❌👑 Suz Brockmann
@suzbrockmann.bsky.social
romance writer, indie film & tv writer & producer, mother of a SAG strike captain & a nurse, liberal Dem, activist, she/her. Still masks.
1. the whole "disappointing night" thing is pure cope. El-Sayed beat the establishment candidate despite being outspent 10:1, that's an earthquake 2. primary polls are just not great and everyone needs to spend the next week going really, really hard for Peggy Flanagan
If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 22h agoi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Look, I don't even know where to find it. Is Chat GPT a website? Is Claude an app? Don't know, don't intend to find out. I got this far in my life just using my own brain, so I figure it works pretty well.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 12h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
We've spent so much effort, for so long, to get this. And they lit so much money on fire. Imagine how much community organizing $60 million could have gotten in Michigan. But organized community wasn't the goal.
April Glick Pulito@aprilglick.bsky.social · 21h agoEl-Sayed numbers truly INSANE this is a movement
State Sen. Jeremy Moss wins Dem primary for safely blue #MI11, Haley Stevens' seat. He'd be Michigan's first LGBTQ member of Congress.
Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
Polls close in one hour in Michigan. And say it with us: If you’re in line, stay in line!
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · yesterdayIt’s Election Day in Michigan! We get the Democratic Party we demand, and we demand real Democratic fighters who will actually hold the regime accountable and turn the page on the failed status quo. If you’re in Michigan and you still need to vote, make sure you have a plan today: iwillvote.com
When are polls tonight closing? —7pm local time (ET) in Virginia —7pm local time in Missouri, which is 8pm ET —7pm local time in Kansas (8pm or 9pm ET) —8pm local time in Michigan (8pm, mostly, or 9pm ET) —8pm local time in Washington (11pm ET) What to watch? boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
Michigan, it’s Election Day. If you haven’t voted yet, the polls are open now until 8PM. Make your voice heard. Find your polling location at abdulforsenate.com/vote!
Covid infection levels in England have jumped this week, although remaining at historically low levels. With 1 in every 1549 people in England now infected as of 2 August, we have increased the BuDS Covid infection risk level from Low to Moderately Low. A thread 🧵 buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 2 August 2026
The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 2 August 2026
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Speaking of Sally Wainwright, how did I miss this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renegad...
Renegade Nell - Wikipedia
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My thoughts on Bluesky not being welcoming to Republicans is Trump blocks disaster relief to states voting blue, & is also legally codifying anyone who opposes him as a terrorist deserving violence, & his kidnapping brute gangs terrorize the streets, & there's much more but I'm out of characters
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · yesterday"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care
If this essay appeals to you, it and many like it are in my book FIGHTING IN THE DARK, which is out today. Didn't mean to turn this into a plug but hey my book is out today, that don't happen every day. bsky.app/profile/juli...
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2mo agoHey guess what! My book is available for preorder! Tell everyone! Don't not tell everyone! Read more about what to do about this breaking news: www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...
The best thing about this place is all of you (well, most of you), but the 2nd best thing is that if you come on here and you're a bullying dick you'll just get quickly sealed into a box and sunk to the bottom of Bluesky hell, muttering to yourself and leaving the rest of us alone.
And this is why nearly everything is shit and most of us spend our time rewatching older series. We just finished a rewatch of Friday Night Lights. We’re currently watching a Sally Wainwright show from 2011.
WIRED@wired.com · yesterdayPuck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the courage of congressional Republicans.
If you are an expert on air quality and have 10-15 minutes to talk to me today or tomorrow about important things journalists should know while reporting on wildfires and smoke, my DMs are open, or you can email me at karen at OpenNews dot org.
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
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If we care about disability justice, one of the lowest-hanging fruits is masks in healthcare. It remains unacceptable that vulnerable patients must ask, sometimes beg, healthcare workers to mask, while also explaining to them why respirator masks are better
So, if you recall the case where the district judge recently said that Lynne Freeman had zero chance of success on the merits? Well, Lynne Freeman has filed an 84 page appeal to the Second Circuit.
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last wk.You may recall the case where Lynne Freeman sued Tracy Wolff for writing a YA set in Alaska where the male lead was hot and broody, just like in Freeman's book. This litigation went on for three years before a judge finally read both books and said there was zero infringement.
these "examples" of plagiarism are hilarious, but I think my fav has to be the first one because they both...have people wearing clothes?
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d agoOne of her many large documents is a list of all the places she claims Tracy copied her and it looks like this. And I think people who were first evaluating this online just looked at all the yellow and was like "oh my god, that's so much yellow!" But if you actually read it...
And frankly I encourage you to shred your Harry Potter books, your Orson Scott Card books, your collections of books by bigots who use their money to make the world materially worse for other people, that they not be used to suck in new fans who might spend money that flows to bad causes.