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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 1d

like for the record i do not agree that "abundance" or other related ideas are specifically a way for zionist dems to avoid talking about israel or w/e. i actually think dems who support israel still basically seem okay saying that out loud, so the argument seems weird to me

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 1d

i haven't seen the clip in the screenshot but since she uses the phrase "tech zionism" i'm assuming this point comes from discussing the connections between the "abundance movement" & right wing tech people, so while the quote looks odd, idk if it's a total non sequitur

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 1d

dude imagine the world where this is normal & expected messaging for democrats. or, like, everybody

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 1d

i am determined to hit 500k words for 2025 within the next 3 days, bc doing so put me on track to finish out the year at 700k words. this goal does not sit well with something i like to call "everything else i have to do"

Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 1d

finally finished a story i started because one night last month i said "hey what if i wrote a little stupid thing that i can surely finish in an hour." came in just under 10k words

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 3d

i think all the time about bo burnham's "welcome to youtube" ending w/ the cynical delivery of the line "until it's privatized." what did he think youtube, the platform he made videos for, was when he wrote that? like i also dislike privatization, but youtube has never been a public service. what

Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 3d

i'd need more evidence to fully assert that jared leto is an anti-movie star whose presence makes people avoid movies that would otherwise succeed. i can't really prove that. but i know i'm not the only person who would've seen tron ares this weekend, regardless of word of mouth, if he weren't in it

Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 3d

pluribus (2025)

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 11

faceball 2000, print ad screenshot & caption, game boy (1992) archive.org/details/vide...

gameboy screenshot, first person, 3d maze, with floating happy faces, one looks like a ball, one has a round bottom but looks flatter on top, one looks more like a square but isn't smiling (straight mouth).
caption reads: watch out! they only look happy!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 6d

okay rough night for productivity as some of them are but as of tonight i have written >1,000 words every day for 26 consecutive weeks. total count for that time: 396,736 words

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 8d

I'm recalling how often during MeToo we'd hear that some asshole was "getting therapy" to process how they'd abused others and like

If you broke your fingers punching somebody you'd need a splint; no one would need to hear about your splint in your apology note

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 9d

i've had this book on my shelf for years & still haven't gotten around to reading it. now might be the time

Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 12d

imagine the infrastructure of social media put toward the project of encouraging people to seek out cool shit they will like instead of getting them riled up about things that were never going to impact them otherwise

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 12d

(also gave StP as an example bc they do kinda seem like the opposite of the above to me in terms of ethos, & bc i like them. i don't mean anything else by that choice)

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 12d

idk imagine the better world where you get 700 quotes by saying the opposite, like "@seizethepress.bsky.social publishes great short stories which are dark & political & you should check them out" (for the record: Seize the Press is great, & you should)

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 12d

this is a 16yo magazine w/ a wikipedia page that i, a person who actively seeks out spec & horror mags, had not heard of until today. how many more people are just learning about the thing you're mad about bc you gave it oxygen

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 12d

it is frustrating to me to see some of the dynamics that made twitter so toxic are still just as viable here. like you know a person shouting out a magazine they DO like would never get 700 quotes. but dunking on some cringe sub guidelines? that'll get them eyeballs. i'm part of the problem

https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 13d

Then what the fuck is the point of you

Important: The Horror Zine does NOT accept any material that contains adult or sexually explicit content; abuse or harming of women or children; any rape scenes; serial killers; slasher; gore for gore's sake, or splatter punk. We do NOT accept any religious or political themes. We do NOT accept any submissions written in Olde English, Victorian, or 19th Century styles. We do NOT accept any submissions told in a diary or letter or journal format, written in numbered chapters, told as memories, or told entirely as dialogue (someone recounting past events). We do NOT accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance form, Artificial Intelligence (AI). We do NOT accept fan fiction.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 12d

all the news stories you see for "AI" products that seem more like advertisements are exactly that, they're hoping that if they keep astroturfing the idea that "AI" is real and everywhere and unavoidable it will eventually become true

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 17d

don't need anyone to get angry on my behalf, every second off of the internet is doing me a favor, wish they'd banned me longer

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 21d

as far as autism is concerned, well, the people who want to eradicate it are a bunch of raw milk chugging dipshits who want to bring back polio. why would you listen to them about how it's worth reviving measles just to get rid of people like me? why would you listen to them about anything?

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 21d

being trans is a natural outcome of giving people autonomy. you have the power to be whatever gender is yours, and you have the right to change your body to suit that if you want. because that is what it means to care about freedom.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 21d

if you are subject to american news you are constantly being told that people like me are a problem to be solved. they will say that we would rather have been cis and/or neurotypical. i do not want to be cis. i do not want to be neurotypical.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 21d

hello, i made this bot. i am a trans autistic anti-fascist. you are following a work of trans autistic anti-fascist art. that is why it is screaming

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 21d

new tell-all memoir from the yes-man Mark Zuckerberg fired for saying "i think this metaverse idea has legs"

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 24d

(banging my fingers with a hammer) nobody who makes shit up about strangers is going to talk to you in good faith. nobody who makes shit up about strangers is going to talk to you in good faith.

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