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Writing speculative apocalypse fiction. I'm not afraid of AI. Humans these days, tho....
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Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program? A: Pretty f*cking evil. Solution: Dolly for Prez! Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

Minnesota Senator Tina Smith bringing the thunder 🔥

Now that's how to make America great.

Self Portrait, 1790 by French painter Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun #womensart

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

🎶That's my otter in the water... 🦦🌊 #embroidery #handembroidery

This man is ridiculously attractive.

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

This severance edit is why they wanted to ban tiktok 🤣🤣🤣

I’ll tell you what’s up #bluesky … America is being dismantled in front of us. And the politicians are filing lawsuits (ooooo scary!) because fucking paperwork is what’s going to stop these fuckers from destroying EVERYTHING 💀

Sarah Ross-Thompson, fine art printmaker based on the South West Coast of Scotland #WomensArt

Not exaggerating when I say that the path back is going to be built on people in positions of influence regaining their sense of self-respect. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

US artist Liz Sexton creates papier-mâché animal heads/masks #Wom3nsArt

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Contemporary Northumberland based UK printmaker, Rebecca Vincent #womensart

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I want to buy this. Reposting for reference!

Who thinks this is how it’s playing out now? 😉

It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Damn, that sure puts our horrific gun violence epidemic into perspective, doesn't it?

You know what's so dystopian about this? The social contract has been broken by our leaders and there's ain't shit the rest of them can do, but litigate... I'm not saying give up, I'm saying we can't fight this in a court of law. I'm saying people will have to FIGHT.

Hold the fuck on — the Department of Government Efficiency, the entity which claims its mission is to end “wasteful spending”, was given SEVEN MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to cover its “expenses” in the span of a single week?!?! Are you fucking kidding me?!?

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

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Watched The Substance, b/c of Demi… couldn’t finish it b/c the whole thing is about a gorgeous woman with tons of money being insecure about how assholes perceive her

Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests

Perfectly captured.

Jesus h

Quick reminder that if you see a headline from a source you’ve never heard of that isn’t being reported by anyone else, you really should do some due diligence before spreading it around as fact. There’s enough misinformation floating around already; no need to add more.