Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is not a “Chinese psy-op.” The companies are bad faith neighbors. 830488
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialP H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026apropos of previous thread by John Wiswell: writers have a lot of solidarity when it comes to contracts. if you are a new writer and you think something might be hinky about your contract, it is completely fine to ask other professional writers even (especially) if you don't know us. 15524
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I have never ever understood this phrase because to me it has always sounded like "get a gun and you can be a complete asshole and ppl will put up with it in case you shoot them" like if you need to be armed to get ppl to be nice to you maybe you should just go fix your fucking personality chad 571384193
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialKari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Great thread on the whole ownership conundrum when it comes to short stories published in magazines. 023
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialThomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There are no lines left. And if people seriously looked into the details of Nazis and other European fascist regimes, they'd learn the monsters they are waiting for us to become were actually inspired by America to begin with. From Jim Crow to indigenous genocide, America was always the model. 1464
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialDr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 08/10/2026Some people truly don’t seem to actually understand the point of family… 810812
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 96115072671
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.social🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oh so a fundamental section of a necessary discovery was recognized by the woman interacting most with it .. not the credentialed “scientists” And it’s being shown that the person with privilege kept lying This isn’t common at allstatic.klipy.comWendy Peter Pan: Internally ScreamingALT: Wendy Peter Pan: Internally Screaming 530287
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026October is the busiest month for online historical misinformation about cats, so please prep yourself with this post by @goingmedieval.bsky.social! going-medieval.com/2023/05/16/o...going-medieval.comOn catsThe other night I was mindlessly scrolling about on my phone through Instagram, as one does when they really ought to go to bed but are stuck being entertained instead of resting, when I came upon … 15921199
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialSeanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I have been a guest at conventions where, during the pre-con walk through, my handler has pointed out the bar and mentioned how some guests are "more fun" and "get asked back," then names only men. Because a lot of female guests aren't comfortable hanging out around alcohol with strangers. 101011231
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialPhil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque. 351377498
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket… 19888241
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem. 361115822291
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialLili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 02/10/2026"Most of Woolrich’s arguments boil down to “this isn’t a mystery, it’s a shitty double standard,” but he also touches upon what we would now call invisible labor..."lucynka.wordpress.com“The Mystery of Woman”: Cornell Woolrich as a proto-feminist author.I take the viewpoint that women have been labeled mysterious simply because they so often fail to conform to the pattern of behavior that men have set for them. She just did something he didn’t li… 2157
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Great encapsulation of conservatism. “Well I got mine so who cares what happened to anyone else?” bsky.app/profile/jord... 201334218
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialArden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole. 2669082602
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialCrystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every time some pundit claims that no one would work if their basic needs were met, I think about how, after he retired, my dad would just show up at estate sales with his truck and offer to help folks take their furniture home because he just wanted to keep busy and be around people. 10841142
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You don't get to claim to be the superior gender if you're proudly calling yourself a fucking animal. 158043
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You're clearly too emotional and impulsive to hold positions of power, by your own declaration, gorilla. 161331
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all. 202210481
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If the baseline argument is young men are just unevolved gorillas, which is what the defense of those men boils down to, why aren't more men offended at being likened to animals. You're cool with that? You're SELF LABELING with that? Okay. Why are unevolved gorillas in charge and not in zoos. 875483
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026This is part of a series of terrible arguments that people make that they think are real gotchas. Yesterday, someone said "I get why women would choose the bear, but then why haven't they? Why haven't all women walked into the woods?" 10715100
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialNatania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As well they should. 041
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialMichael G. Williams 🏳️🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Option B: a world in which queer people grow up and live their lives without bigotry being the norm. (My favorite, @natania.bsky.social's Love in Netherford, makes passing mention that there are bigots out there but literally everyone else thinks the bigots are complete freaks.) 1113
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When you hear "queernormative world" do you think of a book where everyone knows queerness exists, or one where queer existence is not met with bigotry? Or something else? 46698
