Social dance is great and more of you should do it. Wheeeee skirt goes spinny!!

Touching wood(en floors)!

@hairypenguin.bsky.social I have run into some very funny bugs in Axom Conquest but the run I just abandoned at wave 48 was probably the funniest. "You have found all the upgrades" indeed! Also it glitched out and my Drill disappeared so I couldn't lose. But I couldn't Ion Cannon, so.

Turns out that litRPGCon was awesome this year and I'm so glad I went. What a feral goddamn fanbase we have, and what an awesome community of professionals and hobbyists making our stories and bringing them to life! Looks like I've managed to avoid catching anything or getting con crud, even. xD

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

The treatment of Scott Weiner at Trans March SF should be treated as a simple pass/fail test, among the easiest a community or organizer/organization will ever face. Trans March has failed that test. So have many of the communities I was part of a week ago. I regret going. An error I won't repeat.

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · last mo.

so a number of people have tried to play off the targeting of Scott Wiener for antisemitic abuse at the trans march as the fault of a straight guy outsider, well the reaction of the organizers uh leaves something to be desired www.jta.org/2026/06/30/p...

> And I too shall fulfill my three duties... blood, fire, and bread. Sweeter than honey are these three, so powerful, and one is not allowed to add to their number, or to inquire about them: “Whereby do women earn merit?” ~R. Kalonymus, 1322 Happy #Pride & #TransMarch, and Shabbat Shalom!

Listen, they don't want you to know this. I might not survive telling you, so *listen*. You will only know true praxis when you can do Lindy with a stranger to a remix of the Pokemon theme song and be free of cringe. I have to go. There's Hatsune Miku coming up. I'll see you on the other side.

Today, like every day, is a good day to remind you that Jeff LaRe cares so little about his job that he still has the wrong district on his official web site. Fairfield County deserves someone who actually takes the job seriously.

Someone described the mood on this site lately as "they just wanted a reversed-polarized Xitter" and it's uncomfortably true, it sucks and the people doing it suck, and I'm not releasing Frozen Dreams for a month and a half. Hm.

the weird psychosexual fetish this website's userbase has for toddler-level "dunking" on the devs is some of the weirdest shit about this website and always has been. the punchline is "I can be a dick to someone for made-up reasons!" and it gets three thousand reposts, idk, maybe I'm just old.

I see people are being Extremely Normal about the correct statement that the primary is for figuring out which Democrats are running in the general and the general is where we all set our disappointments aside to vote for the nominee. I don't like Porter! if she wins in June I'm 100% voting for her

I'm just saying Vote Blue No Matter Who means Third Way and Searchlight will have to get on board or get trampled by the glorious DSA-to-Bulwark Popular Juggernaut.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 4mo ago

We're going to be facing some fascinating test runs of "vote blue no matter who" in 2026.

this is just to say I have had an issue fetching the posts that were on the timeline and which you were probably hoping to doomscroll forgive me the takes were so hot and so rate limited

People are gonna be real mad if we ever actually start tackling environmental issues with any degree of seriousness. I expect they will vote out anyone who does it. This includes agricultural runoff.

Aaron van Dorn@aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you're complaining about the price of beef you never, not for one moment, cared about climate change.

The Lord replied, "The times when the servers weren't working, my child, is when I tried to get you to log off."

Ahh it was a dos. Well, now I feel bad. Nobody do crime.

Ultimately leftists don't see Trump as the problem, they see the "system" or "establishment" as the problem, so for them the biggest trigger imaginable was Harris standing with Cheney as they both say "lets save the country we love and it democracy" MTG will help them fight elites (spelled J E W)

KennyMack1971@kennymack1971.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The fact that prominent left wing figures see no hypocrisy in wanting to form an alliance with Marjorie Taylor Green while they slammed Kamala Harris for a Liz Cheney endorsement is beyond stupefying.

Wonderfully detailed thread on Draft2Digital's new fees: why they happened, what D2D could/should do differently, things indie authors should consider in making choices now, and how anthologies in particular are being affected.

Delilah Waan | Epic fantasy author@delilahwaan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

OK #indieauthors, new intel on @draft2digital.bsky.social's changes just dropped thanks to @kevinmc.bsky.social who posted his notes from a private Zoom call with the D2D CEO in the 20booksto50k FB group ~4 hours ago. Kevin's post: www.facebook.com/groups/20Boo... 👇 short version + my take 🧵1/?

i see it's time for everyone's favourite game, Viral Article That Says Exactly What People On Bsky Want To Hear! you can tell that it's true and trustworthy because everyone you follow is reposting it!

adding on to the point here, it's increasingly clear to me that the *point* of people like Piker et al. is, among other things, to make sure there's someone RNC Research can point to and say "this is what Democrats are like / want". that's what Piker gets paid to do

EktaShahMD@ektashahmd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I keep telling leftism doesn’t mean more progressive but pro Russian imperialism and authoritarianism

Spotify random'd me an AI-gen song that makes me really *really* want to know what the source corpus is. What do you have to train your stuff on to come out sounding like Lyra Vesperi? Because there must perforce *be* a source corpus, and I want to listen to it.

This is not something that'll be popular in left spaces, but the DOD should effectively become the world's best-funded anti-fascist organization. We need a realignment on the order of Containment, and designed to wage a cultural (& sometimes kinetic) war on the global fascist movement.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 4mo ago

"Real war in Ukraine and the prospect of conflict over Taiwan ought to have made it impossible to pretend that military power, industrial might, and hard security don’t matter." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

These are NOT made. These should NEVER be made.

It's a great day to read a Dragon- and Locus-Award nominated science fiction novel replete with fascinating aliens, interstellar pirates, Big Smart Objects, and STEM lesbians in spaaaaaceeeeee! <.< >.>

Spotify random'd me an AI-gen song that makes me really *really* want to know what the source corpus is. What do you have to train your stuff on to come out sounding like Lyra Vesperi? Because there must perforce *be* a source corpus, and I want to listen to it.

Unironically my ideology (apart from a very pedantic philosophy of science point).

I write litRPG and am thinking through what's effectively a VRMMO to write eventually but I've never touched SAO.

Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️@stevewestenra.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What's a classic book in your genre (or subgenre, if you like!) that you've never read? Or, if you're a reader/reviewer rather than writer, a book in your favourite genre you haven't read? This brought to you by the fact that I've never read Fahrenheit 451 😂(I should)

2 kinds; psychotic|normie this one or loss - psychotic stocks are fraud - normie quest64 or doom - psychotic bsky is tumblr - normie it would seem like the interesting ones are the psychotic ones but the only ones that perform are the normie ones

chimera aunt@strangelittlevine.bsky.social · 4mo ago