I've been thinking on this for a while, and instead of a holiday season sale, Bonedust Press will instead dedicate 10% of all direct sales to the San Diego Food Bank.

Times are tough and since I have to do the marketing song and dance anyway, I'd like to accomplish a little good with it.
#booksky

VANCOUVER, I JUST SIGNED UP to speak at the City Council meeting BY PHONE (don’t need to be there in person) tomorrow on the awful budget proposal (see below). You can too, but you have to sign up before 5pm (17 minutes from now!) SIGN UP! Make sure Council’s budget matches Vancouver’s values!

The sex industry doing more to take care of hunger than the President

GB Patch Games is looking for a Background Artist to help bring cozy fall vibes to their LGBTQ+ visual novel, Our Life: Now & Forever.

🛰️ Remote, Freelance
📚 Examples of your previous work required

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people who use ai for literally ANYTHING are fucking repulsive just fyi. sorry just weeding out the dogshit here

It just shows how it’s really just about destroying the arts and having total social control because they are spending more money to do it than it would cost to fund (for instance) a UBI program for every artist and writer.

Supreme Court extends its order blocking full SNAP payments, with shutdown potentially near an end

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Chicago Police District Councilor Dion McGill says community members have seen actions from CPD officers that seem to violate the IL TRUST Act, which limits cooperation between state & federal police on immigration enforcement.

"Words like collusion and collaboration are used constantly," he says.

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.

The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

With democracy under threat, indie bookstores merge activism & literature for collective care, Costa Beavin Pappas reports. Building on the legacy of Black-owned bookstores, Charis Books, Red Emma’s, & other booksellers serve as intellectual & cultural hubs during rising authoritarianism.

Capping THC at 0.4 mg PER CONTAINER?

But also almost non-existent access to quality healthcare, including pain management.

They hate us

Democrats shut down the government, only to pass a bill that bans.... CBD products for some reason?

ICE out of Target! The Target on Peterson Ave in Chicago allows CBP & ICE to park in its parking lot and arrest people.

The budget.

It puts $5 billion into “health infrastructure,” which sounds like healthcare funding. But is it?

My breakdown for Canada Healthwatch looks at what’s new, what’s missing, and why health is now being framed as infrastructure.

I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.

I'll be the fun police.

Don't play Arc Raiders. Do better. Play a game with real voice acting.