One of the things I tried to focus on in writing Your Shadow Half Remains is the existential horror of a situation that doesn’t seem like it should be sustainable and yet things stagger on and on and on regardless and I think about that a lot bookshop.org/p/books/your...

Hi, 15 year insurance agent here. Fuck the entire industry with a rusty spoon. It's designed to patch a pothole in society, but ends up justifying the potholes to secure its own existence. Pooling risk is great. But we don't need a fucking megacorp to do it. That's the shit taxes *should* be for.

Anti-carceral. But pro-guillotine.

John Travolta is unrecognizable in his outfit at the Cannes Film Festival

Impersonation scam alert! Despite the bogus Gmail address, I'm not sure of the provenance of this one (they also got the agency's name wrong). But I'd guess that multiple other agents'/agencies' identities have been appropriated. If you get something like this, forward it to me: [email protected]

FUCK YOU TRANSPHOBES This is for Juniper Blessing And all the Black trans women being lynched

Not only that but they gave him an award :) bsky.app/profile/stra...

Best news: He missed and the seal is fine. The locals even gave an “environmental activist” award to the dude who beat his ass. (Vid in thread comments.) I hope they throw the book at the attempted seal-assassin, and I hope the book is (a) really heavy and (b) about seals.

We also must continue to make clear that the cuts that were "reversed" were cuts made by the MAYOR himself in the preliminary budget, lol.

A shipment of Ex Partum books has arrived! But I am not allowed to unbox, says Nebula, Head of Box Sitting and Gives Zero Fucks.

Max needs our help, everyone. Max has been a huge supporter of indie horror and indie authors for years. Whatever you can help with will be much appreciated.

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

It was a mishearing, its actually the *sax* genders *jazz intensifies*

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

- Ms. Bellum from Powerpuff Girls - Carmen Sandiego - Ruby Rhod - Cenobite - Eugene "The Plague" Belford from Hackers - Brawny Paper Towel Guy

Today is Nakba Day, when we commemorate the roughly 750,000 Palestinians who were forcibly displaced by Zionist militias during the 1948 Palestine War. Acknowledging the Nakba and making restitution is the precursor to building a better future for everyone living in the region.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

ICYMI: in the past month, I've had new small strange pieces out in hex, Keep Planning, and The Bulb Region. Listed here for your convenience: ivyivyivyivy.com/stories/

"Let others confuse themselves into oblivion calling after a dead name. My own is mine, I chose it." A meditation on names and naming by @swordsjew.bsky.social.

No one asked for this but billionaires. bsky.app/profile/phil...

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

I repeat: THE PITT is saving television. And not in the flippant, "I just really like it" way. THE PITT has a full writers room, full crew, full seasons and is wildly popular. It's the type of TV that execs thought was dead, and, most importantly, it's the type of TV viewers will always crave.

I protested in front of this Tesla dealership every Saturday for a month and a half. Our numbers increased every week. People power can defeat the fascists.

There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.

This week I didn't give two, but three stories! @faithallington.bsky.social @andrewkozma.net and @historyneverwas.bsky.social are all up this week and I think you'll find each of these stories has a bit of sharpness to it that I really got into.

Another reading. There'll be exclusive stories never heard before! All weird and all out my mouth! #horrorwriters

Every time I open Bluesky,

People on here will post anything. 'Snuffleupagus is aquatic.' No he isn’t. That isn’t true.

It's been a while since they've gotten donations. These two women are friends-of-a-friend. I don't know them directly but someone I know, love, and trust, vouches for them. They're very dear to this person which means they're dear to me, too. They are trying to stay housed and safe. Can you help?

BREAKING: Immigrants detained in the notorious Chicago apartment raid last fall have filed claims against the federal government for trauma, injuries and lost property. The 18 tenants, including children, are seeking $5 million each. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Tomorrow on ergot.: new ways to live with a homebody from Perry Ruhland perryruhland.com

For anyone who is curious about the name, here's a helpful reminder: - 'ergo': Pronounced 'air-goh'. Means 'therefore'. Used by the Architect from 'The Matrix: Reloaded' - 'ergot': Pronounced 'er-gaht'. A kind of fungus that grow on rye. Used in witchcraft, to induce labor and for other purposes.

One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.

Evergreen. Hope Bonnie is thriving.

Oh, you mean like the special treatment Jesse Singal got, enabling his vindictive harassment of trans women and punishing those who dared to fight back? 🤔

“Ziobro is a wanted man with no passport. The Trump White House just went to a good deal of trouble to bring him to the US.” The USA under Tump has become the post-WWII equivalent of South America — a refuge for fleeing fascists desperate to escape justice.

Short fiction is so cool bc you can just make a house grow in the woods and nobody knows how or why

This is a long piece that begins by acknowledging the awful economic conditions that writers and other creatives face today. It's why we spoke to three writers who don't have traditional day jobs about their experiences leaving Substack. The struggle is real. www.talkscratch.com/why-cant-wri...

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

the people who piss themselves, sobbing, at the idea of having to cross the street in a major city really need to shut the fuck up about how cocooned everyone else is from distress.

Inexcusably rude of our students to turn their backs on graduation speaker Augusto Pinochet

Maybe instead you could report on the fact he's currently violating a court order to stay in the US in order to testify at a federal trial.

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

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NO DO NOT MAKE ME AGREE WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OMG

Why are you bleeping and starring out the word "prostitution," you're the Washington Post, you guys published the fucking Pentagon Papers for Christ's sake.