jkshields (she/they)

You know it’s not the heat so much as it is the unyielding atmospheric stress and relentless legacy pressure to feel the same way you did 30 years ago when the things you were promised for a lifetime of hard work still existed

Sorry I meant humidity” I hate autocorrect 🙄

Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.

okra!!!!!!

A Distributional Analysis of a National Guaranteed Basic Income – Update

Fun fact: the ~$115 billion increase to Canadian defence spending needed to meet the NATO target of 5% of GDP is more than the higher-end cost for a guaranteed basic income as estimated by the PBO.

It is horrific.

There's no lack of need for his skills. I hope he finds another way to use them and a means of survival for himself and his household. 🙏

Early Hawaiian petroglyphs on a beach are visible again with changing tides and shifting sands Early Hawaiian petroglyphs have resurfaced on a beach in Waianae, Hawaii. This is the first time the entire panel of 26 figures has been visible since they were spotted nine years ago.

Exceptionally low tides have uncovered over 30 ancient petroglyphs on Hawaii’s Big Island, including human figures etched into lava rock. Likely carved by Native Hawaiians around 500 years ago, the site offers a rare glimpse into pre-contact cultural expression. buff.ly/OEJ8EtC
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A Teen Was Detained at Alligator Alcatraz. Could They Be the First of Many? It comes after weeks of uncertainty about how minors would fit into Florida's immigration crackdown.

Florida officials have said minors won't be held at the Trump-backed Alligator Alcatraz. But in July, a 15-year-old was detained there. Could they be the first of many? Read the full story:

FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It could signal problems with ICE recruitment.

I hope they report and then do their jobs as INEFFECTIVELY as possible.

Share info w/ immigrant safety networks
Report every rights violation to international oversight
Send officers to the wrong locations
Contest bills to corps building/supplying detention centers

A dangerous subversive heroism

UN experts call for immediate dismantling of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) operations, saying Palestinians are paying the ultimate price of the international community’s legal, p...

UN experts call for immediate dismantling of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following.

It still became a polarization machine.

Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.

The results were… not what we expected.

arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hayat. Hayat has three children Hadeel, 10, Mohammed, 8 and Abeer, 5. They lost their home and are in tents. In addition to her children she is whenever she can helping her large family including her parents and seven siblings.

No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their four months in CECOT.

Every time I think I can’t be more horrified. Staging better treatment when the Red Cross comes is precisely what happened in Nazi concentration camps.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

This is devastating and exactly what immigrants told everyone would happen

And years of ignoring that to only cover the most horrific and dehumanizing aspects of the process is just as much part of the fascism

Especially when all of this happens in our prisons

Breastfeeding Isn't Free for World Breastfeeding Week

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, this comic about the many, many coats of breastfeeding is your reminder that BREASTFEEDING IS LABOR!

Massachusetts police training materials identify Moms for Liberty as a hate group | Fox News Video Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich reacts to news that a training manual for Massachusetts police officers has identified her organization as a hate group.

M4L is running with this story and claiming *they* are under threat while continuing to target librarians and educators for harassment, firing, and arreat for doing the same jobs, the same work we always have.

Because they *are* in fact a hate group.

www.foxnews.com/video/637657...

I cannot at all say whether this particular candidate would keep his word on this, but I do want to go on the record saying that I think it has to be possible for us to imagine someone who has a genuine theological belief they do not wish to see enforced on the public

The stories of the dead as individuals have always been less important than the symbolic service that the dead can be pressed into by the living, and that is a problem regardless of the technological apparatus in play.

World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men The International Chess Federation will stop allowing transgender women to participate in women's tournaments. The group said changing genders has a "significant impact" on a player's status.

All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.

Oooo sounds delicious.

Are they like especially spicy or something? ☠️☠️☠️

Because there‘s only so much self-shaming and acceptance of other people’s hate one can read, even if

Characters ultimately excise the narrative/get support/heal from trauma

There‘s a need for realism
There’s a need for escapism

It’s not *just* about audience
(although it is about audience)

We also need

books which are cosy,

those that offer a counter-realistic construction of what life can be like in worlds without transphobia,

those focused on trans characters whose privilege allows their lives to mostly escape dominating and oppressive hatreds

MOAR books is part of the solution

Given the paucity of books written prior to this decade with out transgender characters… it’s can be a difficult needle to thread

I am deeply appreciative of books which give realistic accounts of what it’s like to experience transphobic ugliness. BUT

🪐📚💙📚🪐
🌈📚💙📚🌈

LGBTQ (emphasis on the T)
#scifi #booksky

CN: transphobic selfnarrative in the book is often realistic for abused transfemme main character, thus potentially triggering, be gentle with yourselves friends

I have not, I’ll have to check it out. I tend to default to novels and novellas.

Book cover of Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka with a bright white and orange fish in front of a night sky with distant stars and galaxies.

Today I’ve been reading Light From Uncommon Stars on my drive north…

a fascinating genre bender that doesn’t shy away from realistic depictions of living in a world full of imperialism, racism, and transphobia, even while it also merrily combines demon-contractors and hightech alien refugees

Fascist movements spread as fascism is tolerated and normalized.

Listening to an audiobook with my 14-year-old on my way to drop him off at his grandma‘s house

reminded me that I could script a whole sexual ethic YouTube series on sex ethics

Using science fiction novels as all the reference material

😅

I am always abbreviating skeets and forgetting to correct the grammar after I drop various throat clearing phrases…

I’m fascinated…