Sam Haney Press
@samhainpress.bsky.social
She/her. Queer, arty, secretary for ASFA, Midwest conrunner, happily married.
Gallery and shop: SamHainPress.com
🚫 NFTs or genAI.
Gallery and shop: SamHainPress.com
🚫 NFTs or genAI.
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To offset The Weight of things, here is my naughty gremlin cat making tea with her catnip mouse and looking UNREPENTANT about it:
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I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy.
But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.
But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.
February 17, 2026 at 8:16 PM
I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy.
But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.
But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.
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I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
February 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
My mother's benchmark for me being ready for the test was whether I could drive to O'Hare and back from our suburb. Ever since, while I will cuss freely and recreationally at other drivers, I can usually maintain an internal equanimity about driving nonsense.
okay one of my best friends just told me her driver's ed teacher was named
wait for it
Mr. Streetman
... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
wait for it
Mr. Streetman
... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
February 18, 2026 at 7:07 AM
My mother's benchmark for me being ready for the test was whether I could drive to O'Hare and back from our suburb. Ever since, while I will cuss freely and recreationally at other drivers, I can usually maintain an internal equanimity about driving nonsense.
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Again: I am waiting for a generative AI evangelist to explain to me why I should be excited about this, why this technology is so incredibly wildly overwhelmingly EXCITING that none of the pain and suffering and horror and immiseration connected to it should be enough to turn me off
February 18, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Again: I am waiting for a generative AI evangelist to explain to me why I should be excited about this, why this technology is so incredibly wildly overwhelmingly EXCITING that none of the pain and suffering and horror and immiseration connected to it should be enough to turn me off
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“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!
February 18, 2026 at 5:22 AM
“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!
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The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.
February 17, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.
In my #ChangelingTheDreaming game, they time-traveled back to 1969 Florida (iykyk) and met a swamp sluagh and a crocodile pooka who are in the early stages of a serious courtship. It was very sweet. He (croc) gave her a small frog.
February 18, 2026 at 4:22 AM
In my #ChangelingTheDreaming game, they time-traveled back to 1969 Florida (iykyk) and met a swamp sluagh and a crocodile pooka who are in the early stages of a serious courtship. It was very sweet. He (croc) gave her a small frog.
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If you try this, I will haunt you.
Meta has patented AI that can run a dead person's account, continuing to post and chat on their behalf
It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
February 17, 2026 at 11:23 PM
If you try this, I will haunt you.
This a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.
February 17, 2026 at 4:51 AM
This a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.
Some days I imagine how much improved our economy would be if minimum wage was = or > a living wage in every area, all workers had the inalienable right to join a union without interference, and service industries were prohibited from short staffing (determined by the workers not mgmt).
February 17, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Some days I imagine how much improved our economy would be if minimum wage was = or > a living wage in every area, all workers had the inalienable right to join a union without interference, and service industries were prohibited from short staffing (determined by the workers not mgmt).
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This is the thing I think trolls, etc don't understand: Once I block you I literally never think about you again. Shit, five minutes after I block someone I don't remember who they are or why I blocked them. They simply and literally don't exist for me anymore. If this is a victory for you, fine.
Some of y’all must have a blocking kink. It’s weird — you’re intentionally rude, obstinate or worse — in my replies as it daring me to block you as it gains you something. I won’t remember two minutes from now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:57 AM
This is the thing I think trolls, etc don't understand: Once I block you I literally never think about you again. Shit, five minutes after I block someone I don't remember who they are or why I blocked them. They simply and literally don't exist for me anymore. If this is a victory for you, fine.
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I did not read the story, btw. I don’t want to spend my time on that
“But Sunny it’s unfair for you to have an opinion about it if you won’t engage with it”
Aha but you see I am a self-proclaimed hater and therefore have no obligation to fair
“But Sunny it’s unfair for you to have an opinion about it if you won’t engage with it”
Aha but you see I am a self-proclaimed hater and therefore have no obligation to fair
February 15, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I did not read the story, btw. I don’t want to spend my time on that
“But Sunny it’s unfair for you to have an opinion about it if you won’t engage with it”
Aha but you see I am a self-proclaimed hater and therefore have no obligation to fair
“But Sunny it’s unfair for you to have an opinion about it if you won’t engage with it”
Aha but you see I am a self-proclaimed hater and therefore have no obligation to fair
As someone who works in physical media (traditional illustration, beading, etc), it's enrichment for my ADHD to have my supplies neatly organized EXCEPT FOR one box of random junk. When the Junk Box gets too unruly, I sort it, which can be fun, but otherwise it's nice to NOT have to sort EVERYTHING.
February 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
As someone who works in physical media (traditional illustration, beading, etc), it's enrichment for my ADHD to have my supplies neatly organized EXCEPT FOR one box of random junk. When the Junk Box gets too unruly, I sort it, which can be fun, but otherwise it's nice to NOT have to sort EVERYTHING.
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*pinches nose*
Time for your quarterly reminder that degenerate is a Nazi term, indicating the literal degeneration of a gene pool. Things this referred to: interracial marriage! Queerness! Disability!
It pretty much indicates they don’t think you’re human!
It’s not a cutesy way to say “leftist”
Time for your quarterly reminder that degenerate is a Nazi term, indicating the literal degeneration of a gene pool. Things this referred to: interracial marriage! Queerness! Disability!
