I really hope that the two stops in Halifax mean that it’s being considered for an expansion team 👀

This is blatantly calculated and Dem senators need to force Schumer out of the leader position THIS WEEK. So I guess I have to make more fucking phone calls.

Called both @wyden.senate.gov and @merkley.senate.gov about opposing this deal + also urging them to dump Schumer as leader

I’m glad for my blood pressure I didn’t watch pks but LFG SPIRIT!!!!

Happy N7 Day to the series that kept me from shoving my grad advisor out a window

Reminder: Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender: otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...

I finished the book last night and after sleeping on it, I think one reason why folks have a rough time with this book is that it's less what we expect from a Jane Austen novel and more of a proto Brontë novel in a different key and that it's lowkey a horror story

Fanny Price would’ve been justified in killing everyone (except her brother) in Mansfield Park

True justice would be if Klein, Yglesias, the Pod Bros, and all of the white dude pundits would take a 4 year sabbatical from commenting on politics.

live view from cuomo hq

Plus, Dick Cheney is dead!

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.

In addition to Vincent Price as Rattigan, mine is George Carlin as the Narrator in Thomas the Tank Engine

if there is any justice we can wrench out of this world, Stephen Miller's legacy will be that "abolish ICE" became the conservative stance, and "prosecute ICE" becomes our reality.

From what I understand, even if the government obeys there is likely to be a delay before money hits the cards, so keep donating and keep checking in with people. And if they disobey this order, I swear to God...

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week, an early launch to #Novellavember with a Bonus Track from @chloroformtea.bsky.social featuring novella recs, plus lots of reviews, rec lists, and a call for your October SFF favorites!

We have joined with @roseroomco.bsky.social for our first annual supporters food drive! 1 in 3 people in our region struggled with hunger last year. Now, many of our neighbors have lost their jobs, have been furloughed, or will lose access to vital benefits.

The Spirit Squadron condemns Elizabeth Eddy’s NY Post article, which promotes a hateful ideology that targets trans and cis Black women athletes under the guise of “protecting women,” and it has no place in the NWSL. Trans people belong everywhere, including in sport 🏳️‍⚧️

Also, protect Barbra Banda, and Temwa Chawinga, and anyone else who doesn’t fit white femininity or white feminism at all costs. Even their own literal colleagues in the league apparently.

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Today in just over 2 hours, join @kalanadi.bsky.social, @thefancyhatlady.bsky.social, @bookfinch.bsky.social, @breereadsbooks.bsky.social, and I for this month's Stitch & Bitch! This month we'll be chatting about Queen Demon among other things youtube.com/live/aQL9S_sdilo?feature=share

Was anyone going to tell me that Sarah Marshall has a satanic panic podcast with the CBC or was I just supposed to stumble on it myself? www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

I'm one of the people mentioned who felt abject relief over that one movie getting cancelled 😂

Honestly, unleashing this cadre of mediocre white boys who credited themselves with Obama’s political talent is actually the worst thing Obama did domestically

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

Rían Johnson has so much to answer for in elevating that man to co lead when it should’ve been Finn

cannot believe I'm typing this out, but thank fucking god for Bob Iger saying no to the K*lo movie

Finished listening to Murderland by Caroline Fraser this morning, and honestly it reminded me why I tend to avoid that particular type of true crime story

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

FYI this is the weekend you can watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for free on the app even if you don’t have an Apple TV+ subscription (Irritated forever that the rights situation means it doesn’t air free for all on terrestrial TV anymore, but at least it’s free this Saturday and Sunday)

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

Thao Le found at the scene of the crime AGAIN being the agent for a Dramione author. Like it feels like all of her recent clients have been people she found trawling specific tags on AO3

maybe, just maybe, if you're a white booktoker, you shouldn't use the sound of a kipling poem when recc'ing books by authors of color. this is also someone who made a whole deal about why it was ok her her to platform Alchemised so her common sense seems to be generally lacking

USSF paying tribute to CP23 by leaving the queerphobe off the roster

Woso retirement week mood:

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

I just saw someone say that the Dallas Wings should consider Jenny Boucek, and I started laughing bc how quickly folks forget that she sucked so much in Seattle, they fired her and then immediately won a championship the next season

The boos for Cathy need to be louder, Phoenix

I hate to agree with Rebecca Lobo, but I also don’t understand why Coach Girl Dad was ejected

QUICK everyone else tell me your most blorbo song

Florence + The Machine's "One of the Greats" is really the most blorbo song of all time to me, since it works perfectly for both Buffy and Commander Shepard

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week I and several readers built a rec list of our favorite reads of September. Plus: lots of great reviews, author interviews, and award news.

*coughs* just bc a book is nominated for a Lodestar Award, doesn't make it YA

Honestly it feels like a lot of popular romantasy is a backlash to diverse YA books

Okay, I really don’t want to keep talking about this, since frankly - I hate KP. She’s an example of toxic management, and I saw what she did to my friends. But I’m really disturbed by the number of women, specifically white women on Threads and on here, justifying her cursing at staff.

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal. bsky.app/profile/aman...

THE WITCH ROADS ebook is currently on sale (US) for $2.99, so if you're curious & want to read a grimsweet tale of a humble deputy courier & her annoyed nephew, a possessed prince, & a ravenous fungal ghost plague, now's the time. Bk 2 of the duology arrives Nov 4! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...