The thing about getting a sneak peak at the cover for my next book is that now I want to buy a dress to match it.

"The gloves must come into direct contact with the skin and are not effective through clothing or hair, the user manual states. The manual says no more than 2 gloves should be applied to a subject at one time & they should not be used for more than 15 seconds in many instances." Oh Jesus. Oh fuck.

ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on electrical shock gloves for agents | CNN

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and officers may soon be equipped with gloves that deliver electrical shocks, which the manufacturer says are intended to de-escalate encounters with individ...

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I'm happy to say my streak of loving my (human-artist-only-designed!) book covers remains unbroken.

Special hell for medical offices that make you reschedule appointments on the phone only. Some of us are deaf!

Exclusive: @hurwitz.bsky.social reported this two weeks ago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Police keep losing their jobs for using Flock cameras to stalk people

Advocates say it’s too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.

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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w ago

Exclusive: Bad actors have used Flock's massive camera network as a powerful weapon for intimate surveillance. Authorities have charged or accused at least 50 law-enforcement officers of using license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes.

Trying to help a young family member who has developed a needle phobia as the result of a lot of medical tests due to a rare disease diagnosis. I'm ordering a tattoo numbing spray, we have that buzzing bee--any other advice?

I'm late to Disability Pride Month, but I have Fantasy recs to make up for it! Including 🐺 Wolves from @kvjohansen.bsky.social AND @finnlongman.com! 🐢 giant talking turtles in underwater realms by @seananmcguire.bsky.social! and @wiswell.bsky.social's disabled dragon!🐉

Disability Pride Isn't Fantasy: Fantasy Recs For Disability Pride! - Every Book a Doorway

12 of my favourite Fantasy books with disabled protagonists!

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It was such a joy working with @hanhonymous.bsky.social when I was on staff at Salon. Someone, snatch her up! She will make every conversation a delight and every article thought-provoking and insightful.

👩🏻‍💻 Hanhonymous@hanhonymous.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today is my last day as Executive Editor at Salon.com. It’s bittersweet, but I'm so grateful for all the opportunities & working with some of the finest people I’ve met. The media landscape is tough right now. Not sure what’s next, but you can email me at hanh.b.nguyen74@gmail.com with leads

Proud to be in the camp that hated Christopher Nolan from the very beginning (if all your women characters are dead or missing, you have an issue).

There's my Halloween costume sorted!

Science is inventing ever-smaller violins at an astonishing rate.

Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato@kristadb1.bsky.social · 3w ago

www.reddit.com/r/WritingWit... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHHAHAHAHAHH *wheezing sounds* HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

Spoken like a man who knows nothing about tomatoes (There are a lot of reasons people don’t grow their own, but “the ones in the shop are nicer” is absolutely not one of them).

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

Another odd moment occurred when Musk insisted that work in the future would be "optional" because robots would do everything. Musk said people might still work in the future but compared it to people who grow their own backyard tomatoes. He said they could just go to the store for better tomatoes.

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

I had my phone off almost the entire day and it was glorious!

Starting over as a woodland wanderer 🎨 Lily Seika Jones

Hey New York! If you're looking for something to do that is *not* World Cup related today, come see @allisoncmeier.bsky.social out in Ridgewood! Tonight at 5:00 at the Flying Fox, Allison will be talking about how death shaped NYC's public transit! I'll be talking about how vampires got horny!

No. The people who think so are delusional and you are feeding their delusions, which is irresponsible journalism.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w ago

Could AI be conscious?

Wait. I have my books organized by color because I have the cover and spine of every book memorized and can find them that way. Wait, am I weird?

Naomi Alderman@naomialderman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wait does everyone here know the life-changing secret re: finding books? You photograph your bookshelves/book piles and then you can text-search in the photos.

I just want to eat cookies but instead, I must revise.

New cryptid

Check on your elderly parents. I just talked my dad out of doing car maintenance in our 260 AQI air.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

"'They survived it, but now we have nothing,' the chief said. 'The whole community burned down within less than an hour.'"

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4w ago

"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We have three air purifiers running, one on each floor and one in my kid's room. I have a small, personal air purifier I use for air travel on beside me at my desk. I stuffed towels under the doors. I still woke up with a pretty bad headache today.

Hey Ohio, as someone who's lived through Colorado wildfires: shut your windows and doors, put rolled towels under the doors to seal cracks. Run those air purifiers. If you don't have an air purifier, tape a filter to a box fan. Don't go outside without a mask.

Can anyone recommend a brand of small solar panels? I live in an HOA so I can't do what I want to do when it comes to solar (or most things), but I would like to have some portable ones for emergency charging, etc.

As a former rural kid and the parent of one: kids are gonna burn these robots to the ground.

Mashable@mashable.com · 4w ago

AI company Realbotix is piloting STEM robots for rural schools.

Only Boomers like AI. Pass it on.

DISGUSTING—META used AI software to identify workers with medical conditions for layoffs. 26 former employees have ‌filed ⁠a ⁠lawsuit accusing META of using AI targeted ⁠people with disabilities, or who took ⁠medical leave, ⁠in selecting people for mass layoffs.