Ministry of the Future

A reminder: nothing good comes from the state mandating a fixed definition of sex/gender and policing people’s genitals.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Introverts and socially anxious would-be organizers rejoice! @margaret.bsky.social and Prerna are here to talk you through the terrifying prospect of talking to strangers. You can do it, and you'll be glad you did. live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/3bc1...

#OtD 22 May 1918 Spanish Civil War fighter, Dolores Jiménez Alvarez, was born. Fought in the Durruti column until she was arrested by Communists. She then escaped and joined the French resistance and underground resistance to Franco stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9505...

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

FINALLY got around to reading The Sapling Cage by @margaret.bsky.social and FUCK is this so good. Wish that I could send it back in time to myself at 14, I wonder how much things might have gone differently for me. Thank you thank you thank you Magpie 😢😭 you've written a piece of magic.

gonna start calling google's glasses "wormtongue"

I'm old enough to remember a time when if you wanted lies whispered into your ear you had to hire a grand vizier

this week's post is about how AI doesn't even do the things people pretend it does margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/ai-doesnt-...

"(I’m starting to think/hope that all the merch that says “America 1776-2026” is just prophesying a death date.)" - The Inimitable Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND comes out in one week and I am certainly not freaking out about it! There's still time to get 20% off the hardcover by preordering from Hachette with the code MYBAD20. All my June tour dates are below! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hugh-...

Here's a one-off instrumental which fans of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff may recognize! A few years ago @margaret.bsky.social commissioned this new piece for the show's intro. The title is simply bc I happened to have a lemon blossom in my studio. unwoman.bandcamp.com/track/the-le... (day 124)

New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ❤️‍🩹🇨🇦 Margaret goes deeper into the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement @margaret.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/coolpeoplepod

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

my debut ALL WE WANT IS EVERYTHING - a short story collection about sinkholes, mutated children, and working nightshift in a liquor warehouse for years - is still distributed by AK Press in the States 13 years later, hard copy or digital. a good time to pick it up. www.akpress.org/all-we-want-...

a great time to grab 2 Trans 2 Furious or Sex Change and the City from our distributors AK Press!!!! or Margaret's books or whatever else you like :)

all month, @akpress.org is donating $2 from every item sold to help Marius Mason re-enter society after almost 20 years in prison for his work trying to defend the earth. This includes both both books they publish and also books they distribute. I'll link some of my own and others that I like:

LISTEN: EFF’s @cooperq.com joins @jamesstout.bsky.social on @coolzonemedia.bsky.social’s It Could Happen Here podcast to discuss “Fighting Back Against the Surveillance State.” www.iheart.com/podcast/105...

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

Currently reading and really enjoying We Won't Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories by @margaret.bsky.social! The stories span a variety of kinds of speculative fiction, with a queer, trans, punk, anti-authoritarian bent, and the world-building is so unique and immersive.

Today's book club read with @margaret.bsky.social – "Moon Kids" – is basically a sci-fi account of the fallout I experienced following the mental health crisis that pushed me out of college Great expectations lead to even greater disappointments 💀

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

‘The worst time for wheat’: US farmers face losses to extreme heat and drought

Texas Tech is starting to reveal which texts are banned under its new prohibition against "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity" research. Among them are six books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Galatians. 🧵 of other banned works. Yes, this is real.

Me, trying to convince you to watch Knightriders.

i like to think of myself as somewhere between doll and brick. a dick, if you will

This week's post is for all the non-passing girls. Everyone hates a brick until it’s time to build a house or throw things at cops. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/brick-pride

just finished recording all the Danielle Cain audiobooks

Anarchist trans prisoner Marius Mason is finally being released after seventeen of a twenty-two year sentence! To celebrate his release and help him land on his feet, we will give Marius $2 for every item sold at akpress.org in the month of May. You can also donate directly at supportmariusmason.org

The Immortal Choir is up under horror

"Unbeknownst to many, including many of today’s anarchists, May Day, through the Haymarket martyrs, also has a connection to Indigenous resistance." Anarchism, May Day and Colonialism, by K. C. Sinclair (2026) historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2026/04...

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, @margaret.bsky.social and @bumlung.bsky.social discuss the history of May Day, the Haymarket Martyrs, and what the repression of yesteryear can teach us about the repression that we're seeing today. live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/1025...

Albert Parsons stood out from his defenants. He was American born. At 13 he'd run away to join the Confederate army, and after the war he dedicated his life to undoing the evil he'd helped promote. He was shot for trying to register black voters in Texas.

August Spies was one of the "moderate" anarchists, the editor of a newspaper whose title translated simply to Worker's Paper. He worked 12-16 hours a day on that newspaper, fighting for the eight hour day for everyone else. He kept a circle bomb on his desk in the office.

George Engel was the oldest of the Haymarket defendants, but one of the most radical. He wasn't on speaking terms with some of the moderate anarchists with whom he would soon share a gallows. He was a German immigrant toymaker, gentle and honest.

Louis Lingg was the youngest haymarket defendant. He had a watertight alibi: he couldn't have thrown the bomb, because he'd been at home with his friends making bombs. He spoke to the court with nothing but contempt. He told them:

Adolph Fischer was hanged for the crime of editing an anarchist newspaper. He told the court: "I was tried here in this room for murder, and I was convicted of Anarchy. I protest against being sentenced to death, because I have not been found guilty of murder.

Oscar Neebe was the only haymarket defendant who wasn't sentenced to death for the crime of working for an anarchist newspaper. He was also one of the only American-born defendants. He said to the court that he wished to be hanged alongside his comrades.

Sam Fielden gave the speech that was used to justify the police crackdown at the first May Day rally in 1886. He was a weaver and a stone-cutter, who'd started working at 8 years old in England. He'd been a Methodist preacher, who moved to the US south to preach in support of Black rights.

Christians read the Christmas story on Christmas Eve. I read the May Day story on May Day. This retelling by @margaret.bsky.social www.tangledwilderness.org/features/hur...

Happy May Day! We are of a proud legacy. Every state in the world has tried to erase that legacy, but we are still here.

a weird knock-on effect of AI is I bet authors and publishers (and bands) are going to start crediting the cover artists in every single post, just to be like "I swear a person did this"

New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🍦🥊 Margaret continues her coversation with @caitlindurante.bsky.social about the rise of the Dutch Left and the early Jewish resistance to Nazis. @margaret.bsky.social ‪‪@whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/coolpeoplepod

I mean its a great deal

We do as big of a sale as we can afford for may day