It pretty much indicates they don’t think you’re human!
It’s not a cutesy way to say “leftist”
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
*pinches nose*
Time for your quarterly reminder that degenerate is a Nazi term, indicating the literal degeneration of a gene pool. Things this referred to: interracial marriage! Queerness! Disability!
It pretty much indicates they don’t think you’re human!
It’s not a cutesy way to say “leftist”
Time for your quarterly reminder that degenerate is a Nazi term, indicating the literal degeneration of a gene pool. Things this referred to: interracial marriage! Queerness! Disability!
It pretty much indicates they don’t think you’re human!
It’s not a cutesy way to say “leftist”
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in 2016, prior to the election, an analysis I read said "the democratic party works like a business, and there's a great deal of loyalty to people who are part of the machine. Think of it like an organization that promotes from within, rather than a political organization with a shared platform"
I mean my objection to people like Newsom remains fundamentally a moral and ideological one, but even to the cynic who thinks of politics as a game it's not even tactically advantageous. You're alienating people who might be part of your voting coalition to do... what, exactly?
February 15, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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(clinton and her era of 60s-era democrats ejecting the 'old' democratic party that'd done the new deal and trying to deregulate banks is part of why we're here; it's not just gerontocracy, it's also that dems in the 1960s went hard into the pro-corporate capture side of things)
February 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
(clinton and her era of 60s-era democrats ejecting the 'old' democratic party that'd done the new deal and trying to deregulate banks is part of why we're here; it's not just gerontocracy, it's also that dems in the 1960s went hard into the pro-corporate capture side of things)
Loss of accustomed privilege is not oppression/discrimination/victimization. It's just evening the scales.
February 14, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Loss of accustomed privilege is not oppression/discrimination/victimization. It's just evening the scales.
Now that Capricon is over, I updated my shop - 4 new necklaces, adjusted (mostly lower) prices, and open commissions!
February 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Now that Capricon is over, I updated my shop - 4 new necklaces, adjusted (mostly lower) prices, and open commissions!
It's a wonder what a long hot shower and a shirt that shows off my rack can do for my mood lol.
February 13, 2026 at 8:39 PM
It's a wonder what a long hot shower and a shirt that shows off my rack can do for my mood lol.
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i want all these people to go to jail. i also want all of our money back. like these assholes also looted the government. send them to jail and redistribute their assets asaptually.
February 13, 2026 at 2:28 AM
i want all these people to go to jail. i also want all of our money back. like these assholes also looted the government. send them to jail and redistribute their assets asaptually.
There needs to be a category on FB where you're not "friends" with someone but "still mutuals so I can see the Drama unfold."
(Though I do keep unfriending people from HS who keep posting genAI memes.)
(Though I do keep unfriending people from HS who keep posting genAI memes.)
February 13, 2026 at 2:29 AM
There needs to be a category on FB where you're not "friends" with someone but "still mutuals so I can see the Drama unfold."
(Though I do keep unfriending people from HS who keep posting genAI memes.)
(Though I do keep unfriending people from HS who keep posting genAI memes.)
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If we make the fate of Trump and his cronies the sort of thing fasc whisper about to scare each other we could go back to that glorious minute when I thought no one worse than Romney was going to be run for decades yet. Mark you I was preparing to fight to keep Romney out of power as plenty bad. 🧵
February 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
If we make the fate of Trump and his cronies the sort of thing fasc whisper about to scare each other we could go back to that glorious minute when I thought no one worse than Romney was going to be run for decades yet. Mark you I was preparing to fight to keep Romney out of power as plenty bad. 🧵
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Racism and bigotry as blatantly expressed and practiced by Donald Trump and his administration should absolutely be considered "high crimes and misdemeanors" in that they result in biased and unlawful treatment of different classes of constituents.
February 7, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Racism and bigotry as blatantly expressed and practiced by Donald Trump and his administration should absolutely be considered "high crimes and misdemeanors" in that they result in biased and unlawful treatment of different classes of constituents.
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"What if the AI hype is correct?"
IDC. I don't want it, I won't use it, and you can't make me be happy about it. My grandparents lived their lives without computers, vcrs, or any music device newer than an 8 track. Not cuz they thought these were bad but because THEY, PERSONALLY, didn't want it.
IDC. I don't want it, I won't use it, and you can't make me be happy about it. My grandparents lived their lives without computers, vcrs, or any music device newer than an 8 track. Not cuz they thought these were bad but because THEY, PERSONALLY, didn't want it.
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 AM
"What if the AI hype is correct?"
IDC. I don't want it, I won't use it, and you can't make me be happy about it. My grandparents lived their lives without computers, vcrs, or any music device newer than an 8 track. Not cuz they thought these were bad but because THEY, PERSONALLY, didn't want it.
IDC. I don't want it, I won't use it, and you can't make me be happy about it. My grandparents lived their lives without computers, vcrs, or any music device newer than an 8 track. Not cuz they thought these were bad but because THEY, PERSONALLY, didn't want it.
I'm gonna be PISSED if the rumored MtG Universes Beyond HP license is real.
Is it just me, or does there seem to be a wave of HP licensing going on? More than I've seen in years, actually.
February 11, 2026 at 4:42 AM
I'm gonna be PISSED if the rumored MtG Universes Beyond HP license is real.