Preordered from @libro.fm, so that I get to support an author I ride for, a social purpose audiobook company, and a local bookstore in one swoop!
We're fundraising for public libraries again! 📚This week, when you donate $15 USD or more to your public library, friends of a library organization, or the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, you'll receive a free audiobook credit 💓
Last year, we raised $55,000. How much will we raise this year? ⏬
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
📌 An Open Letter to the Senate: Advancing Financial Alignment with Canada’s Climate Commitments. Please sign by midnight Thursday, January 22
🖊️ Sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔥It is time our banks stop fueling the fire.
#CAFA
*scuttling across the floors of silent seas* man I should've been a guy who can't decide how to wear his pants
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Tonight I learned that the voice behind the Robin Hood Fox was ONE OF US
if you see a bird art share your bird art!!!! i was born for this moment!!!
Let us all take pleasure in appreciating a movie or a book or a sport or a historical fact today. Not only will we get the inherent benefits, we’ll get the added benefits of doing it for spite.
Many Drops Make a Stream is a queer fantasy adventure in which a shapeshifter vigilante must team up with a seemingly normal human on a rescue mission. Features memory-stealing blood mages, friendly rats, and at least one goose attack.
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I love the bookseller recommendations so much! Definitely helps me figure out what to listen to.
I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
The Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan is the kind of organization that *should* receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Absolutely fantastic work that should be a model for civil society and humanitarian work everywhere.
wake up, hosers
new petition just dropped
e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money
I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
If you’re like most Canadians, you don’t know that all of your parcels get delivered by Canada Post if you live in rural Canada. The big couriers don’t go there. They drop them off at the post office and letter carriers take them the rest of the way. Ending home delivery cuts them off.
I already am! 🍹
Done! Happy birthday!
💖 Does writing a five-star review of them count?
if there’s anything i know at this point in my life it’s that it is a gift to have trans people in your life, and it is a privilege many many cis people do not fucking deserve
May every single human being on this planet be safe.
May every single person be protected from harm.
May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.
Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games.
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
If you prefer to support wildfire evacuees more directly, Blue Feather Street Team does great work in the community.
At the beginning of this pride month, I give you one of my fave @pseudonymjones.bsky.social pieces. I always think about this, because we are not clean cut and easy to define, and that is what makes us beautiful.
And I will always point out: every word for us has been used as a slur.
How We Fight For Our Lives by @theferocity.bsky.social
new gender neutral greeting just dropped
I did a workshop with Bianca through the Believer in the early COVID days that meant a lot to me. Please help share!
this is my impression of a cat sending an email. ok, here I go:
"purr my last email"
thanks
