Wrenewable

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Not for the dead school kids though, but late for them

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

I first wrote about ICE's use of ruses and misrepresentations — which are explicitly recommended in their training manuals — almost eight years ago. This sounds like a particularly bold implementation but this has been part of their toolkit for a long time

Let me re-introduce myself. And why our campaign is doing things differently.

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

Patrick Swindle is the CEO operating the Dilley concentration camp. There are people behind this. They must go to prison.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Thanks to the amazing support for Kickstarter “Temeraire: The Roleplaying Game”, the first three stretch goals are unlocked!

Setting & story hooks for Napoleonic Era Russian Empire + Kingdom of Prussia, plus a gorgeous enamel pin of Temeraire (CAPTAIN tier & up)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

The Kickstarter for “Temeraire: The Roleplaying Game” is coming soon! Check out this preview of the page and give Magpie Games feedback on the project before it launches on Feb 24th at 10am Eastern: magpiegames.com/temeraire-preview

Kickstarter for TEMERAIRE: THE ROLEPLAYING GAME by Magpie Games opens tomorrow (Feb 24)!

Visit www.kickstarter.com/.../temerair.... for details, or get the Quickstart now - a playable mission called "A Minuet of Dragons" at magpiegames.com/pages/temera...

Forward Democracy Empowering people to vote towards a better future

But if a race is on a knife edge, as it is in Gorton & Denton, it makes a Green tactical vote recommendation significantly more likely to succeed than a Labour one.

Of course, no one would have to vote tactically if we had a more representative voting system.
forwarddemocracy.com

Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers

A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party.

I made the group and invited six people.

SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.

... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

The originally posted need is now met! If you’re here reading this and want to support families in MN affected by ICE, please donate to a rent relief fund listed on standwithminnesota.com. I’ve been working to fundraise with them and I can vouch for the funds that are up there.

We keep us safe 💛

If you're not in this, you're missing out on an amazing weaving together of the historical & present social implications of eugenics, what that means for some of our favourite science fictions, & how we can do better.

(That said, I think you'll still be able to register & get the recording later.)

We were able to extend the electric payment but we have to have $180 for gas by the 23rd and $80 for water this weekend!!

I really need help. I don’t want the gas to get shut off while it’s this cold.

Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

You're not bad! I'm still stuck on Kindle for ebooks because I don't know what to swap to - too many options and no energy to analyse and choose an alternative (despite avoiding Amazon generally). What alternative platform is best for authors?

Hey team, who pre-ordered Inarora's Excursion through Amazon? Please share this far and wide because I need the people who pre-ordered through Amazon to know I cancelled pre-orders due to my dumbass being BAD at time and I am hoping to direct y'all elsewhere.

books2read.com/InarorasExcu...

This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center.

But that campaign is *never mentioned*.

I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...