Malaika (Shomari) Kirkwood
@mxoberon.bsky.social
Trans lady bringing fantastical things to your TV and other screens.
Currently: Something Secret and Cool 🤭
Wrote On: 4400, Clean Slate
Repped: INDUSTRY ENTERTAINMENT/Paradigm
Currently: Something Secret and Cool 🤭
Wrote On: 4400, Clean Slate
Repped: INDUSTRY ENTERTAINMENT/Paradigm
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So, for any cis people who have money, would like to say that if you feel lost about what to do regarding these trans EOs. Please direct yourself to my venmo (@ Zadja) or my cashapp ($ShomariK). Money is a great help in these trying times. 💗
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Absolutely egregious from the people who bought the three oldest magazines in SFF and are attempting to convert them into a giant funnel of monetizable IP
This postscript is so telling of what trying to negotiate with MRM is like. Massive respect for Scott in sticking to his principles and not allowing them to bully or gaslight him into signing. I'm disgusted that this is still happening to authors. No market is worth this.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Absolutely egregious from the people who bought the three oldest magazines in SFF and are attempting to convert them into a giant funnel of monetizable IP
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do you know renpy? do you live in ontario? do you wanna help me with my game. pleas
Do you know Ren'Py? Would you like to help out on @truthscrapper.bsky.social? We're looking for a Ren'Py programmer based in Ontario, CA (remote) we can periodically contract for hourly paid work to solve problems and program certain items! More details here:
forms.gle/1DMXtpFkY6Pr...
#gamedev
forms.gle/1DMXtpFkY6Pr...
#gamedev
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
do you know renpy? do you live in ontario? do you wanna help me with my game. pleas
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Aya. Before the war Aya was an Arabic language teacher at a kindergarten. She was forced to flee her home and this week in addition to the floods her tent also burned. She has four children Omar, 10, Mohammed, 8, Wasim, 5 and Yasmine, 3 months
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Aya. Before the war Aya was an Arabic language teacher at a kindergarten. She was forced to flee her home and this week in addition to the floods her tent also burned. She has four children Omar, 10, Mohammed, 8, Wasim, 5 and Yasmine, 3 months
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booo boo BOOOOOO
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
booo boo BOOOOOO
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If you can pitch in and help me I’d appreciate it, I drive myself and my partner to work and this happened in between pay periods for me
I’m trying to raise like $150 for a new tire
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If you can pitch in and help me I’d appreciate it, I drive myself and my partner to work and this happened in between pay periods for me
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💯💯💯
It is EXTREMELY way past time for people to stop saying "the economy" when they mean "the stock market."
The stock market is fully divorced from reality. It does not represent anything meaningful about the actual standards of living.
It is EXTREMELY way past time for people to stop saying "the economy" when they mean "the stock market."
The stock market is fully divorced from reality. It does not represent anything meaningful about the actual standards of living.
one factor in the Harris loss was the Democratic party bragging about the great economy when it was actually complete garbage outside the artificially juiced stock market, and I don't expect that tactic to work any better for Trump esp with a much worse economy
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
💯💯💯
It is EXTREMELY way past time for people to stop saying "the economy" when they mean "the stock market."
The stock market is fully divorced from reality. It does not represent anything meaningful about the actual standards of living.
It is EXTREMELY way past time for people to stop saying "the economy" when they mean "the stock market."
The stock market is fully divorced from reality. It does not represent anything meaningful about the actual standards of living.
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PSA for any Apub authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list: Amazon is not participating in the settlement, since they have an investment in Anthropic. When you submit your claim form, you DO NOT have to list Amazon as an add'l rightsholder, & can claim 100% of settlement money.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
PSA for any Apub authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list: Amazon is not participating in the settlement, since they have an investment in Anthropic. When you submit your claim form, you DO NOT have to list Amazon as an add'l rightsholder, & can claim 100% of settlement money.
Might start putting my poems into a doc that isnt my phone/discord writer's group...but don't call it a collection!
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Might start putting my poems into a doc that isnt my phone/discord writer's group...but don't call it a collection!
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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Hey yall…. Get your people off the streets!!!!!
It’s slippery on the streets!
It’s slippery on the streets!
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hey yall…. Get your people off the streets!!!!!
It’s slippery on the streets!
It’s slippery on the streets!
