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Louder, for the people writing other genres, but trying to cash in on genre romance readers' money

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

I’m seeing a lot of people posting about how sick they are with a “summer flu” Main complaints? Fatigue, extremely sore throat, fever and loss of smell. It’s Covid. The Nimbus variant is here & appears to be more transmissible. It’s time to wear a respirator, clean the air & stay home when sick!

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

German chancellor Merz claims Israel is doing everyone's "dirty work"by attacking Iran. No mention that Israel's attack is illegal. International Law, even common sense, have left the building long ago + the lessons from Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan etc have not been learnt. youtube.com/shorts/xooKN...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

i keep cracking up at this post on AI writing

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

I’m still thinking about this, and wondering what sort of support might be useful I suspect even just having a space to share ideas and strategies ends up being useful before we get into lists of tools or apps or anything like that, what do you think? (And big thanks to all who’ve already replied)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

RE. my last reskeet: YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET LONG COVID!!! Even in its mild form, it will significantly impact your life and limit what you can do on a daily basis.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is a really good thread about how to protect your self from long COVID (by not getting covid!) in this summer’s coming surge.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

NOT. SWIM GOGGLES. Friends. Do not wear swim goggles at a protest. If you take a projectile to the face the force can pop your eyeball out of its socket. If you're going to invest in protest eyewear, use impact resistant safety goggles and tape the vents.

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.” No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post. Compliance ≠ usability. Day 23 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 4 days ago • 115 comments

Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade

submitted 4 days ago • 621 comments

@growlycub.bsky.social @vidao.bsky.social @isobelcarr.com Hey lovely watch-along friends! 🧡 Are we meeting up today?

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This is why you don't give up on red states. You're leaving YOUR PEOPLE, who're fighting twice as hard for inches of progress, behind. Well done, Texas.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 5 days ago • 226 comments

I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

@maddow.msnbc.com Rachel this is West Brookfield Massachusetts town of under 4000. They had almost 400 protesters today

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Kitchen said he wanted other Australians to be aware that “cleaning” their phones wouldn’t necessarily mean they would be able to get their Esta approved upon arrival in the US. “They had already prepared a file on me and already knew everything about me,” he said www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Talked to so many people who were at the first protests of their lives today. Ex-Republicans, introverts, 90-year-olds and 3-year-olds. This was at an intersection in a 60,000 person town. Haven’t felt hope like this in my life.

submitted 4 days ago • 154 comments

Hopefully someone at this Walz presser will ask "How can the public tell the difference between real lew enforcement vs an impersonator, especially when there are currently masked, un-IDed law enforcement pulling people off the streets every day?"

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Yes! This thread! Rich white dudes throw the word “hate” around from a very privileged perspective.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Mask up for liberty and stay safe!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

PSA: Do not respond to out of the blue "Urgent" DMs from friends. An AI chat is being used to impersonate people and get access to accounts. If you know the person try to contact them off of BlueSky first. If you confirm the account is hacked report as such.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Whether your protest is well-planned & officially has a permit or not, keep your rights in mind and have an extraction plan. It’s been made obvious that we are at the whims of those who can choose to disregard things like permits or peace. It costs nothing to be prepared. Be safe and stand strong.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Clearly, that sculptor was reading too much monster porn.... 🐟

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I know your social media timeline is flooding you with things that make you feel hopeless and sad. But I'm here to tell you that human beings are great. There are always, ALWAYS helpers. There is always hope. There is always joy. You can go on.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Reports that Iran is now considering exiting the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This treaty, if we had not emptied international institutions of their meaning completely in the last 20 months, would have been the peaceful way to prevent Iran from using its nukes on Israel.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Students and their families are terrified to show up at UCLA commencement this weekend. We are trying to get administrators to commit resources to their safety, so far without success.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This is what those enlisteds were cheering for. This is what anyone of conscience is resisting. With no ID or warrant, in blacked-out SUVs, they drew a rifle on a pastor giving advice to a congregant during a detention. AT HER CHURCH. THEN THEY LAUGHED AT HER. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

When Los Angeles actually was burning down six months ago, these people didn't give a damn about us. Now they're spreading fake AI videos showing LA burning

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

Two silver haired ladies overheard strolling arm in arm in Fairhaven: Lady 1: I thought I'd be alone forever. Lady 2, patting hand tucked around her arm: And then you met me. Lady 1: I love you so very much. (I'm not crying, I have something in both eyes 😭)

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments