Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 10hThere’s posh kids speaking up for kids of the banlieue. There’s small-town kids backing up city kids. The protest, the strike, the barricade, the revolution — they are the best of what French culture has ever offered. Shame on those who will scoff at kids exercising their right to use them. 071
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 10hThe French government ignored students’ concerns, escalated violence during protests, and then lied and doubled down on what they claim is the necessity and justification of maiming *children*. It’s a “centrist” government, but as the French say: fascism is the last refuge of the bourgeoisie 130
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 10hIn awe of the courage shown by French high schoolers. The system ha stolen their futures. They protested. Riot cops beat them. One kid lost a hand to a grenade. Another his teeth to a tear gas canister shot point blank range. The kids are not backing down. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...lemonde.fr'The French government's condescension toward high school students shows a refusal to take them seriously as citizens'Before attempting to open dialogue, the French government handled the current high school student protests as if they were urban riots, sociologist Vincent Tiberj observes in an interview. 150
Reposted by Paul FischerRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The world does not consent (but Sam Altman does not believe consent is required). But the world would consent to many bad things happening to Sam Altman and OpenAI. 31705150
Reposted by Paul FischerGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh we're deep into Harlan Ellison territory now. 12765131
Reposted by Paul FischerSean Swift @primetimeswift.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Man whose leaks of private documents prompted the investigation into City has been advised not to return home, contact family members or visit crowded places". That club needs to be nuked from space, the ground salted, and gallows left standing to warn others. www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comCriminal or saviour? Rui Pinto abandoned by Portuguese authorities after Manchester City leaksPinto, whose leaks of private documents prompted the investigation into City, has been advised not to return home, contact family members or visit crowded places 36413
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Great great great. Totally acceptable at someone’s workplace. 020
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026God, I hope the Aces turn this around and send the Typhoid Marys home. 010
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The officiating in this Fever - Aces game is atrocious. (Evergreen WNBA statement, tbf.) 001
Reposted by Paul FischerMB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A woman posted a reel on ig saying she’d attended @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and there was a gang rape every year on campus and the school did nothing. 22610
Reposted by Paul FischerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026insane story. dr. oz is every bit as deranged as you think he is. 17909170
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My wonderful, brilliant agent Jenny and a colleague of hers are offering 1-on-1 feedback sessions for writers from unagented, unpublished, underrepresented backgrounds based in the UK. More info and apply here: www.londonwriterscentre.org.uk/our-opportun...londonwriterscentre.org.uk1-2-1 feedback for fiction writers from Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency | London Writers Centre OpportunitiesA call for submissions for feedback from the Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency. London Writers Centre is delighted to be partnering with the Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency for our latest 1-2-... 022
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I also get an office for the first time in my life, which is very impressive, I think, for someone at the tender age of forty. 010
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This fall, I get to be the Writer in Residence at MacEwan University in Edmonton, following a long line of great writers. It sometimes is hard to remember whether you're being useful to your community, sitting alone at a keyboard at home, so I can't wait for this. www.macewan.ca/campus-life/...macewan.caAnnouncing MacEwan’s 34th writer in residence 242
Reposted by Paul FischerAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder. 21654502
Reposted by Paul FischerHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The new American oligarchs have completed the multigenerational project of reversing all the gains of the 20th century labor movement finance.yahoo.com/news/super-r...finance.yahoo.comSuper rich’s wealth concentration surpasses Gilded Age levelsAmerica's richest of the rich just passed the Rockefeller-Carnegie cohort in wealth concentration, according to Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman. 211174
Reposted by Paul Fischer✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026They’re punishing working *women* 2396
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My not-actually-a-conspiracy-theory theory is that the WNBA is the most high-profile instance of a women’s sports league being successful, badass, diverse, broadly and openly pro-queer, and inspiring to little girls, with a fan base driven by women of colour, and conservative patriarchy HATES it 093
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026In case you still hadn’t realised that this made-up controversy isn’t about protecting women in sport — it’s actually, literally, about destroying and undermining a women’s sport: 13511
Reposted by Paul FischerMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A nine-point lead for the far-right in the German national polls. It’s totally normal now to see full-blown Nazis, as I did today, in the centre of Berlin. Each time I talk to a nonwhite immigrant, whether friend or stranger, I ask them “what is your plan B?” I don’t care how “crazy” I sound. 29646268
Reposted by Paul FischerMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community. "We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...nytimes.comDolly Parton’s Cautious Politics Resulted in Widespread AffectionBipartisan tributes demonstrated the success of the singer’s long-running effort to stay out of party politics in a sharply divided country. 613758639
Reposted by Paul FischerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2026These posts from America First Policy Institute show that Enes Kanter Freedom not only colluded with the Trump grift on his WNBA stunt but is also on the take from MAGA. He's literally the paid protester Republicans scream about. (h/t @timmiller.bsky.social for pointing this out on his shows) 1152867922
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Have fun, at least most of the time. Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it has to be miserable, and anyway misery makes writing both harder and worse. 042
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The first film I ever made had its UK premiere here. It's a London institution. It is heartbreaking for it to be under threat of closure so the West End can have one more trendy, overpriced, faceless hotel. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...you.38degrees.org.ukSave The Prince Charles CinemaThe future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion... 010
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Absolute garbage from the Athletic. Cloud was at her workplace being harassed by a giant cunt who has publicly said that if trans people have rights, then he gets to be in women’s locker rooms. How do you frame this any other way? 020
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Someone’s looking to make blood money from this hatred and they’re using narcissistic mediocrities (Cunningham, Kanter, everyone on Fox News) as mascots. Fans in every arena overwhelmingly support trans rights. 010
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Daughter and I went to two Tempo games this wkend. On Friday, a woman with a Protect the Dolls sign on the jumbotron. Yesterday, a woman with a trans flag T-shirt. Both were loudly and unanimously cheered and applauded by the crowd. This whole thing is a manufactured crisis by self-interested pricks 110
Reposted by Paul FischerJess @jesscamnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026WNBA players are literally being harassed during games and nothing is being done about it. Madness 0367
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026What a fucking loser. Ban him from every arena forever, period. 010
Reposted by Paul FischerViet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Just vile. From Trump and Miller down to ICE and this judge. 03513
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026If you love football, it’s essential to put pressure on federations to get rid of Infantino and his bottomless greed and corruption. Takes two seconds to sign below. 010
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Congratulations Julie! I just picked this up from my local and it looks fantastic. 100
Reposted by Paul FischerViet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026ICE is doing this to people. Jose Mejia Hernandez can't be the only one. 0299
Reposted by Paul FischerFrankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 17/08/2026Has anyone explained to the league or teams that XX-XY Athletics is a hate group? If they wouldn’t allow swastikas or Proud Boys to promote their views at a game, they shouldn’t allow this group’s messaging either. 8857181
Reposted by Paul FischerRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026p.s. On the eugenicist who led the hunt..... 012725
Reposted by Paul FischerRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly. 92143498
Reposted by Paul FischerAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie. 1814214068946
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I remind myself I can’t write a good one that quickly and I can’t write all the ones I want to before I die, I’d rather write a few good ones than a lot of not-good ones, and the discomfort of having one I’m not proud of out in the world lasts longer and feels worse than the discomfort of being slow 020
Reposted by Paul FischerElla Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach." are you KIDDING ME 1317