The new Whole Pie has landed, as ever the best overview of who's caging people in the USA along with 10 myths about the system. An essential resource:: 🧵

This is false. Jamal Harrison Bryant, a Megachurch pastor, has said the boycott is over. He is not leaders, plural. He and his church were not the ones to start the calls for boycott. Nekima Levy Armstrong, who founded the Racial Justice Network, and other Minnesota civil rights activists were.

. @chicagotribune.com spoke w/almost a dozen former Krishnamoorthi staffers who described a nearly round-the-clock fundraising operation in which some workers burned out after only a few months. My latest w/ @petrellareports.bsky.social @adquig.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/10/r...

I talk a lot about my work on here but less so about my job(s). Well...with a week left until the IL primary, I'd like to ask you to read this report about some of where Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi gets his campaign money and why it's so important to this election.

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

Havin’ a real “the present is bad and every indicator is that all possible futures are way worse” brain day

This is my thought about a lot of gen AI applications. You let ChatGPT write your wedding vows? Your college essay? Your job application? You clearly don't actually want to get married / graduated / hired. Have you considered maybe trying to find happiness somewhere else?

collaborators suddenly realize that they could cancel their contract for a concentration camp after insisting it wasn’t possible. a world of fascists who have never felt pushback once in their life, suddenly stunned to see everyone hates them. makes you think! kansascitydefender.com/justice/plat...

B planet here we come.

Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”

"Successful anti-authoritarian movements do not win by softening their positions. They win by building unlikely coalitions around a broadly resonant grievance." Like, say, corruption. Or, unchecked corporate power.

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

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The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

GNCRT and the Rainbow Round Table are pleased to announce the Collaboration List titles for 2026! View press release here: bit.ly/4t4iMbl

Today I’m helping out at my job from 20+ years ago, helping Greg & the DreamHaven crew ship books across the country to folks who inundated their webstore after seeing him on TV. Website is still down, but later try DreamHavenbooks.com for all your sci-fi, horror, fantasy, film, & comics needs!

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Tell me your pet's name in a GIF.

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

Today at @thestfnetwork.bsky.social Con, we played @hecticelectron.bsky.social's Raccoon Sky Pirates. Our intrepid band stole a child's easter candy basket, Joker chemicals, tool chest, drone, dill plant, sewing machine, fridge air compressor and THE MEATS. The Raccoons are COMING!

Tried out Unleashed by @critkituk.bsky.social today for @thestfnetwork.bsky.social's Con. Had an absolute blast, look at this ridiculous dog heist. A chihuahua and rottweiler successfully heisted a boat (unfortunately their last companion got put in the crate).

I'm excited to announce that I'm putting on a new hat as the Associate Director of Marketing & Media at @paizo.com ! <3

Wikipedia turns 25 today and announced that the major AI companies now pay for enterprise access to Wikipedia data. It’s an interesting shift that if you contribute to GitHub or Wikipedia, it’s less that you’re contributing to the fountain of human knowledge and more you’re training AI for free.

it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

There's been a lot more smoking on TV in the last year or so and I am already way over it :p

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Facebook is for people you know but don’t like Bsky is for people you don’t know but do like Group chats are for people you know and do like LinkedIn is for people you don’t know and don’t like

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why. Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

We can do even more.

I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading. This is one of those cases.

I’m delighted to open submissions for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We're wanting Arthurian stories with LGBTQ+ protags and spec-fic elements. Check out the Submissions page on my website! Link in comments. #arthuriana #callforsubmissions #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks

Following the tradition of Americans destroying tea, I've found the third/four steeps of a given tea bag work better if you microwave the tea bag with the water. Doing @gailsimone.bsky.social proud.

Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Did you make that grilled cheese? Sure did, Boss, real fucking sexy, just like you asked.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

i fucking hate these people so much. "i spent the time working, reading and thinking" so you want a train. you want the bus. get on fucking public transit you absolute coward. or are you afraid of being next to god forbid someone poorer than you??

Here's some good news: who's coming with me and @ryehickman.bsky.social to GOBLIN TOWN!?!?!!!!

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants. This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...