Sensible gremlin tux
@tuxkate.bsky.social
40+ disabled queer yarn aunt.
Fandom alt for anime & danmei fannish shitposting
🔞NSFW content; EN/FR ok.
I tag my fic with #TuxFic
https://archiveofourown.org/users/tucuxi/works
Fandom alt for anime & danmei fannish shitposting
🔞NSFW content; EN/FR ok.
I tag my fic with #TuxFic
https://archiveofourown.org/users/tucuxi/works
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2025 Year-End Cards & 2026 Whimsical Mail
Tux wants to send you a "Congrats on getting through 2025!" card, and maybe "I have a whim to send mail" postcards or cards over the course of 2026 (you can opt into or out of the latter.)
Cards will...
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Do you like getting mail? Do you like short snippets of fic?
I love sending year-end cards and I’m getting an early start this year.
(Don’t like Google? There’s a link to a frama form in the g!form header. Use either one, not both.)
forms.gle/uE4pWce6SZi4...
I love sending year-end cards and I’m getting an early start this year.
(Don’t like Google? There’s a link to a frama form in the g!form header. Use either one, not both.)
forms.gle/uE4pWce6SZi4...
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If top marginal tax rates had stayed in the 90+ zone absolutely none of this would have happened
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Well worth reading. Alice’s writing was formative to my understanding of my place in the world as a disabled person, and my worth in the world as a disabled person.
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Well worth reading. Alice’s writing was formative to my understanding of my place in the world as a disabled person, and my worth in the world as a disabled person.
I’m home alone and chilling happily. I am not doing any kind of traditional big spread Thanksgiving meal for just me.
What should I bake tomorrow? (These are all roughly energy-equivalent.)
🥚 Felix’s six-egg brownies
🍎 Smitten kitchen apple cake
🌰 Pecan pie
🥧 Something else you will suggest
What should I bake tomorrow? (These are all roughly energy-equivalent.)
🥚 Felix’s six-egg brownies
🍎 Smitten kitchen apple cake
🌰 Pecan pie
🥧 Something else you will suggest
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I’m home alone and chilling happily. I am not doing any kind of traditional big spread Thanksgiving meal for just me.
What should I bake tomorrow? (These are all roughly energy-equivalent.)
🥚 Felix’s six-egg brownies
🍎 Smitten kitchen apple cake
🌰 Pecan pie
🥧 Something else you will suggest
What should I bake tomorrow? (These are all roughly energy-equivalent.)
🥚 Felix’s six-egg brownies
🍎 Smitten kitchen apple cake
🌰 Pecan pie
🥧 Something else you will suggest
Fabulous thread.
Since we are once again dealing with "the only silent era comedians of note were men" I feel I need to stand up for the ladies.
Marion Davies!
Marion Davies!
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Fabulous thread.
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Anyone watching #ChosenHome on Netflix? Sweet little Japanese age gap gay romcom with found family that also works in conversations about coming out, being closeted, homophobia, marriage equality, adopting as a gay couple, and general life experience as a gay man in Japan etc #ぼくたちん家#BokutachinChi
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Anyone watching #ChosenHome on Netflix? Sweet little Japanese age gap gay romcom with found family that also works in conversations about coming out, being closeted, homophobia, marriage equality, adopting as a gay couple, and general life experience as a gay man in Japan etc #ぼくたちん家#BokutachinChi
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I imagine most of the people trying to claim that stealing indie ebooks is leftism simply have never had to worry about paying rent or for groceries but sorry, your desire for free luxury goods is outweighed by the material needs of their creators
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I imagine most of the people trying to claim that stealing indie ebooks is leftism simply have never had to worry about paying rent or for groceries but sorry, your desire for free luxury goods is outweighed by the material needs of their creators
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We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...
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Day before Thanksgiving boost!
Do you want a card for the holiday of your choice and ficlets for your choice among about ten fandoms?
Fill out the form linked below! I ADORE sending mail and I have so many stamps to use up!
Do you want a card for the holiday of your choice and ficlets for your choice among about ten fandoms?
Fill out the form linked below! I ADORE sending mail and I have so many stamps to use up!
Do you like getting mail? Do you like short snippets of fic?
I love sending year-end cards and I’m getting an early start this year.
(Don’t like Google? There’s a link to a frama form in the g!form header. Use either one, not both.)
forms.gle/uE4pWce6SZi4...
I love sending year-end cards and I’m getting an early start this year.
(Don’t like Google? There’s a link to a frama form in the g!form header. Use either one, not both.)
forms.gle/uE4pWce6SZi4...
2025 Year-End Cards & 2026 Whimsical Mail
Tux wants to send you a "Congrats on getting through 2025!" card, and maybe "I have a whim to send mail" postcards or cards over the course of 2026 (you can opt into or out of the latter.)
Cards will...
forms.gle
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Day before Thanksgiving boost!
Do you want a card for the holiday of your choice and ficlets for your choice among about ten fandoms?
Fill out the form linked below! I ADORE sending mail and I have so many stamps to use up!
Do you want a card for the holiday of your choice and ficlets for your choice among about ten fandoms?
Fill out the form linked below! I ADORE sending mail and I have so many stamps to use up!
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Also not everyone has a home in which to receive deliveries and grocery stores do in fact serve people without homes. And grocery store delis all have fresh meals with veggies that can be bought with SNAP. Also you can go to them on work lunches and they're cheaper than fast food.
And why should someone have to bear the cost of food delivery? Or be restricted to Walmart? And how did this become specifically about Atlanta? So many goal posts.
Anyway delivery is not an adequate replacement for a physical store in accessible proximity of where one lives.
Anyway delivery is not an adequate replacement for a physical store in accessible proximity of where one lives.
Walmart+ costs $13/mo and gives free delivery on orders over $35.
