Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now

Just a gentle reminder that Josh Shapiro signed Israeli bombs and wrote a whole racist paper arguing racistly that peace with Palestinians isn't possible because they aren't capable of it and only understand war.

This is who he's always been.

You either die a hero or live long enough to say this is when we need villains, actually

One of my professors was the designers of the Scarlet Spider.

When the video games offered that costume option, my professor was never informed, despite being owed royalties. He had to chase Marvel down.

He died the same year Scarlet Spider was in Spider-Verse. They had to crowdfund his funeral.

In New Orleans and across U.S., anger over ICE raids sparks a 2nd American Revolution | Will Bunch Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.

There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government

From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...

color of Magic

Please consider my novella if you're nominating for the Nebulas, Hugos, BSFAs, World Fantasy Awards etc.

Inspired by Sting's 'Desert Rose' & loosely based on Greek mythology, an unusual woman meets a thief while trying to steal from the same vault & her world is never the same.

Diabolical Plots, Small Wonders, and Strange Horizons: Review by Charles Payseur Diabolical Plots 8/25 Small Wonders 8/25 Strange Horizons 8/4/25, 8/18/25 The August Diabolical Plots includes Lilia Zhang’s “Skin as Warp, Blood as Weft”, a surreal story about a weaver maiden, Zh…

Check out as @cypayseur.bsky.social reviews short fiction from @diabolicalplots.com, @smallwondersmag.com, and @strangehorizons.bsky.social

Literally professional victims

Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

We made buttons and they say “fuck ice” on a yellow Baltimore salt box

Cheap, minimally online if at all, doesn't spy on you, doesn't have subscriptions or micro transactions, won't be enshittified, you own it, reminds them of simpler times or childhood, modern pop culture is adversarial and alienating

Disgusting. This shit must be stopped.

the horror of what ICE is doing feels like it is really really really breaking through to people, and it's opening up big overdue conversations on other topics (that prisons have always been this inhumane, that Homeland Security has always been this racist) if we wanted to wedge those cracks open

“Trump, Trump, take Bovino back,” chant protesters in Kenner, a suburb of New Orleans that has been a primary target for Greg Bovino and Border Patrol the last week.

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Stephen Miller’s rhetoric “reminds me” of “Nazis,” says Rep. Ilhan Omar During a Sunday interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation," the Minnesota congresswoman critiqued the top White House adviser’s “white supremist” comments.

“In a New York Times guest essay following Trump’s comments, Omar defended her community, writing, ‘The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.’” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Finally reading the Discworld books

I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.

We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money

For now, I'll not be updating my Calibre to avoid the AI slop, but would be grateful for other easy to use and AI-free ebook format converters... (I need something that easily converts pdfs and docs into epub).

And this is why we never update Calibre. (No but seriously though.)

Also, come the fuck on, man.

Speaking of Restoration Hardware, this man's been doing a series of videos about class and how the upperclass uses taste to enforce their hierarchy and it's superb

This video is specifically about symbolic violence, but it also neatly summarizes the crux of his series, which is to make the dynamics between classes transparent by applying Pierre Bourdieu's concepts to today.

Marvel could afford to just randomly send out a million dollar check to any one of the creators of multi-billion dollar franchises. And these artists deserve so much more than that.

Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch

"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"

(via SiteJamesons | TW)

Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“

Who has made this 🤣

There are seriously trolls on here who reply to Palestinians begging from the rubble with, oh well, you shouldn’t have been a terrorist! I see it time to time. You HAVE to have something better to do with your life.

“The President was involved in a teen rape club for many years in some capacity” remains a fact that disappears from coverage for weeks at a time

The World’s Memory of the World | Gabriel Winslow-Yost The world of Disco Elysium evokes both postrevolutionary melancholy and communist fervor for a more just world.

“Disco Elysium” won’t have a sequel. The book it was in part derived from—Robert Kurvitz’s 2013 novel, “Sacred and Terrible Air”—has no followups, either. It’s a shame, given what exploring the game’s strange world reveals about our own.

“They put handcuffs on us, a chain over our waist and our feet, like criminals. They transported us in the kind of van that you put dogs in. We were all sitting in a row facing a white wall.… We boarded the plane and it was full…. A lady in her 70s kept throwing up.“