Gina F
@mombox.bsky.social
SFF writer of angry queers, giant monsters, and silly little guys. Futurescapes attendee. Codexian. she/they 🏳️🌈🐉🫖🚀
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Gina F
@mombox.bsky.social
· Dec 5
oh hey perhaps I shall do teaposting here too? because it's ~*~tea advent calendar time~*~
I used to get the calendar pack from SipsBy, but they are sadly gone, so I DIYed it with some samples from Fava Tea Company this year. they make my very favorite tea (roasted almond chai) so, high hopes!
I used to get the calendar pack from SipsBy, but they are sadly gone, so I DIYed it with some samples from Fava Tea Company this year. they make my very favorite tea (roasted almond chai) so, high hopes!
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Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: suzanne.scott@utexas.edu.
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: suzanne.scott@utexas.edu.
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Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.
September 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.
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Our Lesbians in Space campaign is doing great, but we have one week left to smash through our stretch goals! Help us get to those amazing fancy hardcovers!
#indie #indiebooks #lgbtqbooks #lgbtqsciencefiction #lgbtqfantasy #queerbooks #sapphic #lesbian #space
#indie #indiebooks #lgbtqbooks #lgbtqsciencefiction #lgbtqfantasy #queerbooks #sapphic #lesbian #space
September 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Our Lesbians in Space campaign is doing great, but we have one week left to smash through our stretch goals! Help us get to those amazing fancy hardcovers!
#indie #indiebooks #lgbtqbooks #lgbtqsciencefiction #lgbtqfantasy #queerbooks #sapphic #lesbian #space
#indie #indiebooks #lgbtqbooks #lgbtqsciencefiction #lgbtqfantasy #queerbooks #sapphic #lesbian #space
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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LRS: libraries are great, and it's especially helpful for me if Canadians request my books at their libraries because it increases my PLR payments
Want to support me without spending a dime? Request my books at your library! The library pays for their copy so I still get paid and you get to read it for free! Best part, others can enjoy it after you! 🌈📚 #booksky
September 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
LRS: libraries are great, and it's especially helpful for me if Canadians request my books at their libraries because it increases my PLR payments
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Bethesda Remasters Elder Scrolls VI Announcement Trailer for Original Trailer’s Seven Year Anniversary
hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...
hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...
Bethesda Remasters Elder Scrolls VI Announcement Trailer for Original Trailer’s Seven Year Anniversary
BETHESDA, Md. — Bethesda Game Studios director and executive producer Todd Howard unveiled The Elder Scrolls VI Announcement Trailer: Remastered during a showcase of the…
hard-drive.net
August 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Bethesda Remasters Elder Scrolls VI Announcement Trailer for Original Trailer’s Seven Year Anniversary
hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...
hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...
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There’s a certain type of person that can only respond to something bad currently happening by going “things have been bad for a long time!”
Ok? Congratulations? If you get food poisoning do you go “this is nothing compared to the Challenger exploding”?
Ok? Congratulations? If you get food poisoning do you go “this is nothing compared to the Challenger exploding”?
August 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There’s a certain type of person that can only respond to something bad currently happening by going “things have been bad for a long time!”
Ok? Congratulations? If you get food poisoning do you go “this is nothing compared to the Challenger exploding”?
Ok? Congratulations? If you get food poisoning do you go “this is nothing compared to the Challenger exploding”?
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But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come.
August 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come.
read this thread
The TLS staff had a week to figure out what to say. What do you say, about novels, about fiction, when you know that the world as you know it is about to end, but it hasn't yet? 4/
July 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
read this thread
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The Dispossessed was first published in 1974 by Harper & Row.
July 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Dispossessed was first published in 1974 by Harper & Row.
