Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/
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Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/
gotta keep the game in mind too :)
yeah, I feel you on that, but there is absolutely no reason not to have knives elsewhere (and really, if I am running over my fallen opponent, the cleats will make it, where the blades would foul)
counter counter point, cleats
*playfully contrary* but reaction time is surely faster without the armor?
curved clubs are better for hooking behind someone's heel though, for shenanigans..
we're talking field hockey though, right?
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Monday I start my new job, I've been laid off for over a month and we could still use some help with bills this month until I get my first paycheck finally. Any help/shares/etc all highly appreciated. So close to things being more normal if we can get caught up. $TurianBatman PayPal.me/leximac
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it's a good way to be
I forgot to mention last night, but the fun part is that I ACTUALLY have blank NES cartridges and I am ACTUALLY going to make these and have them at Edmonton Expo
Mazel tov!
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This means it will be vital that authors who have copyright registrations make sure they are included. Short story writers with registrations should push hard to also be included if their works were pirated. I wrote a thread on this a few days ago. 6/ bsky.app/profile/jaso...
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probably time to give this an update. I am still very unemployed, and money is tight. I am now also in the process of getting a divorce which doesn't change my financials, but maybe wins me a little more pity anyway, if you want to help me out. you can toss me some dollars through bandcamp or venmo
Idk if I should talk about this more often, but im not exaggerating when I say this administration completely sank my income, and im still recovering If you don't know, i work for a non-profit that focuses on sex workers' rights and rights for sex trafficking survivors. So that means
Are yall tired of me asking for money? Yes. Am I tired of asking for money? Also, yes. Has this administration completely obliterated my finances? Yes. Do I really, really need $125 to make sure my phone doesn't get off? Also, yes. Please help me out $phoenixcalida
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I lent out my megaphone for No Sleep For ICE, and it got returned busted. Small ask, but money is really tight for me right now. bsky.app/profile/thin...
alright, folks. Friday #Atlyss stream: twitch.tv/riversidewings
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I feel like I need to do a concise fountain pen sins post, for when people can't remember who did what. -Muji: coerced Uyghur labor -Noodler's: racism (egregious), ink damages pens, covid conspiracist. -Goulet: anti-queer, on staff for a southern Baptist Convention church. ...
I have made a mistake. Listening to the @crackedivorypod.bsky.social episode on Jack Halberstam's "Female Masculinity", I heard a passing mention of an article, in which Halberstam had been "extremely normal" about Andrea Long Chu. And I thought to myself "Wonder what that's about?"
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*tosses you a Centrum Silver* let's outlive it.
The joys (complimentary) of watching Apothecary Diaries with others and seeing the responses of the 'Maomao's to being seen/seeing themselves...
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This dovetails with Kim Reynolds' efforts to classify trans people as disabled in all those 3 am bills she had to sneak in because we're not actually a bunch of bigots here and she got swarmed with protesters.
Participation may well be complicity. But here's the problem: if you boycott the legal system, THE SYSTEM WILL NOT BOYCOTT YOU BACK. If you ignore a summons or simply do not show up, you can be defaulted (you lose automatically),
"Pennsylvania is the latest state to adopt vaccine counsel from nongovernmental agencies in order to ensure access to COVID-19 shots this fall as health leaders with the Trump administration move to restrict or limit eligibility."
You don't say.
Like yeah, death is scary, but like there’s a reason our oldest known myth, Gilgamesh, is about trying *and failing* to overcome death (because the bro you love in a way that only two bros can love has died) (Gilgamesh and Enkidu were roommates)
Please don't forget this. I don't want to lose the third book, and this just isn't a huge ask for the English-speaking world. Please let people know - on here and otherwise. And creators, a donation of a micro or flash piece could push this so fast! ❤️
I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...
holy shit dude using a fake deployment for wildland fire crews from a fire that’s only 13% contained during peak western US fire season to detain multiple firefighters and remove the crews from the fire is a scale of evil & dangerous I can’t fully communicate to people not from wildfire regions
this continues to be true in many places (not, afaik, in Ireland) and having once (once!) gotten water from a hand-pump when I lived in Darfur, that is hard fucking work.
"Rate this one out of ten." "I would give it pi. Because it's not good, but in an infinitely interesting way."
This video is fantastic and absolutely true. We're going to get to some of this later in the series on peasants but the time-labor demand of 'household chores' before ten seconds ago was enormous. One 1900 report put the average food prep per week per woman at 44 hours; another 14 hours on laundry.
This started as an explainer for a video demo of a prototype I've been cooking, but blew up into its own little announcement.😅
“Oliver is bracingly, uncommonly honest about her fear that she might be a loser… If this lack of guile drew me to her work as a child, it is even more instructive to me as an adult, after decades of hiding my shameful desire for inclusion under layers of posturing and pretense.”
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I don't really think it's appropriate for Forbes to call Flock "a startup," implying that it's a smoll bean Andreessen Horowitz VC corp valued at $7.5B billion that is giving cops worldwide the ability to stalk and hunt and surveil us even more than they usually can, in this dick sucking PR piece
Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
I will go back to the same example: death rates from cancer have fallen enormously since chemotherapy and radiation were invented. Do you say “back during cancer” because death rates are lower now? No, because that’s ridiculous.
HOW MANY MORE TIMES DO WE NEED TO FUCKING TEST THIS SHIT
Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
So how's the "okay everyone has observed our secret policy outcomes, have accused us of using a secret policy, but as long as we don't admit to it - should be fine, right?" going for y'all?
Sapphic 1824 romance between a suspicious piano tuner and a silk-weaver running a heist to fund a weavers’ union — hot makeouts, some neat historical details (convict love tokens), and easter eggs from both Leverage and the Scarlet Pimpernel: www.oliviawaite.com/hellions-waltz #Romancelandia 💙📚
In the last year or so, I've read several fantasy books that are 1) by & about queer people and 2) set in Appalachia (more or less explicitly). Here they are!
