Rita Briar she/they

This is Frankie. He ran outside like he always does, only to find out his yard had been replaced with a white void. 12/10 (IG: frankiethenorfie)

Dino nuggets & salad with dark and dark yellow suaces on a plate

You can tell we're adults because we eat our dino nuggets with fancy mustard and red onion chutney

That man has always hated privacy on the internet

I wonder if op hears from people who are hyped about storage and presentation, to the point of disregarding creators

"Content" to me says writing And other types of creation, usually either art or videos and games,

And also I try to avoid the word if it's not what I mean

No worries! Duck Duck Go exists, I just thought my brain was funny

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I initially read that as "find PCP" not "find a Primary Care Provider" and I was a little confused

We had that a few weeks ago, it's maximum bundling weather

My Cousin Vinny! Excellent especially for the Boston accent and also southern Alabama.

Elle from Legally Blonde is excellent for the SoCal or "valley girl" accent.

Writers, what do you use as examples of media that don't flatten particular speech into Midwestern US dialect? I'll start.

if you love good fiction, did you know that you can use this as a preorder for all of neon hemlock's books next year? that's what i just did.

Resist and Unsubscribe

HowEVer even the guy organizing it didn't delete Instagram because he couldn't see a good way to replace it. He puts that right on the list, very up-front

www.resistandunsubscribe.com

DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

Resist and Unsubscribe: reputation damage vs. difficulty doing it

"We haven't really missed anything that we've canceled... I want to stay unsubscribed from most of these for as long as possible."
www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

Oh, hey, go find this! It's good, and also cheese!

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

I mean,,, seems about right

My go-tos are my local NPR stations + Waging Non-Violence for hope. The local paper when I have extra spoons for news.

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Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3

You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.

It was queers who kept caring and eventually left.

Perhaps I should not be as surprised as I was when my mostly-white former congregation mostly stopped caring about anti-fascist issues the moment trump was defeated in 2020.

Same here!

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In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

Is it this one??
www.kangaroocreekfarm.com

I for one didn't get anything like this. They made a game of imitating and guessing facial expressions. Brilliant.

it is probably because they are responding to their earlier errors by taking positive action now, which helps defend their neighbors, rather than by retroactive reputation management in the Atlantic, which does not

My bro was describing my nibling's social-emotional training at preschool, and it just really gives me hope for the future that kids are getting tools to understand themselves and each other.

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Well, and adding here that it's a v different kind of mobilized but I do count WisCon as my main activism. It's the longer game, you know? We need both.