I promise you there are no politics in my alternate history fantasy about faeries ruling the United States, it's just a romance among a medieval bisexual polycule introducing a new partner, the undocumented immigrant survivor of debt slavery, and how to re-make a family in an absurdist autocracy.

Colorado Democratic assembly results (from memory). Colorado platform adopted. Minority report suggestion to add “abolish ICE” language to the platform accepted by something like 98% of delegates.

What about in the wider world? It's not Meta glasses anyone wants, it's anti-facial recognition glasses, frankly. As a person who values my privacy and prefers to live unsurveilled in the woods, the "slowly, then all at once" moment is really hitting me.

The implications of uploading every work meeting transcript into a bot (which is what "AI Agents" are) and asking it questions is really hitting me. Bros want to say it can protect you, but it's easy for leaders to tell it to forget or erase certain conversations or say things happened that didn't

Y'know what, I'm still with it "War don't sex" that's right brother, peace fucks

Seeing a million people turn out and snake through a large city is very cool, I won’t deny that but my favorite genre of post during these protests is “small town in a red state with the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen”

I hate when people join my mass popular movement. I hate when they add to the mass and the popularity. goes against the whole spirit of the thing

Still hoping to talk to someone! We are in need of a similar program in my area. [email protected]

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if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

"No Kings" organizers & Indivisible plan to use their lists to build support for General Strike on May Day. Dozens of unions are supporting the effort, too. paydayreport.com/no-kings-org...

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

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Great to see solarpunk in Mother Jones! www.motherjones.com/environment/...

5 just how routine and normalized the answer to EVERYTHING in America is more cops, more cops, more cops. To do every job. TSA unpaid? More cops! Congress can’t budget? More cops! To *me* there is intimidation by their mere presence, but I feel like their PR move is not to conjure fear but normalcy…

I did not know you could refuse.

this is a really important thread about the normalization of police presence in everyday life and the diversification of the enforcement wing of authoritarianism (and no other part of it)

If you are thinking about going to the No Kings protest today, and were on the fence about it, would you go for me? I physically can't go. I can't stay upright long enough and I can't use a wheelchair either. It hurts me that I can't go. Will you go in my place?

Copies of "I want a president". A handout written by artist Zoe Leonard for poet Eileen Miles' 1992 presidential campaign. "I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker." (Full text in alt)

This is very grim “This erodes roughly one-fifth of the average worldwide decline in maternal mortality achieved since 1985.”

This would be a blessed message for writers too :)

And a drizzle of some more.

Variety spends the first 8 grafs on JKR being a piece of transphobic shit in this article and that's the way every single report on her should work actually.

I love you Amy Acton, but like every dem, sending endless emails asking for money is not the way to win hearts and minds. Why dems don't understand content marketing continues to baffle me. Give me a weekly newsletter! Offer good causes and resources! Offer value 3x more that you ask for money!

...yup, that sure is a Hurley novel 😂 #wip

I don’t usually campaign for awards, but this year I’ve decided to go for broke for a Fan Writer Hugo Award. Yay me! 1/

Viralest post I've ever had on any platform. A post, in 2026, about going out on my own, not because anyone told me to, to do one very small, measurably good thing. Coincidence? I think not Virtue signaling is good, actually: a tally

Many congratulations to Archbishop Mullally and all my Anglican / Episcopalian peeps. What a glorious, holy thing.

I will 100% support your weird cursive fixation if you spend the same amount of money and time getting American children to understand progressive taxation well enough that they carry that knowledge into adulthood. So you don't have to explain it like this (although this is a very good explainer!).

I've heard of at least five FB groups specifically designed for women's networking.......that have had to ban posts asking for job leads for men (husbands, friends, friends of friends) Have you seen this in any of your online networks?

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore

So, I've been trying to read up on the candidates to be voted on at the state assembly in two days, and anyway, this is why I will never, ever, ever vote for @breslinforsenate.bsky.social. This is absolutely disqualifying in my opinion.

one of the races you should know about in April. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

lmao

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

It’s sent by a GOP front group calling itself the “Democracy and Justice PAC.” It’s run by this guy, AC Cardoza, a former Republican delegate from Hampton Roads who lost his reelection bid last year.

Just got this astroturf spam from a Richmond number. Obama has been out in force, encouraging Virginians to vote yes on the ballot measure — meant to even the playing field in the face of GOP gerrymanders in Texas and elsewhere. Absolutely shameless GOP ratfucking against Democrats and minorities.

I have a story in the Little Red Flags anthology out recently by Dark Matter. I have read the entire anthology. It is good. You should read it. I am not biased. This is not a cult.

why do we pay them

ABC reports that Mike Flynn’s reward for committing crimes for Trump will be $1.2M. abcnews.com/US/doj-pay-t...

we’re running out of water in Texas, and it’s an absolute mystery how it happened (/sarcasm)

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

Corpus Christi literally sold its water to Exxon insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

There's a mention here of our successful campaign at Harvard to roll back a similar crackdown on window signage. Even/especially at a time of rising government authoritarianism and institutional collusion, these workplace battles matter.

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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.

"What has been legalized is extraction, and the new methods of extraction that are possible using the internet and mobile devices. These companies have identified a group of people with a monetizable compulsion, and we have legalized the tools needed to industrially harvest money from them."