@runwithskizzers.bsky.social Your book is v fun to recommend.

Does anyone know if blue sky has a subscription or notification button? This place so far is a hodgepodge of reporters and internet friends, and so forth and I would like to really be able to just focus on the s*** posting and stuff from the people I love not so much the reporters and whatn6

Thanks!

I am 38 today, Had to miss my twice weekly PT today because I got a foot of snow, and it's single digits with one hell of a wind chill. I'm no mood to celebrate either- some of these E.O's are bound to affect my work life, and who knows what happens to publicly funded disability programs

Looking for a designer to update my currently existing largely dormant, Squarespace five blog and migrated to the latest version of Squarespace, or whatever is recommended by a professional designer type. I will pay you. I'm thinking of the launch around April or sooner.

You're playing my, song, Preee

It is not easy to simply migrate nearly 20 years of communication methodology even with people who are local to me whose numbes an email I have. And to what degree are Google Verizon etc really that distinct from the awful lobbying and cozying anyway?

The question is whether the passive contact is worth worse knowing that keeping things active to any degree it's lining Pockets and thereby enabling stuff stuff we all think is awful. The answer is no but the consequence is being less informed and sacrificing that connection.

Yes the WhatsApp part of it is really tricky. Even if I convince everybody to migrate over to signal or something, there's nothing to guarantee that that won't get bought out eventually.

I feel like we tried this already with another platform whose name I've already forgotten back when The wannabe acquired Twitter

If I hear back from squarespace I might resurrect my old blog, but I just don't know. I don't know if anything is going to recapture Early Twitter and message boards

Meta still has some utility in groups, in local events and restaurants and concerts and stuff I can look up And as a Rolodex to keep in peripheral contact with folks that otherwise wouldn't.

I text and email plenty. But sometimes people forget to text me back etc and it' it's necessarily simpler

I'm glad to have some way to connect with the people with whom I've used the internet to forge connections and The creatives I admire, but I just don't know how desire I have for social media as a platform of expression.

darcyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Dad has become an enthusiastic fan of "Blue Bloods. I pop in, refer to Tom Selleck's Frank Regan "Commissioner Batman." and lampoon the abuses. I also still think @laurahudson.bsky.social 's article in SLate from 2014. A great writer, Laura, in a bygone era of the Internet.

Young man-- there's no need to feel down
I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town
You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown
Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?

This, kids, is called leaning into the form; using what digitally designed- for mobile-scrolling- comics offer the creators and the reader.

Also, any time Preeti can channel her inner Looney Toon, she will

(You are not going to out-argue a thirteen-year-old, it's what they do best. Ask questions: Do you think whether something is popular or not indicates whether it is good or bad? Is i Could people review bomb a score to drag it lower? He's a gamer, Listen and ask, Socrates. Thank him for sharing

Hark: a red flag rises.

Friends of mine from middle school 99) through - summer 2001) began dating each other in eighth grade. They have not stopped, are married to each other and, have three children. Their song then, at their wedding, and now is "hanging by the moment" by Lifehouse.

Maui Aloha: The Peopleʻs Response Support our frontline grassroots heroes mobilizing to mālama ʻohana affected by the wildfires on Maui Hawaiʻi People’s Fund stands in solidarity and full support with those individuals and organ...

I asked an Indigenous colleague in Hawai'i where people can donate to and these were his suggestions (1/2):

Hawaiʻi People's Fund: hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-alo...

ʻĀina Momona: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuamaui

Happy Zero Cool day to those who celebrate it.

But wait! "Can't you host people at your house?" Try living with your soon-to-be 71-year-old father whose had a wicked cough since last September, has gone to the doctor twice, but never finishes his prescriptions, and doesn't really disclose persistent severity to his primary. GAH

My wheelchair van is, waiting for more parts and repair on its essential ramp parts. I won't get it back until August 23rd, maybe The bus stop that was close enough to my house for paratransit was cut years ago. Applications for other grant-supported options are in, but my summer is fucked

It's rough sailing out here, bub

Preeti "Parker Luck" Chhibber strikes again. Buy her Spider-man books. They're funny and heartfelt.

. I have been without my wheelchair van - my sole mode of non-medical transport for about 6 weeks now. The ramp stopped working. The dealer "discovered" parts that should have been replaced pre-sale, and sent it to a repair shop - who could not fix it. Now the dealer mechanic gets another crack.

From the Chandra website: Chandra Release - January 9, 2023 Visual Description: 30 Doradus This release features a composite image of 30 Doradus, otherwise known as the Tarantula Nebula, a region of active star formation in a neighboring galaxy. In the image, royal blue and purple gas clouds interact with red and orange gas clouds. Specks of light and large gleaming stars peek through the colourful clouds. The patches of royal blue and purple gas clouds represent X-ray data collected by the Chandra Observatory. The brightest and most prominent blue cloud appears at the center of the image, roughly shaped like an upward pointing triangle.

Stunning composite image of the Tarantula Nebula produced by JWST and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. About 170,000 light-years away, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. 🔭 🧪

X-ray credit: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.

IR credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JWST ERO Production Team

Yeah. But i love that you're getting to do it (whatever it is)