Statement from the HWA Board of Trustees: The Executive Leadership and Trustees on the Board of the Horror Writers Association has voted to remove Sephera Giron from her position as Trustee effective immediately.
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈
@danifroom.bsky.social
Science Fiction & Horror writer. Short stories & poetry published in Baubles From Bones, Shoreline of Infinity, The MacGuffin, Disturbed Digest and more. She/her. https://daniellefroom.neocities.org/
Not sure I'm going to make it, support each other out there
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · 2w ago
Hello dysphoria, my old friend I've come to turn to slime again
media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
Sèphera Girón: so i hear some of you writers don't like ai Girón: well, i'm tired of all you writers not liking ai! Girón: and i'm gonna let you all know it! Girón: i'm mad as hell! Girón: put that in the newspaper! Girón: or better yet Girón: put it in the HWA newsletter!
People think I have my shit together because I accumulated a lot of followers by accident, but in real life I'm broke and physically repulsive and a mess. My end will be an ugly one. The only thing I have is an understanding of history and that's all I can offer.
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · 3h agoI have no idea why people think I say this from a place of privilege. I'm ugly and poor. I've resigned myself to dying here one way or another. I just want to give people in my community the best shot at survival.
If you're trans and you have the means and opportunity to safely leave the US, you probably should. The best time to get out is likely yesterday.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 4h agoA trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
El-Sayed: "I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars. I'm about 10 min away from schools that look like they did 50 years ago. Our money should be spent here rather than sent in the form of bombs or tanks to foreign govts, particularly when they are doing most heinous things with them ... "
I literally said "if you have the means" but I'm sorry there's a dry sponge where your brain should be
petrockette@petrockette.bsky.social · 3h agoYou were being an asshole and victim blaming trans women for not having the economic means to relocate
This is worth amplifying (also this podcast is rad), that Roman slavery was, y'know, slavery. In fact, all slavery is horrifying, but the broader 'Mediterranean' slavery tradition (which is also, by the by, the ancestor of Atlantic slavery) is one of the *more extreme* such traditions.
Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · last wk.Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.
People think I have my shit together because I accumulated a lot of followers by accident, but in real life I'm broke and physically repulsive and a mess. My end will be an ugly one. The only thing I have is an understanding of history and that's all I can offer.
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · 3h agoI have no idea why people think I say this from a place of privilege. I'm ugly and poor. I've resigned myself to dying here one way or another. I just want to give people in my community the best shot at survival.
I literally said "if you have the means" but I'm sorry there's a dry sponge where your brain should be
petrockette@petrockette.bsky.social · 3h agoYou were being an asshole and victim blaming trans women for not having the economic means to relocate
Well look at that, it's every single "former Republican" who Democrats and centrists have been championing for "breaking with Trump", announcing they're recreating the American Nazi Party just like everyone with a brain knew they would
Not sure where you live that trans people get to play nice to survive
petrockette@petrockette.bsky.social · 3h agoYou sound like an asshole
If you're trans and you have the means and opportunity to safely leave the US, you probably should. The best time to get out is likely yesterday.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 4h agoA trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
I still cannot believe "what if America was a totalitarian enforced celibacy regime" is the premise of a romantic comedy
I need more ppl to be scared. As I've been bitching, I just lost my job & being replaced w/Ai. That's not the scary part. My job incl handling sensitive, private, medical info plus all your personal info up to SSN. It's all being fed to Ai & Ai is not covered under HIPAA. It's really fucking scary.
Well look at that, it's every single "former Republican" who Democrats and centrists have been championing for "breaking with Trump", announcing they're recreating the American Nazi Party just like everyone with a brain knew they would
can you guys retire "the right wing / chuds don't know what to do with trans men and forget they exist and will be So Confused by them!!!!" already. they are fully aware trans men exist and the thing they do to trans men is violently abuse and murder them
In the European Middle Ages, moneyed people would grind up pearls --precious pearls, beautiful lustrous pearls, slowly formed by creatures from distress and effort-- stir them into wine, drink it and use it as a laxative. I can think of no better metaphor for LLM 'AI'.
El-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."
buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 23h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
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BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.
Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterdayArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
To all my trans siblings in the UK. May you find the resilience to defy and the unity to succeed in your defiance. Piss freely, piss righteously, piss honourably.
This is such an great feature (Rebecca is great!), and I've been thinking about it for a few days. IMO, "Influencer" in the ten-years-ago sense was really a LOT of jobs (spokesmodel/copywriter/etc.) but now it's morphing, at least in part, into "intentionally annoying person" which feels worse.
The Influencer Recession
Once upon a time, lifestyle influencers could post cute photos and make millions. Now they are forced to pivot.
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