Kyra Freestar
@kyrafreestar.bsky.social
Editing social science and social science fiction since 2005.
Following dragons, dictionaries, and disability justice.
Hope is a decision.
Find me at Bridge Creek Editing | Academic Editing Circle | Mightier (she/they)
Following dragons, dictionaries, and disability justice.
Hope is a decision.
Find me at Bridge Creek Editing | Academic Editing Circle | Mightier (she/they)
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While at Worldcon in Seattle in August, I saw a woman walk by wearing a gray T-shirt with just four words on it:
"I have friends everywhere."
It's something I'd been thinking about for a while. We—all—have friends everywhere. So let’s talk about THAT.
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"I have friends everywhere."
It's something I'd been thinking about for a while. We—all—have friends everywhere. So let’s talk about THAT.
bridgecreekediting.com/we-have-frie...
"I know the back-breaking and heart-rending effort [nurses] put forth every day. And I know that they deserve everything they are asking for in this contract dispute and much, much more. They are not coming from a place of greed or self-interest. If they were, they would find another job."
Hello, since you're here anyway, would you please take a moment to read and share this beautiful letter written by the husband of a palliative cancer patient (me) in support of the nurses of Kaiser Permanente?
mishellbaker.com/pushing-back/
mishellbaker.com/pushing-back/
» Pushing Back.
mishellbaker.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:23 PM
"I know the back-breaking and heart-rending effort [nurses] put forth every day. And I know that they deserve everything they are asking for in this contract dispute and much, much more. They are not coming from a place of greed or self-interest. If they were, they would find another job."
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It just makes me really happy that an Italian who hates fascism designed a whistle and opened the license for 100% unlimited use to distribute for free, and we're printing them with filament donated from all over the world & sending them across the country.
We really do have friends everywhere. 💓
We really do have friends everywhere. 💓
February 13, 2026 at 4:45 AM
It just makes me really happy that an Italian who hates fascism designed a whistle and opened the license for 100% unlimited use to distribute for free, and we're printing them with filament donated from all over the world & sending them across the country.
We really do have friends everywhere. 💓
We really do have friends everywhere. 💓
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I'm going to put this out there for Seattle-area folks: I have free prescription Hill's k/d dry and wet food cat food if you know anyone with a cat in stage 3-4 kidney disease. I also have a low-entry pellet litter box and two sets of plastic pet stairs for less-mobile pets. Feel free to share wide!
February 12, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I'm going to put this out there for Seattle-area folks: I have free prescription Hill's k/d dry and wet food cat food if you know anyone with a cat in stage 3-4 kidney disease. I also have a low-entry pellet litter box and two sets of plastic pet stairs for less-mobile pets. Feel free to share wide!
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Hello friends! Just a reminder that ANYONE is welcome at my Saturday chats (see pinned post) and all ideas are welcome. Experts and clueless, old and young.
It's free; it's friendly. It's just a place to fight despair, get ideas of how to be builders and helpers, find power to make things better.
It's free; it's friendly. It's just a place to fight despair, get ideas of how to be builders and helpers, find power to make things better.
February 12, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Hello friends! Just a reminder that ANYONE is welcome at my Saturday chats (see pinned post) and all ideas are welcome. Experts and clueless, old and young.
It's free; it's friendly. It's just a place to fight despair, get ideas of how to be builders and helpers, find power to make things better.
It's free; it's friendly. It's just a place to fight despair, get ideas of how to be builders and helpers, find power to make things better.
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Pretty much all of what ICE does is unnecessary
“We enforced immigration laws before ICE, and enforcement responsibilities deemed necessary can be shifted to other agencies. This is far from radical. ICE's presence is intolerable and they must go.” www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...
Abolition, Amnesty, Decriminalization, Open Borders
You may not believe immigration restrictions are racist, but racists believe immigration restrictions are racist.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Pretty much all of what ICE does is unnecessary
We did it! It took us 3 ordinary people (freelance editors and writers) 5 days to collect enough small donations to cover rent for one month for one family in Minnesota.
$20 goes a long way when you're with friends!
#FuckICE #MNRentRelief
$20 goes a long way when you're with friends!
#FuckICE #MNRentRelief
In the first hour since I invited my circle of friends to donate, we've received 4 donations from people I know and one donation from someone I don't know.
