They're not even gonna acknowledge her wife in death, Renee Nicole Good was murdered and people are pretending like she wasn't married to a woman when an ICE terrorist murdered her, that her wife didn't hold her in her arms as she died, and on fucking camera... I'm so sick of it all

What is her name?

Who knows of a good pithy video about the French resistance during the Nazi occupation? One you’ve watched—I don’t trust the algorithms to search & find without spending an eternity

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

Everyone talks about the Republican "American Jesus" who loves guns, but there's the equally harmful American Jesus preached by pastors like this, a Jesus who is all hugs and inaction, who judges no one, including violent agents of the state. A Jesus who isn't revolutionary, just wants you to vote.

There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.

I think I’m most upset about the realization that no one will be held accountable. She’ll be lied about and dishonored, just like Melissa Hortman. And new horrors will replace this one by next week, requiring our attention, burying this story, demanding more dissociation. Everything is so fucked.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

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We’ve graduated from “abolish ICE is the moderate position” to “Nuremberg trials for the Trump regime and its Gestapo is the moderate position.”

2025 may be over, but these twenty seven books, published in the last year, represents the best of the year, and offers hope in a world that seems to get harder to live in every day. itch.io/b/3455/the-b...

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

remember the TNN article i reskeeted last week about the NYT and their intentional platforming of transphobia? seems they just can’t help themselves yikes

Line-editing: "It had been nineteen years--" Wait. "It had been eighteen years--" Hmm, no. "It had been nineteen years--" Maybe? "It had been the best part of two decades--"

Gonna use this to soapbox for a second (no shade intended to the question, it's solid). I think a LOT of 'writing mistakes' boil down to personal taste. Just speaking for myself, most of my answers to this question would just be personal opinion nitpicks, and that's why I keep them to myself>>>

Alright nerds, and I’m esp calling out to my history nerds. Who has good resources on celtic culture, celtic mythology (generalized bc I want any and all info for the Irish, Scottish, Welsh, etc cultures), and maybe why it seems the cultures and languages are disappearing? TYIA!

This is going to be longish, so I’m quote posting. My dad probably has ADHD. You listen to him talk about how the nuns treated him in school, and it is both evident, and heartbreaking. “What’s wrong with you?” “Why won’t you live up to your potential?” These are some of the more mild things…

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2025 may be over, but these twenty seven books, published in the last year, represents the best of the year, and offers hope in a world that seems to get harder to live in every day. itch.io/b/3455/the-b...

getting a variety of people who want to blame Democratic leaders for this and with due respect that is a completely insane reaction to the Republican President trying to incite pogroms

i'm really having a hard time getting past the "surely we can all agree that Somalis are worse than trash" thing. this feels new and very bad

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Happy New Year!

and for my next trick, I'll magically turn this idea for a standalone novel into a series that spans ??? amount of books

Reposting with alt text because I needed to hear this today 💜

This is why I read mostly indies & catch trade releases when they go on sale. I’m not paying paperback prices for an ebook.

An asteroid 200 million km from Earth contains all the ingredients for life. Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu have detected ribose, completing the suite of molecules needed for RNA and confirming that primitive asteroids can generate complex organics buff.ly/cWa6HGN #ShareGoodNewsToo

I'm pretty fucking sick of assholes putting other people at risk because they don't believe in science

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It's my birthday today! I know I asked for anyone who'd like to gift me to give to Rebeka's medical fund instead, but if there is still someone who'd like to tip me, I'd appreciate just a little to get my favourite take-out 💜 ko-fi.com/beaeli

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Candidate for personal favorite sentence I ever wrote: "Too late came early."

Every time I see this there's more. This is what I love about people

I also have a kofi if you want to just toss an unemployed disabled trans queer a couple bucks for zir birthday 💝

my birthday’s this weekend! buying my book for yourself (or a friend) would be a really nifty gift 🥺 and if the book doesn’t interest you (or you already have it!!) I also have a Redbubble with a bunch of queer, neurodivergent, and dog-related designs 👉👈 www.redbubble.com/people/NDque...

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

"legitimate concerns, Just asking questions"

'Alchemised' started out as HP fanfic that got really popular and then a tradpub house swooped in and gave the author like a million dollars to file off the serial numbers.

Phantom Menace 🥴

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

BLUESKY LET ME READ THE REPLIES FROM PALESTINIANS ON THIS WEBSITE

my birthday’s this weekend! buying my book for yourself (or a friend) would be a really nifty gift 🥺 and if the book doesn’t interest you (or you already have it!!) I also have a Redbubble with a bunch of queer, neurodivergent, and dog-related designs 👉👈 www.redbubble.com/people/NDque...