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Lauren Bryant-Monk@starvingsoubrette.bsky.social |
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Consistently Exceptional. Opera Singer, Game Dev and Co-Curator of the ENnie Award winning #TTRPGSafetyToolkit (She/Her)
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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Like Taylor's comparison to JKR falls flat for me because she is actively using her wealth and influence from her art to continue to cause harm. But I do think his point about no matter what you decide, being unable to see the work in the same way after the fact is important to think about
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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I do think we need to hold the artist's relationship to the art we love more loosely than we often do, and that parasocial grief and horror, while real and valid shouldn't supercede the feelings of vicitims, but also I think wrestling with your relationship to a bad actor's art is a nuanced thing
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס
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From the Mishnah (Pirkei Avos), one of my favorite Jewish quotes.
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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I don't know if I agree with all of this, and I think the conversation around Alice Munro specifically is different because she is dead compared to a living artist but I did appreciate the perspective this essay gave (Although content warning for non graphic discussions of the SA of children)
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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fwiw as a consumer, I'm more likely to buy a comic or sticker sheet at a Con because of budget and suitcase reasons (I've probably spent lots of money to be there myself) and another kind of merch item online while I'm at home because the costs of production means it can't be bought cheaply
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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ALSO ADHD definitely existed because I was tested for it at 7 years old and instead diagnosed as gifted (lol) ALSO ALSO Moms taking their ADHD kid's adderall was like, the most common sitcom trope of the time
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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besides the obvious alt right dogwhistles, I had so many friends with Epipens and they were SO EXPENSIVE being peanut free was like imperative not to put your friend's family in financial distress. and the only kids who sat quietly at my age were the neurodivergent ones who didn't exist apparently
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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Oh yes now they have descended into some light fascist themes, for... reasons?
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Kendra, regular version
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Making some various bumper stickers for posts on here
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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To be clear this is one amime about both those things
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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At work some farmworkers we have been supporting gave us a gift of a ridiculous amount of asparagus as thanks for the help and we spent two days distributing it to food programs and I was really bolstered by the way a series of small acts of community care ended up feeding so many people
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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I love how anime is simultaneously like "this is a cute fantasy anime about a little girl and her best friend, a slime" and also "this anime is about living in a homophobic society"
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Pookleblinky
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When the american liberals use France's election as an illustration of the need to VOTE, they ignore that people were not only voting against the far right but *for* something. They voted for a campaign which promises to: increase minimum wage, lower retirement age, pay for all childcare, etc
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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👀👀👀👀👀
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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It has been half an hour and I'm still like EW I TOUCHED A BUG
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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Hello yes I touched a bug accidentally while pressing the street crossing button this morning and while the bug seemed as surprised as me in the moment I hope the bug doesn't feel the ghost pressure of my finger on its back the way I still feel it's creepy body movements on my finger
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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My student didn't show up for her lesson today and as I got home the thing I was most upset about was that I put on makeup in this heat so I could look like "a respectable teacher" and it was all for naught!
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Jacob Bacharach
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Hey wait a minute shouldn't this say, "In Ukraine, Damage to Public Health Infrastructure Amid Ongoing Fighting?"
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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It's tragically a great way to find stuff
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Banana Chan
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16 days away from launch for the second printing of Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall 🥡🥟🥢 if you’re interested in a TTRPG about a Chinese American family running a restaurant in the 1920s with hopping vampires creating chaos, give us a follow!
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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To be fair most of us aren't either
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Prisonculture
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When I was a teenager, I organized a protest with a couple of friends after Michael Griffith was killed in Howard Beach. Almost no one showed up. I think we had 6 people [including us 3 organizers]. I was crushed. I cried to my dad & he asked: "what did you say to the three people who joined you?"
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Deva Woodly
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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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Esther Wallace
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with love, please find at least one way to become active in your communities in addition to electoral politics. there is so much to be done, big things and little things, online and offline. elections are a tourniquet, not a fix, and we need creative interventions now more than ever.
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Kaitlin Ruiz
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you can call it a failure of imagination, or of hope. in many ways, they're the same thing. but you cannot call it rational, and you should not give it food.
