Phoebe Wagner

One of my favourite things we’ve ever written.

Thanks again, Uncanny for inviting us to write it and helping make it really shine.

The "spreading OUR" work around is the important part btw.
We are not disposable characters.
We are not artifacts of the past.
We are not research subjects.

We are however highly impoverished, and more likely to die by violence than to live past 65.

so pony up while we're alive.

get their assess George 💪

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Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

The far right has long fantasized about killing non-white people using images of zombie hordes. Now it’s official government policy.

Publishing is a flat circle

We are producing a detailed podcast series about this whole time period in Italy. This was part of a wider movement called self-reduction, whereby workers and local working class people would choose their own prices for many goods and services, and enforce them with strength in numbers.

finally some good news

Oh, this is so lovely! Big congrats!!

The only thing less useful than a political action you think is useless is complaining on the internet about that action.

For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.

THE TERRAIN HAS CHANGED. Liberal recuperation is not in effect the same way. We are in a situation where things have potentially different meanings + effects. Yes major parade style protests are part of what got us here (and Im not personally interested) but so did posting about how much they suck.

Common Grounds Common Grounds is a chance to come together with neighbors to talk about current events and what we can do.

Still fired up about yesterday's #NoKings protest in #williamsport? Keep the conversation going! Some folks are gathering at the new Sweetspire Coffee & Bakery on Tuesday, October 21, at 6:30pm for "Common Grounds."

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The the powerful film #NoOtherLand documenting the brutality of occupation and settler terrorism, will be available to rent and own on major platforms starting this Monday, October 20.

The decline of third spaces and hangouts, such as malls, video rental places, arcades & skate parks has been a direct result of the rise of convenience and has also been objectively bad for society as a whole. Its not that everyone HAS to socialize, but having no option to without bars is a failing.

Thinking about that sequence in Andor where everyone in town begins ringing bells and banging on things to create an incredibly hostile inescapable environment for the invading forces, a technique inspired by the real life history of people in Ireland doing something similar with trash cans.

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Ayyy, I'm going to be at that party! Small world!

Watch this. This is what this criminal administration wants to do to all of us.

Find the groups in your community that are standing up against ICE and join them.

Yay, that's awesome!!! Hope you are having a nice celebration tonight!

Screenshot: Kimmel is returning - ABC is ending his suspension.

You all: We won!!

Note that this fight was much bigger than whether one comedian gets pulled off the air. (Kimmel is fine, but as far as I'm concerned it's not even about him.)

Fundamentally, this was about whether the Trump FCC/administration could ignore the First Amendment.

Last week yall did a lot of doomering on this website, lets make a plan together to not let the fascists dictate the tenor of our feelings or the content of our discussions by simply saying something scary. This week lets don't afraid and set an example of courage for ourselves and our communities

Article in newspaper stating the removal of slavery images from public spaces by the administration. Features photograph of enslaved man with deep scars on his back.

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

#55: Using Cue Words to Structure Dialogue Denis Johnson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert McKee

For the latest No Failure, Only Practice, I wrote about using what Robert McKee calls "cue words" to structure better dialogue. I use examples from Denis Johnson and Ursula K. Le Guin to show how cues keep dialogue efficient, understandable, and energetic. I've had good luck with the tactic lately!

Woooo!!!! From the trenches of poetry workshop in college to now working to make Williamsport a better place, I'm so stoked for Jonah!

Damn, guess I need to move this to the top of the TBR

Correct priorities.

The absurdity of "you sling words for a living, therefore you must become a video influencer" is becoming more and more salient

"Some reports, such as Reuters, reported that Nepal's Gen Z-led protests began over the government's social media ban. Many protesters rejected this characterization, emphasizing that their fight is primarily against corruption, nepotism, and the lack of accountability in political leadership."

This was a delightfully fun movie