@tkingfisher.com , there was a VERY well-made Boneclaw Mother cosplay at this weekend’s Archon, don’t know if you’d find that interesting (not my photo or my costume).

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Book tour for Queen Demon (the sequel to Witch King, next book in the Rising World series) starts tomorrow! 1/11 artsatthearmory.org/events/bill-...

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

So @spacelawshitpost.me aka Link got banned. I just got text message. So yeah. We stop saying things are accidents now? Link of all people? Apparently Jay said something to him before taking him down. He didn’t even get a chance to reply. He sent this image. This is sad.

If you're in the following cities, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I are coming to a bookstore near you soon: New York, Atlanta, WDC, Houston, Portland, Boulder, and San Diego. Plus, a virtual event! See all the details here: maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/appr... @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

I had to flee the US – as a foreign, Black, pro-Palestinian activist, I tick every box on Ice’s list I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US -Amandla Thomas-Johnson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED MED CHECK. today is Sunday. everyone take your meds 🤖💊

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

I took this photo of a sniper on a roof in Ferguson 11 years ago on this day. And now there are snipers on a roof in Broadview.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Most of the staff running three Alaska newspapers in Homer, Kenai-Soldotna and Juneau resigned in protest Monday. “We cannot do our jobs knowing that pressure from an elected official can mean our stories are edited without prior consultation with us," they wrote. https://akpub.io/4o371i7

No, we cannot defeat fascism with a national cultural mindset that SOME people deserve to be kidnapped and caged, ESPECIALLY not when the prevailing reason justifying that is "FOR THEIR OWN GOOD" cuz they're "too crazy/on too many drugs" do u even know what "bodily autonomy" IS??

Not sure you’ve seen these images here, but in the UK they’re arresting dangerous anti genocide protestors for “supporting terrorism”. You can sleep easier knowing these thugs are off the streets.

I suspect a party platform of 1) turning back every Trump action and policy, 2) arresting every employee of ICE for involvement in or abetting of crimes against humanity, would do very well.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

Seriously, if you are near Santa Cruz and you care about the freedom to read, I would love to see you tomorrow <3

These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species

The "being anti-AI is like bigotry" arguments come from a position that is uninformed about both bigotry and artificial intelligence. But this post is a standout. There are a ton of things you can say that sound like eugenics but are fine because they don't involve humans.

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

atproto is doing some really cool things but the vast majority of users don't even know what decentralization means let alone why they should give a shit about it. bluesky is putting the cart before the horse for their own damn mission.

Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to. Graphic: @standplaatskrk.pl

Okay so we've had trans rights but what about TRANS WRONGS??? Murder! Blood magic! Kissing! Monsters!

Want to know why age-verification isn't working? Nearly half of adults already use a VPN. And a full 50% of Gen Z and millennials say they've already used a VPN to access a restricted website or app. Which is why legislators are now trying to ban VPNs.

Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication. Here’s the column they wouldn't run. Please consider writing: [email protected] [email protected] Stand with Dan.

I asked my pizza place to spell CHARLIE KIRK on my pizza in pepperonis and they wouldn't

That’s a lot of words for “congressional candidate Kat Abughazelah was assaulted and shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent.”

today we are all build-a-bear

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

Fuck despair. Fascists should have to fight for every inch they get, on principle alone. The fight is over when the fascists are defeated, and not one minute earlier.

Our Heroine is at Loyalty Bookstore in DC tonight! Be there or be somewhere that is hopefully equally fantastic!

People like to claim that autistics are bad at communicating and like, my dude, the problem does not lie with us, it lies with the web of manipulation and lies and passive aggression and ulterior agendas that you weave around yourselves instead of just doing what we do, which is saying what we mean.

All that money and Anduril and Palantir can’t even make things that work properly. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney.

89 years ago today Mosley attempted to march his blackshirts through the East End of London. The Jewish press counselled calm. East End Jews - backed primarily by Irish & Communists - beat them back with fists, pipes, clubs. Old women poured hot water on them from above.

(Chinese companies generally report at least some financial information on a quarterly basis) (Also this idea is terrible, getting rid of audited quarterly disclosures would absolutely raise the risk premium for the US equity market compared to peers around the world)

2 Oct 2025 -- Kansas (!) Supreme Court delivers big on trans drivers' license changes, declining to hear an appeal of a district court ruling made by anti-LGBTQ+ Attorney General Kris Kobach, who is trying to call a special legislative session on the matter. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

I’ve been thinking about how US media (on all sides of the political spectrum) have been on a tear for decades now radicalizing the public (there is no other word for it but radicalizing) against the very idea of universities. The NYT, the Atlantic, WSJ, it’s been a concerted decades-long effort.

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Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

It’s not rocket science. They need clearly defined enemies to keep their hate machine rolling, and war is also a great way to blame a failing economy that they’ve personally murdered.

actual events of the video aside, this is a perfect encapsulation of where these nazis stand in society. There's one of them for every several thousand normal people. They know everyone thinks they're weird little freaks, which is why they spend all their time pretending to be mainstream

I wish him the absolute best of luck, they are going to target the ever-loving shit out of him for not doing exactly what they want, well sucks to be him, hopefully whoever replaces him has a spine

ICE writing long screeds whining about someone from Cato calling out their bullshit shows how they know they're losing the narrative here. No one likes ICE. No one trusts ICE. And they're flipping out about how weak they look.

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

update: owie