A dystopian future where people perform electioneering not because they believe in the candidate/platform but because they a put huge bets on the election results.

Amazing that Iran is successfully attacking the drinking water in the American Midwest, and this is pretty directly the Trump administration's fault, yet this is not a huge scandal among his voters who live there

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d ago

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz responds to Trump: “DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the U.S. exposed to cyber attacks."

500th pamphlet! Yay!!!!

Pendle Hill@pendlehillusa.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎉We're thrilled to announce Pendle Hill's 500th pamphlet! "God Bless the Grass: Liturgies of Empire, Liturgies of Resistance" by C. Wess Daniels is a deep dive into the ways that we as humans are shaped by a broad range of “liturgies” in our world. pendlehill.org/product/god-...

The Problem™ with my kitten is that unless I am making intense eye contact with him or giving him unconditional attention, he will be an utter menace. And by menace I mean sitting on the counters, eating the plants, and messing with anything hanging up on the walls that he can touch.

Tristan da Cuhna. I wanna be on a volcanic island with no air service where all the land is communally held, yes.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name a country you want to move to.

Wondering what fresh horrors will be unleashed at tomorrow's prime time presidential address.

Relevant to my interests considering I'm currently reading the book "Quakers and Nazis" by Hans Schmitt.

Woodbrooke@woodbrooke.bsky.social · 4w ago

In the 2026 George Richardson Lecture, David Harrington Watt will examine how writers from the 1930s to the present have described Quaker encounters with Nazism, highlighting the major themes that emerge from those accounts. For more information visit https://ow.ly/u2Lg50ZjxsW

Maybe not this year or next year, but eventually I would like to try to author a Pamphlet on imagination as a spiritual practice.

Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.

Sometimes I like to sit and think of all the "jobs" people could do if there was guaranteed basic income and universal healthcare.

The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.

Robert Heinlein probably got it right: in the future citizenship will be based solely on military service. I'm pretty sure there will be a hard start for it. So some of us will keep our citizenship but after a specific date you're gonna have to fight space bugs to vote.

Will Wilkinson@wlknsn.xyz · last mo.

I'd like to hear more about the citizenship requirements that opponents of birthright citizenship have in mind. I'm a descendant of the second colonial governor of Rhode Island, but how EXACTLY am I a citizen if "born here" isn't a sufficient condition for me or my ancestors? What's the rule?

"Fascists will build a prison for cis women built out of trans people’s bones."

Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · last mo.

this week's post is about sports, and about how the signify acceptance in society, from the point of view of someone who was never accepted within them margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/its-just-s...

NPR is really having a day with corrections.

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Everything AI generated gives off uncanny valley vibes. For example, this flyer that was on my county's website. These are clearly lizard people in masks.

New York City voters seemed energized by victories from Brad Lander, Darializa Chevalier, and Claire Lopez. But in this small diner roughly 75 miles outside of Topeka, news of the results was not welcomed as warmly

Alan Greenspan died today. I still get weirdly triggered when someone mentions him due to doing high school debate in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Oh no, my lack of self-care is catching up with me.

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

The worst part about living in a rural area is clothes shopping. I am either driving over an hour to a store or ordering online where they will inevitably mess up my order in some way.

I don't know how to find motivation living in a country that has no vision of a collective future.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

HBD to John Brown, an abolitionist who believed slavery would never end without a fight. ire on the Mountain imagines what might have happened if he had succeeded. A visionary classic of speculative fiction and liberation - available here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

It's so weird to me how much the media wants me to be concerned about gas prices. My 17 year old Honda that gets almost 40 mpg and I do not care, will not care.

I realized today that the reason I'm seeing an increase in wildlife deaths on roads is because of an increase in stupidly tall trucks and SUVs with both limited visibility and a lack of empathetic drivers. I still will argue that all the roadkill on American roads is a precursor to fascism.

Survivor of a U.S. boat strike speaks out: “All the presidents claim they’re fighting drug trafficking and organized crime. But they’ve never actually done anything. They’re just trying to make it look like they are – and instead are mistreating innocent people like us fishermen."

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out

An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

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Yesterday, while being the only woman in a meeting, a man referred to Bill Cosby's crimes as "a bunch of silliness" and none of the other men said anything but a few shifted uncomfortably.