Jill S

Fuck those fuckers

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Dinner tonight: corn chowder and cheddar biscuits Soup: simple-veganista.com/vegan-corn-c... Biscuits: sallysbakingaddiction.com/homemade-che... I didn’t have enough cheddar so I improvised with Gruyère. Still delicious.

thinking about the grammar of oppression from listening to Pádraig Ó Tuama on the podcast Wild Card

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

Looking for queer historical romance with sinister supernatural shenanigans? Of course you are. THE SECRET CASEBOOK OF SIMON FEXIMAL and SPECTRED ISLE are both 99p everywhere this week! (If sale isn't showing where you are give it time, includes Amazon and all the usual suspects, e only)

I am going to take up wearing sugarloaf hats and scarlet robes now

hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

Brazil rejected Bolsonaro. Serbia's students beat Vučić. Machado is home in Venezuela. What a day for democracy.

Hello to all my English-speaking followers. I know this text is more than overdue. My mental health has become even poorer due to the Brazilian's elections and the fascist threat that comes with it. But I managed to turn my anger into text somehow. buttondown.com/haileykaas/a...

THERE IS A VACCINE FOR THAT

The World Fantasy Awards are about to start! Whether E. Catherine Tobler receives a tree statue or not, I would love to know that Elise's needs are being met. If you could honor her with some support in her recovery from cancer, chemo, and complications, that would be a great and beautiful thing. 💖

I’m cleaning out my inbox and finally got to @kateclancy.bsky.social’s newsletter about perimenopause and I just want to stand up in my living room and yell HELL YES buttondown.com/KateClancy/a...

Went to the Puget Sound Mycological Society mushroom show today. IT WAS VERY COOL. If you are anywhere near Shoreline tomorrow with an hour or two to spare, highly recommend stopping b y.

If you can’t beat ‘em … BEAT YOUR DRUM AT ‘em www.kuow.org/news-stories... God this is so satisfying. I wish I had been there!!

My mother died two years ago today. My mom rarely chose the easy things in life, so it feels fitting that today I wish to remember her with one of her favourite, (and most difficult) pieces of music. (she knew a lot about music.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EWd...

Had cause to revisit this piece for reference today and realized NaNoWriMo, as an organization, has been vaporized. Seems like consequences are possible after all

My picture isn’t pretty but I know it tastes good!

For those of you who just updated your settings in Libby (which is owned by Overdrive) … Robin’s thread is instructive.

No joke, maybe the most accurate movie ever made to portray how rail was destroyed in Los Angeles in favor of cars with the toons standing in for how minority neighborhoods were wiped out for freeways

If you can’t beat ‘em … BEAT YOUR DRUM AT ‘em www.kuow.org/news-stories... God this is so satisfying. I wish I had been there!!

My picture isn’t pretty but I know it tastes good!

For those of you who just updated your settings in Libby (which is owned by Overdrive) … Robin’s thread is instructive.

Fresh chili crisp coming up! www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2018...

MLB pitcher Oscar Levis (Levy) was Black, and he was Jewish; a great new story. His WAR of 12.9 ranks 8th all-time among Jewish pitchers: Koufax (48.9), Fried (32.3), Holtzman (27.3), Roberts (23.6), Pelty (19.2), Stone (17.1), Mayer (13.5). www.jta.org/2026/10/23/s... h/t Brad Kolodny

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

In this week's Better Offline monologue, @edzitron.com walks you through how Amazon is warehousing billions of dollars of GPUs, and how NVIDIA created an artificial supply chain crisis by forcing hyperscalers to take early delivery of its AI chips. linktr.ee/betteroffline

The last sentence really nails it (in the coffin)

UK readers! My publisher made The Dragon Has Some Complaints just 99p for Halloween! A curmudgeonly dragon pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon riding academy. But his new rider is... a lot.

Fuse Votes isn't a Super PAC (raising and spending unlimited money to promote candidates and campaigns with no coordination); they're a regular old 501(c)(3) nonprofit that can and does give money directly to campaigns. You can see their expenditures here. www.pdc.wa.gov/political-di...

In Preservation culture, asking payment for anything considered necessary for living (food, power sources, education, the feed, etc.) was considered outrageous, but asking payment for life-saving help was right up there with cannibalism.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

just to spell it out: any company using the name Harry Potter or the names of the houses is not only providing advertising but literally has to give Rowling money for the rights to do that. Rowling uses that money to fund transphobic changes to government policy & to support transphobes

I’ve started a movie that is definitely Watch On a Plane or else Watch While Sick In a Foreign Country (Down Low with Zachary Quinto and Lukas Gage)

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When Standing Rock's Wózu needed power for its buffalo barn, Native-led Indigenized Energy stepped in. Their solar and battery system powers the barn and shades the herd, with panels elevated and reinforced to withstand a buffalo rubbing against them.

Yep, here it is, last Friday! So odd that the Seattle Times would just ignore my coverage—oh, wait, they literally always do, because they think they're the only legitimate news source in town! Read PubliCola and get breaking news a week before the local paper gets around to it.

Good morning! We're suing Meta for stealing our shit 😎 let's goooo

From a history perspective, I started covering election security as a reporter in 2016, and as a PhD researcher in 2024. This exact problem of apparent changing votes happens in every election. Here's me writing about it in 2018.

it's not the only problem in the world but it seems very clear to me that better ADHD support leads to better real-world outcomes, and that the delta between outcomes for the well-supported and unsupported is frequently enormous

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

Fellow WA voters, let's bury this. I can't imagine any parent wants to subject their child to this vile "examination."