Dena Hankins
@denahankins.bsky.social
Writer of queer erotica, romance, and SF; sailor traveling the world with James and Beluga Greyfinger on a Baba 30 converted to electric propulsion
Stop being exciting, says Beluga Greyfinger
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Stop being exciting, says Beluga Greyfinger
MPs suspended for
this Haka in parliament
YouTube video by Amnesty International
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Whew, I mean, I want that to be a benediction but I can't remember the context and damn did that writer do a slick curse
I’ll deliver all,
And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales,
And sail so expeditious, that shall catch
Your royal fleet far off.
And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales,
And sail so expeditious, that shall catch
Your royal fleet far off.
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Whew, I mean, I want that to be a benediction but I can't remember the context and damn did that writer do a slick curse
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This is his pardon, purchas’d by such sin
For which the pardoner himself is in.
For which the pardoner himself is in.
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is his pardon, purchas’d by such sin
For which the pardoner himself is in.
For which the pardoner himself is in.
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
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Thanks to @lindstorian.bsky.social for reminding me of this perfect gif.
a man in a suit and tie says i 'm so sick of congress
Alt: Josh Lyman, from the West Wing, says 'I'm so sick of Congress I could vomit.'
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thanks to @lindstorian.bsky.social for reminding me of this perfect gif.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Yep, especially when there are no unclaimed lands to sow or sleep on. The regression is neverending once it's "well, build something!" Where? With what tools? "Mine the metals for shovels!" Where? With what tools?
We need collective answers to these collective needs.
We need collective answers to these collective needs.
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Yep, especially when there are no unclaimed lands to sow or sleep on. The regression is neverending once it's "well, build something!" Where? With what tools? "Mine the metals for shovels!" Where? With what tools?
We need collective answers to these collective needs.
We need collective answers to these collective needs.
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Republicans running anti-trans hatefests lost and Zohran Mamdani is a hugely vocal supporter of trans and other LGBTQ rights.
That is MASSIVELY important to look at and run on.
Roll around in all this & soak it in. This is the good shit, & it should be celebrated.
And then it should be Built on.
That is MASSIVELY important to look at and run on.
Roll around in all this & soak it in. This is the good shit, & it should be celebrated.
And then it should be Built on.
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Republicans running anti-trans hatefests lost and Zohran Mamdani is a hugely vocal supporter of trans and other LGBTQ rights.
That is MASSIVELY important to look at and run on.
Roll around in all this & soak it in. This is the good shit, & it should be celebrated.
And then it should be Built on.
That is MASSIVELY important to look at and run on.
Roll around in all this & soak it in. This is the good shit, & it should be celebrated.
And then it should be Built on.
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obama's election night was pure magic, but it was also a moment without a movement, obama disbanded his army the next day. this election night is every bit as magical, but in the meantime we built movements that cannot be disbanded and we know in our bones that what zohran says must be what he does
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
obama's election night was pure magic, but it was also a moment without a movement, obama disbanded his army the next day. this election night is every bit as magical, but in the meantime we built movements that cannot be disbanded and we know in our bones that what zohran says must be what he does
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Cuomo is basically running on "New York is a shithole and terrible and I hate it, but I will SUFFER MYSELF to be mayor to help out you PEONS"
Meanwhile Mamdani is Winston at the end of Ghostbusters
Meanwhile Mamdani is Winston at the end of Ghostbusters
a statue of a man covered in foam with the words i love this town
Alt: Ghostbusters: Winston Zeddmore at the end of the movie covered in marshmallow going "I LOVE THIS TOWN"
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Cuomo is basically running on "New York is a shithole and terrible and I hate it, but I will SUFFER MYSELF to be mayor to help out you PEONS"
Meanwhile Mamdani is Winston at the end of Ghostbusters
Meanwhile Mamdani is Winston at the end of Ghostbusters
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EVERY TRANS SUICIDE IS A MURDER.
October 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
EVERY TRANS SUICIDE IS A MURDER.
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The Adoptee Citizenship Act must be updated! This is an injustice. 🥚 #adopteesky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
www.bbc.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The Adoptee Citizenship Act must be updated! This is an injustice. 🥚 #adopteesky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Those vegan bac'n bits are actually pretty good for adding salt element to pancakes. Usually I scramble eggs but we've been away from land long enough to be out of eggs. Experimentation is it's own reward.
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Those vegan bac'n bits are actually pretty good for adding salt element to pancakes. Usually I scramble eggs but we've been away from land long enough to be out of eggs. Experimentation is it's own reward.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Really wish we hadn't created a society where the worst people have all the power and use it to steal resources, oppress the rest of us, & run cover for each other while they're stealing said resources and oppressing said rest of us.
Kleptocrats lying about resource extraction comes as no surprise.
Kleptocrats lying about resource extraction comes as no surprise.
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacentre owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Really wish we hadn't created a society where the worst people have all the power and use it to steal resources, oppress the rest of us, & run cover for each other while they're stealing said resources and oppressing said rest of us.
Kleptocrats lying about resource extraction comes as no surprise.
Kleptocrats lying about resource extraction comes as no surprise.
I'm amused by the idea of searching for things there and then buying elsewhere, but to what degree are shoppers the product, whether or not they buy?
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm amused by the idea of searching for things there and then buying elsewhere, but to what degree are shoppers the product, whether or not they buy?
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Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.
Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public
Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.
www.kuow.org
October 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.
Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
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I learn so much better reading than listening but I'm pretty impressed by all the ways auditory learners can engage nowadays.
And this seems like something I'd like to know more about.
And this seems like something I'd like to know more about.
It started with a simple idea.💡Now @jamentrust1991.bsky.social and @globalyaadie.bsky.social are launching a brand new series! "Defending Our Rights - A Podcast on Environmental Justice in Jamaica” 🎙️
Check out the series - youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Check out the series - youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I learn so much better reading than listening but I'm pretty impressed by all the ways auditory learners can engage nowadays.
And this seems like something I'd like to know more about.
And this seems like something I'd like to know more about.
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"Making language grounds for official suspicion is a particularly insidious suppression of speech, bc it makes you question not just your ideas but your means of expressing them. Everything else about you is stripped away; you are a person who speaks Spanish, and that is all anyone needs to know"
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America. The language of Miguel de Cervantes and Andres Cantor, the world’s fourth most spoken tongue, has been deemed the sound of bad hombres,” Carlos Lozada writes.
“Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America. The language of Miguel de Cervantes and Andres Cantor, the world’s fourth most spoken tongue, has been deemed the sound of bad hombres,” Carlos Lozada writes.
Opinion | You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.
Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America.
nyti.ms
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"Making language grounds for official suspicion is a particularly insidious suppression of speech, bc it makes you question not just your ideas but your means of expressing them. Everything else about you is stripped away; you are a person who speaks Spanish, and that is all anyone needs to know"
This artist gets cribbed all the time. Give credit (card) where credit is due!
I saw so many of my shirts at the No Kings protests! Thanks to everyone who tagged me on pictures, it's as if I was there.
I'm still trying to sell enough of them to get myself a new computer. With 80 more shirts to go, I'm about halfway there 🤩
-> sophielabelle.dashery.com
I'm still trying to sell enough of them to get myself a new computer. With 80 more shirts to go, I'm about halfway there 🤩
-> sophielabelle.dashery.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This artist gets cribbed all the time. Give credit (card) where credit is due!
Own your brain!!!
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
n.pr
October 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Own your brain!!!
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Fiction is important because it’s just not safe to rawdog reality anymore
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Fiction is important because it’s just not safe to rawdog reality anymore