Denice (Dee), the Red Witch
@deetheredwitch.bsky.social
(She/her) Author, underground tattoist, artist, leatherworker at Tormented Artifacts, occultist, queer lesbian polymath, trauma-bound fuckbrain, horror nerd. Not your Responsible Adult
re: hwa's bullshit release yourself from aligning with for-profit organizations claiming to care about helping you in your career. similar to college greek life, these places are for networking at best, not for care or consideration of the process or individual.
And Ela does so many amazing things. Teeth is not to be missed, but neither is Nexus Alpha. It's hot from the start, fun all around, and needs 27 sequels.
Nexus Alpha: Unbroken by Ela Maxima
elajo.itch.io
If your old lady sciatica has already set in, gentle morning stretching + weight training will help immensely / reverse course (up to a point). it also makes your bones denser/stronger and you produce a LOT more collagen. just saying.
Mariah McCourt@monsterteatime.bsky.social · yesterdayThings I would tell my younger self about getting older; the earlier you start a good weight training routine and OMG STRETCH CONSTANTLY/more yoga the less annoying your inevitable old lady sciatica will be.
Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
nbcnews.com
here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?
Monday update. So far, about 600 in, which all got eaten by bills. Starting the shipping work today on things, and hopefully enough comes in by the time I get to paying fees to cover and transport a bunch of this.
Denice (Dee), the Red Witch@deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 5d agoOkay. It's friday, and the end of the month, and two weeks away from my birthday, and I have about 8 bucks to my name. Which blows, since I kinda have ten days to come up with 1500 to cover my rent, plus food, plus gas plus the shipping for all the orders currently stuck waiting to go out of here.
LRP leave kids alone you fucking freaks. leave them alone whether they're trans or cis or gender conforming or not or gay or not or intersex or not or whatever it is: leave them alone, you goddamn creepy horrible motherfuckers
It sure is cool being a trans woman A woman gives mild criticism of financially supporting a transphobic rag and the person who receives the criticism gets to enjoy news media rallying behind him while she gets all kinds of scrutiny and abuse, and then he can get a self-aggrandizing interview and PR
Um. Chat. Project Tasman is fully funded. In less than 10 hours. It's time for stretch goals now, I guess. But I'm going to go cry first.
S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman BackerKit Coming August 3@anotherindiewriter.com · 2d agoProject Tasman’s crowdfunding is LIVE! Want to get your hands on a sapphic dystopian thriller novel where a woman has to choose who close to her lives and dies? Back now to get the book, exclusive rewards, and support my work as an indie author! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Reminder: Prioritizing yourself is productive. You exude beauty and grace. You deserve fulfilling relationships. Your worth doesn’t depend on how you look. You view your body without judgment. You are worthy of love just for being who you are. I'm proud of you
Thank you for all the reposts! Please keep sharing this forward.
Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian@riversidewings.bsky.social · 2d agoJust thirty-two days until I need to pay for top surgery! Insurance & credit BS has denied me coverage or other options, so please send a few dollars to help close this gap, so that I can access necessary healthcare ⛰️⛰️ To all who spread the word and donate, thank you 💙
since i was told i was good at writing i just bullshitted my way into the field through freelancing. i hoped it was just a temporary solution while i found a better job reader, it was not a temporary solution
its wild because i never even wanted to be a journalist. i like writing but i actually just wanted to write niche leftist theory years ago. i only became a journalist bcz in 2022 i was in and out of homelessness and stuck in a job desert, so my shitty laptop became the only way i could make money
a big reason i had to co-found my own outlet to make ends meet is because the only way i could get a job anywhere in the industry i have to shut up, not voice any of my own thoughts, and write or do whatever the people paying me say if i didnt, then homeless risk yet again
Them is such a joke of an outlet. yet another ostensible queer rights outlet beholden to its corporate owners i hate this industry so much jesus christ
Can I have help refilling my medications today while my wife is off work? Can i have money for refilling my meds. I’m out of two of my anti-psychotic meds
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Monday update. So far, about 600 in, which all got eaten by bills. Starting the shipping work today on things, and hopefully enough comes in by the time I get to paying fees to cover and transport a bunch of this.
Denice (Dee), the Red Witch@deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 5d agoOkay. It's friday, and the end of the month, and two weeks away from my birthday, and I have about 8 bucks to my name. Which blows, since I kinda have ten days to come up with 1500 to cover my rent, plus food, plus gas plus the shipping for all the orders currently stuck waiting to go out of here.
Pictured: husband & wife in sacred pagan matrimony. Everyone should love themselves more than anyone can belittle them. Pride isn't a sin, your body isn't inherently sexual and shame is merely a tool of oppression strangling your self-esteem. (continued in screenshot) #pride #nudeart #selfesteem
Going to be heading back to university in September as the environmental law arc starts again ! 😎 If you’d like to tip and/or support my work while this goober here gathers his study materials for the year, you can on ko-fi and patreon ! 🖤 🌿 ko-fi.com/radinsky
RADINSKY 🏳️⚧️🪬@thisisradinsky.bsky.social · 11mo agoHi ! I'm RADINSKY I'm an illustrator who is currently a law student in environmental and urban planning law, with an international/EU law background ! I love liminal, surreal and post-apocalyptic stuff 🌾 Donate to my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/radinsky 🌾 Become a patron: www.patreon.com/thisisradinsky
So exhausted already by the meme that the "tells" of gen AI writing are when something is structurally aping the way a decent professional writer writes, rather than when it's meaningless word salad. (You will take my em dashes, sets of three, and lack of typos from my cold, dead hands.)
Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 3d agonothing shouts "I don't read much" more than when you equate em-dashes with AI. as Kat says here: 1) AI uses em-dashes BECAUSE AUTHORS USE THEM & AI IS TRAINED ON OUR WRITINGS! 2) "AI checkers" are complete bunk (just another AI bullshit machine), 3) this is not a "list of three" haha
Forced labor is how Trump justifies his tariffs
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoThe diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
Me: "I'm going to do it! I'm finally going to get a healthy amount of sleep!" My phone, following the most ungodly noise ever: "BE PREPARED TO EVACUATE YOUR HOME AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE TONIGHT BECAUSE THE HELL-REALM HAS BURST THROUGH TO OUR DIMENSION AND IS DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH."
