Jay Edidin
@edidin.bsky.social
writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
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Jay Edidin
@edidin.bsky.social
· Aug 28
when i say that i'm an abolitionist, i am talking primarily about state violence including policing and incarceration; but i'm also very down for getting rid of grammar police and horny jail
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From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
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Scarleteen is the kind of resource I wish I'd had as a teenager! I'll be contributing to their fundraising drive.
Today is the midpoint of Scarleteen’s $40,000 fund drive to cover the health care costs of the staff and volunteers providing advice, tips, and tools for young people worldwide. 128 people have donated over $8,000 to support our work. Join them today! www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Scarleteen is the kind of resource I wish I'd had as a teenager! I'll be contributing to their fundraising drive.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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It's important to test your product name in a range of languages and cultures, exhibit one million:
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It's important to test your product name in a range of languages and cultures, exhibit one million:
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Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
The toddler always refers to hearts as "love hearts," and it is extremely, extremely precious.
@teaberryblue.net
@teaberryblue.net
November 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The toddler always refers to hearts as "love hearts," and it is extremely, extremely precious.
@teaberryblue.net
@teaberryblue.net
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A Brooklyn-based collective, Artists in Resistance (A.I.R.) NYC, is not only committed to hosting COVID-safer art and music events from borough to borough, but also ensuring that anybody can do so for free.
How an Air Purifier Can Make Your Art Event Safer
The Brooklyn collective A.I.R. loans out the devices under the tenet that “illness need not be the price of living in community or participating in the arts.”
hyperallergic.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A Brooklyn-based collective, Artists in Resistance (A.I.R.) NYC, is not only committed to hosting COVID-safer art and music events from borough to borough, but also ensuring that anybody can do so for free.
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I really dislike this question of whether trans people are "really" women/men. It's the framing the anti-trans activists prefer, and as far as I'm concerned it's also completely irrelevant.
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I really dislike this question of whether trans people are "really" women/men. It's the framing the anti-trans activists prefer, and as far as I'm concerned it's also completely irrelevant.
It's important to test your product name in a range of languages and cultures, exhibit one million:
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It's important to test your product name in a range of languages and cultures, exhibit one million:
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they're going after holocaust survivors
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
they're going after holocaust survivors
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Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Building a Global Network to Fight Imprisonment. Story via @truthout.org.
Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Building a Global Network to Fight Imprisonment
Women from 33 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.
truthout.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Building a Global Network to Fight Imprisonment. Story via @truthout.org.
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Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
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The New York Times obit for Alice Wong doesn’t mention Covid or Gaza
It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias
Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations
She fought for the people of Gaza
She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue
It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias
Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations
She fought for the people of Gaza
She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The New York Times obit for Alice Wong doesn’t mention Covid or Gaza
It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias
Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations
She fought for the people of Gaza
She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue
It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias
Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations
She fought for the people of Gaza
She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue
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Wong envisioned a world where disabled people, particularly those from multiple marginalized backgrounds, could live freely and with full autonomy.
Alice Wong, disability justice advocate and author, dies at 51
Wong envisioned a world where disabled people, particularly those from multiple marginalized backgrounds, could live freely and with full autonomy.
19thnews.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Wong envisioned a world where disabled people, particularly those from multiple marginalized backgrounds, could live freely and with full autonomy.
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I try to tell y’all, carceral psychiatry is sadistically cruel, I’m not the only one who knows that from experience because this is the system.
Oh my god Chantal. Like WHAT THE FUCK??
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I try to tell y’all, carceral psychiatry is sadistically cruel, I’m not the only one who knows that from experience because this is the system.
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If you are an NYC resident, a simple action you can take is to call your Council member to ask them to sign on. There's a script you can use here: bit.ly/42Ufxb5
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you are an NYC resident, a simple action you can take is to call your Council member to ask them to sign on. There's a script you can use here: bit.ly/42Ufxb5
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"Very intolerant in a lot of ways"
Storm illustration in Comic Media News International, 1978
Storm illustration in Comic Media News International, 1978
May 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"Very intolerant in a lot of ways"
Storm illustration in Comic Media News International, 1978
Storm illustration in Comic Media News International, 1978
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Hugely important for trans people concerned about passports - all passports will remain valid according to the government.
In somewhat good news, today the state department website has changed the answer to this question to defer to ICAO policy. Sources still tell me that there is some appetite for invalidation/reversion of passports issued under the injunction, but this message will be welcome to many trans people.
November 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hugely important for trans people concerned about passports - all passports will remain valid according to the government.
'tis the season when relatives demand a holiday wish list, and what I wish is that we could just give each other, like, oranges and leave it at that.*
*a lie; I like knitting for people, although I would just as soon not do it on a collective deadline.
*a lie; I like knitting for people, although I would just as soon not do it on a collective deadline.
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
'tis the season when relatives demand a holiday wish list, and what I wish is that we could just give each other, like, oranges and leave it at that.*
*a lie; I like knitting for people, although I would just as soon not do it on a collective deadline.
*a lie; I like knitting for people, although I would just as soon not do it on a collective deadline.
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to any and all "why not both?" GIF repliers: there is perhaps a reason someone is noting the tension between two choices
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
to any and all "why not both?" GIF repliers: there is perhaps a reason someone is noting the tension between two choices
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Oh, gosh, this is such sad news. Any time a books vertical shutters, it sucks for all of us. I'm so sorry.
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Oh, gosh, this is such sad news. Any time a books vertical shutters, it sucks for all of us. I'm so sorry.
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Immediately starting Project E.A.G.L.E
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Immediately starting Project E.A.G.L.E
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I think a lot about how Starlink satellites have changed the night sky for all humans for an unknown amount of time and one guy was just…allowed to do that. To our whole sky??
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I think a lot about how Starlink satellites have changed the night sky for all humans for an unknown amount of time and one guy was just…allowed to do that. To our whole sky??
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I have a lifetime to think about what a world without Alice in embodied form looks like. To have loved and been loved by her was one of the greatest privileges of my life. I will carry her spirit with me always.
Many thoughts about my cyborg bitch boss goddess accomplice Alice Wong & all the things she meant but there is a tendency for white disabled people to overshadow conversations about disabled BIPOC including in death. I choose to let Alice speak for herself & uplift those she wanted to represent her.
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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ATTENTION! Chris here: Down to the wire. About to lose our storage and home. If we can last a couple more months here I can move us to an apt that is far more affordable/avoid sleeping in the car. Im going to open a new digital bundle tier for $105 which gets you everything in the shop plus bonuses.
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
ATTENTION! Chris here: Down to the wire. About to lose our storage and home. If we can last a couple more months here I can move us to an apt that is far more affordable/avoid sleeping in the car. Im going to open a new digital bundle tier for $105 which gets you everything in the shop plus bonuses.