i encourage you all to be more like my son. take in the beauty of your everyday surroundings. smile. take a nap without worrying about how it might disrupt your day. and every two or three hours, shit your pants as hard as you possibly can

Remember: fascism thrives on apathy.

The autocrats want you to tune out. They want to overwhelm you. They want you to give up.

Don’t give them want they want.

Stay in this fight. Remain vigilant. And let’s keep building.

I am considering a full move to BlueSky, rather than my current hybrid twitter-bluesky approach. Sell me on the following:

- Bluesky's approach to moderation vs Musk's twitter
- The feasibility of blocklists and blocking in general
- The way far-right, nazi-type stuff is handled here

Colombia’s congress has voted to change a law that allowed minors to get married with parental consent.

The proposal would make the minimum age for marriage 18, and seeks to protect the rights and development opportunities for minors.

One of the changes I’m really trying to make (and I’m breaking yeeeears of habit here) is:

1) don’t post mad
2) don’t engage with people who are posting mad

Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."

That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.

There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.

I want to do something to help smaller accounts who don't want to be small accounts.

I'm going to start a Starter Pack JUST for little guys. If you're brand new here and don't have much a following to import over from Twitter, but would like to gain followers, leave your request here.

@crow.omg.lol your bsky link in your Twitter bio is broken

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.

An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.

So finish the thing.

BREAKING: The NLRB has just ruled that captive audience meetings are illegal nationwide.

These are mandatory meetings where bosses try to persuade workers not unionize, often using coercive tactics.

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

Most distant object known to humanity.
Found by JWST, JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant galaxy ever discovered. It's located 13.6 billion light years from us, and since it takes time for light to travel, we see it as it was only 290 million years after the Big Bang.
🔭 🧪

This is incorrect and shows how little the average person knows about garment manufacturing. 🧵