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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉

@aphotic-ink.bsky.social
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Reader, knitter, scribbler, hopeful idealist. Largely owned by cats. Clay and magic words. (Words my own, no-one else's.) She/her. Sometime delightful hooligan.

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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 13h
But leading with a promise to freeze property taxes feels like hearing a restaurant promise they won't spend ONE MORE CENT on cleaning than they did last year. That... That is not the appeal you think it is.
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 13h
Property tax relief for people who've had their homes flooded or weather-damaged? Okay. A commitment to thoughtfully redistribute property tax allocations? I would listen.
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 16h
Weird - surely you would want to encourage employees to use the magical productivity enhancing tools as much as possible, maybe even have a leaderboard to encourage their use, so we can look at all the productivity! Wonder why they have stopped?
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 13h
Oh. Candidates are promising to freeze property taxes. It is the year of Our Disaster 2026, ECCC is giving me gloomily informative updates on what to expect in winter, there's been 20% inflation since ppl started ignoring masking recs, and you think it's a good time to NOT fund the infrastructure?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/10/2026
I turned off comments before I posted the goddamn post, you weirdo, because I didn't have the capacity to listen to people opining about what my mom could or couldn't do. Nobody called me out. I expressed a boundary, which you, a person who hates boundaries, is mad about because you suck.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/10/2026
Okay I'm going to go on the other side of BlueSky and say that if you listen to the full clip the thing he's saying is more like "high gas prices are a small price to pay, these commies don't get that, how would they feel if Iran got a nuclear weapon and bombed Los Angeles, heh heh, nice fantasy"
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026
"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.
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Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Timeline cleanse. Also spay/neuter your pets & make sure they get their vaccines.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026
I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think I want to frame this.
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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 30/09/2026
Exactly. Why should I bother to read a book that nobody could be bothered to write?
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Quite a remarkable map, table, and diagram from a 1971 report on launch-on-warning, showing the implications of Soviet submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) on detection, reaction, deliberation, and response time. All numbers are in SECONDS, which is what I find the most wild about it.
Map of the USA labeled "Soviet SLBM [Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile] Time of Flight to SAC [Strategic Air Command] Targets." Shows both "nominal" and "depressed" trajectories. Absolute best (north central USA) is between 580 and 850 seconds (9.6 – 14 min). Absolute worst (everywhere else) is between 320 and 650 seconds (5.3 – 10.8 min). The variations are based on where they assume the subs are launching from. Table: "Early Warning System Performance." Shows four different systems (BMEWS, OTHF, SLBM Net, and a not-yet-operational in 1971 Boost-Phase Detection Satellite) that indicates the time of detection after launch (varies between 55 and 150 seconds; BMEWS cannot detect launches as it is only over-the-horizon radar), the time that the US command and control system would be alerted after launch (ranges from 85 seconds for the newest system to 900 seconds for BMEWs), the probably of detection of a single launch (BMEWS is 99%, SLBM Net is 50%, none of the others have probabilities), probably of detection for a mass launch (all around 100%), and their false alarm rate (BMEWS has 1 per 7 years, OTHF is 1 per 6 months, the others are unknown). Diagram: "National Command-Warning to Response Cycle." Shows the consequences of a launch detection all the way through the US nuclear infrastructure, with "delay times" in seconds. Will be discussed in the next post in this thread.
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Watching their sets in a kind of trance Were people in Mexico, people in France. They don’t chase Jones but their dreams are the same— Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that’s the right name! Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout, A gadget on the set makes them look like you. (Goddammit, John Brunner.)
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Specialist_K @thevaliantone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Separate the art from the arti—“ NO. WE WON’T BE DOING THAT. In fact, we’re removing the separation between audience and art, as well as author and reader. Now if you read about murder, you can be charged for murder, and also you have to share your dental plan with the writer.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Lorin Elise @paperbackbish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New @stephengrahamjones.com nightmares (and haunted miniatures) delivered straight to my doorstep today…
A finished copy of Stephen Graham Jones’s Off The Reservation—orange edges!—in a fun PR package with stickers, jerky, and tiny deer 
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you see this post a beach photo from your phone. #PlayaPilar
A white-sand beach with the sea shading to a beautiful turquoise on the horizon. There is a blue blue sky with a few puffy white clouds. A single-mast white ship is visible in the distance. The photographer's foot is visible in the foreground.
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me: "This silicone caulk smells awful. At least the cats will stay away from it." Also me, two minutes later: "SAM GET YOUR NOSE OUT OF THAT" (I have taped up wax paper shielding.)
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A still-scruffy but nearly-recovered Bloödcheëp showed up on today's livestream from a bird feeder in Gettysburg, PA! Gettysburg livecam: www.youtube.com/live/y9t1g8I... Comic by @rosemarymosco.com, Matron of Bloödcheëps
A cardinal perched on a birdfeeder, almost fully re-feathered after molting. Its head is mostly covered, though it still has a bald spot at the very top where its crest would normally be.A comic in four panels, illustrating different variations of northern cardinals: Juvenile, Adult Male, Adult Female, and Bloödcheëp, Frightful Molt-Demon of the Cursed Abyss. Bloödcheëp has a feathered body and a very naked head.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026
Humaning.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is genuinely fantastic and you deserve celebration.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Turns out "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is actually slightly less scary than "I'm a rich pervert who wants everyone to die".
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What's being described there has its own named mathematical law. It's called the Law Of Adverse Selection, and there isn't a single actuary who isn't intimately familiar with that law and why you never, ever *ever* f**k with it.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will add: there is no way - none whatsoever - that they do not know this.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
first day off after two extremely busy weeks is not as productive as intended; scientists baffled
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for
Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am relieved to say that in Ontario, the PTB watch the dog (or cat) for two weeks. If they develop rabies, then the PTB have already loaded you up on immunoglobulin and vaccine. If they are okay, then yay. I mention mostly b/c the idea of a biting report being a death sentence may deter reporting.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I say this as someone who for years got into ridiculous fights on the internet, sought out pointless conflict, and got into trouble for it: mass harassment only makes the target's behavior and health worse. It achieves literally nothing else.
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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey folks, 3LBE is still seeking support for their next year of work, and with only 12 days left they've barely passed 50%. Please consider giving them your love, your support, and most of all your cash so we can keep enjoying their uniquely delightful publication!
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Becky @beckymew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey friends, one of our Peculiarity Shop artists is trying to help cover a surgery for this sweet senior baby.
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"One-Spoon Recipes" I mean, l'd buy it.
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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · 19/09/2026
We got your perfect weekend read right here: A coalition of unique folks stand up against homogenized culture. A DUBIOUS CLAMOR by @marissalingen.bsky.social will cure what ails you. Available in all the places—heck, ask for it at your library!
Now Available: A Dubious Clamor
"An exquisite delight: A perfect balance of sharp edges, society manners, and cake.” —Davinia Evans, author of Notorious Sorcerer

