anti ai, pro hag

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

I hope this email never finds you. I hope a single shaft of light pierces the broken ceiling, giving life to saplings and ferns. I hope the old computer went dark years ago, and the office smells of moss and wild spores. I hope that you are free.

Check this!! Promises to be kickass.

This is the strategy, this is exactly it right here why they’re shoving AI so hard into education right now.

Tattoo artist: the only Q that truly annoys me is “won’t that look gross when you’re old?” bc body shaming, ageism & misogyny all wrapped into one. Other Q’s that are fine but just repetitive: “does it hurt?” “aren’t you scared you’ll make a mistake?” “have you ever tattooed someone’s junk?”

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Y'all! I have a poetry chapbook! There's a feral postapocalyptic Goldilocks poem, and one about a runaway Galatea. HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE? #poetry #chapbooks #speculativepoetry #feminist #weird Living Like Lions and Bears is available now from Bottlecap Press: bottlecap.press/products/lions

If I had UBI? I would still be tattooing because I love it and it’s a vocation not a job. But I’d be able to choose the pieces I’m the most excited for & in my preferred style; I’d be able to do more paintings and personal work; and I’d donate more services and volunteer time to community stuff.

“The EU’s highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.” Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

the people who are trying to make us lonely—who are the same people who are trying to make us poor, who are the same people who are drying the lakes to build data centers, who are the same people who are trying to shut down borders, who are the same people who drew those borders in the first place

Some great advice and insights in this thread. I will add that it’s a huge struggle for an introverted author. Publishers nowadays do minimal marketing (outside of a few mega mass market authors). If you want your work seen you have to constantly push yourself out there. +

Love this art!

Great little thread about books and piracy. 🧵

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.

In case you need some good news, California has another new wolf pack! Wolves are back in our mountains baby!! www.indybay.org/newsitems/20...

This one made me laugh. It’s not wrong 💀

Portland friends! Don’t miss this.

"... it’s easy to assume today’s pagan revival is linked to nationalism and Sweden’s new anti-immigration sentiment, & it’s impossible to know how many heathens hold such sympathies. Officially, Forn Sed is openly antiracist ..." Something for #MedievalSky & those interested in modern medievalisms.

They should invent a government that isn’t senile pedophile adolf hitler

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

THIS IS SO FKN RAD

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Look if the sex trafficking we already knew about, and the white nationalism and ethnic cleansing and extrajudicial murder of random fishermen in international waters and destruction of multiple world economies and genocidal withdrawal of international aid weren't enough, and this does it, well, ok

Got the revision notes from my editors for the book, so now I’m going back into book jail till I beat this thing into some sort of finished shape #amwriting

Really seeing once again, it seems, that the real divide in the Democratic coalition is not left/lib/moderate or anything like that. It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

This volume will be of interest to some of my antifascist/history nerd friends - I’m thinking of you @rysmith.bsky.social

If this doesn’t just perfectly capture the feeling.

New favorite ancient curse tablet just dropped www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

MORE OF THIS FIRE FROM EVERYONE PLEASE

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

This is my whole vibe right now

Dick Cheney is dead and socialism is alive.

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This is so beautiful.

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

I found an Iron Age Sarmatian woman who wore a hoodie decorated with gold embossed decorative plaques! So fancy! She was a tattoo artist. We got the drip, since the 5th century BCE.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

I’m resharing this again because it’s so good that it made it into my dreams last night. I dreamed some needed project was being cancelled bc its directors thought fascism had already won & I was pleading with them. “There’s always a next right thing to do! Don’t give up! We need you!”

Hands down my favorite resource for Celtic research studies.

important to note that, after people in oakland IMMEDIATELY threw down on day one, trump was eager to make it appear that it wasn't this promise of an indefinite uprising that made him pause, it was the advice of bay area tech lords, who he wants to be seen as having the power, not the people, etc.

This is so good.

We should stay alert because this can easily be a feint or a tactic to get folks to stop paying attention. ICE was already present and doing small raids here before the “surge” so this does not mean we will not need to keep working to protect each other.

@governor.ca.gov this is what your CHP officers are aiding right now at Coast Guard Island. DHS violently attacking protestors, shooting a peaceful praying pastor directly in the face at 5 ft range with riot munitions. Your CHP are aiding them right now to brutalize and arrest these protestors.