looking forward to the official yiddish translation, Der Pipernoter Vil Kvetshn A Bisl (the dragon wants to kvetch a little)

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's release day for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a wild dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. But what's waiting for him up there is far stranger than he imagines. I'm so proud of my dragon for finally escaping into the world!

You’d get on the freeway, drive for a while until you were like, “hmm not sure if I’m close to where I’m going???”, take an exit, stop at a gas station, ask a man in a plaid parka how much farther it is, sometimes he’d pull out a map, or he’d want to talk to you about Jesus, it was a different time

Michael D. Green, PhD@michaeldgreen.phd · 4w ago

Can’t lie, the fact that y’all were driving with PAPER maps is insane. Even worse, you had to ask random strangers for directions??

It’s true, you never see a straight white guy in a bike lane

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4w ago

DEI bike lanes…

had to take a break from being able to walk for a couple weeks but now I’m moving again, wrote about seasonal sorcery (and sourcery), making a wish and getting the opposite, trauma in the body and how it moves around, questions of discernment! fluentself.com/blog/persona...

Now that women no longer wear hats, we have no idea what the future holds.

a one minute story that got me to feel feelings etgarkeret.substack.com/p/your-story?

Your Story

Not mine | Fiction | Fresh Soup

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I have come to think of the crunching sound my knees make when I bend them as being like the "hwaup hwaup hwaup hwaup hweep" Transformers cartoon sound, it is not a gloomy sign of decrepitude but an empowering herald of change

Pride is Pride so that people don’t have to live—and lose—in secret. Happy Pride, and remember how much of coded queer art from our childhoods served as seeds the planters would never see blossom.

coming out of a cocooning period with a very long essay about back pain, heartbreak, an epic sky battle, unexpected blues-clues, anger, betrayal, William Carlos Williams, etc fluentself.com/blog/persona...

I keep thinking about this chair I saw. I'm in a rough patch and thinking of this chair makes me happy.

Susan Marie Swanson@susanmarieswanson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I drank good coffee and visited the wonderful exhibit of contemporary Nordic folk art from the upper Midwest, on display in the gallery by FIKA at American Swedish Institute. Especially loved this chair, work of Grand Marais craftsman Mike Loeffler, with a warbler perched on the back.

I get you. But my vision of radical bodily autonomy is more about undoing societal sexism/racism/transphobia etc so people can make free choices Social pressure will always exist, but oppression doesn't have to

Wrote about best possible outcomes and the lebrechaun brigade (my friend Laura’s plan to get me to deal with my stuck project) and being surprised by what my project was actually about fluentself.com/blog/persona...

For those of you who aren't tuned in, this a call for genocide against disabled people.

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 4mo ago

RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.

It may seem funny now, but in about 3 weeks' time the disruption to the global supply chain of knowing-yet-sanctimonious middle-class left-of-centre takes will start forcing prices up, and governments may even have to introduce rationing

George Pearkes@peark.es · 4mo ago

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

wrote about finding my way back to reality, and the healing process more generally, and being tender with the tender process <3 fluentself.com/blog/persona...

I mean ok it does include "Thatcher is dead", "These aren't the droids you're looking for" and "Thickos liked your latest post", but otherwise it feels a tad limited

People deserve clean water. We deserve clean air. We shouldn’t be forced to work in these dangerous circumstances we are forced into every day. Because yes, even vaccinated people get long covid. We have water filtration. We could have air filtration too. We have to demand it.

I don't know if you've spent much time as a professional sick person, but about 80% of the time when a health care professional is "sir'ing me, they aren't trying to be respectful or kind; they're pissed off that I won't consent to, like, putting in a PICC without proper pain control

LORD I HAVE SEEN WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS, please spread this miracle around, I need this exact form of glue

Samantha Mash@samanthamash.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Having a person in a cool outfit, compliment me on my outfit may be the glue holding me together at this point

this is Messianic Edging

geoffrey@parsnip.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"almost" a second coming? i wasn't aware there was a sliding scale

I was listening to El Paso radio yesterday and almost every time they mentioned the $1k you could theoretically win, it was like, “take care of that electric bill” or “finally replace that phone you dropped a year ago and the screen is completely cracked and it barely works”

🏳️‍⚧️ Eve 🏳️‍⚧️@evethepuppy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Radio sweepstakes have pivoted from "Win $2k! You could go on a cruise, or buy that new car!" to "Win $2k! Something extra to help with taxes and groceries!"

Yeah. I always look at them and say, “In this economy?” which usually cracks them up and often opens the door for me to ask them what actionable things can we discuss. But like “lower your stress” when one of the things stressing me out is seeing the big capitalism trap of “can’t take time off”?

nothing online works for shit anymore. everybody who knows how to work computer is unemployed. we are stuck with these losers shooting up peptides while they vibecode their claude dongle

Oh no! Matt has been in the social media streets doing so much education on top of real advocacy. Please take care of them if we can

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 4mo ago

Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

When you see one set of footprints, that’s because a chatbot is non-corporeal.

Artificial intelligence Jesus chatbot sparks debate over future of faith

For some evangelical Christians, a personal relationship with Jesus is central to their faith. Now, a tech company called Just Like Me is offering to take that concept to an unprecedented level, allowing users to engage in video calls with an artificial intelligence-generated avatar of Jesus for $1....

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Wrote about Reheartened & Reheartening, and tricking myself in fun ways to do tedious busy work in times of heartache and then finding so many clues in turning the whole thing into a form of play… fluentself.com/blog/persona...

trans rights is a "wedge" issue in the sense that if you have an issue with trans rights I will "wedge" you into a crevasse in a mountain and leave you there

*entire world goes up in smoke* Oh no my concerns!