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A mostly lurking book gremlin. she/her

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Message to men: you can date/marry way, way above your league if you will just fucking learn to cook and do some laundry, please stop hitting yourself in the face with hammers or "optimising" things and try vacuumcleanermaxxing instead...

07.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 624 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 12
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

β€œEverything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” πŸ’―

- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

07.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 401 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 11
A graphic from your ai slip bores me in which I request β€œplease draw me” the picture is a stick figure with a smiley face with a black hat, green shorts,an orange shirt, and purple shoes scribbled on.

A graphic from your ai slip bores me in which I request β€œplease draw me” the picture is a stick figure with a smiley face with a black hat, green shorts,an orange shirt, and purple shoes scribbled on.

This site is pretty fun!

07.03.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 9

Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.

07.03.2026 05:56 πŸ‘ 2826 πŸ” 1205 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 31
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

07.03.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 5729 πŸ” 3604 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 240

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME

Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day.

Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

07.03.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 1427 πŸ” 450 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 14

Bumping this for the daytime crowd, as I'd like to get a heating-oil order in tomorrow if I can. πŸ™‚

05.03.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 152 πŸ” 151 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5

Lolsobβ€”imagine a world where Diane Wynne Jones and Diana Duane were THE Famous Wizard Writers and JKR is crowdfunding for heating oil. Probably that timeline has different presidents and less warcrimes too

07.03.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The reason I called this an own goal the other day is it's like critiquing the paint on the walls of a kitchen someone smeared in shit.

Sure. They shouldn't have called that paint autumn harvest when it was beige.

But like...

There's shit on the walls?

06.03.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My Washington State tax is going to go up and that's a good thing. We had the most regressive tax structure in the country for DECADES.

06.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 1919 πŸ” 166 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 10

#ShareGoodNewsToo

03.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There cannot be moral billionaires because if they had morals then they wouldn’t be billionaires.

06.03.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How It’s Made: A 7,000-Word Story on Coal in Oakland β€œThis is the only time in my entire life, I think, where I wrote long and someone was like, β€˜Well, could you make it longer?’”

People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to beβ€”a phenomenal work of longform journalism.

06.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 156 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

Saw The Spear Cuts Through Water so Impossible Creatures.

It’s MG fantasy that should be read by everyone. It’s about how the world is hard (if it feels hard, it’s not because you are doing it wrong) but there are things and people that are worth fighting for and there is always something to save.

06.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of tags: goodreads, Lucie Britisch, on publishing, on writing, rants, reviews.

Screenshot of tags: goodreads, Lucie Britisch, on publishing, on writing, rants, reviews.

The tags on this give the game away. Goodreads reviewers aren’t the same as professional critics. Goodreads is fundamentally a product review platform for Bezos to data mine. Critics/ reviewers are doing critical analysis.

06.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I bet @sharonk.bsky.social knows.

06.03.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what I came here for.

06.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Paging @makana-yama.bsky.social

06.03.2026 03:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My current rep, Kevin Kiley, is on this committee. Thanks to the CA redistricting, he will be running in a much bluer district this year.

If you are currently in CA-3 or in what will be CA-6, call this limp noodle of a man and squeeze.

06.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I do the same with Schiff and Padilla.

06.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

04.03.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 4388 πŸ” 1267 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 69
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CDPH is urging Californians to check their measles vaccination status after several recent cases were reported in Sacramento and Placer counties. These cases represent the third measles outbreak in CA in 2026.

Learn more: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA... [1/3]

06.03.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

05.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 5776 πŸ” 1335 πŸ’¬ 454 πŸ“Œ 334

Love’s Labour’s Lost, Julius Caesar, and Cymbeline.

05.03.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We need candidates who fall firmly into β€œlooks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you” overlap.

05.03.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 707 πŸ” 150 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 36
05.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Farmer/school bus driver and trucker.

04.03.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

04.03.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 3224 πŸ” 986 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 7

being anti-trans is an unelectable position, sorry newsom, we need someone more electable in 2028

04.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 1163 πŸ” 119 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

04.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 4047 πŸ” 836 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0