🔥🔥 “We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks . . . It cheapens our actions by degrading what we believe is possible. Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us.”

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

Yesterday Pete Hegseth hit his own balls with a skateboard and then today he did something super embarrassing.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have unveiled a promising new vaccine that generates a powerful immune response against HIV and other viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza with just ONE dose. By combining immune-boosting adjuvants, the vaccine encourages the body to generate more antibody variations.

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Focus on your own lane right now. Be the person you want to see in the world.

👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️ Sun, Sep 28 Bigg's T123s & humpback Malachite were still inland Puget Sound as of last night, let's see about today... 📸 Another stunning image from J pod's first foray inland Puget Sound this season, and 1st to South Puget Sound since at least 1976. Triple porpoise by Jason Cook, 9/20 #psws

It's come to my attention that there's free shipping on inprnt this weekend, so here's a heads up that I do have one! It's mostly pirates, pirate-adjacent things, and just a tiny bit of garashir, if any of that is for you, fanart enjoyers! www.inprnt.com/gallery/sami... #ofmd #artshop

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

This is the most excellent local headline writing. "DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT NEAR THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES." (this is explicitly for @andreagrimes.com )

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

President Donald Trump has dispatched federal agents to Portland, local elected officials said in a hastily scheduled press conference on Friday night

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

Got my covid & flu shots at Costco this morning. In line there was me (gen-x), a lot of white-haired folks with walkers & canes, and a veritable fleet of brightly garbed queer milennials & gen-z'ers. Everybody was masked except the white-hairs.

You've all read Pratchett's MONSTROUS REGIMENT, I expect? Do you recall the Abominations issued by the god Nuggan? Nuggan issued Abominations against chocolate, cats, dwarfs, the color blue, garlic, crop rotation, the smell of beets, and much more, and the reader sees that Nuggan is clearly mad.

Once again I beg you to consider my proposal that a rotating committee of librarians and stage managers be put in charge of the US.

The Trump-Vance administration really went ahead and declared a national security emergency over couches.

What a great time to listen to some podfics! May I suggest using this link here to peruse some options: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

Do we give awards for Best Alt Text?

This is a fun one!

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Don't forget to register for my hybrid #Voynich lecture on Friday, Sept. 26, at 2:30 PM Eastern at the University of Toronto! After a year of work, Colin Layfield & I have important data- and material-results about the original structure of the manuscript! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/lisa-...

We now have a doorknob. Pretty much. As long as we don't lock it from the inside we look like we're lower-middle class again.

Please spam me with your most out-there "They Love Each Other In Every Universe" Gentlebeard-ish ship fics. Freemanji, Vianton, CoranKalamaku... the rarer the crossover, the better. It's for a thing. Thank you for your assistance on this urgent matter. #OFMD #WWDITS

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Let's do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

Even funnier about the Sinclair Charlie Kirk special that didn’t air on ABC affiliates: it only had 2,000 views on YouTube this morning (worldwide) and this afternoon it’s still not even at 4,000! NO ONE CARES

No one should pay to see this movie until Disney stops censoring employees who say things disagreeable to the regime. That will be no great sacrifice as this movie will be dull as rocks. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Massive consolidation of entertainment conglomerates has an unexpected downside for them: when one of their subsidiaries capitulates to fascism, it threatens their entire portfolio. ABC, Disney, Star Wars, theme parks, cruises, Hulu, Marvel, Pixar, ESPN, etc. are all now fair boycott targets.

The thing about being an artist is that sometimes you’ll have a really silly/cursed image enter your head and spend hours of your life drawing it. Hours you’ll never get back.

chicago, irving park: ice spotted at home depot at addison/kimball

i dunno what those etsy witches did to the m’s but holy shit thank you girlies i owe you my life

This dog led an officer to his leash while being rescued from his burning home. 14/10 for all (IG: aurorapoliceil)

Black women are telling you not to register to attend a protest because we have parents and family and friends and church folks who survived the Civil Rights movement and in some cases didn’t And also because we read and in some cases do historical work But hey if you wanna listen to random dude

I do not know another way to express to people that trying to appease fascists by “being a good minority” or totally deferring to them publicly has saved absolutely no marginalized group or profession in human history. They are coming after us anyway. Even if you scold peers for not being nice.

Our friends over at the Gateway Server are looking for some new mods for their social media, if anyone is interested in helping out with an amazing fandom project!! #OFMD

btw Costco seems to have the cheapest updated COVID vax. You can get it without a card at the pharmacy and they do take walk-ins. If you’re also uninsured due to the massive amounts of layoffs this year, they also take this goodrx coupon to lower the cost of www.goodrx.com/comirnaty?sr...

DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.

every headline about mark zuckerberg should remind people that he was so sure that NFTs would become the new free market that he rebranded his whole company to get ahead of the wave he thought was coming

Spouse's heme/onc doc texted from a conference in Poland yesterday. Doc was sitting at a table with the biochem team whose life's work saved my spouse's life. We got to share the family pic of us on a mountain a few days after the clinical trial finished. We got to say thanks directly!!!

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

I so appreciate the @orcspiration.bsky.social account. In my head I've started wording goofy little goals as if they were Orcspiration. Yesterday's replacement of exterior door-sweeps was more fun when I told myself, "TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE MILLIPEDES. AND YOU WILL WIN."

From 2023…

Transgression is an underappreciated spice.