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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 13h

What is the internalized misogyny hell is this?! I split my reading time pretty evenly between “literary fiction” and romance, and I gotta tell you—some of the romance is more thought-provoking… and better written! And that’s *before* we get to the shit take on AI!

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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 30/09/2026

It's a lot harder to fundraise during the midterms, so we're not even halfway to our goal. If you have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating to the Fated States Project. fatedmates.net/givingcircle

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Fated States | Join and Donate | The States Project

Learn more about Fated States on Grapevine.org

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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 30/09/2026

FUCK GEORGIA POWER VOTE FOR PETER AND SHELIA FLIP THE PSC

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Indivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEXT Sunday, 10/4, 2-3:30pm Cabbagetown Community Center (177 Estoria St. SE) Join Indivisible ATL for our regular in-person membership meeting. - A short training on how to talk to meetings of elected officials - Updates about election protection efforts + NK: Vote Early - Sign making

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Indivisible ATL October Membership Meeting · Indivisible ATL

Join Indivisible ATL for our regular in-person membership meeting: - A short training on how to talk to meetings of elected officials like boards of elections, school boards, and city councils with a...

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Fans of Haruki Murakami will really like…” Yoko Ogawa? Hiromi Kawakami? Hiroko Oyamada?! Sayaka Murata?!? Sometimes book reviewers can be pretty lazy. (I am also a book reviewer.)

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Indivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🚨 The CDC just changed their COVID vaccine guidance for 2026! ALL ADULTS + immunocompromised children should receive the vaccine. Insurance coverage is mandated. Metro Atlanta is currently experiencing a COVID surge. Please consider getting a booster to protect yourself + your community.

A COVID-19 heat map based on CDC wastewater data & standard levels as of September 21, 2026. The map shows all of Metro Atlanta at "very high" prevalence levels with more than 3.5% of the population actively infectious. Most of southeast Georgia has "high" prevalence with around 2.4-3.5% of the population actively infectious.

(Other areas showing "very high" include the Seattle area and most of the states of California, Texas, and Florida.)

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Played this for 12yo. She solved the mystery before Ira Glass revealed the solution. 😅

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How much do you like these tropes? Enemies to lovers: 6/10 Second chance: 9/10 Fake dating: 1/10 Friends to lovers: 8/10 Age gap: indifferent Found family: 8/10 Grumpy x sunshine: 9/10 Pregnancy: mostly M/M reader, so… Slow burn: 9/10 Love triangle: 1/10

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not quite the same thing as advances, but about the state of pay for creative work in general. The hardest part of reading Cat Sebastian‘s well researched Mid-Century NY series is seeing all these journalists just living their lives in Manhattan on journalists’ salaries.

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've heard folks *already* saying, "Welp, we'd better line up behind Newsom in 2028 because 'Blue No Matter Who'." That's not how any of this works, y'all! We pick our candidates.

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Indivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yesterday, ICE shot and injured Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old DoorDash driver from Venezuela. Wilber is the third DoorDash driver known to have been shot by ICE, but the company has remained silent—and complicit. Delete your DoorDash app and account until they take decisive action.

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Delete DoorDash: our demands

Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Waiting for my kid to finish rehearsal. Constantly moving my turned off plug-in hybrid so I don't choke on fumes from gas guzzling Expeditions some parents choose to run constantly instead of going inside the rehearsal space or rolling down their damn windows. How do they even afford the gas?!

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Rhonda 💙💜🩷 @rhondastovin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland. An absolutely hilarious romp that also exposes some raw emotions. I loved this one and started reading it a second time the moment I finished it the first time.

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Working from Walter Benjamin, Nina Cornyetz notes that denying the political content of art is part of "a system of representation collusive with fascist ideology".

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Adam Solove @asolove.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

Reminder that the Atlanta activism festival is tomorrow afternoon.

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Indivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🦹 Do you plan to be an election superhero? 🦇 Do you want to get the bat signal when folks need to mobilize in the face of election shenanigans? 🫵 Sign up for the Election Protection Corp!

