Gemma Webster

I love Crystal Galindo! I have two of her paintings. Your earrings are fabulous.

If you're a writer who could use a query critique but can't donate to this fundraiser, DM me! We have some gifted slots ready and available for the taking!

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I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

Whenever I feel despair I reach for something concrete I can do to help. If this is you today go help pay someone’s rent.

Let's learn some surprising things about hummingbird tongues.

First, as you can see, their tongues are forked & feathery, highly specialized for lapping up their liquid diet of nectar.

But it gets weirder up close!

Dark purple Lenten rose flower buds cluster at the feet of a cute pleading stone dragon. I call her Begonia.

Lenten roses have become my favorite garden plant. Even in my shadiest iciest spot I’ve got some dark purple flowers in the works.

Looks like Colorado hasn’t banned this but seems to have legislation in the works to do so. Contact your local Colorado reps and tell them you support this type of initiative.

I donated to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors fund.

guys read this whole thread, I'm crying

GUYS!! I can’t believe it, but my story tied for 1st place in the Uncanny Reader Poll! I’ve never gotten 1st place in anything, nevermind for something I’ve written, nevermind alongside such insanely good writers. Thank you so much to all the readers! 🙏🏻

Community Corner: Michael Dougherty on ICE and Knowing Your Rights in Colorado - Yellow Scene Magazine As communities across the country continue to voice valid concerns about ICE, it is crucial that people understand their rights in Colorado.

"As communities across the country continue to voice valid concerns about ICE, it is crucial that people understand their rights in Colorado and the many ways we can protect ourselves and our immigrant communities." #boulder

The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?

We had an amazing Doomed Valentines show in Denver tonight. If you’re looking for an easy way to do some good, join us (Mortified Live Denver) in supporting Casa de Paz who are there when detainees are released from the Aurora ICE facility.
www.casadepazcolorado.org/give

I am reading Starving Saints right now. Your imagination is wild! (complementary)

This thread is a gem.

Should you use ChatGPT for relationship or sex advice?

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Hometown hero

CU invests $2 million in Boulder campus's Center for African and African American Studies The University of Colorado has announced it's investing $2 million over five years to directly support the Center for African & African American Studies at CU Boulder.

"The University of Colorado has announced it’s investing $2 million over five years to directly support the Center for African & African American Studies at CU Boulder." #boulder

Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak.

But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.

How Colorado's immigrant communities — and their health care providers — are bracing for impact under Trump's budget bill The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also known as H.R. 1, will block refugees and asylees from Medicare and Medicaid, among other restrictions

How Colorado’s immigrant communities — and their health care providers — are bracing for impact under Trump’s budget bill

When I heard that the march had been tear gassed, I ran down to the ICE building to do some reporting; I arrived about an hour and a half after the first gassing, and was immediately tear gassed myself. The people from earlier in the day had long since dispersed; the protesters who were there now were, like myself, wearing gas masks. Even the Portland Chicken was wearing a full-face gas mask inside of his chicken costume. About 40 minutes later, I watched glowing munitions arc over my head and fall toward me. I ducked and held my helmet over my head; once again, tear gas billowed all around me. Some of the protesters had been collecting the spent munitions from the ground, and let me look through the bucket of sludgy, dented canisters. I found approximately 20 spent munitions in the bucket.

I've never had tear gas launched at me straight from over my head until now. That's also what happened to these unmasked, normie daytime protesters. ICE is shooting the tear gas up in the air so it arcs and falls way across the street and into the next block.

Please buy books that are coming out this year.

Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

Our Customers Demand Terrible AI Systems We’ve been banging our heads against the wall, trying to think of the new “it” thing our customers want. At one point, somebody suggested improving...

"I understand that terrible AI systems are technically terrible, but I’ll be damned if they’re not confident... What naysayers don’t seem to realize is that people respond better to a confident liar shouting out answers than a polite expert. Women can back me up on this."

I contacted my rep today. There is no quick and easy way out of this mess. Every grain of sand in the gears slows this terrible machine.

I have contacted both my senators today.

Immigrant Rights Groups Immigrant Rights & Mutual Aid Groups by State This list was compiled from Fair Immigration Reform Movement membership, Win Without War immigration and mutual aid resources, National Network for Immigr...

Immigrant Rights Groups by State. List by @jayapal.house.gov - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

2025 Award Winners In Conversation: An Evening with Rhonda McKnight & Cynthia Swanson

EveryLibrary is hosting me tonight re: Anyone But Her, my relationships with libraries & librarians (spoiler: I adore them), & being named 2025 Indie Author of the Year. This event is at 7 pm MT, 9 pm ET, and you can view it on Facebook or YouTube. Check it out!

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