Alison Robin

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

Hey remember a couple months ago when I almost died from sleep apnea and begged y'all to be checked if you have symptoms of sleep apnea? Eric Bauza just died from sleep apnea. We were the same age. Don't ignore sleep apnea.

After 1.5 years of pouring my heart into my very first game, I'm so excited to finally announce that... Drawquarium is coming to Steam on November 13! 🥹 Draw your own fish, bring them to life, and create your little underwater world, even as a live wallpaper! Like+RT = ♥️ #IndieGames #Cozygames

Not only that there are many artists who enjoy drawing porn and they shouldn't be ashamed to sell it and charge what they're worth. Shaming sex workers who star in porn and artists who draw porn just makes things more dangerous for them and hurts their livelihoods.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

I like how this kind of time-wasting, directionless bloat is indistinguishable from intentional sabotage

Sharing some pics from today's visit to the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery (Issaquah, WA) #photosky #naturesky #photography

My mom went on vacation and is texting me like she's in a low-level RPG dungeon so I know she is having a great time

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

CONGRATS TO ALL MY FRIENDS IN BRAZIL!! I LOVE YOU!!!

I need some “do not eat” earrings myself

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

The things you end up loving most about people are often the details that seem like they don't fit with the rest of what you know about them. It's nice.

#SundayReads: A. D. Manns on the speculative origins of Aradia, "the Gospel of the Witches"... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-lister-aradia/

About a decade ago I learned that my father uses the National Review movie reviews backwards when he texted me a link to a review panning a movie for violence etc. and said "this movie sounds great."

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Getting to fully experience the peak internet back when it was still fun is a weird thing. Nice we got to enjoy the moment but now it sucks ass and I gotta wonder if it mighta been better to have never got a taste of the good shit. Millennial quaaludes.

I can't get over how crazy it is that YouTubers will beg for my likes like a fucking dog and then disrespect me by having AI graphics in their videos. I could insult them but they have already degraded themselves by groveling for my attention.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

Doctors and nurses are voicing their objections. I-638 would require EVERY girl who wants to participate in sports to go through biological sex verification. That means expensive, invasive, and utterly gross examinations. Protect our kids and let them play. Vote NO on I-638

I care about the consent of real people, not fictional creatures or characters. freely and firmly fuck off if you believe otherwise

"don't comply in advance" gets overused to the point of cliché but reformatting your site rules to comply with payment processors you haven't even implemented yet is just astoundingly gutless. jerkoff motion forever

cis feminists stop trying to drum up hate campaigns against trans people who write things you don't like challenge failed again

it's not the only problem in the world but it seems very clear to me that better ADHD support leads to better real-world outcomes, and that the delta between outcomes for the well-supported and unsupported is frequently enormous

some irate thoughts from the other website after yet another sly aside caught in a random baseball video about how worthless liberal arts degrees are

The most horrifying part about this to me is that there's ways to do paperwork to prevent this, but poor people are not taught about it, we are not informed that we need to do this, rich people know all the paperwork secrets and they intentionally keep poor people from them

It's fine to like cozy things, but I dislike the unearned self-righteousness of people obsessed with giving everything a cozy aesthetic. Like cozy horror, or its sister cozy true crime. To me, making death and tragedy and evil cute and cozy is kind of gross.

again: if you watch the new harry potter, I will think less of you. Not telling you that you can't, just telling you that I will think less of you.