Susie Bright

I don’t know! Within our staff milieu, it was taken for granted, it was just SF queer milieu. Sex worker informed. overwhelmingly, was how closeted the entire lesbian and queer community was, it was more of a Us Over Here and Straights Over There kind of feeling. Everyone was an outlaw.

Thanks, you guys

Desperately Seeking Women: My On Our Backs Personals Empire Why are young women fascinated with the personal ads of their mother’s generation?

Queer History, written in the personal ads: @susiebright.bsky.social  writes about the personal ads for queer women in the zine "On Our Backs." They were groundbreaking, allowing queer women to reach out and state their desires openly.

All my 2025 pumpkins

The reason 42 million Americans are on SNAP is because employers aren’t paying living wages.

Yeah, they’re just endlessly fun and helpful

Wow! It’s not even close. Food banks can’t keep up with the need…

Question: “How long is this sustainable.”

Food bank director: “It’s not… for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Must I Hammer It In?

I got to talk to the two smartest tool-dudes in the world, @Mark Frauenfelder and @Kevin Kelly about the four tools I can’t live without.

Yes, the Hitachi Magic Wand is right in there. But the others may surprise…

susiebright.ink/p/susie-talk...

This is so clarifying. Cory is in the fourth dimension. Now everything makes sense. Thank you for this!

Omg, she’s genius. I want to try this too.

I'm curious to know if they were just shotgunning the theft, hoping to get something valuable, or if there was a single item targeted and everything else was stolen just to cover that up.

The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah “We believe that the first thing we have to do is build something that people want.”

Many of you, I know, receive a lot of national news, but care a lot about local. You also hate paywalls.

If that's you read this detailed story. "The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah."

www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

#AllBillionairesAreCriminals

I’m not kidding

Mobster scumbags acting in a pretense of the application of the law.

“Overrides birth certificates…”

A fuckin app developed by Peter Thiel that can tell in an instant if you are the anti-Christ

Illegal sequestration of appropriations that have been legally made by the Congress of the United States of America should not be tolerated.

And yet it is being tolerated .

#GeneralStrikeNow if you’re tired of this shit.

White House fires commission charged with advising the president on design as Trump pushes construction projects The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency charged with advising the president, Congress and the city of Washington, DC, on “matters of des...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency charged with advising the president, Congress and the city of Washington, DC, on "matters of design and aesthetics."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Jimmy Kimmel Challenges Trump To IQ Test On National Television After Trump's Latest Cognitive Test Brag

We have our popcorn ready.

(1/2) To those in NY-14 and beyond with family and loved ones in Jamaica, we stand with you in this moment of uncertainty.

We are wishing the people of Jamaica safety and strength as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall.

RFK JR can’t drive for shit!

How memorable!

So glad I revived this!

Oh man!

Right? When there literally is no publishing venue for a million out dykes (& several million more aware of themselves who might publish under a pseudonym), what you have is a huge talent pool w no outlet for some of their most important thoughts and feelings. Great talent among them is inevitable.

Interview with David Cronenberg back in the day but oh so current.

Details on JG Ballard and CRASH. You will not believe how much was autobiographical.

Meanwhile, DC’s “history of violence” has been re-released on Criterion with outstanding special features.
susiebright.ink/p/susie-inte...

UM Employee Sues After Losing Her Job for Criticizing Kirk Former University of Mississippi employee Lauren Stokes is suing Chancellor Glenn Boyce for firing her after she criticized Charlie Kirk.

As news that the University of Mississippi had fired Lauren Stokes for sharing a post criticizing Charlie Kirk spread, she and her husband had to close their restaurant and flee Oxford for two weeks amid a wave of threats, the lawsuit says.

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Jesus H Christ, do I love her or WHAT?

Saturday’s Semiconscious Editorial Cartoon Additional Evidence:

Saturday’s Semiconscious Editorial Cartoon
open.substack.com/pub/jonbaili...