Reposted by Jay EdidinCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 12mDo you know how many fire-ass Marvel street-level shows you could make for the price of ONE RUSSO?! 2312
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 5mI am finally watching Widow's Bay, and nine episodes in, I think my favorite gag is still the car crash in the calendar. 2150
Reposted by Jay EdidinJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 16hIn retrospect, I feel like a lot of places saw giving campus groups permission to do the Clothesline Project and Vagina Monologues and Take Back the Night as a small price for avoiding systemic change. What we needed--need--was a massive reckoning. 217627
Reposted by Jay EdidinPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2hThis is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible. 22596167
Reposted by Jay Edidin✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 2hInterrupt this criminalization at every turn. @interruptcrim.bsky.social is an excellent resource. 02013
Reposted by Jay EdidinCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1hIf you have surrounded yourself with good people and you don't bring those people up with you when you finally make it, I AM JUDGING TF OUT OF YOU! 1608
Reposted by Jay EdidinJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2hIt feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you. 6614151
Reposted by Jay EdidinTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15hOnce again: anyone who thinks rape victims come forward for any reason except telling the truth at great fucking cost to themselves is a brainwashed bastard 250961
Reposted by Jay EdidinMima @mlinse.bsky.social · 15hsince trump was elected, st john fisher college in rochester ny has denied both clothesline and TBtN despite doing it for years. it was all performative patronizing waiting until they (the catholic republicans who run it) could just hate women openly again 0183
Reposted by Jay Edidinali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 16hshutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 83638693
Reposted by Jay Edidincon questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 18hThread. 05513
Reposted by Jay EdidinPiper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 17hIt's very important that none of us share her name. Not even in "awareness" of what has been done to her. Not in sharing images of her doxxing. She's Jane Doe unless *she* chooses not to be. Then, we pursue vengeance against all rapists & their enablers until none of them are fucking left. 6373118
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 16hIn retrospect, I feel like a lot of places saw giving campus groups permission to do the Clothesline Project and Vagina Monologues and Take Back the Night as a small price for avoiding systemic change. What we needed--need--was a massive reckoning. 217627
Reposted by Jay EdidinDanny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 16hI think that in a lot of places, here being one of the strongest examples Change WAS being made And the past decade has been people furiously working to undo it 3532
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 16hAs an undergrad, I volunteered at a rape crisis center and was on the task force on sexual assault on my college's campus, and I really thought change was starting; and it has been over twenty years, and I am exhausted and devastated by how far we have failed to come. 419515
Reposted by Jay EdidinGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 16hThat's a $96,318 fine for being raped. 201878608
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 17hI am an AI doomer inasmuch as I feel strongly that AI is doomed and that it is our responsibility to accelerate that doom. 131271285
Reposted by Jay EdidinDani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 17hI wish people would stop referring to Donald Trump as "the Felon." Trump's felony convictions don't begin to capture his harm. He is so much worse than those convictions. Most people with felony convictions are so much more than theirs, yet struggle to escape the stigma of that dehumanizing label. 25814
Reposted by Jay EdidinLaura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 22hAlso: if you work for a restaurant, cafe, farm, etc that sometimes has food that goes to waste, get in touch with your local FNB chapter! They may be able to pick up the food and cook with or distribute it. 13315
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 18hWe have informed the moppet that they need to calm their body. Moppet is now arguing and attempting to demonstrate that they can jump calmly. @teaberryblue.net 2371
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 18hThe moppet just yelled, “Noodle doodle head! Bad word!” before bursting into uproarious giggles. They subsequently informed us that yelling “bad word” after saying something makes whatever was said into a bad word. @teaberryblue.net 2515
Reposted by Jay EdidinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Another big one is teaching your son to see girls as equals. Instead of enrolling him in sex-segregated sports, introduce him to a co-ed team. And help him foster his more “feminine” interests where we can be in mixed-sex spaces, making mixed-sex friend groups. 6896114
Reposted by Jay EdidinNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex. 21328253
Reposted by Jay EdidinA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 18hAfter gampering on @edidin.bsky.social: “Now I’m gampering on Ama. You can put your glasses back now.” Moments later: “No maybe it’s too soon.” 1191
Reposted by Jay EdidinA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 18hThe Moppet, to @edidin.bsky.social: “I’m going to be gampering around your face so you may want to take your glasses off.” 1161
Reposted by Jay EdidinDaniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 19hOccasionally need to repost this Astro Boy panel where Dr. Ochanomizu's butt looks like the Bernie Sanders logo. 121207239
Reposted by Jay EdidinLaura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today's reminder that transformative justice is a Black- and Brown-led, abolitionist, survivor-led movement to transform the conditions that lead to interpersonal violence. This book is a great overview of the movement: bookshop.org/p/books/beyo...bookshop.orgBeyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice MovementTransformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and rep... 12916
Reposted by Jay EdidinKate Watson @loreandordure.com · 23hThis is relevant, too: men don’t see women being treated this way because men don’t behave like that to women who are accompanied by another man. 210527
Reposted by Jay EdidinElsa Sjunneson, Order of the Bat @snarkbat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A week from today DEAR BLIND LADY will be out! This is your last week to preorder and get a shiny pin from Sasquatch press! Just send your receipt to Bailey at bluestarpress dot com. Also if you’re in Seattle you can join me next Tuesday night for a launch party with ASL interpretation & bingo! 22216
Reposted by Jay Edidinoctober "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this investigation on long COVID inside of prisons is out today at the Sick Times! I worked on this piece for months and am so grateful to the folks who shared their experiences with me. I'll write up a real thread a little later, but you can read it now: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...thesicktimes.orgI interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick TimesWhile there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me... 414580
Reposted by Jay EdidinInterrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Check out this toolkit on how to kick out Flock and organize to stop mass surveillance: bit.ly/kickoutflockbit.lyHow to kick out Flock and organize to stop mass surveillanceHow FlockOff! Ithaca successfully pressured two municipal governments in upstate New York to end contracts with Flock Safety. 17142
Reposted by Jay EdidinWard Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Great thread. Revive the OTA! This is also why I do not support term limits in Congress (at least not until other issues are fixed), because they would increase the churn and lead to even more reliance on lobbyists to explain complex issues. 24211
Reposted by Jay EdidinKen Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026and we're back! COMICS DISCOURSE LOOP: No, It Is You Who Failed Superman Why Doesn't Batman Simply Buy Crime? <--- YOU ARE HERE Alan Moore: Threat or Menace? Writers Vs. Artists What If The Big Two Released Monthly Anthologies Instead Everyone (Except You) Knew Outed Monster Was Monster 519859
Reposted by Jay EdidinLee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If someone is doing real damage and demonstrates a sustained lack of interest in accounting for it then, imo, the time for talking about “accountability” is over. Then it’s time for talking about how to best attack and undermine their power to do that damage. Changing their heart is not a factor. 115431
Reposted by Jay EdidinCJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Everyone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions. 7501110
Reposted by Jay EdidinKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author. 762174640
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I find that my favorite "horror" movies are often other genres misclassified as horror because of genre trappings, i.e. The Devil's Backbone, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 6161
Reposted by Jay EdidinKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/09/2026Thinking a lot lately about the men I know who are willfully ignorant about power dynamics and how I don’t *know* they’ve done anything specifically worse than be willfully ignorant about power dynamics but also if I had to guess which of my acquaintances had, I’d guess them first. 10942109
Reposted by Jay EdidinRyan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard 433162391
Reposted by Jay EdidinSara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If you come at me with That Tone I will simply embarrass you with data 313510
Reposted by Jay EdidinSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths. 4923236