I guess it's Prime Day(s) again, so here are some options if you'd rather not help Jeff Bezos grow even richer. 🧵

First, a couple of Starter Packs of Indie Bookstores to support. (If you are or know of an indie bookstore w/ a Bluesky account that's not listed, let me know.)
go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm

BEE FORTRESS

Chotiner interviews Janeway

Morcheeba, Tricky, and Portishead.

Just a reminder. Hat tip to @bornmiserable.bsky.social for the excellent shirt.

Lessons from the recent past, can give us inspiration for the battles to come.

“The neo-Nazis just kept coming in groups over and over. We were far outnumbered, but I watched countless antifa youth risk their lives, one by one, to fight back.” itsgoingdown.org/antifa-saved...

some more helpful reminders from 2016 me who knew more than i do now #reruns

All my coworkers live in Virginia and ask me the most ridiculous questions about living in DC

“Is it bad in your neighborhood?”

“Is it weird on the metro?”

“Can you even go out at night?”

The number of nights I have staggered half cockeyed across this city

the misinformation is very real

YESSSS!! DO THE THING, FRIENDS AND COMRADES!!! Such an awesome opportunity.

YES! I don’t know what the hell is going on there but.

I’m on the phone with them now. Wednesday night is sold out at the con rate and the REGULAR RATE IS $579!!! I am in my car screaming internally.

Yeah, I’m in an office with zero privacy so I can’t call from my desk - fortunately I can leave for lunch so fingers crossed!

I’m going to leave the office to see if I can call. I’ll let you know the results.

I’m having the same problem. 😭😭😭

Your friendly neighbourhood author, after turning in the final book in The Nameless Republic trilogy:

I am always such a sucker for mycelial networks, as in this @clarkesworldmagazine.com story by @lchanwrites.bsky.social : clarkesworldmagazine.com/chan_08_25/

Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP
MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue
Stripe feeling the pressure
ACLU put out a statement
CBC covered all this

What you are doing is WORKING
You are getting RESULTS
KEEP CALLING
KEEP WRITING
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!

remember to be kind to yourself fuckface

you know you're fucked when the entire internet is putting their differences aside to work together for a common goal. when you got bluesky, reddit, twitter and 4chan all working together you have no shot at this ending well unless you back down completely

190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!

We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

go read the original thread +

as I told a friend recently while discussing this:

"...child-welfare workers are effectively punishing families, particularly Black families, because they are poor. The problem intensified after Clinton-era welfare reform... There are now major U.S. cities where 60% of Black children have had some form of contact with child-welfare officials."