Hotdish
@viijennyxii.bsky.social
Textile artist, MST3K enthusiast, force of nature
She/her
She/her
Reposted by Hotdish
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
Reposted by Hotdish
Icelandic folklore tells of the Yule Cat that terrorizes children if they don't have new socks for Christmas.
folklore does not specify whether the Yule Cat is adorable or not, tho. ❤️🐈⬛
folklore does not specify whether the Yule Cat is adorable or not, tho. ❤️🐈⬛
December 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Icelandic folklore tells of the Yule Cat that terrorizes children if they don't have new socks for Christmas.
folklore does not specify whether the Yule Cat is adorable or not, tho. ❤️🐈⬛
folklore does not specify whether the Yule Cat is adorable or not, tho. ❤️🐈⬛
Reposted by Hotdish
Reminder that Adolph Hitler, the Ayatollah Khamenei and Vlad Putin were all Time's People of the Year, so you can decide for yourself on which side of the split this grouping fits
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Reminder that Adolph Hitler, the Ayatollah Khamenei and Vlad Putin were all Time's People of the Year, so you can decide for yourself on which side of the split this grouping fits
Reposted by Hotdish
Fun fact! You can just make a weird little guy out of scrap cardboard and the government can't stop you
December 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Fun fact! You can just make a weird little guy out of scrap cardboard and the government can't stop you
Reposted by Hotdish
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
Reposted by Hotdish
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
Reposted by Hotdish
And can we please remember that pathological demand avoidance is a common issue among the neurodiverse, and turning on the "don't post without alt text" setting could mean that they just wouldn't post
Not every solution will work for everyone.
Not every solution will work for everyone.
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 AM
And can we please remember that pathological demand avoidance is a common issue among the neurodiverse, and turning on the "don't post without alt text" setting could mean that they just wouldn't post
Not every solution will work for everyone.
Not every solution will work for everyone.
Reposted by Hotdish
Hand pains and cramps and the like can make it harder to write large descriptions, things like ADHD and autism can make it harder to focus on the creation of detailed descriptions, so on and so forth. Sometimes creating disability tools is rather difficult for those who have disabilities basically
December 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Hand pains and cramps and the like can make it harder to write large descriptions, things like ADHD and autism can make it harder to focus on the creation of detailed descriptions, so on and so forth. Sometimes creating disability tools is rather difficult for those who have disabilities basically
Reposted by Hotdish
As artists we often HAVE to post our work to engage our audience, but we don't always have the wherewithal to also provide a detailed explanation of the art.
It can prevent us from posting because while the art is finished, the Alt text can be another mountain to climb.
Don't be an ass, is all.
It can prevent us from posting because while the art is finished, the Alt text can be another mountain to climb.
Don't be an ass, is all.
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
As artists we often HAVE to post our work to engage our audience, but we don't always have the wherewithal to also provide a detailed explanation of the art.
It can prevent us from posting because while the art is finished, the Alt text can be another mountain to climb.
Don't be an ass, is all.
It can prevent us from posting because while the art is finished, the Alt text can be another mountain to climb.
Don't be an ass, is all.
Reposted by Hotdish
PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Reposted by Hotdish
I wonder if they’re ever going to do an episode with @johnmitchinson.bsky.social detailing how he helped spend the $15k his publishing company stole from me? I’d definitely tune in to that!
New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon — Backlisted
Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The...
www.backlisted.fm
December 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I wonder if they’re ever going to do an episode with @johnmitchinson.bsky.social detailing how he helped spend the $15k his publishing company stole from me? I’d definitely tune in to that!
Reposted by Hotdish
Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
How Trump flipped America's race conversation
Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.
www.axios.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
Reposted by Hotdish
Oh yeah this sounds super trustworthy!
Some personal news‼️📢
@tigerteamcreative.bsky.social, our new book publishing agency for authors and publishers has launched!
Our mission is to align every part of the publishing process - strategically and creatively - to help authors and publishers thrive.🐅🐅🐅
www.thebookseller.com/news/rina-gi...
@tigerteamcreative.bsky.social, our new book publishing agency for authors and publishers has launched!
Our mission is to align every part of the publishing process - strategically and creatively - to help authors and publishers thrive.🐅🐅🐅
www.thebookseller.com/news/rina-gi...
Rina Gill and former Unbound colleagues launch Tiger Team Creative
Three former Unbound employees have launched a new publishing agency, Tiger Team Creative, signing up Sunday Times bestselling-author Melanie Blake as its first client.
www.thebookseller.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Oh yeah this sounds super trustworthy!
Reposted by Hotdish
Reposted by Hotdish
Here is why Skyrim is weird.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Here is why Skyrim is weird.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
Reposted by Hotdish
I've decided to sell signed 11" X 15" prints of some paintings. Message me if interested.
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I've decided to sell signed 11" X 15" prints of some paintings. Message me if interested.
Reposted by Hotdish
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
Reposted by Hotdish
i am begging game developers and musicians who are not putting your soundtracks on bandcamp/ampwall to just... do that... please... i will not be streaming your music off A Music Service. let me actually give you money.
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
i am begging game developers and musicians who are not putting your soundtracks on bandcamp/ampwall to just... do that... please... i will not be streaming your music off A Music Service. let me actually give you money.
Reposted by Hotdish
People expect miracles from medicine, but refuse the miracle that would let them avoid needing emergency care in the first place
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
People expect miracles from medicine, but refuse the miracle that would let them avoid needing emergency care in the first place
Reposted by Hotdish
What are you all so afraid of? That we might treat people like individuals whose needs ought to be respected? That’s why y’all don’t have work from home anymore.
I am VERY suspicious of people who argue against supports that help disabled people because what if some FAKER gets them?
I am VERY suspicious of people who argue against supports that help disabled people because what if some FAKER gets them?
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
What are you all so afraid of? That we might treat people like individuals whose needs ought to be respected? That’s why y’all don’t have work from home anymore.
I am VERY suspicious of people who argue against supports that help disabled people because what if some FAKER gets them?
I am VERY suspicious of people who argue against supports that help disabled people because what if some FAKER gets them?
Reposted by Hotdish
So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Reposted by Hotdish
I can produce words when I'm overwhelmed; you're just not going to understand what I'm talking about.
Please don't ask autistics to "use their words"—as many autistic people think in images, not words, and so cannot possibly do what you are asking. Or they have processing issues. Or agnosia. Or apraxia. Or situational mutism. Or alexithymia. Or are overwhelmed. #autism #neurodiversity 12/
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I can produce words when I'm overwhelmed; you're just not going to understand what I'm talking about.
Reposted by Hotdish
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
Reposted by Hotdish
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Hotdish
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