#FuckICE #MNRentRelief
#FuckICE #MNRentRelief
One of my friends is sending me a check for $49 — she says that since she was in her twenties, her default donation has been her age.
February 11, 2026 at 12:07 AM
We did it! It took us 3 ordinary people (freelance editors and writers) 5 days to collect enough small donations to cover rent for one month for one family in Minnesota.
$20 goes a long way when you're with friends!
#FuckICE #MNRentRelief
$20 goes a long way when you're with friends!
#FuckICE #MNRentRelief
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this just making me almost cry today.
I do have friends everywhere. 😭
I do have friends everywhere. 😭
We are thankful for our friends everywhere
I just want everyone to know that the creator of one of our favorite whistles (the micro bitonal) is a very nice man in Italy who has been messaging me asking if there are things he can tweak in the next version he is designing mostly to help us mass produce these more efficiently to fight ICE.
February 10, 2026 at 8:26 PM
this just making me almost cry today.
I do have friends everywhere. 😭
I do have friends everywhere. 😭
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THIS.
If the people destroying the world are the same ones building the lifeboats, the lifeboats won’t save us.
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 PM
THIS.
Wherein the US federal government demonstrates the viability of universal basic income ...
February 10, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Wherein the US federal government demonstrates the viability of universal basic income ...
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Lyda, my bestie and fellow SF/F writer, has been volunteering at a food mutual aid that has had to rapidly scale up. This is their venmo, please consider donating.
I know we are all tapped out, but if you have anything to spare, the mutual aid place I volunteer at is desperate for funds to keep the lights on and folks fec. Venmo: @chef-collective-1123 or casapp: $chefcollective1123. Please share widely.
February 9, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Lyda, my bestie and fellow SF/F writer, has been volunteering at a food mutual aid that has had to rapidly scale up. This is their venmo, please consider donating.
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Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
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"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."
February 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."
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You know one of the stories that has kind of blown my mind is Haven Watch. Some lady realized people who got released from the Whipple were just dumped outside with no phone or coat and decided she could do something about this, like a month ago.
But there are a ton of similar stories.
But there are a ton of similar stories.
if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good
February 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM
You know one of the stories that has kind of blown my mind is Haven Watch. Some lady realized people who got released from the Whipple were just dumped outside with no phone or coat and decided she could do something about this, like a month ago.
But there are a ton of similar stories.
But there are a ton of similar stories.
In the first hour since I invited my circle of friends to donate, we've received 4 donations from people I know and one donation from someone I don't know.
#FuckICE #MNRentRelief
#FuckICE #MNRentRelief
One of my friends is sending me a check for $49 — she says that since she was in her twenties, her default donation has been her age.
I don't have a big account here on Bluesky, but I do have circles of friends, family, and free-speech-loving colleagues here in Seattle — so I'm organizing among IRL friends to "adopt" a Minneapolis rent relief fund.
It's a game we all can play! #FuckICE
It's a game we all can play! #FuckICE
February 6, 2026 at 11:42 PM
In the first hour since I invited my circle of friends to donate, we've received 4 donations from people I know and one donation from someone I don't know.
#FuckICE #MNRentRelief
#FuckICE #MNRentRelief
One of my friends is sending me a check for $49 — she says that since she was in her twenties, her default donation has been her age.
I don't have a big account here on Bluesky, but I do have circles of friends, family, and free-speech-loving colleagues here in Seattle — so I'm organizing among IRL friends to "adopt" a Minneapolis rent relief fund.
It's a game we all can play! #FuckICE
It's a game we all can play! #FuckICE
you message me, asiniiwiikwe.72 on signal, i give you one family and their rent need, you have people venmo you, you venmo the family in one transaction once you hit the target, and send me a screenshot on signal and then i mark it on my list and give you a little digital kiss on the forehead
February 6, 2026 at 11:29 PM
One of my friends is sending me a check for $49 — she says that since she was in her twenties, her default donation has been her age.
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"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
February 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
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I'm not soliciting venmo donations today and am instead highlighting a GoFundMe for a family sheltering in place in Minnesota right now with a NEWBORN BABY. They need about $2,000 more dollars. Can people get them there?
www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...
www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...
Donate to Urgent Aid for Family Sheltering in Place, organized by Tami Q
This fundraiser is to support a family currently sheltering in place with a newborn … Tami Q needs your support for Urgent Aid for Family Sheltering in Place
www.gofundme.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I'm not soliciting venmo donations today and am instead highlighting a GoFundMe for a family sheltering in place in Minnesota right now with a NEWBORN BABY. They need about $2,000 more dollars. Can people get them there?
www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...
www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...