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Sign the pledge to protect the 2026 elections! From a [last-minute switch to precinct-based assigned polls in Dallas County](https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/03/04/dallas-county-precinct-voting-pr...

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 16/09/2026

Register now to join tomorrow's online "Introduction to the Japanese Collection" at the Library of Congress—a valuable resource for #AsianStudies researchers! www.loc.gov/item/event-423475/intro…

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Indivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today is National Voter Registration Day! Register or CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION. Call friends, family, and neighbors. Remind GA teens 17.5+ that they can already register!

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Get Ready to Vote

We help you vote, no matter what. Sign up for election reminders and get help with voter registration and voting by mail — all in one place!

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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 11/09/2026

My #worldkidlitmonth -approved review of Kiki #2! Eiko Kadono's Kiki and the New Magic, trans Emily Balistrieri "The story has grown along with the novel’s protagonist. The tale still includes plenty of whimsy... But some of the emotional conflicts from Miyazaki’s film find a place in the sequel."

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“Kiki and the New Magic” by Eiko Kadono

“Kiki and the New Magic” by Eiko Kadono joins the beloved young witch, and her clever cat Jiji in the enchanting sequel to the modern classic that inspired the Miyazaki film!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/09/2026

9/11 was awful. The response was awful. It is a big part of the reason why I feel that violence should be a last resort, and not the first tool in the arsenal.

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The woman dies so the man can be sad about it. The woman dies so the man can suffer. She dies to give him a destiny. Dies so he can fall to the dark side. Dies so he can lament her death. As he stands there, brimming with grief, brimming with life, the woman lies there in silence...”

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The Woman Dies

‘The woman dies. She dies to develop the narrative. She dies because no one could think of what else to do with her.’ Aoko Matsuda, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton.

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Indivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Atlanta—Are you still looking for a way to get involved for the fight to save our democracy? Show up on Saturday, 9/19 from 2-5pm!

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When I was a graduate student in the UK, I proofread educational PowerPoints for cultural sensitivity before they were shipped to the US. I had to explain, “It’s not *great* here, but Americans will 100% notice all the photographs are of white people but all the cartoons are of Black people.” 😬😬😬

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Indivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There's still plenty of time to RSVP—or just show up on Tuesday at 7:15! It's going to be 🔥! (Especially exited for the panel afterward. We've got tech workers and community organizers from SWARM coming to talk about coming together to fight big tech!)

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Everyone Is Lying to You for Money | Official Trailer UHD

YouTube video by The Forge

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Indivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Atlanta! Please join us for the Find Your Fight Festival at Neighborhood Church on 9/19 2-5pm. It's a drop-in open house highlighting ways to get involved in fighting for the causes you care about most. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblea...

Find Your Fight Festival
Meet Organizers & Find Ways to Help Stop... All of This

Issues: Data Centers * Flock Surveillance * AI
Civil Rights * Immigrant Rights * LGBT+ Rights
Homelessness * Mutual Aid * Labor & Unions
Voting Rights * Election Protection * Federal Workers

Groups: SWARM * Sur Legal * We Are CASA * WFPeaches
Atlanta Alliance against Racial and Political Oppression
Community Estre(el/la) * National Public Health Coalition
GLAHR * Georgia Equality * 50501 Georgia * Indivisible ATL
Intown Women's Resistance * North Decatur Action
& More...

September 19 * 2-5pm
Neighborhood Church * 1561 McClendon
Indcluding from-home and easy volunteering options

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As suspected, I broke my “great” toe yesterday. (My adjustable barbell fell apart, and I only avoided 7/8 falling weights.) I have spent the last 36 hours resting, icing, limping, and ignoring first aid advice that only applies to the 8 “lesser” toes.

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anyone fighting the DSA in September of an election year is fighting the wrong fight.

