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BJD&D Preview pics:

The Forest Court is looking swanky. I intend to harvest some leafy branches to add in the morning. There's a couple of Bradford pear saplings in the front yard that have no business being there, so I'm going to strip them of their branches for my art.

Ain't no party like an Elven Court party

'Cause... Uh. Oh. Somebody grab some coffee, Gatorade and aspirin.

I've got more to do but I have help.

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Some historically accurate Claudia outfits💞🪡

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Hey so I see folks with alot of the same issues, and alot of other people going "hey man its not like that" and the first group going "man your crazy". And from personal experiance it became very suddenly Not Like That once I moved 2000 miles away from my hometown so i gotta ask

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"According to the Stanford Basic Income Lab, universal basic income is a periodic cash payment that is given to individuals unconditionally, requiring no work requirement or sanctions to access.

And as various nonprofits and cities across the country experiment with basic income programs, most have found that the money received is largely used to pay for the basic essentials many Americans struggle to afford.

A new pilot program in Boston, Massachusetts wants to find out if the same trend applies for a specific demographic: young adults facing homelessness.

The program is called BAY-CASH, or Boston Area Youth Cash Assistance for Stable Housing. Their plan is to offer a select group of 15 young adults ages 18 to 24 $1,200 per month for 24 months.

Each month, they will receive two $600 payments, and they will each have access to a one-time drawdown amount of $3,000, used to pay for things like a security deposit, a car repair, a medical expense, or other crisis.

“BAY-CASH is what we call a demonstration program,” the program’s director Matt Aronson told GBH, the local NPR affiliate. 

Aronson has been working on developing a model for direct cash transfers to address young adult homelessness since 2017, when he also co-led the development of the City of Boston’s plan to prevent and end homelessness among young adults. Finally, his vision has reached a crucial next step.

“We’re trying to demonstrate to the state of Massachusetts that this kind of programming, a guaranteed-income program with supportive services, should be part of our toolkit that we use to prevent and end homelessness for young adults,” he continued to GBH. 

Program participants will also receive two and a half years of supportive services, like a navigator who helps young people identify and access the resources they need, as well as financial coaching.

Aronson added that there is no penalty if a participant doesn’t use them, but they were built into the program based on the services young people asked for.

One of those young people is Deandre (who chose to omit his last name for privacy). Having grown up in Boston, he was out on his own, but after coming on hard times, he found himself involved in a few youth homelessness programs. That’s where he found out about BAY-CASH.

“I heard about … potentially getting cash payments to help with all the necessary things I have to go through on a regular basis,” he told GBH. “I was absolutely ecstatic.” 

He told GBH that he plans to use the money to access food, clean clothes, and rent and housing expenses when he eventually has a place of his own again. He also hopes to one day save up to buy a car so he doesn’t have to rely on the city’s bus system.

The flexibility for him to choose how to spend the money is a key component to what Aronson believes is the magic of guaranteed income. 

“Current homelessness resources for young adults in Massachusetts are scarce, can be slow to deploy and inflexible, and often lead to inequitable outcomes for historically and systemically oppressed populations,” BAY-CASH shares on its website.

“[We are] trusting that young people know their needs and communities better than anyone else.”

Aronson added that the pilot program will provide the state with more evidence to consider something “a little bit more flexible than what they’ve developed,” and ensure that a budget would be available to enact something similar in other regions of the state.

Right now, the pilot program is being funded by private donors and foundations, along with the city of Cambridge via a one-time cash infusion, and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. 

The hope, Aronson said, is that this program proves its efficacy for the long haul.

“There’s some skepticism around and moralizing why folks are poor, why folks who are experiencing homelessness that causes us to suspect, ‘Oh, they must be wasting their money,’” Aronson said. “Over and over, the evidence is consistent that folks use these to meet their basic needs.”

For Deandre, who has dreams of someday becoming an architect, the program represents something greater.

“Just because we’re experiencing homelessness doesn’t mean it has to be a barrier for us to stop living our lives and that we can’t escape it,” he told GBH.

“With more programs such as BAY-CASH and with more people spreading awareness about the issues that are going on in our community … it’s all about making sure that the next person doesn’t have to experience what you’ve had to experience. It’s about doing what you can to eradicate homelessness, and I think that should be everyone’s ultimate goal.”"

-via GoodGoodGood, August 11, 2025

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There’s one guy in Columbus Ohio that has a completely unique strain of Covid that we only know about because of how much he is shitting and it is baffling researchers.

His identity is a mystery but they know where commutes to because his shits turn up there too.

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I like how the homestuck pilot stuff is just giving everyone a rude awakening that a lot of indie creators know each other and respect each others work and that your individual cringe does not exist in a vacuum. And that at the end of the day you’re all clowns.

