Things I'm Reading
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I read everything. DMs open for book, article recs. Will excerpt those sent.
Here are excerpts of things I'm reading in 🫖 English 🍉#عربي 🧿🔥 #Español 🌺. #writing 📚🏳️🌈 #bdsm 🦯🔞
Here are excerpts of things I'm reading in 🫖 English 🍉#عربي 🧿🔥 #Español 🌺. #writing 📚🏳️🌈 #bdsm 🦯🔞
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🌈 Not interested in compartmentalizing my interests 🔞but if you only follow me out of interest in one topic and are reallly *not* interested in others, you can mute the topics you are not interested in on your own profile settings. A suggestion 💫
The best analogy I can use for the relationship between #Democrats and #Republicans. Repubs are like the abusive drunk parent who beats their children and Democrats are the enabling parent whose response to the children’s complaints is, “Well weren't you drinking too? You had an attitude earlier. ."
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The best analogy I can use for the relationship between #Democrats and #Republicans. Repubs are like the abusive drunk parent who beats their children and Democrats are the enabling parent whose response to the children’s complaints is, “Well weren't you drinking too? You had an attitude earlier. ."
From “Our Man in Havana” by Graham Greene.
“Do you have never worry about anything?”
“I have a secret defence, Mr. Wormold. I am interested in life.”
“So am I, but. .”
“You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us—I’m sorry. I wasn’t referring to your wife.
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“Do you have never worry about anything?”
“I have a secret defence, Mr. Wormold. I am interested in life.”
“So am I, but. .”
“You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us—I’m sorry. I wasn’t referring to your wife.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
From “Our Man in Havana” by Graham Greene.
“Do you have never worry about anything?”
“I have a secret defence, Mr. Wormold. I am interested in life.”
“So am I, but. .”
“You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us—I’m sorry. I wasn’t referring to your wife.
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“Do you have never worry about anything?”
“I have a secret defence, Mr. Wormold. I am interested in life.”
“So am I, but. .”
“You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us—I’m sorry. I wasn’t referring to your wife.
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From “Dasvidanya” by Mary Winsor
Mama is crying into the dryer again. If there weren’t always a load of towels or underwear to soak up the tears she leaves in that general Electric, it would’ve rusted by now.
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Mama is crying into the dryer again. If there weren’t always a load of towels or underwear to soak up the tears she leaves in that general Electric, it would’ve rusted by now.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
From “Dasvidanya” by Mary Winsor
Mama is crying into the dryer again. If there weren’t always a load of towels or underwear to soak up the tears she leaves in that general Electric, it would’ve rusted by now.
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Mama is crying into the dryer again. If there weren’t always a load of towels or underwear to soak up the tears she leaves in that general Electric, it would’ve rusted by now.
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never buy starbucks
If Starbucks baristas have to strike, we’re striking too — with our wallets.
Don’t shop at Starbucks if baristas are on strike. No contract, no coffee. Period. #NoContractNoCoffee
Don’t shop at Starbucks if baristas are on strike. No contract, no coffee. Period. #NoContractNoCoffee
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
never buy starbucks
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
Superb report on the GLOBAL hate campaign against Mamdani — the cost of aligning yourself with two causes that are verboten to the U.S. ultrarich and their “allies” - poor people and Palestinians. Thanks @equalitylabs.bsky.social for the amazing work here!
1/🚨Our new report, “Tracing Online Hate Against Zohran Mamdani”, exposes the massive scale of hate, disinformation, and coordinated narrative attacks targeting mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during the 2025 New York City Mayoral Race.
Access the report: www.equalitylabs.org/research/pub...
Access the report: www.equalitylabs.org/research/pub...
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Superb report on the GLOBAL hate campaign against Mamdani — the cost of aligning yourself with two causes that are verboten to the U.S. ultrarich and their “allies” - poor people and Palestinians. Thanks @equalitylabs.bsky.social for the amazing work here!
a genius.
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
a genius.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
End of Middlemarch by George Eliot: “. .the growing good of the worlrd is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” #litsky #writing #novels
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
10x Daniel Woodrell described winter in gorgeous language in Winter’s Bone:
#writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet
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#writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet
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November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
10x Daniel Woodrell described winter in gorgeous language in Winter’s Bone:
#writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet
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#writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
Cheerleading, long distance running, “intermittent fasting,” watching Love Is Blind. .
Quote from Feminism and Sadomasochism by Patrick Califia (in Heresies 12, 1981). Photo from Bondage Adventures No 8 (Oct 1989).
![White Woman sitting on rocks in flowy white dress by the sea with one leg folded, arms bound behind her back with rough rope from upper arm to wrist. Text: [Long-distance runners are not generally thought of as perverts, nor is St. Theresa. The fact that masochism is disapproved of when stressful athletic activity and religious martyrdom are not is an interesting example of the way sex is made a special case in our society. We seem to be incapable of using the same reason and compassion we apply to non-sexual issues to formulate our positions on sexual issues.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreicrhea26iommbqwverxa5to5ob6tg3orjxrrbv4rfmt7qcg4ij5ba@jpeg)
November 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Cheerleading, long distance running, “intermittent fasting,” watching Love Is Blind. .
This is one of the most disingenuous and fawning interviews with this guy that you will see. Its giving the kind of soft ball treatment that #Kamala Harris and #Biden were given post-concentration camp closure in #Gaza. Here are a few of the worst moments 🧵:
NEW: How can we know whether Attentional Candidates will become @johnfetterman.com betraying their stated principles just to get themselves more attention once they win office?
