I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

The only thing worse than health insurance in America is not having health insurance.

Making property owners pay a larger percentage in property tax on each subsequent house they buy would be rad. I'm thinking of that guy who said he owned 15,000 properties. At purchase #100 you'd just pay the full value of the house in taxes every year. This is actually a thing we could do, easy

Okay. Real Estate Investing should not be a thing. the building I live in right now should have been a housing co-operative built with municipal, provincial, and federal funding and any "profit" made should have gone directly into a maintenance fund. If you own more than house? TAXES. LOTS OF EM.

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

I’m heartbroken to hear our warrior Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has passed. She was so important to me & welcoming of me. This is the great loss of a true fighter. May she rise to power as an ancestor, may we never forget her lessons & continue her work for disability justice.

We’re fundraising $40k to ensure that the real humans providing that advice can access health care. 99 donors brought us to $6,100 overnight and when we hit $10k, we will receive an anonymous matching gift. Donate here! www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Assata Shakur

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

It's #LatineHeritageMonth! We're showcasing a book a day, every day, through October 15, by female, nonbinary, and trans authors of Latin heritage who write #sci-fi, #fantasy, #magicalrealism, #fabulism, #horror and other speculative works. Come read with us!

@maris.bsky.social offers seven tips for how to be a good literary citizen.

lately I think a lot about this New American Movement poster from the seventies. as true now as it was then. (NAM is a precursor of the DSA)

Just a reminder that being obese doesn't make you a terrible person. Being a fascist does.

“This confirms once more that when it comes to copyright and its enforcement, there is one law for the rich corporations, and another law for the rest of us.”

If you need an incentive, we're offering 10% off new subscriptions through tomorrow night!!

As so much is being intentionally dismantled around us, i'm focused on what we can build as a durable climate solution. My long thoughts about how we need to create the presence of electricity not just threaten its absence. www.isaacsevier.com/notes/what-i...

this is from A BLOOMY HEAD by J. Winifred Butterworth and you should read it

ty for the reminder!! a few Doctor Who and Torchwood eps, plus my Repo: the Genetic Opera! interview, from my io9 days. my MIT student reporting, no longer.

How you treat the most vulnerable members of your community is how you yourself should expect to be treated by the world at large.

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a millionaire? I’ve got two toilets in my house, man. what more could you want

Yes! The word “civility” traced back to the Latin cīvīlis — “of or pertaining to citizens”. As Sylvia Wynter explains, Western conceptions of civilized citizens - “Man” - denigrate everyone who is not white and male as an inferior, non/sub-human other. Civility is about maintaining this hierarchy.

I love Sam’s writing and insights! Such a treat to get his essays in addition to his wonderful fiction.

like honestly just as someone who got through stuff that wasnt even so bad by teenage girl standards i feel a trauma response over a pit of anger so enormous it could swallow me whole

Going to be that person here and say subscribe to @theflytrapmedia.com if you want to put your money behind feminist, worker-owned cultural criticism. We have some really cool stuff planned for later this year and we can't do it without your help!

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

This settlement number is peanuts compared to the gargantuan scale of the theft. I continue to be heartbroken at how authors are conditioned to accept so little, especially considering the kinds of wages people get when their only contribution is building a plagiarism machine.

Wild how many people think that as long as they don’t die from something, they’ll be fine. There are so many ways you can be alive without getting to live. If you’ve never been that sick I’m happy for you, but I hate to tell you that that could change at any time. Stop talking over people who know.

Graham Greene had tiny roles in Slings & Arrows and Being Erica, two of my very favorites, and they were wonderful because they carried the weight of all his others.

Your Labor Day reminder that if the minimum wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $28 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $21/hour from working Americans for 60 years. We don't suffer a lack of resources—but from an excess of greed.

This author isn't celebrating yet--at least not until it's clear what the settlement terms are. Any celebration should be muted, anyway, since this not only ensures Anthropic will survive, it also got Anthropic a favorable ruling on fair use.

Last week, 95 of our union members sent emails to @propublica.org management demanding a fair and transparent disciplinary process. Management hasn't responded and canceled our monthly all-staff meeting, which had been scheduled for that day. We deserve better. bsky.app/profile/prop...

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

If they absolutely *had to* pick a celebrity to be president, why couldn’t they have picked Dolly? Imagine the America that might have been.

From masks & wider public health to virtual meeting options, sure is hard to get square with how fully & fundamentally this society has toddler-screamed "NO!" at everything that made things even marginally more accessible in the early days of this pandemic because thinking about it makes them scared

I'll never forget my fun Jamaican aerospace engineering prof explaining that if two air particles met and fell in love at the leading edge of a wing but then got separated, they would NOT in fact meet again at the trailing edge.

Everyone in charge is quite determined to keep profits flowing to Wall Street from our utility bills. It would have been trivial for Newsom to decide to take PG&E into public control after they burned down Paradise, CA. He and the regulators he appoints chose not to.

Dam busting is reopening New England’s mill rivers to salmon and sturgeon. From Maine to Massachusetts, towns are voting to rip out obsolete Industrial-Revolution structures, restoring floodplains and reconnecting spawning runs. buff.ly/BmDZIt3 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

It bears repeating that the single most dangerous thing many Americans do every day is get in their car and they have no idea

great to see Pittsburgh hit the brakes on a proposed Cop City in response to opposition! with comment from Pittsburgh organizers who traveled to protest Atlanta's Cop City and are now facing RICO charges, and Miracle Jones: www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-c...

It’s difficult to overstate how powerful something like this can be

if you are in the Boston metro, you can support a local indie bookstore and also get a copy of my trans dude doctor/cis lady cheesemaker romance, with murder mystery and wild-ass family shenanigans included!

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

It's important to note that people--a lot of people--were saying this at the time, and predicting exactly what is happening now, and were called anti-American lovers of terrorism for holding that position, mostly by people who are still given platforms today to tell us we're overreacting.

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