I don't have a big account here on Bluesky, but I do have circles of friends, family, and free-speech-loving colleagues here in Seattle — so I'm organizing among IRL friends to "adopt" a Minneapolis rent relief fund.
It's a game we all can play! #FuckICE
It's a game we all can play! #FuckICE
you message me, asiniiwiikwe.72 on signal, i give you one family and their rent need, you have people venmo you, you venmo the family in one transaction once you hit the target, and send me a screenshot on signal and then i mark it on my list and give you a little digital kiss on the forehead
February 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I don't have a big account here on Bluesky, but I do have circles of friends, family, and free-speech-loving colleagues here in Seattle — so I'm organizing among IRL friends to "adopt" a Minneapolis rent relief fund.
It's a game we all can play! #FuckICE
It's a game we all can play! #FuckICE
Y'all. ♥️
The thread pinned to my profile will always hold information about my "What Can I Do" Saturday chats, including the link to click on Saturdays to join the videoconference. If anything changes, it will be posted in the thread as well!
This will start Feb 7 at 11a Pacific, 2p Eastern, 7p GMT. There will be a Jitsi link you can click and join the meeting. Jitsi is an open source, fully encrypted videoconferencing platform that does not require you to make an account.
I will do this every Saturday regardless of attendance.
I will do this every Saturday regardless of attendance.
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Y'all. ♥️
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HELP FOR SOMEONE KIDNAPPED BY ICE!
Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom.
Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!
Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom.
Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!
Donate to Help Oliver Aguillon Fight ICE Detention, organized by Norma Herrera
My husband, Oliver Hilario Aguillon, has recently been detained by ICE, and our… Norma Herrera needs your support for Help Oliver Aguillon Fight ICE Detention
www.gofundme.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:16 PM
HELP FOR SOMEONE KIDNAPPED BY ICE!
Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom.
Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!
Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom.
Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!
This.
If you have a network with a decently large following, please consider adopting a Minneapolis family to pay their rent this month.
This is being done in a decentralized fashion because a lot of the groups getting $ are having their Venmo frozen and it's hard to send mutual aid.
This is being done in a decentralized fashion because a lot of the groups getting $ are having their Venmo frozen and it's hard to send mutual aid.
tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
February 5, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This.
"We shouldn't need a specific court order to ask the [DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE] not to put somebody's life in danger."
Our Department of Justice. Is directly putting thousands of people's lives in danger. Every day.
Our Department of Justice. Is directly putting thousands of people's lives in danger. Every day.
Le's meltdown made this news, and brought eyes (including mine!) to the hearing, but we need to listen to the attorney for the actual victims here.
As she says, "people are just being treated like less than human."
"And we shouldn't need a court order saying Don't put someone's life in danger."
As she says, "people are just being treated like less than human."
"And we shouldn't need a court order saying Don't put someone's life in danger."
February 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
"We shouldn't need a specific court order to ask the [DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE] not to put somebody's life in danger."
Our Department of Justice. Is directly putting thousands of people's lives in danger. Every day.
Our Department of Justice. Is directly putting thousands of people's lives in danger. Every day.
As a copyeditor myself (not in journalism), I applaud this reminder that "the work" requires respect for people as workers, across the ecosystem.
It's not, though. To do their best work, amazing reporters need not only stuff like health insurance, but also editors, fact-checkers, IT support, equipment, security and training in hostile environments, lawyers, brilliant colleagues of every stripe... losing that infrastructure is devastating.
February 4, 2026 at 6:37 PM
As a copyeditor myself (not in journalism), I applaud this reminder that "the work" requires respect for people as workers, across the ecosystem.
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We need institutions and it’s best for them to be well designed and for the people who fill the roles within them to cultivate civic virtue. But the only guarantee of democracy is a free people who understands they have only lent their authority & can organize to take it back.
February 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
We need institutions and it’s best for them to be well designed and for the people who fill the roles within them to cultivate civic virtue. But the only guarantee of democracy is a free people who understands they have only lent their authority & can organize to take it back.
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this is up to 5,335,376. wow.
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota
Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas
www.standwithminnesota.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
this is up to 5,335,376. wow.