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Can anyone please make a donation to Ruaa today?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's pride, so what better time to do this? Let's show them that women who would put OUR OWN RIGHTS on the market just to get a chance to bully the vulnerable do NOT represent the majority. Not In My Name

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The only difficulty I've experienced adapting to British culture is putting periods outside of quotation marks. It just feels icky.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Re-reading Ray Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains “'Today is August 4, 2026,” said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling,...' Well, shit.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions. To enter just repost. Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances. Winner chosen randomly from all entries.

submitted 48 days ago • 69 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 46 days ago • 1740 comments

Fatima Hassouna did not deserve this. Her family did not deserve this. No human being deserves this. Say her name.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Free Mahmoud Khalil. Free Rümeysa Öztürk. Free Mohsen Mahdawi. Free Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Free Juan Francisco Méndez. Free Elsy Noemi Berrios. Free the Venezuelan men. Free them all.

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

Stop using AI. Yes, even just for fun. AI is built on STOLEN images and text. That’s right: by using it, you’re stealing from your friends. There is NOT ethical generative AI. Bonus bullshit: it is HORRENOUS for the environment. (Yes, even the cutesy profile photo cartoon things.)

submitted 53 days ago • 60 comments

Mahmoud is in desperate need of some medical treatment for his hand. If you are able, please donate so he can reach the £200 required. ❤️

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Students studying in the US are being kidnapped, tortured, and traumatised for protesting/writing about a genocide. America you're going to have to be LOUD about this. I'm not a social historian but I suspect that how a country treats its student protestors is akin to a canary in a coal mine.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Mahmoud is facing deportation and is going to miss the birth of his child because the elected officials of America have decided he is either a target, for protesting against a literal genocide, or not worth protecting. We should all be enraged and beyond concerned.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING | Israeli forces have fully surrounded Rafah. The military plans to seize the city and annex it into a “buffer zone” — led by the 36th Division. This is not about defense. Over a million displaced civilians are now trapped under the shadow of a military takeover. 😡😡

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Poetry to shatter the heart. We are failing our fellow human beings. Where are our world leaders?

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

All those 'free speech absolutists' deporting people to concentration camps in El Salvador for saying Free Palestine

submitted 56 days ago • 21 comments

Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

submitted 56 days ago • 50 comments

Rand al'Thor isn't just terminally boring, he's also a big, fragile ego, man-baby. How dare Egwene want to be fulfilled in multiple ways and not just obsess over him! Season 3 is seriously awesome though

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

It's 2025 and I still come across sub guidelines for lit journals and presses that simply say "No genre fiction" . . . and okay, fine, but maybe back that up a bit with some detail and rationale. The MFA/Lit ecosystem could learn from a submission guide like Clarkesworld.

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

Tax. The. Rich.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

An actual genocide, no aid getting through, and the world is twiddling it's thumbs.

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

I'm taking a moment to reshare my friend Ruaa's Chuffed link. Please, if you have a moment pass it along, or if you have a few quid, please donate. She and so many others are suffering unnecessarily. I know it feels overwhelming because it is, but anything to help is better than nothing.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sharing my friend Eslam's post in hope that it will reach someone who can give a little to help her family.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: The first day of Eid in Gaza is not a celebration—it’s a bloodbath. 65 killed, 134 injured. This isn’t Eid Mubarak. This is Eid Massacre. Please repost 🙏🏻

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

Just watched No Other Land and feeling just about as gutted as expected. I wish Channel 4 would make it available for longer. Also, we need to stop calling them 'settlers'. They are Terrorists.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Abolish daylight savings time.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

If you follow me I'm sure you know Ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social but if you don't, she's a brave young woman who is in Gaza, facing hardship and danger, and she shares her life. She is often labeled spam. She is NOT spam. Please follow her, share her fundraiser, donate if you can. tinyurl.com/HelpRuaa

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

I've finally got around to playing Twilight Princess. I had it for Wii but never beat it and I'm enjoying it much better without the motion controls. It's lovely in its own way but gdamn there's so much empty space. It's like they hadn't quite figured out what to do with a more open world yet.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

"Hey, Google. I'm on fire, should I put it out?" "No, it is fine. Only 24% of people who catch fire need to extinguish the flames. Would you like me to order a pizza?"

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments