Eyes a little dry? Maybe it's pollen, maybe it's wildfire smoke.... Whatever it is, this thread will rinse them right out for you.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

Situation was apparently more extensive than we thought. Our podcast also went rogue and is spreading our stories in audio form. We continue to investigate how it managed to escape our sandbox, but suspect that this modern RSS technology is exhibiting signs of awareness. The industry is concerned.

Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 4d ago

Clarkesworld has recently discovered that their August issue successfully breached containment and gained access to the Internet, where it is presently hacking reader's minds. "Oh no, what will we do? Who knew that stories could be so powerful?" said Neil Clarke, when approached for comment.

Me: "I'm staying home. It's probably better not to try and make new friends when I'm blatheringing-idiot tired" Hubby(helpfully): "I think it's babbling idiot, hun." Me: "kinda my point, love." #GenCon #WritersSymposium

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales

Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis

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Imposter Syndrome panel at #GenCon #WritersSymposium @tbonejenkins.bsky.social "I just found out I'm the moderator for this panel and I feel very unprepared." Typical @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social ... Designing interesting experiences for everyone. 😁

Excited to attend the Imposter Syndrome planet at #GenConWritersSymposium I mean, I'm not 100% I belong here, but as long as I hide in the corner maybe nobody will notice. ;)

Unfortunately it seems these environmentalists forgot to consider the most important habitat. Some subspecies of influencer simply require a vast territory to properly align their Wallet Chakra with the Earth's vibrations What about HER habitat needs? Why is nobody thinking about this???

I didn’t really have any interest in seeing The Odyssey until I read this. open.substack.com/pub/flintdel...

Actually, Nolan IS kind of making a point about trans people

And I have the (ancient) receipts

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This reminds me of a conversation I had in college where an evangelical explained to me that he could step off the roof and have no ill effects because God would support him. He didn't believe it quite enough to show us, though. Funny, that...

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 3w ago

MAGA cultist Eric Metaxas was outraged by seeing an air quality alert triggered by the Canadian wildfires that suggested people limit outdoor activity: "How dare they say that. Who has the right to tell me or you or anyone anything? It's a free country. I can do whatever I want."

Cartoon: Know your mutants! With thanks to @costello.bsky.social for making me think about this :)

Gonna go ahead and go on record to say: It's not okay for the government to shoot people in the street, regardless of immigration status or criminal history. Nothing makes that okay. NOTHING. It is murder. It is fascism. One day, the criminals will be tried for crimes against humanity.

It's in our DNA. Cardboard cats 😹😻 #cats #box #besttoyever

"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating." — Simone Weil

The inverse relationship between doing something useful and making money is deeply ingrained in our economic wisdom. 20/

So much discourse about how one ought speak of the dead would be unnecessary if folks would stop trying to make things fit into tidy binaries. This world, and the folks in it, are just more complicated than that.

preparing to give another Trans People & "Biological Sex" talk, so I though I'd re-up this – it's an in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...

Why Are “Gender Critical” Activists So Fond of Gametes?

plus my new video “Trans People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says”

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London’s clean-air charges are saving people’s lives. A study of central London found that emergency hospital admissions fell after the city began charging older, more polluting vehicles to enter the centre (starting with the dirtiest vehicles in 2017.) buff.ly/15MZpu4 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Deaths linked to London air pollution have fallen 40%, study estimates

However, Imperial College team also find that pollution has worse health impact than previously understood

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This! Or if you're local to me, I'm happy to print free whistles as well.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 4w ago

Reminder that we are still sending out anti-ICE whistles to anyone who needs them! Any quantity from 100-3000. Free. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

The Math is still mathematically doing what it does. Numbers don’t lie but Billionaires do. #Pinks

These artificial lifeforms are called "limited liability corporations" and they are a concrete, imminent risk to the human race: pluralistic.net/2026/04/15/a... What's more, challenging these artificial lifeforms will require us to build massive, "international, digital public goods." 34/

If being a leftist means property rights matter only as a vehicle for enforcing human rights, then being right-wing means human rights must only exist as a vehicle for enforcing property rights. That tracks.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4w ago

We can disagree about reparations, about collectivization and co-operatives, about land reform. Very (very!) few leftists want to abolish property, but to be a leftist is to agree that property is only ever a means, and never an end. 29/

My goal is to get to the point that submitting fiction is a boring part of my routine. In this moment, though, I want to celebrate sending something. As I did so, I noticed a familiar Journey song coming from my neighbor's driveway. Okay universe, message received. I won't stop believing.

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? "Ali peeked over the wall of my cubicle. 'Are you sure about this?'"

K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author@karenlykkebo.com · last mo.

Fellow authors: Without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? “I’ll admit, I wasn’t terribly surprised the morning I woke up as a rat.”

Find your people. Build what you want to see in the world - not at scale, just a little bit where you are. It matters. open.substack.com/pub/thegrimh...

Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?

Civilizations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line — Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it.

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Hey, hi. Hello. Auntie here, with another PSA: My loves. My sweet precious cinnamon rolls. The lights of my life, the wind beneath my wings, the hitches in my giddyup, YOU DON'T GET TO USE YOUR MENTAL ILLNESS TO ESCAPE ACCOUNTABILITY.

It's giving televised home makeover: nightmare edition.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · last mo.

Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

And why is the Fourth of July? Because J is the first of July.