Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Today, allow me to your sense of safety. Do you know what your cat girls are reading? I do. 📚💙💕 #bsnm 🌈🚀💫 #BookSky 🌈📚 Signed copy: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb Amazon & get me a pretty banner: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus Everywhere else: books2read.com/opus

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

The MA Senate will be voting on An Act Regarding Free Expression on Thursday 11/13. This Boston Globe article touts this as a positive development, but while the protections for libraries are welcome, this version of the bill strips all protections from authors. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/m...

8 Nov 2025 -- Good explainer from TIME. Money quote from Chase Strangio: "What these Executive Orders do is open the door to sex-based policing that cannot be enforced without subjecting everyone to some sort of scrutiny & invasive process that will harm us all.” @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

We're still here. We're still laughing. We're still creating new memories. We're still finding each other and building respite when it's hard. We're still experiencing the joy of each other's company. Someone will ask about this moment one day. Be sure to tell them what they couldn't take from you.

In the pages of the Antifa Lit Journal, we’re offering free ads to organizations who are protecting marginalized people. One great organization is GATE, the Global Alliance for Trans Equality. Readers, please consider supporting GATE here: gate.ngo/get-involve...

we don't push it as much as we should but, we also have a Patreon-ish thing that follows our voluntary profit model. it can serve as a way to show us monthly support or, as an at-cost subscription service for shirts or commissions, or both you decide every month what you want to do with it

This is an all hands on deck moment to save health care. If you got a notice this month that your health insurance premium is going up by $500 or maybe even $1,000, send me your story: www.warren.senate.gov/health-care-...

Let's start a thread of good gifts/great stores for the holidays: If you're searching for the perfect gift, I recommend this advent calendar from Penzey's spice. Locally owned, sustainable, anti-fascist spice company. www.penzeys.com/online-catal...

Uhhh, Graywolf is swinging for some fences because they have new Karen Tei Yamashita AND (AND!!!) Cristina Rivera Garza this spring.

Who wants to pick my brain about publishing, writing, and the creative ecosystem?

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

It's likely that Justices Thomas and Alito will vote to grant Kim Davis' petition, and if two more justices also vote to do so, the court will review her complaint over same-sex marriage. "If they take it, it's because they're going to overturn it," said Obergefell plaintiff lawyer Dan Canon.

"Communities such as r/IF are making it acceptable to not only e-stalk chronically ill people who have the temerity to talk publicly about being ill, but to be generally skeptical of chronically ill people and their very real symptoms." — Anna Hamilton

This is absolutely fucking insane and anyone who has spent more than an hour researching how these algorithms work should be ASHAMED to even suggest it.

EVERYONE SAY WELCOME TO TAL, WHO IS THE BESTEST DUDE AND I AM SO PROUD TO KNOW HIM 💪♂️🏳️‍⚧️

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

You may or may not know that I administer the SFWA NetGalley program. If you're an author without a big trad publisher, you might consider listing your book for reviews through this program. www.sfwa.org/2025/06/24/s...

Pub Day! Falling apart but receiving a letter.

Does anyone steampunk their Blahaj?

Please read: Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Muito orgulho dessa iniciativa! A Casa do Jornalismo Socioambiental é fruto de um ano de muito trabalho e articulação. Parabéns InfoAmazonia e a todos os parceiros que agitaram a casa e que seguem para Belém na cobertura da COP30.

"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue." Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.

Reading this collection in its chronological arrangement decades ago changed my understanding of the world in ways that remain with me to this day.

When @katelynburns.com suggested we have a $1000 membership option at @theflytrapmedia.com for people who want to fund our freelance writers and artists, we were all like 'ehhh...okay, whatever' and during our membership drive, TEN OF YOU signed up. Want to make it an even dozen?

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

I deleted my account, recreated my account, deleted, remade, got banned by BlueSky, got unbanned… You’re probably not following this account. I’m a bit wishy-washy when it comes to social media. I believe I’m back for good. I have a lot to share soon. Please repost to help folks find me again. 🖤

A couple days ago, I deleted my free Spotify account. I've got a paid Tidal account now. I hear Qobuz is also a good choice. It was quick and easy for me to do; YMMV, but anyway, please move if you can.

i know it's kind of old fashioned now ig but i really appreciate when youtubers hire artists for drawn thumbnails. there's just something special about it

My cousin produced Fraggle Rock, which puts me 2 hops from Jim Henson & Frank Oz, therefore 3 hops from the entire casts of Star Wars, Sesame Street, and everyone who ever appeared with a muppet.

The average water level measured at Virginia Key (near #Miami) set a new monthly record high in October, which is also the new *all-time* record high month. I also feel confident that it was the highest monthly water level there since the last interglacial period... ~120,000 years ago. 🤯🌊🧪

Everyone is welcome to use this photo of Huesitos at the eggs restaurant.

NYC, it’s the last day of early voting. Be sure to flip that ballot and vote on the six measures. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b...

And we’re about to begin…

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Includes a link to and kind words for my Schweblin review - please read! - but also a fascinating discussion between Due, Ruff and Martinez on religion and horror, which means it’s time for me to recommend RELIGION OF FEAR again. Jason was a very important mentor for me.

In remembrance of this week's stupid anti-Mamdani attempted propaganda smears about "aunt", here is a CBC news piece about a Montreal exhibit honoring the role of "aunties" in the local community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfnp...

Aaaaand finally, READ AND THEN BURN THIS, by R Merey~an explicit novella about a male dancer living in intense bad faith with his own body and desires. traumbooks.com/read-and-the...

No fall tRaum list would be complete without DARKNESSES!! A unique, modern Dracula retelling where THE vampire's latest manifestation, Laura, falls in love with a cult survivor trying to piece her life back together. traumbooks.com/darknesses/

there had to be a better way to couch this sentiment

If you were looking to close out this spooky season with some scary good trans horror, do I have the list for you! Featuring frights by @emotrophywife.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social, @zefrrr.bsky.social, @eveharms.com , @scumbelievable.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, and more!

so, if you love the genre as much as i do, please consider pre-ordering sci-fi books. it doesn't have to be mine. that's your choice! there are a lot of cool books coming out! consider pre-ordering a debut. consider pre-ordering or buying a book by someone who isn't a heavy-hitter.

Vivian Maier NYC, 1953

Brassaï (Gyula Halász) Morris Column in the Fog Paris, 1934

novel is CITY OF SMOKE AND SEA by Malia Márquez, FTR, but this applies to protagonists in Kaveh Akbar’s novel, Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s novel, @ljabouttown.bsky.social novel, Melissa Lozada Oliva novel in verse, and I know I’m forgetting another

narrator in @alexmiller77.bsky.social novel is not a writer but he is directionless, has terrible friends, has no idea what he wants, and is incapable of dealing with his problems—he is *spiritually* a writer

The heroine is "voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers...the place where she knew herself and was known..."

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.