Possibly of interest: bsky.app/profile/shif...

people in your replies are making me wanna fight so instead i’m gonna just link a post that’s a frequent “tapping the sign” point for me on this one (sorry): bsky.app/profile/sine...

Hashtags too. Also please stop writing alt text that’s literally just a copy of the text in your post or other low effort, self-serving garbage. 🥱 Alt text culture & accountability on Bluesky used to make me feel proud to be part of an online community that valued accessibility.

I will continue to beat the drum that young kids' programming is *exactly* when you should address gender identity and nonconformity. Almost every trans person I know first experienced anxiety-inducing incongruity around kindergarten. This is something hand-wringing liberals need to be educated on.

that's what I'm talkin about historians ...

I also recommend @simonbowland.bsky.social, who has lettered multiple projects I’ve written. I’ve been delighted by the results every time. Simon’s skill, talent, professionalism and responsiveness are all top-notch.

Get you some Bowland lettering, editors.

‘Pandora’s box’: Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare ⋆ The Breach Danielle Smith is working hand-in-glove with private insurers to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada

ICYMI: Danielle Smith is working...to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada “The major aim of Bill 11 is to encourage the creation of a much larger private health insurance market" in Canada," said @alonghurst.bsky.social #cdnpoli breachmedia.ca/pandoras-box...

Doctor to patient: "Try to reduce your stress level, and if you somehow succeed please let me know how in God's name you did it."

I thought this felt relatable

Today is Earth Day! Don't panic, read some eco-horror instead from #WendyNWagner, @tiffmorris
@hazelzorn. Might be cathartic!

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It features three cats with intricate, unique patterns on their bodies. The artist notes that these are manually embroidered and sometimes sold with baby cats included. The designs are often inspired by traditional art patterns like folk embroidery or floral themes.

a handmade embroidery artwork titled "Manually embroidered cats" created by artist @ladyserebrennikova.

I think that even if they somehow *could* count every vote at once, Republicans would still scream, "rigged!" They honestly believe that the only legitimate power is theirs.

Hammam is my friend, and a young nurse.

He fights every day to save his mother and younger brothet Abood from death.

Please help them.

Please don't look away.

I don't have a good source for this, but it's what I heard, and it definitely explains the "it was an inside job!" plot.

You could SO tell that Into Darkness was written by a 9/11 "truther". 😬

Beyond felt the most Trek-like, really, and it was too bad they quit right after.

A lot of Dems in competitive races need to take a closer look at their districts. The prevailing wisdom among leadership & consultants is to avoid impeachment talk; that seems more likely to signal weakness and non-alignment with the majority than to actually pick up swing voters.

"Red states" don't exist.

Politically disenfranchised and voter suppressed states exist.

It is not coincidental that these states have enormous Black, Latino, and impoverished populations.

And yes, this does make it racist to argue that "red states deserve what they get".

Amal is still trapped under the rubble and Israel reportedly deployed stun grenades to stop the Red Cross from reaching her.

This is terrifying and should outrage everyone everywhere.

Sherlock Holmes Is Finally Free To Be Gay I recently watched the utterly ridonkulous TV show Young Sherlock, which takes some delightfully strange liberties with the character of Sherlock Holmes....

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism.

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They think you're stupid.

William Gibson is an uncommonly generous man, but that thing discovering your work online and offering to chat with you about it is not actually him.

Would you please, please, PLEASE just sell this site to someone who actually cares about running it well.

From an 18th-century debate on criticism: George Dempster: "We have hardly a right to abuse this tragedy [performed at Drury Lane]; for, bad as it is, how vain should either of us be to write one not near so good!" Samuel Johnson: "Why no, sir; this is not just reasoning. You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables."

People were skewering this line of argument in the 18th century, dude.

"Use the thing that's causing most of the problems to solve those problems!"

the devs say they're so mad about all the "phone in pool" and "vibe coding" jokes they're turning images off until we all apologize and admit that they're actually really smart and cool and we like them

Reupping this again. The folx at orgs like @indivisible.org can learn from this. Anyone can.

VIRGINIA VOTERS

If you’re in line by 7pm, you vote.
No exceptions!

Stay in line. Do not leave.
That line is your ballot!

#VoteYesVirginiaToday

These sorts of stories bother me for that reason -- they tend to be sensationalist and lurid, like watching SVU or "stranger danger." Rather than focus energy on material conditions of women and girls -- who do suffer misogyny and violence and deprivation -- they encourage conspiracies.

Elon Musk spent billions of dollars to push white supremacy and has a compound where he’s keeping the children he’s trying to breed into little supermen and he’s never described as a fanatic for white supremacy.

You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?

The Justice Department.