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Purple background, white text, which says The real-world history and stories about "witches directly inform the portrayal of Discworld's witches. Discworld's sex work and sex workers are similarly informed by real-world history and narratives. More specifically, the ways in which Mrs Rosemary Palm is "almost a witch" can constructively frame some real-world conversations around marginalisation, power, and autonomy... "Almost a Witch," Freyja Stokes

Freyja Stokes goes deep into the historical connections between European witchcraft and sex work, and draws out how #Pratchett uses these in the person of Mrs Palm. It's got history AND sexy puns...

This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!

Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com

I stopped. I did not scream, though I thought about it for .02 of a second.

Oh, also: Baker & Taylor imploded (americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/10/08/b...), so a lot of my brain at work (academic librarian at a Research 1 Uni) is about our swap from Rialto (owned by Proquest) to Gobi (owned by EBSCO) for print purchases vs ebooks. Vendors! Technology! Capitalism!

The Diplomat is back! My wife and I are spreading it out rather than binging in one night, but so far it is still fantastic and feels like a West Wing for the current times, in the best way

Massive crowd in Boston

Boston

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

I didn’t want to look more human than I already did.

Oh NO

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

I felt my face change. The muscles were all stiff, and not from the hit I’d taken. I’m still not great at controlling my expressions, and I had no idea what I looked like. Behind her hands, Amena whispered, “Oh shit.”

Black and white photo from the early 20th century of two little girls in roller skates on a city street, wearing sashes that read DON’T BE A SCAB. A handwritten annotation in white ink at the top of the photo says “Strike Sympathizers.”

Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

“Are you two talking?”
“Yes.” I had to look at the wall now.
Amena was still worried. “Are you fighting again or are you making up? Because it looks exactly the same from the outside.”
We’re making up, ART told her.

"I don't know what the big deal is" — exactly the right energy for fighting a moral panic

This would go some way to explaining the $3,600 a month on candles

In addition to today’s case, these are the two other upcoming cases that I highlighted on Sunday at Law Dork — www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-con... — so I definitely urge you to check this out from @mjsdc.bsky.social and @leahlitman.bsky.social —>

A projection on the outside of the Old North Church reading "Let the WARNING ride forth ONCE MORE: TYRANNY is at OUR DOOR"

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!

House Republicans are set to pass a voter suppression bill that would disenfranchise millions “It's a five-alarm fire for American voters and for election officials”

🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise:

-21 million w/out access to citizenship docs
-69 million women who took spouses last name
-ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

the distant wailing from over yonder? yeah, that's me. no, i won't stop. i can't, actually.

It's also like not only are you not going to get bananas or coffee or whatever, but a ton of businesses with products you like will simply go under because their profit margins were too slim.

This will mean a massive wipeout of competition and centralization of the market.

i don't think all that stuff with the tariffs is a very good idea

Hollow Knight: Silksong is launching in 2025 The Hollow Knight sequel is nearly here.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is launching in 2025 - https://www.theverge.com/news/610766/hollow-knight-silksong-release-date-trailer

well that was a very entertaining stream. they spent ten minutes announcing voice chat. you have to pay for breath of the wild 60 frames. it broke in the middle and completely fucked the ff7 announcement. silksong was there but also not there. bloodborne 2 switch exclusive. no price. incredible

i don't always video call with my nintendo friends, but when i do, i do so with my young and diverse yet unthreatening and chic group of friends living in trendy yet warm and slightly cluttered living rooms

Con law prof here. This shit is WILD. "Plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate" to disappear whoever the state deems a terrorist is not a fucking thing in any kind of constitutional democracy. It's unvarnished tyranny.

I genuinely do not think the vast, vast majority of the U.S. public has the slightest fucking clue about the broad, concussive systemic failures headed their way

Bro, I hate having to wake up every day and google shit like "what happens if we don't have an Education Department"

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