"over-the-counter sleep aids are correlated with dementia" hi yes do you think that not sleeping for the next 30 years might also have some impact on my cognitive function

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Super excited to post my submission for #AugurMicros2025 ! @augursociety.bsky.social

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

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americans have learned nothing from korea vietnam yugoslava iraq afghanistan syria libya etc etc etc because they are sociopathic egomaniacs who believe they have a god given right to destroy other peoples lives for the right to drive hummers and eat five big macs a day

If you're going to choose NOW to decide to say that the Iranian government sucks, I'm going to assume you just want to manufacture consent for colonialism. You do NOT get to invade other countries because their governments are bad. WAR IS WRONG. UNPROVOKED WARS ARE EVIL.

"A cloud had been forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial.” - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

revisionist dark academia has finally taken hold of my soul... burn those ivory towers to the ground like 😖🔥

I am SO tempted to call my book's third part "Propaganda of the Deed" because that's what it literally is 💀

If I said #scarletwip 's MC basically writes the anarchist version of the Burn Book with extra emphasis on the 'burn' part would you believe me?

Here's another easy praxis for you: be kind to service workers. This morning on my way to court I stopped by a coffee shop (not Starbucks, I'm still boycotting) for a small green tea. The person there got confused when I said "thank you very much" because no one else today had said that to them.

BREAKING NEWS - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol REMOVED from office by the court's unanimous decision www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Merry IMPEACHMAS!!! 🥳

and now our watch is ended

*evil laughter*

i posted this 4 months ago... why is it still relevant 😭

Writing my science fantasy wip and realizing that downton abbey has UNMATCHED horror vibes

I feel like we don't need to deadname Vivian Wilson in order to dunk on her deadbeat father who she will DEFINITELY outlive.

Why do "pro-Global South" people keep blasting queer existence as "colonial western liberalism" ? Queer people have existed for centuries before western colonialism. Solidarity with the Global South means solidarity with EVERYONE in the Global South. No exceptions ffs.

Really grateful to everyone involved in #Revpit !! editors & other writers. Thinking about being able to submit next year makes me more excited to finish my current wip ✨✨

happy the giver day, aka the day i finally made a secret project playlist !

STOP. FUCKING. REPORTING. PALESTINIANS.

No one ever said they were creative.

Please donate if you're financially able to!

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My favourite genres: 5. Lesbian angst but ALSO lesbian fluff 4. Kings losing their crowns (along with their heads) 3. Dramatic fashion just because 2. Planes are cool, let's crash them into things 1. Female rage

agented authors: are mentorship contests useful when querying or preparing query packages? I'm not sure if I should try for mentorship contests after beta feedback or head straight for the trenches

Ok who tf keeps reporting Palestinian accounts to get them banned? Ghoulish behaviour smh 🤦🏻‍♀️

EB (epidermolysis bullosa) is a disease where your keratin (skin integrity protein) is mutated so that it breaks easily, causing excruciating pain. Please donate to this family with EB trying to survive. bsky.app/profile/memo...

Boosting

The media critic in me yearns to do a full analysis on the romanticization of the Taisho era in modern Japanese media (most notably Demon Slayer) but I have midterms coming up 😭

So all my WIP's POV characters have flowers associated with them (Why? Because I grew up reading a certain very long book series about late 2000s edgelords, iykyk) and I love how the flower meanings are all "devotion! loyalty! protection!" and then we have "declaration of war"

If we could all celebrate International Women's Day in the way it was originally intended and overthrow an empire or two, that'd be nice

This is going to keep happening with no consequences until pharmacy workers unionize nationwide.

Women's Day has been so heavily co-opted by bourgeois feminism but let's never forget that it originated from the labor movement under the organization of socialists like Theresa Malkiel and Clara Zetkin. It was always meant to be the International WORKING Women's Day.

Happy International Working Women's Day! Now more than ever, it's important to remember that the feminist movement was founded by working-class migrant women from the Global South, who experience the worst of patriarchal white supremacy. 💜

Fuck Israel and fuck Zionism. Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.

#wordweavers 3/5: what social class does your MC belong to? Answer: The class-conscious international proletariat, of course 🙄

"Even if my fingernails are ripped out, my nose and ears are cut apart, and my legs and arms are crushed, this suffering does not compare to the suffering of losing my nation." - 유관순 열사/Martyr Yu Gwan-sun (1902-1920)

Acts of terror

I can't stop thinking about how we equate the resentment of the oppressed with the bigotry of the oppressor. ESPECIALLY women. 🤷🏻‍♀️

You still have to world build when writing historical fiction! The history you’re working with may lay out the rules but it’s your job to bring that period to life, according to the story you’re trying to tell. The mood, the atmosphere, & the characters’ voices all need to compliment the story.

y'all how tf do you fly a plane like ?

now, should every conflict be resolved with violence? obviously not. but not every violent conflict can be resolved peacefully, and it’s naive (and privileged) to think otherwise. i think about that sometimes. how punching back is not always a weakness, but a reclaiming of power and dignity.

May the deceased rest in peace. 삼가 고인의 명복을 빕니다. Justice for them all ❤️‍🔥✊