Jay Edidin

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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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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New car prices average $50,000, gas is at an all time high, and many Americans are forced into car dependency. In-office requirements are a tax on the working class.

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SKYDANCE IS ALSO INTRODUCING A MANDATORY FIVE-DAY IN-OFFICE POLICY - CNBC

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Politics hits different when you're an "issue" instead of a citizen

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Replying to @scalzi.com

Many people are talking (correctly) about how youth participation was important for this result, but I’m crying because of scenes like this as well. Older people who aren’t required to vote anymore but made a point to show up and reject fascism.

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having the voice actor for daffy duck & bugs bunny on your picket line must have felt like having nuclear capabilities. peace to a legend.

meganimation🍊✨@meganimation.bsky.social

during the 2023 WGA strike. a real one.

It's kind of beautiful and optimistic, though: "They died out before I was born but someday in a long time they will come back."

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The moppet is currently very into making up extinct species.

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This is a good time to revisit a story we pubbed more than a year ago. The claims of safety/advantage have become accepted as fact. But they’re vastly inflated … or flatly untrue. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

assignedmedia.orgBehind the Right’s Attacks on Trans Girls in Sports - Assigned MediaConservative media, legal, political, and business leaders came together in a breathtaking assault on human rights.

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Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Intersex is a broad term that encompasses variations in sex characteristics or reproductive anatomy. These variations can manifest in several ways including differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes.

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A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

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Reminder to just block Yglesias already. He has nothing useful to contribute, ever.

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"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Even cooler is: Spielberg watched the godawful dreck, filtered out everything but the visuals, and concluded "this cinematographer is brilliant, I wanna work with him" I remember seeing this in a theater as a young critic and thinking "that's one of the best looking terrible movies I've ever seen"

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I very much wonder whether and to what extent Xennials / Oregon Trail microgeneration have distinct behavior and belief patterns around "AI."

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

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please please vote before election day, and tell your circles to. Republican mayors and governors are watching this unfold and getting ideas.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

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Now that this is out in the open, I can say that a certain book I did for a certain publisher affiliated with one of these people had generative expand used on my cover art without my permission, and it wasn’t removed before publication

Rodrigo Baeza@rodrigobaeza.bsky.social

Oh, shit. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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If I was a freelance New Yorker illustrator, learning the art director was really good at using Claude would be a red flag

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My favorite family Halloween costumes are the ones with a dissident. Just saw Mr. and Mrs. Banks, Mary Poppins in the Chalk Drawing, and Spider-Man.

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DR★G USER DEFENSE COLLECTIVE is hosting a HARM REDUCTION ZINE FOLDING HANG @ COME FOREVER at 342 HEWES BK on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH from 2-5PM.