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Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

The gals at work paid me the ultimate compliment someone with my relationship to masculinity can receive: They asked if I could teach them some self defense because A) I seem like the kind of person who could and B) they all trust me implicitly with their safety.

Be riding that high for a bit.

I don't know what to tell you. You can't sit at a piano for the first time ever and play a sonata. You can't pick up a tennis racket for the first time and serve a 110MPH Ace.

You have to fuck up.

You have to be able to handle failing.

You have to love it enough to not get it right and keep on.

Happy reading!

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Elon not being happy despite having all the money is like someone losing at a game in tutorial mode, which he also does

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

just typed "sleves" and then "sleaves" before finally making it to "sleeves". doing great over here.

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man's rat

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

Right-wing media figures are furious at activists for using whistles during ICE activity Right-wing media figures are lashing out at community members in Minnesota for using whistles to alert others of federal immigration enforcement in the area, asserting that whistles should be “conside...

These guys two months ago: ha ha I hope there's a civil war we'll make those LIBERAL BITCHES cry for mercy

These guys now: waaaaaa they're using whistles it's not FAIR waaaaa

(You can get free community safety whistles, quantity 100 to 1000, from here:

linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

)

When you cave, they push harder. When you fight back, *they* cave. Do not obey in advance. Repeat after me: "Fuck you--make me."

WHO THE FUCK COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING

YOU ANTIVAX CONCENTRATION CAMP GHOULS

did you know that Anne Frank died of typhus

maybe don't have people in concentration camps to begin with

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In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

Five, if we're only counting the ones I wrote as an adult/with the goal of eventual publication. Four written. before my debut and one written while I was querying. I don't even remember the ones I wrote in high school and college. And my debut's not out until April, so who even knows what's next!

All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money

I may have a stroke.

Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”

A PROTESTant.

I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

Bloomberg headline: "Nvidia Halts Plan to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI, WSJ says"

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Updates have been a bit slow this morning because we got around 80k new whistle requests last night. LOL

We also got:

* a ton of people volunteering to print
* SO MUCH filament ordered
* enough extra $ on the GFM to sponsor a few new dedicated whistle printers
* clear eyes full hearts can't lose

This excerpt from @adamserwer.bsky.social's latest points to something that Alex Pretti's vocation as a nurse brought to mind: What we're seeing in Minneapolis is resistance, but resistance based on care.

I've said before that what we need is a care economy. What we're getting is a care resistance.

Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.

As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

I said what I said about the silly people who say, "But there has to be a path back for MAGA folk!🤡" There has always been a path back. It's never been an issue at all. Many anti-MAGA folk spent some part of their life on the hateful side.

But the path back involves repair. Undoing harm. Like this.

This reminds of a quote I saw online, that the reason ADHD appeared to disappear in adulthood is that men outsourced their executive function issues to their secretaries and wives, and ouch
(and ADHD women were either undiagnosed or burnt out by trying to compensate without support)

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Generative AI is not just the instrument and aesthetics of fascism, but it has permanently sewn itself to fascism in a fucked up human centipede of scammers and grifters and guys who've long ago forgotten how to think.

important message to all bluesky users

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end.

I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"