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72 year-old retired guy, didn’t expect to have followers. Joined to continue reading interesting posts from favourite f&sf authors, science writers, and learning new things from other interesting people. Occasional likes, replies, and reposts.
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Musk’s father Errol is in Moscow right night now, giving a speech at a conference organised by Fascist and Putin advisor Alexandr Dugin. Musk sr says Moscow is “very clean and safe” and “like Ancient Rome”.

Now, is there any doubt who this family is working for or does he need to wear a sign around his neck?

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

ICE is detaining Indigenous people, people who were in 🇺🇸 before any of these Trump crackers arrived.

Fascism’s biggest demand is that you change your values and your principles and normalize theirs. Never going to happen.

“You can’t talk about how bad the police are; normies don’t like it and they’ll vote against the Democrats” drives me nuts. We have thousands of local fascist paramilitary organizations that pose a consistent threat to people of color. We actually have to try to stop the fucking fascists.

And it's @drewmagary.bsky.social from the top rope: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Awesome thread, up and down. Idiot Democratic centrists please take note, while also (as widely instructed) going and fucking yourselves.

Absolutely wild that LA has deployed LAPD, DHS has deployed both ICE and CBP, now the white house is calling in the national guard. You'd think the wildest riot in history was going down in LA right now, but it's actually just a bunch of protestors mostly just standing around holding signs.

I'm old enough to remember when "black lives matter" was called a bad slogan as it somehow implied it meant white lives didn't. I remember how kneeling during the anthem was called a disgusting way to protest. There is no form of protest appropriate to some people and you should ignore them

What you saw from Trump in CA this weekend was not law enforcement. What you saw was a test of ways and means for Trump to disrupt and pervert the 2026 elections. My latest in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This one is no longer on my TBR pile and is an incredibly satisfying conclusion to a fantastic trilogy! Good job @genevievecogman.bsky.social!

Achievement Unlocked: got asked to sign a book at Roller Derby. It was a copy of DAWN CALAMITY 🥹 @notapipe.bsky.social

Today I heard the phrase "A Zine is like a magazine but without the MAGA" and I will carry that with me forever

Ok, she writes excellent magic stories, she writes excellent ubran fantasy, she writes excellent sci fi (that in the case of overgrowth which I just finished is hiding a lovely love story at its heart too) seriously why aren't you reading the books of @seananmcguire.bsky.social

Just finished Overgrowth by Mira Grant (aka @seananmcguire.bsky.social.) Many thoughts. First, holy moley, does she know how to structure a book. The framing of this book - I will just say it’s masterful.

Bitch HOW Motherfucker DOING WHAT JOBS Chucklefuck IT IS THEIR MONEY

There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”

First, let's cut the golf trip security, then let's cut the masturbatory military birthday parade on the 14th. These are not why I'm paying taxes.

checking accounts too, if you're unlucky to have a balance at the time. please yell@ your respective reps everyone!!!

The position that "vulnerable members of our community deserve one conference they can attend in safety" is hands-down the most genuine "human kindness" thing I've seen all week.

Focusing on Stranger Danger means we don’t have the brain space to worry about the bad dads, funny uncles, scoutmasters and preachers that kids come into contact with regularly and often

'...most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”'

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

You know you can just not use AI, right? You can make a choice not to be part of this. Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it. You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

*grumble* Just tried to find links to some of Amy's books so I could fuss about how amazing they are and how people need to read them, only to discover that everything is out of print. You can buy author's copies directly from Amy, here: amythomson.wordpress.com/purchase/

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

Two babies have died from whooping cough in Kentucky. Neither they nor their parents had been vaccinated. The current whooping cough outbreak in the U.S. hasn’t grabbed the media spotlight as much as measles has, but it’s important to update your vaccination if you’re going to be around babies.

I bet it'd be easier for Americans to see ICE agents as just regular folks if they weren't, you know, wearing black masks and hiding their names and identities from the public out of shame.

The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding

Let’s be very clear: Los Angeles is the perfect place for this to play out for the Trumpists. The Trumpists hate California and hate Los Angeles and a vast amount of their base feels the same — even the Trumpists here, who wallow in hating the place they live. /1

"If teachers could indoctrinate students, more people would use apostrophes correctly."--Adam Rothman

Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

Should Democrats reach out and try to work with Smaug the Terrible after his recent rift with Sauron over deficit spending? Something to consider.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

What if this Kim Jong errr uh Trump Birthday Parade is really just an excuse to roll the tanks and the machine guns into DC and round up all the foreign looking brown people? Or just brown people.

Red and fiery art currently looking for their new homes!

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a GROUNDBREAKING new treatment for aggressive breast cancer with a 100% SURVIVAL RATE. By combining chemotherapy with Olaparib (Lynparza) BEFORE surgery, EVERY patient who received the protocol survived the CRITICAL three-year post-treatment period. 🧪🧵⬇️

The U.S. Mint has issued a quarter-dollar coin celebrating the life and work of the codiscoverer of dark matter in galaxies, Vera Rubin. buff.ly/Iyog7o9 . . #astronomy #quarter #verarubin #womeninscience #darkmatter #collectable

I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.