Maleva
@malevabrava.bsky.social
Masochist, photographer, she/her, NSFW 18+
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Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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Today's Love Letter is a reflection on the incredible, healing, life-affirming power of pain -- and how good it is to get the chance to hurt.
When It Hurts
A Love Letters Feature by Sarah Gailey - December 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Today's Love Letter is a reflection on the incredible, healing, life-affirming power of pain -- and how good it is to get the chance to hurt.
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The thing about the relentless march of time is that you only get an ending (happy or otherwise) in fiction. Here in the real world no cause is ever lost forever even though we may not live to see it prevail. This is both hope and cautionary tale.
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
October 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The thing about the relentless march of time is that you only get an ending (happy or otherwise) in fiction. Here in the real world no cause is ever lost forever even though we may not live to see it prevail. This is both hope and cautionary tale.
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Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in.
If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality.
So...🧵
(And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).
If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality.
So...🧵
(And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).
October 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in.
If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality.
So...🧵
(And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).
If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality.
So...🧵
(And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).
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I don’t want to be governed by vibes. I want to be governed by data, and I want the methods which generated that data to be peer-reviewed so aggressively that bias is recognized and mitigated.
I want to do nothing *but* trust experts, so I can spend my time as an expert in my own tiny field.
I want to do nothing *but* trust experts, so I can spend my time as an expert in my own tiny field.
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.scrippsnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I don’t want to be governed by vibes. I want to be governed by data, and I want the methods which generated that data to be peer-reviewed so aggressively that bias is recognized and mitigated.
I want to do nothing *but* trust experts, so I can spend my time as an expert in my own tiny field.
I want to do nothing *but* trust experts, so I can spend my time as an expert in my own tiny field.
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But what is too much to bear?
(Not being alive.)
So we kept being alive even as they destroyed us.
(So we buried our secrets though they tried to extinguish our secrets with us.)
Up until this very day.
(They keep coming, they never stop.)
You couldn't kill us all.
--Dead Astronauts
(Not being alive.)
So we kept being alive even as they destroyed us.
(So we buried our secrets though they tried to extinguish our secrets with us.)
Up until this very day.
(They keep coming, they never stop.)
You couldn't kill us all.
--Dead Astronauts
July 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
But what is too much to bear?
(Not being alive.)
So we kept being alive even as they destroyed us.
(So we buried our secrets though they tried to extinguish our secrets with us.)
Up until this very day.
(They keep coming, they never stop.)
You couldn't kill us all.
--Dead Astronauts
(Not being alive.)
So we kept being alive even as they destroyed us.
(So we buried our secrets though they tried to extinguish our secrets with us.)
Up until this very day.
(They keep coming, they never stop.)
You couldn't kill us all.
--Dead Astronauts
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After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.
This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
wck.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
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immigrants belong in our community. ICE doesn't.
June 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
immigrants belong in our community. ICE doesn't.
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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I believe the world is governed by an extraterrestrial grasshopper
an external locust of control
an external locust of control
May 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I believe the world is governed by an extraterrestrial grasshopper
an external locust of control
an external locust of control
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hello!! I know everyone is busy/the news remains bad, but if I may distract for a moment? There's a man named Ander Louis from the Yarra Valley whose sincere passion project is translating War & Peace into Bogan Australian. He's done Books 1 & 2. This is not a spoof. www.amazon.com/dp/108730656...
April 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
hello!! I know everyone is busy/the news remains bad, but if I may distract for a moment? There's a man named Ander Louis from the Yarra Valley whose sincere passion project is translating War & Peace into Bogan Australian. He's done Books 1 & 2. This is not a spoof. www.amazon.com/dp/108730656...
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corollary: people who make you feel bad about yourself all the time are toxic to you. basic, but worth remembering.
March 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
corollary: people who make you feel bad about yourself all the time are toxic to you. basic, but worth remembering.
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Supporting bathroom, sports and healthcare bans for trans people means signing on to a moral panic about problems that DON'T EXIST.
When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.
When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.
March 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Supporting bathroom, sports and healthcare bans for trans people means signing on to a moral panic about problems that DON'T EXIST.
When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.
When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.
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I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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RIP David Lynch
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RIP David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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RIP David Lynch
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RIP David Lynch
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used this one too. it’s a directory of various grassroots mutual aid kitchens all over Gaza
Fund a Kitchen in Gaza - Humanti Project
Free tool to locate food kitchens across Gaza that are providing and distributing urgently needed meals to hundreds of thousands of people.
www.humantiproject.org
December 24, 2024 at 9:40 AM
used this one too. it’s a directory of various grassroots mutual aid kitchens all over Gaza
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A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.
5th person to be cured of HIV
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:13 PM
A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.
Terry Pratchett
Simon R. Green
C. J. Cherryh
Robert Jordan
Brian Jacques
Lois McMaster Bujold
Robin McKinley
Connie Willis
Robin Hobb
Dick Frances
That’s ten, but of course there’s more…
Simon R. Green
C. J. Cherryh
Robert Jordan
Brian Jacques
Lois McMaster Bujold
Robin McKinley
Connie Willis
Robin Hobb
Dick Frances
That’s ten, but of course there’s more…
Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books:
Terry Pratchett
Tamora Pierce
Neil Gaiman
Becky Chambers
Charles de Lint
Martha Wells
Seanan McGuire
Ben Aaronovitch
Jane Austen
Brian Jacques
Terry Pratchett
Tamora Pierce
Neil Gaiman
Becky Chambers
Charles de Lint
Martha Wells
Seanan McGuire
Ben Aaronovitch
Jane Austen
Brian Jacques
Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than 5 books
Terry Pratchett (shocking, I know)
Neil Gaiman
NK Jemisin
Alastair Reynolds
Courtney Milan
Tamora Pierce
Ilona Andrews
Brian Jacques
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vernor Vinge
Terry Pratchett (shocking, I know)
Neil Gaiman
NK Jemisin
Alastair Reynolds
Courtney Milan
Tamora Pierce
Ilona Andrews
Brian Jacques
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vernor Vinge
January 5, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Terry Pratchett
Simon R. Green
C. J. Cherryh
Robert Jordan
Brian Jacques
Lois McMaster Bujold
Robin McKinley
Connie Willis
Robin Hobb
Dick Frances
That’s ten, but of course there’s more…
Simon R. Green
C. J. Cherryh
Robert Jordan
Brian Jacques
Lois McMaster Bujold
Robin McKinley
Connie Willis
Robin Hobb
Dick Frances
That’s ten, but of course there’s more…