HG Wyndell
@hgwyndell.bsky.social
Spirit Worker, Seeker, Path Walker, Way Finder, Wandering Magician, Stitch Witch, Thread Worker, Creative Catalyst, and Artist at Large.
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HG Wyndell
@hgwyndell.bsky.social
· Jul 22
So yeah. Asking for help is not always my strong suit. My fights with the medical system and insurance have been A Thing the last few years. It has taken up a huge amount of my brain space, and trying to handle these has past the point of overwhelm.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-hg...
Thank you <3
www.gofundme.com/f/support-hg...
Thank you <3
Donate to Support HG Wyndell's Health Journey, organized by Roni Neal
Hello Friends, Beloveds, Acquaintances, and Strangers,
I am here writing on behalf o… Roni Neal needs your support for Support HG Wyndell's Health Journey
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Hey all,
I'm so grateful for the breathing room this fund has already given me to handle these payments. This month I haven't had to choose between continuing care and my outstanding bills. I haven't had to have payment negotiation calls with providers.
That is huge.
Thank you so much.
I'm so grateful for the breathing room this fund has already given me to handle these payments. This month I haven't had to choose between continuing care and my outstanding bills. I haven't had to have payment negotiation calls with providers.
That is huge.
Thank you so much.
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WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide
King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.
www.4culture.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
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Your hurt doesn’t entitle you to hurt others who aren’t doing anything. I also am not inclined to let people try building cause for nonsense dogpiles just to let off some steam. Keep that parasocial bullshit very far from me.
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Your hurt doesn’t entitle you to hurt others who aren’t doing anything. I also am not inclined to let people try building cause for nonsense dogpiles just to let off some steam. Keep that parasocial bullshit very far from me.
I find a deep sense of satisfaction processing batches of worn out clothing into neat piles of rags, patches, and fabric scrap for further projects.
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I find a deep sense of satisfaction processing batches of worn out clothing into neat piles of rags, patches, and fabric scrap for further projects.
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"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
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This quote popped into my head during the conclusion of @hcrichardson.bsky.social chat yesterday…
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This quote popped into my head during the conclusion of @hcrichardson.bsky.social chat yesterday…
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If you or a loved one has gone through it, you know how many years, how much paperwork, how much money, and how much stress goes into arriving at your citizenship ceremony. This is so pointedly racist and cruel.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
If you or a loved one has gone through it, you know how many years, how much paperwork, how much money, and how much stress goes into arriving at your citizenship ceremony. This is so pointedly racist and cruel.
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After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
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Again: "AI" actively harms critical thinking skills, users actively reject Less sycophantic "AI," getting increasingly hostile toward/less likely to help or be helped by humans, creating cylces of dependence on tools that Actively Harm Critical Thinking.
What better dirt for disinformation to grow?
What better dirt for disinformation to grow?
Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
arxiv.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Again: "AI" actively harms critical thinking skills, users actively reject Less sycophantic "AI," getting increasingly hostile toward/less likely to help or be helped by humans, creating cylces of dependence on tools that Actively Harm Critical Thinking.
What better dirt for disinformation to grow?
What better dirt for disinformation to grow?
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I think, more than ever, these words from Mr. Rogers hold as true as the day he spoke them.
August 9, 2023 at 10:26 AM
I think, more than ever, these words from Mr. Rogers hold as true as the day he spoke them.
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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I’m at PDX waiting to fly to St. Paul to teach at an event.
PDX is using the new automated bag check system, and WOW does everyone just fucking hate it.
This push to ensure we interact with as few humans as possible in the name of cost savings just makes everything worse, but companies don’t care.
PDX is using the new automated bag check system, and WOW does everyone just fucking hate it.
This push to ensure we interact with as few humans as possible in the name of cost savings just makes everything worse, but companies don’t care.
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’m at PDX waiting to fly to St. Paul to teach at an event.
PDX is using the new automated bag check system, and WOW does everyone just fucking hate it.
This push to ensure we interact with as few humans as possible in the name of cost savings just makes everything worse, but companies don’t care.
PDX is using the new automated bag check system, and WOW does everyone just fucking hate it.
This push to ensure we interact with as few humans as possible in the name of cost savings just makes everything worse, but companies don’t care.
Upcoming class online December 17th: Long Distance Polyamory
Tickets available here: forbiddentickets.com/events/wicke...
Tickets available here: forbiddentickets.com/events/wicke...
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Upcoming class online December 17th: Long Distance Polyamory
Tickets available here: forbiddentickets.com/events/wicke...
Tickets available here: forbiddentickets.com/events/wicke...
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LOL. I’ve been through two IEP processes as a parent, and a couple of assisting with gathering data for IEP building purposes. I have an education background and know the process backward and forward. And no, it isn’t a picnic, and I absolutely only did it as a parent because I HAD to.
Once again, no one making these claims seems to understand the enormous hurdles in the way of getting a kid the help they need - in this case - I dare anyone suggesting this to go through an IEP process.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
LOL. I’ve been through two IEP processes as a parent, and a couple of assisting with gathering data for IEP building purposes. I have an education background and know the process backward and forward. And no, it isn’t a picnic, and I absolutely only did it as a parent because I HAD to.
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If you had to take care of humans, it was better to take care of small soft ones who were nice to you and thought you were great because you kept preventing them from being murdered.
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
If you had to take care of humans, it was better to take care of small soft ones who were nice to you and thought you were great because you kept preventing them from being murdered.
This thread is glorious
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This thread is glorious
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If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.
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Autumn Leaf 2
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 127 mm.
A fiery bit of visual comfort now that winter is abruptly come.
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 127 mm.
A fiery bit of visual comfort now that winter is abruptly come.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Autumn Leaf 2
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 127 mm.
A fiery bit of visual comfort now that winter is abruptly come.
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 127 mm.
A fiery bit of visual comfort now that winter is abruptly come.
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If every library had one copy of any of my books, I'd be so financially successful. Request my books at your local library today!! I'm serious! Read my books for free at your library.
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If every library had one copy of any of my books, I'd be so financially successful. Request my books at your local library today!! I'm serious! Read my books for free at your library.
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Smithsonian Folklife just released an oral history interviewing guide for people who want to interview family members, neighbours, and friends about the history, culture, and tradition they bear. Here's hoping this sort of conversation finds its way around your Thanksgiving table. #folklore
The Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide
Here are some guidelines Smithsonian folklorists have developed over the years for collecting oral histories from family and community members.
folklife.si.edu
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Smithsonian Folklife just released an oral history interviewing guide for people who want to interview family members, neighbours, and friends about the history, culture, and tradition they bear. Here's hoping this sort of conversation finds its way around your Thanksgiving table. #folklore
Caring reminder: update your emergency contact information. Make sure friends and/or family know who to contact should something go wrong.
I know this can be hard for those estranged from bio family. Try to put contingencies in place.
Print out numbers, carry in your wallet. Please.
I know this can be hard for those estranged from bio family. Try to put contingencies in place.
Print out numbers, carry in your wallet. Please.
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Caring reminder: update your emergency contact information. Make sure friends and/or family know who to contact should something go wrong.
I know this can be hard for those estranged from bio family. Try to put contingencies in place.
Print out numbers, carry in your wallet. Please.
I know this can be hard for those estranged from bio family. Try to put contingencies in place.
Print out numbers, carry in your wallet. Please.
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At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
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Not saying I would be caught by sirensong but I would definitely crash my ship straight into a rock if I heard this
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Not saying I would be caught by sirensong but I would definitely crash my ship straight into a rock if I heard this
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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...