🐍蛇年大吉!!!!!!! HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!! 🧧🧨🎇

An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

Digital painting of a cloudy, dark blue sky, with purple tones. There are a few streaks of pink going across the frame.

We report in some kind of limbo: the sky has had this little bit of pink for a little while now, but it remains quite dark. It seems that the sun will not budge. It is a chilly, windy dawn; we are flexing our fingers to keep them from going numb. It starts raining.

A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part: "The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop." Here's the whole paragraph: We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising.

I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping.

If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

Digital painting of a snowy hillside at night fall. There is a path crawling up the hill, leading up to the upper left corner of the frame. This corner is starkly cut off from the rest of the frame, portraying the same landscape, but on a bright summer day, with tall golden grass on either side of the path. A small figure is walking down the hill, off the path.

🌄🌟

With my family, to cut down on shipping, I buy books for them in their local bookstores. Or when traveling to them, I buy at their local indies. I always give books. They always give me navy sweaters and black leather gloves like they think I’m some kind of New England jewel thief.

I want this for both of us 😭

the other day I had a dream I completed a bunch of tasks before 08:00 and then woke up before 08:00 to find that I had not done anything 🥲

@lingbear.bsky.social happy birthday! 🎉🎉

had another deeply unsettling nightmare last night, but this one included a scene where a pretty girl braided my hair for me. a win is a win

sdkfjfjf YOU MADE ME