The first I guess 😅

That evening, I accidentally touch one of the hogs while emptying the slop buckets into their trough. Its wide wet snout against my right fingers, questing for scraps. Ishahn, it says, voice in my head like dandelion clocks under a palm. Ishahn food-friend, quick-quick now time to eat, love Ishahn, food then scratches, hello, Ishahn, hello. Love Ishahn, come play, food-friend. I did not know the pigs knew my name.

Godskin was published this year in @strangehorizons.bsky.social (which I think makes it eligible for awards, if you're so inclined).

It's about becoming a god and queer desire - oft repeated story motifs of mine.

I think we may be near the end of civilization

BREAKING:

“Policies were reformed deliberately to liberalise immigration. Brexit was used for that purpose, to turn Britain into a one nation experiment in open borders”
Keir Starmer

Buy Now Before Tariffs Hit, Retailers Are Telling Shoppers Many businesses are urging customers to buy before President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs potentially raise costs—and prices.

Many retailers are urging customers to buy now before President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs potentially raise costs—and prices www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Get to know my writing. For every like, I will post one quote.

Damn, been reading such cool things and now I want to play, clearly I should be working harder ;)

You know. When we started our resistance accounts on Twitter in 2016, I didn’t think we’d be doing it 8 years later.

I want to thank all the people that have been at it every day since day one.

Thank you. 🖖

The latest news? Not right now, thanks. Some people disappointed in Donald Trump’s win are quitting the news entirely.

People may be ditching the news, but it’s not because of the results of the election. It’s because people are sick and tired of corporate media covering Joe Biden’s choice of footwear with more zeal than Donald Trump’s threat to democracy.

Cactus Wren on cholla, facing left.

Arizona’s state bird, the Cactus Wren 🪶🌵

The most crucial thing in autism research - and it was sorely lacking for decades with very negative consequences- is lived experience. That is: actually autistic or AuDHD people being designers of the research, to investigate their experience, to plan better lives. So yes field research is massive.

What We Leave Behind When We Join Bluesky The cost of leaving Twitter is high, perhaps too high. But its one many feel they have to pay.

With Bluesky hitting critical mass and the exodus from X grows, the loss of our connections, our memories, and the ephemera of emotions built inside Twitter sits heavy in my heart. I don't personally blog as often as I used to, but I have on this...

Ok, Gaetz's House seat. Things I am certain about:
1. Gaetz may not come back to the 118th Congress. He has resigned his seat, and there are no backsies for Members who resign their seat. (h/t @ringwiss.bsky.social)
on precedent.) 1/

Dear Democrats, I Tried To Warn You New data fully corroborates my viral political meme in granular detail.

Democrats, I tried to warn you. But you didn't listen.

Now many of you are fleeing to Bluesky to ratchet the seals on your echo chamber a few notches tighter. Have you learned nothing?
www.realityslaststand.com/p/dear-democ...

Very much looking forward to being at this event and hearing the readings!

a bald man in a red shirt wipes his face with his hands ALT: a bald man in a red shirt wipes his face with his hands

At the glaucoma clinic, getting a pressure test.

Nurse: Are those your regular glasses?
Me: Yes, but I usually wear contact lenses.
Nurse: Is there a reason you're not wearing them today?
Me: Um...pressure test.
Nurse: Oh. Right.

Call the Samaritans for free on 116123

Ocean life may have rebounded quickly after Earth’s deadliest mass extinction https://buff.ly/3YCllRJ

🎯

What is this infographic, @nytimes.com? How about we call this “floated” idea what it is: an attempt at dictatorship.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

A timely reminder about the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution:
constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

That don’t pay her as well as Putin does.

people hope leopards face eating only 'for hunters'

What is happening

The Final Boss's Son Loves the Protagonist A turn-based boy’s love story. Dainty demon prince Oz is the son of Arenjee, the final boss of a JRPG; Quinn is the game’s hero. How can these two achieve their True Ending after falling in love with ...

The Final Boss's Son Loves the Protagonist

Available on Webtoons, Tapas and GlobalComix
Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/challenge...
Tapas: tapas.io/series/The-F...
GlobalComix: www.globalcomix.com/c/the-final-...

So happy to see so many artists on here from other places! Thanks for 3K!

🎨Let’s do an art share!🖌️

🌙make sure you comment on each other’s stuff
🌞no en-eff-tees or ae-eye plz
⭐️share people’s work too

Hello all new Bsky users 👋 if you're here for all of the sublime smut we got to offer, I suggest you go to your settings and do some quick moderation tweaks.

This sounds like an intersection of TTRPG and #DarkArt that some of you may very much enjoy

Assemblies pastor calls non-dominionists "illegal aliens" on CNN's "God's Warriors"? CNN's groundbreaking series "God's Warriors"--in which promoters of Wahhabist Islam, Haredi Judaism, and "Christian" dominionism are revealed--has caused up quite the stir; dominionists in ...

I'll be honest: I am a native-born US citizen (and literally every branch of my family has been in the US since before 1803, and generally since before the United States *existed*)

I do not in fact think *my own* citizenship is secure in a post-Project-2025 world www.dailykos.com/stories/2007...