Sarah Jamila Stevenson
@aquafortis.bsky.social
I write things and draw things
Dw i’n siarad Cymraeg
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Webcomic with Josh Berk at https://www.instagram.com/bigyikescomic
Dw i’n siarad Cymraeg
She/her
https://linktr.ee/aquafortiswriter
Webcomic with Josh Berk at https://www.instagram.com/bigyikescomic
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Hey, I wrote books! 📚 Which you can buy! Signed, even! Link in bio or hit me up via DM or email. I even have a few copies left of my graphic novel because I magically found a small cache of them! Check out thread for more info
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in honor of the odyssey discourse, please read this post i have been thinking of nonstop for the last 24 hours
December 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
in honor of the odyssey discourse, please read this post i have been thinking of nonstop for the last 24 hours
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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CBS pulled the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, but Canada aired it anyway.
The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦
My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable.
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The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦
My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable.
1/5
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
CBS pulled the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, but Canada aired it anyway.
The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦
My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable.
1/5
The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦
My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable.
1/5
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This is what the Asst AG for Civil Rights is doing.
So many Amendments, so little time.
So many Amendments, so little time.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing D.C. over its ban on semi-automatic (AR-15) weapons.
DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."
DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."
December 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is what the Asst AG for Civil Rights is doing.
So many Amendments, so little time.
So many Amendments, so little time.
I’m only half sorry that I’m half white
December 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I’m only half sorry that I’m half white
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With a mission to end homelessness and food insecurity for the transgender community, the Black Trans Liberation Kitchen provides weekly meals and hands out clothing, groceries, and other essential items.
The kitchen helping trans New Yorkers celebrate the holidays
Qween Jean’s Black Trans Liberation Kitchen brings chosen family together over a feast.
www.motherjones.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
With a mission to end homelessness and food insecurity for the transgender community, the Black Trans Liberation Kitchen provides weekly meals and hands out clothing, groceries, and other essential items.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Walter Benjamin wrote that the work of translation is “to liberate the language imprisoned in a work" to find the “pure language” of “the unfathomable, the mysterious, the ‘poetic’”. This is all, of course, utterly anathema to AI
As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Walter Benjamin wrote that the work of translation is “to liberate the language imprisoned in a work" to find the “pure language” of “the unfathomable, the mysterious, the ‘poetic’”. This is all, of course, utterly anathema to AI
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
“A better health care system does not eliminate the value of prevention. It simply changes who bears the cost when prevention is declined.”
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Why Denmark’s vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States — STAT
Reports that the Department of Health and Human Services may overhaul the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark’s have prompted a reasonable question: Why do American children receive va...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
“A better health care system does not eliminate the value of prevention. It simply changes who bears the cost when prevention is declined.”
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How many times am I going to have to post this gif
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
How many times am I going to have to post this gif
It's time for SHARING A RANDOM OLD PICTURE TIME
School picture, 1982
School picture, 1982
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
It's time for SHARING A RANDOM OLD PICTURE TIME
School picture, 1982
School picture, 1982
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I think it's actually quite beautiful we live at the same time as a writer and orator whose style is so distinctive, and has pushed the boundaries of the English language so far, that you hear the phrase "her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties" and immediately know that's the President
December 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I think it's actually quite beautiful we live at the same time as a writer and orator whose style is so distinctive, and has pushed the boundaries of the English language so far, that you hear the phrase "her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties" and immediately know that's the President
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Clarice gazed at Rudolph's nose, at the silent contempt blazing in its scarlet glow.
"They hate you, Rudolph. They hate you for your strength, your self-reliance, for being a… a misfit. This world won't accept you. So to be worthy of you, I will choose to suffer."
"They hate you, Rudolph. They hate you for your strength, your self-reliance, for being a… a misfit. This world won't accept you. So to be worthy of you, I will choose to suffer."
Ayn Rand Writes Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph laughed. He laughed at the outdated traditions, the belief that the greatest achievement in any reindeer’s life was to serve Santa’s whims....
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December 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Clarice gazed at Rudolph's nose, at the silent contempt blazing in its scarlet glow.
"They hate you, Rudolph. They hate you for your strength, your self-reliance, for being a… a misfit. This world won't accept you. So to be worthy of you, I will choose to suffer."
"They hate you, Rudolph. They hate you for your strength, your self-reliance, for being a… a misfit. This world won't accept you. So to be worthy of you, I will choose to suffer."
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No one has ever said "just be bad and post it on the internet" though. Artists have said that being "bad" at art is part of the process of creating and getting good at it (to whatever degree you decide good means). You don't ever have to share your art and you're still an artist, too.
I mean, things are tough all over. If rude criticism stops you from making art, you should probably not be making art.
December 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
No one has ever said "just be bad and post it on the internet" though. Artists have said that being "bad" at art is part of the process of creating and getting good at it (to whatever degree you decide good means). You don't ever have to share your art and you're still an artist, too.
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I guess Epstein isn’t in the Epstein files.
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I guess Epstein isn’t in the Epstein files.
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It all just feels like the Apple Crush ad at this point: people who are like "what if you didn't have to take the time to think and ponder and be creative, and something just extruded content on your behalf?"
what.... what would be the point of that?
what.... what would be the point of that?
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It all just feels like the Apple Crush ad at this point: people who are like "what if you didn't have to take the time to think and ponder and be creative, and something just extruded content on your behalf?"
what.... what would be the point of that?
what.... what would be the point of that?
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ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5
December 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5
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I will never, ever, understand people who want to outsource their humanity. Learning how to make something feels amazing. And I mean the whole process, including the frustrating times. Because then you know you MADE it. You can't feel genuine pride in something you didn't make.
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I will never, ever, understand people who want to outsource their humanity. Learning how to make something feels amazing. And I mean the whole process, including the frustrating times. Because then you know you MADE it. You can't feel genuine pride in something you didn't make.
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Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Whuuuuuuut
Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Whuuuuuuut
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French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
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Absolutely essential reading. Brilliant and chilling analysis from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce
The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to challenge illegal discrimination.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Absolutely essential reading. Brilliant and chilling analysis from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM