Badger Wormwood

A telshee and a ferryshaft from the xenofiction series Hunters Unlucky by Abigail Hilton

Preyspace, 2025

The number of people fired or suspended for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk must serve as a reminder none of the far right are free speech advocates, they just want no limits on what they say.

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Hello! I disappeared from Bluesky again for a bit, but I wanted to say that the first chapter of my book is up on my Patreon for anyone at the $5 tier!

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it's not that there aren't people who deserve to die so much as that i don't trust any institutions that kill people to not develop self-preservational institutional goals and then keep killing people, even if i trusted any institutions to begin with, which i also don't

This isn’t vetting, it’s an attempt to *create* a bunch of “illegal” immigrants. Nothing has ever been more transparent in the world. They’re gonna revoke visas of people who like Kamala Harris on Facebook.

Which, I know, “the furry who’s been mainlining the VC Andrews books since November is ‘picky?’” But I really am.

Sometimes I feel bad that I’m such a picky reader. Literally gave up on a book before even picking it up because of a comma splice in the blurb.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

Screenshot reading: "They come for porn first because it's one of the easiest things to vilify and the most embarrassing to defend. Because so many of us will automatically laugh at anyone saying 'my inability to purchase/access tentacle hentai is a serious threat to free speech' even when it 100% is"

Screenshot reading: "Have concerns about the Orwellian digital ID pilot program? Good to know you support child predators. Don't think two private companies should have unilateral say over what kind of art can or can't be sold? Touch grass, gooner. A few thought-terminating cliches end all arguments. You have to fight back now, you have to fight back hard, and you have to fight for the stuff you think is gross and creepy and stupid, because the taboo topics you care about are next"

Since MB doesn't seem active on here and it's worth seeing a crosspost

One thing I'd like to point out is that Cloudflare fought against the idea that they should take action against neo-nazis, stalkers, doxers, and revenge porn posters for years. But websites that host drawn porn get taken down for "indecency" with no fight whatsoever.

I got banned from a South Florida furs group for calling out a mod and his hypocritical uwu no paw-lotics bullshit. I avoid the no politics furry spaces because it's safer to assume it's a Nazi bar.

This bed costs around 2000 dollars btw and you have to pay a subscription

Of course Mamdani has visited Jewish communities. What angers Greenblatt is that Mamdani isn't courting HIM. By winning the young Jewish vote while condemning Israel, Mamdani is exposing how out of touch Greenblatt is with many of those he claims to represent. That's what makes Mamdani a threat.

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

Excerpt from NYT article that reads: "'Every time they fight, they lose another $250 million,' Mr. Trump said of Harvard in the spring. 'Harvard had to understand, the last thing I want to do is hurt them,' he added. 'They're hurting themselves. They're fighting.'"

"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser.

One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.

Call from a producer this morning:

Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?

We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.

Anyone who thinks that Democrats should throw trans people under the bus because trans issues poll badly needs to be treated like the bigoted coward they are.

They poll badly because Democrats have let Republicans frame the entire issue without pushing back on it.

the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god

beyond the moral ghoulish ness I just don't understand the basic contention of how this is supposed to work as a defense. if a whole population of people was starving en masse, would one expect people with "pre-existing conditions" to be over or underrepresented amongst those who die first?

The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.

they got him strutting around the city like bugs bunny talkin shit, i bet cuomo is so mad right now

Yesterday a judge ordered ICE to improve conditions in holding cells at ICE's field office in NYC. It's a good decision, yet many of the responses here are along the lines of "none of this matters" or "they'll just ignore this." Those responses are wrong. Here's a quick thread on why.

black paint marker on brick-red-painted wall: a cartoon black cat head with the word SQUID under

people with paint markers making public art are the unsung heroes of the modern town and city

Is Roblox Getting Worse? Long plagued by moderation issues, the platform recently released a series of updates aimed at improving the experience for kids. Experts worry they could have the opposite effect.

EXCLUSIVE

WIRED has learned that law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox in the coming weeks on behalf of parents who are accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of their kids.

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The genocide apologia saying it's not that bad because victims were disabled holds as much water as a a sieve. What's disabling them? Could it be attacks on their bodies living in famine surviving bombings? And disabled lives are lives no matter how they got disabled & it's ableist to discount them.

This is a plan for an American gulag archipelago, its second-ever system of domestic concentration camps.

The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home

"genAI is a disability issue!"

I wrote many novels while suffering with crippling Crohn's, cPTSD, etc.. Nikolai Ostrovsky created one of the bestselling books of all time while paralyzed, diseased, and blind.

Art and writing are the domains of the disabled already. Piss off.

an employee in a Tokyo coffee shop drawing a cat's face on latte foam using chocolate

"All artists will being using Al in the future, and all art will be Al" I'm watching Safiya's video right now and this guy named George is drawing a cat in chocolate on latte foam. So like. Go fuck yourself.

boundaries = “this isnt for me and ill take active steps to not see this type of stuff

censorship = “this isnt for me and i want everyone who likes and/or makes this type of stuff thrown in jail”

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It's over - The Polari Prize has been halted for 2025.
Sunk by the decision to longlist a proudly anti-trans author.

Credit to the other longlisted authors who were willing to sacrifice award nomination to instead stand in solidarity with their community. This really meant something.