Reposted by LapisPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys 445256464430
Reposted by Lapisunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/09/2025Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us 5454582519
Reposted by LapisNick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 08/01/202420 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital. 1862703713594
Reposted by LapisErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/05/20257. The wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation sweeping the United States is not rooted in science or public health—it is driven by a well-funded network of religious fundamentalists seeking to impose Christian nationalist ideals on public policy 118435
Reposted by LapisBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 03/05/2025you want me to “get that bread”? the thing that got Jean Valjean imprisoned? 532983
Reposted by LapisBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 09/04/2025we should abolish credit scores and replace them with a new system where everyone is given a library card and you receive prizes for checking out a certain number of books. please hire me to run the economy 938462
Reposted by LapisJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Splicing part 2 of Dune to the end of A Complete Unknown so I can find out how Bob Dylan ended up careerwise. 51273
Lapis @lapislazari.bsky.social · 21/03/2025at this point I’m convinced that we live in the satire universe, wherein some onion editor in an alternate universe is writing headlines that become our reality 010
Reposted by LapisBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 12/03/2025“The Great Gatsby is dated and irrelevant.” You’re right. What could a novel about a generation of young men becoming hustlers and white nationalists because they were sold a lie about the American Dream possibly have to say about our current moment? 11145691036
Reposted by LapisBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 10/03/2025“The ‘great books’ are for everyone; autodidactism is something to celebrate, no matter what one’s education level or social status; it would help heal our world if we made an effort to foster a generation of Library Kids and Library Adults.” — Rachel Murphy (my wife) 115517
Reposted by LapisRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/03/2025tonight i hope every Oscar goes to the facial expression Ralph Fiennes made near the end of Conclave when the new Pope announced his Pope name 25175366
Reposted by LapisSaimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 27/02/2025Alright, it's time for a break. Let's see your best lichens. These are from a national park in northern Finland where I spent entirely too much time laying on rocks photographing these fascinating lichens while everyone else was gazing poetically at the view. 2941151
Reposted by Lapiskottke.org @kottke.org · 27/02/2025Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]capitalfm.comPedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rightsPedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia. 101199994650
Reposted by LapisRob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 26/02/2025hang in there everyone, we're almost through it 111081104
Reposted by LapisJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/02/2025Nope, just a lot of the emerging literature telling us they're jerks. I wrote to that. They're jerks BUT ALSO they are correct about the power of collective bargaining! Even jerks can have an excellent point. 839514
Reposted by LapisJamie Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 10/02/2025It's great that my fellow white people are breaking down Kendrick Lamar's use of symbolism in his half time show. Sadly, a lot of them are missing the fact that a black man got brutalized and arrested by white men for waving the flags of people being genocided right now while Lamar was performing. 517225
Reposted by LapisAngela Avera Selter @artemiskick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025"Home defense troops are left in drag as their Christmas charity performance was interrupted by a coastal alert near Gravesend" 1940 ©John Topham / TopFoto Location: Gravesend, Kent, Great Britain This is a colorized version of the original black and white. More information in the comments. 4477134
Reposted by LapisJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Lots of reasons to only have indoor cats. Now, possibly, another one... 839494
Reposted by LapisShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/02/2025For 500 years people have been coming up with technology after technology to replace, alter or disrupt books and they have all failed because business geniuses are somehow incapable of understanding that people really like reading 664551542
Reposted by LapisChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Trump just said he’s calling for the full forcible transfer of all 1.8 million Gazans out of the strip and says “The US will take over the Gaza Strip” 138076592258
Reposted by LapisJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/02/2025GOOGLE MAPS GULF WATCH Is it still the Gulf of Mexico? [x] YES [ ] NO 163195287
Reposted by LapisAndrea Stewart @andreagstewart.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Authors if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book. “Father told me I’m broken.” (The Bone Shard Daughter) 1896
Reposted by LapisLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 29/01/2025If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids. 4754412116
Reposted by Lapisacabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 29/01/2025im putting together a team 742938
Reposted by LapisKim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 26/01/2025✨WHEEZING✨ 91125984150
Reposted by LapisErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/01/2025I am not a man. Evan Urquhart is not a woman. No matter what Trump's government said. So much of what Trump wants to do targeting trans people will depend on cisgender people to enforce his policies and police our bodies and spaces we exist in. So much can be stopped by people refusing to do so. 714128810
Reposted by LapisPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025we’re about to spend a day or two arguing about whether the thing he did that perfectly mimicked a Nazi salute was in fact a Nazi salute, but I can’t get past what a complete fucking dork freak he looks like when doing it 1005268581
Lapis @lapislazari.bsky.social · 20/01/2025anyone else completely unable to focus at work today on account of being trans in a nation-state hurtling towards fascism or is that just me 100
Reposted by Lapis Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 17/01/2025he just like u & me, fr 131297211
Reposted by LapisMaq @maqusan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025This one goes out to all those people who've decided they don't want to have kids: Cool. You do you. Way to make super important decisions in an informed manner that works best for you and your life 😊👍 1274
Reposted by LapisMicah @rincewind.run · 16/01/2025nobody has ever designed an aesthetic cooler than this one and we made a terrible mistake ever moving past it 1253355342
Reposted by Lapisdaryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 26/10/2023thinking about this again, as I often do 11773188
Reposted by LapisAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 10/01/2025Platformer [Jan 10] - FB/Meta clarifies guidelines for allowable trans posts: "Trans people aren't real. They're mentally ill." "Trans people are freaks." "'Transgender' people are not a real thing." "A trans woman...is a pathetic confused man." "A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it."platformer.newsInside Meta’s dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram 3919462
Reposted by Lapisonion person @junlper.beer · 10/01/2025we had a great 8 years of it being acceptable to be publicly queer but the right tapped into their hysteria and are trying to push us back decades. this is why the left warned of relying on rainbow capitalism because their support was about profit above all else. the solution is for us to not hide 112135164416
Reposted by LapisAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025This policy change makes sense when you remember that Project 2025 architect, Dustin Carmack, is in charge of policy at Meta. When I uncovered this, he deactivated his LinkedIn. Project 2025 wants to classify trans people as pornographic and ban us from public. 12450462208
Reposted by LapisAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people. 633151906240
Reposted by LapisStaid @staidindoors.bsky.social · 06/01/2025today is the only day you can post this 2284
Reposted by Lapisbrandi @brandirecognition.bsky.social · 30/12/2024live is where the learn is 3652552178
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