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catvalente.bsky.social
Queen of Lasers and NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, The Past Is Red, and many more. Any/All. Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
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Turns out, after five straight generations’ total conviction that being part of the system, man, was the worst thing you could possibly do, there wasn’t anyone left who was super enthusiastic about defending the system.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I don’t know how to explain to you that trans people are not an “issue,” they’re American citizens entitled to the protection of the government to which they pay taxes.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

I am so proud of my governor, Janet Mills, for not only standing up to that waste of several suits, but standing up for trans students and every student in our state. DIRIGO, MOTHERFUCKER #maine

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Hey, #portlandmaine folks, I just want you all to know there’s still a place in town that hasn’t jacked their prices up as far as possible. You can still get a huge shawarma for $13, a big plate of falafel for $5 at Olive Cafe on Commercial St! Give them business!

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

To be clear, I take no hope from this. It’s just weird they’re not more comfortable with their supposedly inevitable total victory.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

It’s funny, none of these Temu Nazis act like people who think they’ve won forever & will never leave power. The Bush boys acted like that. These freaks act like tweakers who just pulled off WAY too big a robbery & are living it up because they’re absolutely certain they’re about to get caught.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Oh my god I was sharing the Four Tops with a Young Person & told her to pull up Baby I Need Your Lovin and autocorrect changed it to BABY I NEED YOUR LOGIN I’M FUCKING DYING

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Oh my god I was sharing the Four Tops with a Young Person & told her to pull up Baby I Need Your Lovin and autocorrect changed it to BABY I NEED YOUR LOGIN I’M FUCKING DYING

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

I deeply resent that society is falling apart except for all the parts where WE still have to obey the rules & pay our taxes & pretend things are normal enough to function day in & day out. Just couldn’t vote to survive, could you, America?

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

I deeply resent that society is falling apart except for all the parts where WE still have to obey the rules & pay our taxes & pretend things are normal enough to function day in & day out. Just couldn’t vote to survive, could you, America?

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Five years ago today, I was reading SPACE OPERA by @catvalente.bsky.social and this happened.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I apologize to anyone waiting on responses from me about anything, I’m going on 5 days of sick and that long you’d be getting better but I’m much worse today. High fever. No more yelling about politics. I collapse.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

It won’t happen, but one sector of employment could backdoor in a general strike on their own: If a nationwide majority of teachers & childcare providers were to walk off the job…this economy grinds to a halt without childcare options.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

And this would need a goal. We never learned the lesson of Occupy. ONE goal. One realistic goal that can be stated simply & done quickly—not “fix everything!” or “Resign!” Which will never happen. “Fire Musk” or other 3-5 word calls to action might.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I volunteer as tribute

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

For that matter, if there is EVER to be any kind of general strike or mass event, it’s gonna need a leader & it probably has to be either a D in govt or a celebrity no one hates. This country is too big, too stressed, & too online for leaderless stand-around protests one day a month to do a thing

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

And I mean wild Drop f-bombs in every statement so they get covered Release classified info about Gabbard, Musk, Trump. Get arrested Barricade the Senate Treat the SOTU like Rocky Horror Hold a press conference naked & say THIS is how unprotected/vulnerable we are Get crazy, sane hasn’t helped

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

I’ve been thinking a lot, like everyone else, about What Can Be Done when #Democrats have no institutional power & the media ignores them. I think they need to get WAY more theatrical. Do wild stunts the media can’t look away from. Stop being respectable.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Women couldn’t have their own credit until 1974. Marital rape became illegal nationwide in 1994. We are ONE generation into women having a CHANCE at life & it’s proved so intolerable America would rather end itself than allow such a thing to continue.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments