The Olympic women's short program is today, and this is my preview / reminder for those who may be wondering what happened since the last Olympics. At the last Olympics, as many of you know, the breathless talk of the commentators was about women doing quad jumps! Wow! Amazing!

I’m just gonna post this all over tonight! trans people going back thouuuuusands of years

⚠️ PSA - don’t take health advice from people who snort cocaine off toilet seats. We are truly living in Idiocracy, and you can thank RFK Jr. for this outbreak.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

“We’re not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.” Jessie Jackson REST IN PEACE

regret to inform that I AM the target audience for Elmo in the box with Tara and Johnny commentating on Grover ice skating and then crashing into a wall I did laugh! I’m sorry!

February 16th asks for patience. The land is still quiet, but beneath it, life is preparing. You don’t need to rush your becoming—move at the pace of something ancient and steady. The light knows its way back. Take care and stay safe. 💙

wow this is a huge deal wow WOW

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

This is what bugs me when people blame rising authoritarianism on economic anxiety. Specifically whose anxiety??

BLUESKY, DISCORD AND ITS ALTERNATIVES, YOUR ART SITES, YOUR ADULT SITES, FANFICTION ALL OF IT DIES WITHOUT SECTION 230 GET CALLING #savespeech #stopcensorship #section230 #defendsection230 #defends230

Nobody has ever been fooled by this guy that didn’t want to be

Thanks for all the love for the Aro-Spec Bundle! Aromantic rep isn't an easy one to find, so I especially appreciate the boosts on this one! 💜🖤💚 ♠️🌈📚💙

Happy Monday, Bluesky. I hope your week starts off well 🤞🤞🤞

And digitization is hardly a mechanically automatic process. Primary source materials can contain so much more information pertaining to the circumstances of their creation than can be gleaned from a scan of the “characters.” Archives contain *artifacts.*

Persona also relies primarily on funding flows from Peter Thiel

If you write trans romance, THANK YOU

birb.

ooo pretty.

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This makes my brain happy in ways I can't explain.

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100% this.

Idaho

I heard about a killing of a Black man in DC by US marshals on a call from someone in the neighborhood then saw it confirmed by the organization @harrietsdreams.bsky.social & here. A Black man in DC was killed by the state today. Make the same noise for him as for anyone else when we have his name.

Men (and my gods, it’s almost always cis men) like this don’t want “reasonable” discussion; they want to be allowed to dictate what reasonable means.

They are death camps Just because the death is currently haphazard and technically unplanned Doesnt make it less of a death camp

Flashback to 2014 www.vice.com/en/article/t...

We could all stand to watch a little more media like Chernobyl. The details in that miniseries were condensed for narrative convenience, but for something that happened when I was a baby, it was enlightening to how close we were to an apocalyptic scenario because authoritarians didn't like bad news.

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

Look, I’m a giant, MASSIVE nerd who wants to live in Iain Banks’ Culture as much as the next post-scarcity guy, but our current fill in the blank machines bear about as much relationship to intelligence as a duck does to a stealth bomber. All of this is so incredibly stupid.

Now watch Ireland thrive and become world leader in the arts. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

“One group stands out in having vigorously defended the rights of trans Americans: Blue state AGs have formed coalition after coalition, repeatedly filing lawsuits, amicus briefs, and official comments disputing the legality of discriminatory actions.” From @valorievandieman.bsky.social

“Magic: The Gathering” Gathers for Trans Lives, Raises $450,000 in Less Than Two Days open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Remember, every time you spread misinformation, a librarian's blood pressure goes up. Keep librarians healthy by verifying before you post.

The assumption that romance is not worth protecting from scammers is also wildly insulting considering how romance practically props up the book industry with its sales numbers.

That Green Day + Bad Bunny concert was brilliant. Annoying sports thing before and after could've been shorter.

The funny thing about that show? Not a word of it was in English, but it was one of the more patriotic halftime shows I’ve seen. “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”

Epstein survivors released a Super Bowl ad demanding justice and accountability. Years later, survivors are still waiting while institutions stay silent. This isn’t closure. It’s failure. Watch the ad. Share it everywhere. Demand justice.

Before you criticize the existence of something you personally think only a "lazy" person would use, remember disabled and marginalized people exist before you say anything.

Pond study! 🪷

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

The guys behind him in the flat hats are Los Pleneros de la Cresta, a teaching ensemble working to keep traditional plena music alive on the island They were an integral part of the residency last summer and are on tour with him this year

We’re onto you, Ring

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This is a small issue but I do think it's endemic of how the mainstream press is treating everything: giving the TPUSA Kid Rock "alternative Super Bowl halftime show" the same weight as Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl, like the former will get even 1/100000000th of the audience of the latter.

Unfortunately they are blocking all erotica from distribution. Very sad to see a champion for indie bookstores take such a restrictive stance on fiction.