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((Herschel))

@jaklacroix.bsky.social

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Jewish and constantly angry. He/they. Author of UGLY: A BIKIE'S LIFE (Penguin, 2021). Lead vocals/guitar in @thelimitedmusic.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/jaklacroix

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((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · May 27

This is Mahmoud. I'm helping him with his fundraising campaign. He's a 20 years old Gazan and he needs to help feed his family. Please donate or share if you can.

Help Mahmoud Ahmed and his family

🌟 Help Mahmoud Ahmed Rebuild His Life

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 9h

Very good call!

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 14h

You weren’t “lazy”.

You were autistic and overwhelmed.

You weren’t “indecisive”.

You were autistic and unsafe.

You weren’t “procrastinating”.

You were autistic and frozen.

Autistic inertia isn’t refusal.

It’s a nervous system doing its best to survive.

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 14h

Oh man, yeah absolutely

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 15h

Feels like a lot of that is either a) they released something as a reaction against the scene, or b) the scene reacted badly to the bands trying anything remotely musically new haha

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 15h

Hahahahaha fair call!

I actually kinda dug Into the Unknown, but also recognise I'm very in the minority there

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 15h

Oh! Similar to when Bad Religion released "Into the Unknown", their psychedelic rock EP

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 15h

Interesting! Why did they disown it?

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 15h

What's a band or musician where you like one album and then nothing else they released?

I'll go first:

Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
New Politics - New Politics

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 1d

A horror anthology I'm in, BLACK CAT TALES, has had some great reviews! Including being #1 best-seller in horror and anthologies on both IngramSpark & Barnes and Noble!

It's also on discount at Bookshop.org; why not pick up a copy?

bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

Black Cat Tales #1 Best-seller in Horror Collections & Anthologies at Barnes and Noble!

Black Cat Tales #1 Best-seller in Horror Collections & Anthologies via IngramSpark!

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 1d

I'd like American stuff to stop using DID (multiple personalities) as the linchpin for dramatic murder reveals. We already have some classic media that did it & I feel like we can mostly lay this hackneyed thing to rest. Real people with DID rarely have violent personalities like this.

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 1d

American shows of the cop/thriller variety really like torture scenes.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

YOU DARE BOO THE BEAUTIFUL CANADIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM. YOU PAY WITH BLOOD! YOU PAY WITH BLOOD!

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 3d

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((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 1d

This sucks. I don't even really like AC games that much, but I'd play this shit out of that one.

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 1d

I'm unsurprised by this. But then again, Bibi hasn't exactly been behaving like he gives a single fuck about the hostages for a long time. I'm concerned that this'll mean they'll just keep bombing until everyone - including the hostages - are dead.

Israel assesses Hamas may not be able to return all remaining dead hostages, sources say | CNN

Israel assesses that Hamas may not be able to find and return all the remaining dead hostages in Gaza, according to three Israeli sources, a fact that may complicate efforts to reach a deal to end the...

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((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 2d

Please, I'm begging you. Ahmad still very much needs your help.

#Gaza

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 18d

Ahmad is in a really hard place right now. He had to spend his tent money on food. Now he has no money for food or a tent. He desperately needs $500 USD for a tent and tent bathroom. Please, please help.

chuffed.org/project/1394...

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 2d

Australia actually really needs local content laws to help safeguard the industry as a whole. Please consider signing this as there's the very real possibility that the Australian film & TV industry will collapse without it. We deserve to see ourselves, not just Americans, on our TV screens.

Sign the Petition

Save Australian Stories

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 2d

Just the most embarrassing fucking shithead of a person.

'Peaceful invasion': Tony Abbott tells UK to send migrants away on 'unsinkable life rafts'

www.9news.com.au

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI, Uncanny Magazine Issue 66 Part 2 features a new novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson and new short stories by Juliet Kahn and Tim Pratt! buff.ly/Lm6JQFJ

Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 2d

progressive jews and palestinians: "we refuse to be enemies."

european christians/descendants: "oh, well fuck you both then."

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Lulavot by Emily K 🐸🐸 @posts.by.emilyk.art · 2d

Gun safety rule: Never point a gun at anyone/thing you don't intend to shoot.

Not that you *could* shoot, that you *intend* to shoot. And since another rule is "always assume the gun is loaded," what's happening here is clear.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck this.

"On Tuesday, a 'Glory to Hamas' message was spotted on a billboard and 'Oct 7, Do it Again' messages were painted on at least two walls in Melbourne."

Australia condemns pro-Palestinian event on Oct. 7 | The Jerusalem Post

The Stand for Palestine Australia group is planning a 'glory to our martyrs' event on Tuesday evening in Sydney's Bankstown suburb

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 3d

Today, on the first day of Sukkot and the 2nd anniversary of the Oct 7th massacre, I light a candle in memory of the victims and hope for the safe return of the remaining hostages.

A lit beeswax candle on a table.

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 3d

New York friends!! My friend Daniela Naomi Molnar is having a book launch event in Brooklyn this Thursday, 7pm, at the Center for New Jewish Culture! It's for her poetry work PROTOCOLS: AN ERASURE, which was honestly a revelation.

Sign up here: newjewishculture.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...

"Protocols: An Erasure" book launch! The Center for New Jewish Culture, Brooklyn, NY, Thursday October 9th, 7pm.