When I talk about how not only is it a beautiful thing to be warned about potential violence and how to keep yourself safe- but that all people should *expect* clear and detailed expectations of actions- this is what that looks like.

Look at academia giving me a little hope

A good reason to try to avoid getting Covid! Wear a mask when you're indoors or in a crowd to save yourself and others this sort of pain (not to mention Long Covid)

Check out the replies for bail and relief funds for L.A.

Yes, please!!💥🌺

Elon Musk’s AI data centers polluting Black communities so that his Nazi followers can ask his chatbot questions is a perfect distillation of why AI is fascist technology

RIP Virginia Giuffre Thank you for your courage ❤️

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If your loans go into debt collection, remember the onus is on the collector to prove that the loans are legally yours. Often collectors rely on intimidation. No paperwork, no signature, no payment.

I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today. Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.

Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.

📣National P.O. Soapbox Day, Sat 5/3 Host a #HandsOffUSPS teach-in & take action to #SaveThePostOffice 💌 WE provide Toolkit & Teach-In Materials (coming this week!) 💌 YOU arrange location or online platform to host your own community teach-in. Stay tuned! More info SOON. usps-teach-in.carrd.co

Finally: LONG COVID. Post-Viral Epidemiology is up. -symptoms -why it happens -who believes in it -why it sucks so bad -what you can do Dr. Wes Ely is THE guy when it comes to Long Covid. Spread this around to anyone it might help -- which is everyone. www.alieward.com/ologies/post...

New — Judge has DENIED the Trump administration's motion to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit, orders his case to be transferred to New Jersey, and not Louisiana, per the Trump admin's wishes. The judge also reaffirmed a previous ruling blocking the deportation of Khalil.

oh look y'all… a way to contact Schumer despite the fact he's doing his slimy, wiggly best to dodge the american people: SHARE WIDELY these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:

A good part of my job is to read extremely concerning studies in order to compose cross-sectional view of What's At Stake and work out ways to engage stakeholders This is, without hyperbole, the most concerning thing I have read in a long time www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

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A doctor has been serving one of Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods for decades — and if his patients can’t pay, that’s OK with him. So when he was diagnosed with cancer, his community rallied to raise $100,000 for his treatments.

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

Happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate! Also happy birthday to me

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):

I know this is tiny so check the alt text. Y’all gotta leave me alone about a one day boycott—it’s got to start with one day and hold. Retailers won’t notice one day. They have several bad days a month.

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Sharing this spreadsheet again of Black families in Altadena who need our help; Altadena is a historically Black community and there are real fears that this is what permanently displaces people who have lived in the area for 30 or 40 years. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

fiction subs at @atticusreview.bsky.social close at the end of the weekend, folks! if you're waiting for a sign, consider this it ✨

"I was just a lounge man with nothing to my name, but he liked my voice. It had distance, no distinct qualities, watery, he said, in fact, and malleable." ~Enter the world voice-work~ with this piece from @meikoko.bsky.social in Issue 6 of @atticusreview.bsky.social 🎙️

"The more they drink, the closer they get until they are brushing our shoulders and whispering in our ears. Until they are bestowing compliments like shiny gold stickers." Stay warm with this flash about intimacies~ by Isabelle Ness in @atticusreview.bsky.social atticusreview.org/camila-and-me/

"And I know now I have a reason to break the rules, a reason I’d never had before. I promise it’s a good one." Check out this tender time-traveling tale from Angelica Terso in Issue 6 of @atticusreview.bsky.social! atticusreview.org/a-time-trave...

"The Angel Gabriel gives me a going away present: a faceted stone pulsing with unearthly light. He says if I swallow the stone it will lodge in my core, keeping me warm on long nights alone." Frances Klein gives us angelic flash in @atticusreview.bsky.social Issue 6!

“A wolf would never let a parent-teacher conference last an hour-and-a-half,” Tallulah said, slipping a mask over her head. “A wolf would rip off the mother’s face.” Check out Melissa Darcey Hall's "Domesticated" in Issue 6 of @atticusreview.bsky.social!

Thank you @atticusreview.bsky.social for publishing this piece and thank you @zkennedylopez.bsky.social for the edits! atticusreview.org/expectant-bo...

issue 6 of Atticus Review is live!!

you've got one day left #authors !

[girl from the ring voice] two daysssssss

(fiction subs @atticusreview.bsky.social close in 1 week, pass it on)

Strange Horizons ran a special Palestine issue in 2021, the year of the last major Israeli bombing of Gaza. Please read these stories. It won’t help the current situation in any way, but Israel is intent on the genocide of the Palestinian people, and this includes their culture. Help keep it alive.

Read Palestinian books! Now and always. Here is my brand new list of 25 of my recommendations, books I loved. Including more than 25 different authors! Fiction, poetry, anthologies, comics, kidlit... You'll find something just for you. Then go advocate for a ceasefire.

Write your representatives to demand a call for ceasefire. Action Network helps you find your reps contact info, click here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-ceasefire-now?source=direct_link&

happy weekend, sunday crowd~ @atticusreview.bsky.social is still reading fiction for issue six! so far we’ve accepted pieces about: - the angel gabriel - roosters - time travel - reincarnation (maybe) - and more~ we brought on some new readers recently, too! keep them busy 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼

“It’s the hottest week of the summer, maybe the hottest week ever. The air inside the shipping container is close, dense, filled with swarms of invisible bugs. Jamie wakes up scratching.” issue five is alive @atticusreview.bsky.social! feat. shipping containers and sunrises(?)

“The idea of dating an actor has always made me feel wary, uneasy: the same feeling you’d get if someone got onto an elevator and, instead of looking at the door, chose to face toward the back.” issue 5 is alive @atticusreview.bsky.social! feat. this slow burn trip through a mirror darkly~

@atticusreview.bsky.social is officially on bluesky !

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

“Helen should be happier for Oscar for getting out of his time loop. She’s really, truly trying to match his enthusiasm for it being Tuesday. But from her perspective, yesterday was Monday and now it is Tuesday. The sun set and it rose.” issue five is alive! feat. this loopy spin on marital drama

Hey #flashfiction and #writer friends! Let’s welcome forthcoming litmag, @ettereview.bsky.social to Bluesky! And can we talk about the GORGEOUS artwork they sent that will be paired with my story NEXT MONTH?!?! Thank you Beth and @noramaynard.bsky.social for giving my story such a wonderful home ❤️

"At the end of the year of strange weather, you wake in an underground bed, left eye sewn shut. It is earthquake season. 'Where did you go?' you say, and 'My face is missing,' to the ceiling." issue five is alive! feat. a lion and Babygirl and texts on art atticusreview.org/the-shape-of...

“The king’s wife gave birth to a child with no pigmentation...But then she saw that the child was a girl—the abnormality could be hidden.” issue five is alive! feat. a retelling of a famous fairy tale (now w/ unions! amputations! fearing the sun!) https://atticusreview.org/the-snow-white-girl/

“‘Hook up’ had been a dragnet, she thought...It covered everything past a kiss, so there was no avoiding a lie if you hadn’t wanted to answer the question honestly.” issue five is alive! feat. this existential snapshot of a chance encounter https://atticusreview.org/hook-ups/