Maureen Yost-Zahn
@beaniezee.bsky.social
Fantasy writer by night, cat herder 24/7, will jump out of a moving car to pet your dog | 💍 | NJ➡️PNW | VP22 / Viable Paradise 2018
I’m also on the others apps as [@]beaniezee
I’m also on the others apps as [@]beaniezee
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Stop using AI for placeholder assets.
Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else.
If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT
Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else.
If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT
June 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Stop using AI for placeholder assets.
Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else.
If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT
Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else.
If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT
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The internet is closed thank you this is the final post.
It’s pronounced Christmas jifts
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The internet is closed thank you this is the final post.
This year’s first pie, in all her glory.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This year’s first pie, in all her glory.
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Rogue One
4. The Force Awakens
5. The Last Jedi
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Solo
8. Revenge of the Sith
9. Attack of the Clones
10. The Rise of Skywalker
11. The Phantom Menace
Andor, not a movie, is the best overall Star Wars product and everybody knows it
2. Star Wars
3. Rogue One
4. The Force Awakens
5. The Last Jedi
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Solo
8. Revenge of the Sith
9. Attack of the Clones
10. The Rise of Skywalker
11. The Phantom Menace
Andor, not a movie, is the best overall Star Wars product and everybody knows it
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Rogue One
4. The Force Awakens
5. The Last Jedi
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Solo
8. Revenge of the Sith
9. Attack of the Clones
10. The Rise of Skywalker
11. The Phantom Menace
Andor, not a movie, is the best overall Star Wars product and everybody knows it
2. Star Wars
3. Rogue One
4. The Force Awakens
5. The Last Jedi
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Solo
8. Revenge of the Sith
9. Attack of the Clones
10. The Rise of Skywalker
11. The Phantom Menace
Andor, not a movie, is the best overall Star Wars product and everybody knows it
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As a security intelligence professional I would not recommend doing this, it's a very bad idea.
And to say it's a very bad idea might just be the understatement of the year.
And to say it's a very bad idea might just be the understatement of the year.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
As a security intelligence professional I would not recommend doing this, it's a very bad idea.
And to say it's a very bad idea might just be the understatement of the year.
And to say it's a very bad idea might just be the understatement of the year.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
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Folks forget that the ACA *was* the compromise position. It was never full on heal reform so much as health insurance reform, but it was what the political reality of the time permitted.
That said, Medicare for all, and let the shareholders answer to God.
That said, Medicare for all, and let the shareholders answer to God.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Folks forget that the ACA *was* the compromise position. It was never full on heal reform so much as health insurance reform, but it was what the political reality of the time permitted.
That said, Medicare for all, and let the shareholders answer to God.
That said, Medicare for all, and let the shareholders answer to God.
You can doomscroll or you can make zines
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
You can doomscroll or you can make zines
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it's trans day of remembrance
every dead trans woman is a murder
if you're not one: find one to support, ideally with money
if you are one: I love you, hang in there
every dead trans woman is a murder
if you're not one: find one to support, ideally with money
if you are one: I love you, hang in there
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
it's trans day of remembrance
every dead trans woman is a murder
if you're not one: find one to support, ideally with money
if you are one: I love you, hang in there
every dead trans woman is a murder
if you're not one: find one to support, ideally with money
if you are one: I love you, hang in there
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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You showed up. So did we. 🌺
Very Important People season 3 - premiering December 4th, only on @dropout.tv 🫂
Very Important People season 3 - premiering December 4th, only on @dropout.tv 🫂
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
You showed up. So did we. 🌺
Very Important People season 3 - premiering December 4th, only on @dropout.tv 🫂
Very Important People season 3 - premiering December 4th, only on @dropout.tv 🫂
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5 things I wish I had known at 20:
1) even if you love & trust them now, have a backup plan + emergency fund they can't touch
2) don't put everything in their name even if they have good reasons
3) boundary violations = red flag
4) emotional / verbal abuse is still abuse
5) control isn't love
1) even if you love & trust them now, have a backup plan + emergency fund they can't touch
2) don't put everything in their name even if they have good reasons
3) boundary violations = red flag
4) emotional / verbal abuse is still abuse
5) control isn't love
November 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
5 things I wish I had known at 20:
1) even if you love & trust them now, have a backup plan + emergency fund they can't touch
2) don't put everything in their name even if they have good reasons
3) boundary violations = red flag
4) emotional / verbal abuse is still abuse
5) control isn't love
1) even if you love & trust them now, have a backup plan + emergency fund they can't touch
2) don't put everything in their name even if they have good reasons
3) boundary violations = red flag
4) emotional / verbal abuse is still abuse
5) control isn't love
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yup, it was on. Do not like. I unchecked the box.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
yup, it was on. Do not like. I unchecked the box.
