Stokely Carmichael a.k.a. Kwame Ture on what would be his 85th birthday has a message for us on the lead up to America 250. Let's take a listen....

Not the first time someone has used the work of historians and passed it off as their own (Kim Kelly) and it sadly won’t be the last. Our work routinely gets this treatment from unscrupulous authors and journalists looking to make names for themselves. This really sucks for Rachel, like, a lot.

✨️waking up to an acceptance✨️ Guess I'll keep doing this writing thing.

What's it like in your head? Today I have a migraine, so today it's BEES

Hello yes I am a writer and I would very much like to be read without being seen or heard please, how can I become a sentient vapor and still sell enough books to pay off my advance?

The "there's no AC in Europe" takes are *sending* me, I tell you. Northern EU is historically colder and yes, rarely air-conditioned. But Southern EU countries like, I dunno Spain for example have had AC for ages because it's fucking HOT here and only getting hotter.

Ugly from every angle and covered in white sheets... just like Trump's voter base Ba-dum-dum-CHING

Saaaaaaaame

BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”

✨️manifesting trans masc joy✨️

The suit I ordered for @anunlikelybrit.bsky.social 's wedding just arrived and you can't tell me NUTHIN', I'm just strutting around the house singing ZZ Top, snapping my fingers and doing finger-guns at my own reflection; I look so sharp my shoulders could cut glass, the world's not ready, etc

Utterly hilarious to bellow this nonsense at a time when queer visibility is actually *dropping* precipitously, as it has been for several years. Increased visibility also brought about a brief, glorious moment of increasing acceptance, even among conservatives. Hmm, I wonder what changed? 🤔

I once withdrew from an event that might have been a *massive* career booster for me bc Bindel was involved, and I have absolutely ZERO regrets about it. She somehow manages to grow more toxic and unhinged by the minute - just when you thought she couldn't get any worse.

Hoo boy did I need this. This isn't writer's block, this is paralysis from the neck up

I have no patience for "cozy" except for Frog and Toad, and I think this quote encapsulates precisely why. They get it.

Sometimes I'll run into someone I know and they'll be like "why are you looking at me all weird?" and I'll blither some bullshit excuse like "my glasses... are new," but I just want to scream, "BECAUSE AUTISM LADY IT'S NOT PERSONAL"

Someday (but not today; today I am poor) I will own the full set of these. The covers alone are worth it. Just LOOK at them!

This is especially uncomfortable when the poem in question is freely available on the Internet for anybody to read

Pobrecitos. Gave their souls to the Free Market only for the Free Market to betray them. As the Devil does.

This is what they've done.

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

Phwoar, you've woken up halfway down the gullet of an alligator! Here are six reasons not to panic:

This thread is giving me LIFE

Delicious

Scrolling without my glasses on: "Today in Chicago History: First Daily Queer opens in Toilet" Thought it was a story about cottaging 🫠

I'm glad Starmer is due to resign. I hope to christ that he becomes a cautionary tale that pandering to far-right policies is a zero-sum game for the left. But instead, it's probably going to be more like this...

“One of the greatest challenges in combating fascism, both in the early-to-mid-twentieth century and today, is getting comfortable, middle-class, politically moderate people to understand that its adherents actually mean what they are saying.”

After fighting against the bald spot in my right eyebrow for years I've made the decision to embrace it and just get rid of the last few hairrrNOOOO OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE???

You know it's hot when you take a pitcher of water out of the fridge, pour yourself a glass, and by the third time you reach for a sip the water is body-temperature warm.

Yesterday I heard from a family member who works in tech at a large multinational corp that their team was called into an emergency meeting to discuss how to "scale down" the grotesquely expensive AI tools upper management has spent the past year ramming down their throats 🤗

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.

Me trying to take off my skinny jeans:

So this is what happens when you A) gut history programs in schools, and B) ask AI to come up with themed marketing slogans for you.

Just saw someone selling a "used but good" "vintage chic" buttplug on Vinted, so no more internet for me today thank you

I'm starting to think I may have over-accessorized my bi bim bap

Me about to tell you a story about something that happened on the ferry to PTown that will turn out to be incredibly mundane:

Tech companies can't ban nonces because they're all run by them

There's a LIVESTREAM y'all

I've spent the past few weeks on a social media break and my blood pressure is lower, I'm sleeping better, the whites of my eyes are brighter, etc. Anyway. Here I am again.

Last year we didn't turn on the A/C till July. This year, we had to turn it on yesterday, but hey at least my shitty cousin with the knife collection can get validation for his alien rape fantasies from ChatGPT

PLEASE HELP YOUR TRANS SISTER.

She's trying to become the worst Nobel Laureate from a year where the other prize went to a genocide denier

"If you stay hyperfocused you don't got to GET hyperfocused," I say to myself as I sip cold coffee over an overheated laptop.

Somebody just got a clean bill of health from her eye doctor! My baby's out of the cone for the first time in a month 😭

Any other Millennials out there unable to go a month without getting "Particle Man" by They Might Be Giants stuck in your head, despite having only heard the song once, in an episode of Tiny Toons back in 1992?

Ozempic Ursula's making me hangry for Red Lobster.

I think the thing that will finally get me off social media is that my eyesight is now so bad every time I go to type a post I just kinda have to let Jesus take the wheel

There has to be a word for the very specific experience of forgetting everything you know about something that interests you the instant you are called upon to remember. Ex. having a TBR list 100 pages long at the top of your mind right up until you walk into the bookshop.

He would like everyone to know that he peed on the armchair and he feels really really bad about it.