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Purveyor of shenanigans and swear words. Fiction/fantasy writer; neuro🌶️; disorganized pagan; sporadic streamer; paralegal-in-training; cat mom.🗝️🐍🦉🌸🐏💀(She/Her/Hers) Icon by @oakydeer.bsky.social
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Abbraccio 🖤 I've been drawing a lot of embracing couples lately

i am BEGGING you before you pop off about paywalls to go to your local library's website and scroll through their digital resources. mine gives me access to NYT, WSJ, WaPo and if its linked with PressReader or a similar app, all the news magazines, sports, fashion, hobby etc. FOR FREE.

Reminder that the news and government gave more importance and put more effort into the murder of A corrupt healthcare billionaire Than Two democratic politicians

Also, folks, this includes your pets! I know lots of cats and dogs on more than one of these meds. You gotta give them cool water and run the AC for them too!

These amazing people are distributing supplies at a local food pantry in Jersey City — diapers and other necessary things you can’t buy with SNAP and other benefits. If you can, please donate from our registry: www.jcmutualaid.org/donate

this is such an important point. i do not think that the typical american understands that for most of their lives, someone like james madison or george washington or thomas jefferson was *surrounded* by black people.

As I've been saying www.readtpa.com/p/the-grok-w...

Hello! It is my birthday so I am allowed to unapologetically say buy my books! I have 3 series, one finished, two ongoing, all 100% human written, edited, and cover designed, because I actually like writing books and I hate "AI" with the passion of a 1000 burning suns. michellemanus.com/my-books/

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Since I’m still on the job hunt, lemme be gauche & share out support links. Especially since the ACA health plan won’t cover the most expensive medication I’m now on. 🫠 Current med costs w/o coverage: $1800 a month out of pocket.

now i’m no law professor but

All across America, if you look like you might not belong according to the rightwing extremist regime’s conception of “real America,” you are now at constant risk of being assaulted by these masked thugs tasked with purging the nation. Whatever you want to call this, democracy it definitely ain’t.

"Personalist" is key. Trump foreign policy doesn't have a coherent vision; "isolationist" springs to mind because he's dismantling alliances, but he's also imperialist, routinely threatening and meddling abroad on a whim. It's all less an ideology than a reactionary's emotional urge to cause damage.

“For me, an all-day bender means going to work and sitting next to Ann, who routinely talks my ear off about the benefits of Herbalife while offering me a Jammy Dodger.”

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

Bechdel test? lol there are literally no men in this book.

Jimmy Carter had to give up his fucking PEANUT FARM. And we get...this bullshit? Goddamn insanity.

Not that I’m disagreeing with the sentiment, but I’m just asking for a little more discernment from y’all. This is an AI generated video from Google Veo. In fact, you can see the Veo logo on the lower right corner of the clip. Y’all, be careful sharing stuff y’all are fooled to believing is real.

Also: these "alt" fake government accounts have definitely dabbled in Q-adjacent conspiracy fodder posts, skeeting shit like a series of numbers, followed by "please ignore." What the fuck even FOR, fuck outta here with that shit. Whoever's running these accounts are grifter assholes.

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie -Stop slouching, drink some water, take your meds. -Hold on to the things that bring you joy. We all need that more than ever. -The Lurking Horror decided to sweep by tying dusting cloths on their pseudopodia. Chaos ensued. ❤️ Auntie Jilli

Reminder that a Bluesky scroll asks more of you that the hand-holdy, drip-fed shit you might be used to on other social media, shoving unasked-for accounts in front of your eyes. Y'gotta go looking, and subscribe to feeds, for maximum enjoyment. Feeds like this one, maybe.

For the month of June, SPRING'S ARCANA and THE SALT-BLACK TREE--the DEAD GOD'S HEART duology--are $2.99USD apiece in ebook across all platforms. torpublishinggroup.com/springs-arca... torpublishinggroup.com/the-salt-bla...

This is what your reposts and signal boosts can do for independent artists.

The heart of the universal loathing for Diamond, right here. Comics, as an industry, does not print money, and hasn't done so for 75 years. To quote Too Skinnee J's, "we does this cuz we loves this." The invoices owed to/stock kept from small pubs by Diamond right now could be enough to sink them.

77.5 MILLION acres in AK This is one where we *might* be able to yell enough to force a change of course. Talk about your favorite moose hunting spot or salmon trips. Ask our congressfolk if they really want to be the "anti-hunting, anti-fishing, and anti-feeding Alaskan families" reps.

So, what that orange blivet did for steaks, airlines, casinos, and military parades, he’s now going to do for smartphones? This should be interesting.

Very good thread. Creative folks, read it.

I am not a doctor, but I am confident that if you use the "biometric scanning" feature included with the Trump Mobile telehealth benefit, which advertises "27/7 access" to doctors "all from your own homw," to determine your heart rate and blood oxygen, you are 100 percent going to die

Hey, remember when banana prices go up to (a) blame Trump and (b) blame Chiquita, who laid off its entire workforce because of labor disputes, because they’d rather subjugate people than pay a marginal subsistence wage.

Look at these fuckin dorks Not one of these guys thought they looked cool in the mirror, they’re all petrified and hopped up on adrenaline Faces hidden, emboldened by group think, fully KKK brained

The new nonsense with Diamond Distributors has reminded me of the situation with Boundless/Unbound, the failed publishing crowdfunding site. For a brief overview on what this actually looks like for creatives: LPer/novelist NerdCubed is out an estimated £40,000. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLWs...

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

Got to be weird to try and go out in a blaze of right-wing terrorist glory when you know all your besties on racewar dot net will instantly call you a blue haired gay commie cuck false flag as soon as you reach room tempature

@schiff.senate.gov heads up, Senator.

Hey California, call your state legislators and tell them you want Newsom's budget rolled up and shoved up his ass

They've been trying to take remote work (the best thing that's happened to me in my entire working life) away from us since we got it and now we're supposed to believe it makes us commit literal violence? I...

Trump says mass deportations are urgent—but not if they mess with his donors’ pockets. ICE was told to back off farms & hotels 'cause it was bad for business. But LA and Chicago? Open season. Please be for real—this is the weaponization of government against cities that refuse to bow down to him.

Patreon is raising the percentage it takes from new creators (again), from 8% to 10%, on August 4. People with existing Patreon pages get grandfathered into the old rate. If you're thinking about making a page, best to do it and publish it now.

I have been encouraged by communitea members to ask for help in paying down the debt that has made building up an operations buffer impossible, thus causing small setbacks to become critical. We've never been so popular, yet never more precarious. Here's the ugly side of a bootstrapped indie: 🧵

Essential point in this exchange with @willsommer.bsky.social: Trump-Miller have to target noncriminals for deportation because it's the only way to get the numbers they need to try for "full-scale ethnic change." Terror is central to this. Will is very good here: newrepublic.com/article/1968...