Come see me if you’re nearby!! ✨💜 So excited to be there!

Second Southeast Asian detainee dies at Indiana ICE facility – AsAmNews A Vietnamese detainee’s death marks the second fatality in weeks at an Indiana ICE center as scrutiny intensifies over federal detention conditions.

“Second Southeast Asian detainee dies at Indiana ICE facility.”

55-year-old Tuan Van Bui, originally from Vietnam, “is the 46th person to die in federal custody during the second Trump administration.”

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OTHERSIDE'S ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! if you're a queer writer or poet, please submit your original fiction and/or poetry to us 👀

AND if you are sci-fi writing inclined? do give me some cool gay fucky space stories. epic or strange stories of planets, moons, spaceships etc. thank youuu ✨

“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political”

Motherfucker, my “audience” is people who aren’t pieces of shit, who care about others. That’s who I make stuff for.

There is no “other half”.

Good afternoon! Have you called your congresspeople today about getting rid of the genocidal pedophile in the White House?

Seriously. If you've been waiting, consider this a sign to do it now. Use @5calls.org if you want a script. Just do it

Just finished calling my reps. Tell your reps to get back to Congress and pull this genocidal monster out of office. This is not a "wait and see" day. This is not a "will impeachment succeed" day. They have a job and lives are at stake.

they really said "they should have sent a poet"

yet another reason to leave substack (before they make it even harder to leave):

One more hideous thing Trump’s done that hasn't gotten enough attention, but hits especially close to home here in NYC: Taking healthcare away from 9/11 heroes. Toward his goal of deporting our neighbors. Disgraceful.

Whoops! Turns out we weren’t draining your educational system we were holding it together with outrageous international student tuition.

Unfortunately, the only people who could have predicted this was anyone who has ever looked at a university budget even briefly.

HEADLINE: they actually put transparent legs on geodude at a parade in japan Three mascots of Pokémon, one of whom is Geodude a cranky rock man. He has transparent legs

WALTER CRONKITE (gravely):

#illustration

probably some truth in this. it is also funny because so many folks talked trash on old chuck for YEARS for my personal philosophy of ‘punk writing’ and leaving in tingler errors like spelling mistakes because thats where the humanity is. now that AI is so prevalent i guess im not such a goofball

Today I get to join the coolest club in flash: people published in Had!

A flash about a memory of a family reunion of a recording of a

The book Aviary, by Maria dong, against a pink and yellow background.

"Just as I start to relax, I hear it again. Three knocks, then two.. and then a low pause. The silence impales me like a butterfly on a wire."

First you find your sister's body... Then you take her life.

Love seeing this because it means if the democrats don’t go with the obvious choice here they have to look us all in the eye and say they prefer losing to progress

brownish oval bunny-o traipsin' some green grass bereft of clover but making the best of it munchin' on the short stalks

General Woundwort ripping some longer grass to shreds while raging about the way things went back in the day. "If only my flank had held. If only the British hadn't tricked me so. If only I'd liked that island of exile better. Oh this clover is magnificent, bless my whiskers, I do believe I don't care about my ambitions anymore."

Two young baby bunnies, one beige and one black huddle on the fringe of the grass with pavement beyond, chowing down on the green like nobody's business because they didn't realize before they were born that being a rabbit was just gonna be limitless buffet *under your little cute paws* and that they'd be able to do zoomies on the beach after.

Bernardo Lianna Constable Three bunnies in a row forming a rough line down the verdant green. Bernardo: A beige tan bun with a stout white cotton tail and glistening fangs who'd as soon rip yer throat out as look at ye. Lianna: A very light white-beige bun with flippant ears who likes to audit courses on urban engineering but also writes poetry on the side. Constable: Splayed out in relaxed long rabbit silhouette, Constable the black bun of blissful repose has known naught of privation or danger since his inception as a wee bonny bun of mere ounces. Now, sequestered along a length of grass and sea wall, flush with burrows, Constable leads a refined life given to long periods of contemplation and composition of amateur philosophy. Oh, if only humans could read the message of his pellets.

your carefully curated collection of chillaxin' easter sea-adjacent bunnies (alt text for more information)

A series of three tweets: Rabbi Akiva Weisinger @MisfitTorah 1) For those wondering why I, an Orthodox Rabbi, am outraged by the Texas trans law, aren't I supposed to stand up for Torah Values or whatever A thread: 2) I don't like it when kids kill themselves. 3) End of thread.

Just going to leave this here.

QUESTION:

Who knows of ANY research funding for US humanities scholars that has been awarded to a trans project in the past year?

Not saying that the awarding org *claims* to be open to those projects.

But actually *awarding* anything.

Please repost for visibility, it'd help me a lot!

I’m so so happy to be a part of relaunching this magazine, which is so important for queer writers of color 💜 Please support if you can, whether by backing the campaign or sharing!!

BOTH IS GOOD

THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD (AND IT'S CURRENTLY GIVING ME NIGHTMARES /COMPLIMENTARY)

HR 7661, the Federal book banning bill, is unfortunately still alive. Please call your reps and say NO ON HR 7661! You can read the bill's full text here and see if your Congressperson is one of the 19 co-sponsors: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

When Time Stands Still - 30x24” acrylic on wood panel. Recently completed commission. :-)

CALL YOUR REPS: Stop the Federal Book Ban Bill! Your voice matters, and together we can help protect the freedom to read.

Phone calls to reps are still the best way for citizens to influence legislation. If you've avoided the phone thus far, use this tool from @everylibrary.bsky.social to help oppose H.R. 7661. If you do that today, you can take the rest of the weekend off! :)

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’ The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"

Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
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It’s not just Ms. Rachel.

The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention.

Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer