If you are transgender in America, your 2nd amendment right is under assault by Trump.
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If you are transgender in America, your 2nd amendment right is under assault by Trump.
โAfter a gunman reportedly deceived by anti-vaccine disinformation opened fire on the CDC and fatally shot David Rose, a community grieves as Trump officials remain silent. A lie murdered David Rose.โ www.theguardian.com/... 1/4
With the face/neck ratios reversed.
(Just kidding, they're Americans, they haven't learned shit.)
The McDonald's wage slave/class traitor who helped frame up Luigi didn't get shit. Maybe someone out there has learned.
he got loaded being a mondo cunt and now hes in a box. too bad, too bad
Every government employee with a gun is trained to shoot first and ask questions later, so exactly what difference does it make?
jason momoa made public rape jokes and it didnโt stop him from being a face of DC but gretchen refuses to mourn a man who literally worked to kill her and they try to take away her livelihood. this is how transmisogyny operates.
Never forget that DC Comics continued employing this shitbag well after he basically created Comicsgate and was burning Kelly Marie Tran in effigy on his Youtube channel.
Solidarity with the Chilean community as they remember, grieve, and struggle for justice. The debt to truth and accountability always fall due.
Today we remember 11 September 1973, where Chileโs democratically elected Allende govt. was overthrown in a military coup backed by Washington and facilitated by Australiaโs intelligence services. The result was Pinochetโs dictatorship that killed and tortured thousands. ๐งต๐
I am sincerely hands and knees begging people to do this. The existential threat is getting pretty immense and it's not slowing down, not with the gov't *openly stating* that "consensual porn" is in the crosshairs. *Please* call. Please write physical letters. Please keep the pressure on.
I think this post is informative because it premises the Kirk situation being bad on being in a decent and stable society, something we have not been in for basically my entire 32 years of life. All these people dream of like home and garden magazine worlds. Little shop of horrors ass epistemology
Fuck Charlie Kirk Fuck the Republican crybabies Fuck the fascists urging us to find common ground. Fuck anyone claiming we just need to be nicer to the fascists now calling for genocide and war. they got what they wanted And we will be forced to live with the consequences of their bloodlust.
Without comment:
@moderation.bsky.app please unban @scumbelievable (Gretchen Felker-Martin) and maybe figure out a way to stop being exploited by TERF brigading
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
BREAKING: A grand jury has REJECTED charges against D.C. attorney Paul Bryant, a West Point grad accused of assaulting and threatening to kill National Guardsmen. Easily the most serious charges to get no true billed so far during the federal surge. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
There's no good or ethical reason to wonder that unless you're collecting testimony.
A few miles freeze and melt every year with the coming of polar day/night, flooding the surrounding plains, and it serves as a symbol of the cold and famine from which the Emperor guards his citizens. #Septopolis #Writingcommunity #Writesky
(Getting caught up on these.) #Septopolis 6 Probably the most notable local landmark to the city of Rama is The Glacier (provisionally the Ramรกn Glacier, but I'd like to come up with a more creative name for it). #Writesky #Writingcommunity
This occurs ~3,000 years before my first stories, and led eventually to the imperial cult prevailing in the Empire at the time of the first novels. With fire comes industry, though, and we'll see how changing modes of production complicate things politically. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Septopolis
#Septopolis 8 Rama was founded by some of the first humans to harness the magic of fire. While a few communities had existed south of the glacier, they made the permanent settlement of Rama possible--and started the chain of events leading to the birth of the Empire. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
What this should prompt is a thorough reflection of what the label โcriminalโ actually means to the government versus what people think it means. Because people think it means โviolent felonโ but the reality is if you got a traffic violation you are in the system.
Kel stops by the karlek Baltigai's farm after disposing of the sacred bug he accidentally killed. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction
on what little they're able to horde, the rich feast on the best of Springrise's bounty. Those caught curing meat or drying fruit during winterset are subject to harsh penalties, seen as denying the Emperor's bounteous generosity. 3/3 #SeptemberWorldbuilders
that brought the eternal flame, Thrift is a capital sin. The sun god, embodied in the Emperor, is said to imprison the spirit of austerity and conservation, and the winter months are full of profligate consumption, at least for the higher classes. While the poor subsist, 2/3 #SeptemberWorldbuilders
Winter (really Winterset, the two-month-long polar night that encompasses much of the empire) is a sacred season in Rama. In other cultures the emphasis is on conserving food and minimizing waste through the long months of frost. But in Rama, thanks to the ancient alchemy 1/3 #SeptemberWorldbuilders
I do not now nor have I ever had enough drugs to make me believe this. (MKULTRA, my DMs are open.)
