Matthew Skwarczek (he/they)

That's one sweet storage setup!

DO NOT LET ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WALK AROUND THINKING THEIR CONSTITUENTS DON’T CARE

Call if you possibly can.
5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

I'm also trying to learn the sax, though I've been struggling to hit the lowest notes. Do you have any tips, if that was something you experienced?

Just read the text of the bill and made a call and will be doing so pretty regularly as I have been.

But man is this just one of the most blatant and poorly written attempts as culture war "think of the children" nonsense I've ever seen. It'd almost be funny if it weren't people's lives at stake.

Oh no, he died?! I only ever read the first two Hyperion books, but I think they lodged deeper into my brain than I realized at the time.
And Lord does that passage still hit hard

Looking for a way to stand up for trans people today? Here's something you can do RIGHT NOW:
Take ten minutes to get on the phone and help stop this violent, dangerous bill. The linked post has all the resources you need to make that call. Go go go

Also, if no hill for hill starting, see if there's a parking garage nearby--that's how my dad taught my sister

That's similar to how my sister taught me. Drill the brake & clutch stomp, b/c safety. Then feeling the bite point (w/help via sound & revs). Next, balancing throttle & clutch inputs. Finally, shifting gears.
I learned on an 02 Focus w/no tach, then bought an NB, though, so VERY different from C6

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

a banner which reads Trans Rights Are Human Rights surrounded by stars and yellow roses

Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!

this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

A sketch of a crow drawn with neon colored pencils in blue, pink, purple, & green. Around the crow are pink stars, green scribbles, and the words “stay curious.”

Stay curious 🌟

[ #cuteart #sketchbook #illustration ]

Wind and Truth was a WILD ride and I *cannot* wait for the next arc

Sworn

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Edmonia Lewis. Born of African and Ojibwe descent, she was a free indigenous woman who lived through emancipation, studied sculpture even while brutalized by classmates, travelled to Rome to study classically, and then used it to represent our beauty and depth through Renaissance marble sculpture.

WTF is wrong with some people?

Two friends laying in some grass together.

it'll get better

SAM ALTMAN: "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an Al model ... But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

Preteen witch standing over a cauldron with jambalaya ingredients pouring in. Her pet dragon is heating up the cauldron from below. Drawn by gdbee art in Jan 2026

In celebration of Mardi Grad and New Orleans in general, here’s a lil witch casting Jambalaya with her allidragon 🥰

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

One Piece - Pirate King

But have you invented a manuever?

Love me a cognac-brown interior

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

Four raw pączki in a pot of hot lard on a stove

Getting ready for Tłusty Czwartek, aka the *real* Pączki Day

I either need to pick up an electric violin or finally learn how to actually play a sax so I can jam with people