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bookish things, mostly here for #romancelandia & fanfic 🇻🇪🏳️🌈 she/her
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It is deeply concerning that America is having a literal kristallnacht in Chicago and it is not the only story in National news.
Arresting entire buildings, vanishing journalist, shooting priests in the head and zip tying children aren't enough to lead?
Arresting entire buildings, vanishing journalist, shooting priests in the head and zip tying children aren't enough to lead?
October 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It is deeply concerning that America is having a literal kristallnacht in Chicago and it is not the only story in National news.
Arresting entire buildings, vanishing journalist, shooting priests in the head and zip tying children aren't enough to lead?
Arresting entire buildings, vanishing journalist, shooting priests in the head and zip tying children aren't enough to lead?
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My fellow Jews: protect your heart and don’t read the replies to this post.
My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.
My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.
I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My fellow Jews: protect your heart and don’t read the replies to this post.
My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.
My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.
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My heart goes out today to my own extended family, to the Jewish communities of Manchester, the UK, and the world at large. Antisemitism is wrong. That is a complete sentence.
October 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
My heart goes out today to my own extended family, to the Jewish communities of Manchester, the UK, and the world at large. Antisemitism is wrong. That is a complete sentence.
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"The stories that get lifted out of fandom—where a bad (white) man is redeemed by the love of a good (ambiguously brown) woman he’s busily oppressing—are being chosen because those are the stories capitalism always wanted to tell."
100000000% yes. Wish I had written it. So glad Jenny did.
100000000% yes. Wish I had written it. So glad Jenny did.
deepest of deep breaths
feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.
feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.
"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
September 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"The stories that get lifted out of fandom—where a bad (white) man is redeemed by the love of a good (ambiguously brown) woman he’s busily oppressing—are being chosen because those are the stories capitalism always wanted to tell."
100000000% yes. Wish I had written it. So glad Jenny did.
100000000% yes. Wish I had written it. So glad Jenny did.
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additionally: I am uncomfortable with monetised fanfic from a copyright point of view, but can accept that an idea can change and mutate sufficiently to have become a new story with new characters. However that stops being an excuse when you market it based on the original IP.
September 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
additionally: I am uncomfortable with monetised fanfic from a copyright point of view, but can accept that an idea can change and mutate sufficiently to have become a new story with new characters. However that stops being an excuse when you market it based on the original IP.
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You also need to say this shit when people get fired for mentioning their personal gender or get roughed up for looking at ICE the wrong way.
Come the fuck on. If you believe this, believe it for everyone.
Come the fuck on. If you believe this, believe it for everyone.
Chris Murphy: "Our entire democratic experiment is going crumble if people don't believe they are safe when they express their political views."
September 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
You also need to say this shit when people get fired for mentioning their personal gender or get roughed up for looking at ICE the wrong way.
Come the fuck on. If you believe this, believe it for everyone.
Come the fuck on. If you believe this, believe it for everyone.
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rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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"school shooting industry"
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"school shooting industry"
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No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.
“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery
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5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan
Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...
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September 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.
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basic human rights are not something u put up to debate like some influencer game show shit
The Pod Save America bros are setting up a "debate" about trans rights featuring anti-trans ghoul Matt Yglesias, apparently! No clue who the "pro-trans" side will be repped by, but I'm really worried that they're going to just find someone to get steamrolled.
so there’s gonna potentially be a pod save america “debate” on democrats future support for trans rights in the near future
i had to back out because of scheduling conflicts, and for some reason they didn’t want my help finding a replacement
on the other side of the “debate” is…
matt yglesias
i had to back out because of scheduling conflicts, and for some reason they didn’t want my help finding a replacement
on the other side of the “debate” is…
matt yglesias
August 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
basic human rights are not something u put up to debate like some influencer game show shit
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The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
July 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
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This article is behind a paywall. You can use archive.ph to bypass it.
Being born abroad, even when one of your parents is an American citizen requires paperwork and used to involve the state department (I think homeland security deals with it now).
