Substack platforms Nazis. Stop posting to Substack. Substack promotes sex traffickers. Get off of Substack. Substack funds sex traffickers. Stop giving money to Substack.

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

Otters Editing Booking spots! I have available spots in June, July, and August! My speciality genres are fantasy, LGBTQ+ fiction, sci-fi. I do line edits, copyedits and proofreading, as well as manuscript evaluations! You can email me at stephmcollinedits at proton dot me or DM me here on Bluesky

My values as a freelance editor:

Editing is collaborative & creative

You deserve an empathetic editor who cares about you & your story

No generative AI

If you think I'd be a good fit for you, I have editing spots open in June, July, and August! Let's make your writing otterly amazing 🦦✍️ #editing

I would use bsky so much more if we could have locked accounts. Manually blocking all the follow farming, AI-using people who keep following me is so annoying

The post office is a service. It doesn’t lose money. 9 billion is the cost for operating a vital and necessary service for the American people.
It isn’t “running out of money”. The government is refusing to pay for it.

What are your favorite books with good food descriptions that are *not* Redwall or ASOIAF? Bonus points for series rather than standalones

there's actually a secret second way (unionize your workplace)

Standing wooden Red-winged Blackbird figurine- with trademark red-wing in "stained glass" (acrylic painted with red/yellow Gallery Glass)

Holding to get a sense of scale and detail of the "stained glass"

Tiny Red-winged Blackbird!

A shallow river running through a pine forest

A creek in the woods

Welcome to Solari. Starring @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social as XL-ZL, Lou Wilson as Ze'Doven Iverex, and @erikaishii.bsky.social as Chee Tan'ka, with GM @aabria.bsky.social!

Be sure to catch the Solari premiere TOMORROW, March 17th, on your favorite podcasting platforms!

If you're able, please help out a friend in a tough spot:

Left to right: Michael Downie, Adam Chase, Ben Doye, and Sam Denby walk on a path in Taipei.

Ben Doyle and Adam Chase look at a map of Taiwan.

Mike Downie holding up a peace sign and Sam Denby ride a train.

it's time to Taiwan: Rail Rush

Yessssss another Jet Lag fan!!!

We are proudly brought to you by actual humans 😇

Not only are we book loving weirdos, but our audiobook recommendations are bookseller-driven, & our customer support team actually cares about answering your questions in a helpful, timely manner 💓

That's my exact litany every time I leave the house!

To use the parlance often thrown at us, it’s not 2020 anymore. You know what Covid is, and you know what high risk people are. Stop using ignorance to disguise laziness, and start being a better ally to the disabled and high risk people you see. The world changed, evolve.

If you’re still carrying the weird stereotypes that maskers are doing this because they’re “antisocial” “afraid to live their lives” “sheep” (?????) time to update your brain. Maskers are just trying to protect their health. If you don’t look at runners weirdly, you shouldn’t look at us like that.

A strategy I am recommending to people who don’t want to mask all the time is always in healthcare facilities and public transportation, AND if you see someone in a mask, put yours on. The first helps protect spaces high risk people may have no choice but to go, the second shows them support.

Title: The Mishipeshu and The Great Lakes Biome Description: an illustration showing Lake Michigan and its surrounding geography in curved perspective. Noted in small cursive around the geography are labels denoting the Native American territories belonging to each area. Dotted white lines crisscross the illustration showing the paths of ley lines or other mysterious navigations. Over all of this is a phantom depiction of the Mishipeshu; the Underwater Panther of Objiwe legend. The Mishipeshu's paw dips beneath the waters of Lake Michigan, demonstrating its scale. The Mishipeshu is depicted as a panther with elongated ears and covered in a mixture of feathers and fur. Spines curve along its back and down its tail terminating in curved barbs.

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔦𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔭𝔢𝔰𝔥𝔲
𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘮𝘦

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

This is such a delightful series by the most delightful author! If you've ever felt frustrated that romance always seems to feature young adults, @brennabaileybooks.bsky.social has the cure for you!

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
Leave your comment here:

eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

Hear me out: 2 justices per circuit and 18 year SCOTUS terms where they “ride circuit” after their time on the high court—because actual term limits require an amendment. Oh and a “good behavior” evaluation that requires 2/3 majorities in both chambers to affirm their neutrality and competence.

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

A man standing on the roof, captioned "My source is that I made it the fuck up"

Today in industry subtweets

We need a decentralized Torment protocol and federated Nexus ecosystem so users are not locked into a specific Nexus and can easily change Torment providers when they are not being Tormented in accordance with their Torment preferences. We need a flourishing marketplace of Torment middleware to allo

A lot of folks don't have money to spare, but many of you have skills & time! There are so many ways to do the work, and I KNOW some of you can help with this stuff!

sigh