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Slide 1: a blue graphic with an outline of the United States. Red and white text reads: Call. National Book Banning Bill Proposed in US House of Reps. Tell your rep: Vote no on H.R. 7661.

Slide 2: a blue and red graphic with white text that reads: House Republicans have introduced a bill to effectively grant the federal government decision-making power over what books make it into the library. Misleadingly called the "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act," H.R. 7661 is a national-level book banning bill that would ban any book that, according to the bill's language, "(ii) involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism." This means any book about a trans person or the trans experience would be banned from every public school in the United States.

Slide 3: a blue and red graphic with white text that reads: The bill has been referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. If you are represented by one of the members of this committee listed below, they need to hear from you. Rep. Kevin Kiley, California (CA-3) (Chair) - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Mary E. Miller, Illinois (Vice Chair) Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, Pennsylvania Rep. Burgess Owens, Utah Rep. Michael A. Rulli, Ohio Rep. James C. Moylan, Guam - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, Pennsylvania - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Mark Harris, North Carolina Rep. Mark B. Messmer, Indiana Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon, Ranking Member Rep. Jahana Hayes, Connecticut Rep. Summer L. Lee, Pennsylvania Rep. John W. Mannion, New York Rep. Frederica S. Wilson, Florida Rep. Alma S. Adams, North Carolina Rep. Adelita Grijalva, Arizona

Slide 4: a blue graphic with red and white text that reads: If you are represented by the congresspeople listed above: Call your reps. Tell them they must oppose this bill at every turn. It is egregiously unconstitutional, targets ideas based on ideological disapproval, and misleads parents and the public about the content of children's books. It does nothing to protect kids and will badly harm education. It will tie school material funding into knots and hurt anyone who is a library materials vendor, regardless of content. If you are a bookseller, librarian, or author, tell them your livelihood depends on the next generation of readers.

You can read the full text of the bill here: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social for these slides and the alt text, which you can also share on their insta: www.instagram.com/authorsagain...

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

The cover of Shards of Reflections. The header says Kickstarting now! There are several tags with arrows pointing to the book telling you what the book has in store. - Supernatural noir - Art deco future setting - Identity crisis - Unreliable POV - Psychological mystery - Vampires are capitalists - Stand alone in shared universe - She can do a little murder, as a treat

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The 5th book in The City Between is now kickstarting! Help it get to 4k by the end of the week. www.kickstarter.com/projects/149... Please spread the word! Support human made art! Get yourself some werewolves and vampires!

"clanker and wireback are slurs bc they follow the linguistic patterns of other slurs" say youre a white person w/o saying youre a white person

How I built Fluxer, a Discord-like chat app Fluxer is a free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities.

blog.fluxer.app/how-i-built-... yeah here's the full explanation from the dev

im not fully bothered by it personally since he does seem to be using it minimally but if stoat's minor claude commits bother someone (no shade) then this might too

fluxer is really great as an app but (as disclosed on the blog) the main dev troubleshoots usin llms and doesnt disallow contributors to the app from usin llms to code. he does require folks to fully understand their code & is against "vibe coding". but if yr against genai period, might be a problem

there were security breaches/holes found in 2022, 2024, and 2025 iirc

probably gonna be inscrutable but here's a source

soatok.blog/2024/08/14/s...

matrix's "encryption" has repeatedly been dogshit, they say they fixed an encryption hole now but they had knowingly left it in there for years

the github has a link to my support server and an invite to the bot! test it out so i can wake up in the morning and cry about all the bugs you found!

GitHub - pieartsy/PluralFlux: Proxy bot for Fluxer. Proxy bot for Fluxer. Contribute to pieartsy/PluralFlux development by creating an account on GitHub.

I am one of 5 to 30 people making a pluralkit / tupperbox clone on fluxer, but nevertheless the barebones version is working

github.com/pieartsy/Plu...

i'm working on a bot now for this. i'd need a lot more time to make feature parity with pluralkit, but basic functionality (create a member & proxy with them) is there.

