Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman.
Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.
The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
Bathroom sign reading “We value an inclusive environment at Candlewick Press. Please choose the restroom that best fits your gender identity.”
My US publisher @candlewickpress.bsky.social just quietly doing the decent thing. It’s not that hard.
Species Sourcebook Blog!
Following the release of Star Trek Adventures Species book Jim Johnson takes us through the various deep dives we have covered over the last few blogs!
Check it out here:
buff.ly/MBkcvyJ
#Startrek #blog #ttrpg
(my actual factual opinion on AI is going to remain: you don't get to steal other people's work and then charge for it, you skeezy ass motherfuckers.
since I don't have time to deep dive every single model to see if they trained it ethically, I opt out until we've resolved this situation.)
“I poisoned your community but I think we should chat about how asthma is actually pretty cool.”
“I stole your job but I think we can have an open-minded, reasonable conversation about how great it is that you’re unemployed.”
“Why don’t you want to have a conversation about AI?”
“I broke into your house and stole your shit and now I just want to talk.”
“Cleaning up the risk pool” means letting sick people and old people and disabled people die. End of. There is no other meaning here.
Star Trek Adventures' brand-new Species Sourcebook contains a myriad of species, game mechanics, and character options to deepen your gameplay experience. Play as an icon species from the Star Trek universe or create your own - the choice is yours!
UK: buff.ly/bFwou3V
US: buff.ly/ERw8RA0
#StarTrek
The why.bsky.team profile page, showing I’ve been blocked.
Aww. *snerk*
A box of books and a black cat investigating
Kate holding a book and smiling. Cover design by Leo Nickolls
I've had a long day and I look almost as tired as I feel, but the box of books arrived! Really rewarding to hold MERCUTIO in my hands. It is very purple. Out May 7!
No more daylight saving: Northwest Territories to end seasonal time change #Canada
Move follows announcement from Alberta government to end seasonal time change there, N.W.T. premier says
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
All the ones we tried at Prince Edward Pizza that time we stayed in Picton.
Didn’t matter which one we ordered, it was the new best pizza.
Also, being queer can (in many cases, legally) get you fired, stop you from getting through the door, and otherwise effectively cut you off from so many careers.
UBI? *Breathe* while looking for a place where you could be yourself (regardless of whether it could pay *enough* for, say, food.)
Because it’s the lens I most interact with the world through, I always think of what a gift to queerness UBI would be.
Queer folk make up a disproportionate amount of homelessness—especially among youth—and holy crap when I think of what it was like couch-surfing, desperate and panicky.
Yep. Example; if you get sexually harassed at work in the UK, your three realistic options are endure, find another job or quit.
* If you endure it can cause psychological problems.
* Job hunting can take months.
* Quitting makes you ineligible for benefits.
UBI would resolve this.
I do have an outline in my notes somewhere about a similar starting position for what had been intended as a story for one of my psychic characters.
Hrm.
Yup. If those are the rules they wanna play by, Dems can (and had better) play by 'em instead of standing off to the side while loudly clearing their throats and tapping the rulebook.
*sigh* Friday the ThirteenTH.
Ryan would be the disaster bisexual he deserved to be.
Mikki would explore her "natural witch" powers.
Jack and Lewis’s relationship would be exposed for the toxic gay mess it was.
Johnny would still mostly be eye candy.
I would reboot "Friday the Thirteen: The Series" so hard.
“Parents must realize that refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children” esp. those too young to be vaccinated “at risk….It’s one of the most contagious viruses that exists”
Dead from complications of measles at age ten (she contracted measles at 5 months).
👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏
Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
This is already at 40% of its goal and it's not even close to the end of the first day 👀
Can we hit that goal today??? #IndieBooks #IndieApril
Last re-skeet: Insulin. SSRIs. Blood pressure medication. There are so many—so many—reasons to take ongoing medication that are worth it. "Lifelong patient"? That’s the point.
A long goddamn life.
Yeah, this is just eugencists in concern-trolling coats mad about people using resources rather than conveniently dying.
I will tell you no one with a chronic condition is upset about being a "lifelong patient" if it means we get to HAVE a life.
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
