rae kocatka
@ygrae.bsky.social
neuroqueer writer, saturnian, dark souls autist. clarion west '18. they/them
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rae kocatka
@ygrae.bsky.social
· Nov 7
organize this, mutual aid that. how many of you still wear a mask when you go out. quickly
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I’m delighted to open submissions for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We're wanting Arthurian stories with LGBTQ+ protags and spec-fic elements.
Check out the Submissions page on my website! Link in comments.
#arthuriana #callforsubmissions #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
Check out the Submissions page on my website! Link in comments.
#arthuriana #callforsubmissions #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
December 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I’m delighted to open submissions for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We're wanting Arthurian stories with LGBTQ+ protags and spec-fic elements.
Check out the Submissions page on my website! Link in comments.
#arthuriana #callforsubmissions #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
Check out the Submissions page on my website! Link in comments.
#arthuriana #callforsubmissions #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
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To accept and use this AI tech is to say I myself am so deeply incompetent and mediocre that a useless machine which cannot actually do the required work is still better than any effort I can make.
Seriously. Just stop.
Seriously. Just stop.
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
To accept and use this AI tech is to say I myself am so deeply incompetent and mediocre that a useless machine which cannot actually do the required work is still better than any effort I can make.
Seriously. Just stop.
Seriously. Just stop.
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A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
The Fascist Echo in Labour's "Over-diagnosis" Inquiry
Why Wes Steeting's new inquiry is about more than just renewed austerity
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
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“Long Covid only happens to leftists”
Or society’s ableism is so rampant and devastating that becoming disabled commonly functions as a radicalizing experience. Who can say.
Or society’s ableism is so rampant and devastating that becoming disabled commonly functions as a radicalizing experience. Who can say.
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“Long Covid only happens to leftists”
Or society’s ableism is so rampant and devastating that becoming disabled commonly functions as a radicalizing experience. Who can say.
Or society’s ableism is so rampant and devastating that becoming disabled commonly functions as a radicalizing experience. Who can say.
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people getting their spotify wrapped today: it's a great time to switch to another service. spotify is doubling and tripling down on taking ICE's business and running ads.
switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.
switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
people getting their spotify wrapped today: it's a great time to switch to another service. spotify is doubling and tripling down on taking ICE's business and running ads.
switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.
switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.
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YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Horror Anthology by Trans & Gender Non Conforming Voices
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM announced; cover art reveal & submissions info! — tenebrous press
Hey Ho, Tenebrous Cult! Hope you're as excited about this as we are: we're ready to announce submission details, and reveal the cover, of the next YOUR BODY volume. Mx Morgan G Robles crafted the ex...
tenebrouspress.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Horror Anthology by Trans & Gender Non Conforming Voices
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
enormously fucked up and retriggering that survivors just have to bathe in the news cycle about how no one in power has ever had the bravery to apply a consequence to a predator
September 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
enormously fucked up and retriggering that survivors just have to bathe in the news cycle about how no one in power has ever had the bravery to apply a consequence to a predator
my historic orchard has no apples for the third year in a row and I felt visceral dread seeing it on their website
September 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
my historic orchard has no apples for the third year in a row and I felt visceral dread seeing it on their website
my insurance just sent me a SECOND email about what I’m doing to curb the wildfire spread of rsv. it’s July. every single healthcare provider I’ve seen since spring is unmasked
July 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
my insurance just sent me a SECOND email about what I’m doing to curb the wildfire spread of rsv. it’s July. every single healthcare provider I’ve seen since spring is unmasked
gen AI can’t love you back but the novel you’re working on can
July 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
gen AI can’t love you back but the novel you’re working on can
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Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
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Regular sleep is not enough. I must slumber. I require a hoard upon which to lay, in a dark cave deep in the mountains, and I will not awaken for nine generations.
July 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Regular sleep is not enough. I must slumber. I require a hoard upon which to lay, in a dark cave deep in the mountains, and I will not awaken for nine generations.
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the collapse of US healthcare has been in progress. ask any chronically ill person who interfaces with those systems regularly. the Medicaid cuts are the completion of an arc already well underway under a system that curls its toes in delight whenever a politician parrots a eugenicist talking point
July 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
the collapse of US healthcare has been in progress. ask any chronically ill person who interfaces with those systems regularly. the Medicaid cuts are the completion of an arc already well underway under a system that curls its toes in delight whenever a politician parrots a eugenicist talking point
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july is disability pride month! support and protect the disabled folks in your community: WEAR A MASK. it's never too late to start again.
July 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
july is disability pride month! support and protect the disabled folks in your community: WEAR A MASK. it's never too late to start again.
being in a parking garage is spooky because I am not supposed to be so somatically aware of the structure and how it conducts vibrations
June 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
being in a parking garage is spooky because I am not supposed to be so somatically aware of the structure and how it conducts vibrations
waiting for the dem fundraising text asserting that there’s a congressional path to stop trump but they need me to donate five dollars first
June 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
waiting for the dem fundraising text asserting that there’s a congressional path to stop trump but they need me to donate five dollars first
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"I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified"
June 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified"
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trans people and disabled people are both being targeted by eugenicist laws right now, solidarity with all
June 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
trans people and disabled people are both being targeted by eugenicist laws right now, solidarity with all