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Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

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They Even Assassinated My Library By Atef Abu Saif "The third irreplaceable collection is the most personal of all: the handwritten manuscripts of my first four novels." arablit.org/2025/03/27/t...

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It seems that “disabled people who are unable to work or who need support to work should live a comfortable life and not struggle” is a radical opinion in this here race to the bottom UK

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I get that it can be upsetting to see more people begging for their lives, day after day, than you can possibly help. What I don't get is seeing those messages and thinking "ugh, why are all these Palestinians clogging up my Internet" and not "oh thank god, they made it through the night."

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It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

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Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

submitted 7 days ago • 589 comments

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs IS the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

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My friends we are 98 now and just 2% left, I will be so happy with your sharing 🫂❤️ Appreciate all your donations and reposting gofund.me/a625d5ba

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Frente Parlamentar do Senado Federal em Defesa da Exploração de Petróleo na Margem Equatorial do Brasil 🫠 o congresso essa maioria feroz representando setores econômicos comandados por essa minoria ricaços lucrando custe o que custar oeco.org.br/analises/em-...

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gonna incite unrest at my next genre panel by repeatedly referring to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy as cosy science fiction

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Saw the trailer for North of North, which sounds super interesting--comedy about a young Inuk woman trying to change her life after an accident makes her see things differently m.youtube.com/watch?v=xz2t...

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Returning to art: we mark the birthday of #Czech artist-illustrator Josef Čapek (23 March 1887) His early personal ex libris in Art Nouveau style by Josef Wenig (1885-1939) The idyllic scene is all the more poignant as the Nazis would murder him in Bergen-Belsen in spring1945 1/5

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I'm reading Sembene Ousmane's amazing 1960 novel God's Bits of Wood, about the late 1940s Dakar railway workers' strike, and came across this passage that resonates uncannily across time in our moment of AI. "They began to understand that the machine was making of them a whole new breed of men."

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“Why do you want me to be like a sunflower, turning toward the sun? I am the sun.” Elder wisdom, a message to my fellow Black Americans 🌻🖤

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It’s important to understand how pervasive the MMIWG2S issue is… Indigenous women in particular have been so intentionally dehumanized and we need people to stand with us in seeking justice. #EmilyPike #MMIWG2S

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highly recommend logging off and having gay friends

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The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific. This is 21st century Nazism. Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised. Where is the global outrage? The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.

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No one should travel to the U.S. unless they’ve absolutely got to right now.

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love it when I'm minding my own business, listening to behind the bastards and spotify recommends russell brand's🤢 podcast smdh

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Tonight’s reading: The Zapatista Experience by Jérôme Baschet

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a weird thing about being neurodivergent is when a bad thing happens, my brain hyper-focuses on learning as much as I can about it and I usually quickly discover how many other people have desperately searched online for answers

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe cutting up on on a cold, rainy day in England, 1964. 🎼🎶🎸👑 The Godmother of Rock and Roll. #WomensHistoryMonth sites.psu.edu/womeninhisto... ...

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gods help me i think i have bedbugs

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Welcome to a new weekly feature known as Fuckface Friday, please join me in congratulating inaugural Fuckface Friday winner (in a very crowded field this week) Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner

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> don’t convince people to leave x, let a lot of people continue to rely on x for news and organizing updates > Elon decides to neutralize organizing efforts even more than before or use twitter data to attest people > movement killed Vs > getting people to leave the platform > more resilient

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Abortion care providers support us through every phase of life. Whether it’s abortion, birth control, prenatal care, or gender-affirming care, indie clinics are there when we need them. Let’s #CelebrateAbortionProviders for all they do. Support indie clinics: keepourclinics.org/donate/

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LIVE NOW! Palestine in a World on Fire Join Ilan Pappé, Katherine Natanel, and @lalehkhalili.bsky.social as they connect the struggle for Palestinian liberation to various liberatory movements around the world. Stream here:

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Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

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that's what I'm saying this is all connected to post 9/11. there were never any serious reforms

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I know social media has warped all our brains, but it’s really okay to have a front stage and a backstage. It’s good and necessary to reserve the precious parts of yourself for the people you trust to be caring about you.

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A missing Indigenous child was found dismembered, but you probably won't see those outside of the Indigenous community talking about it. Even our children don't matter to people.

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🍉 Please help us continue to keep the thousands of eSIMs we bought active so Gazans can connect with the outside world For more: chuffed.org/project/crip...

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It is important to note that absolutely nobody has phoned up the Guardian and said "we need you to manufacture consent for us to target disabled children with our cuts." This is just what they instinctively knew they had to do, as outriders for a government intent on targeting disabled children.

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sorry i didn’t reply, i: ☐ forgot to ☐ am speechless! ☐ honestly thought i did? ☐ have nothing of value to add ☐ have no idea what you’re talking about ☐ don’t know how to respond to that? ☐ disagree and am letting the leaden weight of my silence speak for me ☐ don’t want to (check all that apply)

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Don't sacrifice your authentic self for other people. Especially in these times. That's all I have to say.

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A subskeet of gratitude to all those who've pitched in. 💐💐💐

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they should invent a weekend that is restful

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lol

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my birthday is this week if any of you care

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This is beautiful, and this is happening in large part because of organized action.

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Egg drop soup Egg clumsy Egg bad waiter Egg fired again Egg turn to life of crime

submitted 28 days ago • 140 comments