Lizzy Saxe

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

TFW the nostalgia of another is so vivid, I could mistake it for my own.

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

Morning.

amend the constitution to require that dismissed government employees announce their departures via 16 bars rapped over a BOSS Dr-55, filmed and uploaded to YouTube, TikTok, and Threads

Yes! Another superb episode of Space Buffy! I bloody love this show - it's proper #StarTrek, through and through. #StarfleetAcademy

Currently reading The Story of Silence, a novel about a woman in post-Arthurian England who is being raised as a boy so she can inherit her father’s lands.

Also recommend The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman.

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There is no competition in the #writingcommunity

Not once have I not sold a book because a fellow writers sold a book. The #readingcommunity loves books. They buy all the books. If they didn't buy your book today, they will certainly buy your book tomorrow.

We love writing and they love reading.

this lady tried to insult me by saying i should use ai lmfao

i love, love, LOVE being able to pull the bestselling author card to be a huge bitch to tech ppl

This does not, however, let @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social off the hook for breaking his promise on library funding and not responding to the shut down of trans healthcare programs in NYC hospitals, both of which were core campaign messages.

i thought sex offenders weren’t supposed to live in government housing

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

the most notable part of the far right buying up legacy news media is that liberals generally always trusted legacy media far more, aside from places like fox news. the downstream effect of this, maybe intentionally, is to have more people distrust media. misinformation will spread easier

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

when I started making music I dreamed of nobody even knowing what I looked like unless they'd seen me play live. I didn't put a single picture of myself on a record for 25 years. I hold the tyranny of the visual to be a general plague and the imperative to be seen in motion lest one vanish a loss

Big mood

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Pair of dyscalculiac friends can just about add up between the three of them A couple of autistic friends who also have dyscalculia have managed to compensate for their spiky skill set between the three of them, an indeterminate number of reports have indicated.  Emma…

A couple of autistic friends who also have dyscalculia have managed to compensate for their spiky skill set between the three of them, an indeterminate number of reports have indicated.

People born in the 2000s will never understand a nation once so innocent that an ice skater kneecapping another ice skater sent us into an existential crisis.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

we need a rom-com that unites the people in revolutionary struggle

This has been said before but please understand that AI was invented to “solve” wages. Corporates are using the AI scare to depress wages. It doesn’t have to work right or be productive to reduce workers bargaining power for higher wages.

Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts Library advocates called the mayor’s proposed budget “terrible.”

Mamdani makes cuts to library funding :( as reported in the gothamist

“If you're just going to say, ‘Oh, I love the library,’ but you’re not actually supporting them, then that’s a real disappointment and, frankly, bulls---,” said Abby Emerson”

gothamist.com/news/taking-...

NYC Public Library People's Assembly Join us on March 21 for a discussion about our visions for NYC libraries.

We are having our third NYC Public Library Action Network People's Assembly on March 21st in Queens! Come through!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

We're not a nonprofit, we have no money (in fact our members pay for stuff that we need out of pocket), we're a grassroots community group. We're unencumbered and will say the truth. The truth is that the money exists to adequately fund the libraries. The Mayor must do so.

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"The news of Mamdani's preliminary budget was a big letdown. I'm sad and angry and disappointed. But this is FAR from over. We're going to make a lot of noise, we're going to fight like hell, and they are NOT going to cut the New York City public library budget on our watch."