Almost the 400th anniversary of the Cambridge bookfish!

What studying different media can teach you as a writer: - Books: Interiority, voice, pacing, language. - Film/Theater: Blocking, gesture, subtext, visual tension. - TV: Arcs and episodic structure. - Video Games: Immersion, agency, pacing, and environmental storytelling.

it can't be overstated what an absurd time it is to be in kind of intense therapy for sexual trauma. there is no amount of term blocking i can do to stop seeing constant discussion & JOKES about systemic practices of abuse. i'm tireddddd lol can everyone real quick remember survivors are everywhere

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

If my girl @lillywachowski.bsky.social is steering something, you can bet it has the goods. Now, more than ever, we need a cinema by and for the queers.

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Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

We are drifting to the end of aurora season now. Now begins the grumpy snowball season.

On this Venus day with Venus in her exaltation conj retrograde Mercury trine the Moon and Jupiter I would like to recommend reading something for the sheer joy of it and for me recently that has been the colored One Piece manga (for the first time!!)

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Twin Cities' horrors continue though media has moved on. Families are still in hiding (schools w/virtual options till April), ICE still abducting people w/disregard for law, ongoing need for rent relief. Here's one hyper-local effort from my trusted colleague. Please RT even if you can't donate.

I think my favorite Cambridge activity is watching tourists on punts reach their hands out for the ducks and geese and then look alarmed when the ducks and geese swim to their hands for snacks

why isn't the left engaging seriously with the fascist imaginary machine, people love the fascist imaginary machine, the left is clearly wrong about this, like they were wrong about crypto and NFTs and the metaverse

This kind of gross Zionism from the BM is how the past becomes a weapon of genocide… www.cambridge.org/core/journal... It’s disgusting and ahistorical - not surprising from a colonial warehouse of stolen loot - and will show for the rest of time what genocidal complicity looks like.

Having an “oh no” moment during this writing for performance module where I’m so enjoying writing screenplays and miss the collaborative aspects of being in film/television but I also know exactly how shit it is trying to break into that industry and it’s worse now than it was when I was in it!

Module 3 of 4 is in the books and it is very much snowdrop season here in Cambridge 🤍

A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️ Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me #Archaeology

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race

Read this til the end. Note the very last speech recorded here. No loose reference to “Nazis” but a very specific reference to them: ICE bought a building the size of seven football fields in Surprise, Arizona, outside Phoenix, for $70 million. Officials said: /1

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

Was there last night and it was genuinely so good

When you’re walking somewhere and see a little dog or cat peeking out a window? That’s the stuff right there. The meanign of life

I'm reiterating what other Minnesotans are saying: no matter what the news is reporting, nothing has tangibly changed on the ground. ICE is still out patrolling the streets, they're still looking for people to abduct, and they're still threatening observers. Do not let up the pressure.

[NEW) Minneapolis is showing us how it's done. Over the past few weeks, I've received questions about how to adapt the Social Change Map for emerging efforts. I put together a short planner that can support folks in: facilitating meetings identifying roles evaluating growth bit.ly/49VL2nK

“Only dog whistles please my IQ is too high for the other kind”

dont let a few ICE agents leaving mn fool you. nothing on the ground has changed yet. this is a way for them to distract and give a scapegoat so the rest of the world will turn a blind eye.

Reminder that if you're arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

CNN is seeking to actively normalize the federal government publicly executing you & your neighbors in the street for holding a phone.

It's that time of year baby, my 2025 sketchbook pdf is done and you can look at it. Please maxds.itch.io/2025-sketchb...

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at the VA until ICE murdered him today.

Many, many thousands of people gathered in The Commons in downtown Minneapolis to march against ICE right now.

weird i must've been out sick when they first asked for permission to fuck up the power grid

feel like people hear 'chronic fatigue' and they think like 'chronically feeling drowsy' or 'chronic illusion of feeling sleepy when youre not actually sleepy' instead of your body genuinely doesnt have any energy to split up between all its tasks like walking around, digesting food, etc

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

It's a problem that actual elected officials post on social media as if they are powerless observers and commentators.

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

I just updated my explainer for why I don't allow generative AI in my classrooms with a new section and an expanded section. New: Generative AI has a literal body count Expanded: Generative AI is dehumanizing CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

Block block block.

A Great Blue Heron in one of the local rivers. Most of these birds migrate but a few will stay and hang around the open waters.

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

a start

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder. Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.

Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.

He circled her vehicle like a shark, got told off by her wife, came up to her again, executed her, and called her a “fucking bitch” as she died. This was a homophobic and misogynistic murder in service of the State’s project of ethnic cleansing.

Local assisted living facilities are taking additional security measures because the residents don’t want their care to be interrupted when ICE abducts their staff. Schools are closed for the safety of students, faculty, and staff. There is no facet of society or stage of life unaffected.

Wanted to wait until this was confirmed by a news source Ice just shot two more people in Portland, Oregon about half an hour ago katu.com/news/local/i...