It feels so late. Like not even "no kidding, genius, we just moved the clocks" late. Like, "four hours in the future" late.

They're back. I suggest blocking bsky.app/profile/hope... who are doing that thing where they do a hidden reply to a bunch of people at once. There are several similar accounts i'm currently looking for.

Can I live in boots? Can I eat boots? If ground beef is up 462% from where it was when I was a kid and housing is up 337%, does it matter that much to me that I can buy more enshittified Doc Martens that won't last the year versus the secondhand pair that's lasted me my entire adult life?

Actually… One century ago, standard, mid-range, catalog shoes went for 2025 $30-50 per pair, were repairable (glued soles hadn’t become common yet), were made of leather, would last for several years and could be Ship of Theseus’ed on soles, fasteners and heels. They were better shoes for less.

What if every time i want to get mad on here I tell a ghost story instead. Most real ones aren't very interesting tho. I once lived with a very tall Victorian lady who would constantly adjust my mirror to her height and liked to play with my spinny pewter carousel figurine.

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

"How to have difficult conversations at the holidays..." I'm not going. Very simple. Try, actively, not to catch covid and I'll come visit. Otherwise, not so much.

#OreCup FINALS: Place your vote to decide the IMA Ore Mineral of the Year! Are you a fan of the classic native metal #Copper, or the slippery silver #Molybdenite that evaded being pinned down for so long? Vote:

Soooo... if your family is one of many that doesn't collectively know how to cook poultry, maybe make lasagna this year? I'm like "as long as everything is overcooked, they'll be fine!" Sure. As long as the cutting board gets washed WAY more than people do.

This is fucked up and all, but it doesn't want to exact revenge on you NEARLY enough to imitate real corn.

The best part of having POTS and needing extra salt to stabilize your blood pressure is when someone starts selling counterfeit electrolytes that have no salt in them at all! If you have POTS, double check the site you’re buying from, especially on mobile.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

We have a local food pantry who will take anything you got. There is a kitchen and they will prepare your garden foods for people to eat... and I just found out they are closed until Nov. 21. THE TIMING OF THAT OMG.

You fucking people will let anyone off the hook for their violent hateful beliefs and all they have to do is say shiny words you like You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.

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Achievement unlocked: unexpected harmony. Acorn came over and gave Puca a kiss.

This is interesting drama to follow lol TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works

I legit think this about most of the Treasury. DOGE was for establishing clearinghouse of sensitive data on the pulblic and packaging it for surveillance first, necrocapital second, and all those cuts were for unethical "contracts" to funnel resources to friends of authoritarians.

If you'd like to pitch in to fuel my sewing journey, I won't say no. ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

but I think folks in blue states or mostly purple states need to start listening to the voting orgs on the ground in super red states IMMEDIATELY because voting activists down here have been dealing with cheating since... well I mean they've never NOT been dealing with (racist) cheating.

This is true, but back to the fact that law enforcement are particularly cruel to disabled people, as they see anything out of the norm as “noncompliance”. 50% of custody deaths are disabled people. The despicable treatment of detainees is unlivable for disabled people. Which is the point.

Man, I just wanted to be happy about a surprise t kingfisher book and for my sins people have been extremely off-putting in my mentions for going on two days.

A wobbly saying "roll with the punches but never stool for the guards" is helpful. Honestly fuck up? Have a shitty view that needs to be ditched? That can be worked on. Actively betray queers to our enemies? Work with fash because you hate kink/sex workers? Your name's spat on for generations.

Start here and keep going for an absolute octopus of threads worth reading.

Lieberman caucusing with republicans to warp and distort the ACA as originally passed leading to Trump proposing universal healthcare is one hell of a political through line

If you lecture disabled people about shopping at amazon, I hope mice eat your plumbing.

It is probably weird that I always read "MTG" as "Magic: The Gathering" but I'm sticking with it. I care not for other MTGs (and honestly I know very little about Magic: The Gathering).

Ooh I got a list. Electric Dreams: real songs, artificial musician. Purple Rain: Real songs, real Prince, Fictional bands. Rock and Rule: Real Musicians, fake band, real and fake songs. (a song is only fake if NOBODY here took it seriously.) Rich Girl: Fake bands, startlingly decent tunes. ...

Non-malicious subtweet. A guy said to pay for journalism and everybody said they couldn't afford to do that until somebody comes out with cable but for newspapers because who can afford to subscribe to everything... I think what that translates to is "there's no one magazine or paper..."

Absolutely every "American" bit part on Doctor Who.

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

Alt for beauty and justice

I saw someone post on here earlier today about why is it that only AI luminaries consistently turn out to be horrible people but it doesn’t happen in fields like biology, and that just isn’t true.

I am not doing crap today. My mom texted and asked if I wanted a thing on sale as a lil gift and it took me 3 hours to say yes. That's where we're at. So I'm watching watercolor youtube. So you know I got thoughts. Granulating watercolors: wtf? is a going question apparently and I'm gonna tell you.

Oh gosh, digging around in my old art I also found this gem. I kinda want to make her into a sticker. 😂

If I'm gonna have to keep having Amazon Prime, which I am because my assorted weirdo cats have allergies and I can't drive to get their weird foods, then I'm going to get everything out of it that I can. The First Reads books are not usually my jam but... SURPRISE T KINGFISHER?!

A couple people on here theorized in my replies that Trump's bulldozing of the East Wing was the work of a narcissist attempting to punish us for No Kings. And I wonder now if doubling down on the SNAP and airline pain is his attempt to punish everyone for Tuesday's election results.

If you have even the slightest respect for your own work, don't touch this with a ten foot pole.

amazing that this is the example they use, when I have been wondering whether having a different country of birth on passport will affect entry experience even for US citizens. Yes it's a historical fact, but t's one of so many - why is it important for that one to be noted? what does it add?

OK so we're all clear that they know what this will do and they want it to happen because they're horrible, right? Leaving that alone for a second, a passport's main function is AS AN ID. If it doesn't seem to represent you as you are now then how does it do that?

AI art on the fountain pen feed? Oh HELL no. That's a block. I mean it's a block ANYWAY I do not tolerate that shit but it is ESPECIALLY egregious over there, and coming from a writer. AND her alt text called it a photo, rather than accurately describing it as AI generated. Off to the void.

So many artists, writers, and designers I know have learned this lesson the tedious way, so let me co-sign this and say not only is it a huge waste of time and labor to listen to the "I'd buy that" crowd online, you will also lose money. Make what *you* want to make, everything else is noise

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

I think the Canary was activated in 2020 with Condé Nast having huge problems racially and around DEI. This has been coming. The reporters who survived that culling had pressures yes. But we are more than five years after of a continual pattern that people failed to stand up for

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

What an interesting question. If I get to choose, I wouldn't want somewhere I had known too well in life because it wouldn't be mine in the same way and would hurt. It might be nice to haunt a park or hiking trail. Got people and animals to watch, but not forced to. Plenty of space.

honest to god for months I thought Jacob Frey was a guy on Game of Thrones or something for how much people hated him on Twitter.

I turned off my "rude" filter, which was "on" by default even tho i've loosened my settings before and it seems to have made a serious difference, so i suggest doing that on the off chance you haven't, and yet can still see me.

No, self, you do not need another pumpkin stack.