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Aroace agender. She/he/they. Fan of danmei, baihe, and SFF. #actuallyautistic
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I am resisting my manager's continued suggestions that we use ChatGPT for *curriculum development* and *creating assessments* so damn hard

stop worrying about your novel being “too unrealistic” have you seen the shit that happens in real life

#peterhegseth #warthunder #whiskileaks #signalgate

It's inspiring how Neil Gaiman fans let out a collective ugh and then stopped being Neil Gaiman fans.

Very Serious People:: The military is entirely on Trump's side, they can't wait to crush the country beneath his heel, it's going to be marital law-- The actual military:

HEARTBREAKING: Person with 20+ unfinished projects has a new idea for a project.

Post a movie from your birth year 💙💌📸 #filmsky

Looks like the #dmbj fans have found Sinophagia. Records of Xiangxi was novella length but I felt it was very interesting and a great exploration of the Chinese horror adventure. Calling ALL #npss, Time Raiders, Grave Robber Chronicles fans. #books #horror #sff #translated

The #NFL removing the words "No racism" from the end zones of today's #SuperBowlLIX venue, New Orleans, because the president's attending the game, is so 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Repost with your apocalypse skill. Spinning, weaving, embroidery (specifically cross-stitch), sewing (ok-ish), food preserving, first aid, organising people & things, teaching, & about to start learning beekeeping.

Post your favorite #DoctorWho. Wrong answers only.

Great news! I figured out how people can add the Peggy Hill Amendment to Heavenly Tyrant without having to handwrite it. I made a Word doc that prints it at the correct size in the correct font and you can just cut and glue. You can find the file on my website ⬇️

Beyond all his other loathsome qualities, don’t forget that Donald Trump is a pedophile. I wouldn’t be surprised if he pardons Ghislain soon.

JD Vance games online with the guy who got fired from DOGE and anybody who doesn’t understand this either is not serious or is smart enough to not follow the news

I strongly encourage readers of indie queer and especially trans books to start using itchio as more of us authors move away from Amazon. Authors get a bigger cut, you can tip, and, most importantly, you will actually own your ebooks instead of just licensing them from Amazon.

Sometimes you gotta stick with the classics.

cross-posting from Instagram (you can find me there as well at @ yilinwriter) thread forthcoming...

When my cat curls up in my lap and starts purring it almost makes up for his extensive history of unrepentant criminal violence

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

Sometimes babygirl is just a 36 year old Chinese actor. #zhuyilong #朱一龙

Not to sound cruel but they did attack her like if she was talking like he is

Amazing article. "More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media ... actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of ..fear and anger... instead of organizing against [our oppressors]."

At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks: 1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1

Post 4 of your fav Black fictional characters: - Nyota Uhura, Star Trek - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - Chidi Anagonye, The Good Place - Stacker Pentecost, Pacific Rim

when i wrote BURY YOUR GAYS generative ai was not really a thing. publication takes a year to set up and when it came out i thought 'dang this is relevant.' now with LUCKY DAY theres so much about a government agency without guard rails and i just think 'dang is it dangerous for me to write horror?'

I would like our media to become permanently hyperfixated on Marco Rubio’s recent negotiations to put immigrants and US citizens in El Salvadorian prisons.

Scene at Treasury

no star wars. no star trek. name a favorite sci-fi franchise.

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

90 years ago next week. :(

Quoting Reagan in social media. Maybe the first time I've ever done that, but that is the world we live in.