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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️🌈@shiftercat.bsky.social |
174 followers 859 following 198 posts
Another cis feminist for trans rights. She/her. Bad-faith arguments get you muted, slurs get you blocked. I reskeet a lot of geekery, some of it NSFW.
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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
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Everyone knows what to do about it. Describe the situation to a 5yo and they'll tell you what to do about it. Hell, ask a LLM what to do about it and it'll tell you "stop using the power-hungry AI." Just because corporations don't like the obvious solution to a problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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simone
@simonee.bsky.social
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i am so deeply sick of having to say this but please stop repeating the “lizard people” thing. it is an antisemitic conspiracy theory created by a Holocaust denier. and please do not call any Jewish person a lizard/reptile/etc. yes, even a very evil person
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Rose Eveleth
@roseveleth.com
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Sharing this with my partner to justify my hoards of zines and old indie publications that I don't think anybody else has copies of anymore.
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield
@jaykaydee.bsky.social
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"The Supreme Court will be controlled by conservatives for decades" is loser talk. You can, today, start yelling at your state Attorney General about how Marbury v. Madison was wrongly decided. If they won't agree, find a candidate to run against them who does. Keep going until this is consensus.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
@wagatwe.com
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yup. I wrote about it years ago when very few people were talking about it. it has always been about a racist power grab.
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Preeti Chhibber
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again
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Ro Salarian
@rosalarian.bsky.social
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Always has been.
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Cats of Yore
@catsofyore.bsky.social
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It is Disability Pride Month - the perfect time to learn about ALT text and start using it! www.perkins.org/resource/how...
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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No shame in feeling scared, overwhelmed and not knowing what to do. To me feeling one's feelings doesn't preclude taking action. These are confusing times. Give yourself some grace.
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Rachel Esselle
@rachelsl.bsky.social
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Want to channel your anger? Here is a great way to do it AND make a difference.
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The Latest Kate
@thelatestkate.bsky.social
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Crystal Frasier
@amazonchique.bsky.social
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Let me tell you a real boring story! Last year, a queer artist in my community put up a cool Pride installation. Then some bigots used it to hang bigot flags and threatened to sue the city if they took down the bigot signs without also taking down the (admittedly unauthorized) art piece…
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Mere Smith
@evilgalprods.bsky.social
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I agree with him — but I locate the problem not with “people,” but with amoral aibros who know this full well but sell the hype to a mercenary media that doesn’t care if it’s true
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✨️Zombie✨️ @making comics!
@zombieisok.bsky.social
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I realized I never posted my page from the dc pride book ❤️ #dccomics
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Mike Drucker
@mikedrucker.bsky.social
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I wrote about how I’m personally going to force game companies to put in all the stuff you hate. Calling the CEO of video games as we speak
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Mara Wilson
@marawilson.bsky.social
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Did you know the people who work those lines aren’t considered first responders and get no additional benefits from it? Imagine hearing people die all day, every day in your ear, with little control over what you can do about it, and just being asked to shrug it off. Live with it.
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Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.bsky.social
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When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.
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Melissa Caruso
@melissacaruso.bsky.social
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I would seriously LOVE to have a credits page be standard in books. I don't get to meet or know the names of all the people who work on my books, but I want to highlight their work and help readers understand what a team effort publishing is. (1/2)
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Ragnell
@ragnell.bsky.social
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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Today is a good day to count how many Jews you've yelled at about Zionism and then count how many Christians you've yelled at about Zionism and then do some math and ask yourselves some hard questions.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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Couple of things: most of the research cited in this article is on older populations, which is important because we’ve got decades of data indicating the importance of sociality for older people, and comparatively little of it suggests that “online” friendships are worse.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️⚧
@charliejane.bsky.social
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"There's no way that you can talk back to a gun. The gun doesn't have an opinion, it's just trying to hurt you."
In my latest newsletter I talk to @annaleen.bsky.social about their new book, STORIES ARE WEAPONS, and how to protect ourselves about psychological war.
buttondown.email/charliejane/...
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Ro Salarian
@rosalarian.bsky.social
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Just realized "No TERFs No SWERFs in my surf" would make such a good B52s-style beach rock song and now I need to find a band to help me make it.
