Adam Rakunas

Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to th' ports and costs for transportation, And that you sit as kings in your desires

The People Speak, Ian McKellen performanceyoutu.be Ian McKellen performs William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More, Act II, Scene 4 (c. 1593), at The People Speak event, London, September 2012. Hosted by Colin Firth and Anthony Arnove, authors of the book The People Speak.

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Adam Rakunas

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Kameron Hurley

I think it's easy to look back at history and go "well gosh thank goodness those times are over" and much harder to realize you have to fight these same fights over and over and over again, often in the same ways, against the constant sliding consolidation of power and authoritarianism.

Yeah, I'm not reaching across the aisle to unify with these people. Nope.

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Effie Seiberg

That could have been anyone's pee. #FreeBagel

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Adam Rakunas

It is scary as fuck right now for trans authors and prospects for us being able to continue telling our stories get bleaker every day. Please, buy & read as many of these folks' books as you can. I'm not exaggerating when I say you may not always be able to.

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

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Adam Rakunas

This Prime Day, let's all remember back to that time that Amazon was bootlegging my merchandise: www.theverge.com/22924353/art... Anyways, use the code AMAZONCRIME to save 15% off of legit merchandise at effinbirds.com until tomorrow.

You should eat Ethiopian food at any of the places on E. Cherry Street.

Let's have some fun on Bluesky tonight! Tell me where you live and one thing everyone should do in your city! #flythefriendlysky

Oh, in Seattle! That's where I am. But maybe you've also got an E. Cherry Street with Ethiopian places in your town. If you do, it's a mark of quality.

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Hunter Walker

I live in Milwaukee and you should avoid the RNC by biking to the Hubbard Park Beer Garden, a beer garden in a woods with beer by the liter and pretzels that would satiate a small family. And brats!

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Adam Rakunas

I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years. And one thing that's always helped when things look bleak is the knowledge that there is ALWAYS something practical you can do to help make things better -- whether through electoral politics or other kinds of service. For example...

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Paolo Bacigalupi

We traded heat for coffee.

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Daryl Gregory

I think this is the first ever limerick with my last name.

Whoever it is on 24th and E. Union who's setting off fireworks: dude, she still won't be into you.

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Glenn Fleishman

The deans With beans Make alumni Green

I hope my efforts To source all your citations Help get you tenure.

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Adam Rakunas

In the immortal words of James Baldwin, "It's not on us to cool it."

Decade after decade of stochastic terror, gun rights fervor, & the foment of conspiratorial thinking by, from, on, & within the right, & yet it's somehow DEMOCRATS & the LEFT who need to "calm things down" or "lower the temperature?" Nah son. We *been* calm, and quite fucking cool and collected. …

Prediction for RNC: 65% airing of grievances, 35% calls for murdering political opponents.

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Adam Rakunas

Bluesky absolutely needs better notification filters. Co-signed.

Update: he's saying there's a chance!

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Adam Rakunas

a new life awaits you in the offline colonies

Last night, there were two booms that seemed too big for fireworks or guns. I wish this place had the user density were I could have hopped on to find out what it was. P.S. Fuck that doped-out fascist wanker for killing Twitter and robbing us of that community intelligence.

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Sunny Moraine

That pick guard. WOW.

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buy my book

I played the soundtrack's LP over and over as a kid.

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Adam Rakunas

Helmet laws only exist so that the media can make the deaths of cycling children a personal problem and not an infrastructure one

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Greg van Eekhout

Always here to help.

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Adam Rakunas

Seattle's Bok a Bok ditches rent-seeking middlemen and starts doing its own delivery. Hope more follow suit in response to the apps' punitive fees, which they imposed in an effort to roll back higher minimum wages for their workers earlier this year. seattle.eater.com/2024/7/10/24...

This Seattle Restaurant Has Dropped DoorDash and Hired Its Own Delivery Driversseattle.eater.com Bok a Bok unplugged the app to provide better customer service, its owner says.