Coppery magnetic clasps on black cord end in a pendant composed of a rosy, copper filigree T-hang piece, a silvery filigree star or flower, and a silvery corvid skull pendant. A pale pink thread similar to the red tones of the clasps and T-piece tie the parts of the pendant together.
I made jewelry today. Life and memento mori all at once? I like how the thread riffs on the red tones of the clasp and the T-connector filigree bead.
Thanks for these links. This line from the article below stuck with me: "in space, it seems, there are abundant opportunities to make the same mistakes again"
In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.
Five books to get to know me by:
The Fox and the Jewel, Karen Smyers;
Because Internet, by @gretchenmcculloch.com ;
The Hacker Ethic, by Pekka Himanen;
The Spiral Staircase, by Karen Armstrong;
The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K Le Guin.
John Waters standing beside a wall with a sign that says: The John Waters Restrooms. All Gender. Not my photo.
In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD
Not doing too well rn. Just... Fri night, still on the job search for fulltime employment, and feeling hopeless.
Happy holy week I guess (Passover and Easter).
Trying to figure out how to get replacement CPAP, and... ooof. Got rerouted three times even when talking to the insurance MCO... #EmergencyCrowdFund
Anyway.
gofund.me/ad686ad60
Congratulations! And hope the soda was good too ^^
Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
these motherfuckers can't even agree that space is cool, we truly have nothing in common
I have many OCs but the most obvious example: Maho is an animist who is on her second or third life (Pathfinder 2e samsaran). Her name literally sounds the same as the word for magic (魔法) just spelled differently.
Trying to figure out how to get replacement CPAP, and... ooof. Got rerouted three times even when talking to the insurance MCO... #EmergencyCrowdFund
Anyway.
gofund.me/ad686ad60
"Critical social determinants that impact people’s mental health such as violence, discrimination, poverty, exclusion, isolation, job insecurity/unemployment, lack of access to housing, social safety nets, & health services, are often overlooked or excluded from mental health concepts & practice." 👀
I wrote about how the campaign against trans people in the United States is one of social murder.
www.thedissident.news/every-trans-...
This is why I keep it out of my classrooms.
This is why I teach my students to be careful/critical in their consumption of gAI.
This is why universities shouldn't be so bloody ridiculously uncritical in forcing gAI on faculty, staff and students.
We're inculcating dependence on a catastrophic scale
"Robnett says she was struck by how many respondents called tradwives 'lazy', suggesting they were opting out of work while enjoying the benefits of their husbands’ labour"
I mean, it's nice to have confirmation the men who seek these arrangements resent even the "good" women who play their fantasy
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
New WebAIM Million report for 2026 is out. #Accessibility issues increased over 10% from the previous year, credited to 'vibe coding' practices and genAI/LLMs.
tl;dr: when LACK of accessibility is prevalent, genAI makes the gap widen even more.
webaim.org/projects/mil...
So you can say you are indeed a Dax who's been in space?
I know D&D and Pathfinder have been used for it, especially with the figures in-game of the Raven Queen or of Pharasma.
Mary Wollstonecraft warned you that women who are only objects of pity and love, due to their “fascinating graces,” their “soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, [and] delicacy of sentiment” — in a word, due to their weakness (and not strength) — “will soon become objects of contempt.”
US dual-citizens are subject to global income taxation by IRS regardless of place of residence. While tax treaties between the US & their other country of citizenship can take out some of the tax sting and other US Treasury Department pains, there is a cost in $ and compliance hassle.
Apparently, in the oral arguments today the guvmint lawyer was ranting that there are 500 companies helping Chinese with birth tourism. If so they must be operating at a massive loss. I wrote in 2011 about the infinitesimal numbers of such tourists when last time there was a panic about this:
Chag sameach!
please apply for this!! also, I dare businesses in the ttrpg industry to email us about contributing to the grant fund. wouldn't it be amazing if we could get additional funds to help us support more SWANA artists? I know some of y'all can make it happen!
Ad astra. Space is awesome. (Or can be, rather.)
It's also a counterexample for people saying the humanities are irrelevant. Without journals, diaries, and poems (hanami festivities), we wouldn't have such data.
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
graphic that says in bold lettering "remember: no lilies for kitties. even ingesting a tiny amount of pollen can cause fatal kidney failure. don't risk it." the background is a wallpaper of lily drawings and there is a photo of a perfect, fluffy white cat in the bottom right corner.
This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
I like the Kawecos (international cartridges yay!), but am fond of the Pilot Kakunos tbh.