Alyssa Long
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
I make art, try to raise my kids to be Good Humans, and yell about disability. Maker of Santa Dinos and whatever else I feel like. She/they #art #knitting #3Dprinting 🧶 https://linktr.ee/measuredandslow
A new friend has entered the villa! @mostlybree.kitrocha.com convinced me to try a SnapMaker and she was correct as usual - you can color mix on these ones and I think it’s going to be SO fun. We tried it a little on these tiny Purrmaids by mixing the orange and pink and it’s so pretty!
I understand that people like computer and want computer to be real, but you cannot convince me that anything computer provides is worth submitting to fascism and a free flow of CSAM.
Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2h agoNEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
I'm just steeped enough in folklore and myth that if some slick talker comes to me telling me I can have my dead relatives back, just like they were, promise, i don't care if they're disguised as tech execs, that's just the Devil trying to get one over. I don't even believe in the Christian hell.
Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is what generational eating disorders - because many women I know are like 3rd or 4th generation starving themselves and teaching their girls to do the same - does to femme bodies as it gets repeated and passed down. Probably not anything good.
Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night@vyriadurav.bsky.social · 16h agoLike just think about how many teen girls are pushed super hard into dieting during puberty, a time when your body needs and wants as much fuel as it can get, and how that might stunt your growth and inhibit your ability to build muscle and endurance. Meanwhile boys eat whole chickens nbd
Me muttering about how wool would not have existed in this time period or exasperatedly asking where all of these matching perfectly tailored space uniforms CAME from 😂
Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 22h agoYou can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
I spoke with my SIL yesterday. She vacillates between numb and sobbing, but she is grateful to be safe and with her children. They were not able to grab much. Thank you in advance for your continued support to get them on their feet. www.gofundme.com/f/help-tanya... Her neighborhood is gone.
DL White@booksbydlwhite.blacksky.app · yesterdayMy parents are currently safe, but one of my sisters in law lost her home to the wildfires ravaging #Spokane Washington. I’m joining the effort to ensure she and my niece and nephew are taken care of, however temporarily. gofund.me/bd93f259d
Bro…I make dinosaurs dressed in cosplay out of yarn for a living. Not only could I get through an entire workday without AI, not having people accusing me of USING AI all the time would make my workday significantly easier 😂😭
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 9h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
It is only now occurring to me that OBVIOUSLY the pope has a tailor, and this is fascinating actually
Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 17h agoThe Pope’s tailor for the last 25 years, Filippo Sorcinelli came out 15 years ago; when Leo was elected, Vatican asked that he continue making vestments for the Pope; Sorcinelli says he has a “renewed calling,” and that Leo brought him out of an “existential crisis.” www.corriere.it/sette/26_ago...
a lot of people seem to think there is a fundamental inferiority to women that simply isn't true and a lot of those differences are less your biological makeup and more the fact that boys get so much more support, food, and training than girls, that gulf vanishes the more you equalize those things
Micah@rincewind.run · 24h agoit's the old serena williams tweet in action, that there is a physical difference between the top tier of male athletes and the top tier of female athletes gets taken by far too many delusional men as "I can beat a woman at anything" no, you cannot beat a decent athlete of either gender at anything
I’m really glad they’re standing behind her, this whole thing is so rancid and I was worried they’d take the coward’s way
Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”
Yeah I had to go outside to weed but I think this is also a very important aspect of this. It's always the racism. bsky.app/profile/haun...
✨hauntedtoasters✨@hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · yesterdayAlso, how DEEPLY STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS that it was *this* particular author who was targeted for it. I can't imagine why she of all romantasy authors would be hypercriticised and suspected. What possible characteristic might she have that woud lead people to justify their own wariness. a MYSTERY.
Decision Desk HQ projects Rashida Tlaib wins the Michigan US House 12 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 9:07 PM EDT
Guys who do I have to know to get invited to parties where we celebrate library levies wearing SHIRTS WITH THE LIBRARY ON IT
Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15h agoSeattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.
The specific brainworms that make liberals think this is cute or fair or clever or whatever other quality they think this kind of handing power to people who want them dead represents need to be fumigated
Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14h agoAnd this is why people hate the Dem establishment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
idc what you say, having helen get facially disfigured and verbally apologize for the "pain she caused" is fucked up and i can't believe i'm still not seeing more people take issue with this
What is wild about the revisionism is the centrist types seem to only remember how much lockdown sucked. But even if you were vaccinated, that first bout of Covid was a nightmare for most of us. How do people forget that? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/the-...
The great Covid bait and switch - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I find it fascinating how the entire Covid epidemic has undergone some sort of almost Orwellian historical revisionism, and not merely among the right wing, although they are of course by far the wors...
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A lot of people are going to try and insist in about six hours that being outspent by tens of millions of dollars and winning by five to possibly fifteen points is actually not that big of a deal
NEW: Missouri voters have rejected Amendment 4, which Republicans had passed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments effectively impossible. It would have required initiatives to pass in every congressional district—not just statewide—giving the overwhelmingly red districts a veto
I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
amazing how so few of the gazillion think pieces criticizing women for not dating straight men fail to mention the whole “many of them literally don’t wash their asses” thing:
Nikolaj Bill@nikolajbill.bsky.social · 18h agoI remember a coworker in her late twenties saying this on how dating was so difficult. I was not surprised by her first two complaints: general anger issues and having few outside hobbies. I WAS surprised at her mention of how many men apparently don’t wash their hair or butts.
Normal people reacting to Emily Wilson is very funny to me. Y’all have never been to an art critique huh
Hey quick question, why can I see the fascist romcom at any time this weekend but the gay horror slasher film with *Gillian Anderson* in it is playing in ONE THEATER
if I had any access to this guy, I just know deep in my bones that it'd be childs play to create a fake MAHA influencer that could convince him to start eating his own poop
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
