you did it again! I tell you every year not to eat the marmot and you do it anyway and get black plague. english.news.cn/asiapacific/...

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · 3y ago

one of the funnier rules is every year or so, the Mongolian and Chinese governments have to put out a notice that you MUST NOT travel to Mongolia and eat a marmot. And every year someone fucking does it anyway and immediately dies of black plague which is why you don't do that.

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

every once in a while a nice author friend from Canada reaches a point where they have to ask their nice author friend in the US why their readers are trying to shove dollar bills up their noses, and I have to give them The Most Depressing Talk Ever

Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato@kristadb1.bsky.social · 6d ago

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com explained it to me when I got sick a few years ago bc I couldn't understand why everyone was offering to run my gofundme.

wow … hello Beautiful

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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This photo from the Kaiju Mating Habits panel at Dragon Con 2024 was just unearthed on a @dragoncon.org Discord server, and now I'm even more excited for this year. Paneling with all of the brilliant weirdos on @dconscitrack.bsky.social is truly a highlight of every year for me.

Conservatives are using laws banning trans girls from playing sports as a vehicle to disappear women from public life entirely. It's not about ✌🏾fairness✌🏾 or ✌🏾biological advantage✌🏾— because why are they advocating for sex segregated chess clubs.

Why Conservatives Want to Ban Trans Girls from Sports (Podcast)

Here’s a hint: It’s about opening the door to keeping all women and girls out of public life.

rewirenewsgroup.com

SUCH a lifelong dream to get to work on a new game set in the Myst universe. ♥️📖 Still hope we’ll get to see it through someday, but I’m thrilled we can share the trailer:

Cyan Worlds@cyan.com · last wk.

Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc

The right got a big win when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld states banning trans girls from women's sports. What's next? Over at @defector.com, I dig into their plan for essentially winding down competitive women's sports and Title IX — think of it as make women's sports girly again. Gift link:

Is The Right's Next Project Make Women's Sports Girly Again? | Defector

Within a few weeks of the country’s highest court giving states permission to ban trans girls from nearly all school sports, the influential right wing think tank The Heritage Foundation made clear it...

defector.com

Sara's writing is great and her lesbian vampire zine, MY WILD HEART BLEEDS WITH YOURS, is fantastic. Go get her stuff! sara-century.square.site

Sara Century@saracentury.bsky.social · last wk.

Many bills upcoming, preorders appreciated! Also my Hitchcock, lesbian vampire, and Scream zines are all already released and available (I think there's only like 20 copies of the original rubber stamp cover of the Scream Zine remaining since a publisher is rereleasing it later this year 😱)

I'm not letting AI horseshit maneuver me into a defensive position with my writing. I write like I write. I love emdashes. I keep using emdashes. Whatever we write, AI will take and copy it -- all you can do is keep writing the best shit you can write in the form you want it to take, and fuck it.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

God he was so good and this really hurts youtu.be/sCZcJHAcAZ4?...

Glen Hansard - The Parting Glass - 3/16/2012 - Stage On Sixth

YouTube video by Paste Magazine

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Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · last wk.

jfc Celebrity deaths don’t usually hit me all that hard on a personal level, like I don’t know these people, but I DID kinda know this guy is the thing And his music especially with the Frames means a huge amount to me and this is fucking me up a bit www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

It’s so easy to just be like “no thank you we prefer actual living trans people to fictional antisemitic wizards who poop on the floor.”

Tilly Bridges@tillybridges.bsky.social · last wk.

Unique Vintage just decided potential bigot dollars are more important than my human rights welcome to being trans in 2026 please let them know this is unacceptable to you, ESPECIALLY if you’re cis: service@uniquevintage.com

There’s an even more sinister angle to Johnny Depp’s ongoing “comeback” tour as the new Scrooge—it’s a Paramount production and part of a slate of Ellison-backed conservative cultural takeover attempts. It’s angled around MeToo rejection and the manosphere. spitfirenews.com/p/johnny-dep...

Johnny Depp's 'comeback' is billionaire manosphere marketing

Plus, why smart glasses can't escape the 'pervert' label.

spitfirenews.com

I cannot even describe how hard I laughed at this, for multiple reasons.

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · last wk.

I saw someone suggest Nolan made Odysseus more brooding because Americans don't have any cultural background with the trickster hero and that might be the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of cultural anthropology

AI doesn’t shorten the workweek because companies simply lay people off as productivity gains show up. This has been true for all productivity gains from automation under capitalism. This is just blame the workers type shit.

I was very proud to include the amazing work of @minouette.bsky.social in my book — a copy of a print I own! You should check out their store!!

Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · last wk.

This weekend I took the 12yo to a favourite local independent bookstores & got him some graphic novels & was very excited to find they had @chanda.blacksky.app Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s new book, ‘The Edge of Space-Time - Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie’! This never gets old: 🐡🧪

I encountered this roughly ten minutes after the phrase 'tonic masculinity' and honestly, yeah, this is the energy dudes need to be putting out into the world.

Warhammer Dan@jacketdan.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Come get ya a plate” That’s peek Dude’s Rocking for the day I think

Some secrets will go with me to my grave

Glenn Fleishman@glennf.com · last wk.

How many domains have you registered for fun or a future project that you have never put anything but a parking page at and yet keep paying for every year? Be honest.

What is it about caping for tech companies that gets you so passionate? Enough to pit vulnerable people asking not to be filmed against disabled people as a whole? 🤔

It’s really something how people get up in arms about accessibility and equity when the thing in question is pervert glasses or Dark Clippy. I don’t see you folks showing up when Ticketmaster says there’s no way a wheelchair user can come to concerts or that sign language is “too distracting”.

Hey friends if you forgot to take your meds go do that And drink some water And maybe get lunch while you're at it

lol

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

A lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:

It’s cute to me that anyone believes they can engage with *any* piece of the world without carrying some assumptions into that engagement.

convicted felons should be able to vote. people on parole should be able to vote. incarcerated people should be able to vote. anyone who disagrees is essentially saying 'some people should not be considered citizens deserving of rights'

Bolts@boltsmag.org · 2w ago

Republican Missouri state Representative Melanie Stinnett championed a state law to roll back felony disenfranchisement after meeting a disenfranchised man while knocking doors on the campaign trail.

Here's the thing about all the Star Trek love at SDCC this year. Paramount: We love Star Trek! Happy 60th anniversary Star Trek! Watch Strange New Worlds! Also Paramount: No, of course we don't have any new or continuing Star Trek shows under active development, miss me with that woke bullshit.

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

Dunno who needs to hear this but the way blocking works on Bluesky is: two ppl are talking. You follow one of them. One of them blocks the other. You see a post by the person you follow. You click on it. It shows “blocked post” above. That is not because YOU are blocked.