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No no you forget, vaccine injections are for the good of the people. Thats like. Socialism??? We can’t have that.

- it's ✨workspace smart features✨ you need to turn off so it doesn't fuck up your inbox folders and other actually useful features
- don't use AI to write your emails
- don't follow advice from strangers on the internet without checking their sources/expertise first
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Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.

Is this how healing feels?? Asking for a friend 😭

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Yet another way the GRFP will bias towards financially secure, non-working, networked students from large, well-resourced institutions. sigh.

I *know* NSF POs understand the difficulties obtaining official transcripts, and certainly in the timeframe available. They might not have control over this.

One of the best analyses I've seen

A photo of a hand holding a hunk of French bread and an applesauce squeeze packet. In the background, a mostly empty apartment with a pile of mismatched boxes and bags.

I’m moving right now and my setup really makes me feel like a Grand Adventurer. Sitting on the floor with my bread and apple like I’m Frodo 🧙‍♀️

I Didn't Expect Dr. Gurathin To Be My Favorite Part of Murderbot - Reactor I'd offer Dr. Gurathin a hug but he'd HATE that

"If you want to make me love your work, take a scene or a character who could have been flat or cliche or basic, and write them a wildly new direction."

@leahschnelbach.bsky.social discusses Dr. Gurathin in Murderbot, and how the show adds new layers to his character

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This is so well written, an excellent thesis on the themes of the show

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

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Gigantic aurora Pokemon in a nostalgic nighttime dreamscape of ice and sparkling stars. There are 12 kinds of creatures in this illustration - some obvious, others well hidden. Can you find 'em all?

Only on the darkest arctic nights can you encounter this Primordial Pokémon. It manifests as aurora and ice, gently towering over the pole's frigid denizens...

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(There are 12 kinds of Pokémon in this #art! Can you find 'em all? Some are well hidden. Have fun & don't give away answers! 💕)

Happy #transrightsreadathon 🩵 🩷 🤍
Head over to the transrightsreadathon insta for more great recommendations and info on how to take part!

Between the end of part 1, and the epigraph that begins part 2, I was gasping all the gasps there are

Today is the day. Support small businesses instead

Heck yeah!! Thrilled to hear it. Wasn’t the audio well done?

My babies!!

Isn’t she great! This is my third book of hers, and I think the last of what’s out? Have you read Allison Saft? She gives off a similar vibe to me!

Ahh I hope you love it!! I’m loving the creative worldbuilding and the main character’s world view.

An image of a book, Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson, propped up on a couch, with a knitted sleeve in progress in front of it. The cover of the book shows a drawing of a woman in a cloak with a white raven behind her.

Lazy Sunday doing all my favorite things

🧶: Alchemy Pullover sleeve by @knitcalifornia.bsky.social, knitting in Isabella DK by sublime yarns
📖: Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson
☕️: a homemade iced mocha

I’m watching another wave of knitters/crocheters/dyers/designers come flooding in, and welcome! 🧶🧶🧶

A tip for designers and dyers, turn on “Require Alt Text Before Posting” in the Accessibility settings, and then go ham on your image descriptions! We like accessibility around here. 💜💜💜

Down! I would love to do a KAL!

HOT same girl, I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I read it (and Novik’s other books, spinning silver is so good!)

Uprooted by Naomi Novik! I loveee her writing, and it explores the idea of Baba Yaga having unique but and amoral magic, which the MC shares!

A copy of Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, with the cover ripped off. Cardboard for the book case, brown cardstock, and a cutting mat sit to the side.

An open book case for Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree. Green book cloth, with the title in bronze script on the spine. The design of coffee cups and cinnamon rolls is seen on the front and back covers.

It is truly so so bad, but the second project is going well! I learned a lottttt with project one. This one is actually fit to be seen!

A customer made cover of Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree. It has green bookcloth, and metallic bronze coffee cups and cinnamon rolls in a repeating pattern.

A loaf of chocolate chip banana bread on a cookie sheet

A knitted sleeve in progress on a gray/purple sweater. The maker’s left hand is holding it up, and it is sitting on a blanket.

Doing ALL the stress hobbies today, hope you’re taking care of yourself!

Saaaaage!!

I just finished my first ever book binding project! Woohoo!! It’s fugly as all heck, but it’ll be a fantastic starting point to really keep me humble 😂 #craftsky #bookbinding