Gonna boost this with a quote.

It's a myth that banning a book increases that book's readership. For most books, banning has the chilling effect the censors want. Your favorite banned books need to you be loud for them!

"Men want to be him, women want to change him!"

I knew the first half of this story— that Gary Larsen’s cartoon joking Dr. Goodall was sleeping with chimpanzees caused her Institute to lawyer up only for her to find the comic super amusing upon her return from the field— but I’d never heard Larsen got attacked by a chimpanzee!

Separate but related: if you have ever been helped at random by me or anyone else and youre comfortable will you please reply here, so they know it already ain't just them up against it and that mutual aid means everyone including you or me or them or they or it or a fucking tree if it needs it, thx

Oh jeez, at least three times I can think of, I was saved by friends or the community as a whole. No shame in it at all, you just pay it forward.

every republican president of my lifetime has completely destroyed the economy

ICYMI, our #DragonCon2025 Literary Guest of Honor, T. Kingfisher, joined The Late Show on the final day of con to talk about her many wonderful works of fiction. You can catch her full interview right here, but we don't recommend trying her cures for poisoning. youtu.be/RBBgLRoLpVE @dragoncon.org

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

For a while, every time one of our neighbors needed service the res tech would disconnect our hookup because they didn't recognize the biz tag and thought we were stealing cable. The last time it happened the biz tech was like "I wrote it in crayon this time so it would feel more familiar."

AT&T has a death-grip on my rural area and I just managed to escape them for xfinity and do you know how bad it has to be for xfinity to be your escape? until earlier this year I was stuck on 20Mbps download speeds and less than 1 Mbps uploads. Backing up my photoshop files to dropbox TOOK SO LONG

This is not a result of a proper scientific study, but, it’s been noticed that long covid often involves increased migraines. As a weird supersmeller, the smell of someone in a severe migraine & someone who’s about to or has just had a seizure are very similar. I would not be surprised by a link.

Science and medicine *actually* knocking it out of the park lately. (Brain fog in COVID but let's hope its more general than that). In more personal news if 90% of my stuff turns out to be insulin resistance I shall scream. The symptom crossover is eerie, even increasing bipolar swings.

AND there's an already FDA approved drug that may work on it if this hypothesis plays out, although it looks like it can be kinda gnasty: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perampa...

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

In #JapaneseFolklore Tennyo are heavenly beings who appear as extraordinarily beautiful women. They sometimes fly down to earth wearing magical feathered kimonos. There are many tales of love stories between Tennyo and human men. Similarly to western swan maiden or selkie... #FolkloreThursday 1/2

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Daily bunny no.3095 must choose the right path

The Witch Door wednesady update is here: 🆕 www.thewitchdoor.com/comic/chapte... New reader? Start here: www.thewitchdoor.com/comic/prolog... #thewitchdoor #webcomics #hiveworkscomics #comicoop

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

Everyone makes this mistake, they think it was the hair. Wrong. It's the cheese. You control white people with cheese.

Me: I'm early for an interview & feeling anxious. I'll distract myself with a book! (The book in my bag is What Moves The Dead by @tkingfisher.com.) ~A few moments later~ Interviewer: We're ready for—what is THAT? Me, putting the book away: Light reading! Interviewer: Were you ... giggling? Me: No.

Book Tour Day 2: Our fabulously hatted heroine shares a cab to the airport with a woman in town for a healthcare conference. HEROINE: Oh, are you a doctor? WOMAN: …lawyer. WOMAN: *clearly waiting for joke* HEROINE: So I write these fantasy novels about a god of lawyers and social workers…

South Dakota: HB 1053: sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill...

Like, seriously. Mississippi: HB 1126: legiscan.com/MS/bill/HB11...

Those who think they can handle Trust & Safety better than BlueSky are welcome to try their hand: trust-and-safety-game.icrc.org [I have not played this yet, but recommended by Mike Masnick, so worth a shot.]

Here's a list of solutions to get around some of the age blockers. It also contains links to complain to your representatives about this, and to some organizations trying to combat digital censorship. gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

We expect internet users to be tech savvy and scoff at the politicians who pass these laws because they don’t know what they’ll do, but then it turns out those internet users don’t realize what the laws do either.

Like, I *kinda* think that I have earned free speech cred enough to say that if we're taking the same actions as another site is, it's because the legal risk is existential

I just did this this summer, and yeah, it's always "this *needs* to be in by end of month" and it's like "then why didn't you say so six months ago?" Also, because all the laws are different, it's always a rats' nest of region-locking and special cases. 🤮

As a dev (not for Bluesky), I would love it if we could attribute harmful “safety features” in this way, but the legal department generally doesn’t allow this.

Just me calling politician offices to tell them to use alt text when they post images. (They don't read the replies, I wager.)

cis people there are so many things you can do to support trans people, some harder than others. but perhaps the easiest thing, one that honestly should be the bare minimum if you wish to consider yourself a friend to trans people, is wrest the harry potter franchise from your heart mind and soul

The president is a fascist potato. If you make fat jokes about him, I block you. Fat people deserve to live a life believing you, the person making the fat joke, won't just arbitrarily swap to talking shit about their bodies on a dime if they piss you off.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

anyway, reminder that Brando Sando is a mormon in good standing aka he tithes 10% of his income to a church that just announced they filed a brief saying that protecting trans rights infringes on their religious freedom ✌️

God bless @theonion.com theonion.com/trump-audibl...

Come along and read today's SIDEQUESTED, where Charlie is talking to a member of a presumed cult...who seems extremely nice? Or you can start from the beginning, in which she meets a vulture and dragons and a cute princess and a handsome whole-ass dinkus. #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics

Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.

Just want to remind people that in January 2017 I gave a talk at the American Physical Society meeting warning everyone that Trump would gut science just like Hitler did And I've posted the link on social media before, including again earlier this year: bsky.app/profile/chan...

He’s said it many times. That was one example and what you just did was move the goalpost.

a democratically elected congresswoman is being denied her seat because the speaker simply does not want to seat her and leadership is as unconcerned about this as they seem to be about everything else

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook. "Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

Portland not beating the Hell On Earth allegations. @wyden.senate.gov

At least everyone’s electric bills are going up for the good cause of letting a handful of creeps run an art stealing business

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

Per the 2005 Supreme Court decision, police do not have a duty to protect: www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/p...

8/ Governor Kathy Hochul just posted this statement on X.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.