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Mark Zuckerberg made a pedophile AI

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Girl has all kinds of badass stuff on her IG

itsginnydi

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Seeing a lot of new people show up in my notes with like "proship dni" or whatever so RENT LOWERING GUNSHOT: IM AN ADULT WHO DOES NOT CARE IF PEOPLE HAVE PROBLEMATIC SHIPS, IM OLD AND BELIEVE TABOO FICTION IS SAFE AND HEALTHY, IM AN OLD MAN WHO THINKS IT'S FINE TO HAVE SHIPS THAT WOULD BE BAD IN REAL LIFE, I BELIEVE IN TABOO KINKS AS HEALING PLACES, I DO NOT DO SHIP DISCOURSE, I THINK IT'S OKAY TO WRITE ABOUT BAD THINGS HAPPENING TO GOOD PEOPLE WITHOUT CONDEMNING IT IN THE NARRATIVE, I THINK IT'S OKAY TO GET OFF TO MAKE BELIEVE BAD THINGS!!! THANKS

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people who are against gentle parenting because they just want to beat their kids are so fucking obvious

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My brother’s friend that’s living with us can’t eat gluten and I recently found out that his family (that kicked him out) made zero effort to accommodate him and he’d just have to not eat when they ate something with gluten in it so I’ve made it my solemn mission to brush off my gluten free cooking skills and give this man as many cakes and cookies and noodles and breaded things as his heart desires.

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People who aren't masking are missing out on so much fashion potential

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Emergency!

My husband gets paid tomorrow, but we're gonna have an overdraft fee of $35 by then due to an automatic payment. We're at -$68.

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It recently came up in conversation with my toddler that some birds can talk, and this has caused her great concern.

See, we were talking about how movies are pretend and how in real life, animals don’t talk. I mentioned that there are some birds who talk a little bit, but not like the animals in movies, and she just looked at me like “???”

So I informed her that some kinds of parrots can copy sounds that people make, and can learn how to say words. I thought this would give her a giggle, as fun new facts often do, but she was just deeply perplexed and a little worried about this.

“Birds can talk?” “Do they ask questions?” “What do they say?” Why do they talk?” “Do chickens talk?” “What about Blue Jays?” “Why do some birds talk?” “How do they talk?” “Birds TALK???”

We showed her a video of a parrot doing the “Hello, pretty bird, give a kiss” thing, and she was dead silent the whole time, hugging her comfort pillow with her knees to her chest. We asked if she wanted us to turn it off, and she shook her head. But we also asked if she wanted to see another one, and she shook her head even harder.

I don’t know why it has distressed her so greatly to learn that some birds can mimic human speech; but then again, I don’t know why it doesn’t distress the rest of us more to know that some birds can mimic human speech.

I keep thinking about that post that’s like “The first person to hear a parrot talk was probably Not Okay.” Because that’s exactly what happened. She had never been introduced to the concept, and her entire worldview got SHOOK.

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I'm working on my plans for BJD&D on Sunday.

This is my annual tabletop RPG where we use Ball Jointed Dolls as our "miniatures" and I cover all of my surfaces with elaborate sets for the game.

I have a delightful DM who has been running little one-shot stories with what I create.

But I've been watching Dimension 20.

And my goblin brain is churning out this year's adventure with gusto. I'm running this one, and I offered my usual DM a shot at being a player. Instead, he's going to be my assistant and we are going to collaborate. He's going to run some of my NPCs. This means we get to banter and I'm *so* looking forward to it.

It's the Faerie Realm. I've offered my players a choice: play a Faerie that has been away and is returning to the Faerie realm, play a human from the mortal plane, or play a changeling (either direction.)

The way time happens in the realm of the fey is a bit wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey. Human characters can be any kind of person from any period of history, including the future.

I plan to post more detail after the game, but here are the courts that the players might encounter:

The Elven Court, oldest of all fey courts.

The Court of Light, believed to be the highest of the courts.

The Court of Darkness, peopled by creatures who dwell in shadow.

The Goblin Court, which does bear a strong resemblance to the movie Labyrinth.

The Forest Court, for all the plant and animal affiliated faeries.

The Parliament of Pixies, which is a silly place.

The Elven Co-Operative, where all elves are equal.

The Court of Flowers. Fairies who identify as being part of the Court of Flowers are horny on main.

The Goblin Court and the lore I'm building for it have neatly tied together the story threads for my little fairy tale I'm writing. I was designing the outfit for the Goblin King and had a block of dialogue running in the back of my mind.

Oooh, this is The Good Stuff, when creativity begets creativity!