I just listened to a Radiolab episode from Sept 26, 2025 ("Voice") in which Alice was featured and spoke so powerfully about what it means to lose your voice and yet retain a clear grasp on your own and everyone else's humanity rest in power and strength of being heard radiolab.org/podcast/voice

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

Alice in her own words: bsky.app/profile/thra...

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong." Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

The podcast "When We All Get to Heaven "is narrated by my friend Lynne Gerber, who spent more than a decade researching, writing, and producing it in an intense collaboration with others. I want to talk about it with somebody. It's so intense. Start at the beginning or with the making of interview!

obviously this is bad, but it’s long been true of other countries we praise to the skies for their healthcare and a lot of progressive Americans don’t want to acknowledge that as a huge vector of oppression. there are a lot of places I couldn’t emigrate to even if I wanted bc they have BMI limits

More on this—quite a lot more on this—soon, but in the meantime: If you're a writer of fiction (and/or maybe simply a writer or a person), you really need to preorder @elizmccrack.bsky.social's A Long Game, which is both enthralling and inspiring. (And sharp as a stiletto.)

I just made my calls to Sen. Warren and Sen. Markey to tell them to call for Schumer to step down. I have their numbers in both my phones and I usually just call them, but this time I did it through the Indivisible form (previous post for link) because I want to be sure that these calls are counted.

a script from @indivisible.org! (I'm probably going to add how harmful this will be in Ossoff's reelection campaign, bc we'll be blaming the entire party when people's healthcare premiums are so high they can't afford insurance)

I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.

No health care, no deal.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Thread. Call your senators!

I just called them, too. You?

"Hyde language" would be a ban on anything related to abortion. So, any Senate Democrat that caves is agreeing to vote to implement a nationwide abortion ban in exchange for healthcare subsidies.

Hey! 25% my Martha Moody! And so very many other excellent books from Small Beer Press. Until the end of the year.

Reminder: Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender: otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...

...this #song by #kingharvest is often playing in my head when I wake up in the morning.. #dancinginthemoonlight youtu.be/g5JqPxmYhlo?...

all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Everything quietens and slows. Some live on; some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores. We are rich with life and can’t outrun it. From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

possibly the greatest cat photo ever. happy halloween

happy halloween to what many people believed was the greatest tweet of all time

We made a veggie plate!

Happy Halloween!

My mom, who is in her nineties, sent me a Halloween card in which she wrote that my first costume was a pillow case with eyes cut out. I wore it in a wagon when I had just turned one. Same vibe, I am sure.

"here is your package with tariffs the amount will be $945"

Charlie Brown and Woodstock - their neighborhood buddy (not pictured) was Snoopy

The Prince of Darkness.

Anyone need a spooky nature story for Halloween? It all happened this summer… I was on the beach at midnight. It wasn’t actually raining but with so much heavy mist in the air it might as well have been. And it was dark as could be by the bay. I was just out for a walk before bed. (1/?) 🌿 🦑

glizzy at your service

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

Spider! One of my giggling eyes blew off and rolled ominously across the street though a Halloween parade.

Support Weekend Nutrition for kids in Northampton schools. Here's a grocery card fundraiser. $40 supports a child for one month. Any amount helps.

I'm excited to read Wreck, a sequel to Sandwich, both by Catherine Newman who always makes me laugh and cry in an utterly satisfying, clarifying way. She's reading tonight at 7 pm sponsored by the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley! Is anyone going from Northampton who could give me a ride?

@alexanderchee.bsky.social the Books Are Magic event tonight is going to be on Youtube, live: youtube.com/live/CsBqbHT...

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC! The window will close after 500 submissions are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

If you or someone you know is affected by the government shutdown and needs assistance with getting food, medicine or other essentials, here's a resource. Just put in your zip code and you will get a list of nearby food pantries and orgs that can help. Please share widely! 🥰 findhelp.org

"They are coming for people just trying to get by. Landscapers, roofers, tamale women, Lyft drivers waiting in a lot at O'Hare, the people standing outside a Home Depot hoping that today might be better than yesterday."

"I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution. And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."

I voted in my town's election! Plus I have a new bike helmet with a magnetic visor and a light. I keep banging my head on my bike handles wearing the old one and cracked it.

“These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity& power…Poetry is not a luxury.” - Audre Lorde

after a clarinet player was arrested at Sunday's ICE protest in downtown Portland, I talked to five artists, crafters and makers - a puppet designer, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a knitter, and a theatre artist - about creativity under fascism www.orartswatch.org/resistance-c...

By the way, the Expandable Brass Band showed up to No Kings in Northampton, MA in their bee costumes. They've been showing up and playing for everything for many years.

This is such amazing news 🥹 Reversing the damage humans have done to the earth will always be worth fighting for

300 cc's of weapons-grade serotonin straight to the frontal cortex I have ASCENDED

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world what a fucking thing, man that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime