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Donate to Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!, organized by Eileen Gunn Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a… Eileen Gunn needs your support for Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!

I donated to help @nisishawl.bsky.social write the book of their dream, and hope you will donate, as well:

gofund.me/63eccfad

Signal boosts also good. Thanks!

Saw the last Twilight flick in the theater for reasons. There were only 12ish ppl in the audience incl. a group of abt 5 teens. There’s a huge fake-out in the movie after which one of the teens yelled, “Oh, hell no!” then stood up & ran a full lap around the theater. Everyone was full-on cracking up

Love this take

Honorable mentions for Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots & pre-ordering Charlie Jane Anders’ upcoming Lessons in Magic and Disaster. I would have bought both anyway, but Bsky kept them front of mind.

At least 2: Cyberlibertarianism by David Golumbia because of posts several people made about it and It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest because of reposts of her launch day post.

Thanks for reminding me about this band.

Over 100 aid agencies call for Gaza ceasefire, warn of starvation risks | CBC News More than 100 largely aid and rights groups on Wednesday called for governments to take action as hunger spreads in Gaza, including by demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the lifting of...

“The UN-led humanitarian system has not failed, it has been prevented from functioning.”

Not just one aid organization. Over 100 saying the same thing together.

Gazans are starving.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

This is a great resource

adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

Officials say 85 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens evacuation orders Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 85 Palestinians have been killed while trying to reach food on the deadliest day yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war

Deliberately starving people and shooting them when they seek aid is an industrial and systemic approach to mass murder.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Plus there’s Skunk Anansie

The State of GA is cancelling almost 500,000 voter registrations in the next 40 days. Check your registration. Remind your friends to check their registration!

Nice! 💃🏾

How to add alt text to images on Bluesky (and why you should) Alt text is far more important than you might think, and Bluesky makes it fairly easy for you to add it to images you post.

Please copy and paste text from photos into alt text to keep information accessible. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

Beautiful work! Don’t forget her E. Octavia E. Butler. Her middle initial was important to her. She even wrote people letters about it when they left it out.

An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations…”

Register to Vote Eligible Georgians can register to vote through the Secretary of State’s Office.

Drop EVERYTHING and check your voter registration NOW. Monday, May 19 is the last day to register before the Public Service Commission primary next month.

To recap:

Trump isn't bad b/c he has felony convictions
RFK Jr. isn't bad b/c he struggled with addiction

They are bad b/c they don't care about protecting the humanity of other people

I can introduce you to lots of people with felonies or addiction who work every day to HELP PEOPLE

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

Federal judge in Vermont orders Tufts University Student Rümeysa Öztürk released on bail after six weeks in detention | CNN A federal judge in Vermont ordered the release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey, who was detained by federal immigration officers near her Massachusetts home on March...

A federal judge in Vermont ordered the immediate release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey, on Friday. She was abducted by masked federal immigration officers near her Massachusetts home on March 25 as punishment for an anti-genocide essay www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/u...

First record I bought with my own money 🎵 Still have the cassette

HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!

The Griffin List A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...

If you voted for Allison Riggs in the 2024 NC election check here to see if your ballot is being challenged. If so, then you have 15 business days from whenever they mail the notices to cure your ballot, but best to check now & cure yours as soon as possible, even if this ruling might get overturned

So many things none of us will perceive will come out of today's gatherings. That's the point. People find each other, they take some strength and remember they aren't actually isolated and alone. This is fortification for what's to come.

How to add alt text to images on Bluesky (and why you should) Alt text is far more important than you might think, and Bluesky makes it fairly easy for you to add it to images you post.

Please copy and paste the text in your image posts into alt text so people who can’t see the image know what it says. The ACLU fights for inclusion. Alt text is an essential part of creating inclusive online spaces. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

I found out my registration had been removed once right before the deadline to be registered for the next election at the time. If you live in Georgia (at all, but especially if you updated your voting registration when you updated your driver’s license) check your registration status often

Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

Legal fund for Rümeysa Öztürk:
chuffed.org/project/just...

Live | U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey

You can watch @booker.senate.gov here as he breaks Strom Thurmond's filibuster record in 14 minutes. www.booker.senate.gov/live

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