@alexxkay.bsky.social
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It's worth letting people know that the shingles vax can be a little rough, so they can plan a time to get it when they'll be able to take it easy for a day.
But seriously, my reaction was a day of feeling a little run down. And shingles is AWFUL.
But seriously, my reaction was a day of feeling a little run down. And shingles is AWFUL.
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It's worth letting people know that the shingles vax can be a little rough, so they can plan a time to get it when they'll be able to take it easy for a day.
But seriously, my reaction was a day of feeling a little run down. And shingles is AWFUL.
But seriously, my reaction was a day of feeling a little run down. And shingles is AWFUL.
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Shopping small is meaningful!
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Shopping small is meaningful!
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Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
(Against Entropy, John M. Ford.)
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
(Against Entropy, John M. Ford.)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
(Against Entropy, John M. Ford.)
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
(Against Entropy, John M. Ford.)
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Had a dream last night that was the usual mess, but at the end, I was watching a giant polar bear walk toward me, carrying a volcano like a snailshell on its back.
“Welp,” I said to the person next to me, “that’s either a god or a Pokemon.”
“Welp,” I said to the person next to me, “that’s either a god or a Pokemon.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Had a dream last night that was the usual mess, but at the end, I was watching a giant polar bear walk toward me, carrying a volcano like a snailshell on its back.
“Welp,” I said to the person next to me, “that’s either a god or a Pokemon.”
“Welp,” I said to the person next to me, “that’s either a god or a Pokemon.”
The headline is disingenuous. Full quote is attached.
“We want to” is NOT the same as “will.”
As for why he’s not totally anti-AI, Laika developed AI tools to hide seams back during Missing Link - an application that seems ethical and useful for stop motion. www.fastcompany.com/90537494/how...
“We want to” is NOT the same as “will.”
As for why he’s not totally anti-AI, Laika developed AI tools to hide seams back during Missing Link - an application that seems ethical and useful for stop motion. www.fastcompany.com/90537494/how...
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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If you are still looking for gifts, I thoroughly enjoyed this review of @adapalmer.bsky.social’s wonderful book “Inventing The Renaissance” by @r-emrys.bsky.social — who is herself a wonderful writer, do check out her books too!
Infernal Gravity and the Logic of Death Scenes: Ada Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance - Reactor
A fascinating look at how societies manufacture the myth of a Golden Age
reactormag.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
If you are still looking for gifts, I thoroughly enjoyed this review of @adapalmer.bsky.social’s wonderful book “Inventing The Renaissance” by @r-emrys.bsky.social — who is herself a wonderful writer, do check out her books too!
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
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from a left wing standpoint, an ancient vampire living in their ancestral home and eating 500 peasants a year has more politically in common with you than a billionaire
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
from a left wing standpoint, an ancient vampire living in their ancestral home and eating 500 peasants a year has more politically in common with you than a billionaire
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Trade Rating: OUT OF ALCATRAZ is a prison escape thriller with something powerful to say
Out of Alcatraz a stellar read, a fun prison escape thriller that turns out to have a lot more on its mind that you may expect.
Out of Alcatraz a stellar read, a fun prison escape thriller that turns out to have a lot more on its mind that you may expect.
Trade Rating: OUT OF ALCATRAZ is a prison escape thriller with something powerful to say
Out of Alcatraz a stellar read, a fun prison escape thriller that turns out to have a lot more on its mind that you may expect.
www.comicsbeat.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trade Rating: OUT OF ALCATRAZ is a prison escape thriller with something powerful to say
Out of Alcatraz a stellar read, a fun prison escape thriller that turns out to have a lot more on its mind that you may expect.
Out of Alcatraz a stellar read, a fun prison escape thriller that turns out to have a lot more on its mind that you may expect.
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We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com
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I've read #Arcadia by #TomStoppard dozens of times (it's very readable) but you can also listen to the BBC radio play from Internet Archive
archive.org/details/stop...
LA Thor watch the video eatre Works version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHI...
archive.org/details/stop...
LA Thor watch the video eatre Works version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHI...
*Stoppard - Arcadia - 1994 Fielding Sewell Nighy : Tom Stoppard : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Arcadia by Tom Stoppardwith Emma Fielding - Thomasina Coverly, Rufus Sewell - Septimus Hodge, Allan Mitchell - Jellaby, Derek Hutchinson - Ezra Chater, Sidney...
archive.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I've read #Arcadia by #TomStoppard dozens of times (it's very readable) but you can also listen to the BBC radio play from Internet Archive
archive.org/details/stop...
LA Thor watch the video eatre Works version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHI...
archive.org/details/stop...
LA Thor watch the video eatre Works version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHI...
I'm also really uneven at living up to those lofty ideals.
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I'm also really uneven at living up to those lofty ideals.
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
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An experienced organizer I really respect once reminded folks "you can't always win, but you can always, always inflict a cost. Those add up."
You cannot match the size and resources of these organizations that are abandoning trans youth and sacrificing trans lives, but you have one advantage they do not: an ability to maintain a relentless focus upon them.
Make it your work, every week, to think about how you can punish them.
Make it your work, every week, to think about how you can punish them.
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
An experienced organizer I really respect once reminded folks "you can't always win, but you can always, always inflict a cost. Those add up."
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🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
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This is why you should act like everything a potential leader says is sincere. If they sincerely believe war crimes are good, that's disqualifying.
If they say it insincerely, their lying is disqualifying.
If they say it insincerely, their lying is disqualifying.
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is why you should act like everything a potential leader says is sincere. If they sincerely believe war crimes are good, that's disqualifying.
If they say it insincerely, their lying is disqualifying.
If they say it insincerely, their lying is disqualifying.
All means-testing is regressive.
Oh my god. What if we help some people.
What if we didn’t think there was a limit on the care we could provide if we wanted to give it to everyone.
What if?
If not here then where. If not now then when. If not us then who?
What if we didn’t think there was a limit on the care we could provide if we wanted to give it to everyone.
What if?
If not here then where. If not now then when. If not us then who?
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
All means-testing is regressive.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Today I learned that the first drum machine was invented in the 12th century by Ismail al-Jazari, the father of robotics, who created a automaton band that played instruments powered by the flow of water. It featured a drummer whose rhythm could be programmed via wooden pegs in slots.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Today I learned that the first drum machine was invented in the 12th century by Ismail al-Jazari, the father of robotics, who created a automaton band that played instruments powered by the flow of water. It featured a drummer whose rhythm could be programmed via wooden pegs in slots.
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I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us?
That’s the question currently on the table in Wales, which has just released a draft of the “globally pioneering” sanctions for politicians.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...