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We're so excited to announce issue 9, our TWO YEAR (!!!!) anniversary issue! Featuring @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social, and more.

repost from @FreeJeremyNet (Jeremy and Jason Hammond) on twitter: KICKED OUT OF FEDCON MILITARY RECRUITMENT CONFERENCE (aka @defcon.bsky.social ) - for daring to raise our voice against war criminals and the rise of AI tech fascism.

"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps. Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people" Sticker spotted in Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA

As I was finishing up my walk in Lower Allston in Boston a woman said she was going around telling neighbors ICE is in the neighborhood today.

Open letter to bluesky moderation about the deletion of Gazan accounts. Please share and sign 🇵🇸

The bubble zone bylaw approved yesterday by Toronto city council is part of a national trend Similar laws are popping up everywhere, especially in response to Palestine solidarity actions, and they pose a serious threat to free expression and dissent My latest: breachmedia.ca/bubble-zone-...

Yup. I continue to say that AI is for those who fetishize THE IDEA and dismiss THE WORK. It's for those people who come up to writers and say, "I got a great idea for a book, I'll give it to you, you write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50," as if the idea is the hardest and most important part.

These principled artists have worked hard and put a lot on the line to protest Canadian wealth that funds both the arming of a genocide and feel-good prestige arts awards. Arts philanthropy looks good, bombing people does not. We are lucky to have these people. breachmedia.ca/scotiabank-i...

What I appreciate here is that the FT scored a video interview with Sam Altman (a high profile get!) for a conceit where he makes lunch and then another FT writer just ruthlessly savages his kitchen appliances and cooking techniques. www.ft.com/content/b180...

Don't make me tap the "they're using the 1920s Klan definition" sign

Two Lines Press is excited to open a focused submissions call for translations of literature from Asia and Oceania. We highly encourage submissions of work from less-represented languages and from BIPOC, women, and/or queer authors and translators. www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow

remember in school learning about the great depression and textbooks being like “things were so bad people lived in makeshift towns called hoovervilles, it was inhumane” well, what if times now are like that but also they routinely destroyed the hoovervilles with bulldozers

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

Can we have a real talk about AI… how the fuck is everyone not disturbed as I am? Why the fuck would you kill our planet faster just to make some dumb shit? How can people possibly consume AI content like it’s normal? I truly don’t understand how normalized it’s become and it’s scaring me

Former Death Star employees condemn new Emperor's plan to use Death Star for death star stuff

LOL, LMAO EVEN www.politico.eu/article/pier...

absolutely fucking horrifying just like 2018 with these kill machines and absolutely need to point out that the filipino festival goers are the ones who detained the suspect *for the police.*

we need to be meaner to brands doing harry potter collabs

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000

woke up with the burning question of how secure Coca Cola Freestyle machines are and I'm sad to report that they come with facial recognition-ready cameras

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

In honour of Hayao Miyazaki I've implemented the biggest update to the GenAI mute/block list in a few months. Clear your feed. Let me know of any missed accounts and any false positive I might have swept up. I'm not perfect and happy to review mistakes. bsky.app/profile/eidy...

regular reminder to not take or post pictures of people’s faces at protests without their consent!

www.theverge.com/news/643670/... wow

wokeness was keeping the economy afloat. wokeness kept planes in the air. wokeness kept us all safe

The NYT editorial board decided from day one that there would be neither sympathy nor even empathy for pro-Palestine student protesters. Long before Khalil was abducted, they decided that thousands of students were to be treated as suspicious. They absolutely helped pave the way for this moment.

hi, cis folks! so, when they release the US cass review that makes the cass review look like a trans liberation manifesto, i think you should • ask who’s making the case against transition • answer whether they have trans people’s best interest at heart • listen to actual trans people instead 🧵

I keep a tankie list that is hand curated by me seeing someone post unhinged shit about China , Syria etc etc bsky.app/profile/did:...

I do legitimately think this is part of the issue. we don’t need to know what everyone is thinking!

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It's National Indigenous Languages Day today! If you've ever wanted to learn how to read syllabics for different Indigenous languages like Cree, Ojibwe, or Inuktitut, you can get started with the star chart ✴️

Pro tip for companies and other economic entities: you can use april fool's as an opportunity to post "we're completely swearing off AI altogether, it was a mistake all along", and then, upon gauging the reaction, be completely baffled that it was ever interpreted as anything but straightforward

Patronising ignorance! International organisations either abide by the junta's restrictions on access (UNICEF, ICRC) or will not be given full access (MSF). The people of Myanmar unfortunately have to rely on their own humanitarian solidarity networks. By all means give to them! More here🧵1/6

Some people say non-binary people are just saying that because they want attention, and I'm here to tell you that you can be non-binary *and* want attention

LOL wow a dude just argued in the EU courts that misgendering is a GDPR violation and he *won*. www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refu...

Read the full story: First Nations offer to buy ‘iconic’ Hudson’s Bay store chain for tobacco, blanket

I'm ALSO grateful to the tech guild members for enabling my compulsion with this alternative

i have to confess something. i have never, ever not once used chatgpt for anything and its literally unimaginable to me that anyone would. people everywhere whose taste and opinions i would normally trust will be like "yeah i use it for x" why? what would compel you to do that? don't answer this

I can't believe that not only are the crew of this ship still confined to the ship *because they don't have visas* but they've also had their phones confiscated so they can't be in touch with family