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Do you ever just find a book so tailored to your specific interests AND research needs that it feels like the author reached out and took your hand? Well, I am reading a book about a queer cabaret full of drag performers in 1930s Seattle,

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Certainly didn’t help that both establishment and new media on the left and right treated being worried about this as a cringey, unserious overreaction

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just an unmitigated nightmare. idk if copyright infringement or defamation suits or what is the answer here but I hope people are lining up to sue the overloving god out of these leeches

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It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

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If you use GenAI, you’re not welcome here #NoAI

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Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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i have SO MANY comics from pregnancy through the first couple years of motherhood and i really want to compile them into a zine. was considering redrawing the shitty ones and redoing some others for style reasons but you know what. nah. #comic

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Fun fact: before pasteurization became widespread (1920s in the US), milk was a regular carrier of tuberculosis, diphtheria, and typhoid. Before FDA food inspection standards, inferior milk was regularly adulterated with chalk, lead, alum, plaster, and even arsenic to improve its color and texture.

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📢 Join us for "What is a “Trans Woman”? Towards a Useful Category of Historical Analysis" — a public lecture by historian @jameyj.bsky.social (@ UVic) exploring trans womanhood through time. 🗓️ Friday 16th May, 3–4pm, Rees Davies Room of the History Faculty and Online! #LGBTQHistory #TransStudies

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This executive's nonsense is one of the many flavours of BS I criticise in this essay. These men dream of AI, in part because it ensures they'll never feel bad again. And some of them want not just the perfectly compliant worker, but the perfectly compliant woman.

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if you're in the mood to read a strong affirmation about the worth of disabled lives in the face of a eugenicist administration.... so was i, so i wrote one: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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PSA: library resources! There's hoopla, too, for audio books. Our local library uses Libby, which also does ebooks. I just downloaded Kanopy and Mango to try. 🤘

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The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

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I am watching the movie Heat and I wanted to check if the actress is a young Angelina Jolie so I went to google and-

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I think its easy to mistake UK transphobes as being opposed to "men" in women's spaces but what they really oppose is trans women and trans femininity specifically, and the biggest tell is they speak to and about trans women in a way they never would a man

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Hey, my Seattle peeps! And actually ANYBODY in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon as this is THE big regional children’s hospital for many things. Here’s something for your #smallStep - call the hospital & register your support for trans folks & medical options for them.

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Praxis is taking J. K. Rowling's books out of the little free libraries in my neighborhood and chucking them in the recycling bin

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Seattle folks! I will be doing a book signing & book talk at University of Washington next week as part of the Q Center's Queer Book Fair. Stop by, get some gay books, and listen to me ramble on about queer retellings! Deets here: sites.uw.edu/qcenter/serv...

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Seems like a good day to buy and read books by @scumbelievable.bsky.social, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, and @hangsawoman.bsky.social. Three women writing amazing stories about how to battle bigots and kick fascists in the face.

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Seattle folks! I will be doing a book signing & book talk at University of Washington next week as part of the Q Center's Queer Book Fair. Stop by, get some gay books, and listen to me ramble on about queer retellings! Deets here: sites.uw.edu/qcenter/serv...

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Not-a-lawyer-but The immensely frustrating thing here is that this opinion hinges on the immutability of sex (to tie all trans people to our "birth sex") while also acknowledging the mutability of sex to justify the exclusion of transitioned men from single-sex spaces. Degendering for everyone!

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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i majored in international relations! the only functional art classes i ever took were in middle school, and then i took one quarter of drawing 101 in college, hated it, and decided i just wanted to be a hobbyist if anything haha. i didn't get serious about it until i was 25!

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I'll be a special guest at the UW Queer Book Fair on April 24th at 4:30! I'll be signing books and talking about queer retellings. Plus Seattle's very own gay bookstore will be there :) sites.uw.edu/qcenter/serv...

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Closes tonight, please leave a comment in support of trans healthcare

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Victim complex

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the common denominator between maga, Q, the manosphere, crypto/ai, maha and new age wellness as springboards into fashy beliefs/indoctrination, as i see it, is a commitment to vibes based grifting as the central pillar and motivating force driving each sub culture.

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Hey everyone! I'm sending around a Gofundme for my brother and his husband to help them get through a rough financial spot and keep my brother-in-law safe from the heat. I'd appreciate any help right now, boosting and donations! #helpsky #crowdfund gofund.me/8e5dd6e8

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Lots of people asking questions about my "how the Christian Right is taking over America" book that are answered by the book.

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Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Matt, a queer illustrator from Michigan. I'm full-up on work for the year, but for 2025.... I love: -Book projects! (interiors, covers, promo) -Tarot/Tarot-inspired work! -TTRPGs (items, maps, etc.)! 🍂 www.mspencerdraws.com 🏹 [email protected]

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I'll be a special guest at the UW Queer Book Fair on April 24th at 4:30! I'll be signing books and talking about queer retellings. Plus Seattle's very own gay bookstore will be there :) sites.uw.edu/qcenter/serv...

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a lesson for every college, law firm, business, etc. — if these chodes demand you do something, your first response should be some form of "make me"

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Harper Collins did not sign. So weird how being owned by Rupert Murdoch means they can't even advocate for their own survival. Libraries are a HUGE part of all publishers' bottom lines. If you can't speak out bc it's right, speak out bc otherwise this destroys your bottom line ffs

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

instead of watching a minecraft movie you can watch my cat linus brave the nether instead

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i'm holding your hands, gently april 7 is the start of national library week. get your library card. write your library board. check out 10 books. use your library. do it.

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"business leaders and economists SHOCKED by trump tariffs" I have a bridge to sell each and every one of you losers

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they want the respect with none of the work and then they get really mad when you don't respect them

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if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

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Today is the PUBLIC debut of Magical Women, my comic series about a group of magical girls who failed to save the world 20 years ago but now they're trying again as they all approach 40. Read it FOR FREE every Wednesday at magicalwomencomic.com

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