Mary Layton
@maryherself.bsky.social
Artist & author. Mairi Fairelander or Mairi Burleigh in Second Life. Owner/MD/DJ @ BMARadio.com. SFF geek girl. Bass player. Imperfect ally but trying. She/her. (Oh, and generative AI is shite. If you're a GenAI fanboy/girl, just scroll on by)
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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The world would be such a better place if we had more people like Jane in it. Rest in peace to an absolute legend.
This one hurts. She will be missed.
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This one hurts. She will be missed.
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Jane Goodall - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The world would be such a better place if we had more people like Jane in it. Rest in peace to an absolute legend.
This one hurts. She will be missed.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Go...
This one hurts. She will be missed.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Go...
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Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
September 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
Well, fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuckity, fuck.
RIP democracy. It was a good run, ruined by the greed of a minority, abetted by the hatred, racism, and misogyny of a 3rd, allowed by the complacency of just enough to have made a difference.
RIP democracy. It was a good run, ruined by the greed of a minority, abetted by the hatred, racism, and misogyny of a 3rd, allowed by the complacency of just enough to have made a difference.
July 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Well, fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuckity, fuck.
RIP democracy. It was a good run, ruined by the greed of a minority, abetted by the hatred, racism, and misogyny of a 3rd, allowed by the complacency of just enough to have made a difference.
RIP democracy. It was a good run, ruined by the greed of a minority, abetted by the hatred, racism, and misogyny of a 3rd, allowed by the complacency of just enough to have made a difference.
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Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it?
You’re kidding.
You’re kidding.
June 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it?
You’re kidding.
You’re kidding.
The Trevor Project's hotline is still live. But recent fuckery by the T r u m p admin. means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY!
So spread this around.
They can be texted. They can be called.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY!
So spread this around.
They can be texted. They can be called.
June 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Trevor Project's hotline is still live. But recent fuckery by the T r u m p admin. means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY!
So spread this around.
They can be texted. They can be called.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY!
So spread this around.
They can be texted. They can be called.
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This is terrifying, so please read this as cope: The Wilshire Federal Building is 15 *miles* from the protests in downtown Los Angeles. It is a half-hour drive. You could fit an entire Manhattan, the long way, between them.
(Reuters) - U.S. Marines have moved into Los Angeles and will take over protecting the Wilshire federal building in the coming hours, the head of the military's efforts in the city said on Friday.
June 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is terrifying, so please read this as cope: The Wilshire Federal Building is 15 *miles* from the protests in downtown Los Angeles. It is a half-hour drive. You could fit an entire Manhattan, the long way, between them.
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Cops shooting a woman at point-blank range for trying to get to her apartment
Very protect. Much serve.
Cops are great
Very protect. Much serve.
Cops are great
June 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Cops shooting a woman at point-blank range for trying to get to her apartment
Very protect. Much serve.
Cops are great
Very protect. Much serve.
Cops are great
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On Election Day 2024, I watched "V For Vendetta". At the time, I thought I was watching it as something we were about to make sure never happened. I was wrong. When I woke up the next day, I was stunned to find that we had not averted authoritarianism after all. 1/8
June 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
On Election Day 2024, I watched "V For Vendetta". At the time, I thought I was watching it as something we were about to make sure never happened. I was wrong. When I woke up the next day, I was stunned to find that we had not averted authoritarianism after all. 1/8
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Footage from the LA protests, where law enforcement intentionally shoot a reporter with a rubber bullet.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjg7MF8X/
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June 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Footage from the LA protests, where law enforcement intentionally shoot a reporter with a rubber bullet.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjg7MF8X/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjg7MF8X/
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Free speech. The right to peaceably assemble. The right to tell Nazis to fuck all the way off. Use them or lose them.
June 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Free speech. The right to peaceably assemble. The right to tell Nazis to fuck all the way off. Use them or lose them.
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If you want to show solidarity with Los Angeles, the best thing to do is organize protests against ICE tonight/tomorrow in your own cities.
Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.
Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.
June 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If you want to show solidarity with Los Angeles, the best thing to do is organize protests against ICE tonight/tomorrow in your own cities.
Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.
Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.
This is very well said, and applies to visual art as well. 👏
If you use AI to pump out a book, that is not writing. You wrote nothing. You stole from other authors and used a tool made by maniacs. People will know. You've taken away rather than given something. Also...
May 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is very well said, and applies to visual art as well. 👏
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Time to post it again.
May 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Time to post it again.
This is a good read.
Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.
From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty
“Some days, my best efforts feel insufficient and overwhelming at the same time.”
organizingmythoughts.org
May 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is a good read.
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Sharing so you can block it
May 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Sharing so you can block it
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I don’t want to read about a former President’s mental decline because a journalist got a book deal.
I want to read a report about the current President’s mental decline by a journalist brave enough to speak out now.
I want to read a report about the current President’s mental decline by a journalist brave enough to speak out now.
May 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I don’t want to read about a former President’s mental decline because a journalist got a book deal.
I want to read a report about the current President’s mental decline by a journalist brave enough to speak out now.
I want to read a report about the current President’s mental decline by a journalist brave enough to speak out now.
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It took like half an hour for it to even occur to me that someone could have done this on purpose because these cars just do that on their own so often.
JUST IN: Tesla Cybertruck explodes at the entrance to Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas
January 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It took like half an hour for it to even occur to me that someone could have done this on purpose because these cars just do that on their own so often.
Same.
I'm too standoffish empathic-overloaded, hermity Radagasty to participate in The Airing of Grievances, but good for those of you who do.
December 23, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Same.
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Today is the day! QUEEN OF FURY is finally here. 💚
Romance, adventure, magic, & unbridled feminine rage.
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed feminist Arthurian retelling, QUEEN OF NONE, opens wide the world of Braetan, and brings together two unlikely characters who change everything.
Romance, adventure, magic, & unbridled feminine rage.
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed feminist Arthurian retelling, QUEEN OF NONE, opens wide the world of Braetan, and brings together two unlikely characters who change everything.
December 3, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Today is the day! QUEEN OF FURY is finally here. 💚
Romance, adventure, magic, & unbridled feminine rage.
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed feminist Arthurian retelling, QUEEN OF NONE, opens wide the world of Braetan, and brings together two unlikely characters who change everything.
Romance, adventure, magic, & unbridled feminine rage.
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed feminist Arthurian retelling, QUEEN OF NONE, opens wide the world of Braetan, and brings together two unlikely characters who change everything.
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Is there a Peter Gabriel maxim where if he appears on the soundtrack, it's likely the movie kind of rules? NATURAL BORN KILLERS, SAY ANYTHING, THE CHOCOLATE WAR, STRANGE DAYS, VIRTUOSITY... what am I missing? BIRDY? LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST of course... Well, there should be.
a man in a suit and tie is looking at the camera in a blurry black and white photo .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking at the camera in a blurry black and white photo .
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November 28, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Is there a Peter Gabriel maxim where if he appears on the soundtrack, it's likely the movie kind of rules? NATURAL BORN KILLERS, SAY ANYTHING, THE CHOCOLATE WAR, STRANGE DAYS, VIRTUOSITY... what am I missing? BIRDY? LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST of course... Well, there should be.