I had a quiet day to go through my emails, message reps, sign up for meatspace stuff, and, to top it off, bake a fish. Feels good 🖖

Hey, this is worth taking like 60 seconds to fill out. Its not a commitment towards anything, its just to help the Free Speech Coalition gauge interest in such a credit union

Please share this around! This could end up being huge!

If you're not already boycotting amazon, maybe start now....

I'm very excited to be attend!

It's been a wild ride getting involved in my local unions. These folks fought incredibly hard with steadfast hearts. They deserve a happy ending, with jobs and healthcare secure.

Pledge: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Is A Union Paper for A Union Town We NEED to make sure the new Post-Gazette owners understand that the PG is a union paper in a union town with readers who expect robust staffing and local news coverage. The new owners are clearly inv...

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette survived. But it won't thrive without robust local coverage and good-faith bargaining with the workers who fought so hard for their rights, the PG, and their neighbors. Will you join me in signing this pledge to support the new PG? actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge...

guys, this is how you lose the time war

everyone's tax dollars should always be going to gay porn

A post of book recommendations based on the Rainbow Crate May 2026 theme. Twenty books in four rows: the first and fourth row have six book covers which stretch across the entire width of the graphic. Rows two and three have four books with two on each side. In the middle of these is a graphic with a dark gray brick background and a red pennant banner hanging on it. A Rainbow Crate logo with no text is at the top. Text below reads “May 2026 Knights in Shining Armor Book Recs” in all caps. “Knights in Shining Armor” is in a gray neon font, while “May 2026” is in a black font and “Book Recs” is in a white font.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our recommendation post for next month’s theme! Here are twenty books that we think also fit the May theme of Knights in Shining Armor! These are a mix of Adult and Young Adult titles. 🧵

What are the secrets to getting in as a speaker for a games conference? 🗣️

1) Clear takeaways ✅

Watch our guide for the other 2!

Just 3 days remain to apply for Game Devs of Color Expo 2026:

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#gamedev

‼️ Applications close tomorrow‼️

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a poster for the game workers conference, taking place on may 22-23. in the bottom-left corner, a red stream of game tools & iconography emanate from a sun composed of abstract shapes. it's nestled, slightly askew inside another poster for a boshi's place watch party for the conference. boshi's face at the bottom left overlaps the conference poster slightly, with small illustrated decorations in pure blue scattered around the rest of the frame.

we're hosting a watch party for @gameworkerscon.bsky.social may 22-23! it's a free, online conference by & for workers organized by @videogameworkers.bsky.social.

please use the qr code to rsvp! there will be snacks, swag, park hangs during breaks, & we can learn how to build worker power together.

Did you know that union membership is a pathway to healthcare? Our Freelancing Committee has been taking steps to make it a reality and it's one of their major goals. Until the US gets universal healthcare, you deserve coverage. Studios shouldn't be able to wiggle out of a system THEY helped create.

Workers approve settlement over Ubisoft Halifax closure HALIFAX (April 14, 2026) – Laid-off Ubisoft workers in Halifax have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a settlement with the video-game giant. The terms of the settlement, including the compensation…

Our statement on the Ubisoft Halifax settlement.

A poster for "TAKE THE CONTROLS," an event for games industry workers on May 6, 2026, covering layoffs, closures, AI, and more, with a hand holding a game controller on a purple background.

Calling all game devs in Québec! What would you change about the games industry? Come chat with us online on May 6 at 7 PM. Follow the link to register 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Review by nmcannon - Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe Life on Other Planets was a surprise find. My partner was flipping through Scientific America...

#BookReview of Life on Other Planets by Dr. Aomawa Shields, which is very relevant to #ProjectHailMary fans!

#BookSky #Memoir #WellReadBlackGirl #Science #Astronomy

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Review by nmcannon - This Is How You Lose the Time War After Twitter user bigolas dickolas (@maskofbun)’s viral tweet about it, This is How You Lose ...

#BookReview of This is How You Lose the Time War. Thanks for reck, bigolas dickolas!

#BookSky #QueerBookworms #SciFi

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Review by nmcannon - The Trial of Joan of Arc I’ve had this book since my first holiday in England (I think). Joan of Arc has been a figure ...

#BookReview of The Trial of Joan of Arc, which was a bit of personal research and had some surprising ambiguities

#BookSky #QueerBookworms #Medieval

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March to April Hello! It’s been awhile. March shoved directly into April for me. I traveled, I traveled some more, I visited with family, I attended my dear friend’s wedding, and I went on hour-long d…

My March and April newsletter is live! I finished another chapter of ye olde video gayme and long for slow-cooked salmon

#BookSky #IndieGames #QueerBookworms #InteractiveFiction #IndieGameDev #ChoiceOfGames
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If you have any condition that has "manage stress" as a way to keep you healthy, you should automatically get at least $2k a month. Let's be real 90% of my stress comes from a lack of money.

Oh, wait, not being constantly stressed keeps you healthy, so everyone should get at least $2k a month

Comic page, my art. A shapeshifting goddess turns monstrous. The text reads ‘only change will save us’

Only change will save us-2026
(And maybe butts)

My art, a humanist figure with a wolf head

Comic page, my art. A women/wolf shapeshifter. The text reads ‘only change will save us’

My art from 2020, a women/wolf

I think this might be a new(ish) OC! Eve first appeared in my work around 2020 and at first I thought she could be a form of Lilith or Cassiopeia but she feels different. The second daughter of the wolves. I want to explore who she is and what she’s doing here

A black and indian woman in the middle with her two children next to her. One of the children (Caroline) is heavily scared and pensive and shy trying to hide her face and looking uncomfortable while her sister (holly) is looking to the side annoyed. The frame of the picture is fancy and made of wood with the Shadow Lord symbol on it

Its a day early but for Werewolf Wednesday I had to draw the Snowden family portrait, with Caroline and Holly before transition. I will put how they all look now in the replies

#myart #werewolf #wta

Transgender werewolf ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cropped black and white illustration of Bianka lovingly looking up at Eric. Reads: "up to 80+ mature queer stories" "Spicy Queer Smorgasboard"

Hey. Psst. We have up to 80+ mature queer stories available starting at $5, with the full bundle being only $15. Come get some books! Comics! Games! Music!

➡️ itch.io/b/3612/spicy...

I have nothing to say that matches the gravity of the situation. I just want peace and safety for everyone targeted by the insane whims of a madman.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.

Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Can’t legislate us out of existence 🏳️‍⚧️ prints now available!

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

Siema, I'm agender and write queer dark fantasy and horror for fellow freaks

I hire trans people to do my covers and illustrations, like @afiregender.bsky.social @sorenhaxan.bsky.social and @pompoison.bsky.social

Best places to support me:

ebooks: payhip.com/ladz
physical: ladz-merch.square.site