The irony that this character's name is Cross and they are a HUGE PAIN IN MY ASS has not escaped me. 😂

“It’s not a different opinion. It’s straight up bigotry and discrimination that we wouldn’t accept or hand wave away if it were targeted towards any other group.”

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 19h ago

This is rough but I think it talks about a lot of what is missing from the Cunningham/WNBA discourse. Namely, that trans people are not hypothetical thought experiments. They are real people who are being genocided by our government & any coverage that doesn't center that reality misses the mark.

Let's talk about JK Rowling's 'bearded men'... I want to vent something that's been on my mind: The way transphobic groups and individuals are also actively homophobic. I've experienced it first hand, and know many others have too. 1/

I am ALSO your demographic. *said the queer with the Pluto tattoo* 😂

Marie Vibbert@reasie.bsky.social · yesterday

At the bookstore, I waved over a guy with an astronaut tattoo and a pride necklace. "I'm not your demographic," he said. "My book is about a female biker gang in space rescuing a gay prince," I said. "The sequel is about a sex-positive sexbot." "In space?" "In space." "I AM your demographic!"

If you want to be friends, you have to stop expelling and terrorizing and harming and killing my friends. That's just a rule I have about friends. www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...

If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?

A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."

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there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Yeah definitely this... I've never understood why for *this* particular use there would be any sense of pleasure or accomplishment. "Oh look, something gave me some homework that I will now have to spend ages laboriously fact-checking rather than doing my own work" is not my idea of a good time.

Kate Holzemer@katebits.bsky.social · 2d ago

Another thought: in his statement, Hank Green expressed quite a lot of shame about the "dopamine hit" he gets from using AI. As a non-AI user I don't really know what he's referring to here. Is the AI voice flattering him while also doing his job (presumably poorly)? Because that's big weird.

This is the play in every single industry at the moment. A massive bailout for mediocre white underachievers .

Jake_Vig@jakevig.bsky.social · 3d ago

After a middling WNBA career, blonde haired, blue eyed Sophie Cunningham has positioned herself for post-basketball success and riches as a conservative mouthpiece. This is the pattern that always works because conservatives are very very dumb and will latch onto anyone who promotes hate.

if you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Raccoon Hangover

Alt: Raccoon shoves door of garbage bin open from inside and stares at camera gif

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Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart.com · 2d ago

if you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Working on something for the book 🥷🐈‍⬛️📖 (I might sound nonchalant but I'm so excited 🤯)

Ten years. Still here even with all the assorted difficulties with getting hands on these books. 💚 It's a feat in this industry to stay in print for this length of time. Thanks to all the readers who love Hail and Co. Thanks for enjoying and telling others about it. I appreciate you. #Booksky

K.B. Wagers@kbwagers.com · 2y ago

Links! Including the Hail Bristol trilogies - The Indranan War and the Farian War A tired, done with your shit, former gunrunner is dragged back home to take over her mother's empire. She's not happy to be here and is going to make it everyone's problem. bookshop.org/contributors...

I occasionally buy bear claws from Sprouts. Yesterday I realized they now sell them in boxes of THREE, which first of all what the fuck? But also the cost is the same as what it used to cost for FOUR. I hate this fucking capitalistic bullshit.

In the same week a Black debut author lost a $2.4 million dollar deal over (so far unsubstantiated) “vibes” accusations of AI usage, seeing influencers rally around and make calls for nuance around Hank Green openly using ChatGPT for his work is a perfect illustration of white privilege in action.

Ali Trotta@alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 5d ago

Re: my last thread (Image from quote post with alt text)

I never thought I'd live in a world where Amnesty International would dishonor itself by capitulating to transphobes.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

When a celebrity, journalist, or “big account” complains about Bluesky being unfun or home to “scolds,” you can almost universally assume a trans person pointed out they were publicly supporting transphobia and the rest of us didn’t automatically bully the trans person for them

NEW: after our coverage of this company's little scheme to use printed books to train AI, it calls it a "test of the market" and walked the entire thing back: www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

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This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

"I was in a hurry and used AI. Oops, sorry it was all wrong." Darlings. Sweethearts. Listen to me. If you're in a creative field and do this, you have no excuse. None. Especially now. The gen AI stole from YOU. The gen AI stole from your FRIENDS. It is wrong a lot! You should know and do better.

literally impeach him just for this

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Mr. Gorbachev, turn down for what

Seeing every small business, be it a local restaurant, a moving company, whatever, all having AI logos and AI ads, really puts into perspective just how many artists are out of jobs now. All those little sustaining jobs where someone just needed a quick thing for $50 to $200 are just gone.

God he was so good and this really hurts youtu.be/sCZcJHAcAZ4?...

Glen Hansard - The Parting Glass - 3/16/2012 - Stage On Sixth

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Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · last wk.

jfc Celebrity deaths don’t usually hit me all that hard on a personal level, like I don’t know these people, but I DID kinda know this guy is the thing And his music especially with the Frames means a huge amount to me and this is fucking me up a bit www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

women: it is my dearest wish that you move through your lives in such a manner that men quail before you and never step out of line because they know you will fucking end them.

*stares at the three pages of a nagging idea that's been hanging around* Damn it, am I writing an epic fantasy novel?

Robert Downey Jr Frustrated

Alt: Robert Downey Jr Frustrated

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LMFAO

Buying a hairbrush for the first time in a decade. 😂

The only thing I will say about Odyssey discourse is that people who are insisting that things must be 100% faithful with no alterations are acting in service of white supremacy. They may not think that's what they are doing, but they are.

This is a monumental loss and also what an amazing life lived. Rest in power Ms. Saar.

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · last wk.

Pioneering L.A. assemblage artist Betye Saar, who ‘liberated’ Aunt Jemima, dies days before her 100th birthday https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-07-27/betye-saar-dead-artist-assemblage-aunt-jemima-99?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

And Ali's got me in tears from the very first poem. 💚 "stop setting yourself on fire for a man-made god that isn't even listening."

Ali Trotta@alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 2w ago

This comes out…tomorrow?? Holy hell. So grateful to @clashbooks.bsky.social for being wonderful! I’m so in love with @katelanfoisy.bsky.social’s gorgeous art & grateful to @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social for being 18 kinds of fab! So excited for y’all to read it!! Thank you for all the support. XO

The argument usually boils down to “this person, who seems in every aspect to be a Nazi, cannot be a Nazi, because Nazis are socially unacceptable, and he is being accepted, for example by Me.”