Isla Drake

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

ICE crossed a line in LA

not seeing any news on this. the Madleen was intercepted and the crew has been kidnapped by Israeli occupational forces on their way to deliver humanitarian cargo to Palestinians.

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It looks like Tiktok might be being "banned" again in the US this weekend. Coincidently, just in time for a major protest. Weird. Honestly, I can't think of a better birthday gift than for the government to show more of its true colors. Expect to see more of me over here and on skylight.

Taming a King by Isla Drake is available now! #booksky #spicybooksky

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?

It's literally called Library Extension.

People who arrive at their job, park, and immediately get out of the car when you're not running late, can you tell me your secret? Because I need 5-10 business minutes to convince myself not to turn around and go home every single day.

Anywho, if you're interested in crowdfunding and don't know where to start, I made a FAQ that lives permanently on my website under Author Resources. I'll update it again in April-ish after we run our first Backerkit campaign.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Yes. This is a thing but i can't remember what it's called exactly.

It can be. It's definitely rewarding. The call is brutal sometimes though. Last week I worked 10 hours and got called back in from 12am-4am. Luckily I was off the next day or I would have had to be back at 7am. Work/life balance is hard.

I work in Neuro-Interventional Radiology for my day job. Meaning that when someone has a stroke or a subarachnoid hemmorhage, I scrub in alongside a neurologist or neurosurgeon and help fix their broken brain.

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.

On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

Just the way I want it! 🤣💜

@nikasbooknook.bsky.social Proves once again that she will always find me, no matter which social media app I vanish to. 😘

Hi, I’m God.

I had nothing to do with saving that guy’s life or making him president.

There's also the 3 lines at the top. 🤣

I'm reading 2 and writing 3 currently. Send help.

Once again, reading comprehension is key. I get my news from multiple sources. Tiktok just happened to, many times, have breaking news MUCH EARLIER than those other sources. Geez, people.

Welcome! I'm currently working on a spicy, sapphic romance, a spicy romcom, and a non-spicy dystopian romance. It varies depending on the day.

Today feels like the right day to work on my dystopian novel. I can't quite put my finger on why.🤔 #booksky

Oh, I saw that. Not to mention the several times tiktok has thanked him in the last 24 hours. Yikes.

Reading comprehension is hard, I know. I said I sometimes got news on tiktok days before it showed up other places. I don't get my news from any single place.

Tiktok is back, but it feels like letting a changeling back into my home. Something isn't right. I'd love to be wrong, but it just feels off somehow. Anyone else feel that way?

to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country

Welcome!! I'm still trying to find my footing over here.