it's a special kind of fallacy to insist that you have done the research and invite your peers to do the same, but then ending your post with both righteous self-assurance and the martyrdom that those who come to a different conclusion must just hate truth and, therefore, you
I keep listening to the radio out of Asheville and hearing a person calling in to locate folks and another calling back to say they just went and checked on them because they’re nearby and no they don’t know them but they’re okay—we do not need cops after disaster, we do need community radio
it’s really, really dangerous when otherwise well-meaning people assume that things are already pretty much as bad as they can get
Visit letsbuyinfowars.com !!!! We’re dead serious. We’d like your help to make some mischief by buying Infowars at auction and using it for our absurd-joke-filled progressive journalism purposes.
With the closure of its last coal-fired power station today, the UK—home of the Industrial Revolution—is now powered by 20% Gas, 20% Nuclear, 45% Renewables, and 15% Seething Insular Resentment At The Self-Inflicted Character Of Its Much-Diminished Place In The World
Fantastic overview and critique of Hezbollah from a Palestinian-Lebanese scholar, in case you're wanting background on the current clusterfuck
Plus an extra one and a list of resources. The text is free.
"You don't have to be a good person today, just a writer" is fantastic advice to get past writers block. I'm gonna get it in tacky woodblock letters on my way wall like it's my "eat pray love"
One of the reasons I get so demoralized as a trans woman writer is that my novels don't involve enough transfeminine suffering to appeal to tradpub, but isn't light and fluffy enough to be successful amongst other trans women if I self-publish.
Thread of ways to help people who are on the ground (OTG) in Asheville. The storm has left nightmares behind and folks need urgent help.
I have spent entirely too much of the last decade having to worry about this and fellas, I’m over it