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The House has already passed the spending bill that gives ICE more money. The Senate returns to session on Tues, Jan 27th (tomorrow) and the deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown is Jan 30th.

Now is the time to contact your senators to tell them not to give ICE more money.

I've put together a page with a few links and resources on actionable steps, including scripts for calling your senators, and easy templates for emailing them. Calling is better, but doing one is better than none.

I hope the page of links can be a resource for those who might easily feel overwhelmed with ways to help (I am that way myself). I'm sure it's far from perfect, but I hope it helps. Please take a moment to check it and see what ways you can act.

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)