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Hey if you haven't already you probably want to go in to your moderation settings and set them something like this before every woman and trans person mysteriously vanish from your feed because the bsky robotmods find their mere existence to be "adult content".

Every trans person who insists on being seen is a living map for those still finding their way.

"Whatever your chosen profession is, please don't let AI rob you of the fun part of it."

You keep using that word ceasefire. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I just backed the Rajie Cook documentary on @kickstarter.com! They've got one more week to raise $2.5K to reach their goal--help them get there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/val...

Hey peeps, please take a few minutes to contact your reps about these bigoted book bans. No on 8705, 7661 and 2616.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

I love this. I'll play. 1 like = 1 line from a WIP

in reading & shelving the work of trans, queer, Crip, amd sick people you become part of the archive that will keep our stories and voices alive. everything we know of the past comes from a record received and retold. if the best guards against erasure are personal archives, what will be in yours?

Why do I love writing novels? Well, I get to ruin characters' lives (or not) over and over again. I can also change their names six or seven times (or not at all). Everything that happens to them will seem completely random and scattershot (until it doesn't). It's fun, really. I do it for the fun.

I couldn’t have kept the job that sponsored me for a Green Card if I’d had to leave for 9+ months, but that’s nothing compared to this nightmarish Catch 22.

why does the “you can’t fight it” rhetoric around AI feel so familiar?? 🤔

I recall that after Alex Pretti got murdered a woman at the vigil came up and gave me a sambusa and then comforted me when I sat down on the curb and cried. Food creates a connection between neighbors that's hard to explain. Also, I would take a bullet for the Sambusa Lady.

I walked my feet off in about 5 degree weather (don’t recall the windchill) at a mosque in December for two hours. As I was entering the last half an hour a man came out and shouted are you vegetarian? I shouted no. He ran in and then back out with a warm foil wrapped sandwich.

are you saying the united states military cannot invent something as simple as a pronoun gun? I thought this was the land of innovation

“I just blacked out. I couldn't handle it. It was so painful.” Zeteo contributor @recolston.bsky.social, who was amongst those detained by Israel on the Global Sumud Flotilla, recounts the abuse he endured at the hands of Israeli forces at Ktzi’ot Prison. Watch now — zeteo.com/p/inside-isr...

The comparison I heard was data centers using the same amount of water as golf courses, and for that I was all, my brother in Christ, let me tell you what I think we should do with golf courses

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

This is truly horrific to me.

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Couldn't be happier to have the first glimpse at my in-progress novel, Conjoined States, at @miznaarabart.bsky.social! Go read the full excerpt and check out the rest of the Tongues Untethered folio! mizna.org/mizna-online...

I live in a big-ish city that has a lot of homeless people walking around and not once have I ever felt threatened when I pass one. I have, however, feared for my life multiple times because drivers won't wait 7 fucking seconds for me to cross the street.

Counterpoint: No it fucking isn’t Both their products and their services (Starlink) are the definition of state corporate capture. HE LITERALLY EXTORTED THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE USING THE WAR IN UKRAINE TO MAKE STARLINK SOLVENT

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Fusion centers (not exactly the most "woke" institution on the planet) are now worried that the Department of Homeland Security's tweets are too racist and attracting the wrong people. theintercept.com/2026/05/21/i...

What so many have experienced personally has been confirmed by a new study: AI has been a disaster for working artists.

Summer, I love this so much. Let's all build action into cultural organizing. Also, this goes without saying, all of you should go read this interview and Summer's book The Hungering Years!

Couldn't be happier to have the first glimpse at my in-progress novel, Conjoined States, at @miznaarabart.bsky.social! Go read the full excerpt and check out the rest of the Tongues Untethered folio! mizna.org/mizna-online...

Also we are inundated with AI scams. Just drowning in them. Multiple per day. Over and over. It makes my life harder because I have to scrutinize every piece of fan mail I get to see if it's real or some piece of shit using AI to try to scam me out of money.

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

When I was in grad school, my best friend and I used to joke that our cat was reading lit crit. We also joked that she got the theorists' names wrong. Jacques Derrida = Jackie Dorito. Michel Foucault = Mikey Fuckit. 12 yrs later, we still call them by those names.

Raffi is #2 on trending topics right now, thanks to this golden thread.

This is just your friendly reminder that startpage.com is very easy to use.

When I'm deep into reading a scene and then something unexpectedly embarrassing happens to one of the characters, the upset is so rough that I freeze + hide my face in the collar of my shirt. Q: Who do I do this for? I'm often the only person in the room when it happens. A: Me. I can't help it.

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

I'm heartsick about the violence this administration and the far right are stoking and perpetrating against targeted communities. Islamophobia must be resisted.

An advocate to end forced prison labor hopes a recent court ruling will finally stop Colorado prisons from sending people to solitary confinement for refusing to work. But, she cautions, “there’s going to have to be a lot more pushing.”

Do you ever get irrationally angry over the spelling of a word that doesn't quite make sense in your head? I just saw dataviz, short for data visualization, and before I understood it was an abbreviation, I mispronounced it so wrong in my head it made me UPSET.

Palestinian folklorist Inea Bushnaq, whose Nakba story was recently featured in a video shared by NYC's Mayor, had previously recounted her experience in a 1998 reflection for the Journal of Palestine Studies. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2...

BREAKING: The Colorado Supreme Court, by 5-2, orders Children's Hospital Colorado to resume gender-affirming care to a group of trans plaintiffs. Justices Boatright and Samour dissent. Story coming soon.

I knew it was gonna get weird but this is still so surreal

I read this exactly the same way, only I had no idea that it wasn't "horses = bad."

If you like my work, your support and donation help me continue doing what I do despite everything. www.gofundme.com/f/58f3ck-sup...

Richard Mansfield as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 1885. Photo by Van der Weyde, a painter turned photographer

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