'“If we don’t block what Israel is doing, if we don’t block trade, the distribution of weapons and everything else with Israel, we will not ever achieve anything,” said Walter Montagnoli, national secretary of the CUB union, who joined a march in Milan.'

I’ve lived in Scotland for 13 years. I’ve had Indefinite Leave to Remain for over 10. Every step of that process was expensive, slow, and sometimes humiliating. This is vile.

one of the waiters at classic savory today legit looked like a filipino Daniel Dae Kim, and i have not yet recovered from seeing a face like that in person.

We hear a lot about boys getting radicalized online, and not enough about how to stop it. This is good video with 5 specific things parents/adults can do:

A letter from an emmy award-winning journalist who's been detained by ICE for 2+ months just went up via @bittersouth.bsky.social. He's in the US lawfully. "The government asserted that Guevara posed a danger to the community because of his reporting." bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

lots of electeds and political candidates here this morning. i see congressional candidates kat abughazaleh and (evanston mayor) daniel biss, lieutenant governor juliana stratton, and chicago alder andre vasquez:

meanwhile,

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

The second i have disposable income kai is getting it PERIOD One of the best writers of our time

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

BREAKING: At least 62 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/vr7f6n

UPDATE: DOG IS BACK! (funeral still sucked, but I'm losing FAR less of my mind now)

Returned home from a funeral to find one of my dogs is missing. So, today fucking sucks.

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

I'm not a fan of every show doing the 8-10 episodes and one season every ~2 years format. But I did just inhale the third season of Foundation and damn, that space opera is MESSY AS FUCK and made to be binged. A+, good times, and a show I will promptly forget exists for years, until the next season.

huge congratulations to E.G. Condé and Sordidez! Hear more about Taínofuturism and writing the futures we need in our conversation on the podcast Not Now But Soon, debuting tomorrow with this very episode! issues.org/not-now-but-...

conservationist have re-established so many species over the past thirty years that it is kind of ridiculous. "this animal was down to, like, six individuals and now there's hundreds of them" is a very common story and it's because humans decided to work their asses off

Every single time I get a new keychain or phone charm I think about this post

It seems that Gaza will be completely wiped out and we will say goodbye to everything forever, even the rubble is being destroyed. I don’t know, nothing leaves me and I cannot comprehend everything that is happening. Everything I say to myself is, is this really true or is it just a dream?

Here is Jamal from Gaza. All I'm trying to do is rebuild my family's life. I'm trying to do what I can. We lost everything. Literally everything. Hand in hand we can rebuild my family. Nothing is impossible when we all work together. chuffed.org/project/1389...

Hey! Look who showed up! @thomasha.bsky.social’s debut collection is so insanely good. If you love dark weird heartfelt speculative fiction, don’t miss Uncertain Sons!!!

SHIVERS - Snow falls and there is no answer. Some things are not for mortals to know.

Israeli forces killed more than 70 people in Gaza on Wednesday and launched deadly attacks on Yemen.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

I SAW THE AMBIGUOUSLY ITALIAN GYM GHOST OUTSIDE OF THE GYM. ahem. was a the supermarket and saw a familiar, wise, super buff face in the meat section. he was picking out chicken legs. we fist bumped. he told my dad he knew me ("that's my boy!"). he was wearing a TIGHT shirt. TIGHT.

Gaza City residents told to ‘leave now’, while UN human rights chief condemns Israel for ‘war crime upon war crime’.

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I've spent my entire life being told that everything I do is useless, mocked and being told no one should be paid for "underwater basket weaving," and now they're like, "I must steal all the underwater basket weaving lore because it's imperative for my survival" Eat farts, my dudes.

Palestinian families like Rula's are being displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocide. Rula is pregnant & needs urgent help. Please share & donate (no donations for 3 days):

Palestinian families like Hammam's are being bombed, displaced, & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you can, they urgently need shelter:

One of the coolest markets out there. Throw them a few bucks if you're able.

Please send Sharif some strenght If you can contribute to his family today, I can assure you today is a great day for doing so, for it will be deeply appreciated chuffed.org/project/sharif

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

Whole thread. We’re in an up-in-the-air moment now: one hand, Trump threatening civil war; other, ICE being turned back by civil disobedience. Moral: fascists don’t know yet how far they’re willing to go. My belief: more moments like this now will prevent the war that’s been threatened.

A lot of Palestinian flags here. Demands to end the genocide. A link between the two causes

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

as we all know, santa is the God emoji

remember that Exorcist television show with the two priests who were achingly gay for each other? i believe a thing that i know to be untrue, which is: if the show hadn't been cancelled, they absolutely would have fucked nasty. i KNOW that is not the case, but i also WHOLEHEARTEDLY BELIEVE it is.

Ramzi needs 200€ more for his tent, please help if you can. chuffed.org/project/1319...

Seen out and about in Chicago.

Lost in the sauce.

I’ve got a short story critique and a signed copy of Haunted Ecologies in @3lobedmag.com’s kickstarter. If you love weird dark speculative fiction, help them out. They publish so much that I love :) And get a fun story edit from me!!!

I reviewed an ARC of Uncertain Sons earlier this year, and I liked it so much that I had to get myself a proper physical edition. Reviews here: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5527... www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

If climate/environmental justice matters a lot to you but there isn't a specific fight near you to join, joining the fight for immigrants' rights & deportation defense IS climate action. This is just one of many ways that's true

ICYMI I posted my review of Witch You Would by Lia Amador (shhhh, secretly she's @valerievaldes.bsky.social which is fitting for this book whose male lead has a secret second identity) at the blog here: garik16.blogspot.com/2025/05/scif... It's out now and really fun magical romance!

are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

neither artificial nor intelligent. also, not sure if this is a global south thing, but fully 50% of the job postings I see (as a writer/editor) are for this sort of work. at laughable wages, of course.

got a tooth extracted (RIP, you little shit) and must keep my mouth closed for several hours. the exact hours that it turns out i really wanna EAT and YELL

Palestinian children like Aya are being bombed, displaced, & starved to death with their families in Israel's genocide. Please help bring Aya some hope on her birthday by sharing & donating:

This database cool is seriously the coolest thing. When I read “every fire you tend” and “the last pomegranate tree” I thought — I’d really like to learn more about Kurdish literature — and now!!