I love cats, comics, and houseplants. She, her. SFWA Romance Steering Committee member. Writer of "A Place of Refuge" hopepunk space opera: https://books2read.com/rl/aplaceofrefuge
Victoria Janssen
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Millions of copyrighted songs were fed to AI music generators - now there's proof
Suno and rivals are being sued for $150k per song. A sum that would bankrupt these companies and set an important precedent.
Legal defense fund for the Minnesota 15. Please share and support them!
We keep us safe 💙🤍🩵
On the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...
Millions of copyrighted songs trained AI music generators, and new searchable databases from The Atlantic now confirm which tracks were used.
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#TBRChallenge Pride: Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff from @qospress.bsky.social
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If you are looking for a way to help the folks in Minneapolis, a member of the National Lawyer's Guild passed along this fundraiser for legal costs for those arrested yesterday:
chuffed.org/project/1865...
You can also donate directly to the NLG: www.paypal.com/donate?token...
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫
Purchase with Purpose
Every season, Nicole Austin buys white velvet okra seeds from Truelove Seeds, a US-based seed company that curates an African diaspora seed collection.
Okra tops the list of the 13 most sought-after vegetables for the 3 largest ethnic groups in Toronto, “it reaches out across time and space”. 🌱
#Booksky Kobo or KoboPlus reader? Our great queer books, like the Astreiant Series, are out there! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
As the editor of an anticapitalist genre magazine, I've been crystalising my thoughts over the years about the kind of anticapitalist fiction we look for.
I've never been able to adequately articulate it before, but this Zach Gillan essay gets really close. It's about form, not content.
On the morning of June 16th 2026, fifteen anti-ICE organizers were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities.
I wrote for Dame Magazine today arguing why the fight for trans rights involves federal court reform and expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices.
The top priority for any Democratic president in 2029 should be to reform the courts.
www.damemagazine.com/2026/06/17/t...
This is joyful and full of new (to me at least) behind-the-scenes nuggets for Labyrinth fans www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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The Supreme Court's transgender rights cases reveal the consequences of decades of conservative court-building—and why reform is now a civil rights issue.
Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…
I went to a thrift store today — and found a 1901 copy of Heidi for 75¢! SCORE. #BookSky #VintageBooks
Jacob Aron
Citizen.Coping
Read "The Complete Astreiant Astreiant, #7" by Melissa Scott available from Rakuten Kobo. The city of Astreiant is full of magic, danger and bureaucracy. Former mercenary Philip Eslingen and Pointsman...
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Today, Jim Henson’s dark fairytale is seen as a classic of 80s high camp. But on release, it bombed. Here, members of the cast and crew remember laughter, tricky puppets and Henson’s ‘joyful magic’
