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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders πŸ³οΈβ€βš§

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Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic β€”Β and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.

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06.03.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Half my email inbox lately is newsletters saying "here's why everything is fucked and we're all gonna die"

The other half is people asking me to do free labor, or responding to me asking them to do free labor

05.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 116 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."

05.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 1463 πŸ” 903 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 63

one of the ways Trump’s war is robbing you (if you’re alive to read this) is that news organizations that still do arts coverage are cutting their arts coverage to make room for war coverage

05.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Welcome to Bluesky at last, Cory Doctorow! @doctorow.pluralistic.net

05.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 276 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4

And Killjoys was a genuinely brilliant show that deserves way, way more love.

I used to be a huge Firefly fan, but now I think its time has come and gone for a whole host of reasons.

05.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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05.03.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 234 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 1
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It’s Not Complicated The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."

Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

05.03.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 412 πŸ” 174 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Hailey's been stuck at 8 percent of her goal for ages... can we get her to 10 percent TODAY please? <3

04.03.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

03.03.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 5883 πŸ” 1469 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 38

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

04.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 4598 πŸ” 926 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 11

Labour is what happens when the nominally "center-left" party stands for absolutely nothing and just shifts more and more to the right in a foolish attempt to woo voters to their right: a massively unpopular party that's going to get absolutely crushed... and right-wing policies.

04.03.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 2561 πŸ” 488 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 31

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

05.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 14269 πŸ” 2587 πŸ’¬ 296 πŸ“Œ 115
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Time to End the American-Israeli Alliance Alliances are built on shared interests. Those do not exist here.

time to cut em loose prospect.org/2026/03/05/i...

05.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 406 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 4

The advancing army established a forward base, but then it started asking them all sorts of personal questions

05.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, but why is Graham Platner actually a thing? Wtf is wrong with yall?

05.03.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 1051 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 19

Look, when the day comes, it's going to be very hard to get some people to get off the "norms/turn the page" bandwagon, but the least, and already established, thing we can do is prosecute the fuck out of everyone for perjury. All these people have lied under oath. Start there, at the lowest bar.

05.03.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 399 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

2. Hailey Kaas: bsky.app/profile/char...

05.03.2026 05:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have developed the world's first hover car, after months of tireless effort

03.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Help a Trans Teacher and Her Wife Escape Florida, organized by Saoirse Emery My partner and I are trying to raise funds to get out of Florida this S… Saoirse Emery needs your support for Help a Trans Teacher and Her Wife Escape Florida

If you have the means, I would also be grateful for a donation to our escape fund. Our finances have been ravaged by a number of things, so we need your help to get somewhere safe.

gofund.me/91c357379

04.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

05.03.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 12693 πŸ” 3529 πŸ’¬ 255 πŸ“Œ 92

That's a great idea.

Or like a weekend festival!

05.03.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

WOOT hope to see you Saturday <3

05.03.2026 03:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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TRANS NERD MEETUP: March 2026! This is a mellow lovely gathering for everyone who identifies as trans/nb/gnc and as a nerd!

More details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-nerd...

05.03.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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TRANS NERD MEETUP: March 2026! This is a mellow lovely gathering for everyone who identifies as trans/nb/gnc and as a nerd!

More details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-nerd...

05.03.2026 02:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œStrange nerd” is an anagram of β€œtransgender.” This makes a LOT of sense πŸ€“πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ˜Έ

04.03.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would love that!!! <3

05.03.2026 02:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œAt the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. β€œIt felt like a betrayal of the utmost.”

Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was β€œno longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. β€œIt drove me to a point of saying, β€˜She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.

β€œAt the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. β€œIt felt like a betrayal of the utmost.” Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was β€œno longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. β€œIt drove me to a point of saying, β€˜She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%.

boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

04.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 6342 πŸ” 1165 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 85

Jesse singal literally wrote a whole article about an imaginary me and then asked people to be furious at his fantasy version of me.

04.03.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 2334 πŸ” 365 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 34
The level of misinformation spread by proponents of youth gender medicine, many of whom have a professional stake in it and many of whom have fancy letters and affiliations affixed to their names, is really demoralizing.
Jack Turban MD
@jack_turban
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This of course runs counter to the recommendations of all major medical and mental health organizations, as well as all existing

The level of misinformation spread by proponents of youth gender medicine, many of whom have a professional stake in it and many of whom have fancy letters and affiliations affixed to their names, is really demoralizing. Jack Turban MD @jack_turban O ..β€’ This of course runs counter to the recommendations of all major medical and mental health organizations, as well as all existing

Jesse Singal now appears to be siding with Ken Paxton on forced mental health conversion therapy for trans youth.

04.03.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 2597 πŸ” 439 πŸ’¬ 170 πŸ“Œ 192