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Congrats tef!!!! So glad for you!

My mom loved little women. I bought her the most recent dvd, and same thing, never made it to watching. Unopened DVD sits on the shelf.

/blink/. Someone please get me out of here this is the bad place.

One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical.

You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!

This whole process has been so dreadful even to observe, I'm sure much worse to experience. I'm really hoping for good news for you soon.

But do they have cilantro and enchilada sauce?? This is critical to my wellbeing :D
(Liquid smoke is great, just not something I immediately associate with mexican food, esp. not pecan!! :D )

**some level of facetiousness about "biggest worry" here, if that wasn't clear :D

I am giggling a little, one of my biggest worries about immigrating out of Southern California is access to -good- Mexican food (New Zealand, I am STILL giving you the side eye about your goddamn mayo "sour cream"), and I am just. Dying. What is pecan liquid smoke?!?!?

If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again

Man every single time one of these chucklefucks throws out this "but what if a DEM is on this list?" I just lose a little more faith in humanity. I want them to go to jail. If they raped a child, i want them in jail. I'm concerned that y'all think my politics dictate my approval of child rapists.

One of my top five books always. Absolutely read it.

I wouldn't be offended as a buyer to see that rate for UK shipping! (Delighted to still see someone shipping here at this point maybe... :( ) i think that's a pretty standard expectation of cost.

I ship a fair bit internally in the states, and that sounds about right for a magazine. As someone else pointed out, media mail rates are slightly lower, but I figure you're probably getting the price of mailers/labels included as well.

Seconding shapeshifters. It's what I've been buying my teenage nephew for years now, and the quality and customization of fit is fantastic. they have great basics AND fun options. The full front zip is a must for a teen in school imo.

Congratulations!!! Well deserved!

I don't think we need to resort to AI slop and hero/idol worship to be successful. We're better than that.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

There has been a book mailer box on my floor for over a year because that's the only thing my personal idiot child will play with. Sympathies!

I bought the kettle I did specifically because it advertised itself as "doesn't beep" and there were many angry reviews that...it didn't beep? Which i am still very confused by.

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

No shit you work slower when you have to work alongside a colleague who has no object permanence, knowledge model and lacks basic math and logic 🫠

block em all at once

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Thanks for this! I was trying to find them all!

Manifesto:

Highly recommend! One of my absolute favs (in a list of all great, it's hard to pick, but it's top two). Seconded on a little paperback would look so nice next to These Lifeless Things (the other part of top two!)

In some ways, this is what drove me out of making clothes, period, but absolutely what stopped me from trying to make a living from it.

I will certainly miss having new books from a bugge to read, but find your generally positive ongoing existence far more important. It's just not a you thing, fwiw, your books are great, it's that publishing is a massive mess that doesn't reward good books/authors.

The amount of grief, information overload and unease we are all experiencing in cycle after cycle is affecting us all in different ways.

Fascism is incredibly cognitively invasive and manifests in waves through our lives.

We must learn to treat ourselves with grace as the noise increases.