The anti-immigrant pogroms continue

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

One of the major reasons we are here right now is that the white electorate does not reward politicians for making their lives better if that improvement also benefits non-white people.

“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

Evil.

Israel has killed two Palestinian children in Gaza every single day since the so-called ceasefire

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

New free anti-ICE hi-res download from Paul Kjelland! justseeds.org/graphic/ice-...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means: The second half of 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈 Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!

The senators are angered by Schumer & Gillibrand's lack of endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, and their handling of open seat Senate races. They believe leadership is quietly pushing donors toward specific candidates: Angie Craig in Minnesota, Haley Stevens in Michigan, and Janet Mills in Maine.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

She has it exactly backwards. The domestic deployments to date are a much weaker case for being so manifestly illegal as to justify refusal; that's a high bar. The boat strikes are outright unambiguous murder, everyone in that chain down to the one pulling the trigger has had a clear duty to refuse.

This thread is right. The point of DOGE was not what they *said* it was, but what they *did*. Steal all of our data. Destroy USAID. Profoundly destabilize civil service. Gain a competitive information advantage over both business and political rivals.

They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.

#WATCH | A new video shows the consequences of Israel's two-year "military operation" (Genocide) in the capital of the Gaza Strip.

This guy has his finger on the pulse of his party's base in a way that others in his caucus unequivocally just do not

Me, looking up my representative with a great sigh: ah. yes. I see.

I’m a Black higher ed lawyer, formerly in-house counsel at Harvard and top expert on Project 2025. This is Project 2025 in action, dismantling the Department of Education; no Congressional approval, no public comment periods, nothing. No coming back from this, folks. It didn’t have to be this way.

Google removes a variety of longstanding GMail features if you try to withdraw your default consent (!) to having all your content read and used by Google Gemini via "Smart Features." That's an obvious attempt to coerce consent for privacy violations. Legislatures must act to make this illegal.

"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...

Empire Records Hedwig and the Angry Inch Billy Elliot Twilight New Moon (yes, really) The Life Aquatic Once Moulin Rouge! O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Have they released the files yet? 🙃🫠🥲

I am going to say this only once but fuck these white racists. Fuck them to hell.

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our enemies have to be salivating. The same was reported at the FBI. That the entire agency is basically at a standstill. The New York Times reported yesterday that the Armed Forces are in shambles because Pete Hegseth is firing all senior leadership who are not loyalists, who are women, or Black

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

Every day I feel hyperaware we are living in an even more blatant dual state The dual state describes a society divided into a normal state, which operates according to set rules & laws, & a “prerogative state”, "which exercises unlimited arbitrariness & violence unchecked by any legal guarantees”

Same experience when I was in my early 30s teaching college freshman. Bit of a shock after years of watching 20 and 30 yos playing highschool students on tv. But my students looked so young. I couldn't imagine being a professor and wanting to seduce children.

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

The #FiFRevPit match day was awesome Tagging everyone who expressed an interest in forming a writing group! If I missed you or you're seeing this now, please join the discussion in the comments! @crwolfe-author.bsky.social @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social @londonc.bsky.social @odiwelter.bsky.social

The #FiFRevPit CP match day was awesome Tagging everyone who expressed an interest in forming a writing group! If I missed you or you're seeing this now, please join the discussion in the comments! @crwolfe-author.bsky.social @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social @londonc.bsky.social @odiwelter.bsky.social

For the evening crowd! Would love to find some CPs who also write queer characters. It would be rad to form a group with a few people too! Also looking to make more writer friends on here! #FiFRevPit #match #A #F #YA #amwriting #writingcommunity

We have solved the disappearing post problem! If you're looking for critique partners or just new writing friends, stop by #FiFRevPit #Match and introduce yourself and genre!

i don’t know what i’m doing with my life i was supposed to be born as a mushroom growing out of a log

Would love to find some CPs (maybe a group?) who also write queer characters. Also looking to make more writer friends on here! #FiFRevPit #amwriting #writingcommunity

Really weird but Bluesky wouldn't let me post with the genre hashtags, even as a quote post. Finally posted without hashtags then quote posted w/ just the #FiFRevPit hashtag and it worked. I noticed there aren't many people participating so reposting here in case anyone is having a similar problem.

My wip is a queer paranormal w/ cozy vibes. MC is a bi-ace webcomic artist who inherits a magical house. W/ witches, werewolves, & cryptids. Story is New Adult w/coming of age themes, but I usually write YA and have an academic background in children's+ ya lit

Tried participating but Bluesky keeps deleting my posts. 😭 No idea why. Tried with and without an image. #FiFRevPit