Some thoughts after I talked to @grahamformaine.bsky.social & threw Lever readers’ tough questions at him.
Some thoughts after I talked to @grahamformaine.bsky.social & threw Lever readers’ tough questions at him.
Graham Platner And The Fetterman Question
How can we know that Attentional Candidates will not sell out for attention once elected?
www.levernews.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
From the #Climate and Community Institute: The United States needs somewhere between 270 and 485 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind to decarbonize by 2050; however, based on states’ current plans, only about 50 GW is planned to be online.
climateandcommunity....
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A Federal Offshore Wind Authority: A Public Moon Shot for Offshore Wind
We propose that a future administration establish a federal Offshore Wind Authority to supercharge buildout and deliver affordable electricity.
climateandcommunity.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
From the #Climate and Community Institute: The United States needs somewhere between 270 and 485 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind to decarbonize by 2050; however, based on states’ current plans, only about 50 GW is planned to be online.
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climateandcommunity....
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In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust.
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The opposite of inclusion is exile. In a country with limited public space for young people who are essentially coerced into living a digital-first life, this is one consequence. #trans
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October 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The opposite of inclusion is exile. In a country with limited public space for young people who are essentially coerced into living a digital-first life, this is one consequence. #trans
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cute 💫 will pick up copies for my niece
Hi. My name is Clay. I wrote a YA sci-fi horror novel called SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE and it’s out on 11/11/25 from Delacorte. I just got my final copies and they’re beautiful. It would mean a lot to me if you considered picking this one up, no matter what your age. Thank you. @getunderlined.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
cute 💫 will pick up copies for my niece
#Palestinians again showing the US “what democracy looks like"
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
#Palestinians again showing the US “what democracy looks like"
Reading Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone. Marvelling at how many ways he has found to describe winter. Going to do a thread on it soon. #novels
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Reading Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone. Marvelling at how many ways he has found to describe winter. Going to do a thread on it soon. #novels
In #disinfo trainings, it is a truism that teens and seniors are most susceptible to #disinformation and #misinformation due to the significant decline in public space for both groups since the advent of the internet. But I wonder whether those who came of age pre-social are worse, tbh. #internet
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In #disinfo trainings, it is a truism that teens and seniors are most susceptible to #disinformation and #misinformation due to the significant decline in public space for both groups since the advent of the internet. But I wonder whether those who came of age pre-social are worse, tbh. #internet
The Monydel video is emblematic of a trend of deceptive “police-arresting-undercover-FBI-agent” videos that have generated hundreds of millions of views on YouTube since late last year, according to an Indicator analysis.
We published an investigation from @kcinbk.bsky.social
into YouTube vids that falsely claim to show police racially profiling and arresting a person that turns out to to be an FBI agent. They've earned over 300 million views.
In response, YouTube banned 13 channels: indicator.media/p/youtube-co...
into YouTube vids that falsely claim to show police racially profiling and arresting a person that turns out to to be an FBI agent. They've earned over 300 million views.
In response, YouTube banned 13 channels: indicator.media/p/youtube-co...
Rage-baiting YouTube videos falsely claim to expose police for arresting FBI agents
Indicator identified 55 false or misleading cop comeuppance that generated hundreds of millions of views. In response, YouTube removed 13 channels
indicator.media
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Monydel video is emblematic of a trend of deceptive “police-arresting-undercover-FBI-agent” videos that have generated hundreds of millions of views on YouTube since late last year, according to an Indicator analysis.
Thinking about all the #books, #tv shows, #movies, art that would be impossible to get produced today for a variety of reasons. Thoughts? #culture #politics #hollywood #US #censorship A thread I am going to add to gradually🧵:
October 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thinking about all the #books, #tv shows, #movies, art that would be impossible to get produced today for a variety of reasons. Thoughts? #culture #politics #hollywood #US #censorship A thread I am going to add to gradually🧵:
You can either be brilliant or obedient. #ice #autocracy. h/t to
@iansociologo.bsky.social
Read & share this fascinating study “Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations"
@iansociologo.bsky.social
Read & share this fascinating study “Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations"
Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina on JSTOR
Adam Scharpf, Christian Gläßel, Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 64, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2020), pp. 791-806
www.jstor.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
You can either be brilliant or obedient. #ice #autocracy. h/t to
@iansociologo.bsky.social
Read & share this fascinating study “Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations"
@iansociologo.bsky.social
Read & share this fascinating study “Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations"
In November 2024, the #Hebrew press, quoting the #IDF, estimated about 300-400K people would be killed by end of 2024. The #Lancet put the estimate closer to 500-600K. That does not include those who died of starvation, trafficked children in #Germany / #Turkey, etc.
60K = #genocide denial.
60K = #genocide denial.
The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Honestly, trying to do media/comms with 50+ers who think the internet is “anonymous” and is somehow what it was post 2002 circa tumblr era, not a totalizing surveillance trap with algorithms with casino style user responsiveness than anything else is like doing science with flat-earthers.
October 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Honestly, trying to do media/comms with 50+ers who think the internet is “anonymous” and is somehow what it was post 2002 circa tumblr era, not a totalizing surveillance trap with algorithms with casino style user responsiveness than anything else is like doing science with flat-earthers.