AJ Brennan (they/them)
@ajbrennan.bsky.social
Science fiction and fantasy author formerly known as Adrianne Brennan. I am a writer of magical realism, vampires in nerdy occult orders, and urban fantasy. Non-binary & trans.
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Website: https://www.ajbrennan.com
Personal acct: [email protected]
Website: https://www.ajbrennan.com
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Always good to remind folks that, whether it's done against the Israeli government's actions or in support of the Israeli government's actions, equating Israel with Jews writ large is antisemitic.
February 25, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Always good to remind folks that, whether it's done against the Israeli government's actions or in support of the Israeli government's actions, equating Israel with Jews writ large is antisemitic.
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Vice had the best extremism coverage going. A very deep loss. America is about to face the fascist takeover without much of a way for people to reliably find out about it.
February 22, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Vice had the best extremism coverage going. A very deep loss. America is about to face the fascist takeover without much of a way for people to reliably find out about it.
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I can't stress enough how downplaying COVID has emboldened the far right.
When you tell people "you do you" or say that schools don't need public health protections, you shift the Overton window, making it easier for anti-vaxxers to say it's fine to spread measles.
When you tell people "you do you" or say that schools don't need public health protections, you shift the Overton window, making it easier for anti-vaxxers to say it's fine to spread measles.
Six students have measles in an outbreak at a Florida elementary school.
How did Florida's health department respond?
Their Surgeon General sent out a letter that supports parents sending unvaccinated children to school during the outbreak and doesn't recommend vaccination.
How did Florida's health department respond?
Their Surgeon General sent out a letter that supports parents sending unvaccinated children to school during the outbreak and doesn't recommend vaccination.
February 22, 2024 at 6:57 PM
I can't stress enough how downplaying COVID has emboldened the far right.
When you tell people "you do you" or say that schools don't need public health protections, you shift the Overton window, making it easier for anti-vaxxers to say it's fine to spread measles.
When you tell people "you do you" or say that schools don't need public health protections, you shift the Overton window, making it easier for anti-vaxxers to say it's fine to spread measles.
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Among my many fears following the death of Nex is that it will simply confirm what many already believe, that a trans life is not a life worth living. The solution isn't just mourning. The solution is building a world that wants trans kids in it.
What We Owe Nex Benedict
If you ask focus groups to play word association when they hear the word “transgender,” most audiences will hit a few common themes: “Oppressed,” “discrimination,” “violence,” or “controversial” make ...
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February 24, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Among my many fears following the death of Nex is that it will simply confirm what many already believe, that a trans life is not a life worth living. The solution isn't just mourning. The solution is building a world that wants trans kids in it.
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FINALLY
This is the sort of thing I want to see more of. I want to hear Nex being remembered as being a person, as who they were. Not just what, but who.
Found from www.newsunzip.com/trending-new...
#NexBenedict #SayTheirName #nonbinary #trans #TransAndNonBinaryKidsDeserveToLive
This is the sort of thing I want to see more of. I want to hear Nex being remembered as being a person, as who they were. Not just what, but who.
Found from www.newsunzip.com/trending-new...
#NexBenedict #SayTheirName #nonbinary #trans #TransAndNonBinaryKidsDeserveToLive
February 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
FINALLY
This is the sort of thing I want to see more of. I want to hear Nex being remembered as being a person, as who they were. Not just what, but who.
Found from www.newsunzip.com/trending-new...
#NexBenedict #SayTheirName #nonbinary #trans #TransAndNonBinaryKidsDeserveToLive
This is the sort of thing I want to see more of. I want to hear Nex being remembered as being a person, as who they were. Not just what, but who.
Found from www.newsunzip.com/trending-new...
#NexBenedict #SayTheirName #nonbinary #trans #TransAndNonBinaryKidsDeserveToLive
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Good Morning, World.
February 24, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Good Morning, World.
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Asexual people talking about how sex-focused marketing is often othering is not the same thing as conservatives being anti-sex and to equate the two is ace-phobic and/or being inflammatory.
We don't want you to stop doing it. We just want you to examine how it can be othering to aces or ace media.
We don't want you to stop doing it. We just want you to examine how it can be othering to aces or ace media.
February 23, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Asexual people talking about how sex-focused marketing is often othering is not the same thing as conservatives being anti-sex and to equate the two is ace-phobic and/or being inflammatory.
We don't want you to stop doing it. We just want you to examine how it can be othering to aces or ace media.
We don't want you to stop doing it. We just want you to examine how it can be othering to aces or ace media.
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I’m not sure how anyone could look at how ChatGPT fabricates court filings or Midjourney adds extra fingers to the people it renders and think, “This needs to be part of the fabric of our national defense strategy.”
