Merfilly (they/them)

6 days in a row of writing 1k words in 1-2 hours.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

It was one of those days when nothing goes right. I managed to hit a button that wasn't there in the lift, and instead of taking me to the fourth floor, it took me four worlds sideways.

I've gotten used to it here, but I really miss dodo burgers.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

i can't even stand to look at the details of this one, it's horrific

everything we - america - was supposed to stand for, even if we didn't live up to it, was at least the ideal - is perverted under these freaks

I don't have an ICE reporting app, but #ICE is in #PDX metro at SE Sunnyside at about SE 130th just East of the Sunnyside FourSquare church. They are pulling over trucks for "surprise inspections".

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are rushing towards each other, with a narrative text above each, with an arrow pointing at each fox respectively. Narration above Green: Heat-seeking behaviour Narration above Blue: Attention-guided missile The foxes reach each other, swirling together like liquid or koi fish. Narration: Impact! Curling up together, coiled around each other in a tight cuddle, the foxes rest, calm and content. Narration: Equilibrium

WGN-TV lays off 8 on-air reporters and anchors Monday in massive downsizing The ax is falling at WGN-Ch. 9, cutting a wide swath out of “Chicago’s Very Own” TV newsroom.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/23/w...

What the actual fuck, WGN.

And I note the union steward "just happened" to be one of the laid off roles. What a stunning coincidence. 😡

The fact that Davidson’s outbursts were included in the aired broadcast despite a 2-hour delay between the recording and the broadcast always struck me as deliberate, but that the BAFTA producers put a mic in front of him, when he was 40 rows back, and then the BBC left all that in is flat-out evil.

Gone, fragile, but free
We remain tender together
If not so in love, it's not so wrong
We're only human after all

"Something About You" - Level 42

#lyrics

Oh, pale moon rising over the pines, come
Lawd away until the sun does rise
Leave the day by the, by the door
I don't care if sun don't shine once more, that's what I said

"Pale, Pale Moon" - Jayme Lawson

#lyrics

Warner Bros taking a higher moral standing than your organization should be a rock bottom moment

Discord is in fact a member of Netchoice, the trade association fighting these laws in court, and user payments therefore indirectly finance that exact political and legal advocacy you want them to be doing (and they are).

Two shadowy dragons fly towards a big black cartoony castle against a blood red sky.

Mel Shaw art for 'The Black Cauldron'

Two cats have jumped onto a sash window and climbed up under the blind, dislodging it

Working from home proving more stressful than I feel is necessary

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to...

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

Cover for Diane Duane's historical fantasy novelette THE FIX. A silhouetted gladiator and small boy look out into the Colosseum...

Over at #Ebooks Direct: Possibly *not* stolen by Anthropic! (I have to check) and now available as a standalone novelette: THE FIX. www.tumblr.com/dduane/80943...

‘Snowicane’ is a new one for us, too.

a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy ! Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.

I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

A manul with a very fluffy tail wrapped across its paws sitting on a projecting ledge of a rock wall, glaring intensely at the camera.

It's always Manul Monday somewhere...

It finally happened! In a team meeting, my boss asked, "Can I ask a dumb question?" And without hesitation I answered, "Better than anyone I know, Rose."

I'm glad she got the joke. #GoldenGirls

You want me to log into Threads? The stuff that terrorizes the people of Pern??

Ryan Coogler‘s The X-Files reboot has received a pilot greenlight at Hulu.

Danielle Deadwyler is set as the co-lead with Jennifer Yale as showrunner.

Source: Deadline | Read More: bit.ly/4ayla2N

I was talking to Seth Moulton's staff about that this week with regard to the Burlington ICE office. One thing they said was that closing an existing facility is really hard but preventing a new one from opening is comparatively easier. We have to stop these camps now while we have the chance.

The correct number of concentration camps we should have in this country is zero.

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue comes home carrying a massive box on top of his head. Blue: Check out this board game I got for us! Green: It's huge! Once the box is opened, Blue reads the rule book that was inside. Inspecting the game pieces, Green is halfway in the box himself. Blue: The rules are vast, but at least they're clearly written. Several hours later, the foxes sit next to the box, with a partially set tabletop game in front of them. Both of them look visibly exhausted. Blue is reading out loud from the rule book, while Green is laying on his back on the floor. Blue: ...And in the 28th step of the reconstruction phase, you recalculate the storage capacity... Blue looks up from the book, and Green tilts his head slightly to look at him. Blue: I think I need an eight hour nap. Green: It's 9 pm.

Foxglove Fiction Candace Harper and Ceillie Simkiss are one person writing under two pen names. She is a queer, neurodivergent woman living with her family and furballs in the South.She’s known for being the overly en...

My mom was hospitalized this weekend for a large kidney stone and a kidney/bladder infection that has spread to her blood stream. We could use some help because this is going to absolutely wipe out her savings.

I'm doing a 25% off sale on ebooks on my site through the 28th with code HelpMom25!

Mathematician Gladys West dies at 95. She was a hidden figure behind GPS. Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.”

Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past.
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The Gen X urge to go to the doctor, go to the mountains, look to the children, drink from the fountains.

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