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Miss Grand USA 2026, Victoria Oluwakotanmi, slays in this gorgeous pink dress but ... wait for it ...

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

Valuable art resources for human arts need to survive!

Here is the video of my poem, The Secret Of The Poets, which has gone mini-viral on insta. It's about the use of generative AI for emotional moments. I had three minutes on the biggest stage I'm ever likely to have, and this is what I did with it. I've also posted the text version (see below).

Perfection was never on the table. Perfect is the enemy of REAL.

This might be hard to believe for ppl who don't work in food, but multiple outbreaks/recalls per week is routine. That's the normal background radiation of the food business. Because the US food system feeds 330 million people. It's massive. The outbreaks just rarely ever made the news before now.

1. So, at the Worldcon this year there was a person who was going from panel to panel, bothering panelists by trying to get them to "collaborate" with them on a project and sliding the proposed project to them on a piece of paper. Folks, I cannot stress to you how obnoxious this sort of thing is.

Congrats to all of this year’s Hugo Award Finalists and Winners, including @catvalente.bsky.social and @seananmcguire.bsky.social, who always bring their A-game. 2/

The building itself, mind you, not any of the customers or anything.

...But... psychological disorders are *always* contextual? It's always built into the culture, whether or not something is dysfunctional, because dysfunction is always about a mismatch between need, environment, and ability?? Like, they actually do teach that in abnormal psychology classes, yeah?

(... Is the premise that I can't know music that existed before I was born or after I turned 20??) "And then there was this girl who talked with her eyes... 'Can you see... what I'm saying?'"

Artists of Bluesky, it is 1000% worth your while for your *USERPIC* to be of your art style, rather than your face! I just went through and followed a whole chunk of illustrators one after the other because as I followed one, 3 more were suggested, and I could see from the userpic what kind of art!

Stand alone post gold

Woman Who Doesn’t Use Facebook Completely Out Of Touch With Friends’ Prejudices https://theonion.com/woman-who-doesn-t-use-facebook-completely-out-of-touch-1819579007/

Ahh the joys of Violent Agreement. (I still prefer it to bad faith disagreement, so I suppose I'll take what I can get?)

I'm seeing a lot of "literacy crisis" posts, and while I do believe that's an issue, I'd like to point out that chronic stress begets brain fog. If people who previously had good reading comprehension are struggling with it now, that's not a literacy problem, that's a socio-political health issue.

Also "Read these books". Very important!

Perfect for the bi-curious twink in your life!

Caveat (because I can't reply, alas): When you hold the breath, *actively* hold it, don't settle down onto it. It's that active tension that matters, not that you've stopped breathing.

TBH, these days I'm *wary* of name recognition. It seems like more than half the time, if I already know a name, it's because of what they screwed up.

So... I found the below *right* after I found this: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/relig... And I'm seriously wondering how much God actually likes what the Religious "Right" is doing right now... 🤔😬

Not only am I happy to live in a diverse neighborhood, I am *deeply uncomfortable* in places with insufficient diversity. I'd be *shocked* to find a whole neighborhood of my (frankly obscure) religion! Fair point about the values, though. I do prefer to live among fellow multiculturalists!

I'm Xennial, (end of 70s), and no. I couldn't have pictured my adult life when I was a child if I tried. Too many things that simply did not exist yet, or the existence of which I was unaware of, have become central to my life.

I occasionally wonder what it says about us, that I and several of my friends immediately think this way about "Eat the Rich"...

A reminder that bringing shitty posts over from That Fascist Site to be performatively angry about them here is a choice you don't have to make! You can just leave them there! There is so much else to be legitimately angry about! You will not lack for content!

Just did my reading, first time performing When He Calls Your Name out loud, cut it off right at “the” reveal… …and people were reading the rest on their phones in the hallway when I left for a drink which is the BEST COMPLIMENT EVER. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...

The question was never "Did he do this?" The question is "When is the evidence sufficient that he can't dodge the consequences anymore?" This is exactly why being a billionaire should be illegal. Because if it's not, then nothing else is for them, either.

Oh, this must be such a nice way to unwrap a present! 🥰

The wheel turns; the summer ends. The light departs, the cold descends, And we are left to hold the light Against the cold and longest night. The wind that howls around the door, The tracks of snow upon the floor. Reach for your loves and hold them tight Against the cold and longest night.

I like Uncial and Insular, but who am I kidding, I love all of them.

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"Ancient Irish Potato Goddess"

"Lore source: 1940s Germany"