deepest of deep breaths feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

There’s a historic indoor clean air high level event at the UN today. @drbronking.bsky.social is of course leading by example wearing a high quality mask while chairing the meeting 👏👏👏

Oh, swell. And to kick things off, we have... 1/3 apnews.com/article/un-g...

i think america would be a better place if everyone just stopped paying attention to politico til they went out of business. there’s no “autism problem” just like there’s no “trans debate.” both of those things are eugenics. both questions are really “should these subhumans be allowed to exist?”

Nobody who actually paid attention is surprised that our public health agencies are now running a folic acid grift at the expense of autistic people. None of us.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Study: Pretending Everything's Okay Works https://theonion.com/study-pretending-everythings-okay-works-1819573735/

Cleaner air isn't a personal health choice, it's something that needs the broad mandate of the state to accomplish. But we'll never get there as a society (despite the tech being relatively simple), because we've been brainwashed by a neoliberal health ideology that's centred on individual choices.

To Apple’s business owner/decision makers for iCloud: May you lose your home keys daily May you have to visit the toilet every hour of nighttime May soap always get in your eyes, even if you are just washing your hands May Lego pieces manifest every time you are barefoot, even in the shower

In The Wake of the Jazz.

🖤Erica Williams🖤

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

the nicest older Japanese lady just stopped me, entirely unprompted, and checked to make sure I was getting on the right train I was not in fact getting on the right train Thank you ma'am you're a hero

this exists it is called thinking

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

Un parfait condensé du marasme actuel.

No the fuck it isn’t. Mastodon is a goddamned garbage fire snd I am sick to death of people extolling its virtues like Black folks haven’t long since pointed out the enduring structural racism of the platform.

A warning to everyone using DNA/ancestry services: US & UK, the two countries in the Western world where those companies are based, are spiraling down into fascism. Delete your data ASAP, before the local, eugenics fans, overlords catch up. Data privacy & international laws won't protect you.

how to get more people to watch Farscape

Some of the Russian drones over Poland were shot down, and the crewed warplanes were escorted out of NATO airspace in Estonia. If we shoot them down, then RUS claims that NATO is at war with them. If we don't shoot them down, they will make more violations. Should we shoot them down? #Defence

"The incident follows a new warning after... A Spanish maritime rescue ship was called after the boats were rammed by orcas just minutes apart in the waters of Galicia. Rescuers towed an orca-damaged ship back into the harbour before they were alerted to another attack."

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

I’m trying to repair/salvage my old appliances as long as possible. Anything new has broken down faster, has annoying and unnecessary controls and beeps and is a sensory nightmare. Bring back simple and functional stuff please.

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

"Fear is strange soil. Mainly, it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.” #TerryPratchett #Discworld #DailydoseofTerry #SFF #booksky 📚💙

Being brave ≠ being fearless

Man, there are a lot of folks who can’t distinguish between necessary risk taking and dumbass risk taking.

There's 0 chill in the world because we let these kinds of fuckers run too much of it.

Looks like somewhere was about as ready to protect civil rights as they were to defeat a pandemic. #IYKYK

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

"its great value for the tech you're getting" man

And they want to use AI to determine healthcare needs.

A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.

John Dickinson in 1776: "Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor (& that is why they will follow us to the right, ever to the right...)" Nixon had the song struck from the 1972 film; I only saw a restored version a few yrs ago.

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

When I studied abroad at Oxford during law school, it was a common thing for Americans to argue that the written US constitution was superior to the unwritten UK constitution because it's harder to ignore written rules. I guess that argument is basically over now.

They each became involved in the progressive world, too. Bob became a major figure in the NRDC environmental group. Paul, who made it on to Nixon's enemies list, later was a part owner of The Nation magazine. They were each gracious, smart, and engaged. They entertained and enlightened.

As predicted: “Oracle [founded by Trump ally Larry Ellison], Andreessen Horowitz [founded by Trump/Thiel ally Marc Andreessen] consortium will control 80% of TikTok…” 9/16/25 Ellison & Andreessen also funded Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, so this is kind of like capturing Boardwalk & Park Place. 1/

🙁 Jerry is leaving #BenAndJerrys (via @yobencohen.bsky.social)

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

“Cancer patients, who have weakened immune systems, are twice as likely to die from Covid-19 as the general population. Now a study has found that a daily nasal spray may be of help to reduce their risks.” #CovidGoodNews

Leadership coach: So… how would you describe your management style? Me: 50% Pit Bull, 50% Siberian Husky

also, for some joy, let's share one of my fav photos of Redford and Newman where they're gleefully playing table tennis in the late '60s

Dear lord, I'm really going to have to teach you people about shitlord culture and being blackpilled, aren't I? This is not how I wanted to spend my adulthood. You could be reading my fifth epic fantasy novel right now if we had UBI. Nope, we're doing 4chan instead. Fuck this timeline.

TIL that Hank Green paraded his entitled, ignorant, and misogynistic bare-naked arse publicly across all and every science and knitting communities under the sun, total just some millions of people. Oh the roasting ♥️

Kristine Vike www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx1o...

After the week we've had, I think we've earned a little knitting controversy. Have you heard about the Hank Green video that says knitting is simple and all we've learned about how knit fabric works is through trial and error? Whoo, buddy. knitting.craftgossip.com/why-do-knitt... #knitsky 🧶

I'm one of those writers who won't use the expression "ok" in fantasy because it's one of those things that has a really known start date. I wouldn't let my co-conspirator on one project use "peripatetic" because I'm like "are we asserting there was an Aristotle?" It raised so many questions.

There is definitely not a huge amount of awareness among nuclear advocates, who seem be in a constant state of euphoria in the feeling that they're seeing some sort of comeback, that much of their support seems to be coming from unstable, far-right, fascistic autocrats