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So @alepresser.com and I had a meeting with SIDEQUESTED's publisher this week (such nice people!). No specifics, but the numbers it takes to move a book from "meh" to "ROCKSTAR!!!" are laughable. Your sales have so much influence over publishing!
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You can preorder SideQuested Book 1 NOW! - Side Quested Webcomic
Yes, finally! You can preorder SideQuested Book 1 wherever books are sold! Here are convenient links to some of the big stores (but your local indie brick-and-mortar store will also…
sidequested.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
So @alepresser.com and I had a meeting with SIDEQUESTED's publisher this week (such nice people!). No specifics, but the numbers it takes to move a book from "meh" to "ROCKSTAR!!!" are laughable. Your sales have so much influence over publishing!
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@alepresser.com Look, you have too much on your plate. You can just ignore this idea. I saw this and thought: "Charlie/Robin/Leo AU." And that's all, it's just an idea it doesn't need anything else.
These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
@alepresser.com Look, you have too much on your plate. You can just ignore this idea. I saw this and thought: "Charlie/Robin/Leo AU." And that's all, it's just an idea it doesn't need anything else.
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fascinating
elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
fascinating
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If you saw this week's John Oliver @lastweektonight.com, KYUK is one of those underresourced remote public media outlets that serves mostly-Indigenous listeners, many lacking internet, many in need of local emergency news during events like last month's storm.
Please donate!
Please donate!
KYUK, one of the few sources of local news and native language programming in the region devastated by last month's storm, lost federal funding that was up to 70% of its budget and plans to make cuts in January.
(From @npr.org)
(From @npr.org)
Alaska station that covered devastating storm cuts jobs
KYUK public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.
www.ktoo.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If you saw this week's John Oliver @lastweektonight.com, KYUK is one of those underresourced remote public media outlets that serves mostly-Indigenous listeners, many lacking internet, many in need of local emergency news during events like last month's storm.
Please donate!
Please donate!
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Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme
Stop embracing surveillance tech
Stop embracing surveillance tech
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme
Stop embracing surveillance tech
Stop embracing surveillance tech
@sephiramy.bsky.social it's fine and good to repost your art. The light and energy you share with the world makes it a better place.
please one (1) person remind me it's fine & good to repost my art and that I would have no trouble telling literally any other creative that it's fine & good for them to do so
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
@sephiramy.bsky.social it's fine and good to repost your art. The light and energy you share with the world makes it a better place.
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The owner of this business is a old, wonderful friend & a former employer of mine, so please, I need all of my Pacific Northwest followers keeping an eye out for this stuff, especially if you run in nerd circles, so that his dream business, built via decades of grinding, can keep running.
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
GAME OVER: $25k+ of tech stolen from Kent arcade
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.
www.kiro7.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The owner of this business is a old, wonderful friend & a former employer of mine, so please, I need all of my Pacific Northwest followers keeping an eye out for this stuff, especially if you run in nerd circles, so that his dream business, built via decades of grinding, can keep running.
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GREAT JOB ALERT!
ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network.
The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change.
💰 Salary range: $150,000 to $195,000
➡️ Apply: propub.li/3JAIqme
ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network.
The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change.
💰 Salary range: $150,000 to $195,000
➡️ Apply: propub.li/3JAIqme
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
GREAT JOB ALERT!
ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network.
The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change.
💰 Salary range: $150,000 to $195,000
➡️ Apply: propub.li/3JAIqme
ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network.
The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change.
💰 Salary range: $150,000 to $195,000
➡️ Apply: propub.li/3JAIqme
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I’m at the Epstein Files
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I’m at the Epstein Files
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
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New stuff on the Etsy shop, including the first pair of earrings I've ever designed! I'm ridiculously happy with how these little guys turned out. Check it out at www.etsy.com/shop/carniva...
#etsyshop #shopupdate #etsystore #art #illustration #fantasy #dragons
#etsyshop #shopupdate #etsystore #art #illustration #fantasy #dragons
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New stuff on the Etsy shop, including the first pair of earrings I've ever designed! I'm ridiculously happy with how these little guys turned out. Check it out at www.etsy.com/shop/carniva...
#etsyshop #shopupdate #etsystore #art #illustration #fantasy #dragons
#etsyshop #shopupdate #etsystore #art #illustration #fantasy #dragons
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Syphillis used to be so common and so destructive it would just destroy soft tissue on the face (and hands/feet), so people could AND DID form No Nose clubs so that they had a group of friends they could hang out with and just exist before it sent them into dementia and a horrible death.
have you ever felt like public health is an overreach? do me a favor and look up tertiary syphilis or, alternately, the concept of "shitting yourself to death", which used to be something that happened with medium regularity
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Syphillis used to be so common and so destructive it would just destroy soft tissue on the face (and hands/feet), so people could AND DID form No Nose clubs so that they had a group of friends they could hang out with and just exist before it sent them into dementia and a horrible death.
