Leah Petersen
Science fiction and fantasy author: FIGHTING GRAVITY trilogy. Bipolar. She/they.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenIt really is incredible. Watch the full clip.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenThere's a thread on Twitter that purports to show that AI can save money by producing visual effects better than Hollywood. And it's just identical shots that wouldn't exist without straight plagiarism of the source material. It might be the dumbest thread I've ever seen.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenVery weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenThere is so much to unpack in these two quotes. Good grief.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenNPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
- Reposted by Leah Petersenremember those 3 weeks last year when they were loudly called weird creeps and the weird creeps lost their fucking minds and melted down, the whole thing was funny & it was *working* then of course the Dem leadership/consultant class put a STOP to all that because they have a public failure kink
- the centrist “identity politics is bad” argument, sneering at leftists over pronouns - like we’re fixated on arcane academic concepts and you need a PhD in gender studies just to express an opinion - falls apart pretty fast when you reframe this as Normal Humans vs. Creeps Spying On Strangers Peeing
- Reposted by Leah PetersenBear in mind the AI voices will have been ripped off from people like me who, until now, have voiced stories. Our jobs will be diminished or gone, replaced by voices stolen from us without any recompense.
- Audible announces “fully integrated, end-to-end AI production technology” as it sets a goal that every book will be available audibly and in every language bit.ly/4koIiTD a human comments “In the search for a cheap simulacra to a human, we are prepared to burn down the planet and call it progress”
- Reposted by Leah PetersenIllustration from a medical text book in 1875 showing the physical difference between "the masturbator" and "the abstainer." I share this with my students to illustrate how moral culture shapes the medicalization of particular practices, even in ways obviously inconsistent with reality.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenOh, I also have a book out today! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
- Told my husband about the Trump plane from Qatar and he wondered if there would be a remote self destruct button.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenLet’s break this down—because the gaslighting is wild: 📌Oct 2022 – Biden signs EO to cut drug prices 📌Jan 2025 – Trump takes office and kills Biden’s EO to cut drug prices 📌May 2025 – Trump signs his own EO to lower drug prices Trump canceled Biden’s plan then brought it back w/his name on it.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenTwo brothers without criminal records, applying for permanent legal status, were deported by ICE anyway.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenOf all the awful stuff in this reprehensible bill, the fact that your children stop being considered dependents at SEVEN may be the most horrifying detail.
- Reposted by Leah Petersenoh wow I wonder if this is something he could have done when the Trump admin condemned 2000 infants a day to a lifelong HIV infection or when he defied a unanimous Supreme Court decision ah well nevertheless
- Reposted by Leah PetersenAmerica is now a tinpot kleptocracy run by a fascist imbecile. The nonpartisan stewards of our norms and institutions are in denial. None would hesitate to call a leader from the Global South illegally taking a plane from the Qataris a corrupt exchange. But here? We need different language.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenTrump is taking a bribe from a country that funds Hamas. If you can’t say that, then you shouldn’t be a journalist.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenMy daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenFrom The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...
- Reposted by Leah PetersenOK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
- Reposted by Leah PetersenYou count on the NPR Network. THANK YOU to our supporters who are showing we can count on you too. If you haven’t given yet, it’s time to join the movement to defend public media. Donate now: n.pr/3EYClNR
- Reposted by Leah PetersenIt’s so nuts that the comparison he draws is literally cheating at golf
- Reposted by Leah Petersen"impeachment or losing an election is the only way public officials can be disciplined for literal crimes" is not how literally any political system has ever conducted itself
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- Reposted by Leah PetersenNEW: As the Trump admin is flying Afrikaners here today to be resettled as "refugees," @Sec_Noem is terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan — meaning they may start deporting women and allies who protected our troops to the Taliban to be persecuted or killed!
- I get to meet my new niece later this week! She's almost three months old and I'm about to die to kiss those cheeks!!!
- Reposted by Leah PetersenWhile America slept, House Republicans quietly unveiled their Medicaid plan. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it strips health insurance from 13.7 million Americans.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenThis is how the Republican Justices on SCOTUS have defined corruption-they insist it is the *only* definition of corruption. (It is not! They don't control the English language! Or common sense!) Congress has defined corruption in other ways- SCOTUS has just imposed its own definition on all of us.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenThis is a very consultant-brain type of thinking bc swing voters aren’t “centrists” by any meaningful sense of the world. Their most salient ideological characteristics are, like, a general disinterest in “the news” and a loose and absolutely incoherent set of political beliefs
- Reposted by Leah PetersenThey've now made clear the Qatari plane is officially a bribe. Trump gets to take it with him for his personal use after he leaves office. The Times is really not being clear with readers abt how prez libraries work. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/qatar...
