Hey, remember when TJ Klune admitted the book was inspired by the Sixties Scoop but instead of the government being evil in his book they're actually Doing Good and it's perfectly OK to steal children from families as long as the people doing the stealing are good people?

A very weird but common conceptualization of the Cold War as a friendly rivalry between STEM institutions instead of what it was, a series of bloody engagements between two settler colonies throughout the Global South. No, I don't think dems should be running on the "Vietnam War 2" platform

Called it!

the level of privilege required to just now be doubting the US's inherent heroic goodness is genuinely astounding

In my defense, the first thing I read there basically dismissed Churchill's responsibility in the Bengal famine. Why should I have looked at the pub further

I thought Liberal Currents was satire.

whooaaaaa a poetry zine??? you should buy this

(The threat of global imperialist war, global warming, increasingly concentrated wealth and extreme wealth inequality hanging over my head) time to punch left

Always read Salaita: this is bracing & fierce & beautiful, an argument that practices its thesis about the joyful necessity of decentring US discursive hegemony in favour of the radical honesty of Palestine & its people

this piece from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social is wonderful, both bracing & reassuring, in its moral clarity and empathy. Survival *is* a collective endeavour (an assertion that is all the more powerful given how precisely her descriptions of past depression match my own current feelings)

Le Bois de Boulogne en hiver - Une Allée Cavalière à #Paris16 (#Paris) Suite 👉 https://cartorum.fr/carte-postale/441028/paris-16e-le-bois-de-boulogne-en-hiver-une-allee-cavaliere

It's hard not to just scream, over and over again, that the US power elite being ok-to-enthusiastic about Israel's decades of illegal and genocidal violence against Palestinians is why Trump can openly brag about doing war crimes against Iran and it's just normal and unremarkable

some mindblowing candy discounts out there

Can't believe it's been eleven years since the down with cis bus screeched into being

I just saw Woolf's Orlando recommended as "weird girl lit".

it is seriously nasty fucking work to post a screenshot of someone talking about their personal trauma surrounding conversion therapy as an example of people threatening you. why would you do that

i cannot believe we have to say this and yet here we are

there are plenty of trans folks who need it a lot more than me; please give to them first. But if you do like the work I do, I have a Patreon where any donation unlocks stories, craft essays, long poems, and the like. #tdov www.patreon.com/adeniro

I am so weary of this bullshit, this faux-earnest 'let's find the middle ground' push to normalize utter obscenities like using LLMs for creative and academic writing. web.archive.org/web/20260331...

every time I leave a comment or make a post, I worry I sound like a bot

“Regardless of specificity, solidarity always requires awareness, self-criticism, consciousness, the decision to act, and the need to create strategy, to build alliances, and to listen. It always requires taking chances, making mistakes, and trying again.” ― Sarah Schulman

hell there are couple of you I've known since 2003/4 ❤️

This essay by @davidcporter.net is the best thing I read all week; I'm going to be thinking about it from now on. gardenscenery.net/p/the-discov...

231 Calls for Justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Social Workers and Those Implicated in Child Welfare 12.4 The full report and resources can be found here: www.mmiwg-ffada.ca #MMIWG2S #MMIP #231CallsforJustice #Indigenous

declassified RCMP files confirm Canada's domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

The Southern Reach series (2014 - )

Books x Bodegas brings a selection of free books to neighbors by setting up bookshelves inside bodegas. bronx.news12.com/new-program-...

struck by this thing in Shy Girl discourse where mainstream/establishment voices protest their GOODHEARTED INNOCENCE. They're just too pure, too cinnamon-dusted, to ever read a book badly/suspiciously! They'd never spend three hours attacking something!

The contemporary online Thing of referring to everyone by first name, whether you know them or not, whether they're world-historical or hyper-local, is so weird to me. "Jane" for Austen was my breaking point (I thought). I just saw "Barnaby and Martin" used for two Dickens *novels*.

Thinking about old friendships. Sometimes all you can say is, ah well.

this thread is great

I love Bluesky where obvious jokes are taken VERY seriously to the point where people are willing to do XKCD style calculations over it

I read a very disappointing short story this morning & now I'm all at loose, frazzled ends.

We live in the stupidest times. I know there have been other stupidest times, but I didn't live through them, so I can't comment on their levels of stupid. These times though? Pure dumbassery.

#lrp the number of replies to Tremblay about how (textual) research by AI is just fine actually is doing my head in

Two years ago I had my agents ask authors seeking blurbs if they had used LLMs in the writing or research for their novels. If yes, then I won’t read their books. I know I could be lied to. If I am lied to, I will LOUDLY retract my endorsement. I hope more writers might adopt a similar policy.

i make a point to not call any art i enjoy or make as "content" or the act of enjoying/experiencing anything as "consuming" ... it might seem like a small or insignificant thing, but the way we describe things does, in fact, affect how we think of them

I will delete my account before I ever add a sarcasm tag to a post.

This is such an odd defense of those who blurbed Shy Girl: yes, that is why people blurb, but why would "helping"/doing a favour erase the expectation of any/all integrity, principles, discernment?

Who not to go to for blurbs

the new season of Deadloch rules

cats are such graceful, majestic creatures

I sure have a lot of aesthetic opinions & judgmentalness for someone who can't finish a damn thing

Judith Herman has written some powerful words on this. People tend to see victims as the source of harm because they were unaware of the violence until the victim spoke up. A lot want to go back to the day before they knew—not a time before the violence ever happened.

This review by @thecorlew.bsky.social of Beth Gilstrap's There Is News Along the Ohio River is making me desperate to read it (but I'm having trouble determining if it's available in Canada) www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658231