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Kaitlin Ruiz
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let me put this another way: despair, or its new name, doomerism, asserts omniscience--that things cannot be better, that all possibilities of good are already foreclosed, that you can know this as fact. it looks like humility, but it's all ego. it is, in fact, the assumption of godhood.
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Nails Nathan
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Anyhow the best time to address the shit was yesterday, the 2nd best time is today. Demand everyone asking for your vote to support packing the court, stop giving your resources to the police, demand public housing, healthcare, childcare, education, transit, food support and a right to privacy.
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Nails Nathan
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Link up with and support the people organizing and providing these things in your community now. Support migrants in your community, people without housing in your community, demand and create public spaces, support your library, etc. don’t accept the bare minimum it’s not working.
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Tracy
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Heya! I need some recommendations, please! Your favorite independent podcast that is one or more of these: - TTRPG Actual Play - TTRPG Discussion/interview - Magic/TCG related - Audio Drama - General Nerd Shit (affectionate) Smaller, newer shows, especially!
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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Albertaaaa
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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Hello yes what is your favourite Paramore song
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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Is the community at the church not nearly as left as it should be for a group that reveres the teachings of Christ? Yes. Did talking to hungry people with full time jobs who couldn't get off work while the food bank was open fill me with motivation to change? Also yes.
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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Another thing about this is that being involved in movements changes people, even if they are imperfect movements. I read the communist manifesto when I was 18 and laughed at how much of a drama queen Marx was. But it was working at a church that did food programs that radicalized me in my late 20s
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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It's also imo extremely good for the soul to do small, meaningful acts of radical care that do short term good. You can't personal responsibility your way out of a structural issue but you can personal responsibility your way into finding the good in the world
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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calling your reps and circulating petitions and going to protests is a necessary part of the work but it often feels like shouting at a wall and that is draining. but restocking your local community pantry feeds a hungry kid and that refills you so you can keep working to make pantries unnecessary
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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The best way I've found to help stave off the despair of the world we live in is to find ways to get involved in local organizing. There is a food bank or a native plant gardeners group or an English conversation group at your library that would love your support and you'll meet people who care too
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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In Canada at least you do not need a stamp to send a letter to your reps. Just a fun low cost activity
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it's gita time
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Organizing idea: mutual aid fax funds
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Rebekah Valentine
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if you feel bad about this, think: this second, hundreds of people who are retired or rich or both and have TONS of time on their hands are being REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING in an effort to push policies that deprive the rest of us of our rights. we MUST out-annoying them, by any means!
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No Escape from the Final Shape 🏴🇵🇸🏳️⚧
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So my bank refused to fix the error they made which made it possible for a bunch of shit I'd been holding off to charge all at once. They refuse to even acknowledge it was an error. I now have a negative balance of -$1006.
I'd like some help paying it back, but slowly. 🧵
ko-fi.com/noescapevg/g...
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Listen I'm Scary OK
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I spend a lot of time on YouTube (opposite of a brag) and the internet has gotten so bad and full of scams that even non-political YouTubers I follow (see Drew Gooden's AI video today) are now making videos that boil down to "the system is breaking"
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Kienna
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For anyone looking to come up to Canada after whatever debate debacle just happened, you should know that we also have a liberal leader who has lost everyone's trust and a right-wing dipshit who throws out dog whistles, just to set your expectations a bit lower 😅
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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I did real singing for the first time since getting covid and I was really nervous because even last week I didn't have the energy or lung capacity back yet to sing properly and I'm delighted to say it is all back now and also all the walking in Italy made my abs stronger
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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in the post revolutionary people's republic of Gaia there will be exactly one use of AI: a Clippy bot that asks "check here to certify you are actually responding to the OP instead of a tangentially related thought in your own head" before you are permitted to post
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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My shuffle played a song that had the chorus "you're not crazy, you're just sad" and like, excuse me? who came for me where I live
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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It's one of those places people are truly not exaggerating when they talk about how great it is
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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Now to cross my fingers even harder for the second grant to go through but I can't believe a bunch of people read our application and were like "yeah we'll give them money"
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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We got one of the grants we applied forrrr
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
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oh no godspeed
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