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this is the stuff of dystopian speculative fiction, and this is also why a lot of us think speculative fiction is important
What's happening with ICE in Chicagoland today:
Federal agents continue terrorizing Back of the Yards, Broadview mayor and police chief held a presser, and neighbors in South Shore late night were startled awake by a raid on an apartment with stun grenades.
Federal agents continue terrorizing Back of the Yards, Broadview mayor and police chief held a presser, and neighbors in South Shore late night were startled awake by a raid on an apartment with stun grenades.
Feds in moving vans raid South Shore apartment overnight; Broadview officials condemn ICE assaults • The TRiiBE
Here's a roundup of federal agent sightings for Sept. 30
thetriibe.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
this is the stuff of dystopian speculative fiction, and this is also why a lot of us think speculative fiction is important
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this is why i think the algorithm is to blame for so much of our split vision reality right now.
a simple idea -- "show people only what they want to see, to maximize their time on our platform" -- has ripped a canyon in our culture.
a simple idea -- "show people only what they want to see, to maximize their time on our platform" -- has ripped a canyon in our culture.
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
September 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
this is why i think the algorithm is to blame for so much of our split vision reality right now.
a simple idea -- "show people only what they want to see, to maximize their time on our platform" -- has ripped a canyon in our culture.
a simple idea -- "show people only what they want to see, to maximize their time on our platform" -- has ripped a canyon in our culture.
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the community guidelines in question here include issues pertaining to adult content and LGBT+ identity, so please do fill it out and give them a BIG piece of your mind!!
kick up a fuss! we're not about to be pushed out!
kick up a fuss! we're not about to be pushed out!
In the coming weeks, we're asking for feedback on our Community Guidelines. Your input will help ensure our Guidelines serve our users and are ready to support Bluesky's future.
To learn how to contribute, check out our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
To learn how to contribute, check out our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Updated Terms and Policies - Bluesky
We’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail.
bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
the community guidelines in question here include issues pertaining to adult content and LGBT+ identity, so please do fill it out and give them a BIG piece of your mind!!
kick up a fuss! we're not about to be pushed out!
kick up a fuss! we're not about to be pushed out!
I had such an ego boost today when a woman leaned out her car window to tell me she liked my fit/jacket.
August 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I had such an ego boost today when a woman leaned out her car window to tell me she liked my fit/jacket.
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UN experts: “Israel is exterminating the people of Gaza by any and all means”
August 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
UN experts: “Israel is exterminating the people of Gaza by any and all means”
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New Crow Time update [1/3]
June 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New Crow Time update [1/3]
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I have to translate this.
"Game idea: second person shooter
Your girlfriend shoots stuff while you carry the little backpack with ammo and heal items."
"Game idea: second person shooter
Your girlfriend shoots stuff while you carry the little backpack with ammo and heal items."
ideia de jogo: second person shooter
sua namorada dispara nas coisas enquanto vc leva a mochilinha dela com as munições e itens de cura
sua namorada dispara nas coisas enquanto vc leva a mochilinha dela com as munições e itens de cura
June 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I have to translate this.
"Game idea: second person shooter
Your girlfriend shoots stuff while you carry the little backpack with ammo and heal items."
"Game idea: second person shooter
Your girlfriend shoots stuff while you carry the little backpack with ammo and heal items."
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Looks like I'll have openings for editing clients in July! If you're searching for someone to help you punch up your manuscript, email me with the details and we'll see if I'm a good fit for your project!
kbspangler.com/editing/
kbspangler.com/editing/
June 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Looks like I'll have openings for editing clients in July! If you're searching for someone to help you punch up your manuscript, email me with the details and we'll see if I'm a good fit for your project!
kbspangler.com/editing/
kbspangler.com/editing/
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Still open up! Feel free to hit email or fill form in carrd✨️
Commission are open again! If you interested you can email me or dm me right away!💪✨
May 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Still open up! Feel free to hit email or fill form in carrd✨️
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"Raven", pencil crayon, graphite & oil pastel on paper, 19x25", 2023 (private collection).
May 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"Raven", pencil crayon, graphite & oil pastel on paper, 19x25", 2023 (private collection).
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ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
May 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
Other fantasy creatures for May. (Mermaids are of course awesome)
Maenads, mothman, muse, medusa, minotaur, mimic...
Maenads, mothman, muse, medusa, minotaur, mimic...
May 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Other fantasy creatures for May. (Mermaids are of course awesome)
Maenads, mothman, muse, medusa, minotaur, mimic...
Maenads, mothman, muse, medusa, minotaur, mimic...