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I’ve only just now seen this, and she still hasn’t reached her goal. What she’s going through is awful. Please help if you can.
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
www.gofundme.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I’ve only just now seen this, and she still hasn’t reached her goal. What she’s going through is awful. Please help if you can.
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
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With Ana being targetted by paypros right now, supporting her on subscribestar is one decent option to help her during this time!
I’m sorry folks, but opportunities to support me financially are literally being pulled from the internet. Even if you don’t listen to ASMR, at this point the best thing you can do to help me is actually subbing to my SubStar
subscribestar.adult/acvalens
subscribestar.adult/acvalens
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
With Ana being targetted by paypros right now, supporting her on subscribestar is one decent option to help her during this time!
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None of these agents should be employable after this...but unfortunately we live in a world where we don't even pretend to punish Nazis anymore...
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
None of these agents should be employable after this...but unfortunately we live in a world where we don't even pretend to punish Nazis anymore...
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This puts it in such painful clarity—the message was about the MASS harm of sexual violence against women.
That the harm of sexual violence to the person that experiences it is enough reason to oppose it *wasn’t even on the table yet.*
And that was still “too far.”
That the harm of sexual violence to the person that experiences it is enough reason to oppose it *wasn’t even on the table yet.*
And that was still “too far.”
That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This puts it in such painful clarity—the message was about the MASS harm of sexual violence against women.
That the harm of sexual violence to the person that experiences it is enough reason to oppose it *wasn’t even on the table yet.*
And that was still “too far.”
That the harm of sexual violence to the person that experiences it is enough reason to oppose it *wasn’t even on the table yet.*
And that was still “too far.”
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I wish men truly understood how often their peers only pretend to cultivate women's talents because they want to fuck us. I am a short Canadian nobody and it happened to me when I was starting out my screenwriting career no less than four times before I turned 26
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I wish men truly understood how often their peers only pretend to cultivate women's talents because they want to fuck us. I am a short Canadian nobody and it happened to me when I was starting out my screenwriting career no less than four times before I turned 26
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
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Anyway whenever they try saying “it happened so long ago” remember that some of them were alive for this and ask them how they felt about it when it happened
Ruby Bridges Integrated An All-White School In Louisiana On This Day In 1960 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/14/r...
Ruby Bridges Integrated An All-White School In Louisiana On This Day In 1960 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
Ruby Bridges is famous for, as a first-grader, integrating an all-white school in Louisiana on this day in 1960. You might be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT RUBY BRIDGES…
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November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Anyway whenever they try saying “it happened so long ago” remember that some of them were alive for this and ask them how they felt about it when it happened
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A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
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These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
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Remember when the people who started two world wars and developed/used nuclear weaponry spent the 80s musing if Black/brown people were just naturally, genetically violent
Hating black people and believing we are inferior when you and your crew are barely literate and involved in every crime known to man (theft, drug smuggling, human trafficking, pedophilia, bribery, rape, blackmail, fraud) is WILD.
November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Remember when the people who started two world wars and developed/used nuclear weaponry spent the 80s musing if Black/brown people were just naturally, genetically violent
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Never been more important to buy from craftspeople, painters, potters, illustrators, makers, carpenters, bakers and the like. Seek them out, follow them, support them and buy their goods. Use them or lose them etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Never been more important to buy from craftspeople, painters, potters, illustrators, makers, carpenters, bakers and the like. Seek them out, follow them, support them and buy their goods. Use them or lose them etc etc
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Bamboozle is such a great word. So apt here. The NYT is much like a gangrenous shuffling monster that also continues to sport the occasional pleasant face or a perfectly tailored suit.
Mostly, it's decomposing into rancid liquified goo.
Mostly, it's decomposing into rancid liquified goo.
The New York Times successfully keeps bamboozling people because they still do some pretty good reporting, sometimes on things the GOP doesn’t like, even - but if you look at their overall body of work over the last 10 years, a very clear picture of their agenda emerges.
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Bamboozle is such a great word. So apt here. The NYT is much like a gangrenous shuffling monster that also continues to sport the occasional pleasant face or a perfectly tailored suit.
Mostly, it's decomposing into rancid liquified goo.
Mostly, it's decomposing into rancid liquified goo.
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Please help out! The cold is hitting Gaza now, so proper shelter is essential!
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Please help out! The cold is hitting Gaza now, so proper shelter is essential!
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NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."