shelly jay shore (she/they)

someone call the etsy witches this is a fucking emergency

Cis people aren't angry enough about the conversion therapy case for my taste.

They'll legalize it, and then States will pass laws requiring it, and that will be how they try to exterminate us.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

All this for a lying serial sexual harassing transphobic bigot.

Heckuva job @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

The sort of organizing we're doing here is honestly crucial right now. If your organization wants to learn more about organizing fans, ping me!

We were at the American Library Association Conference this summer talking with librarians about the importance of everyone having access to books that represent all kinds of different backgrounds and experiences.

Thank you to every librarian working to defend our right to read.

A naked descent into authoritarianism is weirdly boring because what’s being debated is fundamentally uninteresting. Is the antifa legion burning down Portlan real or not? Well, let’s have someone look out the window over there. No? Okay. Facts are settled. It either matters or it doesn’t.

Are you saying they lied? That’s hard to believe, police never do that.

/s

like to charge reskeet to cast, etc

Bring back 22 episode season orders where there’s at least one clip episode for no reason

THE SWEETNESS An excerpt from The Devil, now available for purchase

delighted to share a preview of my extremely horny short story THE SWEETNESS, written for The Devil issue of @therebis.com and my personal “fuck you” to jk rowling by writing a story where the premise is basically “the mirror of erised but extremely trans” therebis.substack.com/p/the-sweetn...

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

if you mute "bari weiss" make sure you also mute "bari fucking weiss" and "bari are you fucking for real right now weiss" and "bari no fucking way weiss."

just to make sure you catch 'em all.

Be aware if you are participating in protests.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

i resent that during a time of rising fascism, i have to ALSO worry about whether the owners of this website are going to tank it out of peeve

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

Swamp People - Longreads Finding refuge and resilience in America’s most reviled landscapes.

Love a swamp!

The funny thing is that arguments made against LGBTQ people is "we were fine with it until you shoved it in our face," which is a thing LGBTQ people never did, and broadly the public do not hate LGBTQ people.

They really are trying to shove AI in our face, and everyone really does hate it.

is this the one about the terrible goose of a roman twink because i am READY for it

from "street haunting": How beautiful a London street is then, with its islands of light, and its long groves of darkness, and on one side of it perhaps some tree–sprinkled, grass–grown space where night is folding herself to sleep naturally and, as one passes the iron railing, one hears those little cracklings and stirrings of leaf and twig which seem to suppose the silence of fields all round them, an owl hooting, and far away the rattle of a train in the valley. But this is London, we are reminded; high among the bare trees are hung oblong frames of reddish yellow light—windows; there are points of brilliance burning steadily like low stars—lamps; this empty ground, which holds the country in it and its peace, is only a London square, set about by offices and houses where at this hour fierce lights burn over maps, over documents, over desks where clerks sit turning with wetted forefinger the files of endless correspondences; or more suffusedly the firelight wavers and the lamplight falls upon the privacy of some drawing–room, its easy chairs, its papers, its china, its inlaid table, and the figure of a woman, accurately measuring out the precise number of spoons of tea which——She looks at the door as if she heard a ring downstairs and somebody asking, is she in?

virginia woolf could write

this has become the emotional support audiobook in my house and it’s genuinely devastating that it’s so one-of-a-kind. like no pressure to @alexandrarowland.bsky.social but i need seven sequels at least.

Rules for Ghosting — Shelly Jay Shore

my novel RULES FOR GHOSTING is a usa today bestseller about a trans psychic who gets sucked back into the drama of his family’s jewish funeral home while being haunted by the ghost of his crush’s dead husband. shenanigans ensue! www.shelly-jay-shore.com/rules-for-gh...

oh i DO love a thread that rapidly becomes a shopping list
(not pictured: my wallet, sobbing)

you’re right and you should say it

Indoogaazhagensim = I have a cat Ojibwe word of the day! Learning languages is fun and honors our ancestors and future generations. Follow #Ojibwe WOD: https://www.youtube.com/@anton.treuer Miigwech ... TikTok video by Anton Treuer (Waagosh)

I love that there is an Ojibwe Word of the Day TikTok and today it’s “I have a cat” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8A2hQtC/

A photo of The Free Press’s Bari Weiss hosting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at a panel presented by Uber and X on Jan. 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C., overlaid with a headline that says, "Only a Billionaire Could Look at Network TV News and Say: We Need More Bari Weiss," and a DEK that says, "Billionaire David Ellison installed conservative ideologue Bari Weiss atop CBS News, dropping any pretense of independence at the network."

"David Ellison and Bari Weiss are known for their uncompromising support for Israel and demonization of Palestinians and their advocates," writes @eoinhiggins.bsky.social. interc.pt/48KvgNu