Jury duty is probably the greatest civic duty one has. More than voting. Because when one is on a jury the fate of your fellow citizens is completely in your hands.

Fellow members, please vote, and please think very carefully about which candidates will focus on the Society's core work of addressing the many personal and professional challenges facing writers today.

If anyone out there KNOWS of anywhere my art or writing is still up besides AO3, please let me know? Also still looking for copies of QueerTrek zine I worked on in RVA in '98-'01, if any collectors have any of em.

We need these kinds of magazines to publish nonfiction. It's a tough time for literary criticism, essays about ideas, creative non-fiction, and I'm thrilled to see Apex is going to take pitches. Support if you can!

Speaking of things bringing joy!

This.

So... they plan to murder people and then say "they were antifa". Because that's what they've been doing on the high seas.

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

No lie, I worry about this. I’m not in an impacted city. But since ICE seems to throw this stuff around with zero thought, I’m concerned about what happens if Mom and I are at Lowe’s and ICE decides to do a raid. She’s got wicked asthma, and pretty sure tear gas is not good for that

How awful. 💔

the left getting football in the national divorce is still so weird

If someone told me a year ago this would be a headline in 2025, I would have screamed at them “I KNOW IT WILL, HE’S FUCKING SAYING RIGHT NOW THAT THAT’S WHAT HE’S GOING TO DO!”

everything is shit these days and it's important to find things that bring you joy, so: one of my favorite art things is @mikemaihack.com's Super Batober, where he draws adorable pictures of Babs and Kara every day for the month I highly recommend checking out previous years too

Dance party protests might be one of the best moves right now. These make fascists look ridiculous, counter the "Portland is dangerous" narrative, and showcase joy and community at a time when those things are in short supply. Keep it up.

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@support.bsky.team Hey, I'm having a darned time trying to stay logged in, via a browser on my laptop. (more next rock)

The national police union, and more than a few local unions are one of the real barriers to police reform. Bottom line- local PDs aren’t helping ICE because ICE is making their jobs harder and less safe. Poor arrest procedure, failure to establish scene safety, and provoking protesters 1:

Yes, but it’s worth considering doing the work of pushing capitalist labor, exploitation models back in time to a pre-capitalist agricultural slavery model. You can do big sweeping “labor slavery” history (Graeber style) of course. But that’s not what the people who say feudalism are doing.

media of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Okay, time for that nap. (muttergrumble) - I seriously misread "drug salads" instead of "drug sales" in a headline, and - you know? life really doesn't to get any weirder. Especially not like that. "Drug salads" - YEESH!!

Oh, all right, stomach - I will go feed myself some lunch. *Harrumph, bodies!*

Sounds like what people who want to enable harassment say about dating. Same issue, too: consent.

If it can’t survive without theft, it should die. Obviously.

A-fucking-men The Idea of America is what I enlisted to defend (it's not why I enlisted, but without it none of the rest mattered).

Thread. Remember, also, that what judges have to do is *apply the law*, and they have to do it in writing, on the record, in a legal system based on precedent as well as statute. Jenrick is an accountability-shy opportunist who shouldn't be let near the legal system (except possibly as a defendant).

@azzageddi.myatproto.social Yep, definitely weird. bsky.app/profile/azza...

@azzageddi.myatproto.social More grist for the mill:

This is AJ Link, known here as Łink. He's awesome. He's been permabanned for basically just making the CEO, Jay Graber, mad. This was a monumentally stupid decision that, AFAICT, may result in the collapse of Bluesky due to a loss of trust, but we'll see. The smart thing to do would be to #FreeŁink

@azzageddi.myatproto.social Like, I just tried this and the message above is what I got.

@azzageddi.myatproto.social I've been trying to reply to a post of yours, but Bluesky keeps telling me it's been deleted: "Don't look at the man behind the curtain!" was meant for your post referring to puffers and giggling.

Amazing

“We have to have discourse” THEY SHOT A PRESBYTERIAN WHO ASKED THEM To pray WITH A PEPPER BALL IN BROAD DAY LIGHT do you still think these people need yo be saved before they are stopped from harming people?!?

This is a lot bigger than one professor, & he's not the first. If we're all allowed to be labeled as "terrorists" for calling out fascists, the government will have an excuse to do whatever it wants to us. I yelled about this back when the Patriot Act was debated. It's not fun being right.

Thread, scroll up!

so i've had this song stuck in my head for days and this guy, who i literally just found on YouTube, does the best version i've ever heard. goddamn i love rebel songs.

this is very, very good. “…. aesthetics are not the sole determinant of value. A city does not need to be all cherry blossoms and street fairs to be worth protecting. No protest—no gathering of human beings in general—is going to be monolithically well-behaved.”

This

In 2025 there is no excuse for a faculty member not knowing the basics of copyright law, and there's *really* no excuse for making students break the law to get a grade. Sure, it's only copyright law, and you may think that worth breaking, but to *force* students to do it? Bad show, prof, bad show

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

Thanks FF FG #Budget2025 #speirgorm

It looks targeted "But another story tells that Martinez identified the YouTube channel of one of the guys who’d been patrolling the neighborhood, and days later, CBP ended up screaming, “Do something bitch” at her before they rammed her car and started shooting" www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3

This fucker straight up lied... because they broke down doors, without a warrant. "U.S. Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino said... 'no rights have been violated today.'" southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Where to even start with what's wrong with this? The Home Office isn't just unfit for purpose, it's enabling companies to profit from desperation, *from the public purse*, and signing 10-year contracts *whose cost then triples*. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a great and interesting thread. Flagging this one for my network especially.

So the eugenicists. They stated their goal was to breed out causes of poverty, such as disease and “feeble-mindedness.” Yet they never once thought of breeding out the true cause of poverty: the greedy bastards at the top.

Good news up to a very specific point. "The tax authority still has data blind spots, however. This year HMRC was criticised by a parliamentary committee for not knowing how much tax billionaires paid."

the thing they are trying to manufacture consent for here is LETTING PEOPLE DIE