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Farage is a sick bastard, churning up hate for his own selfish reasons. I can promise you that applying for ILR and citizenship is an expensive process and we give the UK government many thousands of pounds, as well as paying tax like anyone else.

lots of people have issues with seeing sexuality depicted, for a thousand different wholly valid reasons. but there's a difference between self-protection and censorship, and i think it's ethically dishonest to never examine which one your actions and words are most directly contributing to

One of my responses to the reading-difficulty conversation is: if you want to do anything with theory whatsoever you’ve gotta get comfortable feeling like you got hit with a rock on first reading. It’s a good and healthy and *pleasurable* thing to strive to meet a text where it’s at!!

Y/N by Esther Yi has a 2.9 rating on Goodreads, which should tell you everything you need to know (about listening to Goodreads reviews, not about the book)

Found out there was a goth night going on not far from where I live when I spotted a pair of attendees in fetish gear headed there as we left the cinema. I'm too old and migrainey for things that begin after 9PM, but man, I wish there was a goth cafe or something. Music, decor, a horror book swap...

Not 25 pages into a new book and Welsh slander already smh

“Aberbaijan” which as everyone knows is between Aberaeron and Aberystwyth. But surprising they were at war with Albania but I guess those things happen.

With today’s excellent news we’re headed for a Kai Ashante Wilson renaissance and this is still true:

Oh! Kai Ashante Wilson fans, some news: www.patreon.com/posts/138033...

Adham's family urgently needs our support 🙏 The cost of transportation is 2,400 shekels, or $727. A tent now is $1,060. Renting the land is $1,060 Please donate to help them secure transportation and shelter 💜 gofund.me/fe5ecbe67

Here's what they need right now: • A mattress for Najwa • Coats • Hoodies for the boys • Pants • Sweaters • Gloves • Scarves • Warm hats • Food, water, and medicine

I like that there's writers out there who make it their mission statement to create trans joy and depict queer happy endings with their fiction, because I'm gonna write something else.

New issue: 2025.74 Fiction and art by Barbara Candiotti, Carmen Moran, Eleanor Glewwe, Justin Taroli, Leuren Ferebee, Nancy S. Koven, Naomi Simone Borwein, Rowley Amato, Toeken & V. Zixin. press.futurefire.net/2025/09/new-...

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Just three more downloads and FF breaks our personal best for annual circulation (and it's only September!). Get yourself a free copy of FF#25 (or anything from our backlist) and help us set a new record today! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/

Alternative history SF novel where Y2K is as bad as people feared, Silicon Valley tech corporations never recover, and we reach utopia.

Some literary fiction I've read and enjoyed. Sad boner professor free!

Rather than contribute to Discourse, I'm just gonna leave these here. All marketed as litfic (though some have supernatural elements), not a sad boner professor in sight.

Very important info for eg women in violent relationships who maintain a secret phone. Please pass along.

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.

Please continue to support my dear friend Adham and his family 💜 They continue to suffer horrific violence, starvation, and loss under the ongoing genocide Donate to their survival fund and share to get them the help they need 🙏

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

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I feel so frustrated any time a post goes around suggesting that it's mean to criticize art because art is hard to make. there are two ways to read the word "criticism" here, and whichever one this most recent post means, I ardently disagree with it. 1/

Hey, @support.bsky.team, you suspended my boyfriend @doriandawes.bsky.social for the thing your entire website is being criticized for (silencing queer folk who wish ill on a billionaire, as if the former could meaningfully implement such actions against someone as powerful and protected).

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie!"

Woman who advocated for burning people of colour alive is treated like a hero by The Sun. Meanwhile, Yvette Cooper, Keir Starmer and their ilk tell people like this woman that they have ‘reasonable concerns’, and regularly demonise people seeking sanctuary. This country is terrifying.

So this platform finds it more important to protect JK Rowling than Palestinians. This is beyond absurd.

This essay is fucking excellent, you should read it.

People often dislike when art isn't fun and/or comforting. They often dislike when art holds a mirror to them. They dislike stories where a traumatized character causes unjust harm because people like to believe their trauma makes them righteous. In short, these are all good things for art to do.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Can't wait for the wall-to-wall media coverage of What This Means, the endless thinkpieces about Green Party dominance in a working class community meaning Labour has to take their concerns seriously and pivot towards them, you know like we'd get if Reform had won.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

I fucking loved this book. For being a relatively slim novel, it manages to do *so much* and still feel claustrophobic and intimate. Really impressive

*Welsh panic intensifies*

girls, etc is a great collection, and I'll definitely be checking out Queer as Folklore. Support these authors if you can ❤️

Every day we try to secure just the basics of life for my children. There are so many needs, and so little means... But your presence & support have already lightened so much of the burden.❤️ We need £140 to cover essential daily expenses and get through the day safely. 🙏 Kindness Matters

I've been doing revisions for 5ish months at this point and should be doing more of it today, but instead wrote the first few hundred words of something new. Feels good.

if your teenager loses their shit and “recoils in disgust” because somebody who looks different to them interacts with them in public that’s a hell of an indictment against your parenting