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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29d

I just heard someone use the phrasing “mental and MORAL health” and wow, I’m going to start using that too. I want to take care of and improve my moral health.

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 29d

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 29d

"Civility" is always about tone and NEVER about content. Advocating for the extermination or oppression of entire groups of people is considered perfectly civil now, as long as you're "nice" about it, while angrily pointing out that gov't is actively killing and harming people is "uncivil."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 11

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death.

But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

The thing is, I’m pretty sure these all majority black cities and I’m worried that Trump will eventually try to occupy them too at some point. The fact that they are in Republican-controlled states isn’t a gotcha so much as evidence of how they’ve been maligned by their state governments.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

“The four cities of populations larger than 100,000 with the highest murder rates in 2024 are in Republican states: Jackson, Mississippi (78.7 per 100,000 residents), Birmingham, Alabama (58.8), St Louis, Missouri (54.1) and Memphis, Tennessee (40.6).”

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · Sep 5

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Pumpkin Spice Raktajino" is even more Federation-coded than Quark's entire Root Beer speech

Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · Aug 25

Unbelievable that Starfleet has replicators and people use it for boring stuff like "earl grey tea (hot)" or "scrambled eggs."

Show some backbone! Get weird with it! I want to see tribble burritos. Blood wine sangria. Steak and Romulan ale pie. Pumpkin spice raktajinos.

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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · Sep 1

👇👇 THIS 👇👇 the absolute worst offenders for being inconsiderate wrt noise and space in the library, and fully ignoring reminders or requests? White dads on weekends. As if their extremely loud parenting presence were a flag they were waving. (#notalldadsorwhatever but dramatically noticeable.)

Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · Sep 1

I can’t stand the “but teens are so loud and rowdy” opinions. Adult whites are easily the most unruly and rowdy people on earth. Teens are a delight compared to any white adult sports fan or overly confident white woman approaching a woman of color outside brunch.

Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · Aug 31

You know who desperately needs third spaces. Teenagers.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 31

The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 31

“An unsettling Mad Max vibe coursed through the city. Pickup trucks with armed men of unclear authority cruised around ..

“.. I headed back to Union Street. That body could not possibly still be there. This was the United States. We collect our dead.

“Still there.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/i...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · Aug 22

that NEA "we cancelled the creative writing fellowships program because we prioritize fostering AI competency" letter is a really good example of a genre of what we might call found horror

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 27

The only prayer that matters when it comes to the regular and repeated murder of American children while they are at school is the kind of prayer that is taking action, the kind of prayer that materially fights for the living, the kind of prayer that says "never again" and means it, from MN to Gaza.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Aug 24

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR

Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

www.humblebundle.com

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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · Aug 23

This is a treasure trove of fantastic romance recs.

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · Aug 22

It’s a Friday, let’s play — anyone need a romance rec? Tell me what kind, see what we can find!

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Jul 20

Love how, for the New York Times, using LLMs is just this value-neutral thing that everyone will eventually do, but being transgender makes you too biased to write about anything ever

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ALA Public Policy & Advocacy @librarypolicy.bsky.social · Aug 20

The Senate has now shown support for maintaining federal library funding in next year's budget! Now it's time to tell the House to #FundLibraries.

Tell your House Rep to Show Up #ForOurLibraries!

Take action 👉 bit.ly/House4Libraries

Fund Libraries: Tell Congress to invest in libraries. American Library Association.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 19

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

The 504 Protests and the Black Panther Party – Disability Social History Project

disabilityhistory.org

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth

Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.

southernequality.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 18

Hey #BookSky!!!

One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!

We need more Black women-owned bookstores.

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gofund.me/60b14fa8

Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville, organized by Breanna McDaniel

Hi, I'm Breanna J. McDaniel a born and raised Atlantan from t… Breanna McDaniel needs your support for Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville

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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · Aug 17

V different from her others but with the same Vonda McIntyre commitment to an 70s/80s-flavored queernormative, polyamorous, neopronoun-filled universe. Upper middle grade feel, short, standalone. Honestly a wholesome joy!

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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · Aug 17

Tween girl sneaks her cat onto a spaceship, shenanigans ensue! The joy is that extremely Big Deal things are happening on the ship, like first contact, but it's all happening in the background - the focus never wavers from the tween's real priority, her cat 😂. It's a weird delight.

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Shazbat Moment @morkandminksy.bsky.social · Aug 16

May she meet her shadow.

Shazbat Moment @morkandminksy.bsky.social · Aug 16

May the Devil and all his minions chase JK Rowling so far over the pits and plains of Hell, that the Good Lord cannot find her, not even with a telescope.

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Aug 16

"what were Jessie's exact words" is a totally reasonable good-faith question and I guess I should have clarified that I was not paraphrasing

"wish ill" was literally the wording!

they have added "wishing harm upon a person or group" to their list but like . . . context matters . . .

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Aug 16

I hope Rowling stubs her toe every day for the rest of her life

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Aug 16

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · Aug 16

This is the crux of racism, lmao. White people get to be autonomous and individual, while everyone else MUST be aligned with every single measure their government takes. *looks directly at camera*

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · Aug 15

I want to support Zohran Mamdani. But he needs to stop supporting Uganda. - buff.ly/ngF8CJs

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Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social · Aug 16

I can't wait! I'm sure this is prob already on your radar, but have you read Barbary by Vonda McIntyre? From your recs, I think it might be a win! I saw a giveaway copy down at the Clarion West table if you need some fun plane reading.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 15

This.

J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · Aug 15

I’m going to keep saying this- You don’t fight fascism with fascism light. We don’t fight fascism by sacrificing Gaza, trans folks, unhoused people, migrants, etc. We fight fascism by building a strong coalition INCLUDING everyone and fighting for a better world for EVERYONE. There’s no other way

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