Happy SILVER AND LEAD publication day to @seananmcguire.bsky.social, happy Toby Daye day to the rest of us! Here are some memes I had cooked up and had forgotten about to catch you up to speed with what's up in Faerie up until SILVER AND LEAD.

Gin has been helping other people online for like a decade at this point, including me, please show up for her if you can!!!!

Sure would be nice if universities weren't shutting down their religious studies departments right now

TRAILER'S UP! CROWDFUNDING IS UP! LET'S GO! For those of you who missed the announcement, I have the honor of playing Victor Frankenstein in Re: Frankenstein!

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Threatening to send the military into blue cities for “training,” while characterizing both immigrants and the people who live in the U.S., but who maybe didn’t vote for him, as “no different from a foreign enemy” is an escalation of Trump’s authoritarian vision on both fronts.

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID? It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

SCOOP/UPDATE — The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instructed *all* federal agencies to send out the shutdown email with NO modifications permitted, a federal source confirmed. Leadership received these orders via email at 1:30pm ET and then reinforced on a 3pm intra-agency call.

Remember when Graham Linehan got so mad at trans people he became hospitalised and was told not to tweet by police but as he is so addicted to Twitter, he tweeted anyway? That was THIS MONTH. September is SO FUCKING LONG.

This is how the Trump administration roots out waste and fraud: By defunding the people who identify actual waste and fraud.

i suspect what's happening here is that a lot of people basically take the UK opeds as gospel about Rowling more or less being a New Labour member who grew at odds with the party over gender issues instead of gender issues being her gateway into more right-wing nonsense

Mamdani’s proposed publicly owned grocers will cut costs with no profit motive—but it’s unclear whether they’d be able to compete with big-box retailers’ ability to secure low-cost wholesale products. From @emmarjanssen.bsky.social: trib.al/RUwLged

Advocates in California will continue to push for relief for people convicted of harming their abusers. “Survivors are resilient, and there’s so many left behind, and so many that this bill would have helped.”

Locals, it's probably a good idea to have these numbers saved in your phone. #pdx #portlandoregon #KnowYourRights

This is correct. If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care. No kidding. And every officer in the room has to realize it.

Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.

Have you read my latest investigation into gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program? You can here, or at @prismreports.org:

Some veterinarians who oversee pop-up vaccine clinics in retail stores fear a proposed state regulation could reduce access to preventive veterinary care in rural Kentucky by making such clinics impossible to offer. via @kentuckylantern.com

People proposed infrastructure is named after: Trump, Elon Musk, MBS, MBZ, Abraham One of these people supposedly almost murdered his son because he felt divinely inspired to do so, and his name is besmirched by being associated with the rest.

one thing that enrages me is the pretense that there are "compromises" that could be had if only trans people (or whoever) would agree to them, when these imaginary deals are not on the table and never will be anything but a jon chait column

And thus, the only ones not involved in the plan for Palestine's future are the Palestinians. A genocidal country and its funder decide, to loud applause, that the genocide will go unpunished, the victims unheard, the land stolen, a future in the hands of the perpetrators only.

*sigh* Bluesky is Blueskying again. Here's that link again, this time visible to everyone. Trans people's experiences are not adult content, mods. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/communitygal...

Canadian news media complicit in Israeli genocide cover-up, says veteran journalist [video] NB Media Co-op’s 16th annual keynote speech continued despite 'zoom bombing' attack Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social nbmediacoop.org/2025/09/24/c...

I wonder if the desk job where he earns enough to take a $30,000 pay cut is anything like my desk job where I educate human beings and try to teach them there is more to life than money.

FFS all science, including medical science, remains under study. That’s literally the work of science. It’s why it’s called practicing medicine. The fact that research is ongoing doesn’t invalidate existing data. The NFL is a microcosm of the United States of America.

"Carney has despite rhetorical appearances entirely acceded to Trump’s agenda" 💯%

Don’t ask me how because it’d be too hard to explain the whole thing, but I had to legitimately explain to my team (not eastern PA people) about the pronunciation of Schuylkill because it came up on a legal doc lmaooooooo

"There is no place for a state committing the high crime of genocide in international sport,” Nathan Kalman-Lamb, an associate professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, told Anadolu.

We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.

There is nothing like seeing someone say “Does that mean [specific group] are not allowed to say [specific phrase] any more?” to bring out my most intense desire to reply “No, it’s a fifty dollar fine for a first offense and then we cut out your tongue and beat you with it.”

This is just a nightmare scenario as a lecturer. So what, if a student (an ex-intelligence soldier) enrolls in my class for the apparently express purpose of derailing the lectures and intimidating my other students, I’m supposed to just let him? I’m not allowed to protect my other students?

Professor Florence Ashley was placed on (non-disciplinary) leave by the University of Alberta because of CK social media posts. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom in Canada. CAUT should be examining censuring UA for this violation. cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/09...

I’m sorry, but Sex Matters is an extremist hate group. Here is Maya Forstater complaining that the updated Scottish schools guidance that bans all trans pupils from gender-aligned toilets is STILL not good enough, because it doesn’t mandate “outing” trans kids. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

imagine if trans people didn't need to beg for their fucking lives constantly and instead we could just be funny and hot and go to sleep at night without worrying about what threat morning will bring

What does Rachel Reeves contribute to the UK?

I remember @binaryvixen899.bsky.social talking about how deterioration in the food safety system might eventually make it risky to be in the US. Guess the US population is in the stage of finding out about that, having fucked around.

Feels kinda surreal that anyone moderately intelligent person with technical knowledge or the will to acquire it can make the president believe literally whatever the hell they want now. Look, Mister President. Here's a video of Jim Comey and Bigfoot shooting JFK. Better call the Justice Department.

We are hearing reports of increased federal agents in Portland. Let me be clear: Trump wants to tell a story of Portland that does not reflect who we are. The Portland we love is strong, compassionate, and unwavering in our commitment to protect our neighbors.

I think its cool and good that everyone has completely forgotten that trump already had the longest (to date) shutdown in history, while he had a trifecta. If im not mistaken he's the only guy to pull that off, and it was horrible for his numbers lol

The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.

NEW: Palestinian Cosmetician With Cancer Beautifies Displaced Cancer Patients During Israel's War on Gaza vimeo.com/1123055049

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass: all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff stop burning stuff for heat stop burning stuff for make car go stop burning stuff for power we have the tools

hi, cis folks! trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too. we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi info & script in the🧵⬇️

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I sure hope the ADL is proud that they stuck up for Elon Musk when he did a Nazi salute back in January.

That is just plainly not true. Your budget slashed help for people who buy Affordable Care Act plans. That's 22 million Americans whose premiums are going up - RIGHT NOW - by double digits directly because of a policy you passed.

He came in letting people use every slur this side of the firmament . I remember @theradr.bsky.social begging someone to pay attention I’m so tired of this breaking news that stems from not listening to people as it happens