This isn't SkyNet or HAL or Colossus; it's a bunch of humans handing decisionmaking processes to human-bias-accelerators, bullshit-optimizers, prejudice-exacerbators, & saying either in earnest or in manipulative dissemblement, "Sounds good!Computer=very objectivity! Must be right!"
DO NOT DO THIS
DO NOT DO THIS
Pentagon explores military uses of large language models
The Pentagon is meeting this week tech experts to discuss how to incorporate artificial intelligence into military planning.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 24, 2024 at 9:11 AM
I’m not sure how anyone could look at how ChatGPT fabricates court filings or Midjourney adds extra fingers to the people it renders and think, “This needs to be part of the fabric of our national defense strategy.”
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Monday 11/6 is the LAST day to register for my classes on psychic development and witchcraft!
The next cycle will be next March or April.
More info:
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#PsychicDevelopment #witchsky #pagansky #magic #magick #witch #witchcraft #Pagan #paganism #wicca #wiccan
The next cycle will be next March or April.
More info:
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#PsychicDevelopment #witchsky #pagansky #magic #magick #witch #witchcraft #Pagan #paganism #wicca #wiccan
November 3, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Monday 11/6 is the LAST day to register for my classes on psychic development and witchcraft!
The next cycle will be next March or April.
More info:
www.teaaddictedwitch.com/fall-2023-co...
#PsychicDevelopment #witchsky #pagansky #magic #magick #witch #witchcraft #Pagan #paganism #wicca #wiccan
The next cycle will be next March or April.
More info:
www.teaaddictedwitch.com/fall-2023-co...
#PsychicDevelopment #witchsky #pagansky #magic #magick #witch #witchcraft #Pagan #paganism #wicca #wiccan
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An "ally" got big mad that I said Ladino was a language spoken in Palestine, so I thought I'd just post this (since they blocked me, you can all get some free learning).
October 23, 2023 at 4:29 PM
An "ally" got big mad that I said Ladino was a language spoken in Palestine, so I thought I'd just post this (since they blocked me, you can all get some free learning).
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I write about Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan in my book. His parents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika who came to Brooklyn, and spoke Ladino in the home. He ended up in Ashkenazi Hasidic circles in Brooklyn and learned Yiddish in yeshiva.
He ended up translating the Me'am Lo'ez from Ladino to English.
He ended up translating the Me'am Lo'ez from Ladino to English.
An "ally" got big mad that I said Ladino was a language spoken in Palestine, so I thought I'd just post this (since they blocked me, you can all get some free learning).
October 23, 2023 at 4:58 PM
I write about Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan in my book. His parents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika who came to Brooklyn, and spoke Ladino in the home. He ended up in Ashkenazi Hasidic circles in Brooklyn and learned Yiddish in yeshiva.
He ended up translating the Me'am Lo'ez from Ladino to English.
He ended up translating the Me'am Lo'ez from Ladino to English.
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On Samhain and honoring the dead while navigating loss:
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#Samhain #sabbats #WheelOfTheYear #AncestorWork #grief #death #holidays #PaganHolidays #pagan #paganism #wicca #wiccan #witch #witchcraft
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#Samhain #sabbats #WheelOfTheYear #AncestorWork #grief #death #holidays #PaganHolidays #pagan #paganism #wicca #wiccan #witch #witchcraft
October 16, 2023 at 6:07 PM
On Samhain and honoring the dead while navigating loss:
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#Samhain #sabbats #WheelOfTheYear #AncestorWork #grief #death #holidays #PaganHolidays #pagan #paganism #wicca #wiccan #witch #witchcraft
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#Samhain #sabbats #WheelOfTheYear #AncestorWork #grief #death #holidays #PaganHolidays #pagan #paganism #wicca #wiccan #witch #witchcraft
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4/ But also, feeling out if we're outraged about the carpet bombing of Gaza is weird. Asking where we stand on the religious extremists destroying Palestinian villages on the West Bank this week is weird.
No matter where an individual Jew stands on this, let us grieve right now, if you're an ally.
No matter where an individual Jew stands on this, let us grieve right now, if you're an ally.
October 15, 2023 at 3:36 PM
4/ But also, feeling out if we're outraged about the carpet bombing of Gaza is weird. Asking where we stand on the religious extremists destroying Palestinian villages on the West Bank this week is weird.
No matter where an individual Jew stands on this, let us grieve right now, if you're an ally.
No matter where an individual Jew stands on this, let us grieve right now, if you're an ally.
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3/ We have hyper-tuned right now to who, among our gentile friends, is being compassionate towards us, and who is being weird. And there are a lot of flavors of weird going on right now. Expressing bloodthirstyness towards Gaza on our behalf is weird. 9/11 brain is weird.
