for those moots who are not locals, the major of St. Paul has chosen to destroy two homeless encampments in St. Paul with no real plans for the people being displaced. when they do this, they literally just bring skid loaders through and destroy everything

Mark Wasson@reportermark.bsky.social · 9h ago

I’m here at the Fish Hatchery encampment in St. Paul as the city prepares to sweep the camp. St. Paul cops are stopping cars coming in but there are dozens of people that have gathered here in anticipation of the sweep in order to help camp residents and document what the city does here today.

Welp looks like my next two weekends I will be vending the next two weekends! I’ll try to put together a proper promo, but I’ll be at Odd Mart this Sunday August 9th from 12pm-4pm and at Moonstone next weekend August 15-16 during shop hours!

Just reiterating that corsets do help with back support, and no, generally aren't tightlaced, that's like wearing stilletos, so breathing is fine. Stilletos are impractical as you have to basically stand on the balls of your feet, but chunky heeled boots providing support to ankles are a go!

Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · 1h ago

how come no game featuring women wearing impossibly tight clothing has ever deployed the genuine medically valid excuse "I have a weak heart~ so I have to wear custom-fitted compression clothing 24/7 or else my blood pools in my veins and causes me to swell up~"

**slams fists on table** get me slutty action heroines with POTS stat

Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · 1h ago

how come no game featuring women wearing impossibly tight clothing has ever deployed the genuine medically valid excuse "I have a weak heart~ so I have to wear custom-fitted compression clothing 24/7 or else my blood pools in my veins and causes me to swell up~"

how come no game featuring women wearing impossibly tight clothing has ever deployed the genuine medically valid excuse "I have a weak heart~ so I have to wear custom-fitted compression clothing 24/7 or else my blood pools in my veins and causes me to swell up~"

It's 90s shojo anime vibes, romance options that actually VARY IN IMPLIED AGE, and looks like they've added a bunch more things since the last i played their already pretty solid early access. Seriously, if you like farming games, cute things, and 90s shojo anime tropes, this is for you

Fields of Mistria ✨ Out now in 1.0@fieldsofmistria.bsky.social · 4h ago

Fields of Mistria 1.0 is here!✨ Thank you to everyone who's joined us on this journey, shared feedback, showed us your farms, created fan art, and loved Mistria as much as we do. 1.0 is just the beginning. 🌱 Download on Steam: bit.ly/Mistria

AFTER a global uprising ensued from their killing a man in front of a child in broad daylight & continuing to kill people, fail to prevent crime of many sorts (incl. cases like Davis Moturi & Mariah Samuels, not to mention their own corruption), & repeatedly run work stoppage rackets (while paid OT)

Salty@dfedmpls.bsky.social · 2h ago

When we say "defund the police" what we mean is "they literally scam-overtime bankrupted this city."

This was my favorite installment in the series, though I guess it is a little political

Working during the purge #shorts

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me: i'm so exhausted. i can't believe it's only Tuesday. i looked at a computer 12 hours straight today and now i am going to sleep like the dead... my cat: HEY I FOUND MY TOY WITH THE JINGLE BELL IN IT AND AM SUDDENLY INTERESTED IN IT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS

Feeling kinda glum and would love to have some funds to go out this weekend ❤️

Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦@diannalgunn.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's my birthday month! And... I'm broke I'd really like to still be able to do fun things (and get a hair cut) this month, so if you'd like to help me do those fun things, here's a list of ways to support me Starting with the easy option: you can send me money via Ko-fi! Any amount helps 1/?

And the skills of this person may be all over the place when it comes to tech stuff, but fuck it, I managed to figure out a solution for a bash script bug preventing a libreserver instance to install by looking through the bash script, so feeling some success!

Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again@kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 2d ago

Above ADHD tangent brought to you by "Caddy" making claims that just by using Go instead of a C language its more secure which...Is not how programming or hacking works tbh. Doesn't matter what tool is used. What matters are the skills of the person wielding the tool.

