Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@femiyahtzee.bsky.social
metacognition zealot & public library evangelist, writing about law, ethics, media, and SFF. I was a guest on Women at Warp once.
“Terrifyingly brilliant. Brilliantly terrifying.” — opposing counsel
“Very special.” — my mom
https://www.laseneschale.com/
“Terrifyingly brilliant. Brilliantly terrifying.” — opposing counsel
“Very special.” — my mom
https://www.laseneschale.com/
Pinned
“Can you believe Elon asserted that it’s a crime for a journalist to disclose the identifies of his crew, while he doxxed the daughter of the judge who is faithfully applying the law?”
Yes.
What you see as “hypocrisy” on his part is just authoritarianism. 1/🧵
Yes.
What you see as “hypocrisy” on his part is just authoritarianism. 1/🧵
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When I went home to Mississippi last week, a Black farmer welcomed folks to pick greens from his land for free. It made me wonder whether other communities across the country were also giving back ahead of the holiday.
The answer: yes, they are.
capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...
The answer: yes, they are.
capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...
Why Fresh Collard Greens Are Becoming a Holiday Lifeline in These Communities
From farmers to churches, residents across the country are working together to provide free food for those in need this holiday season.
capitalbnews.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
When I went home to Mississippi last week, a Black farmer welcomed folks to pick greens from his land for free. It made me wonder whether other communities across the country were also giving back ahead of the holiday.
The answer: yes, they are.
capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...
The answer: yes, they are.
capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...
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My Brain:
"Psst, here's a great idea for your book."
Me:
"I'm busy. I'll write it down later. I'll remember it."
Morgan Freeman:
"But he did not remember it, for his brain soon moved on to wonder how cottage cheese gets made."
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky
"Psst, here's a great idea for your book."
Me:
"I'm busy. I'll write it down later. I'll remember it."
Morgan Freeman:
"But he did not remember it, for his brain soon moved on to wonder how cottage cheese gets made."
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
My Brain:
"Psst, here's a great idea for your book."
Me:
"I'm busy. I'll write it down later. I'll remember it."
Morgan Freeman:
"But he did not remember it, for his brain soon moved on to wonder how cottage cheese gets made."
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky
"Psst, here's a great idea for your book."
Me:
"I'm busy. I'll write it down later. I'll remember it."
Morgan Freeman:
"But he did not remember it, for his brain soon moved on to wonder how cottage cheese gets made."
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky
Criminalmeeeeeeente 🔥
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Criminalmeeeeeeente 🔥
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not at all to dunk (I wrote a whole book on why capital should flow in this directions!) but these examples plus a cursory history of each seems like bad news to me
We need much more finance flowing to developing countries—according to leading estimates, 1-2% of developed countries' GDP and 3-5% of developing countries' GDP.
The good news: large-scale finance to developing countries has happened before and worked
The good news: large-scale finance to developing countries has happened before and worked
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
not at all to dunk (I wrote a whole book on why capital should flow in this directions!) but these examples plus a cursory history of each seems like bad news to me
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can anyone who understands finance lingo tell me if this is a good or bad sign??
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
can anyone who understands finance lingo tell me if this is a good or bad sign??
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Long before Bari Weiss came to wreck CBS, Newsweek's Clara Jeffery set out to turn a distinguished periodical with a storied working class history into People fucking Magazine.
The women drawn to RFK Jr. see an intoxicating cocktail of romance and danger—whether it's getting attacked by a yak or texting about taking metaphorical bullets for each other.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Long before Bari Weiss came to wreck CBS, Newsweek's Clara Jeffery set out to turn a distinguished periodical with a storied working class history into People fucking Magazine.
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Getting vaccinated is the real punk rock.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
CDC’s new top deputy had ordered his state health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations amid a flu surge www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Getting vaccinated is the real punk rock.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
Getting vaccinated is the real counter cultural move.
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Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection.
