rye of the tiger

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

The biggest of thanks to @jessehixxx.bsky.social for pulling an extreme night shift to edit this!!!

this, EXACTLY

I'd even up that a couple of notches to "why would I want to know about kids' genitals, the fuck is wrong with you?" as an easy thing to say.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Honestly, this is going to make giving directions so much easier. "You just take Highway America #1 until you get to Lake America, turn right at the America Mart, and then bang your first left on America Street. If you find yourself in Americaburgh you've gone too far."

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

heya @raxkingisdead.bsky.social - a young genderqueer friend-of-the-bookstore came in recently asking for books about connecting with nature. After further questioning, I sold her "Sloppy". She came back today & absolutely gushed about it (lack of "nature" content notwithstanding). One more new fan!

Super exciting! We are Big Fans of libro.fm over at @bearbeebooks.bsky.social , & the addition of synced ebooks is great news. (I'd love to see @libro.fm and @bookshop.org collaborate on ebooks, too - Bookshop's ebook experience is pretty mediocre, and it's an obvious place to combine forces!)

hi film nerds 🎞️ Wanted to try 6x9 more seriously so I bought the heaviest camera I could find: Mamiya Press Super 23. Shot one roll and I think I'm sold. Here's my doggo on Tri-X 400 (dev'd HC-110) in our just-getting-started local darkroom. On the plus side, I won't need to lift weights anymore

this is so practical because it's enough for almost any event, or you can have a nice dinner for two by simply dividing by 400

Love this story! Bogotá, Colombia, aims to achieve gender parity in cycling by 2039, as women currently account for only 28% of daily bicycle trips. The city is addressing barriers such as safety concerns and lack of cycling skills by building more protected bike lanes and offering cycling lessons.

Zohran just posted about the end of the World Cup, and if I'm not mistaken, he's shooting with a disposable film camera!

YOU GUYS. I appreciate that the air pollution on the East Coast is awful & we're not used to it. That's real. But this would be a pretty good day in Dhaka or Delhi. Let's keep some perspective & use this experience to increase our compassion & our conviction to do something about it for *everyone*

Holy shit, this is brilliant and could be useful on so many occasions!

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

A furry friend on the morning constitutional.

Hey youse Billy Bragg/Wilco/Solid Sound fans in North Adams this weekend, stop downtown & say hi! We're small, but we've got a killer bagel place, a killer coffee/pastries place, a killer thrift shop & killer antiques store, a fanfuckingtastic plant store, & my own pretty dang good little bookshop!

Reminder: perhaps the easiest & cheapest way to tell Bezos to fuck off is by linking to Bookshop or (even better) an indie bookstore WHENEVER you talk about a book online. W/o a link people will just google it & that will lead to Amazon. W a link you can send a sale to a good business

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

@themountaingoats.bsky.social mister Goats you stopped in my bookstore in North Adams last year and we had a nice chat. Looking at your tour schedule, I am having trouble finding the North Adams dates for this year, please advise

Independent journalism is developing so quickly that Kabas is now Minority Reporting the news

Happy Earth Day!

Starting to think that "the Pope is infallible" is the "Assault Rifle 15" of left-leaning ex-Catholics

@harmanphoto.co.uk are you folks still making direct positive paper, or is it gone? desperately trying to find some for a project I committed to :-/

Look, I just hope that if SCOTUS strikes down birthright citizenship, they are intellectually consistent enough to require that we take down the Statue of Liberty and send it back to France.

when someone calls themselves a "creator" its fuckin sad. have some respect for yourself! say you make videos or art or write or whatever! "creator" means "i produce chum for platforms in the way they require for better engagement" it means you "chase the meta" and this makes you Not Artistic !!!

@proton.me hey proton, FYI: On the "how to create or edit CSV files" page, there is a link to download a sample CSV file, but that file is 404. proton.me/support/crea...

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

TRANS KANSANS: I'm moving this weekend (just two blocks, but still involves packing & carrying literally tons of books) & my apartment will be available to rent immediately. Small town in Western Mass, trans-friendly & with a strong arts scene. We'd be happy to have you. DM for more. 💜 Please share!

You may not like it, but this is the ideal computer. Using a computer with many blinkenlights and no screen makes you nearly invulnerable to the horrors of disinformation and social media. It's time to go back

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

fellow engineers, you really need to start asking yourself some questions when building something: 1. how will the police use what i'm making? 2. what kinds of people are the police going to use it against? 3. how many people will be harmed in silence before we find out?

Unidos somos América.

"Content extruder" is the perfect term for people who use the slop plagiarism machine to make "art".

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

In all sincerity, if they get this through and agree to fund DHS, I will never vote for a Democrat again. I am floored by the spinelessness, and I've been had too many times. It's just embarrassing that it took me this long to figure that out.