JBabs
@jemmy17.bsky.social
Writer. Gamer. Ailurophile. Ginger beer enthusiast. She/her.
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I have never felt more seen by a Post
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 AM
I have never felt more seen by a Post
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CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…
January 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…
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Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by
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Well that sucks
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Well that sucks
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RIP 2025
2025-2025
2025-2025
December 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
RIP 2025
2025-2025
2025-2025
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
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For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
There's no hard data, so it's impossible to know for sure, but I suspect the number of adult children cutting off their parents isn't significantly higher than it used to be, and what's actually new is that the children are now explaining it in therapy terms rather than simply ceasing contact.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
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It takes years of working your way through the immigration system to get to this point. The thought of arriving at your naturalization ceremony, thinking that work is over, & having the rug pulled from under you based on where you were born makes me sick to my stomach. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It takes years of working your way through the immigration system to get to this point. The thought of arriving at your naturalization ceremony, thinking that work is over, & having the rug pulled from under you based on where you were born makes me sick to my stomach. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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This is why yall have to stop laughing at things because you can tell someone is TRYING TO BE funny, and only laugh at things that actually make you involuntarily laugh. The stakes are too high for polite or status laughter.
My hottest current take :
White and edgelord humor is one long line of insincere bullying that depends in you not wanting to be the person who “doesn’t get the joke”
White and edgelord humor is one long line of insincere bullying that depends in you not wanting to be the person who “doesn’t get the joke”
December 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is why yall have to stop laughing at things because you can tell someone is TRYING TO BE funny, and only laugh at things that actually make you involuntarily laugh. The stakes are too high for polite or status laughter.
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Imagine never having heard of Charles Dickens
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Imagine never having heard of Charles Dickens
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Bringing this back. Canadians shut the fuck up about universal healthcare in the replies about healthcare premium increases challenge
I am seeing the posts about American healthcare premiums going up 5x and more. And I want to gather my Canadians and folks who have universal healthcare and let you know that Americans know their system is broken. You don't need to tell them that right now.
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Bringing this back. Canadians shut the fuck up about universal healthcare in the replies about healthcare premium increases challenge
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Years ago, before my book published, I was invited to the Sante Fe Literary Festival as a guest. It was a really busy time, so I had no idea which other authors would be in attendance. My husband and I walked into the green room, and seated in front of me were Margaret Atwood and George R.R. Martin.
Our reviewer Leigh Haber loved Margaret Atwood's new memoir, BOOK OF LIVES, calling it "the most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century." The review will be in the print Sunday @bostonglobe.com but you can read it here now www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/a...
Margaret Atwood didn’t want to write a memoir. Thank goodness she did it anyway. - The Boston Globe
Atwood's "Book of Lives" has to be the most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century — or ever.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Years ago, before my book published, I was invited to the Sante Fe Literary Festival as a guest. It was a really busy time, so I had no idea which other authors would be in attendance. My husband and I walked into the green room, and seated in front of me were Margaret Atwood and George R.R. Martin.
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THANK YOU DEUS the day has finally come
YES
FINALLY
BRING ARTS XENOGEARSSSSSSS
FINALLY
BRING ARTS XENOGEARSSSSSSS
July 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
THANK YOU DEUS the day has finally come
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This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
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No room for wokeness!
@Wokenessisevil
Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment.
[photos show Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) with ripped muscles]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:icsm7hd2dok5lxddyrig4gbt/bafkreieqpfyocgnmbjxooiqmg34hpxbxzfjhywfjaej45xdlkmo2j4k3pu@jpeg)
July 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
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Magazine advertising for Bram Stoker's Dracula by Sony Imagesoft in the issue #15 of Mega Play, in April 1993
July 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Magazine advertising for Bram Stoker's Dracula by Sony Imagesoft in the issue #15 of Mega Play, in April 1993
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I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...
Brad Pitt Is Fooling You
The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
www.vulture.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...
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More progress. This is a great example of when someone sends me an extremely clear and detailed reference photo. I can get so much more detailed in the piece? 🪡
June 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
More progress. This is a great example of when someone sends me an extremely clear and detailed reference photo. I can get so much more detailed in the piece? 🪡
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Depression is a monster for what it does to your relationships alone.
June 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Depression is a monster for what it does to your relationships alone.
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I always find it so outstanding that some people seem to never get this. 😔
June 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I always find it so outstanding that some people seem to never get this. 😔
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"You killed them, didn't you? You killed them all?"
"Like dogs, Shianni."
Commission for Revan-Dax, a scene from definitely one of the best origins in DA:O.
#art #supportartists #ArtShare #Illustration #commission #dragonage
"Like dogs, Shianni."
Commission for Revan-Dax, a scene from definitely one of the best origins in DA:O.
#art #supportartists #ArtShare #Illustration #commission #dragonage
May 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
"You killed them, didn't you? You killed them all?"
"Like dogs, Shianni."
Commission for Revan-Dax, a scene from definitely one of the best origins in DA:O.
#art #supportartists #ArtShare #Illustration #commission #dragonage
"Like dogs, Shianni."
Commission for Revan-Dax, a scene from definitely one of the best origins in DA:O.
#art #supportartists #ArtShare #Illustration #commission #dragonage
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Well, we tried.
Like we say below: thank you to everyone who gave their support, truly. 💙
Like we say below: thank you to everyone who gave their support, truly. 💙
We were so close, but unfortunately the Malys Kickstarter hasn't reached its goal. Thank you all for your support and encouragement over this campaign.
The game will still be coming out, and you can read our full update here. Thank you again.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sum...
The game will still be coming out, and you can read our full update here. Thank you again.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sum...
Update 14: Malys has fallen short of funding - what happens now? · Malys: Exorcise demons on your hunt for an ancient evil 🕯️
Thank you 🖤Firstly, we just want to take a moment to thank all of you for taking a chance on us and backing Malys. Your support, backing, and feedback have meant the world to our little team and we ar...
www.kickstarter.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Well, we tried.
Like we say below: thank you to everyone who gave their support, truly. 💙
Like we say below: thank you to everyone who gave their support, truly. 💙
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We're officially at the halfway point for our Malys Kickstarter!🕯️
We've been blown away by your kindness and generosity so far, having reached a third of our total funding goal 🙌
We still have a ways to go though before we can make Malys the best game it can be so we need your help!
We've been blown away by your kindness and generosity so far, having reached a third of our total funding goal 🙌
We still have a ways to go though before we can make Malys the best game it can be so we need your help!
May 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We're officially at the halfway point for our Malys Kickstarter!🕯️
We've been blown away by your kindness and generosity so far, having reached a third of our total funding goal 🙌
We still have a ways to go though before we can make Malys the best game it can be so we need your help!
We've been blown away by your kindness and generosity so far, having reached a third of our total funding goal 🙌
We still have a ways to go though before we can make Malys the best game it can be so we need your help!
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Yeah but I am not about to infuse her vast anti-trans coffers with my money
An HBO executive has promised fans of the Harry Potter franchise that the upcoming reboot television series will not be “infused” with J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans beliefs.
HBO Exec Promises 'Harry Potter' Series 'Not Secretly Being Infused' With J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Rhetoric
An HBO exec has promised fans of the Harry Potter franchise that the upcoming TV series will not be "infused" with J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans beliefs.
rollingstone.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yeah but I am not about to infuse her vast anti-trans coffers with my money