ok, watching SILENT RUNNING (1972), drinking wine, preparing to have my heart broken
Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
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SFF author | PhD Environmental Engineer | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Host: Bright Green Futures podcast Being gentle & healing is radical & disruptive. "AI is a lying machine made out of crimes"🔨 Currently holed up in my witchy cottage writing a feminist plant witch romantasy.
I want a blue wave that excludes every one of these craven, bigoted motherfuckers.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 8h agoJosh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
Contractor: "wow, this weather, 20yrs ago we had snow in Chicago in October!" Sign: "Farmer's market extended until mid-November" Tree: still not losing leaves Herb pots: no sign of frost yet! ME: opens a window, screams, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE Super El Niño ARE FUCKING UP THE PLANET
this bullshit patriarchy system the species has had set up for thousands of years is mal-adaptive to surviving the consequences of us fucking up on a planetary scale we're literally not going to survive if we can't figure out how not to be reactive idiots who oppress and scapegoat
START DYING FIRST, THEN CALL US omfg
ProPublica@propublica.org · 18h ago6/ Price said the state’s policy not to monitor workers is meant to allow farmers to decide whether to contact the health dept, rather than “forcing it on them.” “If we started seeing people actively dying from this, obviously that would change how we respond to this,” she said.
I got my public library card today, so it's official: I'm a civilian. Most of what I read are ebooks, so of course, I signed up for my public library's Libby account and I turned off searches for AI content, here's how you can, too: www.reddit.com/r/books/s/gA...
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great piece by @doctorvive.bsky.social "What allies the authoritarian right and the center-left is their commitment to protecting capital above all." www.currentaffairs.org/news/liberal...
Liberals Can't Address the Climate Crisis Because It Means Confronting Capitalism
We have no choice but to take on the fossil fuel industry. Those who won't acknowledge this are peddling fake solutions to climate change.
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There is hope for some of the newer voices in the Democratic Party like AOC and AES because they realize you have to actually stand for something to build a movement and draw people toward you. The old guard must all be overthrown. Their laziness and cowardliness can never defeat fascism.
hang on, so Bleecker Street was sold to a Pierre Omidyar-backed group that also happens to back Tosca Musk's Passionflix... and now "MUSK" is disappearing from theaters?
Matthew Klippenstein (he/him)@klippenstein.bsky.social · yesterday$TSLAQ Seems like the only coverage. Hopefully incorrect. Google Gemini claimed not to find showtimes for this weekend, so… 🤷 @niedermeyer.online www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/c...
El número al que llamar en Illinois / The number to call in IL is 855-435-7693 - Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR) La ayuda está disponible en estos idiomas / Help is available in English Spanish Arabic Korean Polish Russian Ukrainian Dari Urdu Pashto Cantonese Mandarin
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d agoIf you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.
One childcare worker, Imelda, told her boss “how frightened she felt. Her employer changed her work arrangement. The family also offered to shelter Imelda and her family in their home. The offer made her feel that they valued her work and cared about her. It reminded her of Anne Frank.”
Alma Campos@almacampos.bsky.social · 3d agoFor some Chicago immigrants, nighttime feels safer. Fear of ICE is changing when they work, shop and do laundry—and how they care for their families. My latest: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
solarpunk, as a genre & a movement, reclaims our right to tell stories of a better world... and what we have to fight to get there (also: AI has no place in solarpunk, artistically or in narratives, except how we defeated the tech bros' using it to destroy everything) aeon.co/essays/silic...
But attacking victims and survivors is what the Epstein Family Values Party does. Because its agenda is to restore the unlimited rights of the patriarchs over the rest of us, which requires the rest of us losing our rights and having our truths dismissed.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 4d agoDem Candidate In Arizona: My Rape Was Not A ‘Hoax’ Concocted for Votes talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dem-can...
"Reading books is active resistance" is something I tell to my students every day.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoAOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"
solarpunk, as a genre & a movement, reclaims our right to tell stories of a better world... and what we have to fight to get there (also: AI has no place in solarpunk, artistically or in narratives, except how we defeated the tech bros' using it to destroy everything) aeon.co/essays/silic...
Every argument that could be made in favour of not holding the companies accountable only serves to make regulation more important anyway. “Oh, that’s just what these things do.” “Really? They naturally do crime? At the same time they’re sentient? At the same time they’re replacing a workforce?”
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2d agoAI firms want you to believe their fraud bot is alive so they won’t be held responsible for the fraud bot’s crimes. But there is no gray area here, they hold the on/off switches in their very human, very prosecutable hands.
US Presidents throughout history have made millions AFTER they leave office. This is the first time that the President is enriching himself WHILE IN OFFICE. I think that we need to be clear about what kind of corruption this is.
I remember when we thought the internet was forever
**New to solarpunk?** Try this free queer solarpunk story at the bottom of the sea: susankayequinn.com/books/slimy-...
I like the new links thing.
An author i know got AI scammed for their book cover. We are looking for an artist for a sexy magic romance with a rate of 350usd the cover to be finished in two weeks. I know it is extremely short on time and money but she needs help. ♥️🙃
America feels like a predatory society where everywhere you turn someone or something is trying to exploit you.
I’m telling you that the extreme exposure to scams is a big part of the reason so many people are negative about our economic future.
Jessica McKenzie@jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 4d agoholy crap
excellent article by @annaleen.bsky.social with a great neopronounce resource tucked inside! reactormag.com/why-pronouns... s.qiouyi.lu/list/neopron...
Why Pronouns Matter in Science Fiction - Reactor
Readers should be invited to identify with nonbinary protagonists, and gain a new perspective on old beliefs.
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I'm learning how to manage my farm share better, so when I had extra corn in the summer, I froze it. And now it delights me to have farm share corn in October. 😍 Leaning into simple things like this adds buffer to my mental health. There's heaps of privilege in it, but still -- it works.