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The Maltese Falco
@jimhenleymusic.bsky.social
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As Radley says in this deeply researched article, it doesn’t matter the Project 2025 deportation plan is legally, fiscally, logistically and morally impossible. What matters is Republicans want to try. And I think the dynamics are even worse than Radley suggests. 1/
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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it’s worth noting this is entirely performative fascism that has zero chance of becoming law but is still the sort of fascism they’d force everyone to live under if they ever get their way
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Gillian Branstetter
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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I don't want to make heroes of them but they did just spent three years hearing from M4L activists with no kids in their district nonetheless convinced that they're schools are in league with Disney and Pfizer to transgender the children
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maraleia
@maraleia.bsky.social
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I just called my House Rep. Danny Davis and Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth's offices and told them they cannot let KOSA get passed. I also told Durbin and Duckworth's person they need to withdraw their co-sponsorship of this VILE AND DANGEROUS BILL.
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Jan Murphy
@packrat74.bsky.social
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📚💙 Tagging this so there will be some actual news in the #BookSky feed. Fans of Elizabeth Bear's Karen Memory will want to see this.
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Mx. "900 ft." JS Carter Gilson // 🏳️⚧️
@jscartergilson.caviaporcell.us
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They say money doesn't create happiness, but it sure as fuck can relieve the majority of stressors. Imagine if the money being wasted on shit like this were, instead, given to people who are having difficulty making ends meet? (I don't even mean me, though unemployment brings it home.)
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sarah jeong
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
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in any other year, this would have been the biggest tech policy news of the month, maybe the year www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24...
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Joseph Howley
@illdottore.bsky.social
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I’m proud to stand with two dozen Jewish colleagues who decry the weaponization of antisemitism and the ongoing attacks on our campus and on higher education around the country. If you’re a Columbia affiliate I hope you’ll put your name to this too. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024...
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Justin Ling
@justinling.bsky.social
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Ok, this is all true. But I think it's important to note that this conspiracy isn't *just* a Soviet disinfo op. The idea that the U.S. government and big pharma cooked up AIDS to sell drugs percolated and spread without any Soviet help, and probably predates Moscow's operation by about a year.
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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️🌈
@shiftercat.bsky.social
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If you see this, post a monster.
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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️🌈
@shiftercat.bsky.social
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..."Industrial fallout"?
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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles)
@jordanshiveley.bsky.social
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YOU ARE ENOUGH. YOU WITH YOUR THROAT DISTENDED ACHING WITH ALL YOUR UNSAID WORDS, YOU WITH YOUR VEINS COLD AND DUSTY AND HEART THAT ONLY ECHOES WHAT YOU HAD DREAMED IT COULD BE, YOU ARE ENOUGH, DISCOURAGED AND BATTERED, FURIOUS AND MOURNFUL, YOU ARE ALWAYS AND FOREVER ENOUGH
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chelsea bridge
@secretaboutbox.bsky.social
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this is another good reason to use alt text: mute words match in alt text as well. use alt text or you're a dick
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Mary Robinette Kowal
@maryrobinette.bsky.social
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Friends, if you've been following @michaeldthomas.bsky.social or @lynnemthomas.com you know that their daughter Caitlin is in a bad way. A small group of us have organized a fundraiser to help them be able to be entirely present with Caitlin.
Please give them some love & support.
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Saeed Jones
@theferocity.bsky.social
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A young woman on TikTok put it this way, “You’re only as trustworthy as your creepiest friend.”
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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I know where they get the "brilliant" part bsky.app/profile/ygal...
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Deerlady83
@deerlady83.bsky.social
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I forgot two men died in Rose’s bed.
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Jonathan Stegall
@jonathanstegall.bsky.social
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Also, abolitionist organizers in Seattle wrote about their own experience with a federal consent decree in this article, notably how it gave SPD more money and made it harder to take away their power without stopping any violence. truthout.org/articles/doj...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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In the next 6 months, we're going to see one of the largest propaganda pushes in American history to spread the lie that Donald Trump is a moderate on abortion.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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One recent study found that Medicaid Expansion reduced crime. Now comes another finding that Medicaid reductions increase it. If someone says they care about victims AND want to cut social safety nets, they don’t care about victims. They just want to punish, whether it reduces crime or not.
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Calvin Kasulke
@kasulke.bsky.social
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Every mega-popular commercial fiction writer of the last 30 years–Anne Rice, Dan Brown, E.L. James, etc–has been a certified freak and their books reflect that. Fifty Shades is literally fanfic! The DaVinci code is about how Jesus fucked! Do whatever you want, even massive bestsellers are freak shit
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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it seems bad that every major communication platform is controlled by thin-skinned billionaires who can't handle the slightest criticism and are prepared to leverage the full power of their platforms to shut it down
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