Boosting Ahmed and Kholoud's fundraiser again. It seems like their account keeps getting deleted by Bluesky mods. Please throw them a few bucks if you can, they are living through hell: gofund.me/bc22a5890

I am Kholoud and my husband Ahmed. We have two daughters, Ghazal and Malak. We were displaced from our home in Gaza for over a year. Now we are displaced again, striving to protect our children who have known nothing but war and displacement. We desperately need your support.🙏🏻

After a good run of multi-thousand word days, I think I'm settling into 1000-1500 words as a sustainable daily writing goal. Gives me a bit more time in my day to read (an essential ingredient) and draw (the thing I keep forgetting I've dedicated most of my life too).

Children in Gaza don’t dream anymore. They wake up to flames, they fall asleep hungry, and they learn the meaning of loss too soon. My family carries these wounds too. Your compassion can bring us a small piece of hope. 🙏🏻💔 gofund.me/f978127f9

Amaaaayzinnng!

I've heard every "we have to hit them where it hurts" argument in the book, and none of them are beating the allegations that people just want to make fun of fat bodies.

You are telling every fat person in your life that they disgust you, that their bodies are comical or degenerate or useless. You are telling every fat person in your life you don't respect them.

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

I love my worldbuilding notebook. Writing longhand is cooler and sexier than typing plus you get to do silly little doodles in the margins

Boosting a couple fundraisers for families in gaza who are struggling. Please give if you can: gofund.me/cefbf8ff1

You know what, the best thing I can say about the Hades II ending is that it's genuinely very funny how many hours you have to put in to reach it considering just how deeply unsatisfying it is. It feels like being pranked. It's the shaggy dog story of videogames

Hades II is fun, but I just hit the credits and gotta say, don't think I've ever seen a story fail to stick the landing so badly. Really disappointing, just a failure of a finale on every level.

I have said many times, Sanderson is personally nice, but so what. Nice is cheap. He pumps money into a hate organization. That he can launder his own reputation effectively is the only think separating him from Rowling.

Yoshida is just the best man. No equal in my eyes.

Jesus christ

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Anyone who believes they know better than everyone else what constitutes healthy sexual expression and experience is a stone-cold psycho.

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

Re-upping this one. While there's plenty of real danger, the regime's leaning on ominous proclamations lately for a reason and it ain't because they have the level of widespread control and acceptance they wanted.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

The worst thing so far about 2025 might be that I now need to care that Jimmy Kimmel is getting cancelled

So I’m like a fourth generation protest organizer and for over a century, my family has managed to organize protests without registering people’s attendance information in advance

Every goddamn conservative in the country be like: youtu.be/KNxOYDP0pw4?...

You should take a minute (or 7) and watch this absolutely beautiful animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart from 1953. Unbelievable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezuu...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

But as someone placed on his Professor Watch List—who received torrents of vitriol from his followers—I find it jarring to read tributes claiming he was “doing politics the right way.” Only a white man untouched by his organization’s targeting could believe such a thing.

Here's what you need to do. You need to go to patreon.com/scumbelievable, you need to subscribe, and you need, need, to read Gretchen Felker-Martin's @scumbelievable.bksy.com's obituary for Charlie Kirk. It's the best thing she's ever written.

Ezra Klein liked and admired Charlie Kirk, who hated my trans child, so I'm going to view this as a display of true Ezra's character. You can apply this to every single centrist/liberal pundit or publication celebrating him. Got it. Message received.

The darkest day in American history

Playing it safe this week

transgender people are the core demographic trumpism is targeting as a wedge. if you are unable or unwilling to see this now, by the time they come for you it will be too late

And now they are killing people.

My latest newsletter is a response to @jerusalem.bsky.social on the politics of immigration, and why ticky-tack policy solutions won't save Democrats.

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

i just keep thinking about how we could have had this if merrick garland had moved with force and speed. it was our last off-ramp and we failed

Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.

IF this is true-- and it's a big if, remember who is running the FBI right now-- please be aware that back when I was monitoring 8chan and later Terrorgram, this is EXACTLY what Nazis urged their followers to do. They encouraged each other to do mass murder and then frame the left for it.

come ON man. kirk was the original pioneer of the right wing cottage industry of bad faith debate content. his entire thing was baiting 19-year-olds into saying half-baked shit and then posting videos of his epic owns online. that's what he was doing the moment he died. what are we doing here

"Charlie Kirk and fascists created this climate of political " This one is a must read. Don't let them make you forget how we got here.

Given the people who run this place are transphobic crypto fascists who kick trans women. Let’s promote Gretchen’s work on here for her. She has a new book out. It looks really cool, you should grab a copy and help her out, and also you’ll get to read a cool book bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

Hope the bullet's okay after touching Charlie Kirk.

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me