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Geeky queer feminist PhD. she&they
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New Writing the Other Webinar: Writing Revolution - How To Create Believable Resistance Movements with Helen Gould

Join us live on July 12 OR get the video after!

Price: $150 (live) | $75 (recording)

Details and Registration ⇨ writingtheother.com/...
July 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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VOLUNTEER AT WISCON!
WisCon is an all-volunteer organization, with a variety of positions available. Help put on WisCONline 2025. Reach out to personnel@sf3.org for more information. This page has open volunteer positions: wiscon.net/open-volunte...
Open Volunteer Positions | WisCon
wiscon.net
February 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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That last share:

The burden of Trump is 100% on white people and finding an excuse to make it anyone else's problem is, whether or not you want to believe it, deflection of culpability. Your whataboutism is bullshit.

Whiteness did this. Period.
March 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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March 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Raising chickens is more expensive than grocery store eggs, but also, bird flu is endemic in wildlife at the moment.

Asking people to do this with zero safety precautions or knowledge is a great way to get more people infected and raise the chance that we get a human transmissible version.
Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.
March 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Indigo bunting

Niagara Ontario.

#birds
#bunting
#nature
#photography
February 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
@annaleen.bsky.social I have finished The Terraformers and I love it so much.
February 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Utah friends, oppose the continuing book bans in our state. Fill out this form and tell the USBE to stop the bans.
Tell USBE to Vote for Local Control — LET UTAH READ
Tell Utah State School Board (USBE) to overturn the statewide book bans on the Damsel and Like a Love Story, and affirm the power of local school districts to govern themselves.
letutahread.org
February 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them:

reps.fyi

Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!

Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️

(thank you @gregpak.net!)
Find Your Representative
Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.
reps.fyi
February 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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good morning happy Sunday everyone needs a distraction right now so here is a free story about magic, stories, kings, trickster gods and how in India, whatever is true, the opposite is also true

podcastle.org/2019/09/24/p...
PodCastle 593: Balloon Man - PodCastle
Balloon Man By Shiv Ramdas If it hadn’t been for the camel, Mithun might never have noticed the old balloon seller at all. He almost didn’t notice the camel either. If he’d been looking for it, he pro...
podcastle.org
February 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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From a source inside the National Cancer Institute:

“Everyone is scrambling to figure out how we’re supposed to work to serve the public when we can’t engage at all.”
January 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I wanted to share this with y'all in case anyone would like to help out a queer-owned bookstore in Nashville -- this is one to the bookstores I buy from whenever I'm in Nashville. Any help would be appreciated 🏳️‍🌈📚💜

www.gofundme.com/f/help-prese...
Donate to Help Preserve Our Queer Bookstore Haven, organized by Novelette Booksellers
UPDATE: Wow. Words cannot express how grateful we are to everyone. We me… Novelette Booksellers needs your support for Help Preserve Our Queer Bookstore Haven
www.gofundme.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Of course they're racists, sexists trashcan fires of transphobia and homophobia and bigotry. They've been telling us exactly what they intended to do with their slogan about returning to greatness for DECADES.

Or did you think their halcyon nostalgia was over strong unions and a 90% tax bracket?
January 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Don’t make me tap the sign.
Generative AI is not an assistive device because being a bad writer is not a disability.
January 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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so hey, not to be That Guy, but remember how SFF fans called for a boycott of Chengdu Worldcon on the basis of the CCP’s actions in Xinjiang and China potentially not being safe for certain authors? are we going to have a similar discussion about Seattle Worldcon given the circumstances, or -?
January 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Was recently pointed out to this video of Sir Terry Pratchett saying that he wrote 75% of Good Omens
m.youtube.com/watch?v=eqDM...
Thought it'd be of interest to the TL
Terry Pratchett about writing near 75% of Good Omens (from ArmadaCon III, 1991)
YouTube video by FuckYeahGoodOmens
m.youtube.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This is not going to go well for those that are suffering from disorders that already get very little attention. #MCAS #MECFS #LongCovid #POTS #EDS #ADHD
Freezing NIH funding and withdrawing from the WHO isn’t just shameful—it’s deadly. Public health relies on research, collaboration, and preparedness. These actions leave us vulnerable, and lives will be lost. Shadows rise when we abandon the light of progress and care. 🌗✨
January 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
@ktempestbradford.com

I'm reading Ruby Finley to the 7 year old and we are both enjoying it greatly. 😍
January 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Get ready for QUEER YOUR EREADER tomorrow!!

So many books will be free to download across multiple platforms!!

@divinationhollow.bsky.social is hosting the event!

divinationhollow.com/queer-your-e...

#booksky
#queerbooks
#lgbtqiawriters
💙📚
🌈📚
January 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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You won't believe this. My team and I make this show called SciShow that works hard to be rigorous and accurate while also being appealing and entertaining.

We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.

It's great, I love it.
January 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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When I was researching FEED--the first of a series of novels about pandemics and their effects--I ran across one of the most frightening concepts I had ever seen in non-fiction. It held that humanity has been living in the anthropocene--the human age--but was approaching the pandemicene.
January 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Me: (forced to play Taboo) Enemies to lovers.
Friend: That could be anyone.
Me: Enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to—
Friend: Magneto and Professor X?
Me: THANK YOU
January 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM