When a good and decent person leaves this world, I think the best thing we can do to honor them is to try to put even more goodness and decency into the world. It's not that we can replace them or their contribution. It's just that we need it all the more now that they're gone.

[Exit Queen.]

Go rest high, Dolly. 😭

'Look at me, I'm a human. I pay taxes, I have depression, I'm behind on chores'

Massachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.

Millionaires tax surges past expectations, once again

The voter-approved surtax has sailed past its $2 billion estimate for another year in a row.

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I should talk more about the first book that @marbach.bsky.social and I wrote, THE MAJOR ARCANA. Life has just been so very overwhelming and I haven’t been able to interact with the #writing community as much as I want to. But here it is, it’s really good, maybe you’ll like it?

Hope nobody is expecting a savior in Daulton Varsho lol

I figured out the relevant distinction for my feelings on the new spider-man movie. #BrandNewDay In terms of being a SPIDEY flick, where it feels like the comic book come to life? It’s okay. It’s fine. But purely as an auteur experience? It’s easily the best film ever featuring the character.

He is so good at this

Bombastic

This is the closest thing we have to character art, the cover of our first novel, which depicts a version of Lincoln Baxter. I wish we had more! Covert art done by Lizbe Coetzee, and we love it very much! #SummerOfStories

Ruin a book by adding a word: Catch 22 Pedophiles

Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures@michellefranklin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ruin a book by adding a word: Charlotte's Dark Web

I’m pretty into this new Bladerunner series. Looks fucking great to be honest

So I’ll meet you at the bottom If there really is one They always told me “when you’ll hit it you’ll know it” But I’ve been fallin’ so long It’s like gravity’s gone And I’m just floatin’

meesa regret to inform you all dat meesa seen dis poodoo Seriously, thank fucking Christ he sold when he did.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2mo ago

George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is 'The Future' https://kotaku.com/george-lucas-artificial-intelligence-ai-museum-art-2000715801

The only death I’m aware of that we should be discussing today.

Arthricia@arthricia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells Nolan Wells #NolanWells

Goddamn. I’m never gonna celebrate death but there are some that come awwwwwfully close to being satisfying as fuck

Was just forced to age-verify to log into this stupid website I use for work, and I'm PISSED about it.

If ICE can kill anyone it wants with impunity, then none of us have any meaningful rights. It’s that simple.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Of course ICE was lying about the circumstances of it killing a man, yet again. Of course. It's infuriating as ever, but there's an extra burst of rage as ICE's destruction hist my own city.

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Video appears to show no damage to the vehicle of the man ICE killed in Houston, who had lived in America peacefully for 35 years, despite ICE's claim that he "rammed" an ICE vehicle and "tried to run over" an agent. These people are not credible.

Really happy about this, wanted to share #Booksky ❤️🔥

Chaos Cat Creative@chaoscatcreative.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Chaos Cat Creative is so very proud for #TheMajorArcana to have been featured at the Indie Booth hosted by IngramSpark at the 2026 #ALA Convention in Chicago, Illinois. 🥰 The march toward 150 sales is ongoing, #booksky - please check out our Linktree for buying options! linktr.ee/chaoscatcreative

I manically fling my most absurd ideas out into the aether, while @marbach.bsky.social desperately attempts to shape them into some kind of form another human might recognize. So, whatever that is. #SummerOfStories

Fellow authors, without any context, what is the 1st line of your current WIP? — The trees swayed gently in the breeze.

Hope Engel 📚@hopeengel.com · 2mo ago

Fellow authors, without any context, what is the 1st line of your current WIP? — Working Valeria into the routine of my life in the fall off-season schedule had been so easy; it was as instinctual as reaching for her hand as I fell into step at her side.

#booksky The genuine reaction when @rwmeadors.bsky.social told me that @hopeengel.com ‘s favorite character in #TheMajorArcana is my boy, Michael Ray “T-Mikey” Collins:

Ol dude has a big white pet bird in the car with him and I was SO CLOSE to getting the greatest candid “people watching” picture of all time. Bird was on his lap and it looked like the dude was a human with a bird head

Hi, I’m R.W. Along with @marbach.bsky.social I write urban fantasy but also just general fiction but also sort of typical fantasy but also everything. Go read our first book The Major Arcana, it’s good! Current #WIP is Projekt, it’s gonna be good! I get weird. #SummerOfStories

The anxiety this fills me with should be studied

Hope’s book is up for preorder now! I’m getting my copy - how about you?

Hope Engel 📚@hopeengel.com · 2mo ago

I'm Hope, I write romance! My current WIP is a sequel to my debut novel which comes out NEXT WEEK! Pre order now sorry I gotta promote I know I hate it too: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWXYD77J

Y’all make sure you go watch and like and share this video from our friend @hopeengel.com and pick up a copy of her debut novel, #AtYourPace, which comes out July 8th! #booksky youtu.be/28Shts2tVOw?...

Author Hope Engel discusses "At Your Pace"

YouTube video by Hope Engel

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If you want to know why both corporate Democrats and Republicans are freaking out about DSA on the TV, this is why. We’ve been living under a 50 year lie that good things are not possible in our politics and it only took six months in a major American city to show that it was a bipartisan scam.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.