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The malevolence of this photo, Jesus

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

submitted 6 days ago • 650 comments

This should be the easiest boycott ever and if you can’t even satisfy this baseline level of solidarity then you have no right to question why we are all now under the gun.

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

submitted 6 days ago • 343 comments

I used to think about how there must have been some sort of precipitating crisis in Joanne's inner life that led her to become the person she's revealed herself to be, but now I simply don't give a rat's ass. Her monstrousness speaks quite nicely for itself, sans backstory.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Meta trained the company's AI on tens of millions of pirated novels and books, including my own stories. Their defense: the books are individually "worthless." 1/ www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

RFK Jr. is very loud and very WRONG about Autism. 1. It’s not a disease 2. There are thousands of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder who pay taxes, have jobs, can use the bathroom on their own, and are thriving in life.

submitted 6 days ago • 1297 comments

I've been taking early walks in the park to watch and listen to birds for my sanity, and the Merlin Bird ID app has been indispensable for identifying bird songs. Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Trans people from abroad are banned from getting visas and entering the United States. www.wired.com/story/trans-...

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Coincidentally, today I received two publishing contracts (small, but very cool). Both included anti-AI clauses that I had insisted upon. These (see below) are suggested by the Australian Society of Authors, but applicable anywhere. Use them. Protect your rights as a creator. @asauthors.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

We are no longer "headed towards authoritarianism." This IS authoritarianism.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with US commentator @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social on the America of Fear Trump is building and why Americans need to wake up and stand up alastaircampbell.org/2025/04/129-...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

submitted 9 days ago • 370 comments

Hey RFK Jr… you know what causes autism? Me! I cause autism. Neurodivergent people have autistic & neurodivergent kids. Because autism is genetic.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

submitted 10 days ago • 653 comments

#OnThisDay, April 13, 1970, the NASA Mission Control Center received a radio communication from Apollo 13 astronauts John "Jack" Swigert and Jim Lovell: “Uh, Houston, we’ve had a problem.” (🎥 depicted in Apollo 13, 1995)

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What if a eulogy, but 80% funny (I hope)? If you want to skip the potentially sad parts, just click through and scroll to the bottom - and rather than condolences, please consider a donation to the tiny no-kill shelter in Tennessee where we met Greyson as a pup. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-wei...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Good interview to share with Americans still not getting it. While some of the points made by @stephenmarche.bsky.social may be a bit hard to hear or sound overblown to some, the directness and clarity was refreshing. His statements largely represent my views. youtu.be/3c55rUOHjdY?...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

My final entry for National #Library Week: an article on using libraries, academic data sites, and books for #HistoricalResearch. Hint: libraries are cheaper than buying books and have a much larger selection! #booksky #writingcraft faithljustice.com/historical-r...

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I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

submitted 11 days ago • 202 comments

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

submitted 11 days ago • 1126 comments

As we face the possible closure of Goddard Space Flight Center and the cancellation of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which began its life as WFIRST, it’s timely that I got this archival document from 2011 in the mail yesterday: Women of Goddard, which included a feature on a young fellow. 🔭🧪

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

HELLO PLEASE SHARE THIS! I am auctioning entertainment industry memorabilia & other items, all to benefit worthy charities. Please check out these items and even if you can't bid or buy, spread the word. X-Files! Rez Dogs! The Bear! Star Trek SNW! The Wire! fancy purses! www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?i...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Mo Ryan, who’s taken a couple abusive hollywood bosses out for, as my grandfather would put it “a tour of the gravel pit”, is now asking for help for a survivors group. I’m in, and would ask you to at least follow the link and check it out.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Btw, since it is autism month, reminder that these books have an autistic MC by an autistic author ❤️

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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

submitted 17 days ago • 288 comments

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

submitted 22 days ago • 196 comments

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred. As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.

submitted 23 days ago • 539 comments

Happy Fix Your Hearts Or Die Day to all who celebrate.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

❤️ “[It’s] like being able to breathe without having to think about it, when — maybe for years — you had to think about every single breath…”

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A #painting for you nice people. "Westport, High Street" came out of a need to rest after cycling up this hill in the always beautiful County Mayo town. It was a special time - obviously, because most everything was blue and yellow. And purple. With a cameo appearance by green #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

submitted 25 days ago • 123 comments

My #HistoricalFiction roundup for @torontostar-rss.bsky.social: Austen's #debut 33 PLACE BRUGMANN @susannakearsley.bsky.social 's THE KING'S MESSENGER Sanders' THE NIGHT SPARROW Seethaler's THE CAFÉ WITH NO NAME Find your next fab read among them. www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

God, I feel old. I just told some young 'uns that Bruce Willis was cast against type in Die Hard. They found this unbelievable, but their phones told them otherwise. Kids, I am older than your phones and possess knowledge that is not on your newfangled Interwebs. Believe me.

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

Elbows up, Canada.

submitted 32 days ago • 1543 comments

Every writer whose work has been stolen should be allowed to visit the Meta offices and just take whetever they want. Office supplies, computers, chairs, people’s jackets and lunches, whatever. Give it.

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

submitted 35 days ago • 39 comments

I just checked in at the Atlanta airport and the kiosk wanted me to show a "passport or permanent residence card." The airline rep who was helping me said "I don't know why it's doing this it's been doing it all morning."

submitted 34 days ago • 574 comments

Huntington Reunites Rare 15th Century Print with Gutenberg Bible www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

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