Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️

From the same channel that brought you "don't get the Discord subpoena'd" and "do not talk about doing crimes on social media", we have a new hit single:

"Do not post death threats to the CEO on her own website."

fucking KiwiFarms-ass community on this site istfg.

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else... Read More

There are two races for governor this fall—in New Jersey and Virginia. But don’t sleep on lower-profile statewide elections: the contests for attorney general and lieutenant governor in Virginia, plus critical elections in Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Alas! Your civic duty is fulfilled by looking up what's on your ballot (a null pointer exception)

One month from today is election day. Go look up what's on your ballots. And on November 4th, do your most bare-ass minimum civic duty:

Get to the fucking polls. Vote for the Democrat. It is the easiest, highest-leverage thing you can do, and refusing makes a mockery of any other effort.

This book is Awesome, the closest short description I can give is "Madoka Magica meets Diaries of a Murderbot".
A must-read

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Expectation: being involved with the PTA involves a lot of emails and some spreadsheets.

Reality: being involved with the PTA involves a *lot* of emails, some spreadsheets, and having to scramble to figure out what the actual heck I'm doing.

Pretty solidly on point, tbh.

Effie Calvin's "Tales of Inthya"! I personally started with the second book, Daughter of the Sun, and have no regrets about doing so.

Other than that, um. Well, can you clarify what you're looking for from romantasy? It's not IMO a well-defined genre.

Okay, instructions: For each subchart, roll 1d6. Then, roll once on each chart with a d66 (1d6 for the tens place, 1d6 for the ones place) to get your bonus nonsense

PLEASE post your results. bonus if you come up with the associated light novel title

Yes, I do wish I could get isekai'd to @aaronsofaer.bsky.social 's Quill and Still. Come for the magical isekai, stay for the village where your society and government revolve around ensuring those around you are taken care of and live fulfilled lives.

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This here is a fucking subpoenable list:

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Quit preening about how your performative fear on the public internet makes you a better activist than the people who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Live your life so that the most uncomfortable and embarrassing thing you did today was reflexively decline a Discord friend request from someone you intended to accept it from.

Or don't, honestly, I'm not your dad.

But definitely don't do that. Oops.

A picture of the book Nyte in Shining Armor with the text "A cursed Knight, A hunted prince, Queer fantasy adventure, Now free on Kindle Unlimited!"

💙📚LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT!📚🪐

My queer LitRPG adventure about a nonbinary vampire with a cursed shield and an achillean romance is officially LIVE!

Also featuring: Forced proximity! Lesbians! Giant monster battles! Grumpy x Sunshine! 🌈📚 Did I mention it's gay?

FREE on KU! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGGH17R8

The author dressed up for a wedding with her wife, likewise.

The world turns, day turns to night and day again, and they in turn become weeks and months and years.

And eventually the trans girl gives in to her yearning and goes purple haired in a cocktail dress to her cousin's wedding. And is cherished no less thereby.

Life is such a joy, gloriously.

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.

And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

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Yikes. I keep talking about supply chain attacks with NPM and how much I dread them, and... yeah.

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I filed my thingy with the class action people a while back, but yep! Q&S is indeed on the list.

Hey all currently looking for mostly tech aligned work but also willing to do axuillary in support of positions the field is currently a bit of a bloodbath.

I'm based out of Eugene, Oregon with experience in Windows Admin, 0365, Python focused on Power shell, Crowdstrike Falcon, Tenable Splunk ES

A late, slow morning that lingered in my wife's arms. A homegrown tomato on sourdough. Dancing through doing the dishes in a spinny skirt with power metal playing. Block parties to go to in my rainbows, as a woman who's a sparkling shade of normie.

Living well will do for praxis.

It's me. I'm now the bookshop employee that only recs sapphic books. I am in every bookshop. All the time. You will only get sapphic recs for the rest of your life.

shared with alt text and also go check out some cool litrpg books

Hey cool I'm in this! 🌈📚 #booksky

Come get your queer cozy slice-of-life litRPG, ultra-low-crunch, full of civics and alchemy and divinity and queerness and whatnot.

A female harpy with pink and orange feathers sitting on the back of a black and brown female drider. They are cuddled up and smiling at each other. If that sounds gay, it's because it is.

The #Narratess sale starts this weekend, but I put my book on sale a little early! 🌈💜

For the next 7 days, you can grab a copy of my #trans #sapphic #cozy fantasy book for just $0.99! 🌈🚀💫

🪐📚🏳️‍⚧️ www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7J4ZG5X/ ⭐️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Art by @durendoodles.bsky.social

#transwriter #LesbianFurry #booksky

Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment? 1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!) 2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc. 3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read 4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting) 5. read aloud a chapter to someone else 6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid 7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through 8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener 9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story 10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you 11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first 12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip 13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term [writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Ellie's exaggerating, which is classic Ellie. I kept... all of my existing in-person transfem friends and like 80% of my online ones, though the majority of the new ones I made wound up not working out due to Mandatory Radical Political Leftism stuff.

Yeah, it was just... this bizarre thing. A guy went off about it and then was like "but I'm not even American" and everyone took the bait, and it's been ongoing for *weeks* since.

... I might be a little exasperated. There hasn't been a day where this doesn't cross my dash since then.

I am eternally dubious of ... so many things. Those people being in good faith, them actually being people, the *lists* being in good faith, whatever.

(The list goes on, since the Newsom discourse was sparked by a European troll, the whole site is a fractal of shit right now.)

Porn spam in the writing community feed is not the reason I expected for me to walk away from bsky in disgust today but it'll do.

Shouldn't it be possible with the, like, color templating emoji spec?

Hell yeah Muir mention