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A neon green slug with a yellow bat in its mouth that is dripping red blood.

A neon green slug with a yellow bat in its mouth that is dripping red blood.

Our Ko-Fi Shop is open for Vol. 1 pre-orders! 8.5 x 11 in. Nearly 100 pages featuring 10 original short stories and 3 non-fiction essays related to music. Each story includes an original B&W interior illustration. PDF, physical copy, physical copy + swag options available. ko-fi.com/sluggerficti...

05.11.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Full cover reveal by Kae Ranck! Kae is a freelance artist and writer currently slugging their way through life with their two cats. They graduated from Oregon State University in 2025 with a degree in Art and, as all art majors do, is now seeking out a JD at the University of Kansas. When not hunched over a desk like a shrimp to work, Kae can be found communing with plants and listening to niche 80s music like The Cramps.

Full cover reveal by Kae Ranck! Kae is a freelance artist and writer currently slugging their way through life with their two cats. They graduated from Oregon State University in 2025 with a degree in Art and, as all art majors do, is now seeking out a JD at the University of Kansas. When not hunched over a desk like a shrimp to work, Kae can be found communing with plants and listening to niche 80s music like The Cramps.

Cover by Kae Ranck! Kae is a freelance artist and writer currently slugging their way through life with their two cats. They graduated from Oregon State University in 2025 with a degree in Art and, as all art majors do, is now seeking out a JD at the University of Kansas. Full bio on our Insta.

23.10.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So exhausting..

28.09.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9890    πŸ” 3955    πŸ’¬ 215    πŸ“Œ 421
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Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science fiction novel "The Dispossessed". Here, her son Theo Downes-Le Guin considers the artistic process behind it – and why it still resonates today

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science fiction novel "The Dispossessed". Here, her son Theo Downes-Le Guin considers the artistic process behind it – and why it still resonates today

31.08.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Courageous young women should be celebrated for their heroism.

07.07.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4727    πŸ” 1540    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 98
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

31.05.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 15291    πŸ” 7914    πŸ’¬ 455    πŸ“Œ 533
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway. This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

21.04.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5418    πŸ” 1731    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 96
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"To compete for audiences, influencers keep trying to outdo each other with escalating demands of female submission that aren't just immoral, but unworkable in anything resembling a real human relationship.

"Being a jerk doesn't win women over."

www.salon.com/2025/04/21/e...

21.04.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

REMINDER: Jeff Bezos knows nothing about journalism and paid way more for his yacht than the Washington Post.

To him, they are both toys

26.02.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5717    πŸ” 1042    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 38
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🀷🏻

23.02.2025 05:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7239    πŸ” 2537    πŸ’¬ 235    πŸ“Œ 139
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The Drive. Found slide. Projection on snow.

16.02.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Why does Trump hate women in power, especially non-white bodied ones?

19.02.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 531    πŸ” 156    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 6
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There’s nothing I love more than receiving a warm personal invitation to review an article for a journal.

12.02.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 377    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 1

To be a little real for a second, the USAID news is almost (just almost!) too much for me because I was born in one of those refugee camps. I was a difficult birth, and I know my mother got her natal care in that camp. This stuff absolutely devastates me.

12.02.2025 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2467    πŸ” 361    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
A close-up image of a white mushroom cap against a dark, blurred background.

A close-up image of a white mushroom cap against a dark, blurred background.

moody fungi

#fungifriends #fungi #macro #macrophotography #nature #mushroom

11.02.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An American flag built on the backs of Black people...

Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways

All this in New Orleans... What a moment

10.02.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 26034    πŸ” 4970    πŸ’¬ 176    πŸ“Œ 122
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The most qualified Supreme Court justice nominee in history gets dismissed as a β€œDEI hire”—because she’s Black.

Mediocre White men don’t get this disrespect!

08.02.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 9773    πŸ” 2815    πŸ’¬ 508    πŸ“Œ 125

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated β€œblack” or β€œhispanic” or β€œwoman” job

08.02.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 45321    πŸ” 11159    πŸ’¬ 828    πŸ“Œ 311
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Primary Sources: The Day the KKK F*cked Around and Found Out A firsthand account of the gun-toting sharecropper who went John Wick against 50 armed Klansman

To avoid being shut down for spreading "woke" CRT that makes white ppl "uncomfortable," @contrabandcamp.bsky.social's #BHM series delivers unwhitewashed history straight from primary sources

Today: the formerly enslaved man who took on 50 armed Klansmen & lived to tell his story...

to Congress

05.02.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 461    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 5
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DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a β€œeugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, β€œYou could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

06.02.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 23888    πŸ” 6618    πŸ’¬ 1507    πŸ“Œ 1261
A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

05.02.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 62112    πŸ” 26063    πŸ’¬ 2747    πŸ“Œ 2140
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The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.

My latest on β€œThe New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

18.10.2024 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 394    πŸ” 171    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 13
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How Trump Convinced White People He’s Their Martin Luther King Jr. By ending DEI in federal government, Trump is proving to the most dominant racial group in the land that they are free at last.

Today on Contraband Camp, journalist Zack Linly explains how an orange authoritarian convinced the white community to join the Caucasian Rights Movement

www.contrabandcamp.com/p/how-trump-...

29.01.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 185    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, β€œI just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.

GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS

PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.

youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

26.01.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 43612    πŸ” 5657    πŸ’¬ 2164    πŸ“Œ 399
A close-up image of a small white mushroom growing among fallen leaves on the forest floor.

A close-up image of a small white mushroom growing among fallen leaves on the forest floor.

Boring Sunday Fungi

#fungifriends #fungi #macro #macrophotography #nature #mushroom

27.01.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last weekend, a group of Black journalists, writers and thinkers gathered in rural Georgia to celebrate the inauguration...

No, not that one.

We wanted to figure out how we could help a small group of billionaires who control mainstream media, politics & culture

No, not that group

A thread:

26.01.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 585    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 10

So we held a ContrabandCamp at Karmaroon.

For three days, one topic kept coming up.

Who has more wealth and capital than Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos combined?

What happens when someone controls the mainstream media AND the social media?

Who has more political power than Trump?

The answer is "US"

26.01.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can’t wait t’git my hands on nem cheap eggs!

25.01.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 39678    πŸ” 7561    πŸ’¬ 1781    πŸ“Œ 721
Run in McDonald Forest, January 12 2025
YouTube video by Joshua Soderlund Hough Run in McDonald Forest, January 12 2025

A buddy decided to make 30min of #trailrunning footage to watch while on the dreadmill. Here's a little peek at some trails in Corvallis, OR.

And Strava activity if anyone wants to check out the route.
www.strava.com/activities/1...

26.01.2025 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A hand holding a silver pill pack is pictured. Headline reads: "Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts." Photo credit: Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times.

A hand holding a silver pill pack is pictured. Headline reads: "Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts." Photo credit: Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times.

Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion pill providers. Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid the providers from appearing in search and recommendations. nyti.ms/4h3PF1x

24.01.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3579    πŸ” 1904    πŸ’¬ 315    πŸ“Œ 279

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