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Fun fact: this scene came from a moment when I was staying with a close friend of mine and she had to walk me through an anxiety attack and tell me that I was not, in fact, dying on her couch.
everyone should read every Dreamer comic but especially Bad Dream
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Fun fact: this scene came from a moment when I was staying with a close friend of mine and she had to walk me through an anxiety attack and tell me that I was not, in fact, dying on her couch.
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It was super fun and too short! Originally Virgil's dad was supposed to be upset w/him for getting a C in Biology. But Denys came back and said oh no no. Virgil's dad would be upset w/him for getting anything lower than an A- in biology. So we changed it haha.
@gwillow.me G-Dubz, congrats to you, @denyscowan.bsky.social and everyone else involved on the MM and Static crossover! Any fun tidbits on working on this?
Thanks!
Thanks!
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It was super fun and too short! Originally Virgil's dad was supposed to be upset w/him for getting a C in Biology. But Denys came back and said oh no no. Virgil's dad would be upset w/him for getting anything lower than an A- in biology. So we changed it haha.
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this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
Yes! Visuals are part of the communication. Treating them as ignorable decoration completely misses the point and it’s not how they’re received by an audience
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
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reminder if you are still in clean-up mode today, don’t overwork your garbage disposals.
today the busiest day of the year for plumbers. fats, starches, and bones do not belong in a disposal or drain.
reduce food waste, compost where you can, and don’t treat your drains like a trash can.
today the busiest day of the year for plumbers. fats, starches, and bones do not belong in a disposal or drain.
reduce food waste, compost where you can, and don’t treat your drains like a trash can.
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
reminder if you are still in clean-up mode today, don’t overwork your garbage disposals.
today the busiest day of the year for plumbers. fats, starches, and bones do not belong in a disposal or drain.
reduce food waste, compost where you can, and don’t treat your drains like a trash can.
today the busiest day of the year for plumbers. fats, starches, and bones do not belong in a disposal or drain.
reduce food waste, compost where you can, and don’t treat your drains like a trash can.
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It should frankly be a cautionary tale for anyone up to and including US citizens about working with/for the US military.
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It should frankly be a cautionary tale for anyone up to and including US citizens about working with/for the US military.
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We ended up betraying many (most?) of the locals who helped us and leaving them in Afghanistan to dodge the Taliban. A friend of mine who worked for the US finally got visas for himself and his family...from Germany.
Afghans saved many American lives during the war. Way more troops are alive because of them than have been harmed by asylum-seekers. The potential reward of coming to the US was key to securing cooperation. Kicking everyone out will ensure no one helps again.
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We ended up betraying many (most?) of the locals who helped us and leaving them in Afghanistan to dodge the Taliban. A friend of mine who worked for the US finally got visas for himself and his family...from Germany.
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I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.
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None of us eat canned cranberry sauce but we figured it needed to be on the table for symbolic reasons (like the bone on a seder plate). So every year since 1995 we are presented with the SAME unopened ceremonial can at the table. It still hasn’t exploded.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
None of us eat canned cranberry sauce but we figured it needed to be on the table for symbolic reasons (like the bone on a seder plate). So every year since 1995 we are presented with the SAME unopened ceremonial can at the table. It still hasn’t exploded.
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I was going to go extremely easy on the food but at the last minute I remembered that I had an extra honeynut squash I needed to use and savory tart happened
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I was going to go extremely easy on the food but at the last minute I remembered that I had an extra honeynut squash I needed to use and savory tart happened
Every year I give family members books for Christmas. My sister and her two sons have a pact that these books do NOT go to college, they get read at home and live in mom's library. This means that today, I got a GLOWING report on nephew's Xmas book from last year from my sister.
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Every year I give family members books for Christmas. My sister and her two sons have a pact that these books do NOT go to college, they get read at home and live in mom's library. This means that today, I got a GLOWING report on nephew's Xmas book from last year from my sister.
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
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hello internet! i am nora and i have a glass shop focused on jewelry, ornaments, and little baubles you can hold and stim with. nora.jewelry
i am giving 10% of my sales from today to sunday to distribute aid's harm reduction toolkit program, which provides trans people with safe injection supplies.
i am giving 10% of my sales from today to sunday to distribute aid's harm reduction toolkit program, which provides trans people with safe injection supplies.
November 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
hello internet! i am nora and i have a glass shop focused on jewelry, ornaments, and little baubles you can hold and stim with. nora.jewelry
i am giving 10% of my sales from today to sunday to distribute aid's harm reduction toolkit program, which provides trans people with safe injection supplies.
i am giving 10% of my sales from today to sunday to distribute aid's harm reduction toolkit program, which provides trans people with safe injection supplies.
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
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Rice Truck mentioned, gotta re-up the Saga just in case anyone hasn't read it--or if you're like me and just wanted to read it again
bsky.app/profile/name...
bsky.app/profile/name...
a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Rice Truck mentioned, gotta re-up the Saga just in case anyone hasn't read it--or if you're like me and just wanted to read it again
bsky.app/profile/name...
bsky.app/profile/name...
