Malaika (Shomari) Kirkwood
@mxoberon.bsky.social
Trans lady bringing fantastical things to your TV and other screens.
Currently: Something Secret and Cool 🤭
Wrote On: 4400, Clean Slate
Repped: INDUSTRY ENTERTAINMENT/Paradigm
Currently: Something Secret and Cool 🤭
Wrote On: 4400, Clean Slate
Repped: INDUSTRY ENTERTAINMENT/Paradigm
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So, for any cis people who have money, would like to say that if you feel lost about what to do regarding these trans EOs. Please direct yourself to my venmo (@ Zadja) or my cashapp ($ShomariK). Money is a great help in these trying times. 💗
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It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend
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There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.
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this is what it's like, yeah.
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
this is what it's like, yeah.
Got to meet my long distance gf in person for the first time. It's going great!
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Got to meet my long distance gf in person for the first time. It's going great!
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The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
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So that you can enjoy it in its full beauty, here's the PAXU Realis postcard image in high quality, along with the in-game text & Sentences of Halfmoon Twaintcut's that Si was working from!
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
So that you can enjoy it in its full beauty, here's the PAXU Realis postcard image in high quality, along with the in-game text & Sentences of Halfmoon Twaintcut's that Si was working from!
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HOAs are proof that left to their own devices, suburban white people will reinvent facism.
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
HOAs are proof that left to their own devices, suburban white people will reinvent facism.
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Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
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I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"
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FYI bluesky just issued a 3 day suspension to Wendy Xu for probably nothing
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
FYI bluesky just issued a 3 day suspension to Wendy Xu for probably nothing
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Previously: His wife visited him ICE in detention on his 50th birthday. She couldn’t even bring him the card she’d made. They could only speak through a phone, divided by a thick pane of glass. It was one of few times she’d ever seen him cry.
Trump's ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country.
Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.
www.texasobserver.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Previously: His wife visited him ICE in detention on his 50th birthday. She couldn’t even bring him the card she’d made. They could only speak through a phone, divided by a thick pane of glass. It was one of few times she’d ever seen him cry.
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Please help and share
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Please help and share
A poem in honor of this past week. Might take it down later, who can say.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A poem in honor of this past week. Might take it down later, who can say.
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Perhaps if you live in NYC, you will be moved to take action in support of increased and STABLE funding for our public libraries after reading this: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Perhaps if you live in NYC, you will be moved to take action in support of increased and STABLE funding for our public libraries after reading this: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Debating if I want to share a poem or not
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Debating if I want to share a poem or not
Been reading The Beauty's Blade, and goddamn do we not often get protagonists like this. Fu Wanqing is violent, arrogant, selfish, spoiled, and Better Than You. She's someone who'll kiss an orange slice out of the mouth of the woman she loves. Only to then say how she wants to kill her.
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Been reading The Beauty's Blade, and goddamn do we not often get protagonists like this. Fu Wanqing is violent, arrogant, selfish, spoiled, and Better Than You. She's someone who'll kiss an orange slice out of the mouth of the woman she loves. Only to then say how she wants to kill her.
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Please share & give to help Mahmoud's family, including his sister's orphaned children, survive Israel's continuing genocidal siege, which has left Palestinians homeless & starving in winter rain:
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Please share & give to help Mahmoud's family, including his sister's orphaned children, survive Israel's continuing genocidal siege, which has left Palestinians homeless & starving in winter rain:
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I think one of the hardest things about being a career writer in traditional publishing is that writing attracts the neurodivergent brain while the variable reinforcement schedule punishes it. We are all the rat at the water bottle, waiting for the hit of cocaine. You get one win, and you need MORE.
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I think one of the hardest things about being a career writer in traditional publishing is that writing attracts the neurodivergent brain while the variable reinforcement schedule punishes it. We are all the rat at the water bottle, waiting for the hit of cocaine. You get one win, and you need MORE.
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They're trying to arrest "around 5,000 people in the two states" to feed their money machine.
Agents will arrive in New Orleans on Friday and spread out across neighborhoods & commercial hubs from N.O. thru Jefferson, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes, and north to Baton Rouge.
It's sickening.
Agents will arrive in New Orleans on Friday and spread out across neighborhoods & commercial hubs from N.O. thru Jefferson, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes, and north to Baton Rouge.
It's sickening.
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
They're trying to arrest "around 5,000 people in the two states" to feed their money machine.
Agents will arrive in New Orleans on Friday and spread out across neighborhoods & commercial hubs from N.O. thru Jefferson, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes, and north to Baton Rouge.
It's sickening.
Agents will arrive in New Orleans on Friday and spread out across neighborhoods & commercial hubs from N.O. thru Jefferson, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes, and north to Baton Rouge.
It's sickening.
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To be honest given the climate in the US and my increasing conviction that I am not going to be one of the ones who makes it through this is my feeling as well.
Then again the only people on my timeline talking about TDOR are trans so yknow.
Then again the only people on my timeline talking about TDOR are trans so yknow.
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
To be honest given the climate in the US and my increasing conviction that I am not going to be one of the ones who makes it through this is my feeling as well.
Then again the only people on my timeline talking about TDOR are trans so yknow.
Then again the only people on my timeline talking about TDOR are trans so yknow.
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You will internalize all the mean stuff you say about yourself, even if you say it in jest. Good news: you can also pretend you're great and treat yourself with compassion and internalize that instead. Ask me how I know!
People respond well to it too, they wanna root for you!!
People respond well to it too, they wanna root for you!!
Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You will internalize all the mean stuff you say about yourself, even if you say it in jest. Good news: you can also pretend you're great and treat yourself with compassion and internalize that instead. Ask me how I know!
People respond well to it too, they wanna root for you!!
People respond well to it too, they wanna root for you!!
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Absolutely egregious from the people who bought the three oldest magazines in SFF and are attempting to convert them into a giant funnel of monetizable IP
This postscript is so telling of what trying to negotiate with MRM is like. Massive respect for Scott in sticking to his principles and not allowing them to bully or gaslight him into signing. I'm disgusted that this is still happening to authors. No market is worth this.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Absolutely egregious from the people who bought the three oldest magazines in SFF and are attempting to convert them into a giant funnel of monetizable IP
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do you know renpy? do you live in ontario? do you wanna help me with my game. pleas
Do you know Ren'Py? Would you like to help out on @truthscrapper.bsky.social? We're looking for a Ren'Py programmer based in Ontario, CA (remote) we can periodically contract for hourly paid work to solve problems and program certain items! More details here:
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#gamedev
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#gamedev
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
do you know renpy? do you live in ontario? do you wanna help me with my game. pleas
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Aya. Before the war Aya was an Arabic language teacher at a kindergarten. She was forced to flee her home and this week in addition to the floods her tent also burned. She has four children Omar, 10, Mohammed, 8, Wasim, 5 and Yasmine, 3 months
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Aya. Before the war Aya was an Arabic language teacher at a kindergarten. She was forced to flee her home and this week in addition to the floods her tent also burned. She has four children Omar, 10, Mohammed, 8, Wasim, 5 and Yasmine, 3 months