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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't even know I somehow got my copy early! Sign up if you want slightly pulpy very trans hiveminds and fungal intelligence and neurospiciness and space opera noir-ish and Diaspora feels and righteous crankiness and competitive community art and I WANNA EAT THE THING

Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 2d

REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books!

You can request a copy here:

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I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

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Anna @downmydirtroad.bsky.social · 15h

On the edge of the meadow
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The photo is a combination of long blades of green grasses, red and yellow turning foliage and wildflower seed pods with a little blurry background visible through the foliage.

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T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 12h

Oh absolutely. There’s a reason for the joke about anarchist meetings using a progressive stack!

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T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 13h

when dudes go "well I as a man would *love* it if women catcalled me" to argue that it's appreciation, not harassment when they do it, people are rightly incensed.

It's hard to switch paradigms to one where taking power into account would do more harm than good.

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T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 13h

I can see why people have a hard time with it, why it smells funny to folks if they don't stop to really engage with it. In a lot of talking about oppressive systems, position *matters* and you can't just switch things around. When white people try to say "cracker" is a slur against us, or

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T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe because then moderation decisions would vary based on an account's audience size and composition, which seems like it does sort of create a "uWu smol bean exception"?

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T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 13h

Fascinating! Part of me keeps that what the audience does with the thing (e.g. if they go harass a labeled person) seems like it shouldn't be considered in moderation rules and decisions about the thing itself, in the same way that power isn't??? I can't quite tell why I have that sense though

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T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 13h

What would have to change in order for those to end badly, would you say? Like, what makes them not harassment now but might make them fall in that category in the future?

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T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 14h

Yeahhhh I kept thinking "but doesn't power matter" and I do think it influences e.g. what gets reported, how the human mods perceive posts, etc. but you can't build the rules around it like "the more powerful a user is, the higher the threshold for what counts as harassment against them"

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Linette🌻 @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social · 14h

dark

gouache landscape painting of rain clouds, lights and trees

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T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 14h

IF* the bot WERE* of someone like JKR's...

sigh this is what I get for trying to condense under character limit

T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 14h

I can see what Rahaeli means about ideological alignment, because if someone made a bot like that for my account, it would come off as vaguely disconcerting or maybe threatening. but the bot is of someone like JKR's account, it just reminds me people were pointing out her liking TERF posts for years

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T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 14h

I've gone back and forth in pondering what makes that harassment, because I don't think it's actually textbook. Or at least, when I think online harassment I think.. I dunno, something like replying to every single thing someone posts with the word "idiot." But the bot didn't even tag his account.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

This kind of explanation work is so immensely time-consuming and people who are putting out 15 simultaneous fires just don't have the capacity to do it, plus the psychological barrier of "why should I explain when it will be taken in the worst faith possible no matter what" is huge

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

"Why doesn't [site] communicate more about anything" well maybe because every time they do, hundreds of people lose their entire fucking shit for the next five days and a new completely wrong folk belief starts getting repeated as fact and becomes the basis for even more shit-losing

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 1d

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 2d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Regardless of if you celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, the Harvest Moon, or just making it through the day, every night we see is another one our enemies wish we hadn't.

Here's tonight's #FullMoon rising.

I hope if you have some clear skies you can look up and smile tonight. ❤️

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Angel 🩵 ¡VIVA MÉXICO! @cutestpatoot.itch.io · 14d

FULL AGREE just adding alt text !

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

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𝐀𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐬 @akhateli.farm · 2d

🌱 A fruity photoshoot: the last weird cucumber vogueing next to a terracotta pot - to which its colour-matched.

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Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 2d

MPL -Making public libraries sexy again.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節)! 🥮

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T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 3d

Walking outside, letting my eyes unfocus and just observe the movement of plants in the breeze, play of sunlight and shadow across different surfaces, etc

T-eek!-up @undertheteacup.bsky.social · 3d

Please god

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⛧ fuckleberry jam ⚢ @ifuckedyr.mom · 20d

look at this frog butt

frog butt. it’s cute as hell. you probably wanna poke it or something weird like that. it’s ok. it’s just a picture. go ahead. poke your screen

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