a lot of people are just watching sports or going to church whatever and vaguely aware that all this other shit is happening. for good or ill that's a real way to be in the world, which is hard to remember on here where people are (rightly!) perpetually 1) following and 2) worked up about politics

seems like the thing that happens online is that whatever pisses you off becomes extremely easy both to personally find information about and also to discuss with people for whom that thing is also salient. outside is...not like this

the Discourse about whether Bluesky/X/Threads/whatever is the worst political bubble looks different when I see 100 posts on here about how people could possibly not be paying attention to this or that news scandal, or not be boycotting this corporation or that

Thread! Yes. People will be like how did you not be angry at x person or y thing and I'm like I didn't look online for 5 hours. Normal people look even less

In 1776 Haynes penned Liberty Further Extended: Or Free thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-Keeping, critiquing the Declarations’s silence on slavery. “…an African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty: Consequently, the practise of Slave-keeping, which so much abounds in this Land is illicit.”

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

Years ago, if a studio was making a movie and wanted more than just its narrow target audience to see, they gave a small part in it to a rapper (think Nas, Method Man, etc). The formula has changed. It's podcasters getting those parts now.

The tl;dr (do read this tho it is quite the fuckin story) is this auto journo got cop Flocked on a luxury test vehicle with wrong plates flagged as stolen and then another auto journo had the same thing happen with the exact same plate error on a different luxury test vehicle

Friday is a day of mercy and blessings.❤️ Today, we’re hoping to prepare a simple meal of meat and rice for my family.. Every amount you donate means a *filling meal* for our children,💚 and every share you make gives us *renewed hope* 🌱

John Malkovich is hands down still the best part of Burn After Reading

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air

Canadian politics: a story in four headlines.

Can't wait to read this

Pre-orders now open for my novel PARCH MARKS 💚💛 In a future Britain, archeologist Eva Sinclair investigates the mysterious fern-like patterns left by drought around the long-dry riverbed of an ancient massacre site. Release due September 1st www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Doaa has been struggling with serious dental pain. She'd be grateful for all help. It's hard to sleep and care for her very young children while suffering in that way. 🍉❤️‍🩹

Samar & Ahmad got married during Israel's genocidal siege, which they remain trapped within. They're expecting a baby daughter. Samar faces malnutrition during the pregnancy because of Israel's imposed famine. You can help them survive & prepare for their daughter's birth by sharing & donating:

Thank you @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social for having us, at another brilliant Story Hour! @tiatashiro.bsky.social's story, "Missing Helen" cuts deep on identity and second lives. clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/

More beautiful brick apartments in Iran, in the city of Mashhad Architects: Rai Atelier

HELLO AUTHORS. The Deadlands will open to short story submissions (up to 5,000 words) for the entire month of October. but wait there's MORE For the first time everrr we are opening to NOVELETTE SUBMISSIONS (1/3)

I wrote about my decision to start my 13 year old on Linux and why we should all end up there… stopgenai.com/digital-sove...

I liked Bugonia for all the weirdness from the director but I don't like the way it ended. I normally don't enjoy watching a character with a reasonable grievance against a billionaire become less and less redeemable, and the ending just looks like a lazy way to resolve that. I liked the costumes.

Hiba:"My son Adam urgently needs surgery, but I cannot afford the hospital costs. As a mother in Gaza, I feel helpless watching him wait while I have no way to help. Please donate if you can, no matter how small the amount. Sharing my appeal can also help save my son. Thank you." gofund.me/c3bf6fb78

We are hungry🚨💔 We are hungry🚨🥺 We are hungry🚨🙏 My children are going to sleep hungry. We have almost nothing left to eat, and the support we relied on has stopped. We urgently need €150 for food. Any donation can help my family through these difficult days🙏 chuffed.org/project/1591...

we should obviously strive for clarity in our work but a not insignificant percentage of your readers will always (erroneously) assume one of your characters is a horse, and no amount of explanation or exposition will prevent this

This one is special, closing out a ten year run of Black SFF 🥹 Share this with a Black author or poet of speculative fiction who will help us send off issue #40 in style 🔥🔥🔥

This contains a nice review of my story Bodyswap(.)gov and other excellent stories from Interzone 304. I especially enjoyed The Island Without Spice by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle.

A wild Interzone appeared! We will review it soon... shop.interzone.press/b/h2rDl

Interzone 305 is here!

Glad to meet ya!

Made a friend

Very good episode of House of the Dragon this week. I forgot how much I enjoyed the performance from the actor playing Aegon before he was bedridden.

Incredible movie.

Funniest possible breaking news banner on this amazing headline from a few months ago

The dream of a 100% dead Senate is within sight.

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

Senator Palpatine and I often disagreed, but behind closed doors, he was an electrifying presence who could make you feel like he was staring into your soul. I will miss his dark sense of humor and his willingness to work with those who disagreed with him. His memory will be a blessing.

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

China has successfully tested a sea-based rocket booster recovery system, a breakthrough for the country’s space programme that could help Beijing challenge US dominance in reusable rocket technology led by SpaceX and Blue Origin.

It's my pleasure to announce that, after a two year tumultuous journey, this anthology is officially set to release into the wild. Kickstarter rewards are being fulfilled as we speak, and you, yes you, can get your hands on a copy now. bookshop.org/p/books/eat-...

Dear friends, we're still working hard to secure our children's education. Thanks to your kindness, we're only £165 away from covering their school fees.📚 Keeping them in school means giving them stability & the chance to build a better future. If u can help, it would mean so much to our family🧡

Seeing my oldest son get into stuff I thought I could get into when I was his age but just wasn't able to. He's also into DAWs now, so I'm doing the necessary work of raising either a film composer or soundcloud producer www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21...

This wasn't my experience but one good thing about that era imo is that it got me interested in the filmmaking process in a way I don’t think I would have been if we already had netflix & other streaming media. If a dvd looked like it had good extras included, that was probably my whole weekend lol

The subscription drive (to increase staff and contributor pay) is running until the anniversary of the magazine. We're about halfway to the goal. Thank you to everyone that has subscribed so far! clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Tried to get my steps in this morning on my way to work

I hope they're ready to be investigated for their involvement in Tren de Aragua gang activity and drug smuggling

Thought the latest House of the Dragon was a little overdone but overall I enjoyed it. Velaryons calling the Targaryen childen bastards doesn’t ever get old

How I know I'm just not built for this era of being online is I just walked into a police chase on foot at this station and it took me more than 30 seconds to remember I could get my phone out and record it