Ava The Darklady
@avathedarklady.bsky.social
In no particular order: bi/pan, poly, cisgender, queer, horror lover, movie lover, wife, nurse.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Defiance through compassion is my love language.
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
February 7, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Defiance through compassion is my love language.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Already reposted the quoted post but just started cracking up all over again because I can’t believe we saw a wholesome example of this exact format in the wild
February 6, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Already reposted the quoted post but just started cracking up all over again because I can’t believe we saw a wholesome example of this exact format in the wild
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.
February 7, 2026 at 4:50 AM
NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
This was amazing.
Last month the Japanese American National Museum asked me to deliver a keynote speech on what is necessary to combat authoritarianism and preserve democracy. You can listen to it and the Q&A that followed here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
What Must Be Done? The Battle Against Fascism
Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 02/05/2026 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
This was amazing.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
This one took a while, but at long last, here’s a fresh, new zine in my curated series, ready for you to read, print, and share: “Our Dreams Don’t Fit in Ballot Boxes: 16 Anarchist Examples of Encouraging Liberals to Break Free.”
For readable & print-ready PDFs to freely share, DM me your email
For readable & print-ready PDFs to freely share, DM me your email
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This one took a while, but at long last, here’s a fresh, new zine in my curated series, ready for you to read, print, and share: “Our Dreams Don’t Fit in Ballot Boxes: 16 Anarchist Examples of Encouraging Liberals to Break Free.”
For readable & print-ready PDFs to freely share, DM me your email
For readable & print-ready PDFs to freely share, DM me your email
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Fellow writers/directors/producers: It is vitally important not only to secure the ladder behind you while you ascend, but also to make sure there are many women on it as well. Mentorship without strings is essential and there are so few real opportunities for women...because of this exact problem.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Fellow writers/directors/producers: It is vitally important not only to secure the ladder behind you while you ascend, but also to make sure there are many women on it as well. Mentorship without strings is essential and there are so few real opportunities for women...because of this exact problem.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Quick reminder everything they say is a fucking lie.
We are facing a major healthcare crisis due to the occupation.
Pregnant people are regularly missing care & do face an impossible choices.
Occupying agents ABSOLUTELY enter hospitals for enforcement purposes and have since they arrived.
We are facing a major healthcare crisis due to the occupation.
Pregnant people are regularly missing care & do face an impossible choices.
Occupying agents ABSOLUTELY enter hospitals for enforcement purposes and have since they arrived.
February 5, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Quick reminder everything they say is a fucking lie.
We are facing a major healthcare crisis due to the occupation.
Pregnant people are regularly missing care & do face an impossible choices.
Occupying agents ABSOLUTELY enter hospitals for enforcement purposes and have since they arrived.
We are facing a major healthcare crisis due to the occupation.
Pregnant people are regularly missing care & do face an impossible choices.
Occupying agents ABSOLUTELY enter hospitals for enforcement purposes and have since they arrived.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Immigrants have paid more in taxes than they have received in benefits every single year for the past 30 years, according to new analysis from Cato.
Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."
Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."
February 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Immigrants have paid more in taxes than they have received in benefits every single year for the past 30 years, according to new analysis from Cato.
Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."
Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Journalism is a great industry to go into if you want to become speedrun becoming a Marxist.
The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
February 4, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Journalism is a great industry to go into if you want to become speedrun becoming a Marxist.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Speaking as a lifelong Democrat: That's not what we want, you dumb fuck
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Speaking as a lifelong Democrat: That's not what we want, you dumb fuck
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
February 4, 2026 at 1:45 AM
i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
I genuinely believe the most important thing that happened in film in 2025 was this Ryan Coogler PSA about the different ways to experience SINNERS in theaters. His enthusiasm and knowledge regarding aspect rations and formats were infectious, making the very act of seeing his movie seem thrilling.
January 31, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I genuinely believe the most important thing that happened in film in 2025 was this Ryan Coogler PSA about the different ways to experience SINNERS in theaters. His enthusiasm and knowledge regarding aspect rations and formats were infectious, making the very act of seeing his movie seem thrilling.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
I’m actually quite moved by how swiftly she pivots away from her own grief and trauma - real and justified though it is - to remind us not to take our eyes off the women who were assaulted
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
February 4, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I’m actually quite moved by how swiftly she pivots away from her own grief and trauma - real and justified though it is - to remind us not to take our eyes off the women who were assaulted
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Afternoon Delights: When Japan Was Terrified of School Girls: A Gendered Panic
A fascinating video essay on a very particular Japanese subculture (and subgenre of entertainment).
www.neonsplatter.com/afternoon-de...
A fascinating video essay on a very particular Japanese subculture (and subgenre of entertainment).
www.neonsplatter.com/afternoon-de...
February 2, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Afternoon Delights: When Japan Was Terrified of School Girls: A Gendered Panic
A fascinating video essay on a very particular Japanese subculture (and subgenre of entertainment).
www.neonsplatter.com/afternoon-de...
A fascinating video essay on a very particular Japanese subculture (and subgenre of entertainment).
www.neonsplatter.com/afternoon-de...
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Amazing coda here.
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Amazing coda here.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
Leave Chucky out of this you psycho
people get to a level of religious that make them sound completely detached from reality and insane it’s kind of terrifying
February 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Leave Chucky out of this you psycho
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
It’s hard to focus on one thing to be appalled about, but these stories out of Minnesota are awful. (And, of course, on the other hand, very encouraging.) I cannot believe you can wrongly grab somebody, transport them, and then leave them where YOU took them.
From FB regarding Pizza Luce in Minnesota.
I like it when I can do something to help people displaced by ICE and then after I do that thing I get to eat a pizza.
I like it when I can do something to help people displaced by ICE and then after I do that thing I get to eat a pizza.
February 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
It’s hard to focus on one thing to be appalled about, but these stories out of Minnesota are awful. (And, of course, on the other hand, very encouraging.) I cannot believe you can wrongly grab somebody, transport them, and then leave them where YOU took them.
Reposted by Ava The Darklady
making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal
Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.
Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency
Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.
on.wsj.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:17 PM
making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal