wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What did some eateries do before the proliferation of plastic utensils and service wear? I lived during that time and I cannot remember. 000
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This weekend I'm leading a session titled "Community as an Imaginative Practice" where I talk about the necessity of using your imagination and then guide people to imagine a better world. 010
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Stay with me here: the best part of the current president is that one day he will die, and on that day it will be gloriously obvious that absolutely nothing he has ever accomplished will last. 010
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years. 7845631062
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked. 6330101670
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026First Wendell Berry and now Annie Dillard. Lost some profound writers this month. 000
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 16/09/2026"an ankle monitor for your mind" needs to immediately break containment and enter the vernacular 023882
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'm simply not allowing anyone to commandeer my imagined future anymore. Oh, AI is going to lead to the destruction of humanity? Not in my imagined future it's not, and my imagined future is the only one that I'm going to consider. 010
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026How do I get myself off the St. Jude mailing list? They have found me across two names and three different addresses. I would still be a donor if they weren't so rabid about getting funding. 000
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Managing my eco-grief by never going outside. 010
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026There's another cat at my vet named Chicken Parm and I am very upset about it. Although the vet said that the other Chicken Parm has a sister named Fruitbat so maybe it's okay. 021
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026What happened to the Silent Generation to make them think hoarding wealth and dying with it was a noble thing? I'm so sickened by the values of my culture. 010
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialBethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Sharing this one because we don't read enough about what's happening in the lives of trans people - this is thorough and tragic.nytimes.comOpinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)Is Kansas just the beginning? 11461178
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialAmerican Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today, @afsc-org.bsky.social, @ccrjustice.org, @hrw.org, & Open Society Institute filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin. Together, we’re challenging the admin’s attempt to silence & punish people defending the rights of Palestinians & other victims of war crimes. Read: afsc.org/newsroom/rig... 0117
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialIreland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 12/08/2026In memory of Heather Heyer Murdered by white supremacists 9 years ago today 🕊🕯 030074
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialAK Press @akpress.org · 12/08/2026 📖 GIVEAWAY 📖 We're giving away 5 advance copies of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘉𝘰𝘹: 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 by Mata Kastrisiou! 📚 Readers of dark, dreamy, atmospheric fiction: this is for you. To enter, follow AK Press and share this post. Ships to US only, but we'll send an e-book elsewhere. We'll announce winners on 8/19. 12418
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 01/08/2026A dystopian future where people perform electioneering not because they believe in the candidate/platform but because they a put huge bets on the election results. 000
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/08/2026Amazing that Iran is successfully attacking the drinking water in the American Midwest, and this is pretty directly the Trump administration's fault, yet this is not a huge scandal among his voters who live there 16788241
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The Problem™ with my kitten is that unless I am making intense eye contact with him or giving him unconditional attention, he will be an utter menace. And by menace I mean sitting on the counters, eating the plants, and messing with anything hanging up on the walls that he can touch. 010
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Tristan da Cuhna. I wanna be on a volcanic island with no air service where all the land is communally held, yes. 000
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Wondering what fresh horrors will be unleashed at tomorrow's prime time presidential address. 100
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Relevant to my interests considering I'm currently reading the book "Quakers and Nazis" by Hans Schmitt. 100
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Maybe not this year or next year, but eventually I would like to try to author a Pamphlet on imagination as a spiritual practice. 000
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure. 3723209
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Sometimes I like to sit and think of all the "jobs" people could do if there was guaranteed basic income and universal healthcare. 08920
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project. 283285738
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Robert Heinlein probably got it right: in the future citizenship will be based solely on military service. I'm pretty sure there will be a hard start for it. So some of us will keep our citizenship but after a specific date you're gonna have to fight space bugs to vote. 000
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialLoki @kaffetorst.bsky.social · 01/07/2026"Fascists will build a prison for cis women built out of trans people’s bones." 024050
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026NPR is really having a day with corrections. 101
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialborderless @borderless.bsky.social · 30/06/2026If you're cis and mad about the anti-trans Supreme Court ruling today, consider helping a trans person get the equipment they need to take their meds: www.omprakash.org/global/distr...omprakash.orgHRT Harm Reduction Toolkit - Distribute aid nullDonate to support social impact in Serbia with Distribute Aid. 3289279
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Everything AI generated gives off uncanny valley vibes. For example, this flyer that was on my county's website. These are clearly lizard people in masks. 000
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialandy™ @andylevy.net · 24/06/2026New York City voters seemed energized by victories from Brad Lander, Darializa Chevalier, and Claire Lopez. But in this small diner roughly 75 miles outside of Topeka, news of the results was not welcomed as warmly 463780434
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Alan Greenspan died today. I still get weirdly triggered when someone mentions him due to doing high school debate in the late 90s/early 2000s. 000
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Oh no, my lack of self-care is catching up with me. 010
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/06/2026Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework 146107532607
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. 228364
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE. 270138254174
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The worst part about living in a rural area is clothes shopping. I am either driving over an hour to a store or ordering online where they will inevitably mess up my order in some way. 000
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I don't know how to find motivation living in a country that has no vision of a collective future. 010
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count 313198835313
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialPM Press @pmpress.bsky.social · 09/05/2026HBD to John Brown, an abolitionist who believed slavery would never end without a fight. ire on the Mountain imagines what might have happened if he had succeeded. A visionary classic of speculative fiction and liberation - available here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=... 0126
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It's so weird to me how much the media wants me to be concerned about gas prices. My 17 year old Honda that gets almost 40 mpg and I do not care, will not care. 000
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I realized today that the reason I'm seeing an increase in wildlife deaths on roads is because of an increase in stupidly tall trucks and SUVs with both limited visibility and a lack of empathetic drivers. I still will argue that all the roadkill on American roads is a precursor to fascism. 000
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialFCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Survivor of a U.S. boat strike speaks out: “All the presidents claim they’re fighting drug trafficking and organized crime. But they’ve never actually done anything. They’re just trying to make it look like they are – and instead are mistreating innocent people like us fishermen."buff.ly‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak outAn Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’ 0137
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Yesterday, while being the only woman in a meeting, a man referred to Bill Cosby's crimes as "a bunch of silliness" and none of the other men said anything but a few shifted uncomfortably. 200
wavingwheat.bsky.social @wavingwheat.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Thinking about petitioning my local library to switch to the Bliss classification system and abandon the decimal system named after that objectively awful man. 000
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialborderless @borderless.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Firestorm was the epicenter of locally-led mutual aid after Helene. @distributeaid.org wouldn't have had such a successful response if @firestorm.coop didn't bring the community together first. Please support them. They are far more to the Ashville community than just another radical bookstore. 06243
Reposted by @wavingwheat.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it. 22257721006
