Alyssa Long
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
I make art, try to raise my kids to be Good Humans, and yell about disability. Maker of Santa Dinos and whatever else I feel like. She/they #art #knitting #3Dprinting 🧶
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Alyssa Long
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
· Oct 11
Since we can do pinned posts now, hi, I’m Alyssa and make things! You can find them in several places:
Shop: measuredandslow.studio/shop
Tree-Rex: measuredandslow.studio/treerex-samp...
Special orders/wholesale: measuredandslow.studio/contact-me-1
Shop: measuredandslow.studio/shop
Tree-Rex: measuredandslow.studio/treerex-samp...
Special orders/wholesale: measuredandslow.studio/contact-me-1
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Too many people see pirating as a form of protest. And it's not. At all. Boycotting is a form of protest. If I ran up in Target and started stealing things, that's not sending a message about Target's practices.
Stop making up reasons why pirating comics is good. It’s not good. Spend a few dollars and buy a book. Quit being a fuckin parasite
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Too many people see pirating as a form of protest. And it's not. At all. Boycotting is a form of protest. If I ran up in Target and started stealing things, that's not sending a message about Target's practices.
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I mean I have been enraged about this topic for a while, but I had also never actually figured out how they calculate the poverty line.
I am legitimately speechless.
I am legitimately speechless.
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I mean I have been enraged about this topic for a while, but I had also never actually figured out how they calculate the poverty line.
I am legitimately speechless.
I am legitimately speechless.
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Conservatives after I enjoy anything in life.
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Conservatives after I enjoy anything in life.
Good morning, I have a new dragon and egg up (there is now a pencil dragon/notepaper egg and a notepaper dragon/pencil egg because I am both extra and thorough) AND new shimmer alicorns! If you get 3 of them you can make a sweet album cover lol #bsnm
measuredandslow.studio/shop?categor...
measuredandslow.studio/shop?categor...
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Good morning, I have a new dragon and egg up (there is now a pencil dragon/notepaper egg and a notepaper dragon/pencil egg because I am both extra and thorough) AND new shimmer alicorns! If you get 3 of them you can make a sweet album cover lol #bsnm
measuredandslow.studio/shop?categor...
measuredandslow.studio/shop?categor...
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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I feel like pumpkin pie is the least offensive and/or traumatic thing americans have ever posted about en masse, tbh
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I feel like pumpkin pie is the least offensive and/or traumatic thing americans have ever posted about en masse, tbh
PSA to anyone with a Kpop Demon Hunter superfan in the house: the Huntr/x ladies are performing during the parade tomorrow, and Derpy and Sussie are getting balloons. We just saw a practice video of them singing Golden and kid 2 got so excited they went flappy for a minute ☺️
K-Pop Demon Hunters showing us how it’s done today in the pouring rain at the @Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade rehearsal ❤️🔥🦃 @Netflix
TikTok video by New York Mickey
www.tiktok.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
PSA to anyone with a Kpop Demon Hunter superfan in the house: the Huntr/x ladies are performing during the parade tomorrow, and Derpy and Sussie are getting balloons. We just saw a practice video of them singing Golden and kid 2 got so excited they went flappy for a minute ☺️
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I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
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ICYMI: get 25% off your Whimsy Station order with code: SaleSeason!
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
ICYMI: get 25% off your Whimsy Station order with code: SaleSeason!
