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Fantasy and science fiction writer. mariafoxwriter.com Former academic. I have opinions and sometimes share them. She/her. Pro-democracy. 5calls.org. No DMs, thanks.

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I’m Sick Of Hearing, “I Didn’t Vote For This!”
YouTube video by TabithaSpeaksPolitics I’m Sick Of Hearing, “I Didn’t Vote For This!”

I’m Sick Of Hearing, “I Didn’t Vote For This!”
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23.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 43    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0
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Dictatorships come for joy. They come for spontaneity. They come for creativity and nonconformity.

Keep yours, in whatever form it takes.

You got this.

24.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 58    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0
A drone selfie of me sitting near the edge of a long rock sticking out from a cliff that overlooks a valley of lush green trees with spotty fall colors of yellow, orange, and red.

A drone selfie of me sitting near the edge of a long rock sticking out from a cliff that overlooks a valley of lush green trees with spotty fall colors of yellow, orange, and red.

A drone image of mountains full of trees right at Sunset. About half are green, while the rest display fall colors of yellow, orange, and red. The sky is clear, with a hazy orange glow.

A drone image of mountains full of trees right at Sunset. About half are green, while the rest display fall colors of yellow, orange, and red. The sky is clear, with a hazy orange glow.

A close-up drone image of a hill full of trees. About half are green, while the rest display fall colors of yellow, orange, and red.

A close-up drone image of a hill full of trees. About half are green, while the rest display fall colors of yellow, orange, and red.

My effort to visit every single county in the continental United States taught me that every state can surprise you. There is beauty all around if you know where to look. I've always known that northern Arkansas was pretty, but it blew me away last weekend as fall colors began to show. #photography

23.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 205    🔁 22    💬 5    📌 2

it's so odd to me to see people go to bat for a political newcomer like platner. it's not like he's spent years earning our trust. we have very, very few data points about this dude, and one of those data points is "he has a nazi tattoo."

23.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 4055    🔁 445    💬 125    📌 44
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Near-Hurricane Melissa Will Drop Mind-Boggling Rain on Jamaica Melissa is currently a slow-moving tropical storm that is expected to rapidly intensify to a major hurricane—a brutal combination will drench Jamaica and other Caribbean islands

Melissa is currently a slow-moving tropical storm that is expected to rapidly intensify to a major hurricane—a brutal combination will drench Jamaica and other Caribbean islands

23.10.2025 21:02 — 👍 40    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0
Cover to THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP
Art by Tom Canty
Design by Elizabeth Story

Cover to THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Art by Tom Canty Design by Elizabeth Story

Pub on Tuesday!

THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP!

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With an intro by @ellenkushner.bsky.social

3 ways to WIN:

@thestorygraph.com
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#Goodreads buff.ly/4W4cPWn

@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/ENz9qCF

#giveaway

22.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 40    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1
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#TheNewYorker #TheResistance #autocracy #Project2025 #dictatorship

11.10.2025 18:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings

19.10.2025 13:25 — 👍 4737    🔁 1242    💬 113    📌 112

People who call peaceful protest a waste of time don't understand protest. Of course a No Kings protest alone won't change the world. Protest is meant to be part of a larger movement. It shows solidarity and helps folk feel more confident doing the community work that actually makes change happen.

19.10.2025 01:17 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The inflatable costume thing with the protesters is really good because it renders the body armor/CoD weaponry aesthetic of the ICE Nazis even more ridiculous than it already was. Suiting up like Rambo to face down a dancing frog. No coming back from that

19.10.2025 00:31 — 👍 2931    🔁 520    💬 27    📌 24
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Welcome New Fiction Editor - Joyce Wolf Chng! We are very happy to welcome a new Fiction Editor, We are very happy to welcome a new Fiction Editor, Joyce Chng, to the team!

Oh hi.

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

17.10.2025 05:13 — 👍 217    🔁 51    💬 41    📌 0

I’ve said this before, a lot, but when you’re an author and your book doesn’t sell your feelings can default to the premise, “Everyone in the world was offered my book and they all personally rejected it.” The truth is most people don’t know it exists. Awareness is the problem, not you or your book.

