I Don't Want to "Get Through This" by Megan Falley "Dear reader, I wish you an imperfect holiday season, full of the kind of love that makes breathing easier. Full of the kind of people who fill your lungs with air." - Andrea Gibson open.substack.com/pub/andreagi...

I'm looking for a new campaign

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when

A lot of content creators sure do love finding ways to justify mocking people with special needs for their special needs

We Didn't Start the Class War: The Tudor Homelessness Crisis by J. Draper youtu.be/2ec9Al5ezYs?...

mister egg reminder to drink water and take your meds! ✨

When the president says “national security” he gets additional powers And when the president says “emergency” he gets additional powers And when the president says “terrorists” he gets additional powers Requires presidents who do so rarely, in good faith, only when circumstances make it necessary

Fascism is so appealing to these guys because it states very explicitly the lies they tell themselves. That they are special people who are inherently superior to others and that their privilege/power is a function of nature asserting itself.

they can’t even consolidate their strongest soldiers, like, if you’re tearing the *heritage foundation* apart, it’s over, man

People will be singing Blame Canada at Bari Weiss every time she goes outside

It's nice to use my brain for recreational reading again

Enforcing existing traffic laws makes it more difficult for neo-Nazis to harass people. It’s like getting Capone on tax evasion. Groups like Blood Tribe rent box trucks to enter/exit cities by piling 30+ guys in the back. This is dangerous for them, for other drivers and for pedestrians. 🧵

Standing in a crowd of friendly hens is therapy

Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism

The far right feels about CNN and ABC and AP and etc etc etc the way you do about Newsmax and Fox. They're wrong, but that's how they see it From their perspective, there's no reason to believe those papers when they say Trump redacted the files There are no good ways to solve this problem

Happy holidays

Those of us who are not Jewish have to be more on our guard against antisemitism than ever right now, not just in the world but inside of our own hearts No one is fully immune to the propaganda flooding social media from all directions or the rising hysteria of this moment

Ben Shapiro is used to being around conservatives who make tasteless jokes about Jews, & assuming that’s as deep as the antisemitism goes. These deep cut tropes coming into wider circulation on the right now are the sorts of things people say who have had conversations about murdering lots of Jews.

I get so annoyed after every election when some Dems say “we lost because of trans people” and coincidentally the ones who are saying it are the ones who don’t like trans people

*singing* l'm a writer and l'm ok I dream all night And I scheme all day Non-writers: So when does the writing happen? *singing louder* I'M A WRITER AND I'M OK

*sigh* The time to navigate the lit approaches once more

Huh Guess there's nothing in there

Brownies cooling Coffee brewing Dishes washed About to let the hens out I am crushing it this morning

Today's act of queer solidarity will be surprising my housemates with freshly baked brownies this morning

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

We live in a weird time. It’s only right to get weirder yourself

I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.

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Remember to fill your cups today & this weekend, my loves. Maybe that's a literal cup (I have been dehydrated for days & it is not helping anything!) & maybe it's a figurative cup. Either way, you DESERVE peace, comfort, joy, rest & care. Carve it out where you can.

There's still some time til Christmas 👀 spidershoppe.com

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Just like "sports fairness" has never been about sports fairness, this is not about whatever RFK Jr. and his crank patrol are spouting today. It's about control and blame, like it always is.

Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

The ice & snow are a pain but at least it's fun to spot bird nests by their snowcaps

Buy people food & give them money is my point

Do you have transgender loved ones? Are you trying to lend a supportive ear? Don't ask them to explain the politics of the situation. Few people want to describe their oppression while on fire. Better to focus on helping your loved one meet their immediate physical, emotional & psychological needs.

I'm watching an unfortunate situation unfold, and my takeaway from it is: - be honest about your deepest emotional needs instead of trying to suppress them to do what's expected of you - approach meeting those needs in a balanced way before deprivation warps your (self reported) value structure

I attempted to summarize my diss in conference voice & made it as far as "My dissertation is entitled" before my eyebrow twinged & I gave up

Last night I wrote both fiction & some serious thoughts regarding social dynamics & my brain doesn't feel like a burned out husk even a little bit What is this new level of power? Can it be sustained?

The reactionary political element in society I am most frustrated with are the people who don’t understand that trolling is a game that they themselves are not party to as fellow players and cannot win by pretending to take the trolls’ arguments seriously/in good faith/at face value.

If someone online tells you how to do crime, it's a safe assumption that the information they're giving you is either completely false or stopped working well before you heard about it Consider also that feeding people BS & seeing who's interested is a well-worn method for finding marks & patsies

in case you were wondering why I’m regularly begging people to stop fedposting on main on this extremely public social media website:

We Never Leave Each Other by Andrea Gibson youtu.be/eDMxTXcW1I8?...

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

This year has been wild. The personal happenings on top of the everything else going on all of the time. It feels like I've been grinding my mental defense stat for next year's nonsense. Bring on the chaos demons & non-euclidean geometries of 2026. I'm so ready.

Autoplaying mass shooting footage on social media isn’t “news”. It’s advertising.

One of the indignities of LLMs is that we are supposed to take seriously a bunch of people who intentionally pretend that computer programs are actually intelligent are not themselves merely pretending to be stupid, which is an insult both to our intelligences and to theirs.

As a former academic, I always love the idea that the Democrats and politics are being pushed toward "Marxism and the extreme left" by a group of workers who are so exploited and live so precariously they're taught how to get on food assistance and are terrified to give low grades.

In light of the shooting at Brown University, a reminder: please don't rush to post in order to be first. Wait for substantive evidence from reliable sources lest you inadvertently spread misinformation. As a Rhode Islander who grew up a few miles from Brown, this one hits home.

Molluscs 🐚 youtu.be/hSymuNCvKrE?...