S.M. Mack (Smack)
@whatsmacksaid.bsky.social
Dog person, spec fic reader and writer (DEATH VALLEY BLOOMS 2025), Clarion 2012, Stonecoast 2019. She/her, opinions my own. https://linktr.ee/whatsmacksaid and 📷 @what_smacksaid
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And it's on my favorite indie site (www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781966...) & all other retailers.
And it's on my favorite indie site (www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781966...) & all other retailers.
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why would releasing the pedophile club files make him a lame duck president, what are you implying here John
Republican Sen. John Barrasso, the majority whip, doesn’t commit to holding a Senate vote on the bill to release the Epstein files if it passes the House. “We’ll have a discussion about it and make a decision from there.”
On @meetthepress.com:
On @meetthepress.com:
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
why would releasing the pedophile club files make him a lame duck president, what are you implying here John
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god these women are so much braver than any of the talking heads or politicians trying to minimize this.
> www.worldwithoutexploitation.org
> www.worldwithoutexploitation.org
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
god these women are so much braver than any of the talking heads or politicians trying to minimize this.
> www.worldwithoutexploitation.org
> www.worldwithoutexploitation.org
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@fallenlights.net was kind enough to share this with me, and thus, I spread the wealth.
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
@fallenlights.net was kind enough to share this with me, and thus, I spread the wealth.
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I, for one, am glad we are reconnecting with the true meaning of the season: terrifying children into behaving with threats of festive eldritch beings from lands time tried to erase. Do the adults next.
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I, for one, am glad we are reconnecting with the true meaning of the season: terrifying children into behaving with threats of festive eldritch beings from lands time tried to erase. Do the adults next.
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This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
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There's nothing wrong with you.
There's something wrong with the world.
Keep being weird.
Keep howling against the storm.
Keep writing erotic stories about moon ghosts.
Keep being a spark in the darkness, and hope for a better tomorrow.
There's something wrong with the world.
Keep being weird.
Keep howling against the storm.
Keep writing erotic stories about moon ghosts.
Keep being a spark in the darkness, and hope for a better tomorrow.
September 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
There's nothing wrong with you.
There's something wrong with the world.
Keep being weird.
Keep howling against the storm.
Keep writing erotic stories about moon ghosts.
Keep being a spark in the darkness, and hope for a better tomorrow.
There's something wrong with the world.
Keep being weird.
Keep howling against the storm.
Keep writing erotic stories about moon ghosts.
Keep being a spark in the darkness, and hope for a better tomorrow.
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The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
This is a little bit of a long read but a super fascinating look at wolf B2L www.voyageurswolfproject.org/quarterlywol...
Quarterly Wolf Highlight | VoyageursWolfProject
www.voyageurswolfproject.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This is a little bit of a long read but a super fascinating look at wolf B2L www.voyageurswolfproject.org/quarterlywol...
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Send Every Billionaire To The North Pole On A Wooden Ship
we need to return to sending useless rich boys on deadly expeditions
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Send Every Billionaire To The North Pole On A Wooden Ship
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Everything is political!
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Everything is political!
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8 Democratic-caucus senators sold us out by voting with the Republicans.
None of this could’ve happened without Chuck Schumer agreeing to it.
Schumer is also letting this little measure in the CR slide through. 👇👇
None of this could’ve happened without Chuck Schumer agreeing to it.
Schumer is also letting this little measure in the CR slide through. 👇👇
🧵Did you hear?
Tucked into the CR is a measure that would allow 8 Republican senators to sue the US govt for $500k each over Jack Smith investigating them for Jan 6 & searching their phone records.
A measure that would pay them half a million dollars each for breaking the law.
Tucked into the CR is a measure that would allow 8 Republican senators to sue the US govt for $500k each over Jack Smith investigating them for Jan 6 & searching their phone records.
A measure that would pay them half a million dollars each for breaking the law.
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
8 Democratic-caucus senators sold us out by voting with the Republicans.
None of this could’ve happened without Chuck Schumer agreeing to it.
Schumer is also letting this little measure in the CR slide through. 👇👇
None of this could’ve happened without Chuck Schumer agreeing to it.
Schumer is also letting this little measure in the CR slide through. 👇👇
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CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
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We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
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November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Yet again I find myself saying: if you’re a millionaire author with a wildly successful book series that got turned into movies, it should be extremely easy to not care about what readers think of those books. Log off. Hand your emails to an assistant. Enjoy your lovely life.
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Yet again I find myself saying: if you’re a millionaire author with a wildly successful book series that got turned into movies, it should be extremely easy to not care about what readers think of those books. Log off. Hand your emails to an assistant. Enjoy your lovely life.
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I actively block food shaming in my feed, as an Autistic classically trained chef who wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide (COLOR TASTE TEXTURE), to protect folks with restricted diets.
The stigma Erin’s talking about, especially in today’s economy, is plain cruel and hurtful.
The stigma Erin’s talking about, especially in today’s economy, is plain cruel and hurtful.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I actively block food shaming in my feed, as an Autistic classically trained chef who wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide (COLOR TASTE TEXTURE), to protect folks with restricted diets.
The stigma Erin’s talking about, especially in today’s economy, is plain cruel and hurtful.
The stigma Erin’s talking about, especially in today’s economy, is plain cruel and hurtful.
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Hello Friends! I need a new website. I have a Squarespace site, but I need someone with actual artistic talent (and that's absolutely not me) to actually make it, you know, useful and good.
I'd really like if a queer and/or racialized artist did it, and yes, I will pay for your work.
I'd really like if a queer and/or racialized artist did it, and yes, I will pay for your work.
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Hello Friends! I need a new website. I have a Squarespace site, but I need someone with actual artistic talent (and that's absolutely not me) to actually make it, you know, useful and good.
I'd really like if a queer and/or racialized artist did it, and yes, I will pay for your work.
I'd really like if a queer and/or racialized artist did it, and yes, I will pay for your work.
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Seriously, if you have a Sikh gurdwara in your area please let people know about this. We have at least one here in Detroit Metro that I know of. Bonus is that Sikhs are, on the whole, extremely rad people.
Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Seriously, if you have a Sikh gurdwara in your area please let people know about this. We have at least one here in Detroit Metro that I know of. Bonus is that Sikhs are, on the whole, extremely rad people.
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We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
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One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go
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New version of Girl Yelling In Guy's Ear at Concert Dropped:
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
New version of Girl Yelling In Guy's Ear at Concert Dropped:
Note to self:
Consumer culture is killing the planet. It’s a simple as that. Support a local food bank, artist co-op, holiday bazaar, nonprofit secondhand shop. stop consuming cheap imported plastic crap made with slave labor (planned obsolescence included.) support not a single wealth hoarding corporate entity.
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Note to self:
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Hi everyone!! As the holidays approach, it is time for a mass boycott!
Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??
Please share this everywhere!!!!
Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??
Please share this everywhere!!!!
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Hi everyone!! As the holidays approach, it is time for a mass boycott!
Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??
Please share this everywhere!!!!
Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??
Please share this everywhere!!!!
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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