But I'm profoundly grateful to everyone still making an effort to mask, to clean the air, to distribute tests and PPE, to support mutual aid funds, and more. I'm grateful for the friends and communities I've made because we've all been pushed from public spaces.
On this year’s long covid awareness day, I want more people to read and think about what the late Shafiqah Hudson said before it killed her. Because she was right, as usual, and also early, as usual. Perhaps too early for a lot of people to listen.
Some of you get so mad when people point out the obvious. But you're not mad at the people in power who deliver nothing.
Every liberal post about why our current technological system of mass ecocide is good always boils down to well life is good for me, a middle class professional and like that's great buddy you are globally part of the top like 8% of the world's population the system
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Thank you for this! Not the first time you have made me feel better by having a thoughtful and nuanced perspective on the creative life. <333
This thread is now dedicated to organizing aid for trans refugees
If you need help or have help to offer, please @ me
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If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
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Rofllllll "the same basic scene over and over where they all have the same light kinks for no reason" thank you for your brave truth-telling
The murderers of the news are many, chief among them vulture capitalists, big tech, & neoliberal political hacks. But also playing our part were those who wanted other people to labor for us for free, or wanted to replace news with indignation loops. We are complicit. I count myself in this number.
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
Good and useful tech doesn't have to force itself onto you. Good and useful tech doesn't have to beg to be used.
Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should be held responsible for their own actions
Stuart Christie
One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.
thanks to tumblr I have discovered enclose.horse and now I might not do anything else today
I think you’re great and I appreciate the reminder to buy some more of your books.
sometimes when a corn tortilla is perfect, it feels like maybe god does love us and we aren’t alone in the universe
Revving up the teleporter now 😜💖
Kinda wanted to snap, “hey, could you guys shut the fuck up during savasana?” at the end of class tonight, which is not very yogic of me. (But I didn’t! Which maybe is?)
couldn’t stay there either just to be a punching bag. Anyway thank you for letting me vent on main, my career is a disappointment but at least I have health insurance, and you are a fine marine biologist in my book!
It was cool at first being able to do both, but I was never able to get a fun technical job, just lots of different versions of “do the boys’ writing + presentations bc they don’t want to.” Meanwhile people in publishing hated me because of all the STEM people who made them feel like shit, so I
So weird reading this as someone who felt forced to get that cool MIT engineering degree because my incredible writing talent would never be enough to make a living even though I started getting paid for it at age 14. Being able to do math has felt like a curse that kept me from my passion.
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A crowd of people on the sidewalk hold signs reading "ProPublica Workers Love a Union Contract" and "Ready to Strike"
A crowd of several doezen people hold signs reading "ProPublica Workers Deserve Fair Pay", "ProPublica Workers Love A Fair Contract", and "We're Not Shutting Up"
1/ Our members are practicing picketing @propublica.org offices in multiple cities right now to demand job security protections and guardrails around AI. We are ready to do what it takes to get a fair contract.
Yes! So excited for another @aphelandraw.bsky.social hit I can read with the kids in my life! Love @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social too ofc!
I would love to! I could return the favor, too—we don’t have a separate room as such but @mwithpen.bsky.social said our guest bed was comfy.
Anyway, the place where I am coming from whenever I write anything, anywhere is: we can live better than this, but that requires the will to change. The universe is too fucking fabulous for us to only know it through capitalism and white supremacy. That's what my posts and books are always about.
And I wonder what would happen if people asked themselves "How am I reading this person? What expectations do I have? How does this (de)humanize the person?" Because I can see with the new book how easy it would be for me to accrue an audience if I looked and spoke like a white man
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