Several sketchy hourly comics from 7am-9pm. I wake up at my boyf's place, eat a poorly sliced bagel, practice singing, work on my resume, have lunch, play Mythic Bastionland, and all of us hang out with my husb's family.

More hourly comics from 9-11pm. I retire to my boyf's apartment, walk back to my own, and finish drawing hourlies. The end.

Hourly comics day!

"IN OBSERVANCE & SOLIDARITY". Two black speech bubbles with white text read "HOURLY COMICS DAY IS NOW ON FEB 8TH. CARTOONISTS HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. FEB 1 - MAR 1". There is an illustration of a black silhouetted hand raised and holding a pen in the top right, and an illustration of a nib pen and an ink well personified on the bottom right. The nib and ink are bumping fists. A URL at the bottom is "hourlycomicsday.com".

Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd

have you tried inaturalist? really good science site with very niche experts ready to id stuff with you
www.inaturalist.org

Dirty Secrets Your home town, last week. Somebody got whacked, and only one person can plough through the plentiful line-up of suspects with things to hide until the truth is found. Expect the unexpected, save for ...

rpggeek.com/rpg/649/dirt...

i'm just gonna give a shoutout to Dirty Secrets by Seth Ben-Ezra, which i think is a lesser-known GM-less TTRPG. It's a mystery game that heavily inspired my own game, After the Mind, the World Again, and uses liar's dice as an adjudication mechanic. I haven't played it because I suck at gambling.

This is all of One Piece to me, and from what I know about it, this arc is beloved by all readers and is a PSA about both addiction and the machinations of the healthcare industry with heavy anarchist undertones.

yall this comic is so cute and funny, check it out

20 word version:
Players roll d6. Whoever rolls lowest says, "FUCK, do-over" and gets +1. Restart.

Reach ∞+1 to win.

Find someone in your vicinity who you think is cute but ultimately know nothing about. Roll a d6. On a 1-5, imagine their inner life based on their vibes, and what kind of dynamic you might share if you talked to them. On a 6, reroll.

I need everyone to make a shitpost game that fits into at most 3 posts on here before the end of the year otherwise thr sun will not rise again

∞+1
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All players roll 1d6. If you get the lowest number, instead of losing, say "FUCK, do-over". Everyone rerolls, and you get +1 to your future rolls. Bonuses stack.

The first player to reach ∞+1 wins.

Find someone in your vicinity who you think is cute but ultimately know nothing about. Roll a d6. On a 1-5, imagine their inner life based on their vibes, and what kind of dynamic you might share if you talked to them. On a 6, reroll.

i was commenting to a friend that when i was a teenager/young 20s i mostly knew transmasc people but now that im older i mostly know transfems and honestly im living for it, it's honestly cool to get povs i wouldve never realized on my own lol

No Contract, No Coffee Pledge  Baristas are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. Baristas open the stores every morning and close them every night. They greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, a...

starbucks is striking on nov 13. worker strikes are different from consumer boycotts, and if the workers don't actively ask for one, patronizing what they're striking isnt "crossing a picket line".

that said, they *are* asking for a boycott.

starbucksworkersunited.controlshift.app/petitions/no...

Somewhere, in the Deep reaches of space, an assembly has gathered on a space station. During a heated discussion on the design and capabilities of mecha, Isamu Kurogane (Lance) stands tall and dares to speak the truth. "Every Gundam is worse than Voltron because his hands are lion mouths!!!" he declares without shame. His bravado has impressed the Red Comet, Char Aznable, while confusing and insulting Amuro Ray. The delaration is heard to mixed reactions by many other mecha pilots (not by Shinji Ikari, he is doing his best to ignore him).

"LET HIM SPEAK!"

9" x 12" ink and watercolor on watercolor paper.

I use a paperlike screen which shredded my nibs, so I got metal nibs. this is for a samsung galaxy tab!

Mine was 2024 also :') the slices are different depending on what games you happened to pick :')