Gentle reminder that you can log off today and exercise, volunteer, play video games, run errands, crochet, bake banana bread, see a friend, binge any TV show, play with your baseball cards, tidy your junk drawer(s), bury yourself in work, whatever you need to do to protect your peace. ❤️

Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms

@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web

Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart

I think I'm just gonna... stay very unplugged today.

I know this sounds weak, I know it.

But kindness is one of the few things we carry that can make a difference for each other.

We can’t undo all this hate, but we can still make life a little easier for others.

N… nice 😩

reskeet if you think hrt is life saving medical treatment

you know it. you love it. IT’S TRASHHHH TUESDAY FOLKS, let out those brainworms and let ‘em breath. I wanna see ‘em

there should be some sort of hyperfixation exchange system where people post the $200 of crap they bought for a hobby they never fucking did and it can go to the next person who thinks they want to do resin crafts or whatever

Reskeet if you like trans people 🏳️‍⚧️

My advice--don't worry too much about being "original." Worry about whether the thing you're doing is interesting and fun to you. There will always be someone to say your work isn't sufficiently new. They are obviously not your audience. 5/5

I see writers finding fake books attributed to them for sale on Amazon. If you're a member of The Society of Authors or local equivalent, let them know asap.
Writers' organisations can contact key Amazon people direct and the more evidence they have of a problem, the more likely it'll be resolved

I just found out all 73 locations of the Los Angeles Public Library have free COVID tests in stock. You don't even need a library card. https://www.lapl.org/covid-tests

Hey illustrators I’m an executive art director for Scholastic and I’m currently looking for someone who LOVES drawing cats for a graphic reader series aimed at 2nd/3rd graders. Respond here w/ images + a link to your folio. Please no DMs. 💙❤️

Friendly reminder that conservative trolls WANT to be bullied on Bluesky. They thrive on the attention. They want to be trolled so they can go back to Twitter or write some dumb “thinkpiece” and say how Bluesky is filled with intolerant liberals. Don’t give them the satisfaction. Just block them.

This is HUGE news! Researchers at Jutendo University Graduate School of Medicine in Tokyo have developed a GROUNDBREAKING vaccine that targets inflamed brain cells and is potentially capable of preventing or modifying the course of Alzheimer’s disease! Let’s talk about that! 🧵⬇️🧪

Hello, hello! I'm Nyx, a 21 y/old fantasy artist who works mostly with DnD and fantasy inspired characters.
Here's some of my art ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

Made this mock-up cover today at two in the morning.

Great to see so many writers coming here now. Let's rebuild the writing community. If you’re an author or screenwriter, reply and say hello so we can all find you and follow each other. And if you want to repost this, that would also help.