MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

a reminder to all my romance folks, card processors have moved on from block payments to sex workers to blocking payments to NSFW artists. we are absolutely a part of this fight.

A stochastic hate campaign led directly from within Parliament by government MPs, particularly the Deputy PM Winston Peters, has just forced out an opposition MP over fears for their family's safety. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

I am an award-winning author, my first pro publication was fifteen years ago, and when I'm having a Day I will still open up my email and run this filter to feel better. Fandom is a wonder.

Sometimes you gotta remind yourself that just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't happen.

I'm in this! It's awesome! (And you must get Stephanie's Harwood Spellbook box set if you haven't already, $2.99 for that collection is ABSURD.)

Fuck off, robots

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Everything in this is excellent, but the framing? Without flaw.

If you are monogamously partnered up and you are invited to a party or dinner, do you assume your partner is invited too?

gen ai sucks we all hate gen ai #art #noai #antiai

In the final analysis, a billion monkeys chained to a billion typewriters may indeed produce Hamlet, but anyone who would chain a billion monkeys to a billion typewriters isn't going to appreciate or recognize Hamlet when it finally emerges.

Wow guys I'm so flattered

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

I knew he was dumb, but THIS dumb??

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Did a new one

Turns out that one of the many things a crochet hook is useful for is "yanking a disgusting hairball out of the shower drain"

Ordeal by Weasel, then and now

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

I do gate duty after school five times a fortnight, and last week a student, apropos of nothing, asked me if I knew scientists in Barbados had moved hundreds of rocks to find the world's smallest snake. I had not known that, and it made my entire afternoon.

I had the protagonist for my new series as a recent graduate of Columbia University. Its urban fantasy, not realism, so fuck it - what should I name the university that occupies that space in my fictional NYC?

It is so, so important to learn to understand the difference between A Gross Thing That Freaks Me Out, versus A Thing Which Causes Actual Harm In The World because as long as you can't navigate the difference, your disgust is a lever that can be used to manipulate you

I like the sentiment, Royal Society, but saying ECRs just work too hard & need to take better care of themselves is completely cooked & blanks out that at a structural level academia is a who dares wins hunger games scorpions in a jar knife fight situation that no mindful box breathing will fix

I don't know shit about arson, but I know a decent amount about publishing, and a) he's not getting agent responses that fast and b) they'd be a form letter.

I know the whole thing is fawning nonsense but "like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel" is the bit that really fucking got me.

If the best argument you can put forward for your proposed law is "it won't Really be enforced", then even if you are telling the truth that just means you could have saved everybody time and money by not writing the damn thing. #NZPOL

The whole world right now is being dragged around by like five dudes pissing in the corners to mark territory and I’m sick of it

"I know I'm American because when I walk into a room something dies."

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

*Pikachu surprise face*

that photo is seared into my memory. these are rosaries seized at the border by the agents of this Babylon government.

This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...

can't believe the US is starting to treat Americans the way it did the Koreans, the Vietnamese, the Cubans, the Chinese, the Chileans, the Venezuelans, the Nicaraguans, the Kurds, the Haitians,

Maybe quit voting for their fucking bills then? Maybe quit confirming their nominees? Maybe shut down the Senate with the many procedural tools available to you? Maybe do something other than send sternly worded letters?

If Māori respond appropriately to racism, it's deemed "disruptive", "disrespectful". The expectation is that Māori should sit small and silent and reverent; grateful to be allowed entry. Anything other than servile is deemed "uncivil".

How dare you bring the NZ Parliament into disrepute by performing a culturally appropriate response to a threat to indigenous sovereignty, which the wider world saw and went "Damn, that shit cooks, New Zealand is amazing". That sort of behaviour is unacceptable.

Terrifying, tiny and totally harmless. This insectivorous dragon’s appearance has given rise to many tales and folklore, but in truth it is a shy, reclusive forest-dweller that seeks nothing more than peace and solitude.

reading the HHS "gender dysphoria report" summary and this is some truly insidious shit. sure, all the studies SAY the kids are happier, but we bet they aren't actually. they're all hopped up on something we bet probably

Last days to get this book for free!

Swelling with patriotic pride as I watch a kid cycle down the bike lane alongside sh1 with one hand on the handlebars and the other chowing down on a pie. That's my Aotearoa.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

A country of over 300 million people with no agency accountable for protecting food and drug safety.

People keep saying Senator Booker's filibuster was meaningless and people who were moved by it are naive and gullible but I lived and organized in a south where this record stood and slavery and Jim Crow cast a long shadow and I tell you Booker taking that record means something.

Hey, I really enjoyed @kehealey.bsky.social's fun contemporary romance novella The Love Labyrinth (an update on Greek myth where Ariadne wins the symbolic minotaur rather than obnoxious Theseus), and you can snap it up for free just by subscribing to her newsletter: dl.bookfunnel.com/99r1hmk1rt?r...

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It's the #transrightsreadathon! I'm trans nonbinary, and my beloved cli-fi adventure Foxhunt has a trans lead. books2read.com/vengefulwild1 Also a majority trans cast, haha. My other books have nonbinary supporting characters! All support appreciated, it's, uh, hard to keep my chin up lately