Am I inebriated? Yes! Am I explaining Public Universal Friend to drunk straight men? Also yes! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...
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Just Mel
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UX designer by day. Running festivals and writing weird fiction by moonlight. https://melthemartian.com
Shout to Quakers, Rhode Island, and a side note to Kara Jorgensen for making a Quaker the hero.
Emily@cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 3h agoQuakers are the single Christian denomination that gets closest to actually walking the walk and being not just talk. Have you heard about the Public Universal Friend, the 18th Century’s radical abolitionist agender preacher?
Oh I LOVE the Public Universal Friend! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...
Public Universal Friend - Wikipedia
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Emily@cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 3h agoQuakers are the single Christian denomination that gets closest to actually walking the walk and being not just talk. Have you heard about the Public Universal Friend, the 18th Century’s radical abolitionist agender preacher?
Event website: our ticket portal is closed, please email xxxxxxxx@xxxxx dot com to get on the waitlist. Boomer that I’ve worked with: hi, I’m emailing an email address for the business you closed 10 years ago. Can I get a ticket?
NAME BADGES ORDERED. 90 names laid out and sent to the printer. 😮💨
SALE SALE SALE SALE!!!! Happy Hispanic Heritage Month, gang!
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I made it, #TerribleComicTuesday observed! Yeah, this one is about a dream, too. What can I say, they leave an impression.
I bought enough water that it set off the seat belt alarm in my car.
Literally the definition of complicit.
Pop Base@popbase.tv · 2d agoEd Sheeran has released a statement on Macklemore being removed from his tour for speaking up for Palestine: “I am not complicit. […] Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have [my own opinions], and it doesn't mean I don't care.”
Every day we survive in this planet, we inch closer to a massively popular ska revival musical.
Ug. Still think about that Talan interview. And someone telling me I live in an echo chamber. Implying that Morales’ win was some sort of fluke and I listen to lies. So, some facts (I’ll add citations at end of the thread): - There seems to be no republican mayoral candidates in 2022 and 2026
Many friends are rightfully pointing out how great they are at stuff, but also... have y'all tried effing around with art forms you haven't mastered and making bad nonsense? It is fun as hell and also a worthy endeavor.
JD, you can’t eat comics.@lostcity.bsky.social · 2d agoWell I‘ve got some good news.
Good article. Still not voting for him.
Steve Ahlquist@steveahlquist.bsky.social · 2d agoProvidence Mayoral Candidate Dave Talan is a “firewall to prevent Providence becoming a laboratory for socialism” “I believe if everybody who votes in November had turned out for the primary, Smiley would have handled it,” said Republican Mayoral Candidate Dave Talan “But that’s not what happened.”
I gave a 5 minute presentation tonight on why data (and data tables) can be important to design. And I made a whole joke about “spreadsheets” and talked about my bedding situation. And I’m a little inspired to expand it. A 🧵
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2d agoGenuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Sorry about your inability to achieve excellence but don't see how that's anyone else's problem
Idea of an idea: 100 page pen pal. You get a 100 page notebook. You have a year. At the end of the year, you send it to the pen pal and they send their’s. It can be words, art, poetry, photos, etc. as long as every page is marked.
Reminder: all adult prisons in Florida don’t have air conditioning. “Alligator Alcatraz” was designed to be worse than the normal Florida incarceration.
WPRI 12@wpri12.bsky.social · 2d agoA new DHS report found that some immigration detainees at the now-shuttered Alligator Alcatraz facility in Florida were confined to outdoor cages for more than an hour at a time. https://www.wpri.com/news/immigration/alligator-alcatraz-detainees-kept-phone-booth-sized-cages-dhs-report/ (📸: DHS OIG)
Seeing Space Cowboy Newt and Lady Lamb at Myrtle tonight healed a little piece of me tonight. 🎶
This is weird. The auditorium would be the one by the mall. The Internet says “stadium” might be in Quincy?
Tyler Hayes@bytylerhayes.bsky.social · 4d agoRI people, I need help finding something the Internet doesn't want to help me with. I have an event that according to multiple sources is at "Veterans Memorial Stadium," but no source I trust is telling me where that is (and there might be TWO of them? The schedule looks like slop.). Halp?
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Weird ask for the CMKM video: Does anyone have a friend or family member who used to work as a stock transfer agent before ~2010 who would be willing to fact check/contextualize some of the stuff we dug up?
My only take is that I remember speculation on what future attacks could look like (random shots into crowds, sabotaging infrastructure, driving a car into a mall etc) and all those things have been used by right-wing domestic terrorists
when I was younger I used to find it really funny to read about dumb criminals who'd do things like write down the crimes they were about to commit but thats before I discovered social media where ppl are constantly confessing crimes they have no intention of committing
I put down my coffee somewhere in my apartment and can't find it. Seems like it's going to be **that** kind of day.