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congratulations to the internet’s biggest perverts for being so horny they caused an integer overflow
deeply proud of all of you
deeply proud of all of you
Omg, absolutely incredible reason for AO3 to have been down hachyderm.io/@vashti/1147... (alt text at original)
Vashti (@vashti@hachyderm.io)
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Why #Ao3 was down yesterday:
hachyderm.io
July 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
congratulations to the internet’s biggest perverts for being so horny they caused an integer overflow
deeply proud of all of you
deeply proud of all of you
pb&j lol
what's a traditional food of your people/culture that everyone else seems to love that you absolutely cannot stand?
for me it is vada pav. Vada is incredible, pav is fantastic, in combination they cancel each other out and become a black hole of anti-taste
for me it is vada pav. Vada is incredible, pav is fantastic, in combination they cancel each other out and become a black hole of anti-taste
July 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
pb&j lol
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It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time
This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets
This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets
If you just look at social media instead of news sources, you might believe the “big beautiful bill” has passed already.
It hasn’t. It still needs to go through the House, where it has a strong chance of failing — so yes, feel as sad and angry and scared as you need, but PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS.
It hasn’t. It still needs to go through the House, where it has a strong chance of failing — so yes, feel as sad and angry and scared as you need, but PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS.
July 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time
This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets
This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets
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Oh no now republicans will do racebaiting ads and attack trans people and call everything we do socialist how do we deal with the thing they have been doing for decades
June 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Oh no now republicans will do racebaiting ads and attack trans people and call everything we do socialist how do we deal with the thing they have been doing for decades
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More people transitioning is good and I have no caveats to that statement.
June 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
More people transitioning is good and I have no caveats to that statement.
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"I am a proud Democrat who fights for people and thinks Republicans are bad and we should stand up to them": actually a very popular message, which should be a lesson both to the reactionary centrist crowd and to other leftists hoping for similar success
June 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"I am a proud Democrat who fights for people and thinks Republicans are bad and we should stand up to them": actually a very popular message, which should be a lesson both to the reactionary centrist crowd and to other leftists hoping for similar success
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If “affordable housing, decent insurance, not bullying minorities, and rich people actually having to pay taxes” are called socialism for forty years now, guess what you just did?
It’s like @johnrogers.bsky.social says: if you constantly label everything you don’t like socialism, and you suck, eventually the youth will just embrace socialism.
I was also wondering about this angle. How do they escalate the rhetoric when they already say New York is a communist dystopia?
June 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
If “affordable housing, decent insurance, not bullying minorities, and rich people actually having to pay taxes” are called socialism for forty years now, guess what you just did?
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This is why traditional political power hoarders hate RCV — it encourages coalitions, doesn’t hate voters, and makes divide and conquer & demonization less effective/attractive. Scorched earth is actually a terrible planet to live on.
Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.
From a key Mamdani adviser ❤️
June 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This is why traditional political power hoarders hate RCV — it encourages coalitions, doesn’t hate voters, and makes divide and conquer & demonization less effective/attractive. Scorched earth is actually a terrible planet to live on.
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[me if zohran lost]: you cant extrapolate much from an off election year mayor race. and new york city? c'mon
[me now]: zohrans win is the will of the people. new york city as americas melting pot has lessons for north carolina and arizona to california. look at the energy and an off year no less!
[me now]: zohrans win is the will of the people. new york city as americas melting pot has lessons for north carolina and arizona to california. look at the energy and an off year no less!
June 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
[me if zohran lost]: you cant extrapolate much from an off election year mayor race. and new york city? c'mon
[me now]: zohrans win is the will of the people. new york city as americas melting pot has lessons for north carolina and arizona to california. look at the energy and an off year no less!
[me now]: zohrans win is the will of the people. new york city as americas melting pot has lessons for north carolina and arizona to california. look at the energy and an off year no less!
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Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.
Bit rich complaining about New York being taken over by immigrants when there's a big fucking statue in the harbour that invites everyone to come live there.
June 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.
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Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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"why are millennials so left leaning compared to every other generation" idk dude maybe it's because every single formative event in our lives has been a disaster directly caused by capitalism and american imperialism but nah it's probably the computer games
June 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"why are millennials so left leaning compared to every other generation" idk dude maybe it's because every single formative event in our lives has been a disaster directly caused by capitalism and american imperialism but nah it's probably the computer games
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.