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the amount of people I know who don't even remember that government exists to make their lives better...just, damn, idk how I'm supposed to respect the big media outlets any longer

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Due to deferred chores and errands, I had to take today off from my passion projects and, dear readers, I did not expect it to be as much of a struggle as it was. Apparently work/life balance is important even when you're fortunate enough to do something you find inspiring and fulfilling. New WIP. 🙃

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New today from Reckoning 9, Offor Chidera's poem "The Government Will Pay For Your Funeral" fairly fizzes with sensory juxtapositions evoking visceral grief. Not easy, but incredibly rich and rewarding: reckoning.press/the-governme...

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Andrew's eerily soothing performance here somehow amplifies the already surreally dissociative effect this story has on me. Humans: we emerge out of nature, we are nature, we wreck nature, we strive to defend and save nature, we fail, we pour ourselves back into the toxic muck and start again

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I am SO PLEASED to see "Rachel is at a Protest" by Esther Alter on this list, because IT IS WORTHY and seems to have bypassed so many readers. screams

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When learning something, one of the most important resources is a person who will tell you "no, you are wrong, you are not making sense, what you are saying is meaningless," to keep you from going further and further wrong without knowing it. Chatgpt tells you what you want to hear.

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I've struggled for decades to put my lifelong, visceral hatred of 3-act story framing into coherent form. (spluttered expletives do not count) The struggle is over. From now on I will just point people to this fab Charlie Jane Anders newsletter. It cuts right to the point.

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Advice that I 100% did not ask for and so I'm inflicting it upon y'all too. It isn't enough to extend grace to others. You gotta include yourself.

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The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI: It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

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Whoever convinced you the only "good critique" exclusively highlights your mistakes & weaknesses, did you a grave disservice. It's not "soft" to want to know what you're doing right as well as what you're doing wrong.

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Okay the areas where most of the people on Bluesky are (particularly Khan Younis) are being displaced- so I am going to start a master thread here of people who need help with evacuation. I’ll keep adding to it so check the bottom part too:

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I keep having to restate to comrades that Tru*p is broadly unpopular and that this is an ACTUAL opportunity. Even some organizers seem to be convinced that this guy is more popular than he is. His fans are not THE COUNTRY. Stop being propagandized by the terrible US mainstream media.

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I know that we all know that IQ is BS, but we really, really need to redefine what we mean by intelligence. I say this as an AuDHD person and also a woman sick of explaining that when a nonhuman animal doesn't deliver the desired test response it's just as likely they don't care about the test.

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Octavia Butler did. Down to the slogan. Black writers have been telling folks.

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"HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his first-ever press conference this week, in response to new data showing an apparent increase* in the number of autistic kids, to promote a variety of debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist ideas about autism." Reader, this is bullisht. #neurodiversity

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Extremely grateful for this thread from International Society for Autism Research. It's long, but worth book marking and reading in manageable bites.

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I have no excuse for missing Holly's heartbreaking, but determinedly hopeful words. Check it out.

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Thank you, FIYAH, for being a model to our creative community at a time when leadership could not be more urgently needed.

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Hiiiii cis reviewers! I’m fine to avoid spoilers for Murderbot all by myself but your responsibility is TO GET ITS PRONOUNS RIGHT IN YOUR REVIEWS. Alexander Skarsgård = he/him Murderbot = it/its Okay? Okay. Good talk.

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The brain-dead-at-9-weeks-pregnant woman being kept alive on life support because of Georgia’s abortion ban, while her family has to foot the hospital bills is absolutely the most Hell-World shit I’ve seen in a while. Absolutely monstrous.

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If there is one video you watch today, it should be this. We can't let this happen again.

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And in the plainest of words: they are the ones who make it easier for the fascists to undermine public faith in journalism and continuously erode our first amendment rights.

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📖Let’s talk about how to tell good research from bad — and what that means for us. Join our webinar “What’s Normal?: How Research is Supposed to Work” May 27 at 4pm ET: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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"If I think of Autism as Place, then I arrive late at age 41, a bit timid, uncertain of the right words to say, but certain in what I know to be true: “Hi, I’m new here. And I’ve always belonged here. And I meant to come here. I want to be here. But I have to be honest, you’ve been hard to find.” ❤️

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Join me tonight in Loring Park at the Woman's Club (while it's still there for not much longer) for this free event. We're kicking off some final fundraising to get ready for construction to refurbish the dandelion (aka Berger) fountain in the park. Any amount helps! givebutter.com/berger-fount...

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“An authoritarian project has to come out of the shadows to succeed. The intimidation of many depends on early and well-publicized assaults against a few. The authoritarian wants people to understand DOJ is now a department of political favors and retribution.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-want...

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This morning's rabbithole while confirming the right term during the historical period the book I'm revising is set in: daily.jstor.org/heroic-newsb...

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No one warned me that by finally processing my childhood trauma I'd also remember how magical most of my childhood was. Nor was I warned about the guilt of accepting that both those things can be true at the same time. In case someone else needs to hear this: you have not let your younger self down.

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Both mesmerizing and horrifying, the brilliant colors of @abistevensart.bsky.social "Toxic Heron" deftly illuminate the dark consequences of wetland pollution.

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this. this this this this this. (THIS IS WHAT I MEAN about a climate politics of joy, and believe you me I am pissed off that the word 'abundance' cannot belong to it any longer)

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And as soon as Democrats stopped flying to the gulag and everyone stopped talking about it, Trump’s immigration numbers started climbing back up

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4 types of characters I write: 1. aces, bisexuals, & a token straight couple for my DEI quota ;) 2. Autistic/AuDHD/ADHD folks 3. Battle Couples who share 1 brain cell but use it to communicate w/ each other. 4. Exhausted Assassin with knife-sharp opinions who has, somehow, become the Group Mother.

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Cuteness from my brother's yard. We've had a number of spring births. The lamb in the third photo was born with some tendon issues and was refused by his mum. He is currently being bottle fed and rehabbed by my mother and SIL. My brother named him Biscuit. Limp Biscuit. These are rescue animals.

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Alright, lovely folks, I need your best intersectional recs for books and/or articles on gender and climate change/the environment. An ex of this is "We Can't Fight Climate Change Without Fighting for Gender Equity." Bonus points for speculative fiction recs. Thank you! hbr.org/2022/07/we-c...

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"Culture shock is our reason for worldbuilding, it’s what necessitates the creation of whereness." Great essay about what good worldbuilding makes us feel.

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New today from Reckoning 9, "A Haunting in Future Perfect Tense" by Marianna Ariel ColesCurtis, an incredibly timely and perceptive essay about the human consequences of immigration enforcement along the US-Mexico border: reckoning.press/a-haunting-i...

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We're always seeking work from queer, racialized, Indigenous, trans, disabled, neurodiverse and/or otherwise marginalized writers from everywhere. We pay 10c/wd and we don't charge fees to submit. 2 calls open right now, one about communication, one about the environmental justice consequeces of war

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Quick reminder to the small number of people who are like “but is it real bread if it contains Chemicals?” We add preservatives to bread because before we did that, poor people (and sometimes rich ones) died of starvation or food poisoning.

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“In fact, Treasury Department data says spending is up 10% from this time last year. And two, as we've reported, DOGE's savings tracker on their website is riddled with errors, inaccuracies and opaque methodology.” www.npr.org/transcripts/...

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