this week on @thewritewayoflife.bsky.social we didn't have a special guest, it's just an hour of me and @adjolietta.bsky.social discussing what genAI is, why we hate it, and how bad it is for your writing craft. give it a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/5reF...

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

The median number of Measles deaths among children in the US for the last 50 years has been 0. That's the benchmark. ANY more is a failure of policy. Bobby is currently a failed Secretary. You cannot yadda-yadda the life of a child that should not die.

this is a direct threat to your safety as an American and should be treated as such.

For I am a salt hag. My blood is tide-turned, my lips toughened by the wind's rough-wooing. I know how to stand upon the rocks when the storm sends it omens. I know how to endure the tempest. No man shall make me fear his hollow howling. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. We obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Revisit this story from our series "America's Mental Barrier," a 2025 Pulitzer finalist. (Published Nov. 2024)

I don’t know who needs to hear this today but break up with him

"The Bechdel Test", "Bury Your Gays", these are concepts meant to point out patterns in popular culture, not to evaluate individual works of art. People who can't grasp this cling to shit like TVTropes because it saves them having to think.

Please help us correct misinformation! Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans". We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community. Find out more @ translifeline.org

Judge Wilkinson is an appointee of Ronald Reagan and has been on the shortlist for previous Republican presidents for nominations to #scotus. This is as emphatic of a warning it gets for everyone and a notice for Roberts SCOTUS.

I grew up in Alaska so I’ve got some weird skills: 1. Fishing—as a food source, could catch, fillet, and process. 2. We had an industrial greenhouse so I could handle a 20x60 greenhouse 3. We raised chickens. I hated them. But I do know how to take care of them. 4. I have carpentry skills

The news is full of awful things Union organizers were desperate to make people see, believe & act on 114 years ago. Please take a moment to remember the 146 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire who died on this day in 1911. Our work on the subject: boroughsofthedead.com/industrial-m...

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]

The Onion summer writing fellowship is seeking applicants! It's six months, good salary and benefits. This year's applicants do NOT have to complete the Eating Challenge, as it turns out this does not adhere to Illinois labor law. We apologize to those who have died in the past.

Elizabeth Warren for Senate Minority Leader. Mazie Hirono for Senate Minority Leader. Markey, Merkley or Welch for Senate Minority Leader. Fuck it, Large Boulder The Size Of A Small Boulder for Senate Minority Leader. At least when it falls into a position it can be trusted to fucking stay there.

Hello lovely Americans, here’s my pitch to you. Don’t talk about how Canadians and Europeans can save America from ourselves because we can’t do it. They’re not here for that. They’re here to save themselves from us.

guess who’s been fucking anemic for years!!! thought I was just a “little” anemic in the “hahaha maybe I’ll eat more iron” way but OH BOY changed my birth control and no longer have heavy periods and hahahah I was *fatiged* and I did not even know it I just thought I hit 19 and was getting “old”

my therapist: you seem to process your feelings best when you write them down, might be a good exercise— me, processing an emotion: “I must excavate the self hate from my heart to make room for love. In whatever form it takes.”

No Other Land, directed by a four-person Israeli-Palestinian collective, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary. But no one in the U.S. wanted to distribute it.

"We call on the world to stop the injustice & stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people," says Oscar winner Basel Adra to applause from the audience. 'No Other Land' just won the Best Documentary Oscar. Also a fantastic speech from fellow winner Yuval Abraham on "ethnic supremacy".

the boycott on Friday did some good getting folks involved in protest who have never done it— HOWEVER as an organizer, it is difficult to get people to come back if they don’t think their sacrifice did anything. *That’s* why ppl felt this wasn’t the best way to introduce ppl to collective action

I want to be very clear. This is a demand that Black people take a backseat and accept a junior role in their coalition of “common sense.” They’re telling you any attempts to address racism will be unwelcome and seen as counterproductive.

Looks like I might be making trips to Canada in the future to get my yearly flu vaccine, if that cancelled FDA meeting is any indicator for what is to come

wish me luck: this week im going to try and convince my therapist a situationship is exactly what i need both to cure my desire for men and also fulfill my basic emotional needs while I scour the countryside in search of a wife

you know it’s bad when your anxiety dreams have your sub-conscious going “stop it. all will be well. good can happen to you. this does not all have to be hard. the landing can be gentle”

One positive to getting vaccinated later in life because of anti vax parents is that I’m fairly confident I’m not dealing with any vaccine waning in terms of effectiveness.

The truly freeing thing about embracing queerness as an identity is that you relieve yourself of any patriarchal white American beauty standard. like I shaved half my head in an undercut and all my queer friends proceeded to call me hot af and they were right. I am hot af

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

instagram’s disappearing messages feature will be the death of me, let me swipe up to refresh in peace!!! I am anxious, I cannot help it

hey look at this shiny new thing for you to listen to on your morning commute!

what people don’t understand is that I do not operate on a praises based system of rewards. Much like Catholics, you need to tell me I’m doing bad. Unlike Catholics, I’m fueled to prove you wrong and do better, instead of spiraling out with generational guilt.

Sometimes the only thing that can solve your troubles is a Baja blast freeze

When I think I’ve fully eliminated my attraction to men, Jonathan Bailey shows up and pulls me right back in (swoon, those glasses)

My grandmother was born the same year as the Great Depression. Her childhood spent growing up in a country marred by economic instability and a world war. That’s how recent that shit is— I’m terrified she’ll spend the last decade of her life in the same conditions as her first.

NEW: Vera Rubin was a pioneering female astronomer. The federal webpage for an observatory named for her now excludes mention of efforts to diversify science. “I’m sure Vera would be absolutely furious,” said a co-author of a biography of Rubin. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

THIS IS A CONCENTRATION CAMP DO YOU UNDERSTAND YET

what's that? you heard i'm starting a podcast? you heard @adjolietta.bsky.social is involved, too? you heard RIGHT! check out the write way of life come february for interviews with incredible authors chatting about craft! www.instagram.com/thewritewayo...

"Don't you feel dumb for overreacting?" No. A threat is a fucking threat and only by reacting can we do anything to prevent or mitigate the impact of said threat, you dunce. Seriously, ever hear the colloquialism "Better safe than sorry"? I'm not going to FAFO about people's lives and liberties.

“We’re hoping to work across the aisle.” No. Republicans are more than welcome to vote with Democrats, but there is no extending a hand to the other side here. This should be war.

Just completed a task I had been procrastinating for a week. It took. Five minutes. *sigh*

Nothing more hilarious to me though then Elon Musk hitting copy paste on the same email he sent to twitter employee’s laying them off in 2023 that was sent out to federal employee’s in 2025. “Fork in the Road” surely we have a better metaphor that we don’t have to reuse

unironically who is authoring Project 2029 Because someone need to plan a long term opposition to this utter insanity

Calling today. It's time to start flooding your rep's office. The good thing is, "flooding" can be as little as 5-10 people calling. Throw sand in the gears of despotism.

hot take: the Democratic plan should not be to let the Trump Administration run wild so that voters feel the hurt in 2026. At this point I don’t give a fuck about the election—I need Democrats to mount an actual resistance and break. the. rules to stop this maniac