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I already know depression hates to see this man coming. I’m cancelling all of my therapy appointments and adding this song and dance to my morning routine.
*Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*
*Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*
October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I already know depression hates to see this man coming. I’m cancelling all of my therapy appointments and adding this song and dance to my morning routine.
*Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*
*Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*
I believe in ghosts, but:
- many ghosts and haunted places can be explained and aren’t actually ghosts
- holy fuck my uncle was good at accidentally purchasing haunted places
- most importantly, do ghosts believe in themselves?
- many ghosts and haunted places can be explained and aren’t actually ghosts
- holy fuck my uncle was good at accidentally purchasing haunted places
- most importantly, do ghosts believe in themselves?
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I believe in ghosts, but:
- many ghosts and haunted places can be explained and aren’t actually ghosts
- holy fuck my uncle was good at accidentally purchasing haunted places
- most importantly, do ghosts believe in themselves?
- many ghosts and haunted places can be explained and aren’t actually ghosts
- holy fuck my uncle was good at accidentally purchasing haunted places
- most importantly, do ghosts believe in themselves?
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Please do not feed personal information to chatGPT. Please do not tell it where you work and live and how to get money from you.
They know that TurboTax is easier than doing it by hand and cheaper (mostly) than going to an accountant.
That accountant had to sign ethical standards. ChatGPT can’t.
They know that TurboTax is easier than doing it by hand and cheaper (mostly) than going to an accountant.
That accountant had to sign ethical standards. ChatGPT can’t.
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Please do not feed personal information to chatGPT. Please do not tell it where you work and live and how to get money from you.
They know that TurboTax is easier than doing it by hand and cheaper (mostly) than going to an accountant.
That accountant had to sign ethical standards. ChatGPT can’t.
They know that TurboTax is easier than doing it by hand and cheaper (mostly) than going to an accountant.
That accountant had to sign ethical standards. ChatGPT can’t.
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this, all day right now
(unmute, it’s a bop)
(unmute, it’s a bop)
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
this, all day right now
(unmute, it’s a bop)
(unmute, it’s a bop)
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Golden Age for Billionaires
aka
Second Gilded Age
aka
Second Gilded Age
Riding the high of Trump's latest tax cuts, corporations are seeing record profits and will make over $1.1T in stock buybacks this year — an all-time high.
Meanwhile, layoffs have totaled 1.1M so far in 2025 — the highest level since the pandemic.
"New Golden Age" for whom?
Meanwhile, layoffs have totaled 1.1M so far in 2025 — the highest level since the pandemic.
"New Golden Age" for whom?
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Golden Age for Billionaires
aka
Second Gilded Age
aka
Second Gilded Age
Portrait of a Spoiled Cat Who Desires Your Chimkens.
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Portrait of a Spoiled Cat Who Desires Your Chimkens.
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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Anyway, HRC and Harris failed to win an election. Whatever you think of their politics, they are not inherent failures.
The very discourse of failure proves the truth of Michelle Obama's point. The United States is nowhere near ready for a woman to be President.
The very discourse of failure proves the truth of Michelle Obama's point. The United States is nowhere near ready for a woman to be President.
November 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Anyway, HRC and Harris failed to win an election. Whatever you think of their politics, they are not inherent failures.
The very discourse of failure proves the truth of Michelle Obama's point. The United States is nowhere near ready for a woman to be President.
The very discourse of failure proves the truth of Michelle Obama's point. The United States is nowhere near ready for a woman to be President.