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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

See my forthcoming, very cranky, work-in-progress poem / essay: "I Am [Not] a Zionist (and [so / neither] Are You)" Who benefits from these arguments? Fascists and crooks.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sad fact about the justice system, in the US anyway: it's grounded in crimes against the (fundamentally patriarchal) social order: damage, theft, and rank violations. Guess where that puts rape, if there's no father or husband as plaintiff. Guess what the remedies are. 😒

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always a good time for this - but some times are more always than others. Long overdue for a strategic alliance between humanism, humanitarianism, human rights work (embedded in ecology and humane ethics).

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Who would win in a contest between drag performers and marching band drummers for sheer irrepressible joy? Trick question: we win! We ALL win 💃🥁

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We are in the "fugitive slave act" stage of the fight over Trans rights, which means defending Trans people and their rights is more important than ever.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Pretty sure TOS answered the latter question definitively and almost immediately (by establishing there was no question about it).

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hahaha, well. At least I know it wasn't my novel. I abandoned it in 93 (though I didn't know it at the time), it was post-apocalyptic NOT dystopian (under-appreciated difference), I never submitted it to anyone, AND it wasn't stupid. (The back story was eerily prescient but whatever.)

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Zeno of Elea: What if I told you that every cup is always half full AND half empty? 😎

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don't know why this never gets stated clearly but there's no such thing as a "diversity hire" without the status quo "white supremacist hires".

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

No... I've come far enough in this life that I could live to 120 and never catch up even if I won the whole time. Let's find out!

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Jedi-Sith confrontation in Episode 6, mainly from the moment Skywalker Jr severs Sr's forearm to the moment Sr tosses the emperor into the abyss. I love watching each of them think to a conclusion, without dialogue or voiceover.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In English, the foot is not part of the leg. In Hebrew, they are the same thing - although there are separate terms for thigh, shin and ankle (just not foot). Lending weight to the argument that the knee is hinge to the leg: in Hebrew, the knee and the elbow are the same thing (in different limbs).

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity" Unmentioned in the article: the difference for farm workers between working in continuous sun vs moving shade.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis

A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A Note Regarding One Town "It was an okay day; it was a so-so day." "It is perhaps a better thing I do now than I have ever done, but not by much. It is perhaps a better rest I go to now than I have ever known, but if it were that good I literally couldn't say."

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

[uneasy] This is one clear exception to the "if everything, then nothing" rule. But if everything were (merely?) a social construct, that would seem to be insignificant.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“If you find your imagination cannot stop itself from churning out the scripts of the Death Machines, pull its plug. Dismantle it. Reprogram it. Dream Daylight. Manufacture Daylight. We are the Magicians Make Magic.” - Krista Franklin

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I haven't stopped! ...this time... Honest! ✋

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 29/07/2026

If I had to describe the heart and soul of Bluesky it would the following: a guy who didn’t actually read Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s Odyssey movie defending it against a guy who didn’t actually watch Nolan’s Odyssey movie

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This short thread is a thing of beauty 🥹

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Feh. This is an interesting thread, but this is a bad distillate. I'm not saying it doesn't work; I'm not even saying it isn't necessary. I'm saying that it can't be blessed. What was codified in this example, as writer acknowledges, was benefit for some at others' expense.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

You have them; everyone does. We're just busy holding the universe together.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This is a great question to ask from several angles! So... Do you?

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Somehow I misread this as "Martin Peen", and

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The conceptual separation of the past and present of US racism allows awareness of each to weaken the other. But the separation is a carefully cultivated illusion we must break or bridge.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Okay, but can opponents bash Trump from the analytical left? "Vicious principles aside, this was folly in concept and execution 😂" I don't know that bashing from hawkish right reinforces stupid discourse, but it certainly reinforces hawkism and rightism.

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 15/06/2026

Stormy at the White House? I'm surprised she's welcome still

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I know many folks are outraged but ...yeah. It's hard for me to take that seriously anymore. Do I want to reside and participate in a better society? Of course, that's arguably my whole thing. But I don't need it built from this one.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Feminism can arguably be characterized as advocating the abolition of the social regulation of gender, no? In which case there's no special carve-out available for transgender.

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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I had no idea men played soccer, too! Good for them! Go boy soccer!! ⚽️

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The world's first trillionaire is our next "hole in the ozone layer" moment. We need coordinated global effort to ensure he's also the world's last trillionaire and that he doesn't stay one for long.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🎼 It's the CIIIIIRcle of grift 🎶

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Must be equitable (and DEI, for that matter), must be scalable, must be sustainable, must be flexible.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Writing isn't the only mode for this - not even just for verbal thought, and not all thought is verbal - and we can think things through without an action channel, so it overstates a bit. But there's something about action that unlocks thought. You get places you couldn't, or could but faster.

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The smugnorance is off the chart with this one. 😬🫣🫩

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🧵 and 🪹. All the oiking about "Democrats are losing X" tends to resolve to "there's an emerging Left majority but _i_ might be (or perceived to be) in a (slight) minority within it and that makes me uneasy for reasons I refuse to examine".

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The same void whirls at the heart of whiteness and ability and class, and it's ultimately grounded in disciplining away one's own humanity (and punishing anyone who can't or won't - not to improve them but because cruelty demonstrates inhumanity).

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Saul Aliasky (he/him/his) @saulvents.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don't think most people think like this either. But, if they do, they're vicious and vile and the rest of us should say so, loudly and clearly, with articulate arguments from principle - not for their sake but for ours!

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