Me when 10, to my aunt:
"Was the world in color when you were a kid?"

Dude. Just finished Red Team Blues on audiobook. You two really collab something awesome for audiobooks. Question about fair use (for a writer with MCI: do you have any idea if the licensing on the Marty Hench series'd allow a fork of the world and references to characters in a short story series?

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

We're not cooked. It's just time to get cooking on compassion, action & connection. Especially be human & kind to people w/ different beliefs - kindness defuses division. Don't endorse aggression, just accept that everyone's doing the best they can w/the limited tools & skills they have/know.

@chickfila.bsky.social Kadija - why did you accept part to let them whitewash your skin in photos and be one more person of color these racists refuse to show faces in ads? Why do you support these racists? #RacismInAdvertising #DisneyAcceptsRacistAds #Racism #RacistTVAds #ChickfilaIsRacist

I deal w/ adhd/depression oral hygiene challenges by using spinbrush. If I can't make myself do 2 min, I can make myself do close to 1 min. Like the tool concept of "dialectical abstinence" (DBT), I'm never going 100% without brushing. But then, I know how painful gum grafts are, that motivates too.

Everything looks better with an owl on it.

I'm looking to reconnect w/ people who matter... Mastodon (& Bluesky), are tools I've explored. I'm researching tools for private/shared LJ-ish friend groups in the fediverse. FB's AI-slop firehose has been unusable for me for a long time.
Glad to see u!

Am I the only one who feels deeply, intensely, personally offended by the #culturalappropriation by #FelonMusk of the anti-establishment/anti-authoritarian word #grok for his pisspoor AI?

Followed! I don't speak Japanese, but more than 1/3 of fountain pen I clean/repair (& sell to pay for more parts & neglected pens + return to regular contact w/ ink & hands) are vintage Pilot & Platinum pocket pens. Most recent "rescue pen" now fabulous & ready for "adoption" is a 701F Myu. ✍️

I've been looking for vintage/antique writing instruments/accessories feeds/users here on Bsky. Nice to find at least a few posts!

ferret – Renga in Blue Posts about ferret written by Jason Dyer

Do you like Zork? Have you heard of Ferret? Srsly grateful for the Yule gift from the intertube gods. bluerenga.blog/tag/ferret/?...

The reason cryptographic math isn't designated illegal "munitions" and off-limits to ordinary people & small business today is, in large part, thanks to the work of EFF (made possible by donations from people like us). I'm poor, but I love equity in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I🫶🏽EFF

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I'm listening to the audio of Little Brother (Cory Doctorow) today and this is so relevant... also I'm so not surprised but wtf

Never blame on conspiracy what Occam reveals obviously as a legacy of multigenerationally accumulated critical mass stupidity.

Add pieces of carboard with slits on the edges as frame looms, picture frames with finishing nails along the edges for pin looms, finger weaving, finger knitting, felting, or my current fave - chilkat/ravenstail thigh spinning singles & plying simultaneously etc - expand that capacity even more!

Especially for 🧶 fiber artists!!!

Charles liver issues in saving his life Support, organized by Henry Reider Hi my name is Henry reider and I’m raising funds for Charles liver issue… Henry Reider needs your support for Charles liver issues in saving his life Support

Have you ever wanted to literally save someone's life? (Nerdfighters, you probably already have heard John Green talk about Henry, who is the organizer for this). This will do it. Even $1 can make a HUGE difference here!
gofund.me/77df7a32

Everything's gone down the Xhitter

Especially considering the poor strategic choices all those scientists made accepting jobs from Melon Usk

Though I never understood why a SPEEDball was coke and a goofball was meth.

Nope, he def did a goofball, not a speedball. Meth, not coke.

Conflict in Israel and Palestine: Crash Course World History #223 In which John Green teaches you about the conflict in Israel and Palestine. This conflict is often cast as a long-term beef going back thousands of years, ro...

A brief and 8 yr old (but still relevant) CrashCourse description of Israel-Palestinian primarily national (not really primarily religious) conflict
youtu.be/1wo2TLlMhiw?...

Did he also love Joni & Carole & Jimi & CSNY? My dad was an evangelist music minister but still intro'd me to BNL & Tracy Chapman before anyone in the PNW ever played them on indie/college radio stations. Still don't know how he got ahead of those musical waves. Love JT so much. The memories, fy.

Why don't you hold yourself to the same standard of truth that you claim to be holding #HasanMinaj to? Storytelling with falsified "fact checking" is NOT OKAY.

That's why I just call it Xhitter now

I'll hit you up at some point. I should see if I can find any docs on making feeds, as the operator syntax used will make a huge difference in how I structure "search terms" (don't know the lingo or syntax for bsky, haven't gone looking for their equiv of manpages yet)

I don't understand how any "techno-optimist" can still claim the unregulated free market system is a success. I had high hopes for such a manifesto, but should've known better. This is a joke, stopped reading.
a16z.com/the-techno-o...

Is also extremely privacy focused and their foundation lobbies for consumer privacy and puts public pressure on corporations with terrible privacy violation policies. DDG doesn't have the kind of money Microsoft & Google have to index sites, so there're fewer results, but at least they're not spammy