A client of mine just spent a big chunk of our shift together yesterday dealing with this

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5h ago

This is a pure ripoff. If Google had served the correct result at the top of the page - if it had used its own database of confirmed merchants and their associate websites to validate its ads - then people booking hotels would have saved 35% to 85% on their rooms. 50/

BRB, crashing the housing market

In particular if you're looking for our apparel in a certain size, you'll want to come by our table early in your day/weekend. If you're in from out of SoCal, please come find us for a quick hello at least!

See you Friday!

L Faunt aka Alfred Glitchcock@llfaunt.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hey all, being online this weekend has been super shit for my mental health, but before I forgot I just wanted to share with everyone that #MMIX will be vending at #MidsummerScream next weekend at the Long Beach Convention Center. Booth 764.

Kinda reasonable. Also people have fabricated drama in the past just to remove me from shows and their circle. Lol. And I don't mean "I think someone is talking trash" with no evidence, I mean fake conflicts of interest that I asked the people cited about later on. All peak theatre kid

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

You can support Charity's children via this fundraiser -> www.gofundme.com/f/supporting...

Donate to Supporting Mordaga’s Children After Their Loss, organized by Jemma Battaglia

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Guy I was test driving with today assumed I was a drummer, which was pretty goblin-affirming

*reviewing "Obsession" in 2006* "yeah brah, dudes love crazy chicks, amirite?"

I've additionally blocked most Blue-Wave-in-profile liberals on here and it's prettay prettay great.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

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

Why are people so obsessed with kids' junk??? Gross dude

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Hey all, being online this weekend has been super shit for my mental health, but before I forgot I just wanted to share with everyone that #MMIX will be vending at #MidsummerScream next weekend at the Long Beach Convention Center. Booth 764.

Thanks to everyone who jumped on this t-shirt! If you would like some Spooky Jimothy on your screens, I made a wallpaper pack at www.patreon.com/robsheridan/...

Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · 2w ago

I considered going to bed at a reasonable time last night but ADHD had other ideas, anyway I made a Jimothy X-Files t-shirt. Available here: robsheridan.threadless.com/collections/... - Proceeds benefit Defenders of Wildlife @defenders.org

Finally sprung for this one after having the 2019 version and I really love this one. I'm also listening to Strange Boutique's "Charm" all the way through for the first time and really loving it.

Monica Richards@monicarichards.bsky.social · last yr.

New Aestuarium (Deluxe Edition) just released! monicarichards.bandcamp.com/album/aestur...

Hey LA journalism people, losangelesreportingcollective.com is hiring/onboarding for both a volunteer position and a leadership council position

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Started reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Feels like an act of micro protest. Thanks to my buddy for gifting a copy for my bday.

I'm sad that the US shat the bed on generalized EV infrastructure.

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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 5d ago

Meet Abe, who finally got to *immerse* himself in the world of gunge. You haven’t heard of gunge, you say? Simply press play on today's "After Action Report"! If you had a sexual experience that called for a LOT of logistics, write about it and send us the details to Q@Savage.Love.

The next time you consider making a flier with AI, please also consider that the most intriguing ad I’ve seen this week is a garage sale sign made of particle board with spray painted writing that reads, “GOOD SHIT —>”

Ok so my new car, whenever that occurs, is likely narrowed down to Mazda CX5, KIA Sportage, or Honda CRV. People I'm connected to, please jump in with reviews. Ideally I will snag something 2023 or newer but nothing certain yet.

Two longstanding industrial scene folks lost their house in the tornadoes in WI on Monday. They're absolutely wonderful people and lost pretty much everything. Fortunately they're okay, but if you can toss in a few bucks to help them out it's massively appreciated. Thanks! <3

Donate to Help Dave & Therese Recover from Tornado, organized by Paul Rose

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I think if you're going to be a foot guy you should care your own feet too. My gosh, they're what you walk on. Look after your feet. They're the only feet you always have access to.

Such a mentally exhausting few weeks. Hope the car situation finds some reasonable resolution soon.

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

I am concerned that this is tangibly going to affect all politics. That we are just going to be choked out by podcasters incessantly running for office and vapid fucking influencers and shitasses trying to be the Rogan of the Left. It's bad when other groups do it too.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 6d ago

One drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin

I am honestly shocked that this article is still available to access. Maybe in a year it won't be.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d ago

This story ran 14 months after the pandemic hit NYC www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/u...

Car update: San Diego plans canceled this weekend due to car bullshit, mainly awful gas mileage. We may end up renting an SUV for Midsummer Scream. I'm currently hemorrhaging money but don't feel great about doing any real asks or goals until I know WTF about car.

I wish Jared Leto were a flight through a Chicago airport, because then he might finally get canceled

Over the past two days I have seen at least two people driving while talking on their phones, phone-to-ear, and wildly gesticulating and driving erratically because of it. I'm sorry, did I time warp back to 2011? Don't we have earpieces for this?

My friends have been going through hell the past few years and I'm sick of it.

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...