Well this is absolutely my nightmare

Why do modern SFF authors insist on politicizing everything? Why can't we have swell, value-neutral SFF romps like The End of Eternity, Rite of Passage, and Fahrenheit 451?

TO RECAP • 16 years and Republicans don't have a healthcare plan • 17 years and Congress hasn't raised the minimum wage Meanwhile — 7 Days and Zohran Mamdani got universal childcare for New York City. Qasim Rashid, Esq. substack.com/@qasimrashid... #FindBetterCandidates #ZohranMamdani #VoteIQ

GET 'EM, MR. COMBOVER

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." —William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

Listen to Powell here. www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

As someone whose nervous system is often deregulated, (thanks AuDHD and a Autistic Burnout relapse) I can confirm this is soothing. It’s almost worth making a tick-tock account just to be able to download the longer video (first reply to the below).

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

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the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world this is not a difficult call to make

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?

🎉🏒🎉 Go @pwhlfleet.bsky.social

Over 5 hours after I was supposed to land in Boston, I have landed in Manchester. On a different airline. I am so tired. But I’ll be home soon.

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

This is a friend of a friend and it is an incredibly sweet and geeky story!

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

If you aren’t ready to stand ten toes down, inform your GOP-voting family members that their politics are a reflection of the racism that has terrorized Black Americans from jump, and cut them OFF, your protests mean NOTHING. If you aren’t ready to cancel Thanksgiving, your anger means NOTHING.

Reporting live from the "hellhole" of Chicago, where I biked along the lake for 10 miles and caught a gorgeous sunset.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

🚨 BREAKING: Salem, Massachusetts, my City, has eliminated multi-family parking requirements citywide after a 10-1 vote at City Council and unanimous support of Planning Board. www.remainplaces.com/post/my-city...

Dear displays supplier, I have ordered 3 displays for selling my cards at craft fairs/markets. Why do I have 4 boxes with 4 tracking numbers coming my way? This makes NO sense. Confusedly yours, Nchanter (I have emailed them. I will keep the handful of your who read my skeets updated).

The annual pumpkin display at the entrance of Governor Pritzker’s personal residence on Astor Street. He is the pumpkin king. Illinois produces the most pumpkins, including canned, than any other state in the U.S., twice as many as the next five states combined.

These ppl want you to be isolated and depend on them for all your info. Don't talk to anyone else, just listen to what I say and the isolation is fueled by your own thoughts fed into the machine. Sounds similar to abuse tactics.

It's not a matter of autistic people being the only people who need things, while you are a bastion of calm independence. Your needs get met as a matter of course because the system is designed for you. I am asking for a fraction of that energy.

Holy cow. CALL YOUR REPS.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Americans in two pictures, taken one day apart. #felon #teslatakedown

This is why I am considering going back to being an unenrolled (independent) voter: because most of the Dems elected to federal office are complicit.

A lot of people who posted “respect my trans homies or I'm gonna identify as a fucking problem” are pretty silent these days.

That is such a hopeful - but incorrect - view. I've moderated polyamory groups on Facebook (yea, I know); trust me, they aren't all centrists, liberals, and leftists. Assuming anyone who identifies as - or is - polyamorous is NOT a bigot or right wing is dangerous, especially for non-men and POC.

It’s telling that it’s mainly cis, straight, able-bodied people crying, “How dare someone lose their life over politics!” That reaction shows they’ve never had skin in the game. For them, politics is abstract. For the rest of us, politics is survival—how we navigate the world just to stay alive.

to state the obvious, immediately leaking personal details to the press about somebody cooperating with a murder investigation is a great way to encourage people to not cooperate with future investigations

This is so spot on. Friends ARE the goal. As is, apparently, outings to Buffalo Wild Wings.

This is an incredibly important fact about current reality that's missing from how we speak to friends/family. Consider that we truly are living in different realities. This book has been incredibly helpful for me in reframing how I speak to people about, well, anything these days: amzn.to/42lIMDe

Dear Facebook: I am trying to give you money (I know I know, but marketplace is the best for the thing I am doing and I have a small budget), please let me! I did one boost earlier this week and I want to do another boost today! But the “boost again” button just shows me the last boosts metrics. 😡

This administration doesn't work for the American people. It's a Russia engineered and billionaire funded takedown of the US. They want to remake this country as a dictatorship with all the wage slaves an oligarch could hope for. I haven't been wrong about Trump since 2015. Still ringing the alarm.

The richest 100 billionaires in the U.S. have a net worth totaling $3.86 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is collectively worth $4 trillion. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

My plan for next week - feel depressed and make art. Made this last night. Such a mood.

The irony of losing one’s glasses when your eyesight is as bad as mine is that you usually need your glasses to find them 🤦🏽

Very funny how the discourse so often pits an "urban elite" (participates in whatever is at the advanced edge of culture) against a "rural working class" (suburbanites with F-150s) with absolutely nothing to say about the urban proletariat, you know those distinct non-elites who also live in cities.

What inspires me are the unexpected choices and unique visions of specific artists. AI takes that and mashes it down to the lowest common denominator.

That last one is wrong, it should say "Fuck The Patriots" If this was my childhood I'd say it should be "Fuck the Cowboys"

And of course my adorable little terror cat curls up in my lap purring LOUDLY just as I am wrapping up stuff to go to bed. She never curls up with us in bed, unlike her brothers, so like, baby, timing. She's extra adorable and sweet when she's not being a terror (though usually not to me).

The UN has declared famine in Gaza. It is the first officially recognized famine in the history of the Middle East. A human-made crime, not a natural tragedy. Israel is deliberately starving Gaza before the eyes of the world. This isn’t war. It’s calculated extermination. #GazaGenocide