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Francis Heaney

@francisheaney.bsky.social

Puzzles, ties, music, frivolity. Puzzlewright Press in the streets, AVCX in the singly-printed sheets. He/they.

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Francis Heaney@francisheaney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I know everyone is very excited that Jeff Hays is the voice of Princess Donut, but as someone who has only read the print versions, I must confess that I'm slightly disappointed because my headcanon for Princess Donut's voice is Alison Brie

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 2mo ago

at least once a year I’m contractually obligated to reshare the documentation of my face journey upon first tasting Malört we do shots of it every Christmas under orders from my stepbrother, who lived in Chicago for years, and I simply did not anticipate anything that would be happening to me

a square collage of four black & white photos of me, wearing a Nightmare Before Christmas fair isle cardigan. I am holding a small glass with a tiny amount of liquid in it and making a succession of increasingly stunned, revolted faces, laughing hysterically at just how bad it tastes
Cat@twohuskies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@clairewillett.bsky.social A local restaurant in the news for refusing to serve the armed military members occupying our city has this on their cocktail menu.

cocktail menu item from a local anti-fascist restaurant. Text reads: Papa Leo $13 Malort, Aperol, and lemon rounded with honey and a splash of soda. Bitter, bold, and not for the timid.
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2mo ago

"i'm from the government and i'm here to help" are not the scariest 9 words in the english language. the scariest 9 words in the english language are "i am a ghost with a big machine gun"

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BBC giving immigration the full trans treatment. Anti-trans bias is a cancer on journalistic integrity. You see standards start to slip on trans issues journalism, and then they start to slip more and more in other areas. BBC is just one more example of this.

Natasha Walter@natashawalter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

AVCX Classic@avcx.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thanks to everyone who solved last week’s @francisheaney.bsky.social meta! The AI theme was a prelude to announcing that not only is AVCX not employing a puzzle construction bot, but that in fact we’re giving raises to all features soon. Thanks for supporting the humans who make great puzzles.

Tim Carvell@timcarvell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“Justice involved population” isn’t widely used outside of academia, where it applies to more than just people in prison. But since Andy Beshear hates when euphemisms are used in this area, here’s something for him to work on back home in Kentucky, where deaths in his state prisons have spiked.

Elgin, a former correctional staff member at Kentucky State Reformatory, said she saw firsthand how corrections officers often fail to follow their own trainings and protocols. She witnessed a few unexpected deaths at the reformatory during her year working there. It was because of how the prison staff and department handled the deaths that she decided to quit, she said. "They lighten it up," Elgin said of death reporting. "They change the wording and make what happened a little less bad.""Who they are training, how they are training them, and what (the prisons) are not saying, is a lot of the problems," Elgin said. Known as an "extraordinary occurrence report," when death or serious injury of an inmate occurs in a Kentucky prison or jail, the department must be notified within 24 hours. But even in reports filed to the DOC, Elgin says facts can be altered or left out entirely. For example, if staff missed their rounds or ignored medical complaints, a pattern of "deliberate indifference" could turn into a "sudden, unavoidable medical event," she said.
Andrew Roth@roththereporter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear tells Michigan Democrats the party has "let advocacy speak seep into our language." He gives the example of calling inmates the "justice involved population." "If we want to be the party of the people, we've got to talk like we are people," he says.

Francis Heaney@francisheaney.bsky.social · 5mo ago

He doesn't know what it is and he's never heard of it but he knows what it is but he's never heard it described It's like he exists in two simultaneous quantum states, both indescribably stupid

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"