You can get fresh produce in any 'food desert' near-ish to a Walmart, which includes all of Atlanta.
You can get fresh produce in any 'food desert' near-ish to a Walmart, which includes all of Atlanta.
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Also not everyone has a home in which to receive deliveries and grocery stores do in fact serve people without homes. And grocery store delis all have fresh meals with veggies that can be bought with SNAP. Also you can go to them on work lunches and they're cheaper than fast food.
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just drew a rough luo binghe sketch with only 5pc of my braincells in working order
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
just drew a rough luo binghe sketch with only 5pc of my braincells in working order
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To be sure, there can be (and are!) bad actors in bad faith using A.I. for bad, impure purposes. No disagreement there. But your anti-A.I. stance does not justify or excuse the decision to deliberately misuse something that is intended to help disabled people. Abusing alt text will have real harm.
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
To be sure, there can be (and are!) bad actors in bad faith using A.I. for bad, impure purposes. No disagreement there. But your anti-A.I. stance does not justify or excuse the decision to deliberately misuse something that is intended to help disabled people. Abusing alt text will have real harm.
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In other words, alt text and the alt attribute predate the slog of A.I. technology. Alt text predates every single social media platform. Alt text has been a standard and best practice for quite a while. Insinuating alt text is just a tool for A.I. scraping is ignorant of history and accessibility.
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
In other words, alt text and the alt attribute predate the slog of A.I. technology. Alt text predates every single social media platform. Alt text has been a standard and best practice for quite a while. Insinuating alt text is just a tool for A.I. scraping is ignorant of history and accessibility.
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Whatever your feelings are on artificial intelligence, A.I. has nothing to do with the purpose of the alt attribute or alt text. To suggest that people deliberately write misleading alt text in order to "stick it to A.I." is going to hurt the humans who rely on it to access the web.
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Whatever your feelings are on artificial intelligence, A.I. has nothing to do with the purpose of the alt attribute or alt text. To suggest that people deliberately write misleading alt text in order to "stick it to A.I." is going to hurt the humans who rely on it to access the web.
My only currently active WIP is a SKZ fae!AU based on the first set of DO IT concept photos.
I’m brainstorming on it with a friend, and it’s not in any state for snippet sharing yet, so just like…trust me when I tell you it’s making us more than slightly feral, I guess?
I’m brainstorming on it with a friend, and it’s not in any state for snippet sharing yet, so just like…trust me when I tell you it’s making us more than slightly feral, I guess?
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
My only currently active WIP is a SKZ fae!AU based on the first set of DO IT concept photos.
I’m brainstorming on it with a friend, and it’s not in any state for snippet sharing yet, so just like…trust me when I tell you it’s making us more than slightly feral, I guess?
I’m brainstorming on it with a friend, and it’s not in any state for snippet sharing yet, so just like…trust me when I tell you it’s making us more than slightly feral, I guess?
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🚨🚨 WeeooWeeoo 🚨🚨
Black Friday deals at the Squid facts shop are LIVE!
Here's the deal: When you buy calendars, stickers, and posters, you get the satisfaction of supporting science education FREE!
Wow!
What a deal!
Who could pass this opportunity up? not me! That's for sure.
SquidFacts.net
Black Friday deals at the Squid facts shop are LIVE!
Here's the deal: When you buy calendars, stickers, and posters, you get the satisfaction of supporting science education FREE!
Wow!
What a deal!
Who could pass this opportunity up? not me! That's for sure.
SquidFacts.net
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🚨🚨 WeeooWeeoo 🚨🚨
Black Friday deals at the Squid facts shop are LIVE!
Here's the deal: When you buy calendars, stickers, and posters, you get the satisfaction of supporting science education FREE!
Wow!
What a deal!
Who could pass this opportunity up? not me! That's for sure.
SquidFacts.net
Black Friday deals at the Squid facts shop are LIVE!
Here's the deal: When you buy calendars, stickers, and posters, you get the satisfaction of supporting science education FREE!
Wow!
What a deal!
Who could pass this opportunity up? not me! That's for sure.
SquidFacts.net
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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And doctors are still paid as the result of daily LABOR.
They're WORKERS.
They're rich. But they're not The Rich.
This is not a high hurdle to get over, but I see people fall over it every day.
If you're equating doctors with Elon Musk, you are 100% not ready to be having these conversations.
They're WORKERS.
They're rich. But they're not The Rich.
This is not a high hurdle to get over, but I see people fall over it every day.
If you're equating doctors with Elon Musk, you are 100% not ready to be having these conversations.
doctor who makes 200K annual is VERY comfortable. That’s not wealth hoarding though lol
It’s Facebook and Amazon paying no taxes for the last decade, its being allowed to take out loans on unrealized gains in the hundreds of millions, capital gains tax lower than the tax rate of ppl who make 55k
It’s Facebook and Amazon paying no taxes for the last decade, its being allowed to take out loans on unrealized gains in the hundreds of millions, capital gains tax lower than the tax rate of ppl who make 55k
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And doctors are still paid as the result of daily LABOR.
They're WORKERS.
They're rich. But they're not The Rich.
This is not a high hurdle to get over, but I see people fall over it every day.
If you're equating doctors with Elon Musk, you are 100% not ready to be having these conversations.
They're WORKERS.
They're rich. But they're not The Rich.
This is not a high hurdle to get over, but I see people fall over it every day.
If you're equating doctors with Elon Musk, you are 100% not ready to be having these conversations.
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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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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq@jpeg)
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
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Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
I had a womens studies professor try to coax a class to understand that it’s not ’wrong’ for an alcoholic homeless person to take your change you tossed and spend it on alcohol. People were livid lol. It really changed my perspective on giving. its freeing to give without expectation.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!