K.C. Mead-Brewer
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writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18; rep'd by @ericshowers.bsky.social ⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com
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Popping in to Bluesky on this fine morning to say that "fountain pen drama" that so many people are referencing relates to Ferris Wheel Press (FWP). Countless people asked for comments on their JKR collab, founder ignored all questions wrt the LGBTQIA+ community.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Popping in to Bluesky on this fine morning to say that "fountain pen drama" that so many people are referencing relates to Ferris Wheel Press (FWP). Countless people asked for comments on their JKR collab, founder ignored all questions wrt the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Do pay attention to the submission guidelines for this — we're open to surprises, but this call is particular in what we're looking for.
We've just opened submissions on a brief call for short solstice writing. Let's see what happens!
Necessary Fiction - Winter Solstice: Points of Light
When the winter solstice approaches and days contract, I often return to seasonal rereads — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Nina MacLaughlin's Winter Solstice, essays by Kathleen Jamie, or the fictio...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Do pay attention to the submission guidelines for this — we're open to surprises, but this call is particular in what we're looking for.
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Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.
So here:
So here:
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.
So here:
So here:
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the way this has been comprehensively written out of the entire cultural notion of “millennials” will never cease to shock me
It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
the way this has been comprehensively written out of the entire cultural notion of “millennials” will never cease to shock me
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Reminder you can read @thomasha.bsky.social 's novelette "Uncertain Sons" for free til the end of the month.
I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy!
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reminder you can read @thomasha.bsky.social 's novelette "Uncertain Sons" for free til the end of the month.
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it was a treasure to be a disabled person in the world while Alice Wong was in it. she was a fierce voice for disabled people everywhere, and the loss of her is... it's a lot.
while i never knew her, i read a lot of her essays and work. please mask, and continue to think of accessibility always <3
while i never knew her, i read a lot of her essays and work. please mask, and continue to think of accessibility always <3
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
it was a treasure to be a disabled person in the world while Alice Wong was in it. she was a fierce voice for disabled people everywhere, and the loss of her is... it's a lot.
while i never knew her, i read a lot of her essays and work. please mask, and continue to think of accessibility always <3
while i never knew her, i read a lot of her essays and work. please mask, and continue to think of accessibility always <3
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Maybe you need a Herman Melville Christmas tree ornament. christmascompany.co.uk/product/herm...
Herman Melville - Christmas Company
The brilliant American writer, Herman Melville, is mostly remembered for the legendary saga of Moby Dick.
christmascompany.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Hey if you live in NC Hendricks (the car dealership) sold ICE a shitton of vehicles
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Hey if you live in NC Hendricks (the car dealership) sold ICE a shitton of vehicles
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Imagine if you gave every person on Earth $122,000. Then imagine them, every single living human, lining up to hand that wad of cash over to Elon Musk. That’s how much a trillion dollars is.
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Imagine if you gave every person on Earth $122,000. Then imagine them, every single living human, lining up to hand that wad of cash over to Elon Musk. That’s how much a trillion dollars is.
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A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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I'd also point out (gently) that the language of failure applied to the only two women nominated by a major US party is inherently problematic.
Personally, I think the idea that all women should be measured by the failures of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris is actually a sort of sexist doomerism.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I'd also point out (gently) that the language of failure applied to the only two women nominated by a major US party is inherently problematic.
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Book mail! Actually, this arrived on pub day but I wasn't home to receive it. I was so sorry to miss the book launch party! But now I'm home (at least, for a little while) so I'm eager to read! Vanessa's writing is always wonderful. 💜
@vanessafogg.bsky.social @interstellarflight.bsky.social
@vanessafogg.bsky.social @interstellarflight.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Book mail! Actually, this arrived on pub day but I wasn't home to receive it. I was so sorry to miss the book launch party! But now I'm home (at least, for a little while) so I'm eager to read! Vanessa's writing is always wonderful. 💜
@vanessafogg.bsky.social @interstellarflight.bsky.social
@vanessafogg.bsky.social @interstellarflight.bsky.social
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Literally every time I've needed customer service help and it's a company that starts you off with a chatbot, I end up needing a human being. Every time.
Like, if it was a simple enough problem your water-guzzling, mass-polluting, trash wannabe tamagotchi could fix, I would've just done it myself 🤷♀️
Like, if it was a simple enough problem your water-guzzling, mass-polluting, trash wannabe tamagotchi could fix, I would've just done it myself 🤷♀️
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Literally every time I've needed customer service help and it's a company that starts you off with a chatbot, I end up needing a human being. Every time.
Like, if it was a simple enough problem your water-guzzling, mass-polluting, trash wannabe tamagotchi could fix, I would've just done it myself 🤷♀️
Like, if it was a simple enough problem your water-guzzling, mass-polluting, trash wannabe tamagotchi could fix, I would've just done it myself 🤷♀️
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Always "a 15-year-old isn't a child" and never "a 15-year-old should be able to vote." Smdh
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Always "a 15-year-old isn't a child" and never "a 15-year-old should be able to vote." Smdh
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!!!!!!!!!!!
"BECAUSE IT'S A CULT" IS SO GOOD SOMEONE SHOULD WRITE A SONG ABOUT IT
"BECAUSE IT'S A CULT" IS SO GOOD SOMEONE SHOULD WRITE A SONG ABOUT IT
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!
"BECAUSE IT'S A CULT" IS SO GOOD SOMEONE SHOULD WRITE A SONG ABOUT IT
"BECAUSE IT'S A CULT" IS SO GOOD SOMEONE SHOULD WRITE A SONG ABOUT IT
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One of the great heartbreaks of being in the disability community is how often we lose people and how many of our most powerful voices have gone silent. We must live our lives loudly and joyously in their honor and remember that our very existence is resistance.
Oh no I just heard we lost Alice. This is terribly sad. She was an incredible, talented, powerful voice of the disability community. She stood strong for herself and for all of us. She will be missed immensely.
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
One of the great heartbreaks of being in the disability community is how often we lose people and how many of our most powerful voices have gone silent. We must live our lives loudly and joyously in their honor and remember that our very existence is resistance.
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Mom was flawed and her struggle with addiction almost killed me, yet I love her so much and so fiercely. My life is absent any closure she could’ve given me. And then I see stuff like this and I am so repulsed. I would never to this to the love I have for her. It’s the only thing I have left of her.
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Mom was flawed and her struggle with addiction almost killed me, yet I love her so much and so fiercely. My life is absent any closure she could’ve given me. And then I see stuff like this and I am so repulsed. I would never to this to the love I have for her. It’s the only thing I have left of her.
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If the college president has to give you permission to learn you don’t go to a real college
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
If the college president has to give you permission to learn you don’t go to a real college
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November 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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This is Calappa, the same crab that I made a pumpkin of (next skeet) and one of bluesky's favorite crabs. Not only does it run funny, it has an adorable face and its claws are specialized like a can opener for snails 🦀🦑
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is Calappa, the same crab that I made a pumpkin of (next skeet) and one of bluesky's favorite crabs. Not only does it run funny, it has an adorable face and its claws are specialized like a can opener for snails 🦀🦑
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Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
I honestly think we would all be a lot more productive if papers were bullet points with plots.
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
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getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning