YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

AASPIRE Healthcare Toolkit | Organization for Autism Research

The AASPIRE healthcare toolkit is now back online, thank to Organization for Autism Research. researchautism.org/healthcareto...

#SNS25 #neurodiversity

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

This is a great story by the always excellent Tia Tashiro. It plays skillfully with PoV to tell a gorgeous story of relationships and identity. Read it if you haven't.

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"

grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...

#Worldcon

It took me a very long time to learn "do your best" does not mean "give 100% effort even at the expense of your physical or mental health" or "give A+ effort even when it is clearly not appreciated or valued". Sometimes doing your best is heating up a can of soup and going to bed early.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Three vinyl stickers of the game changer loop-de-loop in progress pride, trans, and non-binary colours respectively. The stickers also have the words "we've been here the whole time"

Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!)

UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game...

International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

Queen Demon Check out Queen Demon - <p><b><i>From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the </i>USA Today <i>and </i>Sunday Times <i>bestselling novel, </i>Witch King. <i>A...

Queen Demon, the sequel to Witch King, is coming out on Oct 7 and up for preorder now. Cover art by Cynthia Sheppard, Audiobook narrated by Eric Mok.
bookshop.org/p/books/quee...

I think a lot about how when Casablanca was filmed, nobody knew who would win WW2.

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Someone You Can Build a Nest In Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on mu...

If you need something fun as a distraction this weekend, Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just seven bucks in the Audible sale.

Maybe you need a shapeshifting monster who *accidentally* falls for the woman who's hunting her. If you do? I got you.
www.audible.com/pd/Someone-Y...

Nasa astronaut on ISS, caught this sprite over Mexico and the US this morning. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers

HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!

I feel like I'm living in a fairy tale, the kind with claws.

In 80 seconds, AOC has completely dismantled the #BigUglyBill.

Dems should turn this into a prime time campaign ad NOW.

“This Bill is a deal with the devil”💥

@aoc.bsky.social

When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...

I HAVE A NEW SHORT STORY OUT!

I’ve been struggling with whether to spoil the premise by saying the five words that would DEFINITELY get you to click.

So I won’t now, just go read it & be surprised.

At 2pm I’ll post the five words. ;)

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...

Dark times call for reckless purchases.
store.theonion.com/p...

Ten years of marriage equality nationwide. Obergefell v Hodges - June 26th, 2025.

Today marks ten years since the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v Hodges, legalizing same-sex marriage nationally. We recognize where we’ve been and the activism of those who have come before us, and the work we still have to do. Onward! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.

She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.

But the FDA recently denied its approval.

Now, her health hangs in the balance.

Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

May the powers that be protect our troops on bases in the Middle East. 😔

reminder that blocking is great but blocking is also public
if u are uncomfortable u can always mute

Venn Diagram of 3 circles: BE KIND BLOCK FAST HAVE FUN An arrow points to thee intersection of all 3 circles: YOU CAN BE HERE

Welcome to Bluesky 💙🦋

Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

The hammer of bad news keeps falling but I have a basically inexhaustible supply of Star Trek so 🖕

Personally, politically, I have never needed optimistic visions of fully automated gay luxury space communism like I do now.

A person holding a protest sign that reads "NO FAUX KING WAY" with a city skyline in the background. The sign also displays the hashtag "#INDIVISIBLE".

A protester holds a sign reading "The power of people is much stronger than the people in power" with two American flags in the background, at an Indivisible rally.

Person holding a sign at a protest that reads "Peaceful Assembly is as American as apple pie! Fascism isn't!" in front of a large crowd in front of a government building.

A protest sign reads "If there is money for a parade, there is money for medical" in colorful letters at a demonstration. The "Indivisible" logo is at the bottom right corner.

More than five million Americans in over 2,100 towns and cities joined us today to say we don't do kings in this country. Thank you for making it clear that we won't be ruled by fear.

No Kings Day is here. Today is going to be one of the biggest and most widespread days of peaceful protest in American history, with millions of Americans taking to the streets in every state. This land is our land and we don’t do kings here. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #nokings

Mass Call — No Kings

Missed last night's pre-mobilization prep call with Indivisible national?

All resources mentioned or offered on the call, including recording, slides, and key links, are now available here: www.nokings.org/call

See you out there tomorrow. Let's make this a peaceful and powerful day!

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country.

Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.

Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org