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
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I want white women to want better for themselves. You don't have to shag a catcher's mitt
The women drawn to RFK Jr. see an intoxicating cocktail of romance and danger—whether it's getting attacked by a yak or texting about taking metaphorical bullets for each other.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I want white women to want better for themselves. You don't have to shag a catcher's mitt
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oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
Guys I’m just getting word that Pope has blessed Bernice the Zebracorn as being an authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Guys I’m just getting word that Pope has blessed Bernice the Zebracorn as being an authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation
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He's right ... and he should say so
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
He's right ... and he should say so
Stevie’s gonna materialize out of the fog and start firing crystal missiles or something wtf 😭
Fleetwood Mac 's "Silver Springs" is a trending sound right now at least on Insta, and people are using it for ... their wedding videos and getting brunch with friends.
they hear "you won't forget me" and go "awww 🥹"
🫠 You don't even need to know the background, just actually listen to the song
they hear "you won't forget me" and go "awww 🥹"
🫠 You don't even need to know the background, just actually listen to the song
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Stevie’s gonna materialize out of the fog and start firing crystal missiles or something wtf 😭
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People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
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have to admit that talking to any of the AI fetishists reminds me of that feeling in the folk horror movie when you realise that behind the smiles, the villagers are members of a cult planning to sacrifice you to their bloodthirsty deity (either you give up your body to house the god or wicker man)
Andy the cyber god is going to torture a simacrulum of you eternally in the future if you dont get better at defending his ascension
you have to get better at explaining why the data centers that only make life worse for everyone are good Andy
otherwise the Basilisk's going to get you
you have to get better at explaining why the data centers that only make life worse for everyone are good Andy
otherwise the Basilisk's going to get you
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
have to admit that talking to any of the AI fetishists reminds me of that feeling in the folk horror movie when you realise that behind the smiles, the villagers are members of a cult planning to sacrifice you to their bloodthirsty deity (either you give up your body to house the god or wicker man)
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Singer/songwriter is an art that requires less of an expense than illustrator in that you don't even need crayon and paper.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Singer/songwriter is an art that requires less of an expense than illustrator in that you don't even need crayon and paper.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
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It's never "let's fund free music education at every public school so all children can learn how to make music." Instead it's letting billionaires steal the labor of musicians to make a shitty slop machine.
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It's never "let's fund free music education at every public school so all children can learn how to make music." Instead it's letting billionaires steal the labor of musicians to make a shitty slop machine.
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I think "class traitors" is up there with "idea landlords" on the reality disconnect scale.
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 3:37 PM
I think "class traitors" is up there with "idea landlords" on the reality disconnect scale.
I get told pretty often something along the lines of real artists want the world to have our art, and like…yeah. I give away/trade a lot of art because that makes me happy, and I would do that a lot more if I DIDN’T HAVE TO PAY FOR HEALTHCARE. These people just want to skip the step where we eat 😒
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 5:27 PM
I get told pretty often something along the lines of real artists want the world to have our art, and like…yeah. I give away/trade a lot of art because that makes me happy, and I would do that a lot more if I DIDN’T HAVE TO PAY FOR HEALTHCARE. These people just want to skip the step where we eat 😒
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Yes, and also recognize that with creative fields, survivorship bias is real: You hear about full-time creatives with envious career arcs precisely because they've survived in the field where others (for whatever reason and independent of quality of work) have not. This is an important fact.
Would-be/struggling writers can feel like losers or wannabes when they read about other writers writing "full time" or promo'ing their book in various exotic cities. And it's good to recognize that, yeah, sometimes there's another income (or a spouse is helping to pay the bills).
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Yes, and also recognize that with creative fields, survivorship bias is real: You hear about full-time creatives with envious career arcs precisely because they've survived in the field where others (for whatever reason and independent of quality of work) have not. This is an important fact.
I both did not understand and also perfectly understood mom. Don’t involve me in your sibling nonsense, that’s y’all’s problem 😂
These French babies arguing 🤣
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I both did not understand and also perfectly understood mom. Don’t involve me in your sibling nonsense, that’s y’all’s problem 😂
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Solidarity with @teamsters.bsky.social , who sanctioned our strike nationwide and won't be delivering food, picking up trash, or bringing packages across picket lines! ✊🔥
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Solidarity with @teamsters.bsky.social , who sanctioned our strike nationwide and won't be delivering food, picking up trash, or bringing packages across picket lines! ✊🔥
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee