A Miserable Pile Of Words

If elf seething generated actual heat, there'd be no White Fastness left, it'd just be Pleasant Meadows as far as the eye can see

Oof

e-hugs available if wanted

it's been repeatedly proven that giving people free money is cheaper than not doing it

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

This is an image from 1992, in case you were curious

Puritans did such a bad job of ruling England that the country re-installed the monarchy and kicked *them* out.

The boot like burnished blood is on the *other* foot now!

Greta Thunberg annoys the right because she's a reminder that it's possible to stay true to your moral principles even when it's inconvenient, and they fucking hate that

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

I think you're supposed to wait until we stop being pissed about the one horrible decision with awful optics before you make the next horrible decision with awful optics.

Step into my parlour, said the massive fucking tiger to the wet little meow meow

A bad MSPaint hackjob pastiche of the classic "I have a suggestion." meme tumblr post by user "isuggestforcefem". The name is now "ladyofbeatings", and I've replaced the avatar with the face of Scarlet El Vandimion, the protagonist of the anime "May I Ask for One Final Thing?" ("Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai Shitemo Yoroshī Deshō ka"), taken from the moment in the first episode where she just got done beating a whole ballroom full of evil nobles to a pulp. There are stray flecks of blood on her face, framing a relaxed smile after she finally got to let out years of pent-up stress and rage. Oh, and because of a job well done, I guess. "Lady of Beatings" is one of the names other people have given her, along with "Bloodstained Lady", and "Mad Dog Noblewoman".

Sometimes, inspiration strikes like lightning.

Now that we know happiness is a warm gun and sympathy is a knife, it's pretty clear that we need to reinvest in basic research to identify which other feelings are also weapons

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol.

Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.

Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist.

This system is failing to support people to transition not because it is broken, but by design. The frustrating thing is that this would not be a difficult problem to solve under a different political paradigm. Trans+ people do not need to be assessed by gender clinics or diagnosed by psychiatrists to tell us what we already know: we are trans. The healthcare we need, especially when it comes to hormones, is already available to cis people through making an appointment with their GP. Gender clinics are unnecessary and exist to segregate healthcare for Trans+ people. Abolishing this system and providing Trans+ healthcare in primary care, at the GP through an informed consent model, would solve many of the issues this data reveals. GPs already prescribe hormones to cis adults. Trans+ adults simply need the same access to this healthcare.

In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.

224 YEARS.

This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.

We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.

hey hi did you know I've been reposting Her Majesty The Prince chapters (new and improved version) to my blog every friday for the past month?

the chapter I had planned for today will be going up tomorrow instead, so now's a great time to catch up on my big fantasy gender drama! ^^

We regret to inform you etc

The classic "why didn't I do this before" discovery, unfortunately

Also not a huge fan of "Queer books? Yeah! Here's a list of classics by dead people"

Astonishingly, there are queer people *now!* And some of them write books *now!* And they need to eat and pay rent *now!*

The Watashi wo tabetai hitodenashi ending bursting through the wall like the kool-aid man going "LILIES FOR EVERYONE, TO A SONG CALLED LILY" made me burst out laughing.

Anyway, it's SO good, watch it.

Oomfie: hmm, something along Cocaine Bear?
Me: Pretty sure that falls under gore
Oomfie: and if they taught the bear to eat neatly with knife and fork?

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

still 30% off on steam until the end of the week. pick it up now and have a *very* gay weekend

Same.
All kinds of people you might not have interacted with before "Yes, and"-ing each other and in the process becoming Something Else, New And Exciting, A *Living* Community, was so much fun, and I miss it dearly.

It was effervescent, and through it also gave *me* the uh, fizz to *write*.

Handler The Lieutenant gazed down at what had once been Sara Stirling, now kneeling perfectly still at her feet in Standard Position 3. “What is your name? Respond.” “My name is NFA-0-B-0049, Handler.” In the...

Here's a mech pilot story by another Cohost writers' salon alumnus — not on bsky afaik — which I think folks might enjoy:

xeno.science/fiction/hand...

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nothing so reviled #writing #Fantasy #Elf #Orc