Sounds like the only place safe for migrants of any status will be low wage farms. Sounds not so vaguely feudal.

Mamdani winning in NY will not signify that there is still hope in the electoral process. It will only signify that the oligarchs in this country see the rising anti-oligarch sentiment and decided to toss the people a bone.

I haven't seen it yet, but godsdamn Wunmi Mosaku is one of the most glorious actors alive.

Yes, you told us that your party dgaf about average ppl, children, unhoused or poor. The only ppl who will be fixating on this is you. The rest of us will be doing under t/rump what we did under Biden. Trying to survive.

The paperback is now available! Also, since the collection containing the prequel story "Zulfiqar is Coming" is no longer available, I have a free pdf download on my website, and I'll have a standalone Kindle version shortly. jibrilstevenson.wordpress.com/books/

this pandemic (really y’all’s apathy regarding it) just absolutely shredding my quality of life rn. thanks ♥️

As we come upon the settler-colonial genocide holiday I want to remind folks that this idea of "accident of birth" erases the very deliberate act of murdering millions precisely so that ones progeny could be born here and participate in this exploitative project.

Also want to let folks know that more than 300 million pounds of food will be wasted during the upcoming weekend. Enough to feed the 700,000 unhoused folks in this country for weeks. Consider doing/consuming less and give something other than thanks to this genocidal nation.

Great deal of overlap in this article by @bhaktishringarpure.bsky.social www.thepolisproject.com/read/mindy-k...

Tuned out of "We Are Lady Parts" once it the introduced the white love interests. Realistic sure. But deeply unoriginal. Like we can't portray or bestow humanity and complexity on characters or each other irl without proximity or interest of whiteness. Hard pass.

Def not a republican. so don't come in here with regressive talk and namecalling and expect laughing emojis etc

If you're a democrat or an elon musk stan, don't bother following me.

Am I being judgy by saying I'm surprised by the number of positive reviews for AI bf/gf apps on google play?

Suing for getting scammed while watching a fix.

Dune: Prophecy is a show about a bunch of eugenicist nuns that create a breeding program to ensure that are no Black or Brown folks in charge in 10,000 years.

The FBI says it is aware of racist text messages being sent to African American and Black communities around the country, and that recipients "have now expanded to high school students, as well as both the Hispanic and LGBTQIA+ communities." www.fbi.gov/news/press-r...

Art has a place. Maybe especially leftist trash thrillers. If you liked Baby Reindeer. You liked Lovecraft Country. You want to be entertained without losing your soul and maybe gaining something. Or you just want distraction that is the opposite of doom scrolling. Disgraced: A Toronto Thriller.

Also, if you can't see how casteism and how tech systemically keeps Blacks and Latinos out then you need to look closer at your own analysis. Silicon Valley is already allowed to legally discriminate on the basis of gender and race.

Two years ago police surpassed, by dollar amount, more theft than actual thieves. This is from the DoJ. 5 billion dollars. This is not including "civil asset forfeiture". This is straight up theft.

Who better to rehabilitate Roald Dahl's racist legacy with a series of short films than Wes Anderson. With enough hyper nostalgic set design and stop motion animation, I think it will be successful. Next up: Enid Blyton.

Reminder folks that you can't be anti-colonialist in the aggregate but ok with it in the individual.

Most likely for the demographics most likely to vote for him. Kind of like how he canceled all the Trump era oil leased but not the 3000 he issued.

There isn't a single app or streaming service in existence that isn't full of persistent bugs. These tech bros have us living in digital slums. My only hope is that we all leave this place for parks and forests and one day some internet urbex-ers will be one day bepicking over it's bones.

I thought twitter had gotten bad (it totally has). but i've been on fb the past few days to promote my book and what an utterly unusable mess. there is no integration between what was facebook and what is "meta". just garbage.

Some of the things we'll be talking about in Dark Matters Podcast this week: "The Changeling". Why do we still "other" witches in the post-modern era? We know that the term has been used pejoratively to describe women who don't subscribe to or accede to "atomic" ideas around marriage and family

Socialism is democratic but democratic socialism isn't socialism.

Can you imagine how many more vaccines and other technological advancements we would have if Black folks weren't systemically and systematically kept out of STEM fields?

This Saturday at 12pm est @laurylsilvers.bsky.social , Jibril Stevenson, and I will be participating in a panel discussion and reading of "Revenge In Three". It will be livestreamed on Muslim Arc's Facebook page and hosted by Margari Hill!

I think the best response I've seen to AI anything has been, "Why should I bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write"

Not only can you argue that only late stage empires build this kind of garbage but hastens it's demise. Ppl in the comments talking about how empires have revitalized themselves repeatedly complete ignore the accelerating effect of technology. The ppl really think they're going to live forever.

I started building shutdown costs into my annual budget years ago. The longest Obama shutdown almost put me under permanently. Politicizing the budget when no mention is ever made of cutting defense spending is obscene. And it only hurts average ppl. And doesn't make any elected official look good.

There was a thread going around last week of ppl posting their album cover photo. I decided to do my author photo.

They might have a (D) in front of their names, but their thinking and actions are very pre-Civil Rights era. They are only able to advance society as far as their most regressive idea. Which in modern times looks more like conservativism than liberalism.

There is nothing "trailblazing" about clinging so desperately to power that you are unable to actually fight for women's bodily autonomy or reproductive rights. The reason why there is no social progress in this country is because too many ppl in power were raised in a time of regressive views.

T.S. Eliot folks...

Congrats to my WGA people! There is nothing that can't be accomplished with collective action and bargaining. The power is in community!

Totally wild watching UK and other western countries openly tell Black and Brown folks they aren't wanted but watching those Black and Brown folks dick ride yt supremacy anyway.

Cops also do this.

The political system in the US is completely ineffectual. Reproductive rights have been rolled back in this country because billionaires are afraid of losing their disposable workforce.

It's giving eugenics vibes.

I'm convinced Elon is trying to turn Twitter into that last surviving whites only town in South Africa.

Dragon Magazine 1985 I believe.

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Hey all! My small imprint published a book yesterday. "Revenge in Three" three Muslim retellings of "The Count of Monte Cristo" from three authors and three genres! We have Alternate history/Noir by @laurylsilvers.bsky.social , a Western by @jibrilstevenson.bsky.social , and a Sci-fi novella by me!

Unearned and uninterrogated wealth and privilege presents as psychopathy. I'm not saying this to be edgy or to make light of mental illness.

Skeet your professional headshot.

Can't wait to not read all the pretentious claptrap that's going to be in rolling stone guy's book. Can you imagine all the pseudo intellectualizing there's going to be about all the labor stolen from Black folks and women? *Shudder*

What a grifter.

Dude should have just thanked Black folks for gifting the world Rock and Roll and by extension his job and just moved the f on.

But also, comes and lives there and gentrified it until no one else can.