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I think sometimes about how 15 year old me used "I am writing a novel, which will someday be my job" as an excuse to get out of gainful employment that summer, and how shocked she would be if I told her that 25 years later it actually WAS my job, because that child was fully just pulling a scam.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

what we really need is a cult of fiber leafy greens maxxing. going full ruminant sicko mode. 2 fibrous 2 farty for u weakling omegas 2 handle

submitted 11 hours ago • 36 comments

Unfair that this is happening at a time of year where it's not even dark until after 10. I cannot stay up that late at the best of times, but when it's light at 5? Impossible!😭

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

This is why "you're right, it isn't what you voted for, because your values aren't shared by the Republican Party" is a much more effective message to help build a better America than "yes you did vote for this, you bad person" which fails to take advantage of this once-in-a-generation opportunity

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

One day shy of three months after getting this piercing it has decided to swell up and leak pus. Delightful.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I. AM. c r y i n g 😆 “Stripping but for nerds” omfg 🤣

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

Sometimes I think about how the far right has the patience to play the long game because none of the shit they’re obsessed with has any material impact on their lives.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

anyone else on perpetual stew tiktok?

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Every time I hear "razor blade throat" I'm glad that everyone I come in to regular contact with has already resigned themselves to the fact that I will be masking until there is a way to actually not get sick without one.

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Hot Girl Summer? This is too much. Women deserve air conditioning.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

#MaskUp that pretty face! - New "razor blade throat" #Covid strain hits US, in CA and NY - 7th week of new variant surge in Southeast Asia, still rising, hospitals slammed - Taiwan’s cases, ER visits doubled again - Covid now rising in Aotearoa, France, India, AU www.patreon.com/posts/covid-...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

All, if you haven't seen it already: HHS has canceled funding for the Moderna bird flu vaccine. Please call your reps.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Mark your calendars for June 6 - MDP will host DNC chair Ken Martin (@kenmartin.bsky.social) on the Blue Bench Podcast! Got a question for Chair Martin? Drop it in the comments below. #mtpol CC: @democrats.org

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

the mRNA vaccines are an absolute miracle of science that saved millions of lives and we're going to throw the entire technology out because they could not vaccinate society against putting the worst and most ignorant people alive in charge of our medical system

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

Do not give this woman a dime of your money. 1. Do not watch the new show. 2. Do not stream any of the movies (yes, that includes Fantastic Beasts) 3. Do not buy any of her books. She has a pen name Robert Galbraith. www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

I want to scream and break things

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

There's something so embarrassing about burning myself cooking at home. At work it's like, yeah, that'll happen, hazard of the job. At home it's like...haha, defeated by Egg.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

So excited to share the beautiful cover of my debut fantasy, #ThePoetEmpress, which I am absolutely floored by! 🥰 It's comes out from Bramble 01.20.26 next year! (Credits to artist Kelly Chong & designer Esther S. Kim!) bit.ly/ThePoetEmpress

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Miss Rachel isn’t on Bluesky, but her posts about Gaza should be. I wish this wasn’t so unusual to see from people with big platforms.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

"oh you agree with someone who's correct but you disagree with this different person who's wrong?? why are you so closed minded?" so much of centrism is just that lol

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

these guys get their foot in the door by asking “aren’t you skeptical of powerful scientific insiders?” Many people are. But the real question is “do you want your powerful scientific insiders to be actual scientists or roadkill eating morons?”

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

If you haven't been masking up, it's probably time

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

finally we can get a warrant for Neanderthal’s arrest

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is why I don't believe any of the forced birther arguments about valuing human life. In a country that will kill pregnant women and children for snake oil salesman and you're nowhere to be found protesting these moves? GMAFB

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The reason we ostensibly passed RFRA in the first place was because Native Americans were being discriminated against by so-called neutral laws. The fact that it’s now used to allow Christians to ignore duties to their employees, but CAN’T be used for the original purpose, is just bullshit.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

‘AI is in everything! If you use spellcheck, you can’t be mad about ChatGPT!’ Look, you determinedly obtuse cantaloupe, don’t slander spell check, first created in 1961, made for PCs in 1980. NO ONE THINKS A SPELL CHECKER IS GEN AI. What in the ever-loving straw-man tomfoolery.

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

I didn't buy any candy at the store this morning and now I'm home and have no candy to eat. Can't believe this is happening to me.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I genuinely would have enjoyed this movie about 15% more if they'd actually styled them in a period appropriate way. Don't tell me it's prom night 1988 and then give me 2025 hair and makeup. Commit.

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It sort of depends on the story and the world? I'm never going to be someone who builds something with lots of clearly defined rules, but exactly how vibes based vs structured magic is will vary with what I'm trying to do with it storywise.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Then the free market has determined that the AI industry is untenable and it should die. So let it fucking die. In fact, kill it faster.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I already deleted my account and I'm not starting over. Too late, bro.

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In the US, 300 people a week are dying of Covid. 1200 a month. 15,600 a year. They’ve restricted COVID testing & reporting… so it’s safe to say those numbers are an undercount (and they don’t include the thousands being disabled) Do they urge mask use? Clean air? No. They restrict vaccines:

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

A million Americans have died of COVID since this was printed. Reports estimate that hundreds still die of it every week. But the majority got bored of their neighbors' survival. The alienation is a wound in my heart that has never closed. I try to be kind, but I feel alone everywhere.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

15-25 year old me: tee hee i love all the deaths in the final destination movies 40 year old me: this is what happens when you get rid of regulations and oversight. Everything is shoddily built and they’re cutting corners

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

I wish people would stop calling my book "smut." Even if they're kidding, it's not funny. I have NO problem with smutty / sexy / spicy books... but my book is a CHILDREN'S BOOK written for TEENAGERS and people keep making this assumption or joke that it's smut just because the characters are queer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

a feeling I get a lot these days is "I would pay extra money not to have this feature in my device" maybe I am old now but I don't think it's just me

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

“American exceptionalism” has led many Americans to think that we are absolutely essential and it’s just not true.

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