searching for the ghost of tom joad

[idiopathicsmile]

Read a queer YA romance in advance!

Fans of my audio drama The Strange Case of Starship Iris, my Les Mis fic World Ain’t Ready, or queer yearning underscored by banter in general will love You Pierce My Soul, my new far-future dystopian romance about two teen girls who must work together to defy an algorithm that pairs everyone off with their soulmate. The book comes out May 5th (and is available for preorder) but for a limited time you can enter to win a package that includes an ARC right now!

Besides the paperback You Pierce My Soul, you’ll also receive a hardcover of my last YA novel, Stars Hide Your Fires, a sci-fi mystery where a cynical thief must partner with a mysterious revolutionary to solve a murder at a ball in an opulent palace space station. Plus two pins, and three adorable book-themed bookmarks I made by hand!

RULES: To enter, reblog this post. On December 19th, I'll choose a random winner from those reblogs. (One reblog per person, please.)

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31-10-2025

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced the passing of the national fighter Malika Abu Aker, "Umm Nidal," the olive tree of Dheisheh Camp, #Bethlehem. Umm Nidal was a symbol of steadfastness against the occupation, having offered her son Mohammed as a martyr during the Stone Intifada and being the mother of the comrade leader Nidal Abu Aker.

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desde méxico, a los mártires del Frente Populat por la Liberación de Palestina, los saludamos y los honramos hoy.

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[easterndelights]

ひとりでしにたい I Want to Die Alone (2025)

[repinipi]

[jdramaflow]

HITORI DE SHINITAI ひとりでしにたい 2025, dir. Kumasaka Izuru.

[jdramaflow]

HITORI DE SHINITAI ひとりでしにたい 2025, dir. Kumasaka Izuru.

[repinipi]

[idleminds]

[my-midlife-crisis]

[adulthumanproblem-deactivated20]

Are liberals seriously still jerking off over Barack drone strike Obama 😭😭😭

[gaydinosaurbananamilkcarton]

Better than Donald convicted felon Trump🤷🏽‍♂️

[badempanadaofpatmos]

"Atleast he only murdered brown people"

[gaydinosaurbananamilkcarton]

When did I ever say that?

[badempanadaofpatmos]

If you didn't think that the lives of brown people were worth less than white ones, you wouldn't defend a war criminal and mass murderer of brown people on the basis that he was better for white people. Explain how obama is acceptable, but trump isn't, when both commited war crimes and were mass murderers.

[gaydinosaurbananamilkcarton]

I’m not white? Trump is selfish, racist, misogynistic, and a sex offender. Not to mention he’s a huge reason why the economy is the way it is. That’s why I don’t support him.

[badempanadaofpatmos]

Notice how you can only explain why trump is worse by ignoring the fact that obama is a mass murderer? Because then you had to admit that you don't care about things affecting non-americans and that's it's all about you personally.

[reigen-small-naturals]

devastating.

[dre759]

Seriously if anyone wants to learn actual stuff about the DPRK (North Korea) that isn’t just the racist and scandalously inaccurate caricatures you see in western media check out books by A.B Abrams: Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences (about multiple countries but the DPRK is featured in two chapters), Immovable Object, and Surviving The Unipolar Era.

As a taste. Here are some screenshots from chapter 7 pages 425-426 of Atrocity Fabrication. (In addition to the citations at the end of the chapter the author used for these paragraphs)

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"People are not their governments....unless they are Jews" The hypocrisy is astounding

[badempanadaofpatmos]

Interesting how china arresting up to a hundred thousand muslims is genocide, but israeli openly exterminating them is just war.

Good that I showed you the statistic that proves the majority of israelis to be genocidal monsters, so that you now understand the different reactions people have.

Jewish Israelis believe IDF is using appropriate force in Gaza, Arab Israelis broadly do not - poll

A vast majority of Jewish Israelis believe that the IDF is using an appropriate amount or not enough force, while half of Arab Israelis say

[originalscreenname]

Are you actually defending China right now?

[badempanadaofpatmos]

No, I'm informing you that you're a racist that hates brown and chinese people and don't have believes outside of that.

[alinethered]

I can't afford to pay my bills or consistently put food on the table. I think I'll travel to the US and bomb a school or a hospital or something. Maybe shoot some civilians in the street. It's okay though, I'm poor.

[lovebtwnboys]

Source: Life Senjou no Bokura

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[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

"Shouldn't the man who invented the iPhone own his own creation?"

An explanation by anti-capitalist brad pitt.

[probablyasocialecologist]

"Mazzucato lists twelve crucial technologies that make smartphones “smart”: (1) microprocessors;(2) memory chips; (3) solid state hard drives; (4) liquid crystal displays; (5) lithium-based batteries;(6) fast Fourier transform algorithms; (7) the internet; (8) HTTP and HTML protocols; (9) cellular networks; (10) Global Positioning Systems (GPS); (11) touchscreens; and (12) voice recognition. Every last one was supported by the public sector at key stages of development."

Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, The People’s Republic of Walmart

[anarchblr]

“A critical history of technology would show how little any of the inventions [..] are the work of a single individual.”

–Karl Marx, Capital