It Lurks...
@leverite.org
Part time artist, occasional author, Life-long meddler, and friend to things that go bump in the night. (Pronouns: whatever yer most comfortable with)
Pinned
Reposted by It Lurks...
I remember a law prof friend saying that the idea of corporate civil rights binds consumers without binding capital…
Since “corporations are people,” can Grok be charged with a crime? Specifically, violation of the Take It Down act that Ted Cruz introduced and that Trump signed into law in May?
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I remember a law prof friend saying that the idea of corporate civil rights binds consumers without binding capital…
Reposted by It Lurks...
Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.
January 4, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.
Reposted by It Lurks...
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
Reposted by It Lurks...
Fascism is fundamentally a politics that produces a past that never existed & promises to drag it into the present
It is not a coincidence that it dovetails so neatly with this particular technology
It is not a coincidence that it dovetails so neatly with this particular technology
2 things:
1) Joel is right here in that AI is a "restorative" nostalgia (from Svetlana Boym) machine, in that it produces a past that never existed & tries to drag it into the present
2) the crusade imagery is violent white supremacy (see next post)
1) Joel is right here in that AI is a "restorative" nostalgia (from Svetlana Boym) machine, in that it produces a past that never existed & tries to drag it into the present
2) the crusade imagery is violent white supremacy (see next post)
It’s quite telling that so many right-wing dealers in nostalgia are embracing the aesthetics of modern AI-generated art. Can’t actually find real images of the imagined past to which you want us to return? No problem; just generate it with AI.
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Fascism is fundamentally a politics that produces a past that never existed & promises to drag it into the present
It is not a coincidence that it dovetails so neatly with this particular technology
It is not a coincidence that it dovetails so neatly with this particular technology
Reposted by It Lurks...
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
I) Be stubborn. Be pigheaded. It's your art. Also read a lot. I mean, a LOT.
Now, go write.
Now, go write.
December 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Reposted by It Lurks...
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
Reposted by It Lurks...
My end-of-2025 summary:
"The Year That Wouldn't Be Quiet"
"The Year That Wouldn't Be Quiet"
Nnedi 2025
Nnedi Okorafor
Writing
Stories
nnedi.blogspot.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My end-of-2025 summary:
"The Year That Wouldn't Be Quiet"
"The Year That Wouldn't Be Quiet"
Reposted by It Lurks...
Someone once posted a review of Beyond Shame saying it should be illegal for the author to ever write anything again, even a grocery list. 🤣
That book is the one that the most people have written to us about saying it literally changed their lives.
Make big art that inspires big feels. 💓
That book is the one that the most people have written to us about saying it literally changed their lives.
Make big art that inspires big feels. 💓
You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?
December 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Someone once posted a review of Beyond Shame saying it should be illegal for the author to ever write anything again, even a grocery list. 🤣
That book is the one that the most people have written to us about saying it literally changed their lives.
Make big art that inspires big feels. 💓
That book is the one that the most people have written to us about saying it literally changed their lives.
Make big art that inspires big feels. 💓
Reposted by It Lurks...
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
Reposted by It Lurks...
Annual reminder that the world didn't crash on Y2K because countless people put in countless hours of work to ensure computer systems were updated to handle the date switch from 1999 to 2000.
It was a real problem that a huge group effort fixed.
It was a real problem that a huge group effort fixed.
December 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Annual reminder that the world didn't crash on Y2K because countless people put in countless hours of work to ensure computer systems were updated to handle the date switch from 1999 to 2000.
It was a real problem that a huge group effort fixed.
It was a real problem that a huge group effort fixed.
Reposted by It Lurks...
This is slavery.
Private prison company GEO Group allegedly made immigration detainees work for no pay. Now it's at the Supreme Court trying to prevent the detainees from suing. bit.ly/4pfafj2
Supreme Court Considers Private Prison Case
A private prison company seeks a ruling that could help all government contractors evade liability.
www.brennancenter.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is slavery.
Reposted by It Lurks...
Along with the racist fake grievance of "apologizing for being white," there's also the fact that a bunch of white folks seem to believe (and/or are willing to suggest) that even acknowledging systemic advantages they get for being white is the equivalent of being "forced to apologize."
Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Along with the racist fake grievance of "apologizing for being white," there's also the fact that a bunch of white folks seem to believe (and/or are willing to suggest) that even acknowledging systemic advantages they get for being white is the equivalent of being "forced to apologize."
Reposted by It Lurks...
This is kinda badass
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This is kinda badass
Reposted by It Lurks...
Vicky doesn't allow for quote posting but I think people forget during BLM protests a teenager killed protesters and was not only not convicted but raised a hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing it.
December 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Vicky doesn't allow for quote posting but I think people forget during BLM protests a teenager killed protesters and was not only not convicted but raised a hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing it.
Reposted by It Lurks...
The cops shot and killed an activist during STOP COP CITY and then the state criminalized the protesters for indicting over 60 people on RICO charges... THAT IS STILL HAPPENING NOW. Those charges have not been dismissed. The first trials are underway.
December 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The cops shot and killed an activist during STOP COP CITY and then the state criminalized the protesters for indicting over 60 people on RICO charges... THAT IS STILL HAPPENING NOW. Those charges have not been dismissed. The first trials are underway.
Reposted by It Lurks...
The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮
I’ve said it and I believe it is true
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
December 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮
Hope is the active defiance of cruelty and indifference.
December 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Hope is the active defiance of cruelty and indifference.
Reposted by It Lurks...
Reposted by It Lurks...
Hi @georgetakei.bsky.social
Please remind folks to get&gift subscriptions to local news outlets. Here’s our 50-state, 2,200+ outlet directory we created to help folks find local journalism worth reading and supporting.
Healthy info diets in 2026!
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
Please remind folks to get&gift subscriptions to local news outlets. Here’s our 50-state, 2,200+ outlet directory we created to help folks find local journalism worth reading and supporting.
Healthy info diets in 2026!
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
Local Journalism Directory | Media and Democracy Project
We created a directory to help you find local journalism and local news sources in your area worth reading and supporting.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org
December 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Hi @georgetakei.bsky.social
Please remind folks to get&gift subscriptions to local news outlets. Here’s our 50-state, 2,200+ outlet directory we created to help folks find local journalism worth reading and supporting.
Healthy info diets in 2026!
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
Please remind folks to get&gift subscriptions to local news outlets. Here’s our 50-state, 2,200+ outlet directory we created to help folks find local journalism worth reading and supporting.
Healthy info diets in 2026!
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
Reposted by It Lurks...
Defeating smallpox, ozone layer depletion, HIV/AIDS and hunger - humankind *is* good at solving problems collectively.
Gaining control of climate change, via renewables, is next. Noteworthy that 🇨🇳 and 🇪🇺 take the driver‘s seat.
Gaining control of climate change, via renewables, is next. Noteworthy that 🇨🇳 and 🇪🇺 take the driver‘s seat.
The science breakthrough of 2025 is Solar Energy, not because it is new but because of how successful its deployment has been. This year renewable energy surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Hopeful sign for what’s to come.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
December 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Defeating smallpox, ozone layer depletion, HIV/AIDS and hunger - humankind *is* good at solving problems collectively.
Gaining control of climate change, via renewables, is next. Noteworthy that 🇨🇳 and 🇪🇺 take the driver‘s seat.
Gaining control of climate change, via renewables, is next. Noteworthy that 🇨🇳 and 🇪🇺 take the driver‘s seat.
Reposted by It Lurks...
Reposted by It Lurks...
Oh my. So beautiful.
December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Oh my. So beautiful.