I've been talking it up with bookstore staff in my area, hoping more folks will be excited to read and discuss along with me!
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I've been talking it up with bookstore staff in my area, hoping more folks will be excited to read and discuss along with me!
I really would like for you to add alt-text to these
CW: suicide
I truly hate that now every time someone in my community ends their life, I have to wonder whether an LLM pushed them to complete an attempt
We are OLD and we are TIRED River Tam is a GRANDMOTHER now KAYLEE HAS OSTEOPOROSIS
200 different gay fuckin nerds: Okay but you know we cancelled Adam Baldwin right you know we fucking HATE Joss Whedon right??? We cancelled them 20 years ago and we'll do it again if we have to!
Neil Gaiman, peering in thru the window thru little binoculars: Uh oh
A student I met last year, who had faced some of the same struggles and disadvantages that I have, asked me if I ever questioned whether I belonged at the table with people who hadn't faced such issues. I told her that I never experience those doubts professionally and that she shouldn't either.
A Fateful Flourish, photo by me of a Sandhill Crane triumphantly throwing its wings and head back
My despair-fighting deed of the day: donated an exhibition piece to an awesome Ypsi therapist office / health community hub, because everyone deserves some wild wonder when they're going through it!
A Fateful Flourish πͺΆ
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We used to play so much burnout that when my friends and I had an actual spinout on 23 we looked at each other in the backseat and said quietly '.. So does that count as a psyche out takedown, or...'
Woke up for some reason with the Burnout 3 Takedown soundtrack spinning in my head, so that's what this morning is apparently calling for. Shoutouts to Southfield's Von Blondies
Shulk from Xenoblade Chronicles seeing a vision of the future
I hope your immune system defeats the twisted thing at the heart of the illness soon
Often nature moments are envisioned and waited for.
You see something or imagine it might happen, and you have to plan and return multiple times
Often it never happens
Then there are the completely unexpected encounters
Like a baby goose hopping on mamas back
And it's FUCKING ADORABLE!
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I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. β₯οΈ
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It's definitely one of my favorites from last year! I've ended up with a real affinity for Sandhill Cranes since some stay year round near me, and this shot in particular was made from my drivers side window after pulling over to the side of the road!
he had that shit on too
takedown team sending accounts to the shadow realm π
selfish generosity: the therapist gets art for their space, and I don't have to find space for a heavy framed 28x40" print in my house
A Fateful Flourish, photo by me of a Sandhill Crane triumphantly throwing its wings and head back
My despair-fighting deed of the day: donated an exhibition piece to an awesome Ypsi therapist office / health community hub, because everyone deserves some wild wonder when they're going through it!
A Fateful Flourish πͺΆ
rhenyard.darkroom.com/products/164...
(trying to get better about not embarking on a whole-ass miniproject without seeing if there's something else out there already!)
Question for the hive mind! Has anyone making whistle kits come up with kid/teen friendly instructions for assembling them? (folding the zines, describing safe use of the whistles, connecting kit making to safety, etc.)
I've got 5011 other reasons to oppose the data centers umich is pushing, but I think we can add 'turning parts of Washtenaw County into a viable strike targets because we've got a Los Alamos AI cluster' to the list
For $1 billion a day we could add enough solar panels to double the generating capacity of the US grid in less than five years.
I can't find the @vinnythomas.bsky.social bit scolding Gerald for filling up 6 loose bags of gasoline because AI killed search engines, and I'm distressed at not having it easily at hand
As a professor, providing accommodations doesnβt impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me.
But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and theyβve just found a new group to hound.
Happy birthday!! Hope you have some lovely encounters today, thanks for bringing us so much beauty along the way
As the home of the OG Jalen, I appreciated the Detroit rap instrumental on this π
"I will return you to yourself" sounds like an award winning chapbook tbh