Do you think there are people that support, like, a boycott of Microsoft products or almonds or something who still refuse to stop giving JK Rowling money? I feel like this person exists and if so, I’d love to talk.

I do think "Avoid giving money to someone who will use that money to harm minorities, whose product is one fiction franchise out of literally thousands" is kind of a reasonable ask. Like it's not even activism, it's "don't actively contribute to harm."

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

These political texts are getting direct.

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Preserving a Lauren insta-kill for posterity

This is honestly really funny because Mike Lee’s entire career can be summed up as riding his dad’s corpse because he was president of BYU.

What you should take from this is that a particular type of person (foaming wingnut cranks) firmly believes they have special dispensation from the state to behave as badly as they want towards a particular kind of outgroup scum (anyone they regard as left wing).

Idk it's a mystery and now to take a big sip of memory juice and search up what happened to even ivy league students under a president I am choosing to assume was Trump

this is like, literally the exact kind of thing that kicked off the revolutionary war. i'm trying to find a way to be goofy and say i'm exaggerating but taxing shipments in order to pay for expensive foreign wars was literally the flashpoint lol

If J.K. Rowling had fucked a kid or said the N-word, this wouldn't even be a discussion. So if you ever wonder why the trans community doesn't feel like anyone has their backs *gestures wildly at Bluesky today*

that's not "whatever this is." that's don't put your hand in my face, I still love u tho but stop that shit

this is the difference between “ah shucks what a deplorable atrocity” and “it was genocide”. that is what these nihilists and hypocrites want to make hash of. this is what they call “magic words” and “purity tests”.

i am always saying this

I’ll be real, one of the reasons I was worried about Marlon James writing SFF was that we might lose an insightful, biting talent to whatever mind virus has been going around in those circles since 2012.

after 2019, protecting your status as the hottest commodity in print SF novels would turn out to be worth about as much as exclusive distribution rights on a specific fart. big business passed out a bunch of straight-to-the-sewer netflix slop & then pulled up the ladder and turned on claude

imagine smiling and nodding through someone fashjacketing someone you were on a first-name basis with. imagine doing this because the obvious egg coming out as trans is socially inconvenient for your domineering radikewl ass. and imagine that happening in fucking 2019

the isabel fall thing is bleak in a million ways. here are two: 1. it was personal. this was a person these new-guard SF authors were acquainted with personally & wanted to ensure they would not need to coexist with, pretty much exclusively for awful reasons 2. it didn't really do anything for them

Hey here’s you explicitly calling for criticism of Israel to be made illegal on campuses (the IHRA definition) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Enough

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Want to feel old? All the teenagers who used to email Rockstar Games asking why you can't shoot dogs in Grand Theft Auto now work for the federal government

No. Your childhood nostalgia does not matter more than the lives of real people. And frankly I'm fucking tired of having to pretend that isnt a fucking insane thing to say in response to "please don't support the hate monger lady's soggy, reheated nachos"

If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

Honestly not giving money to an anti-trans cash mill is a way simpler issue than the variety of growing pains and complexities of trans character casting, and its really sad that people can’t just step away from the Harry Potter shit.

I assume that in that period of time they will still fail to grow up.

Duck Bigoli in Asolo, Veneto, Italy and Irish Back Bacon.

George Mason actually has reserved ideological fellowships for conservative shitheel economics and law professors wholly subsidized by dark money billionaires like the Kochs and Art Pope. His checks may as well be a different color, because my guy is a literal ideological diversity hire.

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Poe: joanne was explaining death of the author Poe: what do you think, mary Shelley: death of the author eh? Shelley: [brandishing swicthblade] i think it's a good idea Rowling: i Rowling: i have to go

Rowling: don't listen to them ssteve, death of the author isss the perfect way to enjoy harry potter guilt free Rowling: it worked for howard Lovecraft: and how! King: yeah but he's actually dead Lovecraft: what

George Mason actually has reserved ideological fellowships for conservative shitheel economics and law professors wholly subsidized by dark money billionaires like the Kochs and Art Pope. His checks may as well be a different color, because my guy is a literal ideological diversity hire.

Job market not working out for ya? Internet frying your cognitive functions? Judge won’t let you see the kids without supervision? Instead of succumbing to drugs, why not die on the other side of the globe on behalf of Exxon and Lindsey Graham’s boner?

lol they are so fucked

Every parent who put their kids up to this should be arrested

Three right-wing talking points whose logic contradicts each other: 1. No voter ID means illegal immigrants are voting. 2. You need an ID to fly on a plane so you should need one to vote. 3. We need to send ICE to airports to arrest all the illegal immigrants flying on planes.

Dear Mrs Miller: I wouldn’t really consider your son a ‘hero’, since he died. As you know, most of the soldiers who die are suckers and losers. Your President: Donald Trump

the first domino to fall in the ai bubble

Okay name names or fuck off, Mr. “Filibuster then immediately hang with Bibi”

No matter how annoying Ukraine flag emojis are, or how noxious Zelensky’s fascist alliance is, I don’t think most reasonable people like Putin.

Bernie doesn't mention Russiagate, isn't singling out Russia for criticism while sparing the US or Israel, and isn't blaming Russians for the crimes of their government. There's plenty to criticize Bernie about without getting mad at him for correctly calling Putin the bourgeois autocrat that he is

Okay, Warren and her voters not backing Sanders in 2020 was a massive failure of a pretty important test and primary votes matter. Biden winning in 2020 led us to this moment.