I had to spend everything I had on meds - Aleve, Tylenol, Zyrtec, Benadryl, Pepcid, etc. Broke again 😅
big ups to that frond for keeping it that way!
is the palm frond keeping those jeans street legal?
I've been screaming this since the start. Troll posting on social media isn't actually doing anything. There's been no policy, there's been no protection conferred to people targeted by Trump, and now Newsom is sending state police to occupy California cities which flew right under the radar.
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I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
Trump’s treatment of Appalachia’s coal miners exemplifies his approach to labor in general: Kneecap unions whenever possible, prop up industry profits at all costs, and if a few workers die in the process, pretend it never happened. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
this is a perfect answer. my current tolerance for “queer suffering” in media - as in specifically suffering BECAUSE you are queer - is close to zero. I’m just not available to it right now. that’s totally different from putting an ensemble which features queer characters into a Situation
Mayor Brandon Johnson: The the president is the last person who cares about violence on Chicago's South and West sides. "There is too much violence in Chicago not because we have too many immigrants but because we have too many guns."
my best bet at this working, even as a part-time thing, is making you think of me as "that weird friend who makes cool shit" because that's the only context in which you are expected to put up with this level of inconsistency. in which you feel obligated to help me I don't know what to do with that
I often bike past a Park Police station in Rock Creek Park. This van has been there the last two weekends and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before; suspect it’s used for ICE arrests
*sales patter* - "Even at double ''normal' coffin costs, it's a steal since you can always fit more clowns than you expected in it.."
Sliding out in an absolute boat of a Y-wing with a bomber load-out..
I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this; most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue! well, we do. so fuck off.
Send this to all the genocide deniers in your life I’m sending it to my rabbi
this is evil
1) Won't they need more money? YES but more things will happen to boost that that I can't discuss yet. We need this $399 tonight. 2) If you have $399, I'll mail you all 10 of those ridiculous originals I drew today. Ephemera! 3) For $200, you can pick half of them! Please share:
This is vetted, by many people, I'm too exhausted to go into all of that again unless you have specific questions. But the *worst* case is you donate and give two Black women money. Or - you buy the Art Shop bundle and then the worst thing you do is buy some cool art. Please, help close this up!
oh wait what?
Our hearts are with the people in Indonesia who are bravely standing up to murderous state violence today. All of our struggles are interconnected. 🏴 For background on the situation, you could read these interviews we published about the wave of protests one year ago: crimethinc.com/Indonesia2024
Recommended reading. 🔥🎸🏴☠️🎸🖕 CrimethInc. : Music as a Weapon : The Contentious Symbiosis of Punk Rock and Anarchism
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.
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oh hooray!
Tuesday, thank for the reminder 👍
A friend spotted these buttons in the video of my haul and did some digging - turns out they’re cut steel and very old, Victorian era or possibly quite a bit earlier. They are REALLY neat. I have some Victorian mourning glass beads that I think will be amazing with them as necklaces.
trying to afford groceries for me, my mom, the kid and the cat. Also trying to stay ahead of cc interest. Any sharing, reposting or contributing directly is loved and deeply needed. patreon.com/wordglass paypal.me/wordglass ko-fi.com/wordglass 1/2
Rationing meds and fasting. Feeling very ill.
Elise's birthday was earlier this month and she does big sales during her birthday month which are escalating this weekend as you might expect. Lots of gorgeous things in her shop are now 50% off. Find something for you, plan ahead & get gifts for folks . . .
Morning on the Ojojihara Range. Two dolls pause in the shadow of the mech flightline. They've had a long shared journey: shed masculinity *and* humanity together. Before parting to mount up and move out, hands joined, they share a kiss. The range keeps them sharp. They keep each other soft.
Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure. This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses. We just don't want to do it.
A public health catastrophe. Not “immanent,” not “potential.” This is the catastrophe.
Oh fuck yeah
Love watching pilot program after pilot program determine over and over and over that UBI is an unambiguous positive that does not ruin economies or neighborhoods or lives and everyone nods and goes "wow, cool, interesting" and then does fucking nothing until the next pilot program 15 years later
It’s a surprise trans pizza! If you are not cisgender and want pizza, reply here with a song that makes you feel good, or just the word PIZZA. I’ll pick 5 winners completely at random and send them $50 each for pizza via PayPal or Venmo. Let’s hear some bops!
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
Just in time for Labour Day, our list of stories depicting labour unions in science fiction and fantasy has reached 250 entries. Thanks to @joachimboaz.bsky.social for all the help on this. List as HTML: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga... List as Google Doc: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 1/
I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.
tl;dr: if you work at a newsroom with funding and investigative resources PLEASE get on this, there is a massive story in here showing the inside workings of teenchallenge in paper record.
ryan, i and @thefreeradical.org were working on getting through this release years ago, but its massive, hard to search and very taxing with how horrid the contents are and we just didnt have enough eyes or hands to get through it.
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
I keep saying this, but... ...punishing the homeless is how big-city and blue state liberals do fascism.
I've got one month exactly until I get my first paycheck since being laid off. Help with covering bills and making sure I don't lose my car between now and then (which I'll need to work) is key right now. #mutualaid #helpsky PayPal.me/leximac
Improvements to the model and tweaks to the procedures the human-facing chatbot interface uses to assemble/select responses via the model can make it more *convincing*, better at doing the job of *resembling* a thoughtful response, but no amount of improvement will turn the output into thought.
oh, are we bringing back Biolanthe for a team up? 👀 (is it the X-ians again?)