, and folks: we did it. We found a banana Sarah actually liked.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

My @seisubhanamiex.bsky.social exchange fic is now up on Ao3! If you are interested in putting Seishirou in situations, please enjoy! archiveofourown.org/works/82347526

In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD

youtube.com/watch I think this is my new favorite youtube person. (Queer disabled vlogger slinging solidly sourced and cited opinions at...everything, because she is not here for bullshit, and there is just so much bullshit. Very up-front about the struggles of neuroatypical disabled life.)

im grabbing your hand to tell you. it’s not too late to start wearing a mask again. it’s better to wear a mask 1/4 of the time (or whatever your percent looks like) than not at all. there’s no shame in starting to be covid safe again even if you havent been for a long time. its okay

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

the literacy crisis affects art, too, because there's so much meaning in every word here. "vulnerable" implies the advice may not be trustworthy. the fact he's been turning it over means he's been trying to determine additional meaning from it throughout his life. compressing it loses meaning!!!!!!!

This week's word for the #ficwip game is "show"! « Nobody was asking them to put on a show of getting down to business, but what the fresh hell was he looking at? »

Thread, and also, what the actual fuck Who this "moderator" was should not be allowed to go near a book event again

The 3 genders

What's My JND? 0.0054 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd... I actually can tell colors apart! Whoo! (Spending my whole life around people who are better at it than me, I often feel like my eyes don't work.)

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

[update] Resolved: The fix we applied 24 hours ago appears to be holding, so we are resolving this incident. We thank everyone for their patience!

You're dooming. The cat cafes are unionizing and you're dooming.

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.

Oh damn. Good thing @distributeaid.org started sourcing durable medical equipment in 2024. We've shipped it to both Lebanon and our US hubs across the southern US. If you're a mutual aid group that needs wheelchairs, crutches, or rollators and can pickup from us please DM me!

In search of fighty bastards (affectionate): do you live in SC, are you a user of DW (or any other social media), and would you be willing to tell the court how what sites like us would have to do to comply with SC's terrible law would restrict your speech and association with others?

Skip right to the interview and boost its viewcount (currently at 959k). Maybe leave it running several times after you watch: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Hello! I’m looking for an ASL sensitivity reader for a project I’m working on at IDW—paid work obviously!! Please repost or message me at [email protected] with your resume if interested. ✨

My mom died of covid in mid-May 2020, and we couldn't schedule her funeral before late June because so many had died. There was a refrigerator truck outside the funeral home. We did a short memorial service beside it, in the parking lot. When we got to the cemetery, I noted one thing:

JPP is pleased to announce the launch of A World of Edo Art. This web portal, spearheaded Linda Hoaglund (director, Edo Avant Garde), brings together 200+ captivating Edo-period (1603–1868) artworks related to animals and nature from around the world. edoart.japanpastandpresent.org

ICYMI: We'll be attending @CitrusCon.bsky.social this year! Join us Sunday, March 1st, for our industry panel, which will have some special announcements 👀 Visit CitrusCon.com for details and registration. We can't wait to see you there! 🤩 🍋 🍋‍🟩

@bookspotlight.bsky.social In Queer as Folk Tales I have gathered ancient myths and legends from Virgil to the Brothers Grimm and reimagined them with queer lovers at their heart. E-book only $6.99! www.deepdesirespress.com/queer-as-fol...

Interesting

discrete = separate discreet = unobtrusive The E's are SEPARATED by the T in 'discrete.'

❤️ 5.20 (2024) #cancipin #zhenhun #liuyao #shapolang

"Don't go after our readers. They pay us, and are not accustomed to the pain of not being coddled."

Roses are red Violets are grue In Ancient Egyptian, Pashto, and Zulu en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2...

Share these with someone you have feelings for, be they necessary or unnecessary. Happy Valentine's Day! 💙

Chie Shinohara's Red River shōjo manga about a young Japanese woman who gets transported to an ancient village in the Middle East is getting a TV anime this summer!