Swistle Thistle

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Right now I have whistles designed by a man in Italy printing on a plate given to me by someone from Canada, in a filament donated from the UK, and I'm sending them to a union who wants to protect immigrants.

Just feels like an incredible team effort. 💖

Skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip it, reclaim your time, do something fun instead

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

Don't mind me, I'm just going to go sit and stare at the wall for a few hours while my brain attempts to assimilate this crucial new information

I love this for us. I wonder if we will at some point understand, or...? I keep thinking there will be a "The detective explains who did the murder and how it was done to the gathered crowd" scene, but so far nothing!

While gathering up the paper recycling I got a bad papercut under my fingernail. Never have I been so betrayed.

I just finished Nona and loved it a LOT (despite not knowing what happened). Also, I just love the cover art: each drawing seems SO EXACTLY RIGHT for the character.

I have now read three books in Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series and I STILL don't know what's going on (WHEN IS THE FOURTH BOOK COMING OUT)

Paul and I went out for an early Valentine's Day dinner, and there were two separate large tables of women celebrating Galentine's Day, which made me very happy 💖💕

YESSSSS I'd forgotten about "necking"!! I pictured people sort of hooking their necks together under their jaws and then, like...WHAT?

Sex Ed in Christian School I don’t know why it popped into my mind, but as I was folding laundry I remembered out of the blue how confusing and unhelpful the term “heavy petting” was for me as a pre-teen an…

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It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries.

It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.

a closer image of the fake Jif logo, which looks like a slightly weird letter J, followed by a lowercase I, followed by two thing that look like a capital T with a little line across the middle like in a capital F

An Amazon listing for two jars of what is clearly Jif brand peanut butter, but with the brand name muddled and weird, like with bad photoshop. The product title is gibberish, made up of characters similar to a J, an I, and two Fs, without actually being those letters, followed by the words creamy peanut butter. The brand is listed as generic.

What the fresh hell is this?

"The Epstein Class"! Perfect. Let's keep that term.

I tell myself: "I'm the owner of the company. But more importantly, I'm also the head of Scriveners Local 23, and I have some demands." So what that means is that I have a four day work week. I work monday-tuesday and then Thursday-Friday. Fuck the boss if they don't like it. I have a workplace wellness program that means I can take breaks for yoga, meditation, exercise, and naps. I have unlimited paid personal days thanks to my project oriented work structure--I get to decide what's the best balance between production and restoration. Fuck the boss if they don't like it. I have five days each quarter for vacation. attending a convention, conference, expo, bookstore event tour, or a writing workshop *is not a vacation.* that's business-related travel. taking a day or two for a weekend jaunt *is not a vacation.* that's unlimited paid personal days. Five working days. Each Quarter. Vacation. and since I always have Wednesdays off, it doesn't count. I know there's a piece of your brain saying "I have to hustle, I have to hustle" I know My brain does that too And without the union boss in my head, I'll just work until I drop. That's what I did for years. And then I burnt out so bad that this is the first time I have actually made real, noticeable progress(1.) similar to my pre-burnout rates in years. Because the union boss went on strike, and the boss' bottom line was *destroyed.* If I have to crunch now, the union boss enforces recovery time. that's all overtime. but since I don't get paid a wage, I get all that back in time. The boss never wants to see a strike like that again. There is power in a union, even if it's only the union in your head. (1.) only it's not similar. it's half the "speed" of pre-burnout. It's probably my actual true real speed and not my sweatshop labour hustle culture speed. FUCK THE BOSS IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT.

some people were asking what this meant. i actually said it on tumblr but here it is

Just because we aren't totally surprised, doesn't mean we can shrug it off. Decency, dignity, and humanity matter, even now. Especially now.

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

Winter Coat I am feeling simultaneously very smart and very dim, because of my winter coat. I have TWO winter coats, actually, because one of them looked great when I tried it on but it was very fitted and fel…

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Every single time I spray my face, use the bathrobe I bought instead of a muumuu, put extra face treatments on the backs of my hands, see online drama she would have dm'd me about, hear the names of any of her kids, send Christmas cards. She is so missed.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

WHY ARE WE SO PLAGUED. WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE. HOW CAN WE APPEASE THE PF GODS.

I hit "like" for the reply but you know I DO NOT LIKE for you <3

Anyway now I feel dumb asking for input. Also: my heel hurts. Also: WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE IF EVEN DR. G00GLE CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING SCARY

I have something I have been ASSUMING was plantar fasciitis, because the symptoms matched so perfectly and it was one of the only situations where I did not search online for a medical situation and find "IT'S PROBABLY FATAL." But it's been well over three months, and still it gets better and worse.

Oh god I just saw an AI portrait in an obituary. NOBODY WANTS THIS, PLEASE TAKE THIS AWAY FROM HUMANITY

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He is doing such a good job!!