tporterhawk.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I have a villain story that I basically gave up querying because now doesn't feel like the right time for it. Which sucks because it shows how the bad guys are just bad and not redeemable but I know some people would misinterpret it which is why this doesn't feel like the right time. Harrumph.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Mini alt text best practices opinion by someone who uses a screen reader: Let's say your post describes what is in the picture. You may think you don't need to add alt txt. Wrong! Blind/low vision/cognitive disability individuals don't know that is the case! So what to do? 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I know this is tiny so check the alt text. Y’all gotta leave me alone about a one day boycott—it’s got to start with one day and hold. Retailers won’t notice one day. They have several bad days a month.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

On this trip I've learned that my conservative kinda racist retired cop stepdad is absolutely disgusted with modern policing and mad at the election. I haven't been able to see him in person in years so this is honestly a relief. Wish he wasn't racist but at least he's same team on everything else.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Just listening to War Pigs by Black Sabbath on my way to work and how can anyone who has ever enjoyed this song be a maggot? It's as relevant now as it was when it was written.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I don't talk about my grief very often. 9 months later it still hits so unexpectedly & so hard that it feels like yesterday. It's like this hollow ache in my chest that feels a little bit like anxiety and a little bit like a baseball bat. I haven't gone more than a couple days without feeling it.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I don't care how much they backpedal, target was dead to me the moment they dropped DEI initiatives. Fuck em

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

We just want to say that we are in awe of all of you. You are the ones history will remember—a resistance rising against tyranny. From the moment Trump took office, laws have been broken left and right. We shouted from the rooftops, and it took relentless effort just to have our voices heard.

submitted 11 days ago • 218 comments

A.I. is a tool of oppression & erasure. Please stop enriching oligarchs by using it for your Blue Resistance memes. Just draw stick figures & use alt-text.

submitted 13 days ago • 113 comments

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

submitted 14 days ago • 667 comments

Alt-text: "Dear trans kids, this world is better with you in it and you are worth fighting for."

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

She's fugly but delicious. Next time I'll just do a double batch so I don't have to knead by hand.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I'm making a king cake for a friend since I'll be gone for Mardi gras and it was so difficult to knead in my 6 qt stand mixer. Honestly any bread recipe less than 4 ish cups is not ideal. Clearly this means next time I make king cake I need to do a double batch. One for me and one to share.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I'm about to go on a month long road trip and I'm so ready to not be responsible and just be a bum camping in national forests and blm land.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s a USAID story from a tv channel near the Port of Houston, in TX. You can learn a lot from local sources that you may not find on the national stage. This article discusses the food that’s rotting due to the illegal USAID shutdown. 1/ www.khou.com/article/news...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Gonna keep saying this over & over bc people need to soak this into their core... Live your values. Where you spend your money, What you watch on TV, What you wear, Who you celebrate. It's the greatest power you'll have for the foreseeable future. Live your values, so you can live with yourself.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Diversity is the future. More queer and trans people are born every day. Embrace the reality of the breadth of human variation and experience, or go to your grave embittered and angry… over nothing. We. Will. Prevail.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Drywall project? You mean mandatory corgi snuggle time.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I fucking love malicious compliance.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Me, the EMT who also works as a cook, splashing hot oil all over my hand, like the brilliant responsible adult I am. Honestly most of my trauma experience is on myself, most of the calls I run are cardiac and/or difficulty breathing 😅

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I need to buy new ink for a vintage fountain pen (Parker 51, year unknown but probably early production) and wanting to go to a brick and mortar shop, which means visiting Canada. Evidently my partner has a date in the planning that he was like "noted, I'll add a stop" 🥰

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Vote with your money, don't buy from companies that donated to Trump. There's now than this list but it's a start. Y'all might feel it's drop in the bucket but it's something real y'all can do.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Also using generative AI to "get inspired" or "make fun of it" or "wasting its resources" is not the "gotcha gen ai" you think it is. It is still using a highly unethical tool that is anti-workers, anti-artists, and extremely damaging for natural resources/the environment.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

If you need a dose of queer joy today (please note anyone doomshitting on queer joy will get a block to the face)

submitted 37 days ago • 12 comments

I'm too distracted by needing to know how this book ends to write anything of my own today

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I'm finishing up some prep this morning before stream and just rolled a crit for one of the boss initiatives so that's a fun little insight into how today's game is gonna go

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant no matter what the ICE officer says.

submitted 42 days ago • 281 comments

Me the least couple days feeling awful with a cold starting to feel better tonight: finally I can sleep My body: okay but what if we started that fun monthly bleeding. Because fuck you.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Today in the Least Suprising News Ever. Big Oil pushed to kill a California bill last year that would have made them pay for wildfire disasters and is mobilizing against renewed efforts to pass the bill after the LA wildfires 🙄

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

And bring back text walkthroughs for games PLEASE. I don't want to watch your half hour video on how to complete the whole level I want to quickly visually scan for the one tiny thing I am stuck on.

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember: You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/

submitted 46 days ago • 64 comments