GLOBALISE THE EMPANADA

In honour of Rob Reiner, have David Moore's thread on the best sword fight in movie history and exactly how nerdy it is.

Idk who needs to hear this, but talking to blorbo on the plagerism machine is crossing the picket line.

ever day I be like

did you know that the is a state-less world football association Includes Tamil, Northern Cyprus, Cascadia, Hmong, Yoruba, Isle of Man and many others AND they have male and female matches www.conifa.org

and I think even more from Qobuz the-ear.net/news/qobuz-p...

TRUTH

Donate to the Otherwise Award to support scifi/fantasy that explores and expands our ideas of gender -- and to support paying for more work than we used to, because we want to make sure that we are fairly compensating the people who make the award possible. (I sit on the board.)

Here's a list featuring @margaret.bsky.social and me: lithub.com/100-notable-... We're small! We're notable!

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

A very good reminder for World AIDS Day that Dave Grohl is actually a horrific human being, in case you didn't know!

This story about Ruby only cements my opinions about how AO3 needs to be redesigned from the ground up. And knowing the culture of the OTW it is not surprising they would gravitate to a programming community with the slogan MINASWAN www.wired.com/story/ruby-i...

I'll give you the short version: they sponsored & supported the most influential AIDS denialist group of the 2000's, resulting in national policies in South Africa that caused an estimated 330,000 deaths there. They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did. medium.com/the-monthly/...

AO3 authors: If you get a spambot comment on a story, AO3 has a specific reporting path that lets them get rid of your spammer in hours rather than weeks. Turns out that following these steps REALLY WORKS. First, here's the link with nice context: archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/...

this week's post is about why all of us dream of throwing our phones into the abyss. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/you-loneli...

The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet. I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait. www.theverge.com/news/826902/...

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? “Don’t Give Away Your Personal Identifying Information on the Internet” by Stop Doing These Memes. Truly a classic. 😌

every single one of my SW friends is disabled. being able to set your own hours, work more or less depending on fluctuating pain levels, and not work for 8+ hours straight are all vital accommodations and few jobs allow them; of course disabled people often choose SW. being anti SW is ableist.

Malcolm Ingram is trying to re-release Small Town Gay Bar, a really valuable documentary from the 00s about...well, small town gay bars in Mississippi. They have to rebuy all music rights etc. 10 days left, they're at 20k of 53k. Please give em a shout. www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...

When allegiance to a multi-media franchise brand eclipses critical engagement, even the most idealistic communities risk being co-opted by forces that run counter to the values they once championed. Star Trek is now owned by problematic people. New blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

I very naively assumed the original creators were being paid by Seven Seas for their works and the rights to translate them into English. If you’ve ever read any of their book or enjoyed drama adaptations of them please consider signing

HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!

i looked at this earlier and the article is very careful not to say what actually happened but if you know history and you know this administration it is impossible not to assume programatic eugenics and anyone involved in programatic eugenics should not be allowed to see the sun ever again

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

idk the NYT called up ms rachel to ask if she was funded by hamas so i'm not sure the NYT exactly has impeccable judgment on what makes a whole news story

good news for the people who are saying they'd never touch starbucks coffee anyway: you can go ahead and drop $5 in their strike fund sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Personally I don't think it's OK to say "I'm not interested in politics, I just want to live my life", because it means you're asking others to hold the line against people who would destroy you.

FRIENDS - if you know of anywhere that needs whistles, please send them my way! I have MANY MANY to distribute.

I really think everyone, all users, should subscribe to blacksky's moderation. @moderation.blacksky.app I've said it before. Nonblack users laugh it up with & boost accounts we can see are flagged for antiblackness all the time. Keeping watch for antiblackness should be part of an ally's journey.

An anonymous donor just offered to match up to $1,000 to my fundraiser in support of health benefits for @scarleteen.com's staff and an as-needed health fund for volunteers, which means your $1 is worth $2! Anyone want to join in with ANOTHER match to turn that into $3?

Friends, I am sick of Google. What do you recommend for alternatives? I found this list but if you have personal experiences I would like to hear them www.pcmag.com/picks/dont-j...

like a choice made in the absence of alternatives is not a choice; it is other women, trans women, chosing womanhood which itself builds and creates the possibility of womanhood, and for that i am thankful

the thing is i ultimately believe that cis womanhood is not possible without trans womanhood, because without the existence of trans people there is no rubric for actively choosing womanhood, and i think it’s that choice that makes the concept, like, existient

i was like "moderation settings yeah we've all seen it" friends I had NOT seen this and it is really weird it's not main settings but hidden as an add-on I didn't subscribe to

no srsly if your feed feels off check out this section. some massive overreaching in the filters going on here despite the fact my base settings are extremely permissive 💀

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

The notion that difficult times inevitably lead to rising xenophobia is a myth. What leads to that is politics and media coverage. Difficult times could easily lead to anti-billionaire sentiments instead because they’re the ones actually profiting from your misery - not random asylum seekers.

During tonight’s Trick-or-Treating, our 3-year-old got more and more excited. “More houses! More candy!” Until he suddenly looked to the sky and shouted (verbatim): “Can I eat the moon!?” Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t, little one. Be the cosmic horror you want to see in the world.

Undocumented immigrants don't get SNAP benefits. Thet should, though, if they need it. Making people starve to death is fucking evil. Going across an imaginary line is not.

"Guillermo del Toro's CRIMSON PEAK isn’t really a story about ghosts. It’s about learning to listen to them."

if you have chronic pain PLEASE tell me ways you’ve found to cope and regulate your mental health. if you don’t, please interact with this post so it reaches people who do. i truly need help.

Americans need to reconcile that this is pretty much what the Obama-era drone strikes were. Any time a prior administration abused its power and it was greeted by a shrug because “we’re the good guys” - this is why you shouldn’t do that.

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gay people wanting to get married was a result of what happened during AIDS and I would like us to never forget that