Who remembers Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? For Halloween this year: The Girl with the Green Ribbon. Dancing with a ribbon is really fun! Yes, my head fell off at the end, thanks to the magic of theatre. 😄
Dawn Xiana Moon
@dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
Founder/director of @RaksGeek.bsky.social. Dancer + singer-songwriter. SF/F essays. Food. Spins fire. Britain's Got Talent. Civic tech & UX by day, art by night. Building shared versions of reality + hope. 🏠 Chicago (via Metro Detroit via Singapore)
Oh this is awesome. Right-click in @firefox.com now gives you an option to copy a clean URL without all of the massive tracking that I always manually strip out. Fantastic!
It took $3.6 million in 2018 to buy a house that cost >$900k (inflation-adjusted) in 1904. I'm sure it's worth $5 million+ now given housing prices in the last few years. That's how out of whack housing is now. (Went down a small Harry Houdini rabbit hole & found this nugget on Wikipedia.)
15-minute meals: Fettuccine with cremini mushrooms, Parmesan, & peas in a Boursin cream sauce. 🍽️ Been swamped this week so it's all been "fast food, my way" (to steal a phrase from Jacques Pepin). I always make sauce from scratch but refrigerated pasta rocks.
This is someone who made 6-figure salaries with major corporations & took a pay cut to work for the federal government in order to serve people. Not an exaggeration: The administration & conservatives have destroyed his life.
Trump fired him. The ‘DEI Watchlist’ shamed him. Then came 500 job rejections.
Efforts to purge the government of diversity, equity and inclusion programs have taken a major toll on Black workers who now struggle to find comparable jobs.
washingtonpost.com
If you want good art, you have to support it. Artists will always create, but artists working day jobs create less. We just don't have time & energy. And we cannot cede art just to people with parents who can fund their lives. There has to be room for people from all income levels & demographics.
A. Brad Schwartz@abradschwartz.bsky.social · 2d agoSince it’s almost the anniversary of “War of the Worlds,” I’ll add that we have the WPA Federal Theatre Project to thank for Orson Welles and many, many others…
Aww. I didn't know until today just how much Sir Patrick loved & advocated for pitties. (I fostered an absolute weirdo of a pittie for 2 years. She had issues, but in spite of how broken she was, she still made me an advocate for pitties in general. They're great dogs.)
It's been difficult to make a living in the arts throughout probably most of Western history. But it's much worse right now than it's been in a long while.
Asinus Pervicax@knownagitator.lol · 3d agoPatrick Stewart's passing feels a whole hell of a lot like Dolly's. It's hard to imagine that singular talents found in people born in the working class or working poor will get fostered the ways theirs were. The things that nurtured those talents have been stripped for profit by assholes.
Oh no. RIP Patrick Stewart. Jean-Luc Picard was a fixture for pretty much my entire life - literally, I started watching Star Trek: TNG when it came out. O Captain my Captain. Rest well.
Once again it's actually conservatives who are committing voter fraud...
Conservative influencer James O’Keefe charged with unlawful voting and identity theft in Minnesota
O’Keefe was charged alongside fellow influencer Cam Higby after they allegedly misrepresented themselves at polling places during Minnesota’s primary in August.
nbcnews.com
"The danger is garden-variety fascism, where rich guys ruin everyone’s lives by deskilling workers, suppressing wages, and concentrating wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs."
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 4d agoNEW WRITING! I had just a few things to get off my chest about physicists and others collaborating with technofascists … “Why am I so convinced that companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are a danger to us? Because, to paraphrase a David Cross joke, that’s what they fucking said.” 🧪⚛️🔭
I'm tired of hearing excuses about "well that model wasn't that great" or "the product is responsible [not the execs who released it]." We all know the best realistic scenario is that OpenAI pays this woman's parents a few dollars. Really OpenAI execs should be held liable for this woman's death.
Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social · 5d agoGut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...
Autopay is great except when for whatever reason (card expiration, etc.) it doesn't go through you basically always get charged a late fee even if you address it immediately. Argh.
In a just world, these corporate executives would face real consequences for welcoming fascism. From the Economist:
Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS
Half my style is "bellydancer, offstage." 😂 A lot of my dance practice clothes & jewelry styles have worked their way into my normal wardrobe. For ex: Armbands in the summer, piles of bangles, bellbottoms in stretch cotton/bamboo long before they became cool again. Feels good, because I can move.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w agoAs you dabble in this aesthetic, pay attention to how you feel. A lot of clothing ends up in landfills not because they bear some material defect, but because the person didn't feel good in the clothes. Thus, pay attention to what I call "emotional durability." dieworkwear.com/2020/08/01/o...
You all. I just learned that shark eggs get really wild! This is real but incredibly bizarre. It's a Port Jackson shark egg. The sharks pick up the eggs with their mouths & screw them into rock crevices so they don't wash away. They hatch from there. ... It looks kind of like a sex toy? 🤣
Thank God.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d agoPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24 📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg
Wow. Treasury.gov is now requiring users to log in through ID.me - already a lot because it requires you to take a photo of your passport or driver's license through their app + take a "live video selfie" or video chat with an agent. It's so much personally identifiable data & kind of invasive.
Unpopular take, but the Gifted program was a lifeline for me as an Asian immigrant kid in a blue-collar town where a lot of kids' (almost entirely white) parents had gone to the same school. I didn't get bullied there, & it was OK to be smart & curious. Those things were not OK in school at large.
Okay I hate the anthropomorphic language, but it’s deeply hilarious that folks are already discovering that the company line of “your ai agent works for you” is an absolute fabrication.
The Lever@levernews.com · last wk.You asked AI for the cheapest flight. It dug through your emails, decided you could afford more, and suggested a ticket costing $100–$200 extra. Lindsay Owens explains ⬇️
First time I've tried cooking with leeks! Bacon potato leek soup topped with roasted broccoli, more bacon, and a sprinkling of truffle salt from a farm I visited in France. 😄🍽️
You all. A while back I posed for artist Kate Citrin. Yesterday she sent me photos of the completed oil painting. How cool is this??
Years of shows at the theater, but I just found the best spot to take preshow photos at the Newport! 😄
