Ben Lockwood (broadly defined)

The Sacrificials When the sacrificials come through, the entire city shuts down, fireworks filling the night sky and music booming out from hastily set-up stages. The atmosphere is ecstatic, the way the tongue glor…

"None of this needs to happen. Giving in to these infected humans, these fallen gods, these natural disasters made flesh. We don’t have to roll over and offer ourselves up as victims to a process those in power don’t understand and refuse to protect us from."

read in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

Economy is looking great sir!

This directly contradicts Trump and Hegseth’s claims that Iran bombed the area where the Iranian school was hit. We knew it, but it’s good to have the video.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Let's celebrate the trailblazers of the past & build solidarity today to fight for a better future for the girls & women yet to come. All ages, races, genders, ethnicities—across the world. 🌎✊🌹

ICEBREAKER cargo.site

IceBreaker is a free online resource that maps the activity of ICE within NYC. It provides key info such as time, date, the # of agents on sight and the number of people detained.
nycicebreaker.cargo.site

we have saved daylight

but at what cost

Absolute glee at the prospect of more war

Epstein Files — Search 2.5 million+ Declassified Documents Search 2.5 million+ declassified Jeffrey Epstein documents — court filings, depositions, FBI interviews, flight logs, and more. Source: U.S. Department of Justice FOIA releases.

Epstein File Search
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Feb 13
Someone had to make all the Epstein documents actually searchable.

So I did.
epsteinsearch.info

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

It's Friday and you deserve a distraction from The Horrors. Check out these horrors instead

This article is 12 years old, in case you're wondering if we've made any progress

📷 Photography by @ecosystemengineers.bsky.social

The Biodiversity Bulletin — Brief Ecology

Our latest Biodiversity Bulletin is out:

🪸 Coral Reef Emergency
🌎 IPBES Expert Panel
🌐 The 'Homogenocene'
👇 and more

www.briefecology.com/the-biodiver...

I’m Cuban American. For the sake of both countries, Trump’s siege must end | Danny Valdes Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, crushes our people and calls it freedom. We want engagement, not escalation

“I’m Cuban American. For the sake of both countries, Trump’s siege must end.” @dannyvaldes.bsky.social for The Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today, NYC-DSA was joined by a big coalition to send 1️⃣ message to @governor.ny.gov : Tax. The. Rich.

Elected officials from the city to the state spoke in one voice to tell Albany that we need BOTH statewide taxes on the rich AND taxes on NYC's millionaires & big corporations.

Market looks great sir keep it up!

extinction rebellion did the theory, donald trump did the praxis

Just pestering you with my regular reminder to preorder and review The Cellar Below the Cellar (out March 25) if you can! Thanks!

Preorder wherever books are sold!

Review:

app.thestorygraph.com/books/de6266...

www.edelweiss.plus?sku=19557654...

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

National day of action. Stop the war on Iran. Saturday March 7. 4pm Fallon Federal Building. At the bottom are logos from Black Alliance for Peace, Free State Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Palestinian Youth Movement, and Greater Baltimore Democratic Socialists of America. Answercoalition.org/Iran

Join us on Saturday, March 7th at 4pm outside the Fallon Federal Building. We must lift our voices in solidarity with the people of Iran and call for no more war!

The thing about GenAI is that even if they were able to fix the "hallucinations" problem, you could still never trust it to provide trustworthy information instead of adhering to a view that aligns/benefits whomever owns the model you're using

If you're so moved, please consider my short story, "Blanquitos" as a write-in!

Btw anyone can vote

www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/

It's Friday and you deserve a distraction from The Horrors. Check out these horrors instead

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Fuck no. I write for humans, not slop slurpers.

What can biodiversity patterns during the Black Death tell us about our relationships with nature?

(hint: its not all bad!)

Read more in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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For those who want to keep up with all things DSA, I created this list with every @demsocialists.bsky.social chapter/caucus/committee account I could find

bsky.app/profile/did:...

🚨🚨 Operation Metro Surge is NOT over. ICE has received 4 large shipments of brand new vehicles in the past 24 hours. We urge everyone to continue to look out for their neighbors and supporting mutual aid efforts. We will not stop until ICE is OUT.

NIPSCO protest planned in Gary over high winter heating bills "People are wondering how they're going to pay for their car payment or child care," an organizer said.

"People are wondering how they're going to pay for their car payment or child care," an organizer said.