NEW STORY DAY “Not Like Other Girls” is now out in ebook and @reactorsff.bsky.social A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot. Art: A.W. Sommers Design: Jess Kiley Editor: Ann VanderMeer reactormag.com/not-like-oth...

Not Like Other Girls - Reactor

A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.

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Hey, so, um, mobs beating the **** out of Jews and police ignoring it or arresting the victims was one of the hallmarks of German anti-Semitism in the 1933-1939 period. No one seems to notice the parallels. They won't until there's no one left alive to save. Then it's too late.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 12h ago

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor

Surveillance ≠ safety. We speak with scholar and filmmaker @savasavasava.myatproto.social about the state of technology in schools, on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Who’s Responsible for ‘Responsible AI’”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

I would rather have pronghorn antelope and bighorn sheep and elk and purple sage and four wing saltbrush than data centers and so far no one in tech has presented a compelling vision for how to have all of those things, they just seize more resources for the plagiarism engine.

New essay! "This Is Not About AI" by Hana Lee! buff.ly/LU6gc80

I'm just gonna point out that the essays defending the use of GenAI in art are usually really poorly argued.

There is a lot of pressure as a BIPOC writer to “perform” your culture, even in fantasy. Black people are not a monolith. My perspective as a Londoner, a Yoruba person, a child of an immigrant, and a person of mixed heritage is not the same as the next Black writer’s.

It's vital to understand that the conservative obsession with calling their political adversaries groomers, rapists and pedophiles while simultaneously protecting sexual offenders in their own party isn't a contradiction, but the result of an ideology that views rape as a crime of property damage.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · yesterday

Pure scum wrapped in fake piety.

Since this is my only public-facing internet presence, here's my AI policy: I don't use AI for my writing. I don't use it for idea generation or editing. I don't use it for publicity. I have not in the past, and will not in the future. I have "no AI" statements in all the contracts that I sign.

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

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El-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.

notice how he characterizes her actions as contempt but doesnt say she was held in contempt, meaning he either didn't file, or he filed and got shot down. One doesn't generally file even if one could over emergency medical care except maybe failure to notify of a hospitalization or serious injury...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Rep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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stating that women and girls need to be protected from trans people is absolutely hate

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · yesterday

Did we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?

This is the story of how a group of perfectly ordinary neighbors took on one of the worst landlords in New York. And won. Introducing, the Union of Pinnacle Tenants: the short film. Watch the full film: youtu.be/h5dvGKI26ZA

The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The city of Madison is clearing the Ruiz memorial site right now with cops. Many unhoused folks are sleeping there right now and at risk for harm. If you are local and can get down there, please do ASAP. Help people clear their stuff out and de-escalate. Document the harm. Whatever you can do.

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

ive just accepted that Year One of transitioning is really hard and is just gonna keep being hard. ive lost people, become visibly part of a very embattled minority, faced a spectrum of misunderstanding to hostility, and don't remotely pass/havent achieved the amt of physical change i want.

This arch project has been incredible for me to watch. Trump put in a flagpole at Mar a Lago in 2006 that was 40 feet higher than code. My grandfather owned the croquet club next door and sued him for five years for blocking his light.

Trump Fined In Florida Flag Flap

Real Estate Mogul Will Be Docked $1,250 A Day For Super-Sized Old Glory

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Somebody should run a deal where you buy this and get a free Barry White album.

Gailey 🍉@sarahgailey.bsky.social · 5d ago

Wild that SPREAD ME is almost out in paperback already. Wild that I got it published in the first place!! I still can't quite believe it. And y'all have been sprinting with it ever since. If you loved it / hated it / can't believe it's real, please preorder the paperback & tell your friends.

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Apparently there are a bunch of fake smbc merch operations, selling copies of our designs. Just a reminder, there is only one place to see our junk: smbc-store.myshopify.com/collections/...

Stop talking about Nigel Farage and start talking about how compere, performer and drag king Mojo Jones has a new act called C*nty Binface 🗑️💖

There is absolutely *no* sense in cutting funding to one of the world’s greatest (and best-known) scientific resources. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/03/jodrell-bank-observatory-artists-writers-scientists-letter

Artists, writers and scientists urge UK government to save Jodrell Bank Observatory

New Order and Simon Armitage among more than 100 signatories to criticise ‘foolish and shortsighted’ cuts

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"removing my adhd diagnosis was a relief (because of ablest policies that discriminate against a significant proportion of the population)" is the new "I'm happier after detransitioning (despite my ongoing dysphoria, because I'm not being actively transphobically abused every day by my society)"

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3d ago

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

Hi, hi. It's been a while and I still have some left so do you mind if I promote my Changing Landscapes zine? 40 pages dedicated to ruined structures (and vehicles!) in the North Pennines. £10 including P&P - UK only. Info & buy: www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr... #Photography #Zine