Riley Silverman
@rileysilverman.bsky.social
Writer: Doctor Who, Star Wars, D&D Beyond, Nerdist. Troubled Waters Podcast. VO actor. TTRPG player. Chaotic Femme.
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I really do believe comics are a perfect tool for curing tiktok brain and regrowing attention spans, and we should publicize that
found an alternative to TikTok called Reading A GD Comic Book
January 28, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I really do believe comics are a perfect tool for curing tiktok brain and regrowing attention spans, and we should publicize that
One of my new housemates is an ardent microbrewer so now I feel like I’ll have to start running a D&D campaign where I craft a narrative and we drink his beer so we can call it “Homebrew & Home Brew”
January 28, 2026 at 5:09 PM
One of my new housemates is an ardent microbrewer so now I feel like I’ll have to start running a D&D campaign where I craft a narrative and we drink his beer so we can call it “Homebrew & Home Brew”
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ICE is indeed still in LA and they are especially active in north of Los Angeles as well: Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties
ICE & CBP are still in Chicago, just like they're still in LA & Arizona & scattered places we hear about & then often forget because there's too much, & they're invading Maine & very much still occupying MN - I have friends in Northfield who ferry immigrants' kids to & from school every day.
January 28, 2026 at 2:51 PM
ICE is indeed still in LA and they are especially active in north of Los Angeles as well: Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties
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Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
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"simply about getting ICE back to obeying the law"
Come on. They will never obey the law. And the law itself allows them to abuse & murder with impunity via qualified immunity.
ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES is the minimum short term demand.
Defund and abolish ICE is the only moral long term course.
Come on. They will never obey the law. And the law itself allows them to abuse & murder with impunity via qualified immunity.
ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES is the minimum short term demand.
Defund and abolish ICE is the only moral long term course.
Here's Senator Chris Murphy's extended discussion of this group of restrictions on ICE:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
January 27, 2026 at 1:54 PM
"simply about getting ICE back to obeying the law"
Come on. They will never obey the law. And the law itself allows them to abuse & murder with impunity via qualified immunity.
ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES is the minimum short term demand.
Defund and abolish ICE is the only moral long term course.
Come on. They will never obey the law. And the law itself allows them to abuse & murder with impunity via qualified immunity.
ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES is the minimum short term demand.
Defund and abolish ICE is the only moral long term course.
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Good. We hate you. Everyone hates you. Even you hate yourselves.
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Good. We hate you. Everyone hates you. Even you hate yourselves.
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This. All. Of. This!
January 24, 2026 at 10:17 PM
This. All. Of. This!
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If you want to watch something kind and heartfelt and you have 15 available minutes, well, do I have a film for you!
It’s the last day it’s up during this film fest, so get the login deets below!
It’s the last day it’s up during this film fest, so get the login deets below!
today’s the last day to see LONG AWAY as part of this festival!
after this, unless another festival puts it up (most do not), it won’t be online again until its festival run in done, probably late 2027
see it while you can, especially if you need to believe in love and hope again 🩷
after this, unless another festival puts it up (most do not), it won’t be online again until its festival run in done, probably late 2027
see it while you can, especially if you need to believe in love and hope again 🩷
BIG NEWS
our trans sci-fi short film LONG AWAY is screening online in the Hollywood Shorts fest through Jan 25!
one short will win an award based on... unknown criteria. but total views probably helps!
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for email enter: HSFTV!
for password: VIPACCESS!
let us know what you think!
our trans sci-fi short film LONG AWAY is screening online in the Hollywood Shorts fest through Jan 25!
one short will win an award based on... unknown criteria. but total views probably helps!
click SIGN IN
for email enter: HSFTV!
for password: VIPACCESS!
let us know what you think!
January 26, 2026 at 2:39 AM
If you want to watch something kind and heartfelt and you have 15 available minutes, well, do I have a film for you!
It’s the last day it’s up during this film fest, so get the login deets below!
It’s the last day it’s up during this film fest, so get the login deets below!
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Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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ICE heard Fred Rogers say "look for the helpers" and thought he was describing targets.
January 24, 2026 at 9:08 PM
ICE heard Fred Rogers say "look for the helpers" and thought he was describing targets.
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There’s a video of another ICE murder, either make sure your media settings are right, get off for a while, or be ready.
