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Glory | Watch with English Subtitles, Reviews & Cast Info | Viki Framed for murder and without his memories, Hou Ming Hao finds an unlikely ally in former rival Gulnezer Bextiyar, leading to unexpected developments in Glory.

Dramas about women, for women, created by women:

#Glory, written by #ZhouMo (Story of Yanxi Palace) and #RenYanan (The Double). Directed by #ZhangZhiwei and starring #Gulinazha, #ChengXiao, #ZhangNan, #ZhaoZhaoYi and #LiuXueHua as leads.

Also, #HouMinghao as everyone’s favourite male wife.

Something Bigger Than AI is Happening Pay attention and read every single word please.

This is an excellent essay by Shae Omonijo describing how the decline in critical thinking began long before the recent rise of AI, and that AI is accelerating existing trends.
shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/something-...

WTH?!

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Post a Jedi...wrong answers only

Image shows the aurora borealis over a mountain range. Text reads: Aurora-eligible Fiction by P.A. Cornell. Then lists: Short Stories: • Through the Machine (Lightspeed) • And I Will Read to You About Butterflies (Heartlines Spec) • After the Rain (Escape Pod) • The Space Between Us (Lightspeed) Novelette: • After the Suns Go Down (The Growers anthology – DM for digital file)

If you're nominating for the Aurora Awards you'll find the short stories free-to-read here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-.... The novelette is not free-to-read but I'm happy to send voters a file if they'd like to read it. Descriptions for all through the link.

I think their untrainable nature was part of the reason I was enamored! 😂 But I am allergic to furry friends, so I will never have to bear the responsibility. Just in the fan club

Oh yay! I learned about them when I was a teenager, and they became my favorite 😍

YAY TIMELINE CLEANSE!

Is Mino a Basenji? Or what kind of amazing doggo is this?

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

Fun show. I have the DVD box set!

The nuance being that, as a AFAB trans nonbinary child of immigrants & birthright citizen, though I *am* a citizen of this evil empire, I am also one of its targets. What the fuck do I do with all this?

It feels fucked up trying to psych myself up that there’s resistance TBH.

It feels fake. The blood is on our hands.

Cuba is under complete blockade & have run out of gas, collapsing access to even basic needs. America & Israel are bombing Iran, INCLUDING A GIRLS SCHOOL. ICE raids continue. Trans people in Kansas are having their licenses essentially revoked.

But WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE.
Look for the helpers.

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I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist - gregpak.net I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative “A.i.” in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a f...

Thrilled to see folks saying they've canceled their ChatGPT subs because of this.

If I've got you this far, please consider my pitch for ditching ALL generative "A.i." ❤️

gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Is sour candy for panic attacks the right choice? Yes, sour candy can really help ease or even derail a panic attack for a lot of folks. When panic hits, it's like your brain gets stuck on fear and discomfort. That sharp, tangy kick from something like a Warhead or a Sour Patch Kid jolts your senses, pulling your focus away and helping you regain some control. Many therapists recommend keeping some sour candy handy in your bag, pocket, or car. It's affordable, works quickly, and you don't need a prescription. While it's not a cure-all or a long-term fix, having sour candy on hand can definitely be a useful part of your immediate coping toolkit.

telapsychiatry.com/sour-candy-f...

The repeated motions of going to work will eventually help you regulate, & it won’t always be like this. But in the meantime, if you buy & keep very sour small candies with you & pop one in your mouth when you start feeling a hint of panic, sour tastes are a brain hack to interrupt the panic cycle🔄

Read please

Those braids are definitely a hate crime, like WTF

My shuffle hit My House by 2PM and then Perfect Man by Shinhwa so I’m feeling pretty good right now

Yessssssss waaaaaaahhh

I’ve taken these for funsies, my results are screenshotted and saved somewhere. So I guess I’m bonafide.

NIIIICE

a computer generated image of a rainbow colored comet flying through space Alt: a computer generated image of a rainbow colored comet flying through space with with word “AUTISM”

Self diagnosis is valid, or whatever the folks are saying these days LMAO

Don’t worry, I *will* be awkward again in the future too. Amazing! The gift that keeps on giving!

This is fine. I’m fine.

I quote posted someone’s cat with what I thought was a playful comment, but the quote post got removed, so I deleted my post and then unfollowed the person out of social shame. They were not a mutual, so I was just seeing myself out.

Welcome to the day in the life of an awkward person. YAAAAY.

Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora

Call it the Stoker Ballot Bump? We just had an order for 1,000 copies of Silk & Sinew come through the distributor yesterday. Congrats to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of the authors on the continued success of this title.

bookshop.org/p/books/silk...

DHS Left a Blind Man and Refugee to Die in the Cold Another reminder we must abolish ICE and end DHS in its current form

Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a 56-year-old blind Muslim refugee who survived genocide, only to die at the hands of the US Govt during the holy month of Ramadan

As an American Muslim lawyer who supports Rohingya refugees, I cannot tell you how much this devastates me😓
www.qasimrashid.com/p/dhs-left-a...