Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈

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Museum Maker, Incessant Reader, Chocolate Devourer. They/She. 🏳️‍🌈

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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To all the abled folks that use the phrase “wheelchair bound” this is a beautiful example of why we in the disability community do not use those words. Accessibility devices are tools of freedom!!!

just took my new wheelchair for a spin around the block w/ my dog (something i could never even dream of doing before) & i am tearing up at how much joy it brought me. it's incredible how just by having access to the right mobility aids, i already feel so much less depressed.

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For Disability Pride Month, sharing 🧵 that explains how omitting race in alt-text causes people to assume "default" or [w* ]. "Writers of alt text hold power in shaping the experience and perception of screen-reader users."

Alt text without reference to race: “Woman walking ahead of crowd, with woman screaming behind her” Alt text with reference to race: “Elizabeth Eckford, a Black woman, and one of the Little Rock Nine, walking ahead of a white crowd, with a white woman screaming behind her.” Big difference.

The case for describing race in alternative text attributesux.shopify.com How to describe race in alt text and why it’s important

In other news, Mooncakes is one of my very favorite graphic novels. See also “Tidesong” and “The Infinity Particle.” She is on my “will read everything by her sight unseen” list.

honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆

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Didn’t even need to click through to guess the author’s race an gender. Do you what you want, fucker. But too many people got savaged by dogs, blasted with fire hoses, and hung from trees to get me into the voting booth for me to ever opt out.

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ANYWAY if you would like not to be thinking about politics, why not distract yourself by preordering my book? Currently half price in e, apparently ARC readers like it, and it'll be out in a fortnight! www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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one small but real way to stave off existential despair: help the grassroots nonprofits you love get better at raising money. for $100 a pop to support @romancingthevote.bsky.social, I will tell you (or your favorite overworked development director) all my secrets www.32auctions.com/organization...

Grantwriting Master Classwww.32auctions.com Auction item 'Grantwriting Master Class' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Most *white* Americans. There is no country on earth that imprisons more of its population than the US. Prisoners disproportionately Black. The US leads the world in child executions. Not a typo. Disproportionately Black. Life expectancy for US Black folk lower than for Uighur Chinese. Not a typo

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

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Good morning

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YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. DOES YOUR BODY NEED STRETCHING?

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It's the final days for this year's Pride Storybundle - fabulous queer-themed SF/F bundles for your reading pleasure! www.storybundle.com/pride

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A branch that gave itself a power not granted to it by the Constitution is using that power to amass more power and further weaken the democratically legitimate branches. We're being turned into a monarchy run by judges

This is big: The Supreme Court has overruled the "Chevron" doctrine, which gave administrative agencies leeway to interpret ambiguous laws. This will decrease agencies' regulatory power and give a lot more power to courts. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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hey, heard you got some CHECKS and BALANCES over there be a real shame if something were to HAPPEN to them

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In other news, hard not to feel a sense of absolute impending doom this morning! It's like the opposite of coffee! Just a great heaping desire to lay down under a blanket and push your thumbs into your eyes hard enough that you see all the pretty lights!

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I just want my existence to be legal next year

Really worth a read

This article is so good. nymag.com/intelligence... (Free at the moment)

My Father and the Withering of Liberal Zionismnymag.com Was my family’s dream of a Jewish socialist utopia all a lie?

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I'm doing this event on Saturday, 6pm UK time, do sign up!

Dearest Gentle Reader, Join us this Saturday at noon for a virtual panel with some of the best historical romance writers this author has read: Emma R. Alban, @kjcharleswriter.com, Jess Everlee, @ericaridley.bsky.social, & @catswrites.bsky.social RSVP: bit.ly/thequeerestton Yours truly, LSA

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There are people out there writing about gender who have only had one. Amateurs.

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This rules and it will always annoy me this wasn't on the list of things Obama did on his way out of the White House. www.axios.com/2024/06/26/b...

Biden pardons veterans convicted under military's ban on gay sexwww.axios.com The action will apply to thousands of former military service members.

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My "Secret Project" is A SECRET NO MORE!

'Smile' Author and Illustrator Raina Telgemeier Announces New Kids Graphic Novel with Scott McCloud (Exclusive)people.com The writer and illustrator is teaming up with author Scott McCloud to publish a new graphic novel for young readers, 'The Cartoonists Club,' which will publish in spring 2025.

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I’ve said it a million times, we are the WORST at publicizing our wins. www.audubon.org/news/legisla...

Legislation Supporting Migratory Birds Across the Hemisphere Signed Into Lawwww.audubon.org The Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act renews and enhances a critical conservation program.

Oooooh! This looks great.

Let it be known! The Table of Contents and Cover have been revealed for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2023, edited by Darcie Little Badger (with me, the series editor), with cover art by Dan Rossi (it's so pretty!!!). Check out the full reveal: www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...

Cover Reveal & ToC: We're Here 2023 — neon hemlockwww.neonhemlock.com

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This is a real holiday I checked And if you don't celebrate it by making a bad comic a fairy baby sheds a diamond tear and dies

Did you know that tomorrow, June 24 2024 is national make a terrible comic day? You don’t have to make comics every hour or a multi-page story, you just have to string a few panels together. It’s mandatory especially if you haven’t drawn anything for yourself lately and you miss it

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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”

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Ann Leckie

Consider not saying "art SHOULD" but "art CAN" and see all the different, new things that result. You might not like all of them. Probably won't. But that's ok, that's life. And art. Please learn to accept that not all art is made according to your prejudices. Thank you for listening.

This is the best thing you will read all week

OMFG. You *have* to read the whole thing, and then at the bottom, click through to read the OTHER stories. HOWLING. notalwaysright.com/never-pick-a...

Never Pick A Fight With An Old Scottish Woman, Part 5notalwaysright.com Customer: "It's because I'm out here in the middle of f****** nowhere, isn't it?! Your signal is weak as p*ss!"

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Imagine being the cto of openai and saying out loud that producing low quality content means you shouldn't have a job and thinking that for some reason doesn't apply to your job working at the giant machine that produces vast amounts of overwhelmingly very low quality content company

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati: “Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place if the content that comes out of it is not very high quality.”

Roundup: OpenAI says some artistic jobs shouldn’t existdisconnect.blog Read to the end for a good overview of failing social media platforms

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2024 Locus Awards Winners file770.com/2024-locus-a...

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Just finished Ann Leckie's TRANSLATION STATE and it's a freaking masterpiece. Also I loved the little shouts-out to Murderbot. Three of the best books I've read this year were women writing space opera. (The other two were Kate Elliott and Martha Wells)