Mike Q. Johnson
The fire mages and their eternal flame made the founding of a permanent city at Rama a miraculous possibility. (We'll see later how this develops into the city's founding myth and, eventually, the imperial religion.) #Septopolis #Writesky #Writingcommunity
and most societies at the time of its founding were organized nomadically, migrating south during winterset and north during springrise. The few permanent cities in the area that predate Rama are founded on the region's scattered hot springs. #Septopolis #Writesky #Writingcommunity
Annual glacial melt from the nearby glacier provides a source of drinking water and floodwater for the surrounding fields. But not nearly enough to maintain a year-round settlement. Most human settlements as far north as Rama are seasonal, 1/ #Septopolis #Writesky #Writingcommunity
Civil conflict was nothing new even in 1861. But I was thinking of the Battle of Blair Mountain. The airplane was around for less than 20 years before the US Army was using it to kill American citizens. From MOVE to Nawar al-Awlaki, they haven't stopped.
The US has airbombed its own citizens on its own soil multiple times, and it will do so again.
I take a lot of shit for saying this, but: there is absolutely no well thought-out reason for anyone ever to have gone begging to the government to get their driver's license/passport gender marker changed. An "x" is and always was going to become a pink triangle.
Be advised.
![Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohan I'm told that a senior DOJ official said, discussing the matter: โWe're not playing semantics with words like dysphoria. We're talking about trannies, and we don't think they should have guns.โ Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohan โซ 57m BREAKING: The Justice Department is deliberating banning guns for transgenders as part of a range of options blocking mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, @realDailyWire has learned. Story to come. 11:36 AM ยท Sep 4, 2025 9,525 Views 15 7716 104 ฮฃ 6 <<]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:luyspucx7l6vzr4slq3lmt2f/bafkreiad2sw7nhn5qzadzaqvamiwy7sw36g7uhrwghvywtd7t2qott45y4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Personally I can see why many find Zitron annoying (it comes with the job to a certain extent), but this is unhinged.
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(There is some astronomy math to be checked and corrected here, obvs.) Built into a glacial valley, Rama serves as a fortress against the cold, warmed by the eternal flame that was lit thousands of years ago and powers the city's ever-developing industry. #Septopolis #Writesky #Writingcommunity
As mentioned above, the planet is at about a 45-degree tilt relative to its sun, so the Arctic/Antarctic zones are quite larger than on our Earth. Rama is well within the Arctic circle, though, probably roughly at the latitude of Iceland, and sees 2-3 months of polar day/night per year. #Septopolis
Physically it's modeled on some of the places I attached photos of above: mostly the more heavily glaciated areas of the Alps, and the farther-flung Norse settlements (Reykjavik probably the closest in scale, tho Rama is much larger and not coastal). #Septopolis #Writesky #WritingCommunity
The culture of Rama was originally inspired by the Fire Nation from A:TLA, though I like to think it has become more distinct with each iteration of the story through my campaigns (arctic instead of tropical, mechano-scientific rather than theocratic, etc.). #Septopolis #Writesky #WritingCommunity
It's in the alt text, but the artist is DrawingNightmare on Deviantart if anyone is wondering!
For now, these are the first lines of the last chapter. ๐ #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying ๐๐
Another snip from Riyana's short story (going out on sub today or tomorrow). #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction
You're helping me make up a lot of stuff as I go along so I'm having no problem pacing myself, trust. ๐
Love this! It's not the locale I chose for #Septopolis, but my current WIP also takes place underground. Though their organization is almost the opposite (scattered communities with loose cultural ties that periodically bud off from one another, limited to a population of ~500 max for *reasons*).
It hasn't actually appeared in any play or written prose yet tho (& per my current series outline might not show up until *AHEM* book 7 or 8), but the worldbuilding is important, plenty of characters *from* Rama will appear, and I'm hoping for a few short stories in the setting between now and then.
Another snip from Riyana's short story (going out on sub today or tomorrow). #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction
Rama was originally the far-off imperial center of the short-lived TTRPG campaign I ran in 2019-2021. Now it's the far-off imperial center of the novel series I'm currently writing (starting with DELVER, which long-time readers have seen some excerpts from). #Septopolis #Writesky #WritingCommunity
I'm not on any platforms that the real Mona frequents (and to be clear she's not responsible for any of this), but reporting for impersonation would be much easier if she would register an official account here, even if she didn't want to maintain it. The scammers are active on Twitter as well.
For anyone who has rec'd the message "Do you have any published books?" from a user maxtonhall12.bsky.social - its a scam and apparently an identify thief of an actual legit author. #Writer #Writing #LuciferFanfiction #Publishing
Ix'sha schemes. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction
It's the imperial capital but hasn't featured in anything I've actually written so far. This should be a fun way of fleshing out the city itself. Some photo refs for what I imagine it looking like (but bigger): Skardu, Pakistan; Chamonix, France; Zermatt, Switzerland. #WritingCommunity #Septopolis
I'll play along. Rama is the dominant city on the surface of Osian, an alternate earth with an extreme axial tilt that gives much of the planet long months of polar day (springrise) and polar night (winterset). It's in the far northwest of the main continent, and *very* cold. #Septopolis #Writesky
Rugby pulling amateur numbers.
