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MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA is out now
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Anytime you hear someone use the word “natal” you know you’re dealing with a real sicko

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even now, at this hour, discreet old dowagers were shooting out in their motor cars on errands of mystery

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 39 days ago • 502 comments

"Human authored" is the most AI-generated-sounding shit ever

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

All the blue states need to band together and reject this. New York, California, Washington, Illinois, and Massachusetts lead the way. Protect schools, support teachers, defend students (*especially trans students*), and fund quality education. There is no compromise with this fascist bullshit.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

the state legislature is wild because a corporate lobbyist will slide you a ‘good little bill’ to fund youth apprenticeship opportunities in your district, then you read the draft and it’s forced enrollment in 24-hour labor camps starting age seven

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Amazing public service: the Stranger's guide to the documents trans people need to change now, with guidelines as to when and how to do it. www.thestranger.com/queer/2025/0...

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

submitted 50 days ago • 69 comments

Me facing the day today

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

The staggeringly prescient essay 'The Fire Boom' by the late US urban geographer Mike Davis on the frontier of LA suburbia with the chapporal fire risk is reproduced here by @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

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Sure wish my book would become obsolete

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

submitted 57 days ago • 23 comments

My Dinner with Andre was the first podcast

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

“Winter Solstice” by Henri Cole which starts like a Velvet Underground song

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Back in the Day: an archival tribute to the late Hamish Kilgour William Daymond uncovers some unreleased tracks from the Flying Nun and Chris Knox archives at Turnbull Library to mark the anniversary of Kilgour's two years ago natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/b...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

When will we have a Joan Armatrading renaissance? A Joanaissance. An Armaissance. I’m waiting

submitted 96 days ago • 7 comments

It's good to stop every once in a while and remember: the library is INCREDIBLE.

submitted 105 days ago • 15 comments

This is seriously Bad News. Adrienne wrote beautifully and insightfully about my book Monsters, was a brilliant interlocutor, and just generally pulled off a rare combination of hyper-intelligence and kindness. Oof.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

give books for the holidays and buy them from @sevenstories.bsky.social who are offering 30% off sitewide. Annie Ernaux box set. Giant bio of Pancho Villa. Loretto Napoleoni. A banquet. Look: sevenstories.com/blogs/276-se...

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