Read the whole thread. If we don't dream big enough - we'll keep ending up back in the same fascistic stranglehold. Dream bigger. Bigger yet. Keep going.

What is hope, if not spite persevering?

Also like. This is half a step removed from "poor people shouldn't breed," which is just eugenics, right?

i prefer socialists who credit the art team

We went to The Big Gay Prom tonight!

🚀 ScienceSky and SpaceSky this evening:

Authors are not all using AI. Not even close. Anyone claiming otherwise is telling on themselves. The truth is, a lot of us authors have a central conceit to us. We believe in our heart of hearts that we have something unique to us to say to the world.

No spoilers OK guys

Our country has been doing everything wrong for decades, just seeing... competence. It's bracing. It's a reminder of who we were. Who we could have been. Who we might still be.

Good morning, Bluesky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYR...

Are we there yet "It's the Moon, stop saying 'Are we there yet'" Oh sorry Are we there YET

the “I deserve AI because writing is simply Too Hard™️ without it 🥺” caucus would do well to reread the part of “Write Like a Motherfucker” where Cheryl Strayed explains the entitlement of complaining about how difficult writing is when you aren’t actually doing it therumpus.net/2010/08/19/d...

I have zero experience mending anything, let alone embellished lace, a torn $3k shawl, black thread, a magnifying lamp, and a Friday deadline. Also Adderall. Wish me luck!

Tonight, a member of my time-traveling #ChangelingTheDreaming crew of thieves made a Watergate reference during their first convo with the campaign's antagonist. They're in 1969. Oops. Time for a jail break!

New batch of terrarium pendants are live in my shop!

It sucks how many people in power are actively incompetent, filled with malice, actively destructive towards others, and/or failing the moment. But that doesn't mean I have to be either. I can still be kind, considerate, ethical, and trustworthy, especially to myself and the people I care about.

Absolute Rule: If a movie character goes to a tarot reader, said character will get the Death card. The tarot reader will insist that the Death card is not a bad thing. The Death card is then, most definitely, a bad thing.

People still hating on the No Kings stuff are telling on themselves. They don't *want* a popular resistance movement. They want to be little rare political flowers who get to complain about the brunch moms but oops actually the brunch moms gave up on brunch and want blood, now

An Open Letter to the 2026 Hugo Finalists, Whoever They May Be This is an updated version of this post from 2021, this post from 2022, this post from 2023, this post from 2024 and this post from last year, which a lot of people found helpful. There also a Chinese translation of the 2023 post to be…

I won't underprice the art or the labor. I won't overpromise, and I won't under deliver. What you get with me and every other small business are actual human beings who care.

As the person running the Transformative Works track for WorldCon, I do not have time for people who claim that fanfiction is "a cancer" contributing to the "illiteracy crisis," and that there's no proof that transformative works fans also read "real" books.

Going to The Big Gay Prom next Friday and bought my first formal dress in AGES. I might be self conscious about it not having any arm coverage to speak of, but I want to show off my tattoos!

BTW if you ever wanna commission an artist you don't have to have OC's or fandom characters- you can literally just be like "dang I'd like to have some more lesbian art exist" or "wow it would be real nice to see some trans rep in my culture" or "wouldn't a yellow centric painting look nice here"

What is my cat hiding? THE TINIEST BLEP:

"I need more tiny bones and dead insects for my projects," I just said to myself, and not for the first time.

Haven't been getting much done this week, but today I went to the hardware store and replaced the socket on a lamp that's been broken for months, so now I have a functional arm lamp in the living room for crafting!

I have a bipolar joke but it gets mixed reception.

Eat the rich. Not because they taste good... but because when they are gone, everything else will be sweeter.

My fellow Gen Xers + elder Millennials + Boomers can be just like every generation before them & look at new expressions of self & connections to community exclusively through the lens of what is or can be (legitimately!) worrying, or they can look at younger people as people & not flat characters.

Cats are such graceful, majestic creatures

Multnomah County’s Donald E. Long Detention Center hosts weekly fantasy game sessions for youth in custody.

Haliya, Ascendant Cadet (Edge of Eternities) Artist: Justyna Dura "By the eternal and everflowing light, I swear myself to this cause." #magicthegathering #mtg

Women are so cool and powerful. Pass it on.

Already have the prerelease tab open on @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social !!

The way Whitney, Gloria Estefan, & Melissa Etheridge had a LOCK on my mom's stereo time!

Financial advisor: are there any funds you're looking to invest in? Me: I want to buy solar panels for my house and avoid giving my money to predatory venture capital firms, genAI companies, and Tesla/Meta/etc stock. So: no?

Lazy dreary Sunday, but at least it's cozy inside:

We're in the final countdown! The shop closes this Friday, but until then everything is 20% off! Every $ we earn this week makes it easier for Donna to bully me into actually resting post-surgery, a thing I do NOT want to do. lol We even have some NEW GOODIES on sale! thebrokencircle.etsy...

Dayum

May they have no peace for the rest of their miserable lives May they be afraid and ashamed to show their faces in public

But skewering ourselves on the knives of our own self-doubt isn't actually the opposite of refusing to look inside because you're afraid of what you'll see. Arrogance isn't born out of confidence. It's fear. Knowledge and self-acceptance are better tools than self-criticism.

A friend told me today, "You lack the protective reassurance of Dunning-Krueger" and man, I feel that down to my BONES.

"Do AI enthusiasts not understand—" yes, generally, they do not understand! They are devotedly stupid.

The problem with "culture war is a distraction from class war" is that "culture war" isn't an abstraction and the people harmed by institutional bigotry are every bit as real as the people harmed by wealth and income hoarding. In fact, they're often the same people. Culture war IS class war.

Every single one of the new tech products that built their engine using stolen date should be awarded one (or more!) shiny class action lawsuit(s) that results in a judgment that makes the Anthropic settlement look like pocket change.

Your Hugo Nominating ballot can make a difference. There are a total of 7718 people with the right to cast a nominating ballot in the 2026 Hugo Awards. As of this morning, 1293 of those people have cast a nominating ballot in at least one category. www.lacon.org/hugos/

I’m at an art gallery show featuring college student artist/scientist teams creating new works about climate hope and I just saw an exhibit on decomposition of fallen trees as a fertile home for other organisms that says “There Is No Death In This Ancient Forest” and it hit so hard I had to sit down