Man, it'd be a shame if IATSE and WGA boycotted Paramount over this is job destroying merger, and asked their brothers in the Teamsters to refuse to load anything from the lot.

David Ellison Threatens to Pull Paramount Out of California Starting Oct. 1 if States Refuse to Negotiate Settlement in Antitrust Suit

David Ellison is prepared to start moving Paramount out of California as soon as Oct. 1 unless the state's attorney general, Rob Bonta, agrees to settlement talks in the antitrust case seeking to bloc...

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This call specifically cites the WUSTL and Vanderbilt sponsored hit piece on the social sciences and humanities, which shares a lot of intellectual space with TAH's Atlantic smearing of the Mellon Foundation www.ed.gov/media/docume...

Offerings has been out in the world for THREE weeks!!!! [kermit flail] If you haven't read it yet, indie book stores ( @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social and @goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social are two favs!), big-box stores, and libraries are all good options! And if you loved it, leave a review online! XO

Ali Trotta@alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 3w 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

US Code 18, section 592 makes armed federal agents or soldiers hanging out at polling places, other than to cast a ballot in their own precincts a crime. If you see something, say something. Ideally with photos to a reporter or a municipal authority. Let them start the process.

Elle Ess@viamarsala18.bsky.social · 4h ago

If you are voting in NE MPLS and have ANY concern about ICE, DM me, I’ll meet you and go with you.

Always a good deal - a card fro @lotje.bsky.social here always brightens my day... and she's been known to mail trans-Atlantic as well! Go for it!

Lotje@lotje.bsky.social · 3h ago

I got new cards from the print shop (still no more 6, though). Would you like some obligation-free brightness added to your day? With custom postage? Pick a color and I will send you some love (this works best if I actually know you, but I still do my very best to personalize if I don't :P )

Read this thread

Jen Keane@zenbuffy.bsky.social · 9h ago

I'm loathe to share this man, but this one is personal. My masters thesis was on the MMR controversy, so believe me when I say that this path of separation of the MMR will result in nothing but increased sales of too-small coffins, and children with life-altering medical conditions.

They treat staff and journalists as NPCs. You're expendable.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4h ago

Doing the whole flight with no signal and/or no callsign was an option! That's what they did at earlier stages of the flight. Changing it to AF1 is using the crew, staff members and journalists as bait for the aggressor allegedly making the serious threat.

“When you submit to be surveilled, what you are doing is handing over a copious amount of power. So you’d better be very, very sure you can trust the people you hand it to—and even if you do, can you trust their successors, five or ten years from now?”

“AI-Powered” Surveillance Networks are Worse Than You Know

In New Orleans, everyone is being watched with facial recognition cameras and police drones—and your hometown might be next.

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Postdoc job alert! Early medieval charters, monastic economics and XML-TEI, starting January 2027. Come join a lovely department @livunihss.bsky.social, brilliant project team with @unituebingen.bsky.social and awesome city! #medievalsky #digitalhumanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSO571/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool

An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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There's a non-zero chance that the horrible wizard book lady might conceivably leverage her vast wealth to kill or at least maim the NHS. Stop. Buying. Harry. Potter. SHIT.

Engine - remembering heroines whose shine got lost in others' super-stardom.

Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 4h ago

James Cameron has the reputation of being an obsessive arsehole with his actors, but he's also given some the best roles of their lives. He helped cement Sigourney Weaver's place as a sci-fi icon and Linda Hamilton became one of cinema's greatest heroines. Another woman often gets overlooked. 1/6

Caboose.

Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 4h ago

The film wasn't a huge hit at the time, so there were no sequels to keep it in our awareness. Even so, for her role in it, I think Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio should be viewed alongside Weaver and Hamilton as an iconic female hero in an era when they were only starting to be accepted. 6/6

The only possible reason to have Border Patrol or ICE agents at polling locations would be to harass people of color. And yeah, that's a problem.

John Collins@logicallyjc.bsky.social · 15h ago

Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.

A nightmarish follow-up from @emilybregel.bsky.social. Ahmed Soliman and two Jamaican women, Peta-Gaye Chambers and Natalie Holmes, say they were cuffed, beaten, and threatened by armed guards at the Equatorial Guinea "hotel" where they are imprisoned after being expelled by ICE. archive.is/zn7GH

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last wk.

Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...

such a good analysis, esp b/c this problem is endemic to Hollywood: -want to show violence -also want our hero to be good. In many times, places, and literary traditions this would not be a contradiction, but Hollywood-desperate to appeal to both id and superego-won't make the case, so we get

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · yesterday

I was so fed up about what The Odyssey did with its story arcs that I had to get it out of my system. Here you go. (There is some story advice in here too!)

I wonder if it embarrasses SVP voters to know, deep down, that the party they vote for out of fear and/or bigotry is doing Putin’s bidding

NZZ@nzz.ch · 7h ago

Die Schweiz stimmt Ende September über die SVP-Neutralitätsinitiative ab. Die Folgen eines Ja für die Sicherheit des Landes wären fatal.

it would be nice if it was possible to actually keep my place while scrolling through my large number of Bluesky notifications when viewing Bluesky on Firefox

Writing advice - turning fears into opportunities to stretch the writing muscles!!

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 18h ago

Whenever people tell me that they aren’t creative or don’t have a good imagination, I ask if they’ve driven behind a logging truck and imagined what would happen if one came loose. It’s the same muscle! You just gotta do some different stretches.

It's 2026, and I see that Non-Black folk are still trying to redefine what woke means.🤷🏿‍♂️ Woke wasn't a "crazy time." There's nothing that Black civil rights leaders asked for that was unreasonable. In 2026, they still kill us and falsely imprison us at 10 times the rate that ICE does immigrants.

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 8mo ago

👴🏻"Well, to me, what woke means is..." 👴🏻"The term woke has evolved to mean..." That's not how things work. Racists don't get to redefine Black vocab. Don't use the definition of woke that mocks Black people and people that care about Black people.

I've donated and encourage other sf/f professionals and fans to do the same

Usman T. Malik@usmantm.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sheila Williams, the editor who ran Asimov's magazine for decades and nurtured countless new talent, needs our help. Thread: www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...

Which translation of the Odyssey is the best? On Instant Classics, Mary and Charlotte unpick that question... and offer (we hope) some helpful advice. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

BONUS: Which Translation of the Odyssey should I read?

Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 10 August · Bonus · 11min

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Healthcare is suicide prevention. Housing is suicide prevention. Childcare is suicide prevention. Universal basic income is suicide prevention. When we ensure people have their basic needs met, mental health improves.

Wish Jordan well and send her some cash! She posts cool dinosaur content and she's celebrating her birthday with a broken foot

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · 22h ago

maybe you have broke your foot before… maybe you have extra resources to give… maybe you like my dumb posts or website, I dunno… my PayPal is @jordanworld PayPal.me/jordanworld my Venmo is @JordanETierney my CashApp is $jordantierney1 love to whatever help anyone can give!!

A society that criminalizes its residents merely for existing is profoundly sick. It is disgusting to believe that someone should be expelled merely because they've committed the "crime" of having been born in the wrong place.

I genuinely do not have enough superlatives for what Brandon Scott has accomplished during his tenure as mayor, and I'm going to be so sad when he's term-limited out. I don't know if he has ambitions for higher office but I would vote for him for anything he runs for.

Mhgreen3000@mhgreen3000.bsky.social · 2d ago

Baltimore cut homicides 68% with 400 fewer cops, which is a deeply inconvenient plot twist for the “more police is the only way to safety” narrative.

The ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.

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We expect the Mamdani administration to uphold a simple, non-negotiable standard: no one with a history of antisemitism or hostility toward Jews, Zionists, Israelis or Jewish institutions should be ap...

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I called Royal Mail, an automated voice told me the wait time is 52 minutes

I just got handed two pounds of under the table almonds. Today Ilearned that Blue Diamond operates a bit like OPEC with production maximums. If you grow more than that, you can’t sell it. This seems dumb, but that’s cartel power for ya.

No donations for 15 days. Hamdan has little reach because he's given up on trying to stay on a platform that repeatedly deletes him. Help him by sharing & donating.

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hamdan's son, 3 days ago, after kindly asking about me and my family: 'I hope my family receives the donations today. Because we haven't received any donations in a while🙏🙏🙏' Contrary to his hopes, there've been 0 donations since then. 1 in 4 weeks. He can't be on Bsky. Please help:

Stop calling it AI and refer to it as "Digital Meth". "What are you using AI for?" "Digital Meth? Nothing. It turns your brain into slop." "Are you using AI for writing?" "Digital Meth? It will guarantee you get Dementia in a decade. Why would I want dementia?"