They don’t tell people on purpose.
Being born abroad, even when one of your parents is an American citizen requires paperwork and used to involve the state department (I think homeland security deals with it now).
They don’t tell people on purpose.
July 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This article is behind a paywall. You can use archive.ph to bypass it.
Being born abroad, even when one of your parents is an American citizen requires paperwork and used to involve the state department (I think homeland security deals with it now).
They don’t tell people on purpose.
Being born abroad, even when one of your parents is an American citizen requires paperwork and used to involve the state department (I think homeland security deals with it now).
They don’t tell people on purpose.
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They’re absolutely using loopholes, but also a lot of Americans do not understand how citizenship even for their own children isn’t a given if the other parent isn’t a citizen and/or their child isn’t born in the US.
If any of this applies to you or someone you love please get informed ASAP.
If any of this applies to you or someone you love please get informed ASAP.
July 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
They’re absolutely using loopholes, but also a lot of Americans do not understand how citizenship even for their own children isn’t a given if the other parent isn’t a citizen and/or their child isn’t born in the US.
If any of this applies to you or someone you love please get informed ASAP.
If any of this applies to you or someone you love please get informed ASAP.
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Just a shout out that @bookshop.org is having their anti-prime day sale, so you can get a copy of Name Her Holy with free shipping and support a local book store at the same time 🫶🏻
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Name Her Holy
Check out Name Her Holy - <p>Where the weave between worlds thins, a long buried shadow rises from its grave among the stars and seeks vengeance on the Vale.</p><p></p><p>A Herald has been named to ma...
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July 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Just a shout out that @bookshop.org is having their anti-prime day sale, so you can get a copy of Name Her Holy with free shipping and support a local book store at the same time 🫶🏻
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Agree with this — and it’s going to get messssy.
Listen, I love fanfic. Love it! And I love authors getting paid! But I feel some way about not even *attempting* to distance the paid book from the source material.
July 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Agree with this — and it’s going to get messssy.
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a point I make over and over re: climate change is that there’s no point at which it’s time to throw up your hands and give up, because each tenth of a degree you can prevent is worth it
2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth
2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth
New from me: An exclusive interview with David Suzuki, who talked about reaching the conclusion that humanity has failed in the fight against climate change, and why communities should start preparing for more destructive natural disasters #cdnpoli #cdnenviro
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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
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July 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
a point I make over and over re: climate change is that there’s no point at which it’s time to throw up your hands and give up, because each tenth of a degree you can prevent is worth it
2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth
2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth
This is definitely a deadly bird. If nature has taught me anything it is that this much color means it could kill me with a sneeze.
Gouldian Finch.
The Gouldian Finch (Chloebia gouldiae), also known as the Gould's Finch or the Rainbow Finch, is a colourful passerine bird that is native to Australia.
📷: @tracksbirding
The Gouldian Finch (Chloebia gouldiae), also known as the Gould's Finch or the Rainbow Finch, is a colourful passerine bird that is native to Australia.
📷: @tracksbirding
July 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is definitely a deadly bird. If nature has taught me anything it is that this much color means it could kill me with a sneeze.
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The hill I will die on is that everyone should get six weeks of paid vacation for a forty hour a week job, and commensurately more if they’re expected to work overtime.
July 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The hill I will die on is that everyone should get six weeks of paid vacation for a forty hour a week job, and commensurately more if they’re expected to work overtime.
1-3-5-2-4-1
Anyone who doesn't do 1-4-2-5-3-1 is a psychopath.
Announce yourselves, cowards!
Announce yourselves, cowards!
June 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
1-3-5-2-4-1
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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The fact that the term "unskilled labor" is attached to extremely difficult, physically demanding, essential work like food harvesting is probably the most obvious example of noxious capitalist propaganda.
June 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The fact that the term "unskilled labor" is attached to extremely difficult, physically demanding, essential work like food harvesting is probably the most obvious example of noxious capitalist propaganda.