*taps internet microphone*
After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...
We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...
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Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.
(Published July 2025)
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
🇫🇮☢️ Finland’s government plans to remove a legal ban on nuclear weapons on its territory, allowing them to be deployed during wartime.
The amendment, justified as strengthening NATO deterrence against Russia, still needs parliamentary approval.
As many people have correctly pointed out: the worst outcome of this war is nuclear annihilation.
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
Three tuxedo cats are snuggled up together on a cream blanket
Everything is…you know. But here is a vortex of little guys.
Up to $2 billion per day. Enough to give $200 to EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN CHILD LIVING IN POVERTY instead. Every single day.
This is the reason why the ultra rich want to amass ever-increasing amounts of wealth, and why we can stop asking how much is enough. It's never enough. They want to be their own individual sovereign nation, insulated from the rest of the world.
NEW YouGov poll: Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 50% support 39% oppose Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE Moderates +6 23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE
NEW YouGov poll:
Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States
50% support
39% oppose
Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE
Moderates +6
23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE
Sedgwick’s prescription is “reparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: “Just because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way, having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.
Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/
This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.
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so the thing about evangelical christians is they really, really, really see it as a religious command to bring about the end of the world in a literal sense
not at all an exaggeration to call it a death cult
theres no silver lining here ive just understood it for decades so the shock is done
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
jesus fucking christ
Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."
*Just in the LAST WEEK*:
- Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them
- Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license
- Scouts agreed to ban trans kids
- Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids
- SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents
I was forced to upgrade to do some video editing. Mistake: everything is slower, battery life sucks, my life is measurably worse.
Yeah, you don't have to be rounded up in camps to experience genocide 😒
Why DS9 holds up so well.
The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.
this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying
Mass politics is relationships of political activity between individuals—relationships that are reproduced and validated through mutual labor and sacrifice. Rigid mechanistic socialists who cannot tolerate failure and uncertainty do not understand where the revolutions they idolize came from or went
i always get emotional about recovered lost films but you guys
spoiler alert lol (it’s 45 sec if you wanna click thru & see) but seemingly the first robot in film is a clown, who then gets smashed into nonexistence with a sledgehammer
this literally may have to be on page one of my dissertation
meanwhile, war rages on at home.
Omg no, you’re not going to make Anthropic into “resistance tech.” Nope nope nope
