The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈

Beginning a master thread of reference threads. Expect more additions in the future. Until Bluesky has a Pin function, I may have to bookmark this manually.

The replies and quotes to this were full of polio vaccine and antibiotics but dudes. Smallpox. We eradicated smallpox so hard that people don't even think about it anymore. A disease that is estimated to have killed 300 million people in the 20th century alone is just GONE.

Parenting Question The Tech Industry Wants Me To Ask AI, Or Question Odysseus Asks Upon Returning to Ithaca After 20 Years Of Absence? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

cats in sheet music

Trump is so un-American that he can’t even stage a coup for a right wing dictator in Latin America. Shame.

Dinosaurs Survived! Here are all 20 designs together. I have ideas for a few more. Prints and Stickers: www.emmalerae.com/store.html Apparel: emmalerae.threadless.com

National borders have *never* been containers for politics and political processes. I don't have time to write a full thread, so here are some resources.

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.

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

this why I believe abstinence is the only real way, but I know it's hard we have been here before with smoking, where the best thing is never to start & the second best is to stop as soon as you can — and it doesn't matter if one cig a day is "not that bad" if you can go down to one go down to nil

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I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

A good day for democracy. In Brazil Lula is projected to win against Bolsanaro and in Serbia Putin endorsed Aleksandar Vučić who has been in power for 14 years concedes. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

Someone came by my table today, read this sign, and said "Well now I know who not to buy from!" Lol. Lmao. Jolly good, off you fuck!

This Day in Labor History: October 24, 1975. Women in Iceland went on a one-day strike to protest both the unequal pay conditions they faced in the country and men’s refusal to recognize the reproductive labor they did at home. This is the largest protest in Iceland's history! Let's talk about it!

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

Why do we persist in making games despite weeks like this one? This:

The Creature by Abigail Larson for the Wraithmarked Creative illustrated edition of "Frankenstein" 🫀

This, from the hugely experienced Irish courts reporter, Isabel Hayes, on the Minister for Justice’s performative outrage over an ad about children and consent, is worth reading.

Best theory for all the cancelled BLADE projects I’ve seen 🎯

Extremely important thread! The VAST majority of GCs are men, not women, and it is right wing men who are the main purveyors of the ideology. Gender critical women are *extremely* rare.

one of the (many) things that frustrates me about discussions about AI and legal practice is that everyone seems to assume that law consists entirely of a particular kind of reasoning, and the only way to critique the practice of law (and ergo AI's role in it) is whether the reasoning is "right."

in my experience, people who were exposed to severe Christian homophobia in the 2000s were protected against "Just Asking Questions" transphobia of the 2010s precisely because we realize that it never stops at "these are human beings" and always goes to cruelty

Goddamn did I need to hear someone with actual influence and power say this right now

my exhausted brain was reading about the ongoing drone warfare this morning, had me thinking about the Star Wars prequels like "we're building the robot army, now we just need one of clones treated as expendable even though they're alive, emotionally complex, and deserve better" and look at that

For decades we hear women have smaller brains therefore we're stupid (yes, look up the great term for this "neurosexism") — but now it's "crows have a small brain therefore they are smart"? We're winning and have a murder on our side, I guess. Cool.

The conclusion is NOT "we need to debias LLMs" Besides that it's impossible, it also detracts from the point, which is: We shouldn't use machines to offload of the very cognition that is constitutive of the work to be done & supercharge existing inequities and injustices in the process. 🧵

Canada buying Dragon Age was not in the rotation of pipe dreams, but man that is wild.

The chair of the DCCC is @repdelbene.bsky.social, of Washington State. If you live in congressional district 1 in WA, you could get in touch and let her know that you don't want the DCCC paying for ads that endorse Republican anti-trans narratives. delbene.house.gov/contact/offi...

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

I designed an infograph for the Kickstarter, which will be launching 30th October! Considering rendering these designs as art prints, really depends on if I can find my resolve, I left it somewhere during my move.

Sarah's comic is one of my favorites of the year AND it's got boys kissing?!!!

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Yes, defeating the separatists is a win. But a majority of Albertans just voted to restrict access to healthcare & education for our immigrant neighbours, which will have real consequences for vulnerable communities across the province. Scapegoating, racism & bigotry is the real winner here. #ABLeg

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

If you’re posting about your game assume this is the first and last time the viewer will see it mentioned- have a link. If they follow you already, great, you made it easy for them to wishlist at long last. If they don’t, it’s your one shot to retain their interest- post accordingly.