We didn't deserve this day.

whats up i forgot i had this account

Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social! Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart. And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover! www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

I guess a taxi ghost story is my debut into professional publishing! I hope you enjoy the notorious scandal twist and the Southeast Asian noir flavour. Read the story here! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto... (1/5)

Fuck you. You have three years to find someone that doesn’t think genocide is fine and human rights are optional. Seriously, fuck you. I really can’t stress that last part enough.

I'm so so so furious at the future creativity and artistry that AI is taking away from all of us by convincing kids nothing is worth doing on their own

This was an act of terrorism This was an act of terrorism This was an act of terrorism

as always

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

How bad is the Online Safety Act roll out going? UK officials have started spreading rumors that it's the internet's fault — accusing sites like Reddit and Twitter of purposely overcensoring to undermine the unpopular censorship law. That's Trump-firing-economist-for-reporting-bad-numbers bad.

These kids were already approved months before the new rules came in, they are supposed to be left alone. The NHS is threatening the clinic that they must remove treatment. They've already forced one pro-trans Dr out.

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

brrrlhhhhggggggh

SEEKING FRIENDLIER DATA

LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.” Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

i love to swing wildly between shiny new project enjoyment and optimism and the overwhelming pointlessness that feels more like realistic based on the state of Everything its my favorite thing in the world

This is a budget for a declaration of total war on the population. It's the building of an army of blackshirts and the creation of a massive system of concentration camps. A crystallization of everything lurking below the surface of the American project.

🚨 ATTN: Journalists crossing through a U.S. border 🚨 Alongside @eff.org, we now have an extensive guide on preparing your devices for travel through a U.S. border, including a digital security checklist and additional resources. Read, bookmark and share:

I am sure everyone will look the other way, but the guy who just won the Democratic mayoral primary in NYC _ran on expanding access to trans healthcare._

I don’t know, peeps, but I just keep coming back around to the idea that what so many people want is a hopeful vision of a better world, with autonomy, dignity, & respect for all, affordability of food/shelter, education, medical care, clean air/water, & a place in a community. That’s the message.

i left the netherlands last year but sometimes i still have to call the dutch government to sort out certain shit and after a year of the british im no longer used to dutch directness

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

The public was 100% ready for trans rights just a few years ago. What we’re seeing now is a massive shift in public opinion after a coordinated and expensive propaganda blitz, one that Dems happily ignored. Trans rights aren’t new. We had them for years and everything was cool.

sinners and iwtv and 28 years later and covid have all got me on my transmissible monstrosity shit recently. if someone you love has become a vurdulak, bored gay werewolf, a few unpublished things by friends that i had the joy to read a while ago and am still stuck on

Then there's Jules Gill-Peterson fighting for trans health care. Her latest arena? The US Supreme Court. “We don’t need any more ‘gender euphoria.’ Let’s just get rid of all that and spend our time delivering real things that matter to people, things like hormones and sex changes and surgeries.”

erotica and horror are two sides of the same coin, if you wish to write good horror, you must be willing to turn someone on, and if you want to write good porn, you must be willing to scare someone

incredibly specific complaint but i YEARN for more zombie stories that engage with it as an actual public health problem and not an apocalypse scenario

The problem with sending messages out into space is that if you stop doing it, the aliens know that things are so fucked on your planet that you had to slash funding

everything i actually like doing relies on iterative, creative labor of mostly subjective quality. this is great for my mental health

this is kind of perfect

#Pride2025 book rec 3 A comforting free short story, "Stovetop Gods" by D. A. Vorobyov. Coincidentally apt for the anniversary of me moving to a new place with my cat in my carry-on! @davorobyov.bsky.social originally published by @omgjulia.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/stovet...

i got to grapple at fencing practice today im thriving

hi, cis folks! it’s pride. you with us? cool. have you called your senators about the budget bill that’s trying to strip trans healthcare from people of all ages on medicaid or ACA plans? that’s like 20% of us & this is the govt we’re up against. find reps here reps.fyi tap the thread for scripts

SEND ME UR KAIJU STORIES

The thing I think most halfway decent writers understand implicitly is that cognitively, the practice of writing is the same as any strenuous physical activity. You need to stay in shape, you need to keep those muscles built up If you try to use shortcuts, if you get lazy, you will get flabby

submissions open TOMORROW send me your kaiju stories pls

i went on a date with glup shitto and let me tell you....the rumors?? are true

damaged forever by grad school but in the “oh no i finally understand what i actually like doing and i will now always feel the difference between that and anything less” way

the fun thing abt doing a degree in public health and loving your research and having a great time in grad school while also being trans and a writer In These Times is the once-daily cold shock of knowing that to a large part of the population nothing about you is wanted or welcomed in the world

This administration commits evil on an industrial scale every day.

first i read notes from a regicide all in one weekend and then i listened to it in two days and now i am reading it again in sidelong snippets because having given it a little time, turns out it hurts a little to look straight at that kind of care

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

#murderbot episode 1

ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely please read on 🧵

Here's the FDA's public comment portal. There's still time to provide feedback on their plan to restrict those under 65 from receiving the COVID-19 booster. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...