Leona Neelam Maple 💛🍁 (she/her)

An illustration of pomegranates. There is a whole pomegranate and a half, showing the seeds. There is also a frame filled with tiles with flower ornaments

the sacred fruit

I have friends who have made hobbies out of trolling ChatGPT bots.

Many of them are no longer friends. Some are going to get quite the call-in from me.

I don't care if you're bored: do something else with your time. Also ironic use is still use. Stop willfully being part of the problem.

furiously tapping the sign again

you cannot commodify and fetishize Japanese culture without recognizing the baggage and history that comes behind it, and then put it onto a D&D supplement

donate to JANM instead, support Japanese and Japanese American creators, do better

Yes it was and I am so excited for others to experience this amazing panel!

I'm on a panel at this, talking about sensitivity consultation in video games with @kobanya.bsky.social @theleonamaple.bsky.social and @intersectionscch.bsky.social! It was a good discussion, even if I do say so myself 😄

The Game Devs of Color Expo full schedule is out NOW! 🙌🏾

We've got some fabulous speakers for our 10th year, so check them out!

gdoc.events/2025schedule

In addition to the virtual program, in‑person watch parties are returning this year in New York City and Pittsburgh!

#gdocexpo

I guess, consider this your heads up of incoming changes?

I tell others, "rest is resistance" and I need to tell myself the same thing. It's just hard to put down the thing I love most even when I know it's for the health, wellbeing, and longevity of myself and my business. Even when I know I'm hurting it currently.

I don't normally make reels and post these things and I don't know what compelled me to do so today, but here I am in all my emotionally bruised and broken glory. I'm sad that my therapist & I agreed that I need to take a sabbatical from my business until December once I finish my current workload.

Heads up for YouTube folks;

You can block certain websites and categories of ads appearing on your channel by going to Settings > Ad Categories

Added em all to my list, thank you!!!❤️

Thank youuuuu!!!! ❤️ Honored to be included in this excellent thread ❤️

This is a phenomenal take

If you have a podcast, be vigilant about your ad service.

Thanks to two people here, I can absolutely recommend If Books Could Kill, episode 2 has sold me on this.

open.spotify.com/episode/5uB6...

Okay you and @lanthedan.bsky.social were ABSOLUTELY correct because episode 2 on Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers had me absolutely jaw on the floor wheezing at points while washing dishes. Phenomenal recommendation! Thank you!

hello things are pretty dire over here and if anyone has spare trinket money, a sale or two would go a long way!! (and if you don’t, BOY do i understand!!!!! a share, either digital or word of mouth, would also go a long way!!)

www.ariellemilstein.com/shop

Thought I was going to have to just keep their website up because I couldn’t remember what was in any of these and then I flipped them over and GASPED.
INGREDIENTS
TEMPERATURE
BREW TIME
CAFFEINE LEVELS
PERFECTION

Let’s go hard to spread the tea house love and crush our summer debt elimination goal, nerds! Please keep up the word of mouth, you’re saving our butts! 🍵❤️

A white banned says FEED GAZA in front of a digital drawing of red poppies with black and white details and green leaves in front of a blue sky with clouds

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

These assholes often back down when we push back.

We should push back more.

This time of year is consistently the slowest online for us, which means our fulfillment time is currently *ridiculously* speedy. We're talkin same- or next-day shipment for most orders!

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Hey y'all.

I'm submitting applications for a new job, but I don't have any interview clothes thanks to working from home these past 5 years.

I doubt cheap cottagecore or southwestern goth would go over well most places.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

ko-fi.com/cozykathryn/...

PREORDER - 2025 Tea Advent Calendar Preorders open through 9/1, boxes ship in November.  Orders with Tea Advent Calendars AND other items will be held to ship all together in November! Order other items separately if you want them soone...

Only four weeks left for:

- advent preorders
- summer fandom & house blends
- tea house debt erasure campaign (link in bio)

www.fridaytea.com/products/tea...

It's the final 27 days for this so I'm back on your timelines to remind you that we are saving the best teahouse ever together, okay? ❤️

An Otter sliding on ice.

Blue Ghost's view of the moon at 100km altitude.

-Credits: NASA

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Hi. I did really well on hitting some of my end of month Financial goals. Got rent paid!

I have 80 to my name, my PayPal is 24 in the red, and bus passes cost $111 for next month.

If you feel like helping:
ko-fi.com/theleonamaple

Thank you

Also it's wild that businesses have to pay money to get their money back.