YOU NERDS BOUGHT TOO MANY BOOKS Now we have to print more! @blipstress.bsky.social's PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID has officially sold through it's first print run 💃 We're getting more to the printers as we speak but for now if you buy direct from us you can expect to wait until early Sep to get your copy

weird how men built societies in which women could only access basic resources through men and are now trying to return us to that while also complaining that women who try to access resources through men are gold diggers

We penalize women for perceived anger, something interesting about THIS is that there's some evidence it's non-responsive to *status* (eg authority doesn't soften this), we attribute women's reactions more to internal characteristics and men's to circumstances journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Men are more likely than women to be appraised as being "high potential," where displays of passion = competence, whereas women displaying passion = inappropriate emotion pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations | Organization Science

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Here's my Cosmo piece about how segregated bathrooms have impacted my own health www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...

Avoiding Public Bathrooms Damaged My Bladder—Now, As a Trans Man, I’m Finally Letting Go

Inside the emotional and physical toll of holding it in.

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Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12h ago

Efforts to police bathrooms are evil and will impact peoples' health. Segregated bathrooms themselves must be done away with, it's the only solution. I reported this question out, years ago for @99pi.org 99percentinvisible.org/episode/wher...

“Like other Haitians losing #TPS, they now face an agonizing choice: Try to stay in the US and find underground work, constantly fearful of being caught by [ICE] agents. Or return to a nation so overwhelmed by gang violence and poverty that some feel deportation is tantamount to a death sentence.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 5h ago

“In Salisbury, the Eastern Shore’s biggest city, about 10% of the 33,000 residents are Haitian, many of them employed under #TPS as farmworkers, caregivers and in the poultry plants that are the region’s economic backbone.”

Privilege is sitting in my air conditioned house while the air quality is unhealthy at the same time minimum wage farm workers pick the produce I eat in the exact same conditions.

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 23h ago

"Rena" sent this from Moses Lake WA where she is weeding carrots for a non-union company. She shared: The air is bad. See my cell phone. The AQI is 166, which is unhealthy. We start at 4am. We'll work 7-8 hrs & earn minimum wage. #WeFeedYou

NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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***Letter-Writing Campaign Against National Archives and Records Administration Closures in San Francisco (San Bruno) and Chicago*** Save Our National Archives has launched an immediate letter writing campaign and is asking writers to CC their Congressional representatives. Thread - 1/3

Viewed over 400,000 times on IG and the devil bird app. 👀 "It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say: 'We knew how to protect you, and we didn't do it.'" -Violet Affleck to the UN

Neko Case, truth-teller. Warning for discussion of sexual assault and harassment. Subject though not named here, is understood to be Glen Hansard.

Andrew Middleton@mapcenter.com · 2d ago

Goddamnit. Another musician I liked turned out to be an asshole. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

psssst anyone have any recommendations for queer romances with characters dealing with chronic pain, *preferably* historical

Hey, folks. There's a @gofundme.com set up for artist Andy Fish, who is going through a very tough fight with two forms of cancer. He and his wife, cartoonist Veronica Fish (my Blackwood series cohorts) could use some help during this very tough time. I'm donating, hope you can. tinyurl.com/4wa86a6c

Donate to Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers, organized by Gina Gabianelli

Help Andy’s Fight Against Two Cancers Meet my cousin Andy Fish, father … Gina Gabianelli needs your support for Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers

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It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.

This is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.

The Bride may end up in my top 10 movies of the year, it’s so good and now I’m pissed by how much it was maligned and that people didn’t understand it.

Jessie Gender@jessiegender.bsky.social · 20h ago

Finally watching The Bride! Right now and I thought it’d be fairly ok; but HOLY FUCK that opening was amazing.

Y’all were right: What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed is really really good #amReading #booksky

Once a rat knows something, they will KNOW IT FOREVER. You will never distract them from it. They will constantly try it to see if they can do it again, and will test the system looking for weaknesses. They will teach each other a thing and even train humans to do what they want. They're very smart!

So many awful awful people. Amplified. Amplified.

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

2/2 The close-ups of my wildfire embroidery. I tried to get a glowing effect with the fire and embers with colours I chose. I cut up my favourite cardigan for the rough charred ground as it was the only fabric I had with the right colour and texture but its not needed in this heat anyway...

A training series. Brilliant people w/visionary frameworks x practical, actionable tools so we can all level up in our service to a world in need of healing. Second session tomorrow night with the Hugo-winning author + activist @snarkbat.bsky.social on Disability Justice tools for everyone:

Learn, To Do: A Training Series for This Moment

Tools and Tactics for Collective Liberation, from the Grassroots on Up

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Delighted to find out this morning that "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" is a short fiction finalist for the World Fantasy Awards! Congratulations to all the finalists!! locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Including my story "Like It's Golden" in there too!

Julie C. Day is communing with tiny dinosaurs@thisjulieday.bsky.social · yesterday

What an amazing lineup! I can't believe Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is one of the finalists in the Best Anthology category! locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

Last week, I visited Juniper Blessing’s memorial and met with trans students at UW to hear their experiences and the fear they felt after her killing. Trans people deserve to live as their full, authentic selves. I will continue to fight in Congress for them to do just that.

It's no longer morning, but by my reckoning there's no better time to support independent media by and for the trans community. Join us!

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · yesterday

Good morning! Isn't it a great day to support independent journalism that serves the trans community and their allies? I KNEW you'd think so too. We're trying to add 50 new members in the month of August. Help us!!! <3!! assignedmedia.org/support/

Its supposed to be her holding spam musubi but now I cant unsee it lol

AbramBroomArt@abrambroom.bsky.social · 2d ago

Who thought a twerking Hello kitty would be a good marketing idea? Don't answer that.

Here's the proper framing on this. "Following the intentional dismantling of most of the US government food safety surveillance program, a company that prioritized profits over providing toilet facilities for its farm workers has murdered 2 Americans with a preventable parasitic infection." 

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

are we hype yet (made this title pg illo last week & andrea from design just sent this over)