Follow up: Uncommitted voters did not cost Biden anything and did not cause Harris to lose. They made a stance during a primary Biden was guaranteed to win anyway. Racist Trump voters cost Democrats the election and no one could have fixed that unless they had a genie to make Harris a white man.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 2h ago

NO! “The Arabs” didn’t cost the Democrats the 2024 election! Fuck you for falling for propaganda A small handful of people saying “well I’m going to vote for trump” isn’t the action of a million people

From the article : “As she continues to grieve her son and seek answers about what happened to him, she is now also forced to defend her professional record,” Crump said in a statement. “No family should accept that, and no institution should tolerate it.” —the family’s attorney, Ben Crump

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2h ago

Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...

The direct line between what happened to Mamie Till Mobley after Emmett was killed and what’s happening to this woman now is becoming a circle. A dot, actually.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2h ago

Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...

Now *this* is the perfect premise for an actually fun romcom! 💖🎥

thank u, hexed@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 1h ago

okay but I would watch an actual Purge movie that was a romcom. Give me a meet-cute for two people with chronic illness trying to Luigi the same health insurance CEO

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

At the top, the benefits to moving off Substack for writers and newsletters? From @anildash.com and others: Normal control of critical information of your newsletter, like all the email addresses of your subscribers Substack locked and difficult to move: bsky.app/profile/anil... It's cheaper:

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2y ago

Substack isn’t the cheapest option even for small newsletters. The only time Substack makes the most financial sense is for very large, free newsletters.

It’s 5am 🕔 Please help. 💸💕

disabled immigrant@invalidhandles.bsky.social · 16h ago

NEED THIS BY TODAY‼️ 85/530 $445 still left to raise. CA: $AyudaMutuaX V: @AyudaMutuaX Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/foreignwire Please RS/repost to help reach my goal! 🙏🏼 #MutualAid

This program is genius! Creating readers *and* writers who are also good critics! Plus it’s always fun to hear what actual youths thought about the books written for youths. I’m excited to check some of these out. 💙📚🩸

Tony Jones@jonezyboy.bsky.social · 9h ago

I didn't promote this @gnofhorror.com article much... The Kids Are Alright Part 2: Horror Books for kids aged 11-12. All these books have been used in a big yearly reading challenge in my school library, so I practice what I preach! The reviews are all by my pupils. gnofhorror.com/the-kids-are...

☹️ Making girls and nonbinary femmes more and more vulnerable to creeps and pedophiles.

PinkNews@pinknews.bsky.social · 7h ago

Extreme ballot measure could force anatomy inspections for girls’ sports teams ➡️ https://bit.ly/4fRaaPg 📷 Envato

3. Based upon my recent habits, I feel like I’d be lying if I said anything but horror. But queer horror, sexual horror, creature horror, horror that grows from underneath.

a good book becomes real the same way the velveteen rabbit did

Universal oneness baby! All our struggles are connected, eyyyy!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

He sounds delightful. www.huffpost.com/entry/a-us-p...

A U.S. President's Great-Great-Grandson's Big Gay Vampire Novel

While it may come as a surprise to learn that Ulysses S. Grant's great-great-grandson, Ulysses Grant Dietz, serves as Chief Curator for New Jersey's Newark Museum, it might come as a bigger surprise t...

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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · yesterday

My dream job

Ben Zipperer@benzipperer.org · 2d ago

public libraries ftw

Like we SEE yall… we know its hatred and not falling for that..

For the witchy friends, I made a tarot deck some years back! If you want one, please order it from a bookstore because Amazon is lousy with bootlegs of it bookshop.org/p/books/star...

Star Spinner Tarot: (Inclusive, Diverse, LGBTQ Deck of Tarot Cards, Modern Version of Classic Tarot Mysticism)

The Star Spinner Tarot reinterprets classic tarot imagery for a more inclusive and diverse reflection of the modern world, featuring beloved indie comic artist Trungles' enchanting illustrative style....

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Oh, I'm game! 1. Anne of Green Gables. You may only @ me if I can see you in a pane of glass. Second, Ulysses (Joyce, obvs), and third La Peste / The Plague (Camus), but for an embarrassing reason (as a teen I had a crush on Dr Rieux) (hang on, old regular just dropped by)

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

Tabatha got their number.

Tabatha Southey🇨🇦@tabathasouthey.bsky.social · yesterday

Look, “Classicist Believes Film Does Not Properly Reflect Source Material” is an absolute “Dog Bites Man” story but feels like @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s sin was to be funny. Not off topic to quote Atwood here, “Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

Fuss over @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social lively Odyssey review is as revealing as the response to her translation. Struck me then her use of “complicated” — a word typically used to denigrate a woman — had many reacting as though Odysseus were being described as a “slut.” Which, if we’re being honest….

> systemic harms can arise when AI is uncritically embraced as a revolution for women’s health. [Concerns involve] (1) impoverished understandings of gender and sex, which are (2) fed uncritically into AI models surrounded by hype, leading to (3) harms rather than improvements in health. 1/n

“These children, some too young to speak for themselves, will be forced to face trained government attorneys by themselves, in a language they may not speak, in a system they cannot navigate without help.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2d ago

“The administration’s decision to end this contract goes against a nearly two decade precedent in which Republicans and Democrats alike supported legal assistance for the most vulnerable children who came to the United States alone.” acaciajustice.org/trump-admini...

We've been killing Cubans for months and we're just not even talking about it.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2d ago

Cuba’s electricity grid collapses, the state-owned grid operator says, plunging the island of about 10 million people into darkness as blackouts become more frequent.

As a kid I loved hearing and reciting poems and actually kind of hated how in school poetry got put away as some sort of unimportant "extra" that we never had time for. This AI stuff does not help.

biphobia is phallocentrism. it's homophobia when directed at men and whorephobia when directed at women. because virtually everybody biphobic is worried about the bi person's INTEREST IN DICK

lol well. It’s true. So it should be. They really are all just upholding patriarchy just like they are w transphobia too, all the phobias, really! Because it’s not a coincidence that all these loud and wrong biphobic ppl are also terfs, and also fatphobic and yes, absolutely they are Whorephobic.

Mandatory disclosure of AI use must become a universal societal standard. Glad to see the EU taking these steps.

North East for Europe@ne4eu.bsky.social · 2d ago

Not in the UK of course due to Brexit.....

this woman is a legend

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have been laughing at this for ten solid minutes

Sky at Night Magazine! Like People Magazine but about the sky—at night. www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/12-au...

August 2026 solar eclipse – Path map, key locations and timings | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

How to see the August 2026 total solar eclipse, including best places to see it and how to observe from the UK, Europe and North America.

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YOU GUYS GOTTA READ THIS

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

This made my skin crawl 😭

Khristoff@khristofflee.bsky.social · 3d ago

Like you couldn’t just get pictures of your food??!!?!