Purely Speculative

The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics

No-paywall link

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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Once on a panel for a professional conference, someone asked me if technology gives me hope for access.

I said let’s get ramps on every building first, and the tech bro manager was PISSED. People want to believe that they invented the answer to systemic issues…without understanding the issues.

1/8 The idea ADHD's being overdiagnosed in society, I believe, is being driven by the rise of influencers who may or may not have been diagnosed with ADHD but share content pathologising every day struggles claiming it's because of ADHD - creating a perception its everywhere

That's likely led to...

The science of racism with Professor Keon West

No, effeminate boys aren’t being ‘transed’ | Xtra Magazine Hiding my transness nearly killed me. Let’s work to build a world where trans people’s lives aren’t quite so hard

A recent Atlantic column claimed society is allegedly "transing" effeminate boys. For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote a rebuttal using my own experience as a young, closeted trans girl. xtramagazine.com/power/identi...

Message to men: you can date/marry way, way above your league if you will just fucking learn to cook and do some laundry, please stop hitting yourself in the face with hammers or "optimising" things and try vacuumcleanermaxxing instead...

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯

- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

A graphic from your ai slip bores me in which I request “please draw me” the picture is a stick figure with a smiley face with a black hat, green shorts,an orange shirt, and purple shoes scribbled on.

This site is pretty fun!

Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME

Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day.

Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

Bumping this for the daytime crowd, as I'd like to get a heating-oil order in tomorrow if I can. 🙂

Lolsob—imagine a world where Diane Wynne Jones and Diana Duane were THE Famous Wizard Writers and JKR is crowdfunding for heating oil. Probably that timeline has different presidents and less warcrimes too

The reason I called this an own goal the other day is it's like critiquing the paint on the walls of a kitchen someone smeared in shit.

Sure. They shouldn't have called that paint autumn harvest when it was beige.

But like...

There's shit on the walls?

My Washington State tax is going to go up and that's a good thing. We had the most regressive tax structure in the country for DECADES.

#ShareGoodNewsToo

There cannot be moral billionaires because if they had morals then they wouldn’t be billionaires.

How It’s Made: A 7,000-Word Story on Coal in Oakland “This is the only time in my entire life, I think, where I wrote long and someone was like, ‘Well, could you make it longer?’”

People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.

Saw The Spear Cuts Through Water so Impossible Creatures.

It’s MG fantasy that should be read by everyone. It’s about how the world is hard (if it feels hard, it’s not because you are doing it wrong) but there are things and people that are worth fighting for and there is always something to save.

Screenshot of tags: goodreads, Lucie Britisch, on publishing, on writing, rants, reviews.

The tags on this give the game away. Goodreads reviewers aren’t the same as professional critics. Goodreads is fundamentally a product review platform for Bezos to data mine. Critics/ reviewers are doing critical analysis.

I bet @sharonk.bsky.social knows.

This is what I came here for.

Paging @makana-yama.bsky.social

My current rep, Kevin Kiley, is on this committee. Thanks to the CA redistricting, he will be running in a much bluer district this year.

If you are currently in CA-3 or in what will be CA-6, call this limp noodle of a man and squeeze.

I do the same with Schiff and Padilla.

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

CDPH is urging Californians to check their measles vaccination status after several recent cases were reported in Sacramento and Placer counties. These cases represent the third measles outbreak in CA in 2026.

Learn more: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA... [1/3]

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

Love’s Labour’s Lost, Julius Caesar, and Cymbeline.

We need candidates who fall firmly into “looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you” overlap.