To clarify why DHS is wrong - the standard for an arrest is the same as the standard for a warrant, probable cause. Reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, a lower standard, is what is used to justify a brief detainment for the purposes of determining if criminal activity is occurring.

Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/

Chapter 2 of "Tender Care" is done! I'm aiming for 2.5k words per chapter for a total of 50k, so I'm now 10% of the way through the novel.

The point here is to believe people when they tell you who they are. Gavin Newsom hangs out with Republicans because he likes hanging out with Republicans. This isn't 4-D chess. He wants to hang out with Ben Shapiro and Steve Bannon. When he says he agrees with them on things, it's because he does.

Let me tell y'all about guys like Newsom, because we learned the hard way in Dallas. Eric Johnson was a respected Democratic state rep when he was elected mayor in 2019. This made sense, as Dallas is deep blue. Johnson's tenure began normally. But then he started hanging out with Republicans. 🧵

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

In "Tender Care", no character will be male unless their gender is absolutely necessary to the story. Male characters who are just incidentally male exist in the storyverse. They're just not "on page".

I am HOWLING

Priscilla had three modes: 1. Zoom 2. Flop 3. Pet me! Pet me! Hold me! Love me! Give me all the attention right now!

The Mark of the Tulip by Griselda_Gimpel - Original Work archiveofourown.org/works/77831101 via @ao3org Like this? Want the voice actors to get paid rather than not get paid? You can donate to my ko-fi here: ko-fi.com/griseldagimpel #OriginalWork #TheMarkOfTheTulip

One of the foundational problems of our era is that we have broadly—in news media, in voter perceptions, in public discourse, etc—decided that Republicans have zero responsibility to the public, zero responsibility for their choices, & no agency as elected officials. Its destroying us.

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

"Worse than Bush after Katrina" is a polling benchmark that I thought that partisan polarization had made impossible

I need all yall that dont speak spanish to learn a few words, real quick. pls RT "La Migra" - common slang for ICE "La Patrulla" - "The Patrol" "No digas nada" - "Say nothing." ¿Cómo te llamas? - "Whats your name?" "¿Quién quieres que llame?" - "Who do you want me to call?" Escondense - Hide

Got the Femslash Rarepairs treat written!

Gonna post the script for the first episode of "The Mark of the Tulip" tomorrow. (Subsequent episode scripts will go up after the episode airs, but I want to post the pilot script to help attract funders.)

Block the absolute shit out of this nazi filth. Do it with an ancient curse on your lips, with black lightning coursing through your blocking finger. Or just do it the regular way. Point being: block ‘em.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Finished Chapter 1 of "Tender Care", coming in at just over 2.5k!

Priscilla screams at me when she wants me to pick her up and hold her. 🥰

YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT HAVE TO HAND IT TO A "DEMOCRATIC" CANDIDATE WHO GLEEFULLY DESTROYS UNHOUSED PEOPLE'S BELONGINGS ON CAMERA, THROWS TRANS PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS, AND GOES ON THE GODDAMNED DAILY WIRE TO AGREE WITH GODDAMNED BEN SHAPIRO THAT ICE ARE NOT TERRORISTS.

Also, people going hard for Newsom, who are never, ever from California, have you noticed how many of the people who hate him are FROM California? THAT'S B/C WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ELECT GAVIN NEWSOM AS THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS & IT IS VERY NOT GREAT & WE ARE TRYING TO TELL YOU TO AVOID THAT.

I love when you tell people how terrible Newsom is, they're always like, "Well, it's nice to have ideals, but if it comes down to him or the Nazi in the general, *I* am going to vote for him" WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.

"Tender Care" Chapter 1 progress: just passed 2k words! I'm gonna finish the chapter tonight.

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

We’ve made it to Friday! Again! Good job everyone!

The cat can find functions on my laptop that i have never seen before just by walking across the keyboard

tbh could also be read fandom blind bc i started it basically when they debuted so the characterization is from my perception of them then ...yes I know how long ago that was

Dear artists, it's hard avoiding wondering if what we do is irrelevant or an insult when it's harsh, scary, dangerous & violent out there, but one thing is always true as stone: someone will need what you do, someone won't, & you won't know the difference. Err on the side of hope. Create if u can.

I might write another Femslash Rarepair fic, as a treat. The pairing requested fascinates me; I just need, you know, a plot.

Previous Post was deleted because the link didn't work properly (i don't even know or understand why) but here it is <3 please, whatever you can spare, it'll be deeply appreciated in this desperate time <3 ko-fi.com/vocalmancer

Audio Dramas occupy this weird space where they're just a little too costly to self-fund if you need to hire talent, but they're still dirt cheap compared to something like television or movies.

There is something all of us can do to rein in ICE's reign of terror. The Department of Homeland Security is currently funded only through January 30, and the new funding bill is vulnerable. Please read more via this link and call your reps today. All hands on deck. indivisible.org/campaign/how...

Ooo, this is the novel that caused The Locked Tomb fandom to lose its collective mind! I shall have to add it to my To Read list.

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

Would you like some hopecore in these dark times? Have a little cozy story that ends with a photo that looks gross but is actually really cool from a micro-ecological perspective

"Tender Care" is easier to write than "Around and Around" both because it's shorter and because while "Around and Around" is a treatise on the way social trauma leads to institutions failing, the thesis of "Tender Care" is, "Tentacles! You agree, yes?"

I -think- "Tender Care" will fall under the umbrella of romantasy, but I've not actually read the most popular examples of that genre, so I'm not sure. (My sister B has been trying to get me into Maas, but, well *gestures at my mile high To Read pile*.)

661 words written on "Tender Care" Chapter 1. I'm going to try to get at least a thousand done today. If I can do 1k on weekdays and 5k on weekends, I should have this written in five weeks.

the interesting thing about being an online presence is people just make things up to get mad at you about. Just straight up saying I've said things when I've never said anything of the sort. It's a phenomenon i wasn't expecting

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

look i'm gonna vote for whoever the dem is in the general, but in the primary any dem who wants to abolish ice is getting my vote over "no more than the obscene current budget until there is training"

The Alchemist of Bohemia blends my passion as a chemical engineer with my favorite most terrifying Czech bedtime stories and my love for ‘reality is stranger than fiction’ historical events and places.

Bed day bed day time to give you a thread of one of my favourite YouTube video genree Yes, it's time for COMEDY DOG AGILITY Buckle up, we're going in! youtu.be/YKfD1aHqBSw?...

Thor fic has a rough draft! Up next is my Candy Hearts Exchange pinch hit.

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

[Picture shows HR 2262 failing.]

I should finish my Thor fic tomorrow and knock out my Candy Hearts Exchange fic Thursday. And then? I think I'm going to start my femslash February novel. (Look, I sincerely doubt ability to actually write 2.5k every day. My real hope is just to finish before Fandom Trumps Hate prompts go out.)