Fly
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Writers, artists, etc: PLEASE repost your announcements, releases, etc, even (checks notes) 5 months later, because this is the first time I have seen this (and I follow Olivia) and it looks FABULOUS.
Pianos, silk looms, secret labor unions, and a heist! THE HELLION’S WALTZ is an 1824-set sapphic romance with hate makeouts, bisexuals up to no good, and found family taking down exploitive capitalists:
The Hellion's Waltz — Olivia Waite
www.oliviawaite.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Writers, artists, etc: PLEASE repost your announcements, releases, etc, even (checks notes) 5 months later, because this is the first time I have seen this (and I follow Olivia) and it looks FABULOUS.
Fuck this rancid fuckery.
I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS.
I'm heartbroken for him.
I'm heartbroken for him.
December 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Fuck this rancid fuckery.
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Get a heated toilet seat they said.
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Get a heated toilet seat they said.
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
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feels like a good time to remind the universe at large that I have two high heat romance novels about queer ice skaters ready to go WHENEVER
December 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
feels like a good time to remind the universe at large that I have two high heat romance novels about queer ice skaters ready to go WHENEVER
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Here he is taking the photo.
December 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Here he is taking the photo.
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We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets
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Reminder: women's hockey ☺️
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Reminder: women's hockey ☺️
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absolutely wild that the british press reported this event as "princess kate narrowly misses bumping into andrew because they both visited at the same time!" rather than "notorious sex offender invited to hang out on film set full of child actors."
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
absolutely wild that the british press reported this event as "princess kate narrowly misses bumping into andrew because they both visited at the same time!" rather than "notorious sex offender invited to hang out on film set full of child actors."
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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I can't believe we are Actually seeing a mainstream politician openly say as need to be nice to refugees in 2025.
I wish Zack inspires movements across the world with his brand of politics
I wish Zack inspires movements across the world with his brand of politics
I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Zack Polanski: Allow small boat migrants in and let them work
Green Party leader accuses Sir Keir Starmer of following Nigel Farage in ‘pushing racist rhetoric’ and calls JK Rowling’s stance on single-sex spaces ‘hateful’
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I can't believe we are Actually seeing a mainstream politician openly say as need to be nice to refugees in 2025.
I wish Zack inspires movements across the world with his brand of politics
I wish Zack inspires movements across the world with his brand of politics
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Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.
December 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.
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Ai has confidently told me that I have two cats named Bramble & Clover, I grew up on my grandmother's farm, I was a ballet dancer before I was a writer, and I've been married "many times". All it came from hallucinated sources; none of it is true. This is just one of the many reasons to resist Ai.
December 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Ai has confidently told me that I have two cats named Bramble & Clover, I grew up on my grandmother's farm, I was a ballet dancer before I was a writer, and I've been married "many times". All it came from hallucinated sources; none of it is true. This is just one of the many reasons to resist Ai.
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The full list of demands, in all its lunacy, is available here:
👉 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
The demands include :
- All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
- All your phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your email addresses from the last 10 years
2/
👉 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
The demands include :
- All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
- All your phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your email addresses from the last 10 years
2/
December 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The full list of demands, in all its lunacy, is available here:
👉 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
The demands include :
- All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
- All your phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your email addresses from the last 10 years
2/
👉 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
The demands include :
- All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
- All your phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your email addresses from the last 10 years
2/
Oh, again, dear.
A Pulitzer for whoever chose the photo on this one
It's a whole new world for Mickey, Simba, Stitch and more as Disney brings hundreds of its characters to Sora, the short-form video platform from OpenAI, as part of a three-year licensing agreement. n.pr/44ph9KC
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Oh, again, dear.
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Frog and Toad waited a long time.
Four days later the snail got to Toad's house and gave him the letter from Frog. Toad was very pleased to have it.
Four days later the snail got to Toad's house and gave him the letter from Frog. Toad was very pleased to have it.
December 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Frog and Toad waited a long time.
Four days later the snail got to Toad's house and gave him the letter from Frog. Toad was very pleased to have it.
Four days later the snail got to Toad's house and gave him the letter from Frog. Toad was very pleased to have it.
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This holiday season, In case you were not aware; tulips, lillies, cyclamen, holly, mistletoe and poinsettia are toxic to cats and dogs; lilies and cyclamen are especially deadly for cats. Please be advised, I do not want anyone to lose a beloved pet just because they werent warned!
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This holiday season, In case you were not aware; tulips, lillies, cyclamen, holly, mistletoe and poinsettia are toxic to cats and dogs; lilies and cyclamen are especially deadly for cats. Please be advised, I do not want anyone to lose a beloved pet just because they werent warned!
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That and the attempts to force AI despite few people wanting it and LOTS of people trying to figure out how to get rid of it. This isn't a desired technology. This isn't like when people lined up in excitement for iphones; it's like when the phones all came loaded with unwanted U2 albums.
December 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
That and the attempts to force AI despite few people wanting it and LOTS of people trying to figure out how to get rid of it. This isn't a desired technology. This isn't like when people lined up in excitement for iphones; it's like when the phones all came loaded with unwanted U2 albums.
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Tulipmaina all over again.
Everything old is new again. Again.
Everything old is new again. Again.
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Tulipmaina all over again.
Everything old is new again. Again.
Everything old is new again. Again.
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What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.
Still salty about this absolutely BIZARRE authorial volte face in #TheTombOfDragons.
To suddenly start frantically insisting NO HOMO!!! about someone you’ve queer coded for 2 1/2 books is just…why?
He could have an unrequited crush on the protagonist. He could just recognise ‘family’. But…
To suddenly start frantically insisting NO HOMO!!! about someone you’ve queer coded for 2 1/2 books is just…why?
He could have an unrequited crush on the protagonist. He could just recognise ‘family’. But…
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Still salty about this absolutely BIZARRE authorial volte face in #TheTombOfDragons.
To suddenly start frantically insisting NO HOMO!!! about someone you’ve queer coded for 2 1/2 books is just…why?
He could have an unrequited crush on the protagonist. He could just recognise ‘family’. But…
To suddenly start frantically insisting NO HOMO!!! about someone you’ve queer coded for 2 1/2 books is just…why?
He could have an unrequited crush on the protagonist. He could just recognise ‘family’. But…
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"All I've done is ruin a once thriving social media platform, took an unofficial unelected government position to destroy infrastructure resulting in millions of deaths, and am currently destroying the environment to make a Yes Man from Fallout but with big anime tiddies. Why don't people like me?"
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"All I've done is ruin a once thriving social media platform, took an unofficial unelected government position to destroy infrastructure resulting in millions of deaths, and am currently destroying the environment to make a Yes Man from Fallout but with big anime tiddies. Why don't people like me?"
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Americans have absolutely no idea how the EU works and that has become painfully evident over the past week.
December 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Americans have absolutely no idea how the EU works and that has become painfully evident over the past week.
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That's it. That's the show.
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
That's it. That's the show.
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Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.”
Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…
Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…
December 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.”
Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…
Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…