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unquinnish.bsky.social
multimedia wordsmith. queer disabled conjurer of wonder. not much of a trickster, actually. ADHD, very tired. forwarding addresses at username dot com I just really miss livejournal
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We are launching a GoFundMe for our lovely @zzclaybourne.bsky.social. Those of you who attended the Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction 2 know that he was too sick even to read that night—after all the love & work he poured into organizing it! This is to help him as he recovers! gofund.me/8e2a5252

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away. Covidtests.gov wapo.st/42VLGQh

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

U.S. residents, I don't know how long we'll still be able to do this, but you can still order free COVID tests — I'm expecting a batch in the mail today. covidtests.gov

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

If you hate Google's default search and its AI crap, go into your Chrome settings to the "Search Engine" tab and edit the URL to one of them to be www.google.com/search?q=%s&... (screenshot below). Then make it your default. Your search bar will take you to Google Web, which only shows links.

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

Noting here that marches & rallies are *demonstrations* not direct action. They demonstrate a snapshot of public support, and the hard right has figured out they can ignore demonstrations, because too many people think the demonstration is the point, get their yayas out, and stop paying attention.

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

My new year's bird (h/t @amalelmohtar.com for the tradition) this year is a whole little flock(let) of bushtits, chittering from tree to bush to tree And then we stumbled on the local murder of crows, settling in for the night, & got to watch them negotiate sleeping arrangements for quite a while

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

So hey, let’s start off 2025 maybe making somebody’s life better in a small tangible way. What is a small practical thing—object, lifehack, whatever—that solved a small annoyance for you? For me, did you know you can buy clips with elastic specifically to hold the corner of your fitted sheet on?

submitted 54 days ago • 1066 comments

Happy New Year to us all!

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Dirty Dancing teaches that abortion rights are good and you should never date a guy who reads Ayn Rand, which is 90% of what you need to get through life

submitted 59 days ago • 64 comments

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

submitted 60 days ago • 85 comments

I really want this to become a meme. Please everyone explain something important to Duran Duran.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

DURAN DURAN: Please please tell me now, is there something I should know ME: Non-defense discretionary spending only accounts for about $900 billion of a $6.1 trillion federal budget

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

DURAN DURAN: Please please tell me now, is there something I should know ME: There used to be legal limits on the amount of commercials per hour a TV channel was allowed to air and minimum amounts of “informational programming” they had to have. Read more: www.academia.edu/2214841/The_...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

This is so cool! I love light so much.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

A publicly-funded study of the venomous saliva of the Gila monster is exactly the kind of silly sounding basic science John McCain and Tom Coburn used to rail about in the Senate, but it changed the course of medicine pretty substantially in the last 20y. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

submitted 65 days ago • 20 comments