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This government is stealing from you.

Preparing our nervous systems for rebellion requires a series of rememberings. Literally re-membering our bodies.

It’s going to be rough. But it’s going to need to happen if we want something different.

These rules are made up by people who don’t follow them. Our compliance feeds them, takes care of them, allows them to stay alive.

Our nervous systems are not prepared to do what needs to be done to reshape our society. We have all been conditioned to comply.

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken

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Megan's momma an'em be working doubletime.

It's truly the worst of times and the worser of times in this episode of America.

It still requires human intervention, which is the largest line item in any business, and bookmaking is an expensive business.

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Touch and agree lovers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQkm...

(still working on that sbstk replacement because you deserve platforms that aren't run by wheirdos (heavy on the wh))

My toxic trait is I know I can build my own platforms, and I end up endlessly building instead of actually, you know, creating on those platforms.

Choose joy. Speak life.

Yep. Artificial intelligence generators can render this as HTML first, which they can do breezily, then export to hi-res print media files. They wouldn't need much human intervention, if any, which I guess is the only way they can scale. Booooooo.

To stand out in a kaleidoscopic sea of romance novels, 831 covers feature no illustrations or images, just blocks of color, the title and author's name in an unflowery sans serif font, an embossed gold Cupid logo and a short promotional blurb, creating the uniform aesthetic of a collectible series.

I am a mostly retired graphic designer who specializes in book cover design, so when I saw this shit here? I was like, what in the bland, seasonless chicken is this???

This is not ao3, okay? Where shit like this slides. Readers ABSOLUTELY judge a book by their cover. Romance readers, especially do.

And I do all that by choice. I tend to get very depressed around this time of year, but I choose to do joy because no one else will choose it for me.

I love hearing Christmas songs at the top of November. I love decorating Christmas trees, and I'm a Christmas tree maximalist. I am endlessly amused by the holidays!

Capitalism is a thief of joy.

The article goes through a handful of ways they're making the production easy to scale as well, and the fact that the headline is "no lovers on these covers" kind of sums up my point. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...

a laveneder and purple book cover with a plain text -title grape juice by eliza dumais

I usually don't drag an author's cover even though I am graphic designer because it's usually not my place. But today, I am going to drag a book cover! What the fuck is this shit?

I have So Many Thoughts about this, but I'll save most of em for the newsletter. The headline, though, is that this is beigification required by the removal of craftsmanship from the means of production in order to maximize profits. And it sucks. Literally, it sucks the joy out of reading. Booooooo.

Hug your loved ones today.

Nigerian twitter is in disarray 😭

"do it for the vine"

oh.

oh I know that lady's entire day was made. only compliments i trust are from other black women.

Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves

Watching people banter about pedophilia is fuckin with me ngl. I will see y'all in the next news cycle.

I hope you make it through! 😅

when are we rioting i am ready

😭😭😭 she got her retro jays on again?