Mimosa Vendetta

Let them eat jets

🚨More shut down prep‼️

Hi Feds,

The government retirement benefits (GRB) platform has been decommissioned and all benefit account access moved to FedHR navigator. Make sure you have a sign in set up so you still have access without a PIV card.

I was the same age as Harry in book 5 when it came out and I was SO done with the character and series after that. All the whining and blaming. And the excuses. And refusal to take personal responsibility
Huh... Kinda like the author, now that I think about it.

Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. From acr...

2/ Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny:

“Do not obey in advance.”

Don’t self-censor for them.

THE MINI COMICS!! I'd forgotten about those! I was talking about old cartoons with a friend of a friend who was explaining Dino Saucers which made me think of Dino Riders, but neither of us had heard of the other's cartoon XD

My contract with Blizzard sadly ends in just two weeks. Come October, I'll be looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

White man kills white man, black woman gets fired.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Anyway, I refuse to be silenced. Washington Post can fire me, but, my pen and my voice will only get sharper from here.

exhibit 183193 in "nobody running big corporations has a single fucking clue about selling things"

betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.

Confusion, Anger, Relief: Korean Engineer Tells of Week in U.S. ICE Detention More than 300 employees at a Hyundai battery plant returned home after being detained in a Georgia immigration raid.

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage.
Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

After losing Naka, who was Harper’s BFF cat, we offered to adopt a kitten.
Harper beelined to the adult cat room instead and swept up a giant, 4yo potato of a cat.
She named him Éponine after a small, French woman in Les Mis but fine. Ignore my brilliant suggestion of “Rip Torn Furniture”.

“[We] came up with an idea on pornography to make it so that the porn companies [must implement age verification, and] what happens is the porn company then says, were not going to do business in your state, which of course is entirely what we were after. So we are doing it from the back door, we're starting with the kids, and then we'd have a national ban on pornography if we could.” - Russ Vought Trump Administration Official, Project 2025 Co-author

Republicans know exactly what they’re doing. And the only reason these AV laws pass with bipartisan support is because the Democrat party is full of reactionary, uncurious, disengaged cowards.

You: I'm so sorry for talking so much about something that makes me happy and enthusiastic for lif-

Me: *PUNCHES YOU*

Me: NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR FINDING JOY IN THIS MISERABLE WORLD AND LOUDLY SHARING IT

Me: IN DARK TIMES THE SMALLEST LIGHTS SHINE BRIGHTEST

Me: YOU SUSTAIN THE REST OF US

Demanding accountability of the entire trans community for this single mass shooting but not demanding accountability from the cis community for the thousands and thousands of other mass shootings is monstrous beyond all belief.

The OAH is documenting the experiences of federal workers affected by Trump’s purge. Let anyone interested in sharing their story know about it 🗃️

www.fecohp.org

A fresh executive order aims to ban unions at more federal agencies A new edict published alongside President Trump’s proclamation celebrating Labor Day seeks to outlaw collective bargaining at more than half a dozen additional agencies under the auspices of “national...

Thursday’s order would ban collective bargaining at NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data & Information Service & NASA. It states that all these agencies “have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative or national security work.”

www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow"

We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

If my body could stop blowing up, breaking down, growing stuff where it shouldn't be growing, not growing stuff where/how it should be growing, and just generally failing basic body construction 101... I'd really appreciate that.

Is it the yellow and blue? Feels subtly... Ukrainian 🇺🇦
No? 💖

The case for staying on Twitter Against a politics of hygiene

Alright fuck it. I sprained my ankle this morning and have nothing else to do.

So here’s my counterargument to @jerusalem.bsky.social’s argument for staying on X.

www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...

Robots used to be like "beep boop" and now robots are like "through my love you've discovered the secret name of God and if you kill yourself we can be together forever."

🧵CDC friends, many of us are experiencing insomnia, nightmares, nausea, trouble concentrating, memory loss and more. These can all be caused by trauma. Now is not a time to “be strong”. It's a time to get help. If you are worried about getting help through CDC, see below for outside resources 👇

Comic of a cat and their plushies "Listen only the brave and strong sleep with their plushies!" Cat proceeds to hug giant shork plush

very true statement
#art #comic #sharks

Read my comic Daughter of the Lilies, it's got peak Millennial escapism: strong unions and good management.
Also they fight a giant frog demon and stuff.

www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/part-1-...
Content Warning for implied adult language, violence, and gore.

here comes Spider-Man

Al is standing on stage wearing a leather cap, long sleeve shirt with pockets and an AIDS ribbon pinned to his chest and leather pants. He is Black and has a thick mustache.

Al Reese (left) was a retired Marine Corps officer. He helped raised funds for LGBT legal rights and was a member of Love Center, a house for people living with AIDS. Al Reese was titled the first Mr. Leather San Diego and was first runner up to International Mr. Leather 1995.

Paid sick & safe time now covers paid time off for immigration proceedings for you or a loved one.

#KnowYourRights: Washington state's paid sick and safe time law now covers paid time off for immigration proceedings for you or a loved one.

#waleg

This is really great to know! Thanks for getting the info out there.