Diana Helmuth

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Democrats in the Bay Area rushed to condemn President Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the capture of the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, on Saturday as illegal and reckless.

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📸: Manuel Orbegozo and Yalonda M. James

Call me naive but please do not throw up your hands and lament about your powerlessness if you haven’t even taken *three minutes* to call your reps and ask them to at least *pretend* to care about stopping this.

Yes something bigger would be better but like, it is ok to just DO THAT.

#venezuela

Ppl who haven't had to work a real job in 30+ years kept telling us it would replace our work - our primary source of income and dignity - and then were surprised when we balked. AI was forced on us with zero emotional and sociological awareness. They biffed the landing.

I'd love to give you a copy! Also I have a lot of random gear if you want to borrow anything

if you're a woman yearning for a soft, submissive life and are constantly grooming your man to be a dominant provider for your needs...bestie I have some news for you...

Radical self-awareness:
putting all my social media apps into a folder called “anxiety.”

Radical self-acceptance:
knowing I’m gonna it open it anyway

Has anyone mapped the loss of tactile objects in our homes (dialing a keypad, snapping open a disc case, turning a car key) with the rise of fidget spinners

Christmas playlists are like
“oh boy jingle bells!”
“Holly jolly frolic!”
“roll in the snow!”
*four minute heavy metal battle between mortal and Beelzebub, where man arises into the light, sword bloody, will tested but unbroken*
“figgy pudding!”

Please tell yours senators to oppose “Lee Amendment" 3972. It strips national park funding and sets up a framework for their sale.
Lee tried this a while back and it *failed* bc of public outcry.
A vote is expected this week.
Use 5calls.org or democracy.io to easily find and contact your reps.

It’s actually not that hard to be grateful for family and turkey and stuffing and also connect with the indigenous groups on your land.

Looking for My Soulmate in All the Wrong Applications - Living, Paganism, Perspectives, Witchcraft Witchcraft & Pagan News - Hint asks if I’m into men or women, but does not offer "both" or "neither." You are getting your AI generated slop on the gender binary, thank you very much. | Living, Pagani...

My dear @laurenparker.bsky.social tried to find her soul mate on an app so you don’t have to. wildhunt.org/2025/11/look...

I don't know who needs to hear this but "America" has never been white, it isn't supposed to be white, and a lot of us don't actually want it to be white.
signed,
a white.

Yesterday a witch told me that the Samhain portal is actually open until Wednesday so if you still feel weird that’s why.

Also the government.

Dancing with the Goddess and Drawing Down the Moon: A Reading List for Modern Witches When I encounter the question “are you a Witch?” my first response is always, “who is asking, and why?” Perhaps there never has been a more loaded noun in the English langua…

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Very excited to see the first Samhain issue from Inglenook Lit. If you are craving to read - or write - surreal, witchy, divine, gutting, dreamy, magical stories, please check them out. Sasha Bailyn is tending a wonderful hearth here for witch and witch-adjacent writers. They are taking submissions.

What’s the German word for having enough energy for a spin class but not enough energy to put your laundry away

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

As a tencious user of the em dash—yes

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Having empathy for someone who said “empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage” is the ultimate test of my empathy

Rewriting the Future - Dreamforge Magazine I was writing hopepunk before there was a word for it. That’s not some hipster boast —I’m much more feminist nerd than cool kid— but my […]

I wrote an article on hopepunk but solarpunk is mostly these same principles applied specifically to the climate/eco part of the polycrisis. If you're interested in more about the craft of writing these stories, it's a good overview: dreamforgemagazine.com/story/rewrit...

I can’t believe this is happening. But then again I had a copy editor tell me they were using Google AI for fact checking. *Fact checking*

Glad you are making noise about this, it’s a depressing trend.

OK but this does sound like my version of Utopia 😂

Had a serious talk with a pal about how solarpunk may never take off as a genre because it's just too...*nice.* "What tension can exist in utopia?"

Curious for people's thoughts on plots for a Solarpunk setting (Beyond "we had paradise and now we have to get it back?")

<3 <3 Sylvie. Thank you for beta reading

Can Someone Please Tell Me How to Talk About Palestine? I am writing an essay about the dangers of staying silent for fear of being misunderstood, and I am terrified to publish it, for fear of…

In which I process the question: how can we talk about Israel in well-intentioned discourse if we can’t even agree what Zionism is, what anti-Zionism is, and which of those is anti-Semitic, or not?

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Also, if you are using generative AI to:

- write your SEO blog posts
- write your product's marketing content
- write your novel
- write your emails

...we can tell.

Cute! (search A Storm of Spoilers wherever fine podcasts are found)

This isn't totally true. Bereft of other options, undocumented immigrants often use the ER for simple needs, and Medicare pays the ER for the care.

If immigrants had access to better healthcare options, Medicare wouldn't be paying $300 for baby Tylenol in the ER. That's the actual problem.

What the SAVE Act Means for Women

I want to say this is just another reason women should not change their names via marriage, bc your identity should never be erased in exchange for love

But I am also one of those ppl 😭 at weddings, bc I am a sap for love?

So thanks, SAVE Act, for ruining love
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My cat doesn’t even know who Trump is