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Exactly. We're only functional until we're not, which for me is far more often than other people are aware

Powerful letter from a non-verbal autistic person. Give it two minutes of your night and feel your heart expand.

"I get it now, it's about working out the worst thing you can do to Nazis and hoping the dice let you do it" a paraphrased review of @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social 's Eat the Reich

It's exhausting to see this kind of thing happen. That's gotta be a deliberate choice.

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

2025 Winner of the Community Award: Authors Against Book Bans

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Good advice here. Pete Sutton and I are running a workshop on Getting through the Slush Pile at @bristolcon.bsky.social , if you're interested?

The more I read the responses by BlueSky's dev team, the more annoyed I am about the ways that they've squandered the promise of what this site could be.

Half the audience going "hypocaust" has been my favourite part so far (alongside Jenrick criticism, wish is always welcome!)

Cast of Wonders 657: Plutopalooza by Gretchen Tessmer narrated by Emma Osborne produced by @jeremycarter42.bsky.social - our second story for #BannedBooksWeek

www.castofwonders.org/2025/10/cast...

CW: end of the world

A fight for our rights: Youth fighting book bans. A conversation with student leaders moderated by Banned Books Week youth honorary chair Iris Mogul. October 8, 2025, 3:00 p.m. CT. Register: bit.ly/YouthFightingBookBans

TOMORROW: Join #BannedBooksWeek youth honorary chair Iris Mogul & student advocates from around the country for a conversation about how young people can fight book bans! 10/8, 3pmCT

bit.ly/YouthFightingBookBans

#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984

w/ @ncacensorship.bsky.social

What's your Freedom to Read Advocate Personality? Take a quiz to find out! Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Banned Books Week. Oct. 5-11, 2025.

✨ It takes all of us to fight for the freedom to read. Take this NEW #BannedBooksWeek quiz to assess your strengths & uncover your individual advocacy style. At the end, get actions you can take based on your result: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/68d400f64d6f970015d8e11b #UniteAgainstBookBans

#BannedBooksWeek

BTS member RM wearing a dark "Read Banned Books - Penguin Random House" hat.

It's officially the start of #BannedBooksWeek!

How are you observing the week? #BTS' RM is reading a book by Patrick Süskind, an author whose work has been banned.

Find ideas for titles to read or actions you can take on #LetFreedomReadDay (10/11) at UniteAgainstBookBans.org #UniteAgainstBookBans

YouTube video by Banned Books Week George Takei, Banned Books Week 2025 Honorary Chair

"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom."

#BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read! #CensorshipIsSo1984

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BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.

https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAOHGODWHATMUPPETS

It's here! Our first #BannedBooksWeek story for 2025 is a lovely piece by a teen author, featuring a bookbinder and a very helpful dragon.

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

Hexapodia is the key insight

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

%%title%% %%page%% | Cast of Wonders “Nduka, you better hurry or you’ll be late for school! Your breakfast is getting cold and you know you don’t like when curds form in your pap!” Aniele calls from the kitchen. “Yes Mama…

And because it's Mid-Autumn Festival and it is a tradition beloved by many. Imagine it being suppressed in the future, where celebration of it is forbidden.

Metal Can Lanterns. www.castofwonders.org/2019/09/cast...

*gasp*

Pixel Scroll 10/5/25 Many Are Scrolled But Few Are Pixeled (1) TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT REMOVES YOLEN BOOK. “Texas school district yanks Holocaust book ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ over ‘DEI content’” reports The Times of Israel. A school district in central Texa…

Pixel Scroll 10/5/25 Many Are Scrolled But Few Are Pixeled
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Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...