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialNick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun" 191558455
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Turns out dude has two other horses named "Braunau Star" (Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria) and "My Struggle". I'll wait while you translate that second one into German. 81005
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fucjin rich white people never fail to disappoint. Race horse owner required to rename horses "Austrian Painter" and "New Order" www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...theguardian.comUS Jockey Club orders racehorse Austrian Painter to be renamed due to Hitler referenceThe US Jockey Club has ordered a racehorse to be renamed due to a reference to Adolf Hitler 615417
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not 81120310
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialLili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 26/09/2026"The moment you become visible, the reflection starts talking back."lithub.comHow the Digital Attention Economy Has Taken Over Our Real-World LivesWhen I visited the Louvre Museum in Paris, I was struck by how small the Mona Lisa looked in person—a common reaction—and by how most of the people in the room were not looking at the painting itse… 052
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds 81490676
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialLili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 25/09/2026"Over the next couple of weeks in theaters across the world, the public will be able to see this 80-minute crash course in Lavender, the AI-assisted targeting system devised by IDF intelligence to bomb Palestinian civilians under the guise of targeting militants."thehandbasket.coI saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza. 021
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's easier to hyperfixate on this one detail about Gen Z workers instead of on how corporations are using performance improvement plans to force out employees without severance; how return to office policies hurt parents, caregivers, and disabled workers; and how hard it is to find a job right now. 5838116
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture 642834637
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Young people are being told all sorts of advice after incurring huge student loans for jobs at companies that wouldn't hesitate to underpay them or lay them off at any time. They survived mass shooting drills from childhood. They're being given advice that does not reflect the present moment. 239235
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialStorm Haven @riverson17.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I would humbly add patriarchy. 1302
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialM💀ther B💀nes @l1vy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yeah. "Professionalism" expectation very often just shorthand for ableism, racism, sexism, or classism. 1829
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialGoof Monring @goofmonring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've seen online discourse advising POC to not have natural hair styles for interviews. That is so not on my radar during hiring. 2221
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just defund the damned thing and put those billions of dollars into universal Healthcare at home and a revamped USAID program abroad. Like I don't care if "assault weapon" is a technical term, y'all know what I mean, ban em again. 11476
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Having been in the military this is kinda an equivalent statement to "guns don't kill people, people kill people" like yes ok but American politicians would do a lot less harm without a massive and excessively well funded military to play with. 315713
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 563222435
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialLili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 22/09/2026"It’s easy for those in charge to deride their opponents as “politically driven” in contrast to their fake objectivity because power lets you dictate the standards."gossip-reading-club.ghost.ioSorry, Ed Sheeran, But All Art is Political"I am not complicit", says Ed Sheeran. Spoiler: Yes, he is. 0175
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/09/2026"man I can't believe my friends aren't standing by me just because I let a billionaire tell me to throw ONE of my friends under the bus and I went along with it, where is their loyalty???" 941359
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialAshley @ashleyeleigh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I didn't even realize it until Macklemore released his statement, but they were really close friends for years before this. That's a big part of why it's so bad. If you do that for money, why should anyone trust you? 3621
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/09/2026There were even politically cowardly ways through this that weren't a total clusterfuck, how has he picked one this bad and is following it up with even worse PR? 11222
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/09/2026He could have just dropped a press release saying "I don't engage with politics but I am ride or die for my friends. I will not kick my friend off my tour for practicing his right to free speech and for standing up for what he believes in, and I'm sorry if that means some venue owners cancel us" 21586
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/09/2026Like bro, not to downplay their moral clarity on Gaza, but you also proved yourself to be a pretty lousy friend??? 41393
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialbadgersnmaps.bsky.social @badgersnmaps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Laundry then: Get the water, scrub the clothes (hell on the hands), periodically replace the dirty water, keep scrubbing, run through a mangle, hang up to dry. Time spent, hours on hours. Now: Toss in the machine, choose detergent, eat a sandwich. Machine dings. Toss in dryer. Eat another sandwich 0151
Reposted by @pat3oc.bsky.socialAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The amount of time and effort doing laundry by hand required is hard for us to fathom today, when you can (especially if you have an in-home unit!) put it in and go do literally anything else 2772