Sapphic yearning
Gays vs the
government

Unique
Magic System
Complex
Characters
Get it wherever you buy books
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monarch of ashes @cephalopod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
very funny to pretend that bluesky takes toxicity seriously when their lead engineer is openly posting like this lol
@katelynburns.com: Literally do not have tome for that every month. That's just not how humans work.

@why.bsky.world: You’re a podcast host, you have enough free time to talk to the latest chatbot every so often

@katelynburns.com: you think I do my podcast full time?

@why.bsky.world: Well I assumed “freelance journalist” was just a euphemism for unemployed “influencer” so yeah

@katelynburns.com:  Lol

@why.bsky.world: Claiming to be a journalist while refusing to do some pretty basic research is some clown shit
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Sometimes we forget to blink."
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Etaoin Shrdlu @filamena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dang wait. I never thought of that. Why the fuck DO so many government documents have gender on them except to treat people differently? "Oh it's better for identifying." No. You can say "5'6 person with long dark curly hair, a black skirt, the wyld in their eyes and a huge rack.' You got me!
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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The trans war flag. Had some fun with this! Deeper colours than the peacetime trans flag, square, with a guisarme on it- a peasant's weapon that's particularly good at fighting anyone rich enough to be on a horse, that you can use as a farmer's tool in peacetime.
The trans war flag. Square, with deep blue in the bottom left, warm pink in the top right, and a thick band of white separating the colours that runs from the top left to the bottom right.

From bottom left to top right is a black icon of a guisarme.
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They will be diamonds. ✨ (We never get the helicopter pilot's name.)
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"People are going to help each other won't they? I mean, rebuilding things. Any survivors, I mean." "...I think it's the insects' turn."
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The helicopter pilot refusing to leave without Leslie warms my heart every time.
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Am very tired and am unwinding with a classic 80s meet-cute movie. (What do you mean, MIRACLE MILE doesn't count? They meet. It's cute. There are a couple of misunderstandings and a situational hiccup or two.)
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Emily Andras @emandras.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you wanna last in Hollywood, you need a thick skin and a shorter memory. But there’s always one you don’t quite get over. 🫶🏼 @lillywachowski.bsky.social
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here’s some Jocelin Carmes art to make your Friday a little better.
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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026
FDA (20 years ago): This milk has been sourced from a meticulously inspected dairy farm, and has been through a certified pasteurization process. FDA (today): Look, it's liquid, and it's from a cow. At least that's what they tell us. It's fine, probably.
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Frances K R 🌌 - ×10💉 @aphotic-ink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am sure there are some genuinely useful reasons for people to congregate to work in offices. But on behalf of everyone spending 60 to 90 minutes each weekday sitting in traffic to make sure to attend Zoom meetings from a cubicle, fuck this blanket RTO.
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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Welcome to our latest Free Fiction Friday! Z.D. Dochterman offers us a fabulous slipstream tale of Maria, the gas mask gangs, killer purple fog, patricide, blood metal music, and a cat named Korpse with a K. This story is punk and it rocks. magazine.trollbreath.com/gaels-severe...
A cover for the short story, Gael's Severed Eye, by Z.D. Dochterman. The image is of a gas mask with purple fog swirling around it. The title and author are listed below the image, and Trollbreath Magazine runs vertically on the left side of the image.
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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
BAH. BACK TO VT100 TERMINALS AND THE TEXT-ONLY NEWSGROUPS.
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