Octavia E. Butler said, “These novels are not prophetic. These novels are cautionary tales… The problems that I write about are problems that we can do something about. That's why I write about them.”
And “I hope they're not prophecy because I don't want to live in that world.”
“Y’all, it’s a lot.”
Can’t wait for @txfreedomread.bsky.social to drop some bombshells. Who could have predicted SB13 would result in good books being banned?
Oh that’s right, we advocates did. Multiple times.
Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws?
Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?
One of my fav artists ever
A campaign poster with large text reading "Mayor Mamdani" and a message urging to fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. Two photos of a man in a suit (Zohran Mamdani are shown, with a website link for more information.
You can let the Mayor know what you think about him breaking his promise. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Incredible @nprfreshair.bsky.social interview with historian Rhae Lynn Barnes about the history of amateur blackface — the part about blackface texts disappearing from libraries is particularly interesting
www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...
There are signs that at least some federal judges are getting tired of the Trump administration simply ignoring court orders
I still get a kick out of how Nana Visitor's name is also a cool occupation.
Your job: to visit nanas. They insist you eat delicious food, tell you raunchy and gory stories of the men they have killed, sometimes you help them reach items on tall shelves. A perfect job.
Man.
The world fucking is on fire.
So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.
Live whats left of your only life.
If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.
Fuck the haters.
Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
Ok #birdsky who is this fine fellow? I saw him in Orlando. Wing span of roughly 3 feet with black/grey feathers and a white underbelly. 🪶
I think this about right, with two subtypes:
1. Know your enemy types (@faineg.bsky.social)
2. Excited tinkerer types (@mike10010100.com)
All are fighty as hell but this is Bluesky, please consult my profile banner.
One of the most depressing things about the war in Iran is how a bunch of grown ass men are acting like this is a fucking video game.
A comic drawn digitally with two panels. First panel has one black cat on the left asking a white cat on the right "so what do you do for a living?" Second panel the white cat answered with a silly face "My best?"
don't we all
#art #cuteart #comic #cat
I once interviewed an expert on oil consumption that focused on consumers. He said low gas prices are a religion for Americans and they will do absolutely nonsensical things to access them, like drive miles and miles out of their way.
If you wanna lose votes as fast as possible, raise gas prices.
Do me a favor
Unclench your jaw and relax your shoulders.
Thank you kindly 🤗
Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not.
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
The question is also misleading because nobody actually cares before puberty, the default for a lot of sports is coed!
I am convinced that the right NBC dramedy would more or less solve the trans sports issue, if you actually talk to people who flipped their views on gay rights in the 2000s a disturbingly high percentage will mention Ellen or Queer Eye
I used to hate International Women's Day until I spent the day in Tijuana where it was a riot against the patriarchy. Where race and imperialism was at its core.
Happy International Women's Day to the women who fight.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
@down.blue
I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times
Oh, by the way: About 28,000 American citizens have gotten out of the Middle East as we bomb everyone to dust.
There are 400,000 Americans there and they have been abandoned by their government, though somehow a private plane was sent for Trump supporters.