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes and— PLEASE don’t downplay detention facilities. It’s a disservice to everyone in ICE detention, including the 50k PEOPLE ARRESTED IN JULY—a new record. Yiannopoulos experienced 1st hand what he advocates for. But detention centers are universally evil, no matter who their victims are. 1/4

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Adam Solove @asolove.myatproto.social · 02/09/2026

Atlanta! Are you looking for ways to fight back against the tech oligarchs supporting fascism? We're having a free screening of the crypto documentary "Everyone Is Lying to You for Money" followed by a panel of organizers talking about tactics to fight back. 9/8, 7:15pm @plazaatlanta.bsky.social

Event poster showing the movie poster for "Everyone is lying to you for money" and the text "Everyone is Lying to You for Money: movie screening * panel discussion: come learn ways to build power against the tech oligarchs. Thursday, September 8, 7:15pm, Plaza Theatre." Below that are logos of various groups: Indivisible ATL, Intown Women's Resistance, Georgia Rising, Necessary Trouble, and Avondale Indivisible.

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I say that as the parent of an independent 15yo whose location I don’t track: Any teen half aware of the way the world works surely realizes that to have a phone is to be tracked. Why would they care someone they likely trust knows where they are if they have no control over the rest of it?

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fine print below the op-ed: “Rick Jackson’s leadership committee paid [the author]’s firm $10,000 shortly before the latter launched Democrats and Independents for Rick Jackson. ‘(T)he payment was to help kick-start the coalition he is leading, not compensation for his endorsement.’” 🫠🫠🫠

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I gave up on “y’all” when I fled Georgia the moment I graduated. Then I gleefully re-adopted it in my 30s because it’s such a delightfully inclusive, non-gendered collective pronoun. And it feels subversive to use a Southern pronoun that way to boot. Y’all use “y’all”!

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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 28/08/2026

Check out my review of Kyoko Hayashi's The Bride at Sixty (trans @brianbergstrom.bsky.social) in @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social. Hayashi was born on this day in 1930. "The narrator credits Ayako with placing life at the centre of everything she does, but it has been no easy task."

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“The Bride at Sixty” by Kyoko Hayashi

“The Bride at Sixty” by Kyoko Hayashi follows the story of three older women who have been friends since they were schoolgirls against the backdrop of the atomic bombings of Japan.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

✨MY BOOKS✨

A grid of 15 books by Arden Powell. Queer fantasy, romance, and horror. Titles:
A Summer Soundtrack for Falling in Love
The Bachelor’s Valet
A Novel Arrangement
A Thief and a Gentleman
Of Socialites and Prizefights
Winter’s Dawn
The Botanist’s Apprentice
The Solstice Cabin
The Potion Gardener
The Carnelian King and Other Stories
The Faerie Hounds of York
The Bayou
Obsidian Island
In the Pit of Your Stomach
Flesh and Bone

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Favorite adult cartoon(without saying South Park, family guy, or Rick & Morty)? Would 100% not have said any of those shows. Maybe Futurama. But I’m going to have to go with Lower Decks. Previously Star Trek knowledge makes the show into a perfect homage. Wonderfully watchable.

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Brad Boimler Performs Vulcan Salute in Star Trek

Alt: Brad Boimler Performs a sassy Vulcan Salute in Star Trek turbolift

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Spouse and I are celebrating 17 years of marriage today. We will celebrate 23 years together (more or less) in a few weeks—well over half of our lifetimes, even at 40/1. Young love doesn’t work for everyone, but I’m very happy to have grown up together with spouse.

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For a limited time, I'm offering three free 5000-word line and/or copy edits for queer historical fiction! If you write short form, that could be a whole short story. If you write long form, it could give you a feel for how to tune up prose in your novel. ⏳📚

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: I’m an incompetent OB-GYN practice that misses perinatal depression and gestational diabetes and abandons laboring parents pending emergency C-sections for an hour without an epidural. 👋

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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I don’t trust any white socialist who hasn’t read Ellison’s Invisible Man. That novel changed my life and my politics. It helped me understand intersectionality and why class solidarity isn’t enough.

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