If you’re driving or flying over holidays, & you’re into #TrueCrime, listen to my #stalking horror story.
Thank you to the Strictly Stalking podcast for giving me the opportunity to share what I survived. I hope it helps others.
CW: CSA, DV, stalking
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My colleague @dfriedman.bsky.social contacted the Pentagon about a top Pete Hegseth aide.
The next day, far-right influencer Jack Posobiec threatened to write a scurrilous story about him.
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@feralheather.bsky.social, via X -
Wes Wilson is a fraud and a predator. You’re platforming someone who has left a trail of destruction by pretending to be an “oncologist” giving bad medical advice without proper credentials & defrauding disabled people.
This man is a predator and you have been told he is a predator and your story is still up. What are you getting out of platforming him?
257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
“They did not die from COVID , they had preexisting conditions.”
“They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.”
This is what eugenics sounds like.
AI integration initiatives are spearheaded by administrations with little input from faculty members and other campus community members, including staff and students. High levels of concern arose around AI and technology procurement, deployment, and use; dehumanized relations; and poor working and learning conditions. Seventy-one percent of respondents said decision-making and AI initiatives are overwhelmingly led by college or university administrations, and many respondents described administrators exerting great effort to introduce AI into research, teaching, policy, and professional development with little meaningful input from faculty members, staff, or students. Examples include the development of institutional AI tools, workshops on teaching and detecting plagiarism, and subscribing to AI tools for students (such as Grammarly, marketed as an “AI writing partner”) without involving faculty members or students in the decision-making process. One respondent noted that “admin doesn’t seem to care about or value faculty input on this or any other topic” and hoped for “more faculty involvement in determining how AI and tech generally are used.”
The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation.
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Boxes of 3M auras piled to the ceiling in Heather’s garage
Thanks to a generous donation from the Common Humanity Collective, if you need an N95 respirator 😷 in the Napa/Solano region, I am your plug.
Also, if anyone is interested in joining our mask bloc and/or helping me hand them out and/or volunteering during fire evacuations, hit me up!
#YallMasking
By popular demand I’m migrating my viral creative nonfiction threads from Twitter to Substack. Here’s the poignant flash story grieving my dad: “Running”
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#CreativeNonfiction #CNF #Flash
Today is International ME/CFS Awareness Day. I got my diagnosis last year after attributing my fatigue + other symptoms to my vasculitis for years, when it was ME/CFS too. Now, I'm on meds that means I don't have to work from bed.
Sometimes writing is self-evisceration. Prometheus but his own fingers as eagle.
Other times I open my mouth & ghosts flood in, then words spill out.
Thank you so much. The reception was so warm, but going that viral is super overwhelming. Had a total panic attack so taking a break to collect myself & also try to find Yuri* & confirm facts. Did not expect it to spread so far. Hope to have an updated, corroborated version of the story soon.
I’m Emile Suotonye DeWeaver.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection.
Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...
LA county just sent out its 3rd incorrect yet county-wide evacuation warning alert.
God forbid new fires emerge in other areas, their repeated mistakes run the risk of people in those areas disregarding this warnings as yet another accident.
Some murmuring blackbirds in Yolo County this PM #Birds
is somebody gonna match my freak?
[eat an entire container of Costco peanut butter pretzels in one sitting]
This is what I keep telling students: you think AI is producing "good writing" and that it "thinks" because you have not actually learned what good writing and what critical thinking is, and if you want to survive in this hellscape, you have to learn these without AI.
Drove Marin backroads yesterday listening to my dead dad’s favorite music. Hard to imagine for those who haven’t lost, but sometimes one can feel a presence in the passenger’s seat: a coalescence of memory as real as the smell of yerba buena & bay laurel & salty air in redwood fog.
Writing is part of surviving this! Your own and everyone else’s!
I wrote for @sfdirewolf.bsky.social about why we founded @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social, and why it's important to get disability in your feminist media from day one!
The inaugural issue of @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social goes out in ONE WEEK but you only have until THURSDAY to get Kickstarter-exclusive subscription pricing.
I also want to say this: Feminist media is not 'women's media' or 'ladyblogging' because feminism is not limited to women!!
Thank you so much for your kind words 💜
‘I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, and full of love.’
Stellar @sfdirewolf.bsky.social piece on life, death, and disability.
(1) Botany, Dendrology, or Forestry; (2) Linguistics; (3) Law [Civil Rights]
Given everything that went down with the Hugos, I thought I'd spend sometime uplifting voices. Who are some Chinese and Chinese diaspora SFF/H writers, from novels down to short fic, you recommend?
While everyone else is watching grown men give each other TBIs, I wrote 9 more pages of my dissertation: right now developing the portion about how the Wordsworthian sublime influenced California’s Redwoods State & National Parks land acquisition priorities & management regimes.
OK, folks, new book alert. I'm fun at parties, so I've written a book on death. Do come and hear me talk about 19th-c. deathbeds, funerals and other fun stuff, like Queen Victoria, Rider Haggard and Peter Pan (weirdly, yes, all three together).
