Maggie Lavender

@pikushio.bsky.social

Just a Plural, Polyamorous, Trans femme author writing books about love, joy, and existing in a world that never wanted you in the first place. Itch: maggielaveender.itch.io Pronouns: She/They (and he if you're sapphic about it ;) 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Sometimes I really wonder how other people see me. Like, when I find a new story I love or learn a new book/comic/episode etc. is coming out I turn from a normal human into a freaky goblin creature cackling into her phone. Sometimes I think it's best I don't know what other people think of me XD

i saw some shit about the em dash and AI and man, i’m so sick of LLM shit. i’m also kinda sick of people trying to identity “clear AI use” based on like… advanced grammar usage. i’m sorry but actually it’s very fun to play with punctuation for style purposes while writing. prose is fun!

A little bit of background is needed for you to understand just how much the book Moonlight, Love, and Witchcraft means to me. When I first picked up this book I had a specific mindset about reading. A mindset born from being told all my life I was gifted and knowing deep in my soul that I wasn't.

Alas, I have finished Moonlight, Love, and Witchcraft. While deeply tragic to have come to the end of such a well written story that also means it's time for a really long review on it! So get ready folks!

I have written and rewritten several starts to a review for this book and yet Moonlight Love and Witchcraft keeps surprising me with new delights and wonders! I cannot understate just how much I'm loving this book and you should do yourself the favor of reading it

I received an ARC copy of Moonlight Love and Witchcraft and God damn have missed Nemo so much. Getting to read this book again after everything it did to change my life the first time feels like coming home again. Full review later, cause work, but It feels so good to be back with these gayass fools

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

therage.co

Q: “What are you in here for? Murder? Robbery?" A: “Worse, possession of zines" “Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence"

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us

The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

theintercept.com

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.