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
You just died.
Thr sixth picture in your gallery is what killed you.
I assume I am the heart in this scenario. My friends would NEVER have to ask me not to narc them out to the pigs.
Thr sixth picture in your gallery is what killed you.
I assume I am the heart in this scenario. My friends would NEVER have to ask me not to narc them out to the pigs.
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
You just died.
Thr sixth picture in your gallery is what killed you.
I assume I am the heart in this scenario. My friends would NEVER have to ask me not to narc them out to the pigs.
Thr sixth picture in your gallery is what killed you.
I assume I am the heart in this scenario. My friends would NEVER have to ask me not to narc them out to the pigs.
If you read this thread, watched the series, and find yourself in need of a good/hot take on the concept while season two rolls out, may I suggest @rdotspoon.bsky.social's very delightful A Man for Mrs. Claus?
bookshop.org/p/books/a-ma...
bookshop.org/p/books/a-ma...
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If you read this thread, watched the series, and find yourself in need of a good/hot take on the concept while season two rolls out, may I suggest @rdotspoon.bsky.social's very delightful A Man for Mrs. Claus?
bookshop.org/p/books/a-ma...
bookshop.org/p/books/a-ma...
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the new season is currently airing (I have not started it yet) but if anyone wants to get the flavor here’s my thread on last year about the most unhinged reality show everyone should be watching
on recommendation from my sister, I am embarking upon the Hallmark Channel series FINDING MR. CHRISTMAS, a reality show for wholesome men to compete for the right to star in a Hallmark Christmas movie
so excited to learn more from these experts about straight culture
so excited to learn more from these experts about straight culture
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
the new season is currently airing (I have not started it yet) but if anyone wants to get the flavor here’s my thread on last year about the most unhinged reality show everyone should be watching
I ordered one of these last week (because I thought I did it months ago and had not). Sent it directly to the recipient's house.
He got it today!
That means that if you order today, you can probably use it as this year's advent calendar! Learn about eels! Do it!
He got it today!
That means that if you order today, you can probably use it as this year's advent calendar! Learn about eels! Do it!
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I ordered one of these last week (because I thought I did it months ago and had not). Sent it directly to the recipient's house.
He got it today!
That means that if you order today, you can probably use it as this year's advent calendar! Learn about eels! Do it!
He got it today!
That means that if you order today, you can probably use it as this year's advent calendar! Learn about eels! Do it!
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I think the one exception I would make is if someone from your party is sick or otherwise can’t attend for last minute reasons, I feel like making up a plate for them before you go to your host’s place would be understood.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I think the one exception I would make is if someone from your party is sick or otherwise can’t attend for last minute reasons, I feel like making up a plate for them before you go to your host’s place would be understood.
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I mean, I would say that life is too short to fight with your family, so if your relatives are all assholes, have festive dinners with friends you actually like, instead, but that is emphatically not what the op-ed here is saying. (I checked.)
Guest essayist, your TV-addled meemaw who will be serving Thanksgiving dinner on a commemorative Riley Gaines plate to a lot of empty chairs
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I mean, I would say that life is too short to fight with your family, so if your relatives are all assholes, have festive dinners with friends you actually like, instead, but that is emphatically not what the op-ed here is saying. (I checked.)
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I always see lots of "here how to deal with your bigoted family" posts around this time and, you can just leave. Just go. That's your only power if you're one of the childless peripheral family member people
"But I can't-" you can, trust me. Make it clear why and then leave
"But I can't-" you can, trust me. Make it clear why and then leave
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I always see lots of "here how to deal with your bigoted family" posts around this time and, you can just leave. Just go. That's your only power if you're one of the childless peripheral family member people
"But I can't-" you can, trust me. Make it clear why and then leave
"But I can't-" you can, trust me. Make it clear why and then leave
I have subscribed to a magazine for a couple of years, and I keep forgetting if it’s auto-renew and so I go to their website and it doesn’t let me download so sometimes I buy and sometimes I try to log in and get frustrated and…
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I have subscribed to a magazine for a couple of years, and I keep forgetting if it’s auto-renew and so I go to their website and it doesn’t let me download so sometimes I buy and sometimes I try to log in and get frustrated and…
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And that’s being generous. Middle class consumers are not restricted to online-only food access almost anywhere unless they live remotely by choice. Which is the exact opposite of food deserts and isolated geographies of poverty. Including rich consumers is just unserious.
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
And that’s being generous. Middle class consumers are not restricted to online-only food access almost anywhere unless they live remotely by choice. Which is the exact opposite of food deserts and isolated geographies of poverty. Including rich consumers is just unserious.
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Even if I allow that some middle class consumers have better options online than in person, Rich consumers are not now and probably never will be entirely captured by an online only service. What are you talking about?
I dunno, 'online capture' seems pretty fine for their middle class and rich customers. Are they being cruelly exploited by Walmart, too?
That’s fine. You still cannot explain why online capture is acceptable for poor consumers
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Even if I allow that some middle class consumers have better options online than in person, Rich consumers are not now and probably never will be entirely captured by an online only service. What are you talking about?