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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 5d

If you'd like to see beestung keep buzzing, please consider dropping a few bucks our way 🖤💛🖤💛

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 7d

We're still trying to raise $246 this year to cover expenses, if you're feeling generous.

We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers.

Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤

Thank you. 🐝

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy non-binary day and week!

We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.

If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.

Shares are very much appreciated, too!

www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d

I don't want 100 troops sent to Chicago. It's a major escalation that must be opposed. I also want folks to understand that the agents that have been attacking us at Broadview are more heavily armed and elaborately, tactically outfitted than National Guard troops would be. We're already in some shit

A large group of ICE agents in full tactical gear.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15d

The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families.

GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st...

Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago

Donate to Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund, organized by Maria Orozco

Support Chicago’s Street Vendors We are the Street Vendors Association of Chicago… Maria Orozco needs your support for Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund

www.gofundme.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25d

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sodexo continues to deny T Hoxha written confirmation of her library job, 25 days into her hunger strike.

Pressure their large shareholders (incl. Artisan Partners and BlackRock), which are listed here.

Use our toolkit for email templates: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA

Chart from Sodexo website, "Changes in the breakdown of share capital and voting rights over the last three years."
Largest are Bellon SA, Artisan Partners, MFS Investment Management, BlackRock, First Eagle Investment Management, Employees, Treasure Shares, and Others.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Aug 27

‼️T Hohxa, a Pal Action prisoner is on DAY 16 of their hunger strike. Their statement Aug 26, 2025:
"A nurse asked me why I was going on hunger strike, giving myself long term damage for something so insignificant...but when the state has taken your house, your job, nearly two years of your life..."

Statement from T. Hohxa august 26, 2025
"A nurse asked me why I was going on hunger strike, giving myself long term damage for something so insignificant...but when the state has taken your house, your job, nearly two years of your life..."

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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very grateful to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for taking this one. 😊 Read the rest of the Summer Riot series while you're over there, it's a hoot!

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

Any rain big enough, anywhere,
could sweep a house away.

I need to reacquaint myself
with the Earth I actually inhabit.

—Jacqui Zeng, with our #SummerRiot poem today! ☔️🔥

@jacquiz.bsky.social

“I Search the Internet for Evidence to Justify My Melancholy” by Jacqui Zeng

Yes, headlights are 15% brighter nowand plane turbulence is actually worse.Birds crash into windows, little yellow packages droppedonto the sidewalks, announcingthe death of spring and the riseof b…

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 12

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · Aug 8

Now is a great time to donate to Palestinian orgs and gofundme’s! Dollars are going a little bit farther, for now.

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Aug 8

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from Sameer:

Rice prices dropped! With aid starting to come in, prices in markets are slowly dropping. Our kitchen decreased the price of 800g of rice from $17.50 to $9.

Donate: chuffed.org/project/1132...

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

chuffed.org

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Jul 30

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · Jul 31

📌 (just reposting so I remember to share this thread with my students next semester)

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 26

People *without* executive dysfunction are finding that using chatgpt buries them under multitasking: they have to expend more effort and attention in more tasks to check that it hasn't outputted *absolute fucking nonsense*

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · Jul 29

On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Black member of the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala, writes @mikeelk.bsky.social:
www.commondreams.org/opinion/chri...

Where's the Outrage Over Labor Leader Chris Smalls' Violent Arrest by the IDF? | Common Dreams

Despite Smalls having been profiled by every major media outlet in the U.S. when he successfully led the union drive at Amazon, not a single major media outlet has covered his violent detention by the...

www.commondreams.org

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · Jul 24

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun

Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza

gofund.me

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jul 24

Mutual aid organizations like The Sameer Project, a rapid-response initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, need your help to support their work in Gaza.

Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive.

“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…

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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · Jul 22

This week the Worldcon membership will get a chance to add a #poetryhugo to the ballot permanently. Poetry has been here from the beginning and it deserves recognition. If you love speculative poetry, please share this awesome article by Lynne Sargent.

Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · Jul 22

And here's the editorial on the SPI. Thanks again so much to @strangehorizons.bsky.social for their support. If you have a Worldcon membership, please come to the virtual meeting this Friday @9am PST/12pm EST to support this initiative when it comes to a vote!

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Speculative Poetry and the Hugos

A guest editorial in support of adding a permanent Hugo award for poetry

strangehorizons.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jul 22

Restore Alaa's account! She's a real person. This suspension undermines her ability to seek support, which undermines the survival of her family. These people are dying. Let her fucking talk and connect with people who care.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our most beloved comrades at Open Books have been running an urgent fundraiser for Sameer. They are getting close to their $10k goal thanks to a few new matching campaigns. Please contritibe and share, offer a match (named or anon- dm us) open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

Urgent Fundraising for The Sameer Project

As many journalists in Gaza are now experiencing serious health problems due to the extended campaign of forced starvation, it is more important than ever for all of us to keep speaking about the unsp...

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Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social · Jul 21

Incredibly I have six sonnets in the new issue of The Missouri Review. I've included two of them here. Thanks as always to the editors for including my work! These ones are full of space and Florida and vanishing, so a good summation of my obsessions.

Front cover of the new issue of Missouri Review. A person with long hair in a bun and a missing torso looks down on a grey city scape that they tower over.

Sagittarius A*

In the pool a dead June bug floated towards me and I ducked
beneath it. Underwater I watched it turn in the current
how a star would watch a lost astronaut tumbling along
in the vacuum of space. I find the term vacuum unfair
to space. It contains after all most of everything.
We're the noisy exception—our colliding satellites,
our deep space probes and gold records proving to ourselves
we will outlast ourselves, if only in the vacuum. What's gold
to a universe full of gold? What's a lonely record
to a universe of collapsing stars? Last time I listened
to “Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground,” I felt the song
hurtling further away from Johnson’s burned house,
hurtling further away from Jesus's name, from the holes
in God’s hands, those two voids. I sank into that voice like water.

Of Those Hidden Stars, Minimalist Zodiac, Tell Me

In Florida the night cactus is preparing to bloom,
and I'm cooking breakfast wondering what new flowers
have emerged yellow along my fence line—lighthouses
someone built while I was sleeping. The night cactus blooms
only once a year. It looks like a sky temporarily
absolved of light pollution. Will we stubbornly cling
to the old constellations, or invent new ones reflective
of those hidden stars? Minimalist zodiac, tell me
how in these days anyone can without despair remain
open to the world. Tell me how to look for constellations
without wondering which shape will be the first to lose
its attendant animal. I am dicing tomatoes
and cracking eggs. I am sleeping through extinctions. The night
cactus, in brutal heat, readies its zodiac of blooms.

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 18

it's the end of non-binary awareness week today, and beestung is stalled at $385/$1840 for our campaign to keep paying and publishing writers under the non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit umbrellas.

and amount helps, and would be greatly appreciated!

www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark

What is beestung: beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven

www.gofundme.com

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · Jul 10

"For decades, policy makers and profiteers have swapped human care for high-stakes testing, scripted curriculum, and surveillance. AI isn’t the disease — it’s a symptom of a colonizer’s model of schooling that is extractive and dehumanizing, rather than liberating."

Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools.

AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.

truthout.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is a season of trench warfare and we have to continue to fight because a law passed is NOT the end and I think we all know this. There will be implementation fight opportunities, there will be constant organizing and pushback. Nothing is permanent. Onwards.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Jul 2

Dear friends, I’m trying to support The Sameer Project at a time when this support is desperately needed. Any amount you contribute will help. 🙏

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[W4G] $500 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project

July 2: A new match! Poet Alina Stefanescu has stepped up to offer a $500 match to support the work The Sameer Project is doing with their new Medical Campaign! Help us raise $500 --> which will me...

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