insane to me that @patagonia.com is suing incredibly impactful drag queen and climate activist Pattie Gonia for “harming their brand” is Patagonia not a brand for the LGBTQ+ community or for climate activists? because you’ve spent a lot of time pretending to be both.

have you ever considered that drawing with a new and different brush may cure your depression and fix everything?

No keeping secrets from your werewolf mate. She will know when you're stressed, when you're horny, when you've eaten a piece of cheese without telling her, and when you're angry that Ticketmaster is once again the only way to see your favorite band coming to town. The nose knows.

I was stuck behind a school bus when these kids in the backseat got excited and started waving then showing me their Porgs so in response I waved and showed them my Dark Chao plushie and they lost their little minds with glee. I’ve never felt so cool in my life until this car! 🕶️

Shadow the Hedgehog in Chao Garden

ALT: Shadow the Hedgehog in Chao Garden

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they could never solve the mysteries because they could never concentrate working in an open office

THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 4 books with 💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes 🫀An autistic necromancer ⚰️His reanimated lover 🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC 🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance 🔗⬇️Available wide! #romancelandia #booksky 🌈

So, uh, that’s a gross ass thing for Hachette to do. Two things can absolutely be true at once and it’s this - any use of AI in books should not be accepted. Not from authors. Not from publishing houses.

Marine St. Jean@marinestjean.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Trad publishers: we produces better written books than indie. Also Trad publishers.

They're going after horror, we said this would happen

Serenity Forge@serenityforge.com · 4mo ago

A statement regarding the removal of DDLC from the Google Play Store:

This is NOT what I signed up for

This 💯

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

If you think about it, it is your moral obligation to make sure that everyone reads you write. You wrote what you needed to see in the world! Violent lesbian hunters, maladjusted brats, hounds and masters, polyamorous lesbian dragons; How dare we deprive others of finding them? Advertise your books!

Something for Saturday 🚫👑

Hachette UK published a book with AI, and Hachette US almost did the same before they cancelled it. Interesting article on how mainstream publishing is failing to deal with AI.

How Could This Have Happened?

A Publisher's Take on How an AI-generated Book Got Acquired by a Major Publisher, Why No One Flagged It as Problematic, and Why Shy Girl is a Bellwether

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i've said this once and I'll say it again: Creating friendships based on snark, dislikes, and mockery is the worst thing you can do to your mental health. Makings friends who you can genuinely talk to about the things you enjoy will save you, but friendships bonded exclusively by hate will not

I love my Lilly & Mommy time but she chose right when I was going to write in my journal and alternatively now I’m holding my bladder. 😭💔

"Peaking at around 30" yeah if you're a base coward. Frank Lloyd Wright had his career declared dead by critics at 50 and then at the age of 67 he designed the most famous house in the world: Fallingwater. Don't believe this self-aggrandizing tripe. Keep making, keep creating. Until you can't.

Anime News Network@animenewsnetwork.com · 6mo ago

Evangelion's Hideaki Anno said creators reach their peak at around 30 years old — name-checking Hayao Miyazaki and the directors of Yamato, Macross, and Gundam:

In 2020, 16yo Mia e-mails w/ the brother she's never met, taking his #SF references as proof he’s an 👽 So, she must be. Then aliens arrive, offering a COVID cure. Mia’s sus. She’ll break out of her bubble & enlist bro to learn if they’re here to serve man or “To Serve Man” #WSPit #Q #YA #Novella

I don’t know who needs to hear this but listening to an audio book absolutely counts as “reading” a book. In fact, I’d argue that listening to an author read their own work aloud is an exceptionally magical and even holy experience. I love it so much. Especially as my eyesight gets worse.

For those of you who were keeping up with the mass market mess, here is a more informative article. Trade paperbacks cost only 30c more to make and are priced $18-20 now, where mass market paperbacks didn't sell at $12. So... there's your answer. It's about margins. boingboing.net/2026/02/10/t...

The mass market paperback is vanishing

The mass market paperback — born in 1935, boomed after WWII — is vanishing from airports, drugstores, and groceries.

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They're a requirement

The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified. Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.

When I was digging my car out from the snow and ice I stopped for a moment and stuck my shovel in the snow, thinking about how I felt like the ice farmers in the opening of Frozen. Apparently, I was not alone in this lol

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

Watching stranger things season 4 finale while recovering from the flu was a bad idea… but at least I had tissues for Dustin & Mr. Munson’s talk.

a black and white cat with a sad look on its face is covering its nose with its paw .

ALT: a black and white cat with a sad look on its face is covering its nose with its paw .

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YALL I came down with the most sickening sickness on the 30th I am still recovering from it. Full on fever, body chills, etc. I had my flu shot, masked up in public, and took vitamin c daily. What the heck??? Ty to my nurses Phoebe (cat) and Josh (bf) for taking care of me during this trying time.

a girl with a bandage on her head is being licked by someone

ALT: a girl with a bandage on her head is being licked by someone

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There’s a kitten rescuer whose videos I love, but she’s clearly been rescuing kittens for so long that she’s run out of cute names Every new video has the cutest kittens you ever seen, with a caption like, “Meet the Roofing Materials kittens: Tar Paper, Shingles, and Fiberglass!”

While I have 70,000 followers over on X, somehow I get more engagement and likes on Bsky, with not even 10% of my followers here . I dont see how one could complain about this place when they havent put in the effort of socializing with other artists. I actually think Bsky is what X should've been!