It's so awesome to write a polemic about The Gatekeepers and then publish it in the HWA newsletter

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 21h ago

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

This is for a couple of friends of mine, I personally witnessed some of the events described. Both women are in a pretty shit situation as a result of this bullshit and could really do with some help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-diana...

Donate to Help Diana and Yuri recover from state violence, organized by Sarah Clarke

Diana and Yuri are two trans woman sharing a house in Merseyside who have… Sarah Clarke needs your support for Help Diana and Yuri recover from state violence

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"Lower quality items aren't cheaper"

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterday

okay now he's gone too far

Liberals trying to make pro-trans arguments

Watched The Drama. If I was Charlie I would've just been chill about all that

Hey, guys. For the last few years I've been using the phrase "you're new" to denote when someone's acting wild ("you're new" as in a new type of specimen within the genus Homo entirely) but no one ever gets it because that's not a thing people say. Can y'all start saying this? Thanks - Mo

An infuriating charge given how much transmisogyny is pushed by those fixated on preserving and retrenching patriarchal social structures, and venerating the most vile and reactionary of men.

Sarah Clarke - Not your doll@damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d ago

Taking this and shoving it under the nose of anybody who says that the problem with GCs is that they're misandrists or otherwise just too feminist.

I wrote a late essay about the bizarreness of the Emily Wilson discourse and the nature of discourse itself on social media.

The Take Industrial Complex

Mo Drammeh This essay is not about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. I have not seen the film and do not particularly care to. Naturally, this puts me in a...

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Shoutout to this comrade but someone's gotta tell them about marxists.org

Foz Meadows@fozmeadows.bsky.social · 3d ago

not all heroes wear capes

You ever think about how crazy it is that for like 40 pages of Pale Fire, Nabokov was just like "you wanna see my Robert Frost impression" and it worked

after a great deal of struggling and belt-tightening i wound up able to pay rent and left with $6 and bills still to pay, so if you have anything spare anything would be appreciated. thank u all.

lottie "The Adversary" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️@vaporlight.bsky.social · 2w ago

hello friends. keeping it brief: i'm lottie lovely / frog K, trans/nonbinary poster, author, poet, weirdo. i've been struggling with dry socket pain this month, need to contribute towards rent w. 2 other trans ppl, and have $40. please help ko-fi.com/frogk (to paypal) cash.app/$asimplefrog ty <3

Getting more into Gabriel Rockhill now and just cracking up imagining what would happen if you put him and Kadji Amin in the same room

please help if you can!!

Leti (she/they/meow)@letiuchiha.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lina: "🚨Stop! Your share and donation can save Mahmoud’s life 💔Every moment increases the risk to his life. 💷Only £245 left for medicine,imaging,and lab tests. 💵Even a $1 donation from each person can make a difference. ⚠️He urgently needs it; any delay could risk his life" chuffed.org/project/omsham

You're not supposed to say this but... the purpose of Uncommitted was to force the Democratic Party to the left on Palestine... and then Uncommitted """caused""" the Dems to lose in 2024... and then pro-Palestine candidates started winning all across the country... you see where I'm going here?

please help ahmed

Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 URGENT: Ahmed is getting weaker as the virus spreads. Painful sores cover more of his body, his fever keeps returning, and he cries from burning, itching, exhaustion. He can barely eat or sleep. We still can’t afford his medicine. Please help. Even $5 gives him hope. 💔🙏 chuffed.org/project/1905...

Very good read

Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · last wk.

like everybody else in the world I had odyssey thoughts vajra.me/2026/07/27/o...

Declaring defeat btw

Mo Drammeh 🦇@curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Disappointing backpedal from Mamdani but I'll have to wait until he gets into office and fails to deliver to declare defeat

I’ll go one better. Starbucks isn’t fucking fast food and doesn’t deserve a place on this list.

Mo Drammeh 🦇@curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 2w ago

List is fucked. Taco Bell should absolutely be with the neocons and Arby's should be with the liberals. Waffle House self-IDs as "centrist" and is completely ideologically incoherent. Starbucks says they're "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" and are the most evil person you'll ever meet

Actually conservative coded fast food: Taco Bell Five Guys Burger King McDonald's Chick-Fil-A Actually liberal coded fast food: Jollibee Arby's Chipotle Raising Cane's Panda Express

List is fucked. Taco Bell should absolutely be with the neocons and Arby's should be with the liberals. Waffle House self-IDs as "centrist" and is completely ideologically incoherent. Starbucks says they're "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" and are the most evil person you'll ever meet

Just a reminder that this is not hyperbole. At least seven black leaders who came to prominence during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement have been killed or died, their deaths ruled a suicide, since. blurredbylines.com/blog/ferguso...

The Lives of Ferguson & Black Lives Matter Activists Cut Short

From Darren Seals to Amber Evans, Edward Crawford to Danye Jones, many young Black activists have died since the 2014 Ferguson protests sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

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“Cynthia Gómez packs a lot into MUÑECA … It’s the kind of book I already want to reread.” @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews new work from @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social

Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: Review by Alex Brown - Locus

Muñeca, Cynthia Gómez (Putnam 978-8-21704-757-4, $29.00 176pp, hc) June 2026. I'm going to try to keep my review of Cynthia Gómez's debut novel Muñeca to a manageable length, but I could write an entire PhD dissertation on this book. It hits many of my niche interests and academic passions. For those who don't know, I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area, and for many years worked as an archivist and …Read More

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They were wrong about one thing -- they should've said "abolish"

Thembo@thembo.bsky.social · 2w ago

The people who said defund the police were right about everything

bleak to have everyone cheer at this video in which he says he is powerless to have a war criminal apprehended even if he was doing fortnite dances on his doorstep. do it anyway!

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Would love if this gets subsequently screenshotted and mocked after I am proven wrong, but there seems to be a strong feeling that Mamdani will try to arrest Netanyahu arising from the video where he explains he doesn't have the legal authority and that it'd fall to the federal government

Can't tweet about how Armand in the season finale makes me feel. If I tweet about that I'm in big trouble, big trouble

People are going on and on about how important it is to point out their hypocrisy, apparently without grasping that their political project isn't one built on logic, and thus cannot be refuted by pointing out logical inconsistencies.

Talia "Pre-Order CALL ME KIMBERLY" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 2w ago

It's not "too woke" to say that straight men who rape women should be reviled for being rapists, not tarred as secretly queer. To imply they're gay, or that they wear dresses, to distance them from manhood, is to insist that their violence is "deviant" rather than utterly banal and normative.