17.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 210    🔁 60    💬 4    📌 16

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

18.10.2025 23:19 — 👍 11593    🔁 1798    💬 84    📌 1

The numbers I am seeing, and the breadth of people and places with basically no arrests and so forth, seem to me an unqualified political loss for them. It is a show of strength rather than the fight itself, but you can’t downplay it.

18.10.2025 23:23 — 👍 3198    🔁 454    💬 33    📌 15

Great fires, can start from a tiny spark
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#NoKings

18.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Let this moment be a wakeup call to stop taking some of the far-left seriously.

Mamdani isn't good enough for them. Nor is Rep. AOC. Nor is Sen. Sanders. No one is good enough for them.

(thread)

17.10.2025 12:24 — 👍 3029    🔁 536    💬 125    📌 160

I think today has been a massive success by the organizers and it needs no defending on the merits and any leftists who would seek to downplay it have demonstrated once again how they're completely useless by choice in this moment.

19.10.2025 01:32 — 👍 4470    🔁 491    💬 48    📌 27
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Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday

NYT confirms our reporting from days ago - which the WH said was fake news - that Trump and Hegseth are pulling a stunt to fire artillery rounds over I-5 between SD and LA onto Camp Pendleton as a stunt, one of the busiest highways in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

18.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 2096    🔁 864    💬 180    📌 104
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OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

18.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 17000    🔁 3764    💬 1273    📌 128

Every single No Kings protest, all 2,500+ of them across the country, made Mike Johnson and House Republican leadership look like lying sacks of shit for all the bullshit that spewed out of their mouths about it this week.

Again.

Not very Christian.

18.10.2025 19:54 — 👍 6371    🔁 1293    💬 213    📌 33
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While people continue to struggle to get FEMA aid approved after their lives were destroyed by natural disasters.

19.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 12766    🔁 5043    💬 872    📌 310

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

18.10.2025 23:08 — 👍 22451    🔁 3860    💬 703    📌 119
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No Kings Coalition says two million more people protested today than in June. Nearly 7 million total.

18.10.2025 21:50 — 👍 3820    🔁 742    💬 37    📌 47
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The actual silent majority also showed up for #NoKings in College Station, Texas! So many people were honking and waving in solidarity with protestors too - seems like almost everyone is fed up with Trump and Project 2025.

18.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 131    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0
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Visiting my son in College Station, so I didn't expect much. But in the heart of conservatism, people showed up. #NoKings #collegestation

18.10.2025 23:11 — 👍 263    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 4
No Kings protest at Town Square Park in Anchorage, Alaska.

No Kings protest at Town Square Park in Anchorage, Alaska.

No Kings Anchorage.

18.10.2025 23:16 — 👍 1567    🔁 263    💬 13    📌 10
A person wearing an inflatable uncle sam American eagle costume

A person wearing an inflatable uncle sam American eagle costume

A protestor wearing an inflatable frog costume

A protestor wearing an inflatable frog costume

A group of protesters with no kings signs

A group of protesters with no kings signs

A group of protesters with No King signs

A group of protesters with No King signs

San Juan Island turned out for #NoKingsDay

18.10.2025 23:30 — 👍 61    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 1
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Photos show ‘No Kings’ rallies against Trump across the US and in Europe Protesting the country's direction under President Donald Trump, thousands of people brought a street party vibe to the nation’s capital and communities across the U.S. for “ No Kings ” demonstrations...

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#GOP #Racist #MAGA #Republican #Sexualabuser #Homophobic #Transphobic #Fascist #Felon #Trump=white headed pimple. Those supporting Trump/#Republicans=The *TRUE* infection #Oct18th #NoKingsDay #NoKings

18.10.2025 23:21 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

No Kings is reporting that 7,000,000 Americans turned out to rally against Trump today.

That's over THREE TIMES the number of votes Donald Trump claims to have gotten over Kamala Harris.

18.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 4729    🔁 1164    💬 144    📌 47

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