I've been meaning to ask @cleung.bsky.social
KM: If you could send your love to anyone, who would it be and why?
CL: Everyone. Even those who might hate me, and I hate them. Even those who are fundamentally motivated by hate. I want to live in a world where everybody deserves everything.
“I am ashamed my tuition is funding genocide..The horrors..may be easy to ignore for those lacking a moral backbone. For the rest of us,these atrocities cause us to take stock in our own complacency in the imperialist system.”
Cecilia Culver's speech today
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Congrats to Jamie and Dandelion! The Wondrous Woo and I are thrilled to be in your company. 😍
I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.
I've thought about this a lot.
😍 thank you for reading!! I miss Miramar, and it's so lovely to know she is being read.
“The movement has grown too principled, too organized, and too resolved to accept anything short of full divestment from the families and corporations who enable oppression and injustice.”
"We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay."
- Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS
Thank you!!
Help me with a piece of dialogue, Gen Z and Alpha and translators of Gen Z/Alpha. What do people say now instead of: “they’re checking you out.” Like in a flirty way? Thx! From a X -er who has no clue.
*clears throat* Also, before I start work for the day, REMINDER to please apply for the Banff Centre science fiction literary arts residency in 2025! If you write sci-fi, it's a great chance to focus on it for a couple weeks along with me, @aijiang.bsky.social , and @amalelmohtar.com !
Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen.
What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
Hundreds of authors, including @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, @alexanderchee.bsky.social and @rokwon.bsky.social, call on NY State Writers Institute and PEN America to "issue a full correction" after vilifying Lisa Ko and Aisha Abdel Gawad for opposing war and genocide
lithub.com/hundreds-of-...
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.
I am Ennäirrac. Colourful, animal-shaped ceramic egg cups with suction cup bottoms. Comes in a set of 4 - the walrus, the sloth, the iguana and the aardvark. Microwave and dishwasher safe.
When you’re really stuck, adults are allowed to eat a chocolate bar and call it dinner. But it has to have nuts and fruit in it…
Sorry, T. This made me cackle…
And yet white women overwhelmingly voted for the man that would give this incel loser that type of power.
Because, as Kat Blaque said in her most recent video, White women's "proximity to white men has always given them more power than their allyship to women of all races."
Report: 3rd Texas woman dies as a result of state's strict abortion ban Porsha Ngumezi checked into Houston Methodist Sugar Land's emergency room but died shortly after. By Faith Bugenhagen, Trending News Reporter Nov 26, 2024
This is murder and we need to be less afraid to say so.
CBC’s Front Burner interviewed author David Bergen on his decision to boycott the #GillerPrize.
I encourage all of us in the #book industry to listen.
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
This is proof they know what they're doing will kill or injure people. This is a malevolent gov't. Treating it as rational is a pantomime of some fantasy benign and good faith politics of yesterlore that doesn't exist. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
We have a past, and a future.
in @razorfemme.bsky.social Kai Cheng Thom’s article ‘what writers owe the dead’ kaichengthom.substack.com/p/what-write...
