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They're also not magnetic. Or at least, they don't stick to my fridge

Sadly, no! They're plastic, and as far as i can tell, not able to be opened. I thought they were candy too, at first, especially since it's not uncommon for dolls to come with a couple little sweets as a gift.

Several two-toned plastic thingies in the prom of my hand. They're round/tube-shaped and have a scalloped edge making them look like a cartoon flower or sun from the top. They also rattle and aren't magnetic. I thought they were candies at first

She came with sewing patterns, which is really cool. Maybe I'll make her and her sisters some matching dresses. She also came with these, and i can't for the life of me figure out what they are. 1/6 scale sewing weights maybe?

Close-up of Diva's head she is mint green resin with long drooping rabbit ears and a face that is somewhere between a short muzzle and a human nose and mouth. She lacks eyeballs and a wig at the moment

Diva's feet, which are a combination split-toed hoof and platform spike stiletto high heel shoe in lavender resin. The tops are covered in sculpted for, also in purple resin

Diva with her antlers on. The antlers are translucent pink resin. Diva's head and torso are mint green and her arms are lavender.

New doll day, yay! My Dollpamm Diva arrived! She's a jackalope girl. Thus my Dollpamm deer girl collection is complete (until he makes another one).

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

submissions — neon hemlock

We have only 61 stories submitted for WHAT ELEGANT STARS so far. I suppose a lot of folks will submit in the last month, but that still seems low. Though the theme is more specific than some previous ones, so folks are less likely to have anything ready to go.

www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

we are weeks away from 'Trump attempts to make horse a Senator' and the only thing stopping him is that he is too much of a sociopath to form an attachment to animals

The taboo to not talk about politics is THE SAME THING as HR telling you to not discuss salary. It only advantages the people in charge.

Talk politics.
Talk salaries.

Blow up the system.

The List of Shame People frequently ask us about whether their specific US state is trying to enact a social media age verification law so they can call their state representatives and yell at them about it! I have had...

hey wanna see what I've been working on on-and-off all week that's been making me more and more depressed? dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html

My hot writing take about tense and POV is stop blaming YA for why some adult romance readers are demanding first person POV. Deal with your own readers. Stop using YA as a cudgel for everything you think is wrong with adult books.

I genuinely believe we’d be in a much different place today. If every single day of any Trump presidency there has been a new impeachment filed with all Democrats voting for at every opportunity. Even if there had never been a republican defection it would frame things far more accurately.

No, autistic people are not ‘mind blind’ – here’s why The idea that autistic people lack a ‘theory of mind’ has shaped ASD research for 40 years. The evidence never supported it – and it’s time to move on.

The idea that autistic people lack "theory of mind" or are "mind blind" is not only malarkey, but is based on shifting goalposts—meaning that when autistic people passed ToM tests, researchers changed the criteria. TY @travislacroix.bsky.social:

theconversation.com/no-autistic-... #neurodiversity

Does anybody have an idea of what to do with a bunch of paper pulp? I washed a bunch of old bills and now i don't know what to do with the pulp. I saved a bit back for fire starters, but i also don't need fire starters. Or decorative bowls or homemade paper (old bills make crap paper anyway imo)

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

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Wind turbines kill birds, yes but...

Close up of Alex-cat's face in profile. His big chin is smooshed into my leg

I haven't put enough cat pictures on the Internet lately, they're going to take my terminally online card

The Ajinmoto chicken fried rice you can microwave that my dad gets from the freezer section was in this recall.
Ajinmoto is basically recalling most every frozen food they make, that have multiple brand names including Ling Ling.

And also,

That ship did get unstuck.

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"

arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...

Sony Orders 24 Episodes of ‘Reading Rainbow’ Reboot as Classic Kids Show Finds New Life Mychal Threets will return as the host, with 'Sesame Street' and Ms. Rachel veteran Kristen McGregor joining as showrunner.

Some good news for once.

I keep saying this, but Gen Z Nihilism is quickly becoming something much darker. They have moved from believing in nothing to believing in nothing but power.

We didn't defend values like justice and Democracy. Now we're here.

An Argument Against Voting for the “Electable” Guy In this week’s Elie v. US, The Nation’s justice correspondent shares his thoughts on the Texas primaries. Plus, a terrible Supreme Court decision and a bad play by Major League Baseball.

In this week’s newsletter, I look forward to “Beto O’Rourke 2” while also explaining why SCOTUS ruled 9-0 to send an immigrant back to a hitman.
I also complain about the modernization of baseball because I’m old.

Well, little big fish died overnight. He was fine when i went to bed, energetic, coming over to meet me, eating. I really don't know what got him. I'll check the water but I'm just baffled.

Save Our Sailors rang a faint bell as something I'd heard about in the past, and found archives of the old sites from 1996.

It was a 'procott' campaign, organising the mass buying of products advertised on broadcasts of Sailor Moon in an effort to get the whole show aired in North America.

A dark shot of a foggy night. There is a silhouette of a tree in the foreground, the hint of a building on the far right, album with the silhouette of a person walking. In the middle are several lights shining through the fog. The top and bottom are dark black making the center appear to float

I can't take any more horrors, and i really like this shot of the fog so here. I think it counts as liminal (internet version) even with a person in it

Prairieland ICE shooting trial jury gets closer look at 'antifa' materials defendants owned Anti-fascism, anarchy and the abolition of ICE were common themes in literature and paraphernalia investigators found in the defendants' homes and cars.

“Zines are really like this little atomic unit of freedom of the press with simple pamphlets that you just pass around. It begs the question of whether the prosecution believes that we should have a First Amendment in the first place” #ZinesAreNotACrime
—Lydia Koza, wife of defendant Autumn Hill

🧵 Today’s news: Proton turned over payment info for a Stop Cop City account. Not good — it's state repression in action.

Controversial opinion: We don't think this means all activists should abandon Proton for docs/email.

It depends on your threat model. Let's explore.

(Long thread incoming 👇)

If you must pay for a Proton account for a radical project, pay with cash (you can mail it) or washed crypto (Monero -> Bitcoin).

All credit card payments are traceable, even to a privacy-focused company.

Your security model should not rely on a business to fight the state on your behalf.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Ah, Kristi Noem. You may be gone for now, but you'll always have a place in the human rights abuse commission in my heart.