Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️

You would know if your device were listening to you 24/7 and transmitting everything you say to its manufacturer, because a brand new battery with full charge capacity would last for 20 minutes. The traffic would also be viewable on network sniffing: no one has ever detected it.

Indeed, all dresses should Have Pockets.

Holy shit this rules

I've made lakes a dozen ways and nothing compares to Smitten Kitchen.

smittenkitchen.com/2008/12/pota...

Photo of the smiling author in the sunlight, her hair is very purple, she's wearing a rainbow hat and a rainbow backpack over a green jacket and green shirt.

My hair is purple, your objections are invalid and I am brimful of joy.

That's just being Jewish as far as I'm concerned, for better and worse~

Okay but I already knew that one about both of us. *nodding unhappily*

two tweets from mark brown, one from 2016 reading "Take me down to the Parallax City where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly" and the other from 2023 reading "this tweet is better than all my videos combined"

granted: it is a very good joke

Oh god that's such a cursed fact, yep, that's a two hop route for me.

*shifty-eyes*

Suddenly feeling very amused at the length of novels in my little area.

Organized religion trains brains to:

• accept a separate New Year's just for trees
• fear yet another shiur about what the number of seeds in a pomegranate represents
• reject eating fruits grown in the first three years of the tree's life

I've got two trunked books despite the fact that I'm a web serial author whose stories get yolo'd into the web without a publisher.

Truly this is a great (read: baffling even to me) decision.

Hey folks!

Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

*Hug*

I was really self conscious too. Still am. Being spun around the room by amazingly skilled dancers who really really want me to enjoy myself was very powerful! Especially the ones who are, like, gals who are star dance majors at Stanford. Oh my God. 🤩

... but still self conscious, lol.

Listen I'm not gonna say going out to social dancing to waltz for five hours would fix any of y'all but you should give it a shot just in case.

I will never, ever be this dedicated to The Bit as far as marketing and promo goes, I am in awe of this lady.

Sorry to my anarchist pals and that but honestly people, /my people/, have died for the right to vote within living memory and as such I am militant about your obligation to do so.

BABY HARBOR SEAL KISSES WITH BONUS PROUD MAMA STTOOOPPPP HOW IS THIS REAL BUT IT HAPPENED 10 MINUTES AGO OMG

because we are addicted to taking the bait so that we can stay mad / get angrier, which is an excellent choice that we never regret

Parenting has clarified for me that many of you aren't really upset, you're just tired, confused, and also pooping

Median Virginia voters put the CIA ice queen over the top in a landslide against the guy running on "I hate trans people", the future is Woke 2 and rainbow Lockheed Martin socks will be *in*.

(If you get that reference, you are too online.)

Neither intrusive nor intense, it's straightforward paperwork.

Instead of "Democrats have to balance the shutdown against the harms of passing the bill" it'll be "what can Democrats get that will make things concretely less bad".

The aide is talking a bit more of a game than is actually merited, ICE is funded for quite a while and will be able to continue operating regardless.

But it's going to make it extremely easy for Democrats to keep voting against the bill until they get real concessions like the warrants change.

*hugs her Svaha dresses*

Most of my feed (wait why did I open bsky, fuck!) is angry about this but I think it's a big win! breaking out the ICE funding lets the fight be just about that funding.

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I guess "nobody pays attention to nerd shit like what the NLRB is doing" mostly explains why I write fantasy novels where being a civics nerd is the national sport.

How was Harris not running on actually improving life in America? She had a whole platform about it with detailed plans and was poised to inherit a regulatory establishment trying to unfuck decades of neglect, from the SEC to the NLRB to the FCC and CFPB. She talked about it a whole bunch!

Have found tumblr user probablyday's #woosterposting series. In shock