October 15, 2023 at 3:33 PM
3/ We have hyper-tuned right now to who, among our gentile friends, is being compassionate towards us, and who is being weird. And there are a lot of flavors of weird going on right now. Expressing bloodthirstyness towards Gaza on our behalf is weird. 9/11 brain is weird.
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2/ Both kinds of antisemitism are increasing. The events of the last week have traumatized Jews (with the exception of a few weirdos who are so anti-Israel that they have emotionally distanced themselves from the tragedy).
October 15, 2023 at 3:31 PM
2/ Both kinds of antisemitism are increasing. The events of the last week have traumatized Jews (with the exception of a few weirdos who are so anti-Israel that they have emotionally distanced themselves from the tragedy).
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1/ The challenging thing about antisemitism is that some people fucking hate Jews, and some people don't know how not to be weird around Jews. The former are pretty obvious to avoid, but we have to interact with the latter all the time, and it's exhausting.
October 15, 2023 at 3:29 PM
1/ The challenging thing about antisemitism is that some people fucking hate Jews, and some people don't know how not to be weird around Jews. The former are pretty obvious to avoid, but we have to interact with the latter all the time, and it's exhausting.
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Stop telling people to "google" things like works
especially if you work in journalism/ civic life etc
They are factually making it harder to find results
especially if you work in journalism/ civic life etc
They are factually making it harder to find results
Google killing image search is so funny its a fundamental misunderstanding of why one searches for images. looking for references historic moments, anatomy, places, artists works?? No, people just want to see "duck with human legs" and other nonsense prompts. goodbye reality.
October 15, 2023 at 2:10 PM
Stop telling people to "google" things like works
especially if you work in journalism/ civic life etc
They are factually making it harder to find results
especially if you work in journalism/ civic life etc
They are factually making it harder to find results
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using she/they because i'm a girl but also an eldritch horror beyond the comprehension of man
October 15, 2023 at 2:13 PM
using she/they because i'm a girl but also an eldritch horror beyond the comprehension of man
Did you just literally say Jews aren't human?
Byeeeeee
Byeeeeee
October 15, 2023 at 3:25 PM
Did you just literally say Jews aren't human?
Byeeeeee
Byeeeeee
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It’s a very strange thing to ask someone right after you meet them!
October 15, 2023 at 3:12 PM
It’s a very strange thing to ask someone right after you meet them!
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…on demand or whatever. I fucking hate it. Every Jew is somehow obliged to “be accountable” for Netanyahu, every trans woman needs to “be accountable” for Keffals, every gay man needs to “be accountable” for Andrew Sullivan, etc etc etc. It’s some serious bullshit.
October 15, 2023 at 2:29 PM
…on demand or whatever. I fucking hate it. Every Jew is somehow obliged to “be accountable” for Netanyahu, every trans woman needs to “be accountable” for Keffals, every gay man needs to “be accountable” for Andrew Sullivan, etc etc etc. It’s some serious bullshit.
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Needless to say, don’t do anything similar to Palestinians (or Arabs, or Muslims in general, and also PSA some Palestinians are Christian) or anyone, really, about anything. Let people be people, please.
October 15, 2023 at 3:13 PM
Needless to say, don’t do anything similar to Palestinians (or Arabs, or Muslims in general, and also PSA some Palestinians are Christian) or anyone, really, about anything. Let people be people, please.
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Please don't demand political litmus tests of Jews wrt their beliefs about the sanctity of Palestinian lives that you do not demand of others.
Assuming someone's politics based on their identity -- or putting forward a double standard you don't ask of others-- are forms of antisemitism.
Assuming someone's politics based on their identity -- or putting forward a double standard you don't ask of others-- are forms of antisemitism.
October 15, 2023 at 2:25 PM
Please don't demand political litmus tests of Jews wrt their beliefs about the sanctity of Palestinian lives that you do not demand of others.
Assuming someone's politics based on their identity -- or putting forward a double standard you don't ask of others-- are forms of antisemitism.
Assuming someone's politics based on their identity -- or putting forward a double standard you don't ask of others-- are forms of antisemitism.
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Tweeting this on a Sunday morning a week later is wild.
October 15, 2023 at 2:46 PM
Tweeting this on a Sunday morning a week later is wild.
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If we learned nothing else from the pandemic it should have been that going to work while virally ill is bad. You might be able to ‘battle through’ but those you infect might not be so lucky. Sick days are not lazy nor a luxury, they are necessary for public health.
October 15, 2023 at 5:36 AM
If we learned nothing else from the pandemic it should have been that going to work while virally ill is bad. You might be able to ‘battle through’ but those you infect might not be so lucky. Sick days are not lazy nor a luxury, they are necessary for public health.