BrooklynSC
@brooklynsc.bsky.social
(she/her) disabled gamer, artist, writer,
aspiring game-dev, and full-time woodland fairy
// POTS, PTSD, ADHD 💖💜💙
f*ck naz*s (not sure why that’s ever in question)
aspiring game-dev, and full-time woodland fairy
// POTS, PTSD, ADHD 💖💜💙
f*ck naz*s (not sure why that’s ever in question)
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BrooklynSC
@brooklynsc.bsky.social
· Dec 24
A holiday reminder that pre-orders help authors, and so does buying the backlist!
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If you’ve ever wanted to join the queer circus, TFBT is for you.
And if you liked Hadestown but wished it was sapphic, The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World is full of music.
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If you’ve ever wanted to join the queer circus, TFBT is for you.
And if you liked Hadestown but wished it was sapphic, The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World is full of music.
The First Bright Thing is one of the best books I’ve read within the last several years. In a time right now where every day feels like history is happening so hard and fast and without mercy, this book will remind you of how humans have always found hope and the will to fight for it.
People don’t realize how 50/50 the politics of Oregon really are. We are always a knife’s edge away from far-right policies. And this governors race is highlighting that in full. Pay attention. And please, VOTE. This shit is terrifying.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to join Christine Drazan at Hillsboro event - The Portland Tribune
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is headed to Washington County later this month, where the former presidential candidate is scheduled to appear alongside Republican gubernatorial nominee Christine Drazan ju...
portlandtribune.com
September 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
People don’t realize how 50/50 the politics of Oregon really are. We are always a knife’s edge away from far-right policies. And this governors race is highlighting that in full. Pay attention. And please, VOTE. This shit is terrifying.
portlandtribune.com/2026/09/16/f...
portlandtribune.com/2026/09/16/f...
So let me understand the headlines today.
Built AI -> AI over taxes the grid
Overtaxed grid —> big security concern
Big security concern -> use AI to fix grid?? Which would require more energy??
And would create more security issues because AI is sketchy??
Huh??
Built AI -> AI over taxes the grid
Overtaxed grid —> big security concern
Big security concern -> use AI to fix grid?? Which would require more energy??
And would create more security issues because AI is sketchy??
Huh??
September 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
So let me understand the headlines today.
Built AI -> AI over taxes the grid
Overtaxed grid —> big security concern
Big security concern -> use AI to fix grid?? Which would require more energy??
And would create more security issues because AI is sketchy??
Huh??
Built AI -> AI over taxes the grid
Overtaxed grid —> big security concern
Big security concern -> use AI to fix grid?? Which would require more energy??
And would create more security issues because AI is sketchy??
Huh??
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sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
September 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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Photos: Palestinians rebuild Gaza’s ruins with mud bricks, scrap https://aje.news/qhj0li
![Palestinians build a room from mud bricks in Nuseirat in central Gaza, as construction supplies run short [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreidi7lpxpyqgerggaucusl5sos7b5puv4eehqhjedflpevrfes2bme)
![Palestinians make clay bricks in the Maghazi refugee camp amid severe shortages of construction materials in the Gaza Strip. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreid7esbv6nfdigizzrktqbbrvehbpifbb2yfhxk6ixlua5btf5cx4y)
![Palestinians raise mud-brick walls as an alternative to scarce construction supplies in the Gaza Strip. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreihxzyrdrbcetbmllcgwkneg32yvo73kimwgq73h7zpagzk3rk4ht4)
![Khalil Abu Ramadan, 26, moulds clay bricks in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreidmvoywob4zd4zr4nqknl33dlkqkcz2jwr24xieykggphv5trkgdi)
September 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Photos: Palestinians rebuild Gaza’s ruins with mud bricks, scrap https://aje.news/qhj0li
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“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory.
In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
September 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory.
In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
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Trump cut down cherry trees for which Washington DC is famous for one of his tacky golf courses.
He’s planning to sell some of Yosemite Park to a private developer.
He’s destroyed the East Wing.
He’s threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center.
That vulgar slob has no respect for beauty.
He’s planning to sell some of Yosemite Park to a private developer.
He’s destroyed the East Wing.
He’s threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center.
That vulgar slob has no respect for beauty.
August 29, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Trump cut down cherry trees for which Washington DC is famous for one of his tacky golf courses.
He’s planning to sell some of Yosemite Park to a private developer.
He’s destroyed the East Wing.
He’s threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center.
That vulgar slob has no respect for beauty.
He’s planning to sell some of Yosemite Park to a private developer.
He’s destroyed the East Wing.
He’s threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center.
That vulgar slob has no respect for beauty.
Took my toddler to the park twice in one week and have been in pain for two days straight.
Disability, especially invisible disability, is so heavy on the soul.
I want to run and climb and play with my baby and still be able to come home and make dinner without buckling from pain.
Disability, especially invisible disability, is so heavy on the soul.
I want to run and climb and play with my baby and still be able to come home and make dinner without buckling from pain.
August 13, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Took my toddler to the park twice in one week and have been in pain for two days straight.
Disability, especially invisible disability, is so heavy on the soul.
I want to run and climb and play with my baby and still be able to come home and make dinner without buckling from pain.
Disability, especially invisible disability, is so heavy on the soul.
I want to run and climb and play with my baby and still be able to come home and make dinner without buckling from pain.
Remember when you were like 9 and learned about climate change and how bad it would look like in the 2020’s (the future which felt like a billion years away) if we didn’t do anything to change things and you told your family and they laughed and said that’s not real?
