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Fantasy series with elves but the elves are not haughty assholes but instead act like billionaires. Totally clueless dork losers, zero charisma, just fucking awful people no one wants to be around. Everyone mocks them.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Things I did today: - mended the frayed hems of my most comfortable jeans (Tencel doesn’t last) - patched up mesh laundry basket (for the 4th time; mesh also doesn’t last) - did 3 loads of laundry - wrote an email - picked up a prescription - worked on Gelato dot com - made icebox tea. Tired.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

If there's one legacy of the War in Iraq that Democrats should have internalized, it's the fact that those who lined up behind the war drums all came to regret that decision while those who wisely refused to go along were soon vindicated. One of the latter rode that decision to the White House!

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

I keep trying to express this to people. Granted, I had to learn it the hard way, but doing the work is the work The learning happens in retrieval, not encoding. Pulling it out of your brain and applying it is the hard part and it’s the part that sucks, but it’s also the only part you can’t skip!

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CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

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so like i know brad lander is a candidate for mayor but maybe the headlines should focus on the fact they arrested the guy CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF NEW YORK CITY’S FINANCES

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

"In 2020, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said the company "is fiercely committed to diversity and inclusion across all spectrums because it makes us and the world better." (That statement has been erased from Verizon's corporate website.)"

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GO GET YOUR FUCKING PASSPORTS

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I do not like AI in Slack I do not like AI on Mac I do not like AI in Zoom I don’t want AI in my room I do not want ChatGPT — please stop, AI, and leave me be! I don’t want AI here, or there; I don’t want AI anywhere! (… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

I am once again asking for some equivalent to a pop-up blocker that blocks the "would you like AI with that" messages sprouting up like spots of mold in every application

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Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.” No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post. Compliance ≠ usability. Day 23 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Found a bit of braided yarn at the bottom of my purse, long forgotten: an old lady sold them on the subway, called them bracelets. They were much too short to be tied around anybody’s wrist, except a baby’s. Coarse acrylic yarn. She had no takers. So I bought a bracelet & told her it was pretty.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

New York City did not defund the police. This is not a thing that happened.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

I am rereading Anne McCaffrey’s Harper Hall trilogy for the first time in decades (the Dragon Babies podcast gave me a nudge). Am startled to find that my own 1970’s visualizations of many characters have been replaced in my memory by the portraits in Robin Wood’s excellent 1988 book.

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Tone is one of the most underrated aspects of writing, and I'd argue one of the most important. When it's executed properly, that's what draws the reader to a story and immerses them in it. #writersky #booksky #authorsky

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

ok maybe the American flag scolds had a point, this photo goes hard

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

Last week I caught some of the most phenomenal events in the sky. These sprites were so strong and so close that their colors reached maximum intensity from my vantage point. The pink, purple, and blue colors at the lower 40-50km altitude are where the air is denser, meaning where molecules

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I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

submitted 5 days ago • 166 comments

You feel that? How, for today, everything seems a bit less existentially terrifying, because the evil bastards aiming to destroy us have made complete and utter fucking clowns of themselves? Today is an object lesson in why ridicule is one of the most essential weapons against fascism.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

The NYC march ended at Madison Square Park, and ended with an art show

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It's wild that someone as obsessed as he is with crowd size would hold an event in DC after cutting tens of thousands of federal jobs.

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I know we’re all singing Gavin’s praises this week but as far as Governors go, Pritzker was there first, without his state being under direct attack by this regime (other elected officials too). Credit where credit is due. Integrity is about your choices before the cameras are on.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

When you meet another good human being, you have a responsibility to tell them. Life is hard. It helps.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Everything looks better when framed by a bit of Altocumulus undulatus… #RoseWednesday 🌱

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“Allée of the Ancients” Available as a giclée fine art print in my Etsy shop. Find it here: theartofrobhusberg.etsy.com/listing/7794...

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New York may be the one US city that absolutely does not have to worry about a "wealth exodus" if they hike taxes on the 1%. The billionaires of Manhattan want to live in MANHATTAN, not New Jersey or Connecticut.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments