A painted rainbow background with a white heart in the middle. Text over the heart reads "protect queer kids"
I disappeared from a lot of social media and the TTRPG community for a while because I've been in a custody battle for my kids. They were recently ordered by a homophobic judge to move to one of the worst states. Please help by sharing the following links! I appreciate every bit. #queer #queerrights
Friendly reminder that Disabled people still can't legally get married without losing their benefits! Certain states have workarounds, but if you require federal assistance, you're out of luck. We still don't have access to the same rights as others 36 years later
Need some good news?
Washington state just passed a 9.9% tax on households earning >$1 million/year AND expanded its state EITC to 460K families! Gov. Ferguson says he’ll sign the measures into law. It's a huge step forward for one of the country’s most inequitable tax systems.
Radcliffe graduation photo of Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit, who is seated and wearing a cap and gown.
Astronomer Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit was born #OTD in 1907. She discovered more than 1,000 new variable stars over the course of her career, worked in the Harvard and Yale observatories, and edited the Bright Star Catalog. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Image: American Association of Variable Star Observers
Morning.
The world is very bad so please just make what you want. We aren’t getting any more alive.
Every god damn "innovation" capitalists churn out ends up just being "what if we could have slavery or near-slavery, but hide it?"
This is quite the opening.
Tough indeed. This morning I heard the first radio ad from a local real estate company promising that when you contact them, they won't be using AI in any communication. Everyone here is a person was their main selling point.
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
there is a child-like naivety to the way business leaders approach sociopolitical problems that would be really sweet if it wasn't coming from the leader of a company with 30,000 employees and 3 billion dollars in revenue
A printable zine: 50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor. “32. Picking up trash, generally, is a good way to meet neighbors. People notice. 33. Winter: Shovel someone’s sidewalk. It’s also great cardio.” [millionexperiments.com]
The biggest change in software development is not AI code, but a permission structure for disregarding quality in the pursuit of velocity
A Mars rover parked next to a rocky outcrop under a bright Sun.
New Perseverance selfie, processed by @stim3on.bsky.social on the Riding with Robots Flickr group (which I should maybe actually contribute to someday) www.flickr.com/groups/ridin...
There’s something about the constant stream of anti-trans news designed to psychically harm us being about our access to HRT and surgeries, and then when we freak out online about it, having ostensible trans people show up to remind us “not every trans person transitions” that feels fake as hell
I agree that this is...not good. Curious even.
This is absolutely unhinged framing. Imagine doing this with any other terrorist attack. Imagine framing 9/11 as "19 young men who could've had normal vacations but whose lives were then drastically changed." I feel like I'm going insane.
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This quote has been with me every day since I first heard it and I love her so much for saying it.
This tweet from Alex Hirsch will always be evergreen.
Disney and Pixar are complete fucking cowards.
Logan Allen vs Logan Allen in a post-anthem standoff
people on youtube love putting the words DARK TRUTH and SHOCKING DOWNFALL on the thumbnail of their video about a guy who retired due to injury at age 37
Happy international women's day to all women tall or short, thick or thin, cis or trans! #iwd #international #womens #day
Submissions close tomorrow! We just crossed 500 submissions, the most we've ever had!!!
A grid of nine linoleum patterns arranged in a grid of squares. The patterns contain a wide range of alternating shapes and colors, bright or muted, most symmetrical. Most suggest marble or tile.
Selected patterns from “Linoleum & Felt-Base: Spring Season - 1932”
Sloane-Blabon Corp., New York
Image: Avery Library Architectural Trade Catalogs Collection (Columbia Univ.) via @archive.org; archive.org/details/lino...
FIRE HAZARD 🔥🐺 New tees available for preorder, estimated to ship mid-late April.
remember to set your clocks tonight. time begins at 2 am
I always used to be somewhat cowed by people telling me "You're too much!" - until I realised one day that from my perspective they were too little.
![“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein
[an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2n2dejikiq3y3rrg45gtw6si/bafkreig4hk7n6hp3po67f6lqhxdout4edflushs6tmriyvumsfosb2524m)
“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]
“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
