Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg

Thanks so much to everyone who voted for "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything"!!! The other nominees are amazing & you should read them. Thanks to my husband for helping me make the space to write, to @wiswell.bsky.social and @atgreenblatt.bsky.social for critiquing, & to @diabolicalplots.com for editing.

Sign this petition to require med schools to teach ME/CFS and POTS diagnostics and care. These are incredibly common conditions that somehow docs have never heard of, and sub-standard care makes people's quality of life go permanently down. That's what happened to me. c.org/pnyF4Grgxt

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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this may come as a huge shock to some of you, be sure you are seated before you read on: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Over 3,000 Palestinians have been displaced from their homes in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron since Friday, as Netanyahu carries out collective punishment in a bid to shore up support ahead of Israel’s elections on Tuesday.

The report alleges Donald Trump was an “active participant” in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. trib.al/VzhhppN

The term for deny, attack, reverse victim and offender gives survivors language for abuse.

I really need to point out that the last point is essential. They want you miserable. Being happy is THE ONLY WAY you'll be able to do the rest. Also, being happy does not mean to not be angry. Be happy AND angry

hey all!!! Apex Magazine needs our help! with 4 days yet to go? they need $4,000 to keep bringing us monthly flash fiction contests, stories published from the slush, dark surreal fiction, and a zine that supports new authors and voices!

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

The main negative response I've seen towards the excitement over this Louisiana US Senate race is "He WonT WIn AnYwAY!" I find it annoying because voters in this state haven't had much to be excited about in years, and change starts with people believing that change is possible in the first place!!

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

Wait WHAT

This is so, so, so, so important.

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Chat, is it good if most of the population now has a 14% higher risk of developing high blood pressure? Is it good if we keep increasing this risk across the population each year? Is it good if children have at least 3 COVID infections before age 5? Asking for humanity.

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

The fact that we've agreed to call these gambling sites "prediction markets" furthers their bullshit. They predict nothing and it's a disgrace that news orgs have partnered with them and pretend they have news value. THEY'RE JUST A BUNCHA LOSERS GAMBLING.

Every country has Republicans

I've donated to a few candidates before and so my name is on lists of folks who can be persuaded to open up their wallets for dems in close races. And it's true! I can! The magic words are "trans rights are human rights and I will not dignify weird creeps' obsession with teen girls' genitals."

You can also try "I'm not sure why the party that elected a rapist and dismantled Roe thinks we need their opinions on how to protect women, but I do know they've made the US a dangerous place to be pregnant and an expensive place to raise kids" and then talk about what you're going to do about it

If you don't want to "debate trans issues," then don't. Say "girls deserve to play sports with their friends without creeps trying to look in their pants. We protect women and girls by making sure they have equal pay, equal rights, and health care." This isn't hard unless you're a coward.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

We at the Skiffy and Fanty show do not platform people like Jon Del Arroz. Just sayin' We do reviews, interviews and more on our blog We do liveshows every Friday. We do discussions for our Patreons We are Skiffy and Fanty. And we have no truck with misogynists or racists. skiffyandfanty.com

President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he would brush off Georgia's requests for federal help if Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) wins reelection, then conceded he probably shouldn't have said so.

Be prepared for very bad, very racist, likely deadly things to happen viz Palestinians as Bibi feels his power very seriously threatened in the next couple of days.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Congratulations Brazil!! May America show the same strength!

Congrats @renanbernardo.com on the World Fantasy win for best short story!!!

Congrats to all!!!

congratulations @thomasha.bsky.social !!!