Optimystical Studios next up Geek The Halls Nov 29 & 30

This year has just been so much. I started the year with a ruptured ulcer & almost needing a blood transfusion.
Today I'm headed back to the ER (was there Saturday) for an emergency Gallbladder surgery.
This will be my 5th personal ER visit this year.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Please let us love you! 🍵🫶 Every time someone contributes to or draws from the card, our hearts get a lil glowier. What is a tea house for if not to care for one another?

Pay-it-Forward Fund - Friday Afternoon This fund feeds an in-store gift card which can be used by guests on hard financial times to buy any café service item: fresh brewed tea, kombucha, soda water, pastries, even seasonal specials like co...

For those asking to contribute to the communitea gift card from a distance, we do have a link for that!

square.link/u/arkoexQ4

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Thank you for the kind words.
I had Caitlyn's size already made but decided I needed to cast hers with yours and do the inlay together so they were made with the same materials. Because I'm a sappy romantic.

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

A packet of instant pasta called Quick Spirals

When you don't have time for the full freakout

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Making "jokes" about bad people having tiny dicks is not funny. And it's an immediate unfollow and likely a block from me.

The bases I use allow for swapping nibs and work with converters or international standard cartridges.

Do I need to turn you a fountain pen for Christmas?

An anonymous donor just offered to match up to $1,000 to my fundraiser in support of health benefits for @scarleteen.com's staff and an as-needed health fund for volunteers, which means your $1 is worth $2! Anyone want to join in with ANOTHER match to turn that into $3?

Scarleteen has been doing sex ed for ALL since 1998 and is there with sex ed for ALL, to the tune of some five million visitors a month. The people who do this work deserve health care. I am so proud to support their work, and know many of you ALSO believe in sex ed for all, SO now's your moment.

this is literally never not accurate

it is weird to me that you can say "crazy has a bad history", "moron has a bad history" "drawing a witch with green skin has a bad history" but "gay panic" gets a forever pass bc "language evolves" (true) and "it's reclaiming" (it's not, not when you had no idea the phrase already existed)

Capping THC at 0.4 mg PER CONTAINER?

But also almost non-existent access to quality healthcare, including pain management.

They hate us

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Folks, a pill to swallow: if current Democrats will cave to your healthcare, they will cave to your voting rights. If they will cave to you not getting paid for 40 days, they will cave to LGBTQ+ marriage. If they cave to stalling our airplanes, they will cave to destroying our National Parks.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

The Traitorous 8 sacrificed all of us to keep the filibuster and their ability to travel by plane for Thanksgiving.

tumblr post by user infectouspiss: marauders/harry potter fans who "don't agree with jk rowling" are like if people loved the leopard mascot for the leopards eating peoples faces party so they wore all the merch and drew art of the mascot and talked about the leopard mascot all the time but don't worry! they don't support the leopards eating peoples faces party! they're just completely indistinguishable from people who do because they both love the leopard mascot and make loving the leopard mascot 99% of their personality, "why do people feel unsafe around me when i very clearly don't support the leopards eating peoples faces party?" says the person in the leopards eating peoples faces party merch (don't worry they bought it second hand so the leopards eating peoples faces party don't get any money from them)

Huzzah!

Sigh, sadly yeah.
So we gotta find someone who wants to loan us a studio for a 4-6 session show.
That should be easy right 🤣🤣🤣

Conversations with the 9yo DM:

9yo DM: You see a skeleton jumping towards you kicking its heels and singing…

Me: Oh no…

9yo DM: Yes! It is Tom Bonebadil. 🎵 Old Tom Bonebadil is a creepy fellow,
Bright blue his aura is, and his bones are yellowed. 🎵

This fall has been an extra slow one for small businesses out here, and the tea house is $3.7k shy of where we need to be to make rent before late fees hit this month.

All this to say, if you have some tea shopping to do or friends to point our way today, we'd sure appreciate it!

I'm working with some folks on a 5e (or Daggerheart) module with full terrain & minis & a physical magic item jewelry piece, that I would die to get made as a short campaign live-play. If you want to collab, hit me up.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social while you’re assembling your transition team, my awesome husband @edidin.bsky.social is available and has worked with women and gender-expansive people, advocating for ATIs, supportive housing, and other resources for folks impacted by the carceral system.