In nice Monday news, very grateful to see THE SALT ORACLE on the Locus Recommended Reading List alongside a wealth of brilliant stories.
Without a US release, it's nigh impossible to get seen, but everyone can vote in the Locus Awards, so please go celebrate your favs🖤
poll.voting.locusmag.com
With apologies to everyone who followed me because of archeaology shitposting, but hey! Bookish friends!
If you're voting in the BSFAs, Locus, Nebula or Hugos (lol) I'd be so grateful for any consideration for my dark academia with added anti-capitalist orcas🖤
STATION ELEVEN Emily St John Mandel x WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST by Lorraine Wilson.
And now, for fans of STATION ELEVEN, if you dig quiet but beautifully written tales of ordinary people surviving after societal collapse you need @rainewilson.bsky.social 's WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST. Even if you run away to the forest, the world can still need saving.
Photo of the paperback of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest and hardback of The Salt Oracle with a lamp, some flower stems & blue glass buoys
✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
I was just watching some of the Bill and Hillary deposition footage and its really striking/disturbing how much the Clintons clearly come off younger and in better shape than either of our two recent presidents.
They literally spent the past 4-plus years blasting Biden over the withdrawal from Afghanistan and how "rushed" it was.
Trump won't pay back the $200B in tariffs he promised to pay back. But sure, drive that big ol boat thru Hormuz w/o Lloyd's say so.
look if you have a way of conducting international trade that's more efficient than the U.S. military escorting every single ship in the sea to its destination i'd love to hear it
They found him. He died.
Another murder by our immigration goon squads
historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball
Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury.
Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.
Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.
Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.
Be done with it.
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
5 bullets from the table of contents of a lawsuit, describing how Bannon pitched a cryptocoin while hiding his role in it, but didn't disclose there was a back door via which they could steal from the wallets.
Via @mikescarcella.bsky.social, here's the investor lawsuit against Steve Bannon and Boris Epshteyn for their fraudulent cryptocurrency.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreicscf6waklhijry6fblsvr4psk7yku2jauu5hqsn4n765i4gkl2pe)
Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124]
![In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent
"grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreifou66ng5baxhiicmm6d3zntcqosn7pqwzafclwf2qs7xtq7wvqku)
In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent "grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26]
![In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27]
The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in
2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreift4wajp6nsrzdrumb2cnyv7s5nvswakab7h62jnjqua4i7tf2qeq)
In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27] The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in 2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]
Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
Kenneth Zucker, one of the researchers on this study previously published a research paper where he asked adults to rate the physical attractiveness of children.
Just to give you an idea of the types of people behind this m
Call me a filthy commie but I think if we're going to have a carceral legal system it's probably more important to prosecute the child sexual predators and murderous fascist goons than kids who shoplifted, and if we're doing the opposite maybe we're doing everything wrong
Just a thought
21-year-old activist injured by ICE:
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
a screencap showing the drug costs $27,723, and her share is $3,856.23. This will wipe out her deductible for the year but the first step is a doozy.
5 of our new cupcake fidget clickies balancing on my hand. they all have different color gradient frosting and little white heart sprinkles!
One of our new organizers that has a sparkly base with a place for post-it notes and pens, and a beautiful pink/purple/blue gradient pen cup.
a cute volcano meditation garden full of sand, and four little 3d printed dinosaurs going with it.
Happy Deductible Reset January to those who (don't) celebrate it!
Poor @totallydonna.kitrocha.com has one (1) biologic that costs $3,800. We are trying to scrounge up money to pay for it!
That means 20% off sale in the shop! (even on new things!)
thebrokencircle.etsy.com
Events in Minneapolis have shown, there is no real reason for taxpayers to keep paying an armed, pseudo-militarized agency that gleefully terrorizes Trump’s political opponents. trib.al/GaVmtHW
Courts will have to adjudicate redistricting disputes in many states in coming months, including Missouri, Virginia, and likely Florida. Our new explainer walks you through what you need to know.
Just how bad is Grok's nonconsensual porn problem? Musk's AI chatbot is generating another sexualized image of someone without their permission every single minute:
I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
Every time I see Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellan do something X-Men (or Star Trek / LotR) related I get mad at how the death of mid-budget cinema means there will never be a cozy old man romance movie starring two cozy old men who share an actual long-standing platonic love for one another.
It's important to remember that Donald Trump lies constantly, but this is Donald Trump declaring that he has used the United States military to extort Venezuela into giving him $1.7-2.7 billion for his personal use.
When I opened my book club on it I described it to my friends as “a series of diversions occasionally interrupted by a plot” and that seemed to put everyone in the right mindset for it.
I do also want to direct everyone to Alexis Hall's series of queer romances (I want to say there's one m/f bi4bi, one m/m and one f/f but I could be wrong) that are set at a thinly veiled "Great British Baking Show", I've only read "Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake" but it was a FUCKING JOY
I’m super excited for Cat Sebastian’s two new books!!!
And I’m looking forward to when the show How Dare You!? is released on iQIYI.
And as for art I just ordered a print of Laving in Lotus by @bellemerebymal.bsky.social and I can’t wait!! So happy she decided to make prints of that one!!!
