This is the worst year I've had for rejections in the past 9 years. Its probably mostly cause I'm: A) applying for more things than usual B) applying for different kinds of opportunities than I have before Even so, its kinda depressing to look at my spreadsheet and see the stats

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

Each one of these screenshots is better than the last. All Elon Musk wants to be in life is cool, and it’s the one thing he’ll never be.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last wk.

lol

All I want to do is write plays about sad Black dykes and have pretty nails Instead I'm watching the UK slide into fascism whilst constantly hustling just to pay my bills. This fuckass cuntry

I didn't make goal for rent and now have a late fee on top of what's left, my power bill which I pay 100% of is so high I'm worried they're going to shut it off, and my mental health has been spiraling so badly lately that I'm scared I'll be instituionalized. Scared. ko-fi.com/kivabay/goal...

Buy Kivan Bay a Coffee

art by kivan

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Kivan@kivanbay.bsky.social · 4w ago

As I am still looking for work, I'm sorry I must fundraise for Sept rent. If you know of any jobs in PDX that will not physically break my body (bad knee + shoulder) please let me know. Thank you. paypal.me/kivabay cashapp $kivabay ko-fi.com/kivabay/goal... #mutualaid #MAboost #helpsky #MADboost

All this talk about men’s mental health and clearly there’s no concern about giving tacit or explicit approval to race riots and masked racist protestors are doing to MY mental health. But our wellbeing doesn’t matter when there’s fascism to whitewash

Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Media outlets should spend less time writing about the “legitimate grievances” of people who loathe immigration and more time addressing how racist reporting about migrants, Muslims, Black folks, and other racialised communities has cultivated the fascism we are enduring today. Just saying.

Hard to overstate this program's — hell, just this opening sequence's — impact on Millennial dweebs such as I

We Geek Girls@wegeekgirls.bsky.social · last wk.

‘Batman: The Animated Series’ premiered on this day 34 years ago! (September 5, 1992) 🦇 Created by Bruce Timm & Eric Radomski. Voice cast: Kevin Conroy, Arleen Sorkin, Mark Hamill, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Loren Lester, Bob Hastings, Robert Costanzo, Richard Moll, Mari Devon, & more. #OnThisDay #BTAS

Every now and then I think about the fact that I spent 2.5yrs in a relationship with someone who wasn't attracted to me and like??? Sometimes I think my name might actually be booboo the fool

Death cult

I had not clocked until now that they really are sending out “Sir Rich Barrons” to tell the public they have too much and they need to sacrifice, so we can impress the Donald by giving that money to Raytheon instead

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

General Sir Richard Barrons spelling out the narrative thats being pushed: the sick & disabled, kids in poverty, pensioners, they all need to suffer so we can have more bombs.

Well dang, this is a cool read about urban forests!

Why a decades-old forest planting practice from Japan is gaining traction in the U.S.

Communities across the U.S. are turning small plots of land into highly dense forests that grow quickly. Turns out these forests have roots to a decades-old planting method that originated in Japan.

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On the tube

i will succeed because i am a pervert 🥳🫡

Da'shaun L Harrison's framework for understanding insecurity remains unmatched Ofc I don't feel worthy -- im a fat black trans person on rainy fascist island. Most of society is structured to obscure/strip away the worth of me and mine Doesn't make it easy to deal with tho

Watching this country slide towards fascism because about 20 people don't want to pay any taxes would be disheartening...if I hadn't been watching it happen for 10 years

It’s so amazing to see Jhalak reach 10 years!

Prof Sunny Singh@profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us to celebrate the Jhalak Prize 2026 shortlisted authors on 21st May. A glittering galaxy of literary stars talk about and read from their work at @gowerst-books.bsky.social. An unmissable book event that also marks 10 years of the Jhalak Prize www.waterstones.com/events/gower...

To add to this: the girlbossification of bingo app adverts to try and dress it up as not just being gambling makes me sick

Andrew Kinsey@andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We seriously should treat sports betting ads like cigarette ads: ban them.

I'm still really sad that my PhD proposal was rejected I was going to study anti-fatness in queer culture but idk if that's possible now (Especially cause funded PhD's are relatively uncommon Fat Studies barely exists in this fuckass country)

You forgot 3. try to live forever 4. have as many kids as possible

Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

The rich people of today only have two ideas: 1. Let’s kill everyone 2. I need a bunker so after we kill everyone I can emerge from underground, spread my wings like a peacock, and continue to be rich

Dykes, sapphics, etc: I'm writing a piece about how "divine feminine"/"high-value dating" language & ideology is creeping into our communities. I wanna hear your experiences, have you been seeing more of this on your feeds, on the apps, irl? How does it make you feel? Drop me a DM :)

the diets prescribed to fat people in order to force intentional weight loss often contain the exact same details that would be called anorexia if the person weren't fat.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Paul Boldrin@paulboldrin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I read a history of early 20th century socialism and it's crazy how much of it is just clubs doing art or reading books and trying to get miners and factory workers to do art and read books.

A theatre. Itd be like 200 seats, have a bangin cafe/bar attached and only show work by people from the Global Majority

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 5mo ago

Take a break from the discourse and quote this with a business you would want to start if you could afford to lose money on it

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Ive had a long day so this might not make sense but to "yes and" this post Im infinitely less interested in the comparative "feminism" of personal choices than the world someone is trying to build.

Aubrey Gordon@yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 5mo ago

(Related: the "plastic surgery is never feminist" take that's circulating again, this time with young thin feminists, few of whom mention the compulsory thinness/beauty standards they embody, presumably absent surgery/medspas. Why examine power structures when you can just judge other individuals?)

On twitter i was a proper lil take machine. I'd be out here chatting shit all the time But now I want to keep my thoughts offline. Is this growth? Or am I just a freelance artist who gets to chat shit for a living?

Some of my fave nonfiction books: Stolen by Grace Blakeley Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom Times Monster by Priya Satia Burn it Down by Maureen Ryan When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe (Boys get one, as a treat)

On Monday I got rejected for a PhD. But today I got to see a contemporary opera in rehearsal And tomorrow im gonna get shitfaced with my oldest friend So like, I might not be smart enough for academia, but I'm an artist with amazing friends so I can't really complain