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this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

This is a very very dumb request but I’m starving.

I have $-2 in my cashapp and I can’t afford to get anything at the store.

Can anyone help me with just a few dollars to get something today? Please?

Shackles and Shards: Shattered. All she wants is to serve her Goddess, living in the underworld and caring for the recently deceased. But when a former duke mistakes her for a lost princess, Sresca is plunged into a conspiracy to undo the revolution, destroy democracy, and restore the monarchy. Can she harness ancient magic and uncover clues in her past that can help her save the world? Cover shows a priestess and a flying serpent in a field of purple roses. Cover art: May Barros.

Stars and Soil. Revolutionary Fantasy, Sapphic Romance. They could fight each other over the crown, or they could fight the man dangling it between them. Cover by GetCovers. Cover shows a crown being pierced by a dagger.

A lake of feathers and Moonbeams. Sapphic Swan Lake Retelling. Forced proximity. Magic. Fairy tale retelling. Polyamory. Arranged marriage. Ancient conspiracies. Tons of queer rep. Also available as an audiobook narrated by Danni Deguire. Cover art by Laya Rose. Cover shows three people holding hands by a lake while two swans fly overhead

#pinnedpost

I'm a sapphic author with disabilities writing epic & political fantasy featuring sapphic heroines with disabilities! My characters destroy monarchies, fight oppression, and heal from trauma.

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WIP: dax.ink/shackles
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Call your senators and your house rep.
Make a stink by being clear that abandoning trans adults and children is a no-go.
Cis people, call and be loud for us. We are tired.

Well, I'm now singing AND THIS IS MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER so thank you for that flashback

At a metro station, a woman with a bicycle prepares to board the train. The train car displays the "M metro" logo and number "6062." A second woman stands nearby on the red brick platform, holding a brown bag.

Today is Car-Free Day! It's Car-Free Day! 🚇🚌🚲🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️
People who ride transit walk as much as 30 minutes more daily, increasing heart health, building muscle, & reducing risk of heart disease. Families using transit save about $2,800 annually on rideshare, parking, tolls, & $10,500 on car ownership.

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Poll: Capitalism is out … and socialism is in The movement is gaining popularity among Democrats, a left-leaning group found.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin.

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Sent $25 of mutual aid. Do some good today, y'all.

no black person in this country has ever died by suicide via hanging from a tree btw

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

Two Republican Congresspeople Call For Institutionalization Of Transgender People Representatives Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people On Tuesday.

1. Anti-trans rhetoric heated up yesterday on the far-right, with two congresspeople and major Republican figures calling for the institutionalization of trans people.

Both Reps Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson made such calls. Musk, Loomer, and Walsh echoed them.

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One of the coolest jobs on the planet opened up at our Warsaw studio. Be a lore master for The Witcher ✨️

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this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

A grey and black handmade leather pouch lies flat on a white duvet. On it is a large, heavy medallion. The medallion is silver and reads "KINGDOM ARTS & SCIENCES" on the side facing the viewer.

A fem-presenting white person dressed in Norse (viking) clothes stands inside a wood-panelled community center room. There are a variety of folks in the background wearing clothes from a variety of centuries and locales. The person facing us is wearing a dark teal underdress and a handwoven smokkr (apron dress). They have elaborate beads adorning their dress. There is a rollator parked right behind them.

Guess who won the academic paper portion of the competition???

I'm THRILLED.

Ugh. Choices have consequences and these people have made theirs, the consequence of which is they’re forevermore known as transphobes

Matthew 6:5 - The Lord's Prayer And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

I worked in charitable giving for a time. It was a lot easier to get $ from our left-leaning donors w/no strings attached compared to the right-leaning ones who were far more reluctant w/o large public recognition for their "good works."

My constant thought: Matthew 6:5 biblehub.com/matthew/6-5....

So, I started to support organizations that did the work that was in line with my beliefs -- ones that fed the hungry, that welcomed the stranger, that helped and did not judge. I noticed that the overwhelming majority of these were run by left-leaning folks.

I was part of the queer group on campus as an ally, studying to eventually go to seminary... until I came out. This was back when NO major church was accepting of queer people.

I had actually internalized the teachings and values of Jesus. I did not see them represented on the right at ALL.

This this this.

I was raised in a Republican household. By the time I got to college, I joined both College Dems and College GOP. I wanted to understand "both sides." I was a religious studies major.

I quickly saw that the folks on the left actually espoused the values the right preached.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Wooden tabletop Warp weighted loom. Warp is chenille-like red yarn in a muted berry color. The shed is open.

Wooden tabletop Warp weighted loom. Warp is chenille-like red yarn in a muted berry color. Weft is a moldy blue color. The shed is closed

Wooden tabletop Warp weighted loom. Warp is chenille-like red yarn in a muted berry color. Weft is a moldy blue color. The shed is open.

Ready for display!!

A collection of nine small plastic skulls sit upright on a desk. They are all painted to look like natural bones instead of sun-bleached. Several of the skulls have painted wounds and battle damage on them; one has an axe wound while others have spear damage. They are all strung with synthetic sinew. They sit on a desk mat that is a map of Middle-Earth and there is a vibrant rainbow keyboard behind them.

A close-up of three of the skulls. The center one has a nail through its eye and artificial sinew strung through it. They all have painted-on blood.

A view of a tabletop warp-weighted loom. It is in the process of having heddles added. The yarn is a mottled red, VERY reminiscent of entrails, and the ends of the warp threads are braided to prevent tangling. The skulls are being used as weights and are partially visible, peeking out from behind the warp threads. A shuttle loaded with artificial sinew is resting in front of and on top of the braids.

Update: It's coming along!

I used alcohol markers to color the skulls a more natural shade and gave them some bloody decorations/wounds.

I'm in the process of getting the heddles on, then I can FINALLY start weaving. (Seriously, 80% of weaving is just... getting it all set up.)

Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old:
copa.apps.uri.edu

The skulls are filled with papier-mâché glue (so, flour and water) to give them weight. The "entrails" are synthetic chenille which were *already colored like that.* The weft is described as "corpse-blue" so the blue matches that.

I cannot wait. 12 days to go!

A collection of nine plastic skulls, all about two inches in diameter, with long nails driven through them at various angles.

A collection of long, red, chenille-like yarn. The threads are arranged in braids and look a bit like entrails.

A tabletop warp-weighted loom in the midst of being set up for weaving. The warp threads are looking VERY... biological.

The two yarns being used for the project; the warp is described as "blood red" (and being made from entrails) while the weft is "corpse blue."

I have entered a very serious competition with the aforementioned academic paper. Of course, I cannot resist the opportunity for a visual shitpost.

My display on the day: I'm recreating the Valkyries' weaving process with (fake) entrails, skulls, and so on. It's gonna be a friggin' DELIGHT.

Many local archives have sewing patterns in the collection. The first items I arranged when I became an archivist were sewing patterns from the early 20th century.

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business