USPOL, WA local, immigrant assistance (+)
if you are in Washington state and need help of any kind with immigration, here's a great site: https://waisn.org/ and if you're anywhere and can donate, please do. these folks have been doing the work on the ground, and are rolling up their sleeves.
uspol
When he won in 2016, it felt like disorienting punch in the gut. I spent so much time trying to convince people what was coming. I had naive hope that our institutions would save us. I had to plead constantly to get people to care for each other and, more importantly, vote.
This is different. We all know what he is. We know what is coming if he survives in power. I feel galvanized and ready to fight.
For now, grieve and prepare. Tomorrow begins the work of being the change we must see in the world.
re: birdsite mention, pol-adjacent
In case you ever wondered why billionaires came to attack democracy and AI came to attack writing and art: power always tries to destroy imagination and storytelling. It is often the last bastion that they cannot control and the first source of successful resistance against them.
No matter how hard they try, no matter whom they hurt, they will not succeed. And it terrifies them. As it should.
re: birdsite mention
While deleting my old tweets to prevent scraping from AI, a quote from Ursula K. Le Guin bubbled up to the top completely on accident. I chose to keep it there.
birdsite mention
Finally getting around to deleting my tweets from my former Twitter account. Unfortunate, but long past time.
Like others, I'll be keeping my account itself to prevent impersonation and reuse of the URL (unless it's pried from me by the site's fascist owner).
Really happy with how far Masto and other alternatives have come since Twitter was acquired, it's been really comfy here by comparison.
botsin.space PSA
Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/
TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th.
I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone
Bioengineering human-wolf chimeras to their final genome layout, K84.F1, was the life's work of Dr. Salma Esfahani and two whole generations of scientists.
Incubation at scale finally began in 2279.
By that time, the average global temperature on Earth had exceeded 19°C for three consecutive years.
Over 300 years later, the Wolves of Callisto thrive! Crater Metropolis Asgard is the oldest colony in the Jupiter system, famed for its shipwrights and navigator academy.
uspol, billionaires meddling in politics
The thing about Bezos killing WaPo's endorsement of Harris, Soon-Shiong killing LA Times' wall-to-wall coverage of their Harris endorsement, and Elon using Twitter as his personal propaganda arm to elect nazis into power, is that I could not better demonstrate if I tried how society is incompatible with the existence of billionaires.
Great job, assholes. Taxing you at 95% and breaking the control you have over your businesses is the *politest* response to you throwing in with nazis to keep your ill-gotten fortunes.
Anyway. If you haven't voted already, please do. These assholes need to be shown the door, unceremoniously thrown through it, and shut down in every aspect of our politics other than their singular right to one vote.
A late celebration of 28 years of KDE (which was exactly last week), I drew both Konqi designs. New Konqi designed by Tyson Tan.
Made possible by my Patreon backers: patreon.com/artbyyellowdog
#art #digitalart #konqi #kde
Also an icewing named Brauby the Seven-headed Scream is notable in that they'd also make an excellent metal band cover.
PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start:
go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/rockheadkengo.bsky.social/post/3l5ciwzeltq2x
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
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