Adrian Harley
@adrianharley.bsky.social
Author of Many Drops Make a Stream. Herder of cats. they/them
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
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Hammajang Luck is up for a Goodreads Choice Award in the science fiction category!!! if you enjoyed my heist lesbians, you can vote in the first round here
mahalo nui loa!!!
mahalo nui loa!!!
Opening Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite Science Fiction of 2025!
Discover the Readers' Favorite Science Fiction in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
www.goodreads.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Hammajang Luck is up for a Goodreads Choice Award in the science fiction category!!! if you enjoyed my heist lesbians, you can vote in the first round here
mahalo nui loa!!!
mahalo nui loa!!!
Every year I divide my family gift wish list into “books” and “things that aren’t books,” and the “books” list is usually longer
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Every year I divide my family gift wish list into “books” and “things that aren’t books,” and the “books” list is usually longer
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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Massive deployment of renewables are reducing emissions in China. Carbon emissions in China have been flat or falling for 18 months now from a peak in early 2024. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Massive deployment of renewables are reducing emissions in China. Carbon emissions in China have been flat or falling for 18 months now from a peak in early 2024. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
What an absolutely beautiful morning
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
What an absolutely beautiful morning
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of “Many Drops Make a Stream”)
(Here's the opening of “Many Drops Make a Stream”)
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of “Many Drops Make a Stream”)
(Here's the opening of “Many Drops Make a Stream”)
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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I feel like "this man keeps fighting for y'all not to have food" could win some folks a LOT of campaigns, and yet.....
BREAKING: Trump admin once again asked the Supreme Court to freeze full SNAP payments.
As Americans are struggling, this self-serving President is spending his time and resources trying to prevent people from getting food to feed their children.
As Americans are struggling, this self-serving President is spending his time and resources trying to prevent people from getting food to feed their children.
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I feel like "this man keeps fighting for y'all not to have food" could win some folks a LOT of campaigns, and yet.....
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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It is 8th Nov in a European city widely thought to have terrible weather at about 51 degrees North.
Xmas markets open in 3 weeks.
It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside.
I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft.
I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt.
This is not fucking normal.
Xmas markets open in 3 weeks.
It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside.
I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft.
I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt.
This is not fucking normal.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It is 8th Nov in a European city widely thought to have terrible weather at about 51 degrees North.
Xmas markets open in 3 weeks.
It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside.
I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft.
I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt.
This is not fucking normal.
Xmas markets open in 3 weeks.
It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside.
I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft.
I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt.
This is not fucking normal.
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The federal government is putting its full weight behind purging Black people from public life and the press and opposition party is silent as it does so.
“The Committee’s unfounded accusations, dependence on clearly compromised sources, and selective presentation of ‘evidence’ represent an unprecedented abuse of congressional power—designed not to find the truth, but to silence leadership that refuses to yield to political pressure.”
— GMU-AAUP
— GMU-AAUP
Congress Accuses GMU President of Lying About DEI Efforts
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee accused George Mason University's president of lying about DEI practices and likely violating civil rights laws. He has denied the claims.
www.insidehighered.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The federal government is putting its full weight behind purging Black people from public life and the press and opposition party is silent as it does so.
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After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
Start Here (2025 Edition)
Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…
thetransfemininereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
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Said resistance was often a bit more emphatic than chucking some bread at a fed, too.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Said resistance was often a bit more emphatic than chucking some bread at a fed, too.
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800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
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Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
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OpenAI is well aware of how its products stoke manic, suicidal, psychotic, and other forms of unhealthy behavior, but company leadership insists publicly that the problem with the tech is that it isn’t reaching *enough* people. Bulldozing the vulnerable is corporate strategy
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
OpenAI is well aware of how its products stoke manic, suicidal, psychotic, and other forms of unhealthy behavior, but company leadership insists publicly that the problem with the tech is that it isn’t reaching *enough* people. Bulldozing the vulnerable is corporate strategy
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
I prefer wandering outside, but I often find that much cozier than being inside! Fresh air and trees soothe me. So in the spirit of “technically a quest but it feels cozy,” I’ll say Kimberly Lemming’s That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (since it was indie first). #AMoRaR
Daily Challenge 6: Quest or Cozy - Will you wander outside or rather stay inside?
Tell us which you would prefer, but also feel free to share indie books which fit your idea of this prompt!
Reply or repost with your answer to enter, and remember to include the tag #AMoRaR
Tell us which you would prefer, but also feel free to share indie books which fit your idea of this prompt!
Reply or repost with your answer to enter, and remember to include the tag #AMoRaR
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I prefer wandering outside, but I often find that much cozier than being inside! Fresh air and trees soothe me. So in the spirit of “technically a quest but it feels cozy,” I’ll say Kimberly Lemming’s That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (since it was indie first). #AMoRaR
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Very notably, people are working full-time at Walmart, and still qualifying for SNAP. Walmart gives their employees a class on applying for benefits.
And then those employees spend their SNAP *at Walmart*.
That's the con, right there.
And then those employees spend their SNAP *at Walmart*.
That's the con, right there.
Let me trickle a few clues on the trail to understanding food insecurity in a nation that COULD, and damn well SHOULD, easily afford sufficient food in this country for everyone, birth to death. 1. Many people who need food assistance *are working full time* but are paid so little they cannot
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Very notably, people are working full-time at Walmart, and still qualifying for SNAP. Walmart gives their employees a class on applying for benefits.
And then those employees spend their SNAP *at Walmart*.
That's the con, right there.
And then those employees spend their SNAP *at Walmart*.
That's the con, right there.