January 24, 2026 at 3:42 PM
There’s a video of another ICE murder, either make sure your media settings are right, get off for a while, or be ready.
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Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE.
📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE.
📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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This happened today and is a big story more news outlets should be reporting on but of course they aren't
Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism.
www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
The first General Strike in 80 years
We're at war, and now people are fighting back like never before
www.jphilll.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:43 AM
This happened today and is a big story more news outlets should be reporting on but of course they aren't
Moving is so hard. Like what do you keep and what do you get rid of. Like do I need to keep this 20 year old bottle of was once wine from my divorced friends’ wedding that has my deadname on the tag? It’s so hard to decide.
January 23, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Moving is so hard. Like what do you keep and what do you get rid of. Like do I need to keep this 20 year old bottle of was once wine from my divorced friends’ wedding that has my deadname on the tag? It’s so hard to decide.
Idk, Apple. That seems like a pretty unlikely scenario for me to find myself in, let alone need a whole playlist for it.
January 21, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Idk, Apple. That seems like a pretty unlikely scenario for me to find myself in, let alone need a whole playlist for it.
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They say "thats not possible" and "no we won't research that" in the same breath.
They *assume* hormones will somehow work differently than they do in cis people, despite having literally no evidence for it
They *assume* hormones will somehow work differently than they do in cis people, despite having literally no evidence for it
Scientific research of gender transition has been stuck on "should these people be allowed to transition" for 50 years, so we don't know shit about how transitioning actually works.
Okay, transphobes freaking out because trans woman makes good on Broadway, yadah, yadah. But you skimmed right over the interesting bit. Estrogen made her feet smaller?? This is the kind of weird factoid I need to know more about. Is there scientific backing for this? Is it just anecdotal?
January 21, 2026 at 8:46 PM
They say "thats not possible" and "no we won't research that" in the same breath.
They *assume* hormones will somehow work differently than they do in cis people, despite having literally no evidence for it
They *assume* hormones will somehow work differently than they do in cis people, despite having literally no evidence for it
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This is why I always emphasize that "the media just likes Trump for clicks and ratings" is not accurate. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is the worst in political history and instead of sensationalizing it, they repeatedly minimize it and downplay it despite massive public interest
public perception says mainstream media is sensationalist, lusts for scandal, will make anything up to sell papers and get clicks etc.,
and then this particular president does like 10 scandals a day and mainstream media insists on describing his actions in the most uninteresting way possible
and then this particular president does like 10 scandals a day and mainstream media insists on describing his actions in the most uninteresting way possible
Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao
January 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
This is why I always emphasize that "the media just likes Trump for clicks and ratings" is not accurate. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is the worst in political history and instead of sensationalizing it, they repeatedly minimize it and downplay it despite massive public interest
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Weird, almost like this was a manufactured culture war against a powerless scapegoated group over nothing
“This conclusively demonstrates that this widely publicised concern as part of the culture war against trans people is not supported by documented evidence from service providers," @translucent.org.uk
January 20, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Weird, almost like this was a manufactured culture war against a powerless scapegoated group over nothing
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I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
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In Uganda, a nearly entirely Black country where it’s illegal to be gay, LGBTQ people used code words like “minority” and “DEI.” But Trump made that impossible, not only w US funds, but by forcing other nations and non profits to cut off anything with words like “trans,” “gay,” minority or DEI
the international far right’s embrace of trump, and trump’s attempts to force the rest of the world to adopt miller’s international segregationism, is a reminder that even the “globalist” attack was projection. They want to use american power to remake the whole world into fash ethnostates
January 20, 2026 at 1:52 PM
In Uganda, a nearly entirely Black country where it’s illegal to be gay, LGBTQ people used code words like “minority” and “DEI.” But Trump made that impossible, not only w US funds, but by forcing other nations and non profits to cut off anything with words like “trans,” “gay,” minority or DEI
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A reminder that you can, and should, turn on the setting (in your settings, natch) that forces you to use ALT text on photos.
It's under Settings / Accessibility --
It's under Settings / Accessibility --
January 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
A reminder that you can, and should, turn on the setting (in your settings, natch) that forces you to use ALT text on photos.
It's under Settings / Accessibility --
It's under Settings / Accessibility --
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If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Some great comics to support including Horror Not Hate!
January 19, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Some great comics to support including Horror Not Hate!