- Reposted by Leah PetersenIf I don't have health insurance I'm as good as dead. I've been so fucking worried about this.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenMy approach to superhero fiction in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four
- Reposted by Leah PetersenThe LAPD posts a net loss of $3.3 billion a year every year! But sure, we're gonna talk about the U.S. Postal Service instead
- Reposted by Leah PetersenCall your best friend's mom. She put up with a bunch of your bullshit, too.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenPlease, for the love of god, don’t start your new newsletter on Substack. There are so many better and cheaper alternatives who don’t run a business model of platforming the worst among us. You can get a self-hosted Ghost newsletter up and running for <$10/month.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenNobel Prize winning science.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenThe Wheel of Time Season 4 Renewal Petition renewwot.com/the-wheel-of... #WheelOfTime
- Reposted by Leah PetersenI read "On a Red Station, Drifting" by @aliettedebodard.com. Strong worldbuilding and exploration of how complex family bonds can be.
- I love the way we consider a pet's chosen position as sacred.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenImagine if a study that showed therapy helps patients cope while undergoing chemotherapy was used to argue there was no need for the chemo. That's what the Cass Report (and the recent report from HHS that copied it) are doing.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenSome of the advice you are tempted to give from personal experience is actually bad, and only worked out well for you because you were very lucky. Try to understand which positive life experiences you had that you should NEVER advice other people to attempt.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenA man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
- Reposted by Leah PetersenYour daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenWalz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenWhen I was in college, I thought we’d get universal healthcare in a few years. Instead, people are taking their unvaccinated kids to measles parties.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenIf you have to repeatedly break the law to arrest those you claim have broken the law, you’re not enforcing the law. ICE has morphed into a terrorizing Gestapo-like goon squad. They must be held accountable.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenAllison Riggs was confirmed the winner of the NC State Supreme Court election, and Griffin finally conceded; seems he didn't want to risk taking it all the way up to SCOTUS. Just case anybody missed that bit of good news out of NC.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenNever ever let people forget that most Americans supported the war in Vietnam and most Americans loathed MLK while he was alive. Popularity in this country does not have any relationship to being right… especially on an issue that flipped rapidly under years of unchallenged fascist agitprop.
- Support for slavery was pretty high at certain points too. This is what happens when you have one party trying to scare everyone about trans people and the other party staying silent on the issue! apnews.com/article/tran...
- Reposted by Leah PetersenThis is LITERALLY Nazi propaganda. As in, the actual real life Nazis in 1930's Germany brought out posters saying how paying for chronically ill people is a waste of all the "healthy people's" money. I even made a post about it here: bsky.app/profile/qich...
- Reposted by Leah Petersenjust say our four humors are unbalanced this is taking forever
- The latest pick for Surgeon General seems to echo the New Thought movement. 🗃️ “Perhaps the body is simply the material ‘radio receiver’ through which we can ‘tune in’ to the divine." “Humans are out of alignment with the Earth and depleting its life force." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Leah PetersenWhen going through Ted Cruz's list of "woke" grants, I saw this kind of thing a lot! A lot of DEIA stuff helps rural people because rural people are poor, and have no access to resources, and therefore need equity to be a thing. It's not that crazy.
- Just amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1950...
- Reposted by Leah PetersenREAD. THE. SUBHEAD.
- Reposted by Leah PetersenFrom the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District: What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management I hope this helps your infrastructure. neorsd.medium.com/what-tom-hol...
- woke up to learn our deep dive into the Tom Holland lip-sync battle caught @fuggirls.bsky.social Heather & Jessica’s attention, which i guess is how infrastructure education goes pop-culture mainstream these days. neorsd.medium.com/what-tom-hol...
- Reposted by Leah PetersenTrump and Noem opened an ICE detention center in Newark without permission and in clear violation of the city's ordinances. And when confronted by Mayor Baraska, they did what authoritarians do. They arrested and disappeared him.
