Kelly 🏳️‍⚧️/🍉

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

A painting of a black and white patched cat

Most cats don’t even like going near open water but a cat named Unsinkable Sam survived three warships sinking in WWII, one on the German side and two on the English side.

Screenshot of my progress of 50% on the audiobook of Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse in the LibroFM app

Serapio, they could never make me hate you 😭❤️ #audiobooksky #booksky #librofm

A screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) post. At the top, Elon Musk retweets with the comment “Wow” and a link. The embedded post is from the account “End Wokeness,” displaying their profile picture of a bearded figure in front of an American flag with the text “I support the former things.” The tweet reads: “‘Data is transphobic’ Sex offenders per million: Biological women: 3 Biological men: 399 Trans women: 1,016” Across the statistics, a large red stamp-like text reads “False.” Below the post are buttons for “Rate proposed Community Notes” and engagement metrics showing thousands of replies, retweets, and likes.

No amount of better messaging, being nicer on social media, or having modest political goals was ever going to work to stop this backlash because the world's richest and most powerful people have all decided they don't want us to exist.

How do you even fight blatant lies like this?

Love how my car auto-plays whatever I have currently going on @libro.fm because it’s like “no choice between music and book. You’re listening to book idc what you were in the mood for.” #audiobooksky

Amazing!! Safe travels!

Omg!! Well it was fantastic!!

Political violence also includes stripping trans people of their rights, killing innocent people in Palestine, rounding up and deporting people with no due process, systemicized racism. So if there’s no room for political violence you better be talking about ALL political violence.

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

(Also I’m obsessed with that cover 😍)

A paperback copy of Once Upon A Punk Show by Katelyn Forrest

Read this on an Amtrak on my way to NYC to see Hadestown last week and it was SO MUCH FUN!! Will post a full review soon on TikTok but highly recommend if you love books with messy chaos sapphics #booksky #bookrecommendation

Please help by sharing Mahmoud’s crowdfund to raise money for his daughter who’s in severe condition. Donate if you can!

gofund.me/8f6150929

Noooooo 😭 well this sucks

I’m just a librarian, standing in front of some Brontë fans, telling them there will always be terrible book to movie adaptations and you don’t have to watch them.

Pro tip! If you mask on an Amtrak train with no assigned seating, no one will sit next to you bc they’ll think you’re sick. Instead they’ll sit across the aisle next to the poor girl who is literally hacking up a lung and looks like she has a fever 😷

Screenshot of two tweets from Matt Walsh’s verified Twitter account (@MattWalshBlog). First tweet (17 hours ago): “It’s time to have a national conversation about common sense restrictions on transgenders.” The tweet has 1.3K comments, 3.8K retweets, 42K likes, and 1M views. Second tweet (18 hours ago): “It wasn’t all that long ago that anyone who identified as the opposite sex would be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. Does anyone at this point seriously think that our current approach is an improvement?” The tweet has 666 comments, 1.9K retweets, 21K likes, and 362K views.

First tweet is by Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles), reposted by Christopher F. Rufo. It reads: “For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this delusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” The tweet has 816 comments, 2.4K retweets, 17K likes, and 379K views. Second tweet is by Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo), 20 hours ago: “The trans cult hatched such an enormous propaganda campaign, that, for a number of years, they were able to obscure an obvious truth: pumping kids full of synthetic hormones, while telling them they can change from boy to girl, will only end in tragedy or disaster.” The tweet has 878 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.2K likes, and 120K views. Third tweet is also by Christopher F. Rufo, 20 hours ago: “We should now put to rest the libertarian delusion that transgenderism is a matter of ‘personal choice,’ or ‘live and let live.’ It’s an ideology that has done grave damage to millions of Americans, and has unleashed a nihilistic wave of violence on our society. Enough.” The tweet has 921 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.6K likes, and 293K views.

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people.

These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

I will never vote for Gavin Newsom. He's throwing the trans community under the bus.

I can’t wait to start it!!!

A paperback of Once Upon A Punk Show by Katelyn Forrest, with a cat next to the book

I keep seeing @kateforrest.bsky.social post about her book Once Upon A Punk Show so I finally bit the bullet! Planning on reading this on my train trip to NYC in a few weeks ☺️ #booksky

Do book pirates realise that when they post a book to a pirating site, Kindle Unlimited books often get pulled as their system views that as a breach of exclusivity? Then the authors are banned? So not only did you not pay the author, you facilitated the loss of their livelihood.

The military and federal law enforcement are occupying our nations capital in a brazen display of petty authoritarianism and no one is doing anything about it. There are no protests, there are no politicians or institutions speaking up.

We're cooked. There's nothing stopping this fascism.

Cover of the book You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White

Can’t stop thinking about You Weren’t Meant to Be Human. It was a 5-star read for me and I will be recommending it like crazy BUT it’s not for everyone. As someone who would probably have a meltdown if life was growing inside of me, it RESONATED. Just check those content warnings! #booksky

Just sayin’

The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban.

The media is hiding what's happening here.

5 years ago I made a lil tweet and now I’m dropping the second book in my Black fantasy series.

Happy release day to Bones at the Crossroads! You can purchase it now!

#booksky

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Pretty sure I saw this movie on the SciFi channel when I was in high school

Why did thousands of adult titles just disappear from the biggest PC gaming marketplaces? Digital distribution platforms Steam and itch.io have tightened their rules about adult content – under pressure from payment processors. Why has this happened and where will it lead?

Steam and itch.io have removed thousands of video games in recent weeks deemed to be "adult content" in order to comply with strict rules from payment processors like Mastercard.

These policies censor artists engaged in lawful speech. Mastercard shouldn't be the gatekeepers of our digital freedom.

being alive right now is completely incompatible with sanity on every level and every day i feel more and more crazy

It was never going to stop at trans people. They want to control everyone's Healthcare and dictate what you can take and when.