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Effie Seiberg
@effies.bsky.social
SFF/middle-grade fiction/satire writer. Strategy/marketing consultant. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled with #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories (or @[email protected] on Mastodon)
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New story day! "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything" is free to read on @diabolicalplots.com !

My wheelchair-using superhero does battle with the non-ADA-compliant superhero union.

Come for the punny superhero names, stay for the disability access rage & catharsis!

www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
DP FICTION #123B: “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg – Diabolical Plots
www.diabolicalplots.com
Thread. Long but worth reading.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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February 12, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like:

The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/

Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate

Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
February 12, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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And please thank lawyers doing this work. We’re carrying a lot of trauma for voiceless clients. We are tired. We have become experts in new law under the most dire circumstances.

If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources.

30/end?
February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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“ These people came along and decided that they wanna build a machine God, and then they end up stealing data, killing the environment, exploiting labor in that process.”
- @timnitgebru.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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Governance by conspiracy theory.

This article is wild.
Meet the ‘Cabal’-Hating ‘Special Government Employee’ Involved in the Fulton County FBI Raid
Clay Parikh unloaded in a nearly two hour conversation with TPM.
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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i just drove past a yard full of longhair dachshunds munching on the grass and they looked like a herd of small cows
February 11, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
February 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Woke up like dis
#DailyDoggo
February 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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You know what we need? More Daily red pandas playing in snow :3
February 11, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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WTAF:

“Defense Secretary Hegseth signed an agreement for the Pentagon to loan the directed energy counter drone platform to DHS”

Apparently CBP using DOD tech led to the FAA shutting down airspace over El Paso.
February 11, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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For those eligible to vote you can do so for my poem Cassandra published by Ucanny Magazine in 2025:

www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-maga...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/cass...
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!

Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
February 11, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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🚨 In which 5 major insurance carriers confirm everything I've been warning about.

Carriers representing ~50% of total ACA enrollment expect over 3.2M to drop coverage by the end of the year.

charlesgaba.substack.com/p/in-which-m...
In which major Insurer earnings reports confirm everything I've been warning about
Carriers representing ~1/2 of total enrollment expect over 3.2M to drop coverage by the end of the year
charlesgaba.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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'Tis the season! If you're a nominator I would love for you to consider Transmentation | Transience by @darklylem.com. Eligible in the Novel category.

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Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!

Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
February 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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DC statehood yesterday
Congressional Republicans are going to deprive D.C. of $700 million in revenue and repeal a local program projected to reduce child poverty by 20 percent, solely to spite District residents and make us suffer. They’re also throwing our tax filing into utter chaos. This is a disaster.
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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I would be very honoured if anyone wanted to nominate one of my eligible works for a Hugo.
February 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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If you are a Hugo nominator, and you liked PRESS 1 FOR INVASION, it would be a lifetime-level honor for me to be nominated for a Hugo, so just putting that out there....

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Press-...
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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I am eligible for Best Long Form Editor, but there are about fifteen editors I would vote for before myself 😁 Talented folk, in the SFF editorial field!
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!

Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
February 11, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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If anyone wants to nominate Ahu Tiiko for a Hugo, I wouldn't complain.
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!

Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
February 11, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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🚨"The white community is finally seeing what [Black people] have been saying all along—how government cover ups happen, how those in power lie and manipulate," arrested ICE church protester Nekima Levy Armstrong on Trump cover-ups of Renee Good & Alex Pretti murders.
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Every non-bigoted sentence out of that man's mouth sounds like it was immediately preceded by a giant toke
insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man
February 11, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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just in case anyone needs reminding or a guide:

reactormag.com/anyone-can-v...
February 11, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Hello! I see you've decided to conflate a human being being an evil fascist apologist committing crimes and perpetuating fraud with (checks notes) being a woman. Perhaps you would like to not do this.
Bondi is clearly going through menopause. “…mood changes and "brain fog," often begin during perimenopause (mid-40s to early 50s) - along with irrational moods and temper tantrums
February 11, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.

Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
woohooo!!!
February 11, 2026 at 10:50 PM