Emma Bolton

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Artist living in Granada, language lover, devourer of books

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I just finished The Red Scholar's Wake and I loved it so much! The ships are people with all the complexity and nuance that brings. The parent-child dynamics are so well done. And the romance is both delightful and deals with shame and feeling like you're not good enough. Highly recommend!

Yeahhhhhh I mean I wrote a sapphic romance where one of the pair is a woman kidnapped by pirates and for whom there's no return to her previous life, and most of it takes place onboard the same ship

Study mode engaged. Let's get intersectional:

As part of Disability Wrath Month, I present to you a syllabus of readings on Palestinian liberation & disability justice There's no disability pride in genocide disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/06/30/p...

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Mask bans are evil and dystopian and I am appalled that they’re even being proposed. Wearing masks to protect your health and the health of others needs to be recognized as a right for all and an absolutely essential protection for those who would otherwise be unable to participate in society

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Absolutely extraordinary story out today from The Guardian's Harry Davies on Israel and the ICC. Really solid reporting from that team and the folks at 972 mag + Local Call. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquirywww.theguardian.com Mossad director Yossi Cohen personally involved in secret plot to pressure Fatou Bensouda to drop Palestine investigation, sources say

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‘All the people burned’: Horrific scenes are being reported from a Gaza hospital after Israel bombed a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah, in an area designated as a safe zone.

Israel attacked Rafah at night, ‘all the people burned’www.aljazeera.com Pained cries of the injured, frantic efforts by medics and unspeakable scenes of the aftermath in Kuwaiti Hospital.

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For whoever needs to hear it today: taking precautions to avoid catching covid does NOT make you an "anxious" person!! It's not unreasonable to want to keep yourself/others healthy! Anyone who says you're a burden or should "compromise" by putting yourself at risk should go kick rocks for eternity.

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This is the counter to "oh not everybody can care about every issue/not everybody talks in public about everything they care about" discourse. These statements are meaninglessly accurate in some general abstract sense but fail immediately when you make them specifically about Palestine.

In case folks need reminding why, yes, if you're an American, you need to be talking about Gaza right now

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Still masking against COVID-19? “A small team of feminist disability justice researchers want to hear from you! Consider participating in a short survey with researchers at York University and Athabasca University. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... “

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Very cool. Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis have launched THE SICK TIMES--a new digital newsroom devoted to covering long COVID. Here's the launch letter, and there's a newsletter you can subscribe to: thesicktimes.org/newsletter/ I trust these folks and am excited to see where this goes.

Welcome to The Sick Times, a letter from our co-founder Miles W. Griffisthesicktimes.org It’s not mysterious. A highly contagious airborne virus has spread around the world for the past four years and continues to infect people as I write. SARS-Cov-2 has killed an excess of 23 million �...

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Please enjoy this, the most breathless and accurate description of a javelina ever penned (see alt for easier-to-read copy):

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'For years, we’ve known that our humanity, as Palestinians, was conditional in the eyes of the world—and even when granted, never fully recognized. We were occasionally given this privilege if we were polite, reserved, almost invisible.'

At the Threshold of Humanity | Karim Kattanthebaffler.com We as Palestinians stand at the threshold of humanity—sometimes invited, but never welcome.

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Nightshade lets artists make imperceptible pixel changes to their art so that generative AI models trained on it break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. Ooh, deterrence! www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1...

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AIwww.technologyreview.com The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

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