❌ Myth: Guaranteed income creates a disincentive to work ✅ Reality: Guaranteed income actually helps people find suitable and sustainable work that leads to more stable employment:

I’m open for speedy editing!

Danny Lore@weredawgz.blacksky.app · 2d ago

Okay so here's how this will work: - 48hr turn over -I will be editing: *single issue comic script up to 30 pages *Comic pitches from 3 pages up (I don't think I'll be useful for less! *Short Story length prose *Novelette turnover may be slightly longer -Sensitivity reads doable with discussion

we are working so hard towards our future. me getting laid off ruined our fucking lives but i tell you when that future comes it will be so bright, i wait in joyful hope! also i will be making a post of things i can do for you for cash on ko-fi soon so please look out ☀️🙏

Danny Lore@weredawgz.blacksky.app · 2d ago

I hate to have to do this again, but starting another (hopefully smaller) GFM. We are trying to start new endeavors, but we need to stay housed until then. gofund.me/f1aa8129f

This book is incredible I’m never not thinking about Wilson’s novellas

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.

If this essay appeals to you, it and many like it are in my book FIGHTING IN THE DARK, which is out today. Didn't mean to turn this into a plug but hey my book is out today, that don't happen every day. bsky.app/profile/juli...

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey guess what! My book is available for preorder! Tell everyone! Don't not tell everyone! Read more about what to do about this breaking news: www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...

If its not garaktailor-shop.fourthwall.com It's not the original!

Elle Ess@viamarsala18.bsky.social · 2d ago

@garaktailor.com do you also have the Frey shirt in a teepublic shop or is this a ripoff??

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

COMMENTARY: Crickets: Four fatal shootings by the Memphis Safe Task Force and almost no national news coverage. At the root lie Tennessee politicians who approve of the task force, writes Editor @jhollymc.bsky.social.

Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout

Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?

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Alright @toni.bsky.team. I've read the verge interview. I have follow up questions to some things that should have been asked, but never were. 1. Regarding moderation contractors. How many? From where? Why are they not full employees? Does bluesky supply mental health care for them? Why or why not?

Anyways, this whole thing was not because I doubted the CEO wants more right wing users, but because there were some interesting diverging in understanding from some who allegedly read the piece. So it seemed good to get the precise wording, even if it might still have the same end result.

Second to last question about "breaking" the branding of bluesky as liberal. Schneider brings up sports again, but does want more than just the regular crowd. The way he talks about expansion is...Interesting.

Yep, here we go, just outright, AFTER Twitter gets framed as "hard-right" saying he wants Twitter/X users.

So what I see here, is a response that is so lengthy to a ridiculously long question, that i can see some people genuinely getting confused and thinking he's talking sports. Verge ragebaited by shortening this, but it still comes down to "Bluesky doesn't NOT want to attract the nazis"

Oh, oh are we question dodging. Sharing the first chunk with part of the interviewer question so it's clear this is the response. The response is to vaguely mention politics without stating one leaning or another, then to dodge by bringing up sports.

OKAY HERE WE FUCKING GO, THE CONTEXT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. And yeesh. What a block of text for a question. But is very much asking about US politics. Calls Twitter hard-right, though does not use the words Nazi or Fascist.

There was a time when I would have paid for bluesky. That time was before they rewrote the rules in order to not ban Jesse Singal.

Olivia reads the verge interview so you don't have to! It's... not great.

Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again@kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, so Verge is very intentionally rage baiting folks by specifically taking a clip out that sounds like the CEO wants to add nazis. Someone else said it was really about sports. I'm reading through the touch edited transcript verge offers below their post to see which.

Okay, so Verge is very intentionally rage baiting folks by specifically taking a clip out that sounds like the CEO wants to add nazis. Someone else said it was really about sports. I'm reading through the touch edited transcript verge offers below their post to see which.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky'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."