Carrie-Edmund Laben

Today!

Strong overlap with chronic illness/disability awareness here... trying to wedge everyone into a space that works only for an imagined 'normal' body is a sign of weakness and impoverishment in the system.

(Last time I saw her, we saw @robynhitchcock.bsky.social live at the Bowery Ballroom and it was legit one of the greatest shows of my life.)

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Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza…

Hoping prison abolitionists will bite and share this one: research-informed, Palestinian-led mental health support for nearly a hundred kids who suffered in occupation detention.

You support goes towards materials & facilitation. We have FOUR WEEKS: chuffed.org/project/hmg

This is the best way yet to avoid AWP FOMO.

Your narrator's foot, clad in a black Van's Old Skool Dia de Los Muertos shoe with a lace design, blue hummingbird, and yellow marigold.

In my best shoes, on my way to see my best girl @wordsandmusic.bsky.social

Not from an anarchist perspective per se, unfortunately.

Far Side cartoon of four high-ranking military men drawn in that inimitable square yet lumpy Larson style that signifies 'vacuous dork'. One is leaning back with his arms behind his head and a smile. Captioned "On the other hand, gentlemen, what if we gave a war and everybody came?'

It could be worse, I know a couple who stayed married and named their kid Jayne.

So intolerable cruelty basically.

I'm not (necessarily) calling for Butlerian Jihad, I absolutely think the internet can be cool and useful. But it did start life as a DoD project and there is stuff baked into its current form and function because of that that one needs to be aware of.

This info was handed over more than a year after cops murdered a forest defender in cold blood.

There are no tech companies that won't sell you out, because such a company would never be allowed to do business.

*honestly. What I *didn't* do between the hours of 8 pm and 3 am was sleep.

Apparently they're making a movie, and it involves stop-motion animation and Tom Hanks, and honest I'm prepared to be here for it.

A strange thing about being an author who straddles SFF and literary fiction is encountering people describe the "other side" with the strangest stereotypes. It's like when you read ancient history and locals have rumors the realm across the sea is populated by people with two heads and eight feet.

If you never leave your valley, the guys in the next valley are assholes. And the guys in the next valley plus one are definitely cannibals.

A rat race to the rescue: MSPCA-Angell seeks homes after 163 rodents surrendered Dozens of whiskered companions are up for adoption after one of the largest rat surrenders MSPCA-Angell has seen in years.

Dozens of whiskered companions are up for adoption after one of the largest rat surrenders MSPCA-Angell has seen in years. trib.al/5sT0MNs

One of my grandfathers was a dairy farmer who still used draft horses at the beginning of his career and the other programmed computers with punch cards for a bank. My family is a wild and wooly place.

Can't stop progress when it's AI. But if it's UBI or safe injection sites or health care for trans kids it needs more study forever.

I made a series of decisions, all of which made sense independently, that ended with me spending the hours of 8 pm to 3 am waiting to change trains in Pittsburgh.

I spent that time finally reading Lincoln In the Bardo, in a single gulp.

Goddamn.

Hey, if you're feeling like life has passed you by and you're too old to start something new, remember that John Brown was 55 before he killed his first pro-slavery settler in the Kansas Territory. It's never too late to follow your dreams.

Collage of Judith Slaying Holofernes in background with pearls, jewels, nails, gem hearts, stars, and heels kicking up in silhouette.

The collage cover of our Cunty Horrors zine issue, created by @pg13andabsurd.bsky.social and (to a lesser extent) me. This zine features two essays on cunty horror by Carrie-Edmund Laben and C.E. O’Cónaing. Coming soon!

The baba-edook?

At last we have immanentized the eschaton from the classic Robert Shea/Robert Anton Wilson trilogy Do Not Immanentize! The Eschaton

Still better sons than JD Vance.

Three hooded rats- light gray (Miguel de Cervantes Rat-Laben), dark gray (Aleister Crowley Rat-Laben) and black (Neal Cassady Rat-Laben) next to a large puzzle feeder style dog dish containing seeds and pellets and also a few rat turds.

My perfect boys, who have pooped in their snacks.

Labeling Renee Good a “Domestic Terrorist” Distorts the Law The Trump administration’s misuse of the term reached new levels after an ICE officer killed Good in her car.

She sure had a lot of opinions when it happened for someone who doesn't know anything now.

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Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, a time to support and uplift sex workers everywhere—and a particularly good day to throw some money to the United Brothel Workers in Nevada who were illegally terminated after their historic union drive with CWA went public! ☂️