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As an undiagnosed but probably autistic and adhd adult I have always found socializing hard. I don’t get the “understood” stuff that some people were either taught or just pick up somehow, so I had to deliberately learn what I know. Who wants to talk about socializing and networks?

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This series is sapphic and queer -- this story is M/M, and arguably, the spiciest so far. This takes Edith and Poppy's story through its completion as well. If you need some queer joy in your life, that's how I built this series.

Today is the day! THE GAME OF HEARTS is now on Audiobook, narrated by the amazing, astonishing, and incredibly talented Hannah Curtis! You can listen to an excerpt here, which may be my favorite opening to a book ever. It's not often you ENTER on a bear. #bookSky

i hope if nothing else, the media ignoring this finally stops people from saying "the reason the media doesn't run drumbeat scandal coverage on trump the way they did on Clinton is because Dems don't make a big deal of it like Republicans do"

Detail from a 4th century AD mosaic floor at Littlecote Roman villa in #Wiltshire showing pieces of tesserae cut from reused stamp-impressed box flue tile 📷 May 2015 #MosaicMonday

I'm not criticizing those who are showcasing the accomplishments of scientists, artists, and writers to debunk RFK Jr.'s comments but I think it's also important to treat them not as ignorance, but as the outright malice they are. He made those comments to claim a US citizen is unfit for the Senate.

And he should certainly know this because Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (his aunt by marriage, of course) was largely responsible for bringing Mahfouz’s works to US readers after he won the Nobel and was the editor at Doubleday for the English translation of his acclaimed Cairo Trilogy.

This guy is a Kennedy? An ignorant racist. By the way, Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian writer, won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Yeah I’d like to know too. Personally I think it’s a big deal & it affects everything about the rape culture we live & suffer in.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

looked at in longer perspective, it's striking how much this resembles the premodern system of exclusion, rents, and personalist connections, which was--and this part's important--radically worse than the modern system of impersonal rules and general taxation

Astonishing: Maxwell was willing to tell Blanche about some of Trump's rapes, and he ordered her not to. "Let's not talk about inviduals." WTF were they there to talk about? There's EVIDENCE on this.

Seeing how little coverage that house report that added another rape accusation to Trump's tally got today, I looked back on just the front page Benghazi stories (there were many, many more inside over these months).

Reminds me of the Home To Vote campaigns in Ireland!

If the AI bubble bursts, "we need a people-first bailout," says writer @astra.bsky.social.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

“It’s not a rec center, the brass should be urging him not to do it” is with all sincerity the funniest way to communicate that ‘the brass’ is seemingly fine with it.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Related: I’m still looking for leads and help on jobs, fellowships, and freelance contracts on drones, GIS, aid, disaster, OSINT, tech ethics, and journalism. I simply will not work for evil people and/or weapons manufacturers, which is also why I haven’t had paying work since Trump 2.0 began.

I don’t think younger people can understand how wild it was to have a Russian on the Enterprise.

I THINK one of the things we're really seeing is a continent, maybe industry-wide shift away from full-time employees and towards gig/codev work. And that transition looks like layoffs across the board even from studios that just had big successes.

I’ve had to correct so many people who kept telling me that the phrase was wrong. I kinda wonder if it’s a little more appropriate since a lot of us want to free everyone from EA’s clutches. 💕

And no matter how they dress it up, that is what these articles are always about.

This is something we get accused of surprisingly often and all I can say is: yes. Good. I am here to destroy the hopes and dreams of husbands who don't think they have to add value to their wife's life.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

One of the lessons of that afternoon was that, even though Mr. D was literally just joking--a joke he didn't expect any of the kids to get--he still suffered the consequences of being a shithead. I think this should happen more often, to more people.

Welp, guess I need a pinned post. I write stuff, I have a Patreon, I edit freelance, and here's the thread about the time I started an antifascist hallway riot in the third grade. Raise a jelly nougat to Granddad!

Didn't they do this before? And somebody ended up in prison?

The Full Moon and the sky joined forces and PUT ON A SHOW!

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

Wow. "Perwaiz is currently serving a 59-year-long federal prison sentence for conducting irreversible hysterectomies, improper sterilizations, and other medically unnecessary procedures for over a decade. He misled women about their health, telling some they had... www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-...

I’m glad that Lula won for a lot of reasons but selfishly it kinda confirms that “swagless son of a fascist freak” will probably be a losing ticket when Trump dies and if the boys make a go for it.