Well her stans are brainwashed sheep at this point so a far right pivot won't bother them at all.

Hate that I can't look at photos of simple joys like flowers or sunsets without wondering. Tech is destroying so many good things.

YES TO THIS. 😔 I recently was trying to find the words to describe the way AI slop steals our appreciation of beauty, our curiosity, and sense of wonder. It isn’t just about truth in political matters, etc.

My name is Ali, and I'm from the Gaza Strip. I'm collecting donations to help my family and me survive here. We need at least $100 a week. Please donate, even a little. Please help me and my family. Donation link😥🙏🙏🙏🙏 chuffed.org/project/help... @mommunism.bsky.social Please share this for me

I have, apparently, written 200 of these newsletters, so here's a compilation of some of the previous ones, plus a lot of new romance reviews: www.feliciadavin.com/200/

blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/ been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor

Adding a comment here because I'm guessing most of you aren't aware of all of the supportive and generally UNPAID work/stuff Merc does for writers behind the scenes. So this is less "help someone out," and more "oh, right, we should pay Merc something if we can."

Nesma is still here 💜 "I am a mother who lost my home in the war, and I live with my children without shelter. Every night I try to protect them from the cold and rain inside a tent that offers no protection.😔😔 I don't ask for much, just warmth and safety for my children.🙏🏻💔🥺" gofund.me/8d1fafc6a

BLUESKY LET ME READ THE REPLIES FROM PALESTINIANS ON THIS WEBSITE

The morning #Sudan read: #MassViolence #Darfur www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...

Warning: horror warning El Fasher, Sudan. We must not turn away www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...

The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history. But that toll is a dramatic undercount. ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.

Students return for in-person classes amid ruins as Palestinians fight to salvage education from systematic decimation.

Resolution urges Rwandan troops to withdraw from area of conflict that has killed hundreds, displaced tens of thousands.

Israeli troops kill five Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, say hospital chiefs

Street Art “Silent Star” by Martín Ron in San Telmo, Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 Painted on a narrow courtyard wall, this mural captures the elegance of early cinema. The portrait of a woman in a wide-brimmed hat, evokes the quiet glamour of the 1920s #StreetArt 🎨🫟

I have never heard of this book. It sounds cool as hell.

Beatriz Bernal, a 16th-century Spanish novelist, wrote a fantasy novel about a female knight - with dragons, sorcerers, and a giant - decades before Don Quixote appeared. A children's adaptation, devised by children's author Diego Arboleda, is forthcoming! #fantasy #renaissance #earlymodern 💙📚

'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2

"Next year, the British Book Awards will recognise romantic fiction for the first time. The recognition is long overdue." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sundress Publications is open for submissions for microgrant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. Projects of all genres are welcome. Visit our website to learn more and apply by December 31, 2025. www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/09...

Fascinated to learn that one of Britain's most notorious post-war criminals fought in the Mau Mau campaign and the Malaya Emergency and later claimed that this is where he learned to kill.

Pre writing tip for the day: something called Reverse Mind Mapping. I just learned about this, having really only used the cloud/bubble graph/network for brainstorming. It’s dumping the contents of your mind into the page in a non hierarchical way. It’s chaotic in there.

From Dr Seuss to All Quiet on the Western Front: 19 books to help you find hope, sense and resistance in difficult times

Best books from across the ditch www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem reports 90% of Gazans lost their homes since October 2023, with the average resident displaced six times. www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-12...

“This is a student who did nothing wrong on a campus that is already in mourning,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "enraging" story of right-wing figures falsely claiming with zero evidence the Brown University gunman was a Palestinian student.

Imagine a world where authors don't have to agitate our own organizations to do the very basic bare minimum things like advocating for fellow writers in the midst of a genocide or not supporting the use of stolen work

Oh there's an update! Haven't read yet but putting it in thread so it's seen bsky.app/profile/priy...

This is an incoherent and useless policy. "You can use stolen work for *some* of your novel but not *all* of your novel." We're simply asking that you be on the side of the actual people you represent, @sfwa.org, the writers.

Bisexuals will never recover

it’s for exactly this reason that my library network’s catalog system does not retain patron borrowing data, or even permit the creation of linked “family” library accounts. the “free” in “free public library” means, among other things, “free from government interference.”

Also there are 11 more days to submit your queer speculative stories already published in 2025! The editors love reading far and wide, so please especially consider submitting work from journals and anthologies they might not be aware of. www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

This is by far the best thing I have read about writing and ai. Also this collection is stunning - I'm quite heartbroken to see it disqualified. Thank you Jiaqiao Liu. 'AI got my poetry collection disqualified from the book awards – here’s my side of the story.' thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-12-...

The advocacy group founded by the late Jamal Khashoggi, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), has published a report which unveils the senior leadership of AIPAC— most of whom have not been previously disclosed.

Even the Financial Times can't just look the other way www.ft.com/content/057a...

My son Mohammad looks older than his age now. War forces childhood to end too soon. He had many dreams he wanted to achieve, but everything was destroyed 💔😓. Help me and my family from ruin 🙏💗. Help link on my page. gofund.me/1e7ec0b3e

Lol at people claiming being white hurt them on the job market. A professor on my committee told me palestine was better off occupied. Then wrote me a sabotage letter of recommendation.

Unlike in the Anglosphere, most other countries see Israel as a colonial power which is waging a war of colonialism on the Palestinians. The West is seen as abetting it and making it's permanence possible. Doesn't exactly buttress the argument that Ukraine is an existential battle for democracy.

This is the second baby to die in this way just in the last 48 hours.

An infant froze to death in Gaza last night, starved and cold.

Ok what I thought was allergies is feeling more and more like a cold. First time I've felt genuinely sick all year.

Two years of war… and every day was a wound.” My name is Sakher. You probably don’t know me. But if you hear my story, I promise—you’ll feel my pain. For the past two years, my life has been nothing but survival. Not because I chose it, but because war chose me. Details below👇🏻 tinyurl.com/4bb9mhf9

Happy Wednesday! I'm a disabled queer trans artist trying to stay housed while medically complicated & unable to do gig work. Currently sitting at $100/$775 needed Jan 1 for rent. Only $675 left to go! Please help me stay housed. TYSM! 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️ #MutualAid paypal.me/rookkilljoy CashApp/Venmo: foxrook

This is such an interesting read. I feel like I can tell someone is a fellow Nigerian due to vocabulary and the formality of the language used in writing.

"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say: Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."

NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis. Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...