Me when 10, to my aunt:
"Was the world in color when you were a kid?"

Dude. Just finished Red Team Blues on audiobook. You two really collab something awesome for audiobooks. Question about fair use (for a writer with MCI: do you have any idea if the licensing on the Marty Hench series'd allow a fork of the world and references to characters in a short story series?

We're not cooked. It's just time to get cooking on compassion, action & connection. Especially be human & kind to people w/ different beliefs - kindness defuses division. Don't endorse aggression, just accept that everyone's doing the best they can w/the limited tools & skills they have/know.

I deal w/ adhd/depression oral hygiene challenges by using spinbrush. If I can't make myself do 2 min, I can make myself do close to 1 min. Like the tool concept of "dialectical abstinence" (DBT), I'm never going 100% without brushing. But then, I know how painful gum grafts are, that motivates too.

Everything looks better with an owl on it.

I'm looking to reconnect w/ people who matter... Mastodon (& Bluesky), are tools I've explored. I'm researching tools for private/shared LJ-ish friend groups in the fediverse. FB's AI-slop firehose has been unusable for me for a long time.
Glad to see u!

Followed! I don't speak Japanese, but more than 1/3 of fountain pen I clean/repair (& sell to pay for more parts & neglected pens + return to regular contact w/ ink & hands) are vintage Pilot & Platinum pocket pens. Most recent "rescue pen" now fabulous & ready for "adoption" is a 701F Myu. ✍️

I've been looking for vintage/antique writing instruments/accessories feeds/users here on Bsky. Nice to find at least a few posts!

The reason cryptographic math isn't designated illegal "munitions" and off-limits to ordinary people & small business today is, in large part, thanks to the work of EFF (made possible by donations from people like us). I'm poor, but I love equity in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I🫶🏽EFF

I'm listening to the audio of Little Brother (Cory Doctorow) today and this is so relevant... also I'm so not surprised but wtf

Never blame on conspiracy what Occam reveals obviously as a legacy of multigenerationally accumulated critical mass stupidity.

Add pieces of carboard with slits on the edges as frame looms, picture frames with finishing nails along the edges for pin looms, finger weaving, finger knitting, felting, or my current fave - chilkat/ravenstail thigh spinning singles & plying simultaneously etc - expand that capacity even more!

Especially for 🧶 fiber artists!!!

Everything's gone down the Xhitter

Especially considering the poor strategic choices all those scientists made accepting jobs from Melon Usk

Though I never understood why a SPEEDball was coke and a goofball was meth.

Nope, he def did a goofball, not a speedball. Meth, not coke.

Did he also love Joni & Carole & Jimi & CSNY? My dad was an evangelist music minister but still intro'd me to BNL & Tracy Chapman before anyone in the PNW ever played them on indie/college radio stations. Still don't know how he got ahead of those musical waves. Love JT so much. The memories, fy.