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erotica and horror are two sides of the same coin, if you wish to write good horror, you must be willing to turn someone on, and if you want to write good porn, you must be willing to scare someone

submitted 77 days ago • 23 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 7 days ago • 2 comments

Whatever you can reach to do, if you can reach something that will help someone, do it.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

In this moment of anxiety, please enjoy a baby goose falling out of an adult gooses wing. Yes I wrote that sentence. Yes this happened. Yes it's ADORABLE. No I don't think I'll capture a cuter goose moment this year. 🐣 🪶

submitted 5 days ago • 131 comments

This is true for every single kind of Special Magic Legal Words, fyi "Hello officer can I see that warrant? My boss says I can't let you into the private areas of this business without a signed judicial warrant."

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

submitted 4 days ago • 709 comments

This is Whiskey. She knows people pay good money for mud baths. Found this one for free! 13/10 very resourceful my friend (TT: ivycaponi)

submitted 4 days ago • 578 comments

We are thrilled to announce a book deal with @elianeboey.bsky.social for her cozy sci-fi novella, The Ah Huat Engineering Cookbook and Organizing Manual, publishing February 2027! Read more about the book and the deal announcement: #bookdeal #publishing #sciencefiction #books #scififantasy

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Finding my rainbow crowbar for the pried parade

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Last thing before I log off: at some point you need to sleep. Staring at the images and videos and refreshing all night will not make it stop and will not do much but keep you awake. Gently pick a time tonight to log right the hell off and do it. This will all be here in the morning.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Criticizing and nitpicking the way people choose to protest or react to the violent incitement coming from armed enforcers is not a good way forward. We need solidarity not infighting. Everyone has a job now. Let others do theirs. You do yours. But remember, yours isn’t to nitpick.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids. Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

COVER REVEAL!!! Our anthology of Indigenous Futurisms <3333

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

There's a genuinely fascinating aspect to this post, which is on display all throughout the quotes and replies: Why is this person asking HISTORIANS???? Using maps is within living memory, so why not just ask the saddest, grey-est person they can find? Well... 🧵🧵🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

This is very cool, check it out! One of the books included is the newly out Trans History graphic novel by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett, where I'm a character :) (I talk about Herculine Barbin's memoirs.)

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

While we're arguing about whether or not Harriet Tubman was real, lemme rec this great 2025 Pulitzer winner by a descendant of one of the folks in the raid Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black. bookshop.org/p/books/comb...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 I’m a non-binary, Autistic classically trained chef, and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide! Built on a foundation of unconditional acceptance, to help folx learn to accommodate individual sensory needs. It’s for all ages and all levels of cooking ability.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

just felt inspired to draw a lil somethin' for all the cool cat aces out there #art

submitted 70 days ago • 13 comments

the everything app already exists. it's called fire. it cooks food heats your house cauterizes wounds lights up the darkness destroys vampires dries clothes generates insurance money signals rescuers repels bugs sets the mood preserves meat starts the olympics honors zorgon the all-burning hellgod

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Pride is Indigenous. Diné And Lipan. Wedding regalia.

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

Happy Pride everybody, I made a Bisexshawl.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

WERECOCKROACH has an aroace agender lead, aliens and gentle vibes. Friendship focused. www.polenthblake.com/words/cockro... EVERYDAY ALIENS is a flash fiction collection about weird aliens. Often experimental. www.polenthblake.com/words/aliens... #PrideBookFair #QueerBookSky #BookSky #Pride

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

BEGGING every pundit & publication concerned about lack of ongoing access to covid vaccines to be clear that there are other tools we can use to prevent infection: ventilation, far uv, & filtration with purifiers & masks can make an impact if you use them— help others access these tools for free👇🏻

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Maybe I just don’t remember it but I don’t think there was ever a corresponding trend of articles about conservative parents cutting off their gay kids, which was a thing that absolutely happened en masse in the 90s and aughts as gay culture mainstreamed

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

Doing one of my periodic “sort through the piles of unopened mail/random paperwork on my desk and try to file away, recycle, shred, and/or take action as needed” marathons. What a pain. I really wish I didn’t do this to myself, but haven’t found a strategy that works.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

You don't even need to translate the message to understand the video. 🥰

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

fed like a hole

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

All I'm saying is that if you like the companion stories in Baldur's Gate 3, you need to be reading the Chronicles of Nerezia by @clh2oars.bsky.social claudiearseneault.com/nerezia/

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Soda literally kept me alive when an SBO d/t IBD meant I couldn't eat anything and we were not near my normal hospital, so you can call it "junk food" if you want to, but that's not a scientific or medical judgement.

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

this book is out today and i don't know you but i know it's exactly what you need right now (ecstatic, brutal, brilliant visions of the future) bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

There's a lot of people talking about and memorializing George Floyd today, which is understandable. These weeks at the end of May are a big trauma-anniversary for people here in Minneapolis, and I want to ... acknowledge that and talk about it?

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

So honored to interview Caro De Robertis for @truthout about So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color... It' a stunning book filled with details lost from history, now preserved elegantly with charmf. 💕

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine. A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2. Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2. √a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments