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On a good day, books, gaming & cats, on a bad day politics
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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 16 hr
Goodness. For me?
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 12 hr
To piggyback: I truly think a few too many of you are far too passive in your participation in media consumption. If you are sick of having crap firehosed onto your dash/feed/scroll, CHANGE WHAT MAKES IT TO YOUR DASH/FEED/SCROLL. Block, adblock, mute, actively seek out instead of waiting for recs.
Avatar grace @acab4cutie.top · 15 hr
reminder that this website does not have an algorithm so if everything on your homepage sucks or you think this website is “dead” it is quite literally a skill issue. follow more & better people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 2 days
@cstross.bsky.social www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tod...
Today, We’re All Nyarlathotep’s Death Cultistswww.mcsweeneys.net “Today, we’re all MAGA.” — Headline from The Spectator the day after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, 7/14/24. - - -Deca...
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badly-drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social · a day
It's London trans pride on 27 July. If you're horrified by Streeting's avowed intent to make the puberty blocker ban permanent, please step up and show it. There are a lot more of us cis folk than trans folk; we all need to use our voices and platforms. #PubertyBlockers
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 4 days
I mean the New Management was INTENTIONALLY a dystopian crapsack horror situation but by 2022 folks were reading it as happy consolatory fiction—a world less hopeless than our own. So obviously I need to send off for something worse than a version of the Tory Party specifically led by Nyarlathotep.
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Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 5 days
Murray "Muzski" Groat's covers for imagined Tintin / Lovecraft mashup. I would 100% read these.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19 hr
More info about FIV: bsky.app/profile/cats...
Avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 2 days
FIV is a fragile virus that is not airborne - it is safe for FIV+ and FIV- cats to cuddle, groom, play, and share food/water dishes together. It can generally only be transmitted through deep bites and only if the virus is actively shedding, so the risk of transmission in stable homes is negligible.
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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · a day
Hobgoblins!
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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · a day
Sheri S Tepper sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tepper... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: Julien Delval, Rafal , Michael Whelan and Kinuko Y Craft):
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Cats, Sims & Books @catssimsbooks.bsky.social · a day
I think I need to do less doomscrolling and more reading horny romance
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · a day
Saw someone’s take is “Bouie not being here won’t make or break” this site. I am happy to say some things about how platform migration works. It’s true, one user never makes or breaks anything, but for U.S. users the presence of young Black folks has driven the popularity of new tech for decades 1/?
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Cats, Sims & Books @catssimsbooks.bsky.social · a day
This is a really interesting looking anthology and it would be a grat shame if they missed their goal, only about $320 short ATM www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...
Spacefunk!www.kickstarter.com Space is the place! A collection of science fiction stories and poems by authors of African/African Diaspora Descent.
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Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2 days
I think this has finally helped me understand this particular set of arguers. my eyes have finally been opened. The sovereign citizen movement has added copyright to their areas of expertise. There is no other explanation
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I think I just had an argument with someone who was arguing that paying for consumption of IP—ie buying books—was a form of taxation on society. Except that’s completely nuts. Like…other people are seeing this, right? These aren’t words that mean something else in this context, are they?
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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 2 days
4 days to raise $2,269.00. Work by Sheree Renee Thomas, S.A. Cosby, Maurice Broaddus, Linda Addison, Wole Talabi and way way more. Enough said. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...
Spacefunk!www.kickstarter.com Space is the place! A collection of science fiction stories and poems by authors of African/African Diaspora Descent.
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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 5 mo
On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Avatar Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 5 mo
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?" So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2 days
But if your hardline position is that not paying authors for their labor is a great way to end capitalism, you do not understand what capitalism is.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2 days
Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 3 days
Heeeey! Side Quested is up, and may the Goddess have mercy on Prince Leopold's soul. sidequested.com/page/178/ #webcomics
Oh no. - Side Quested Webcomicsidequested.com
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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3 days
Leigh Richmond sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/richmo... died on this day, so here's some of the artwork for the serialisation of her novel (co-written with Walt Richmond) "Where I Wasn't Going" aka "Challenge the Hellmaker" (Artist: John Schoenherr):
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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 4 days
It’s like, NOW you’re firm of spine and resolute of voice on the fact that political violence is bad? Why do you turn into noodles when HE does it?
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 3 days
Lost in the Trump chaos is news of yet another mass shooting, which seems a little too on the nose.
At least 4 people killed, 9 others injured in shooting at Birmingham nightclub, police say | CNNwww.cnn.com At least four people were killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting at a Birmingham, Alabama, nightclub late Saturday night, police said.
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 5 days
Lawyer team who met by arguing with idiots on Twitter out battle Elon's "hardcore" litigation team trying to screw over former Twitter employees
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Just won a significant decision in the Twitter arbitrations, with the SDNY confirming that Twitter needs to pay for those arbitrations unless & until individual arbitrators say otherwise. Oh, & also that their arguments for why an arbitrator might/should say otherwise are nonsense. decision's here
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5 days
There’s a whole subnormal subculture of people on here who are obsessed with running people off the site. The vast majority of the time they fail (as, one senses, they do at nearly everything in their lives). But they’re very happy when they succeed. /1
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Fred Brombeere @fredpassau.bsky.social · 4 days
Blocking people does not need explanation.
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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 5 days
A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday tossed Rudy Giuliani’s Chapter 11 case, paving the way for two Georgia election workers Giuliani defamed to collect their $148 million judgment against him. www.courthousenews.com/judge-chides...
Judge chides Rudy Giuliani for ‘troubling’ conduct, tosses NY bankruptcy casewww.courthousenews.com Friday's dismissal paves the way for two Georgia election workers to collect a $148 defamation judgment against Giuliani.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4 days
Why are we talking about Biden's age when we should be talking about Trump’s Project 2025? | The Coffee Klatch, July 13, 2024robertreich.substack.com With Heather Lofthouse and yours truly
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 5 days
See if these pieces of shit ever admit they just want to bully Black folks who have any kind of a platform.
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Same stupid motherfuckers made Tressie nope out of here. Being an asshole to Black people online because you’re ineffective at helping people in the real world isn’t praxis, actually.
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eva, bisexual monopole @eva.computer · 5 days
hey everyone you really should cancel your subscriptions to the following - The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Wall Street Journal - The Economist - The Atlantic think about how much money you would save tell them you don’t like how their editors demonize trans healthcare repost this
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5 days
remember the time some of us sought clarification on a new Twitter Alternative's sexual content guidelines and were run off the site by nice white ladies with 🌊 in their names who screamed at us for being deviants who wanted to force them to look at porn? I find this not even a little surprising.
Avatar Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 5 days
Hello, Lady friends. We need to have a talk.
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Ande Parks @andeparks.bsky.social · 7 days
#2024