I am completely uninterested in video podcasts. I listen to podcasts the way I listen to audiobooks: walking to work, walking the dog, subway ride, doing dishes, taking a bath, etc. Just as I’m not going to watch a tv show while doing that, I’m not going to watch a video podcast.

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

I’ve been thinking of checking out Deck.blue, and this makes me want to use it. Maybe not needed for a casual user like me, but it does sound cool.

Bluesky Lifesavers: 1. OnlyPosts Feed. Shows posts from the folks you follow; no reposts or replies! HUGELY helpful for high-traffic days like Portfolio Day 2. Pronouns labeler. Shows your pronouns to anyone using the labeler! 3. Deck.blue. This is how I make clickable hyperlinks + scheduled posts.

It’s increasingly clear that social media is a net social evil which shreds attention spans, and this is why the only appropriate remedy available in this space is spending time observing Morris company wallpaper patterns

A delayed Xmas dinner, Xmas cake, and presents with a daughter, a son-in-law (not that daughter’s husband), and 4 granddaughters (2 each). I got some nice shirts, a nice sweater, some awesome warm socks, a bottle of whisky, and some other little things.

one of many reasons that the organized critique and refusal movement is overwhelmingly led by women (yes including women computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and engineers)

Ah ‘The California “Click to Cancel Law,” Assembly Bill 2863, effective July 1, 2025, requires companies to make it as easy for consumers to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up for it’ cal.lawsoup.org/legal-guides...

The audiobook of "Swordheart" by @tkingfisher.com is on sale at Chirp for $3.99 today. It works as a standalone even tho the series (Hugo finalist World of the White Rat) technically starts with Clockwork Boys. Daggerbound (Swordheart #2) comes out next August! www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/s...

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

Nah you're fine everyone already knows

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

Always repost Big Challenges

Just muted a couple hundred new followers. WHY DID I MUTE/BLOCK YOU? 🧵 - Well, if somebody has just recently arrived in Bluesky but is following over 10k people (and some are following over 100k), they're bigtime follow-farming and not somebody I'll want to interact with.

#Welcome, NewSkys! Something you'll encounter here is Lists. You can make them yourself, easily. Some people make blocklists, which let you block or mute everyone on them. Be careful which ones you use! Some people make them maliciously. You could end up blocking people you like. #blocklists #tips

I’m trying to to show that you can still use politically necessary tactics (ads, polling, etc), but we can still do more. Our work feeding / clothing / helping people has been a big factor for person-to-person persuasion, on top of drawing literally thousands of volunteers.

I just want Danny Trejo to burst into the thread with a whole pack of chihuahuas.

I’m a trained social worker. I worked with cases of CSA and other horrifying traumas. I didn’t learn til 6 months before I burnt out how dangerous and cumulative vicarious and secondary trauma are. You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.

Sick Kid: Hold it. Hold it. Grandpa, you read that wrong. Sick Kid: The horse doesn’t die. It gets out of the swamp. I’m just sure of it. After all they’ve been through together, if it died, it wouldn’t be fair. Grandpa: Well who says life is fair? Where is that written? Life isn’t always fair.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

You will be saddened as you read this and see artists whose work you know well, artists you will miss. Choose an artist you're unfamiliar with, in a field you're unfamiliar with. Read their obituary. Be sad for them too.

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/

I'm never been somebody trying to break into fantasy fiction but I have been hanging around the internet in the most woke/SJW/lefty SF&F spaces for over 10 years now as a white anglo cis straight man & never once has anybody* been negative about that or called me a nobody

Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable. (Published Aug. 2024)

Side-note: not about “breaking in” but more about “how I’ve had so many really nice conversations with my favorite authors”: sign up for panels where you know something. Volunteer to moderate panels.

I love that not only is Leo an American, but he also worked in the exact places that many refugees are fleeing from. "How would he like it" to be surrounded by such people? He literally chose to make it his life's work.

there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction

Don't forget the most popular avenue for foreigners' career as highlighted on twitter — foreigners are over-represented in the field of writing angry comments about evil foreigners in Japan

cc: @annaleen.bsky.social @kellyrobson.com please solve privacy in a single one hour conversation. kthxbai! (no, but seriously, I'd love to watch or listen to this. A podcast would work too!)

If their genius is not recognized after they come to the convention with their manuscript in hand, surely it must be because they are white and male. Couldn't be anything else. They will go and tell people this was their experience at the convention. They were excluded. Tale as old as time.

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

Two stories side by side in WashPost

“We were transferred from one prison to another, and during the strip searches I was raped.” That’s what German journalist Anna Liedtke, who was abducted by Israel from the freedom flotilla boat Conscience, says Israeli soldiers did to her while she was being held in captivity.

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team - I am still having a problem replying to JUST THIS ONE ACCOUNT'S post.

Merry greetings, sophonts! This year our publication schedule fell on the Earth holiday known as Christmas, so please enjoy the relevant story "Samantha’s Diary" by Diana Wynne Jones.

So I just got the “You’re now using Gemini on your iOS device” email. A) Uh, no I’m not. B) How to I make A true? C) In what possible universe does Google think THAT was a good marketing strategy?

Thank you, @stonelands.bsky.social

Did someone say 'boxing'? 'The Boxer' (1933) by Russian artist Konstantin Somov. 🥊🌈🎨 Happy Boxing Day! #BoxingDay #Christmas #queer #lgbtq #art #arthistory #1930s 🗃️

On the Fukuoka subway, a fussy child was told by his mother, “If you don’t behave, the gaijin will take you away.” I looked at her, then squatted down at told the kid in Japanese, “Your mother is lying.”

A kid at a wedding leaned in really close to me and declared, “you have beard”, then ran away.

Christmas morning

“President Trump announces strike on ISIS targets in Nigeria” @npr.org headline. Glad the article included the unhinged tweet; should have noted it was one of almost 200 Trump made on Xmas Day, all of which were unhinged. Seriously, NPR, you don’t have to keep treating the guy with kid gloves.

THREAD. A selection of haunting encounters I have had with folk horror creatures and ghosts during walks in the British countryside. You will find the full descriptions of these disturbing incidents in the alt text. 1. Weeping Fence Banshee.

The Onion, non-stop winning

anyone who knows Korea’s deeply entrenched 70 years history as a sending country for #adoption understands that this is titanic. m.koreaherald.com/article/1064...

'An estimated 400 million people have been affected by long COVID since 2020, with a $1 trillion annual cost to the global economy.' This study provides 'the first comprehensive genetic framework for understanding Long COVID and developing personalized treatments.' journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

A publisher can do their best to almost kill a book with their questionable business practices. The book might have a delayed release via another small indie publisher. The literary elite might ignore the book. Fortunately none of that stops readers enjoying the book and telling people about it.

“You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long fucking time to say.”

Timeline cleanse.