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If you want points for having an aboriginal person on your bid committee, make sure your representative at the Q&A can pronounce their name, or at least gives it a good faith effort instead of othering them for not even trying.

@brisbanein28.bsky.social

Also, periodic reminder that the UAE’s gov’t is funding the G-cide in Sudan and the Sudanese people have asked us not to visit Dubai or buy Emirati Gold. (as A Poor ™, I wasn’t gone do that anyway but still!)

I’ll be around in the convention center starting probably 2:30-3:00pm.

It makes me feel better about being in a space where I have not always felt welcome as an Arab-American, and to hopefully keep micro-aggressions against Arabs and Muslims down if there is visible support (the 200 buttons I have is only about 3-5% of the people likely to show up to con)

And last, but furthest from least, www.etsy.com/shop/Movemen... for the Free Palestine buttons.

They hand delivered the package to my hotel front desk this morning because they just got back from a conference elsewhere themselves and live in Seattle. That was amazing.

To credit the artists/sellers:

www.etsy.com/shop/Stitch4... for the enamel pins and a scarf not seen in the picture

www.etsy.com/shop/Cardsan... for the lanyard

www.etsy.com/shop/leloand... for the doves, watermelons, and Kayiffeh print buttons

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A Kuffiyeh fabric lanyard surrounded by 5 designs of button-style pins that show Palestinian Support, plus 3 designs of enamel pins still in packaging.

My Etsy orders for con arrived! If you’re at Worldcon and want a pin, I have many extras (especially of the buttons, but also about 15 of each of the enamel pins.)

Yessss…. 💖

Prior to this I had some cheap rainbow gradient ribbon tied to the handle and some zipper pulls, but it was fraying badly.

If the rhinestone stars don’t hold up I have other fun creative ideas!

Seems like! I get into Seattle Monday evening (tomorrow) and leave the following Monday. :)

Picture of a black fabric Samsonite suitcase upright in three-quarters profile in front of a brown wood dresser. There are 4 red and silver sparkly stars on the suitcase - 2 on the front in opposite corners (upper left and lower right), and 2 near the top of the side, one larger than the other.

The upper right corner of a black suitcase, with the front tip of a household laundry iron in the top third of the image, with a few red and silver rhinestones peeking out from under it.

I’ve added some hotfix rhinestone stars to my luggage so it’s quick and easy to ID as mine. Looking forward to see how they hold up on my upcoming travel!

… you would think that I, an accountant and bookkeeper, could do basic arithmetic.

As you’ve worked with me on con stuff it’s good you already knew better.

How is 2007 16 years ago? Thanks for making me feel old, Phoebe :P

Motherfucking wind farms…

You do realize you have friends that could theoretically cut that check right now and will hold you to this…

Black domestic shorthair cat with orange eyes curled up in the center “hole” of a gray cat “donut” which is on a wooden floor.

I’ve started calling her my little donut hole as this is her favorite evening spot. (Her name is actually K’Ehlar and she is a sweetheart except when she decides not to be, kinda like her namesake) #cat #catpicture #blackcat #catswithklingonnames

Twitter screenshot of @SNeurotypicals: Neurodivergent screening tests will be like "do you struggle with wearing socks" and ND people will be like "nope does not describe me, for you see I have a System" and folks that is what the question is getting at

Aha, found it

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

A picture out the side of a stopped car. On the right is the rearview mirror. On the left is a black sedan. In the center is a squarish truck painted purple with images of various ice creams on it, with the name “Cuckie’s” in yellow paint.

This interestingly named ice cream truck is in Salem, and @talimk7.bsky.social got a good picture of it to prove it’s real.

And this is why having a diversity review of program items & their descriptions is important! 🫠

A spinning display rack for greeting cards & note cards, showing 5 rows of handmade cards.

View from the front room of the shop where the spinning card racks are into the rest of the shop. The image shows one spinning rack on the right, and then many shelves and displays with a variety of merchandise in the background.

Very excited to share that my cards are now selling at thehamgiftshop.com in Fitchburg, MA! Seeing my cards on display in a physical shop was amazing, and this has inspired a new round of crafting for me! I hope to be posting more about my art in the coming weeks & months. :)

Imagine if early in Obama's first term, in the face of a Democratic supermajority passing the Affordable Care Act, Republicans merely shrugged and said, "What do you want us to do? We're out of power!"

And then just waited for the next election.

This wins the internet today.

An email from Briana Wu, dated May 3, 2014 (about 3 months before the start of GamerGate) 11:39 ... Drinking the Mountain Dew B Brianna Wu May 3, 2014 to zoe v •.• Hey Zoe, You I hope this will stay between us. But, I did want to share something with you. The first time I really heard about you, and Depression Quest, a mutual gamede friend of ours in Boston was complaining about Depression Quest. They had counseled you to take the money from big pharma. They were talking all kinds of shit about how shortsighted it was of you to not do this - but you'd stood your ground and said no. They thought you were a total fool. I didn't know about your reality show, but I did read about the aftermath. And what really impressed me about the situation was you did the exact same thing. A situation was anathema for you, and you said no. You were willing to burn your bridges with an entire production company over the situation. You and I are similar people in that we really care about women in games and calling out the sexism in the industry. But, the truth is - I'm a pragmatist. And, if I were being embarrassingly honest with you, I probably would have taken the money from big pharma. And, I would have drank the Mountain Dew on camera. But, here you are today, and you're doing just fine.

11:39 •.• You and I are similar people in that we really care about women in games and calling out the sexism in the industry. But, the truth is - I'm a pragmatist. And, if I were being embarrassingly honest with you, l probably would have taken the money from big pharma. And, I would have drank the Mountain Dew on camera. But, here you are today, and you're doing just fine. You stood your ground, you made your choices and you still won. There's been a situation at GSK that's been really bad for us and bad for the company. And, I can't go into it just like you can't go into the reality show stuff - but I can tell you, I drank the Mountain Dew on camera for far too long. I have dealt with a really awful, humiliating situation for far too long. It finally ended this week. I don't know you that well, but - I have been thinking about your integrity a lot lately, and how going forward I need to be less of a pragmatist and more of a Zoe Quinn in leading my company. I want to let you know - that's something I really intend to follow through on. I hope that doesn't seem emo, but it is true. And, I think when other women in the industry inspire us, l think we should let them know it. All the best, Bri VIEW ENTIRE MESSAGE + Reply → Forward

Yknow what? I’ve been sitting on this for a decade because I’m not into punching laterally but I AM FINE with punching far right lunatics.

Just a handful of short weeks before GamerGate started, Briana Wu, who I spoke to 0 times before this, sends me this *wild* ass email. 🧵

Today has been a whole day today and it’s only noon. 🫠

Dear Brain,

Stop thinking I should be awake. I need sleep. This does not go well if I can’t access good - or even mediocre - sleep.

Regards,
Me

Bodies are a scam. I wasn’t even DOING anything and I had to lay down.

I live on the east coast (of the US) and my body sometimes reacts to humidity poorly 😐🫠

I *CAN* but it litterally physically costs me the next day. (Thanks congenital skeletal BS, AND then hyper-mobility syndrome. No wonder I need to use a cane consistently at 42 🫠)