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I'm not going to post screenshots for obvious reasons but I have been alerted that a bunch of the top posts in r/MassiveCock are anti-ICE now and anyone who defends ICE in comments is getting yelled down lol

Penguin skeleton study ✍️

#art #drawing #charcoal #darkart

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm

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How many books do you need to get snowed in? To nurture a community? To build a revolution? A. Lot. Yesterday, we went out to the Connecticut indie bookstore community, made some friends, dropped some #Sirens26 bookmarks, and bought some books for all of the above 🩷

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Americans' Views on Immigration's Effect on the U.S. On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today? — % Good thing - - % Bad thing 100% 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 79 17 2001 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 The percentages who volunteer that the effects are "mixed" or who do not have an opinion are not shown. GALLUP®

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Must-Reads and the Fascist Fantasies We Refuse to Live In "It is up to us, as everyday people, to decide who we are, and who we are to each other, in the face of these attacks."

Here's my weekly must-reads list and some thoughts about Trump's AI slop post declaring war against Chicago. Trump is attempting to blur the line between reality and his fascist, annihilatory fantasies of control and domination. That means we, and the truth, must break free.

Black Americans will always find joy even when the world around us is burning.

And where joy can’t be found, we create it.

That’s one thing they keep trying to take from us and it pisses them off that they can’t.

A headshot of Diana M. Pho, wearing glasses and looking at the camera with a slight smile, and the words "Dreamer. Editor. Hugo Winner."

#Sirens26 Faculty
Diana M. Pho (@dianapho.bsky.social): brilliant scholar, playwright, Hugo Award-winner, Editorial Director at Erewhon. 📖 Academic work on race in fashion, performance, and the media, as well as fan studies and communities.🧙🏽‍♀️Runs Beyond Victoriana, on multicultural steampunk. 💗

A headshot of Micaiah Johnson, with her chin resting on her fist, looking at the camera, and the words "Author. Scholar. Activist."

#Sirens26 Faculty
Dr. Micaiah Johnson (@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social): world-changing author, scholar, activist. Purveyor of hope, joy, rage, and revolution.🚀 The NYT says her fiction "rattles [your imagination] out of complacency."👩🏽‍🚀Her academic work focuses on the intersection of race and tech. 🫶🏽

A headshot of Layla Azmi Goushey, wearing glasses and looking off into the distance, with the words "Educator. Writer. Advocate."

#Sirens26 Faculty
Dr. Layla Azmi Goushey (@laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social): all-around ⭐ educator, with academic work focused on the literatures and cultures of the Southwest Asia North Africa region. Speculative poet and author. Editor of the literary magazine Baladi ("my home" in Arabic). 💖

A headshot of Jewelle Gomez, who is wearing sunglasses and holding them partway down her nose as she looks at the camera and smiles, and the words "She. Writer. Feminist."

#Sirens26 Faculty:
Jewelle Gomez: speculative fiction royalty 👑, author of THE GILDA STORIES , the first Black lesbian vampire novel (sequel forthcoming!!). 🧛🏾‍♀️ Novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, Lambda Literary Award-winner, activist, educator, and "foremother of Afrofuturism." Absolute legend. 🌟

A headshot of Sarah Gailey, with their hands behind their head, gazing into the distance, and the words "Author. Inquirer. Instigator."

#Sirens26 Faculty:
Sarah Gailey (@sarahgailey.bsky.social): speculative fiction master (their latest, SPREAD ME 👾, comes out Sept 23!), essayist, fan, community-builder, Hugo winner, raconteur, provocateur. As EW once said, "for those who aren't [familiar with Gailey's work], well, get ready." 😍

A headshot of Stephanie Burt, who is wearing glasses and smiling, with the words "Mermaid. Mutant. Writer."

#Sirens2026 Faculty:
Dr. Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social): poet, literary critic, Guggenheim Fellow, Harvard professor (remember that famous Taylor Swift course?!), and author of numerous books. 📚🧜‍♀️The NYT says she's “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” 🤩

A graphic with the text: "When we reimagined Sirens during our time away, we wanted our reader conference to be more progressive, more practical, more about inclusion and community--and with more opportunities to learn from expert faculty in a variety of fields."

Invited speakers--our faculty--are the cornerstone of Sirens's educational program. In 2026, we're expanding their role: more speakers, with more presentations, which means more opportunities for you to learn from experts in a variety of fields🤓

Let's meet our first round of 2026 faculty:

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Sirens has been around since 2009, though we've taken a few years off to read, rest, and reimagine what Sirens could be. It might be different from what you remember--or from other events that you might know. As you make a decision about whether to attend, you might find some info helpful 🤓

A graphic with the text: "Hey, do you love progressive speculative fiction? Fabulist worlds full of hope and joy for all people? Far-flung planets free of colonization and oppression? Haunted tales that make our fury manifest? Dystopian magic systems that unmask injustice? We do, too! You should come to Sirens!"

Hey, everyone! #Sirens26 is just six months away and we've got news. But before we get to that later this week, let's find out if we're your sort of people! 📚👽🐉👻

#reading #books #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #conference #convention

Gender affirming care for cis folks gets celebrated.

The key connection for today is that Roosevelt was watching fascism arise in Germany and Italy in 1933, and he DESIGNED THE NEW DEAL TO STOP THAT in the US. The works programs were as much about helping democracy as anything.

Real consumer spending dead stopped growing in 2025, per @jaredb-econ.bsky.social.
#NumbersDay #EconSky
econjared.substack.com/p/weekly-wra...

The things communities can do with community spaces, y'all

Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse

It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible

Dude's out here just failing up

Fundamentally, we have laws because we are terrible humans

oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed

Judith beheading Holofernes, a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi. With the caption "Your body, my ch-"

Mothers, teach your daughters about Judith beheading Holofernes.
#themoreyouknow

AI chatbot Grok issues apology for antisemitic posts The chatbot wrote several antisemitic social media posts Tuesday after Elon Musk's company xAI released a revamped version of it days before.

It. Can’t. “Apologize.”

my regular reminder that many of the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country very plainly believe in eugenics

UPDATE: he’s being booed now. Loudly. By so many people security and his goon squad can’t shut it down. Many, many fuck yous.

Good.