Greg Rucka's Batman: No Man's Land is an all-timer, if you've not read.
Near Earth space combat as envisaged in the 1980s. Art by John Berkey (first slide) and Wilf Hardy
K-12 and academia both.
When they want to enclose literacy itself, print is a rent strike
Something that is completely fucking obvious to me but I think most people don't consider is when democrats politicians promise to fund the police, they are promising to prop up an armed, lawyered up, reactionary political bloc who are ultimately virulently opposed to those very politicians.
Legalize this.
You seem fun.
I'm glad we agree.
It helps to have a sense of humor and not be an asshole to people who make silly little jokes on the Internet. ๐
๐ Right here with you buddy. COVID still hasn't gotten me, but my life went to shit in February 2020 and has largely been one long slide down Shit Mountain into Shit Valley since. I would very much like to live in a world where Existing was enough, and I'm getting pretty tired of Enduring.
Kel encounters a strange house (built in a human style) found among the wealthier strata of the architects. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction
Kel encounters a strange house (built in a human style) found among the wealthier strata of the architects. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction
This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesnโt clock as a โpolitical viewโ to them. Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.
holy shit. praying for their total freedom. ๐
gavin newsom today deployed militarized divisions of the california highway patrol to reinforce and extend the violent crack downs trump has been implementing. he is actively expanding trump's authoritarian program totally voluntarily.
His book was on my TBR until that... whatever that was. Glad to see this site is proudly fulfilling the Twitter legacy of producing totally unprovoked circular firing squad-style crashouts.
The rejection of the idea that physical changes to the brain can result in concrete behavioral changes is (in addition to being stupid) just the belief in an immaterial soul. You simply can't hold an opinion like this and not be a deeply, unscientifically religious person.
I wonder if the short term success of fascism is partly due to how embarrassing it is. It's so fucking pathetic. You don't want to look at it.
Counterpoint: they should not ask him to provide more details but should, instead, prevent him from saying anything ever again.
50 years ago: Bowie completes the filming of "The Man Who Fell to Earth," with the last scene shot at Butterfields restaurant, on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. An image from the scene later appears in The Defenders, No. 52 (Oct 1977, Kraft/Giffen/Stone)
This is a direct threat to human, as clear and present a danger as if RFK Jr pointed a gun at your head. So, what happens if RFK Jr visits a stand your ground state?
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Do Androids Dream is one of my favorite novels, but in a way it is too "smart" for its own good, has too much to say about race and eugenics and on and on. Much like The Man in the High Castle, the adaptation isn't particularly faithful, but it's the one we needed at the time.
Anyway, much as I love Blade Runner, I think it's pretty clearly worse on gender and labor than the novel. It's aesthetically monumental but politically very shallow. Like c'mon, it's the height of the Reagan era and Scott can't translate the tiniest bit of the novel's racial politics to film?
The US military is a single entity for the purposes of that report. The other countries represent that nation's total CO2 emissions across all sectors. It's a silly way of visualizing the data imo, but I guess helps drive a certain point across.
If Orion, why Dragon-shaped?
The only state that matters when it comes to the US-Saudi relationship is the security state, and human rights enforcement is the absolute last thing it's interested in. Ditto for US-Israel, which is largely an extension of the same.
Neil Smith already had it right 19 years ago: In a globalized world with institutions of the size and scope of the US federal government, there is no such thing as a natural disaster.
kind of feels like american fascism is trying to get the same things the nazis got out of putting the entire population on meth but with "ai" instead
LOCAL SCUMFUCK COP HITS AND KILLS A PEDESTRIAN WHILE WATCHING AN ANTI TRANS M*TT W*LSH YOUTUBE VIDEO WHILE DRIVING
I'll just see myself out.
acollierastrodamus
They are a peculiar species that thrive in the arid plains. Telepathic and featureless, they often wear masks to facilitate interaction with humans, and scavenge gear from those who donโt survive the heat. #osr #ttrpg #art #illustration
Ha thank you! Evan is still what I go by in daily life, and Ms. Rachel Wood makes it gender-neutral enough that I don't really dislike it as much as I used to. But this is also probably the most heterosexual work of writing I'll ever publish, so it fits.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthenโs monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
This weekend's to-do: - finish tidying up this DELVER-adjacent short story to submit on Monday - start looking at job listings for next month's move to Raleigh - put together a thorough bibliography for the [REDACTED] podcast project
Neil Smith already had it right 19 years ago: In a globalized world with institutions of the size and scope of the US federal government, there is no such thing as a natural disaster.
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