No?
Just me?
No?
Just me?
Relentless heat and a dearth of rain are having a punishing effect on some of Europe’s most vital rivers. The waterways have tumbled to record lows in places, in a crisis so severe it can be seen from space. https://cnn.it/3TXXwqu
August 5, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Remember when you were like 9 and learned about climate change and how bad it would look like in the 2020’s (the future which felt like a billion years away) if we didn’t do anything to change things and you told your family and they laughed and said that’s not real?
No?
Just me?
No?
Just me?
The way this headline is written makes it sound like Anya TJ herself is going out into Middle Earth with a rifle and a vendetta.
ICYMI: The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For Gollum, the new prequel film directed by Andy Serkis, has added Anya Taylor-Joy to its cast as new character Seren, seen in a new image with a hood and bow. https://t.co/B6GmXcQNMt
June 21, 2026 at 10:07 PM
The way this headline is written makes it sound like Anya TJ herself is going out into Middle Earth with a rifle and a vendetta.
By and large I’m a pacifist but I do believe that you should get to tase anyone who knocks loudly on your door ten minutes after your baby falls asleep.
June 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
By and large I’m a pacifist but I do believe that you should get to tase anyone who knocks loudly on your door ten minutes after your baby falls asleep.
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A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.
May 4, 2026 at 6:05 PM
A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.
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Teaching kids AI literacy - what it is, how it actually works, what the tradeoffs are in using it - would be a good thing. But that's not what's being proposed, they're trying to get it into grade schools to create AI dependency
May 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Teaching kids AI literacy - what it is, how it actually works, what the tradeoffs are in using it - would be a good thing. But that's not what's being proposed, they're trying to get it into grade schools to create AI dependency
This is one of the biggest churches in Oregon. We are talking thousands of people attending every week, up to a thousand PER service and multiple services. Last I heard their numbers were like 5k+. And streamed online.
And this isn’t rural either, people attend from all over Portland metro.
And this isn’t rural either, people attend from all over Portland metro.
Pastor Brett Meador of Athey Creek Church in West Linn, OR did another "Prophecy Update" on Friday. He again taught that the Jews are dead zombies right now, until they reject Judaism and convert to Brett's conservative evangelical Christianity. These are anti-Jewish teachings.
May 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM
This is one of the biggest churches in Oregon. We are talking thousands of people attending every week, up to a thousand PER service and multiple services. Last I heard their numbers were like 5k+. And streamed online.
And this isn’t rural either, people attend from all over Portland metro.
And this isn’t rural either, people attend from all over Portland metro.
Mouth guards are pacifiers for athletes
February 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Mouth guards are pacifiers for athletes
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They’re killing observers because they are threatened by them. the work these people are doing is profoundly brave. They’re all heroes.
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
They’re killing observers because they are threatened by them. the work these people are doing is profoundly brave. They’re all heroes.
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Black folks aren't being sanctimonious today, baby... we are reliving our collective PTSD.
Speaking only for myself, I would not wish this level of un-personing and dehumanization on my worst enemies. But here we are.
Speaking only for myself, I would not wish this level of un-personing and dehumanization on my worst enemies. But here we are.
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Black folks aren't being sanctimonious today, baby... we are reliving our collective PTSD.
Speaking only for myself, I would not wish this level of un-personing and dehumanization on my worst enemies. But here we are.
Speaking only for myself, I would not wish this level of un-personing and dehumanization on my worst enemies. But here we are.
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December 21, 2023 at 9:37 AM
The NYT has a lot of problems and one of them is that they won’t accept my damn spelling bee answers that are, in fact, words. If you’ll accept SLANG words why won’t you accept words like Caracal (a wild cat) or Cavitation (rapid forming of bubbles in a liquid).
This is my stupid hill to die on.
This is my stupid hill to die on.
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The NYT has a lot of problems and one of them is that they won’t accept my damn spelling bee answers that are, in fact, words. If you’ll accept SLANG words why won’t you accept words like Caracal (a wild cat) or Cavitation (rapid forming of bubbles in a liquid).
This is my stupid hill to die on.
This is my stupid hill to die on.
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Where’s the CBS News town hall focused on the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota?
Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk
Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Where’s the CBS News town hall focused on the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota?
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they are trying to kill every trans kid in America
when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink
unconscionable evil
when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink
unconscionable evil
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
they are trying to kill every trans kid in America
when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink
unconscionable evil
when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink
unconscionable evil
I cannot stress enough that tear gas is a chemical weapon that is literally BANNED by an international agreement from being used in WAR.
But apparently it’s fair game to use against your own fucking people.
But apparently it’s fair game to use against your own fucking people.
October 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I cannot stress enough that tear gas is a chemical weapon that is literally BANNED by an international agreement from being used in WAR.
But apparently it’s fair game to use against your own fucking people.
But apparently it’s fair game to use against your own fucking people.
If someone wrote this dystopia, people would have laughed and said “that would never happen in real life.”
‘An AI system…called local police to tell them the pupil was armed…they made him get on his knees, handcuffed and searched him – finding nothing…
“I was just holding a Doritos bag”’
So it’s a stupid system & doesn’t work
Who made money offloading this crap?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“I was just holding a Doritos bag”’
So it’s a stupid system & doesn’t work
Who made money offloading this crap?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun
Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If someone wrote this dystopia, people would have laughed and said “that would never happen in real life.”
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This is Jim Crow shit.
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is Jim Crow shit.