But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk.
They are still worth getting.
Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.
But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk.
They are still worth getting.
Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection.
But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk.
They are still worth getting.
Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.
But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk.
They are still worth getting.
Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.
“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex . . . All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men . . . Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.” — Marilyn Frye
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex . . . All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men . . . Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.” — Marilyn Frye
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You can read my books for free by requesting it for purchase from a library. The library buys it, I get royalties, and you get it for free. And future readers also get my book for free. Easy! Everyone wins!
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
You can read my books for free by requesting it for purchase from a library. The library buys it, I get royalties, and you get it for free. And future readers also get my book for free. Easy! Everyone wins!
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I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
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Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
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Every single person who gets sick becomes a new vector through which a disease spreads. One person becomes ten, which becomes five hundred in a heartbeat.
Even if you're eager to see some individual suffer- which you shouldn't be- DISEASES DON'T STOP AT ONE PERSON.
Even if you're eager to see some individual suffer- which you shouldn't be- DISEASES DON'T STOP AT ONE PERSON.
Quick reminder to some in the replies that it isn't just "republicans" who will get sick, and wishing diseases on kids because their parents vote republican makes you an asshole, anyway.
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Every single person who gets sick becomes a new vector through which a disease spreads. One person becomes ten, which becomes five hundred in a heartbeat.
Even if you're eager to see some individual suffer- which you shouldn't be- DISEASES DON'T STOP AT ONE PERSON.
Even if you're eager to see some individual suffer- which you shouldn't be- DISEASES DON'T STOP AT ONE PERSON.
I keep saying, the thing about Republicans is that every accusation is a confession.
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I keep saying, the thing about Republicans is that every accusation is a confession.
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We’ve got one more chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025: @aftynbehn.bsky.social (a state representative and former Indivisible organizer) can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double-digits if we turn enough voters out: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We’ve got one more chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025: @aftynbehn.bsky.social (a state representative and former Indivisible organizer) can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double-digits if we turn enough voters out: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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You can’t escape anti-trans hatred even when you avoid politics. It’s seeping its way into my downtime. My hobbies are now being ruined. This is one of the less obvious ways they’re trying to exclude us from all of society.
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
You can’t escape anti-trans hatred even when you avoid politics. It’s seeping its way into my downtime. My hobbies are now being ruined. This is one of the less obvious ways they’re trying to exclude us from all of society.
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this is how you lose the dish war
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
this is how you lose the dish war
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if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
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Did you know: Eric Adams could temporarily thwart Zohran's plan to freeze rents by appointing a "tenant member" of the RGB who's willing to raise rents?
That's why the Rent Justice Coalition—incl. Crown Heights Tenant Union + Met Council on Housing—is organizing to make that politically untenable.
That's why the Rent Justice Coalition—incl. Crown Heights Tenant Union + Met Council on Housing—is organizing to make that politically untenable.
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Did you know: Eric Adams could temporarily thwart Zohran's plan to freeze rents by appointing a "tenant member" of the RGB who's willing to raise rents?
That's why the Rent Justice Coalition—incl. Crown Heights Tenant Union + Met Council on Housing—is organizing to make that politically untenable.
That's why the Rent Justice Coalition—incl. Crown Heights Tenant Union + Met Council on Housing—is organizing to make that politically untenable.
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ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event
If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”
Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.
He died soon after.
If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”
Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.
He died soon after.
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event
If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”
Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.
He died soon after.
If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”
Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.
He died soon after.
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
Nice to see the “Yet you participate in society. Curious!” brigade is hard at work again
they’re criticizing Mamdani for flying to DC to meet with the president
They’re saying he should’ve taken the Amtrak
They’re saying he should’ve taken the Amtrak
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Nice to see the “Yet you participate in society. Curious!” brigade is hard at work again
Of course not, he’s got the terrorists he pardoned to do that for him.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Of course not, he’s got the terrorists he pardoned to do that for him.