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Audry T. ~ she/her

@audryt.bsky.social
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Worked in games, manga, animation, publishing. I love writing stories about hot bad guys getting their asses kicked by snarky girls. Los Angeles girl, dog lover, activist. You have the right to be you & live your best life!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 57m
See it’s cool because now every delivery driver can also be part of your neighborhood watch and cops will be able to jack in to live feeds from driver glasses. /s
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Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 3h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 4h
🚨 Daily USA Midterm Election REMINDER. Ignore the polls, trolls, doom scrolls and billionaire a-holes. 👀 Check your registration 🗓️ Make a voting plan 🤳🏻 Document your vote And, come hell or high water, Vote Blue for democracy NOT red for fascism‼️
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 11h
Late #wipsnips Molly's eyes narrow, her senses still. Dust stirs nearby as if someone were walking away. She could follow the crew or follow her gut and see exactly what the invisible being is up to. #Well, her captain’s gotten out of bloodier messes than this so she follows whatever it is instead.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h
“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”
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Dox for Me, O Muse
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 11h
Indoctrinate through abuse, based just on the use of abusive phrasing like "consequences".
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 12h
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula Okay, the original non-Dracula vampire:
Black and white still promotional image from a very early silent black and white film titled NOSFERATU that was a deliberate rip off of the Dracula fiction story and rushed out to get an audience due to Dracula's popularity. The nosferatu of the title is a bald man with point ears and fang teeth and long extended fingers with claws in a black cloak coat standing on the deck of an old wooden ship.
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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 13h
A continuation Darkwing Duck series is headed to Disney+ with Mark Hamill.
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New DARKWING DUCK Series Starring Mark Hamill Coming to Disney+
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 12h
#WritingCommunity describe your #book poorly: My earliest pitch: This is the tale of Mackenna the teenage king* who fails to save the world by making the worst choice possible in every scene. FFS not all heroes are perfect! *SHE insists on "king" b/c all the men before her were "king" - so there!
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 13h
Honestly, what the FUCK is wrong with men who do this, regardless of age? They're showing early signs at a young age of behavior you could potentially call sociopathic. Of my five brothers one is like this; he's a monster I cut off. Absolutely not a safe, and I could argue mentally unwell.. 1/2
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 13h
Good for him, lifiting all boats:
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13h
When I came forward with my experience publicly, I got to watch people debate my rapeability in the comments sections
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 13h
The ugly truth: things can still get worse in America. And the fanatic religious right want it to get worse. So no matter how demented and cartoonish Trump may get we need to remember the villain behind the throne: Monsters who would do this to American women if they get the dictatorship they want:
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 13h
Any other year I'd say with certainty this can't be real but this year it could be
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 13h
We need to make these contracts pay us back our wasted taxes, too. Go after the crooks abetting the big crook in the White House.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 2028 election may create "an historic opportunity for Democrats to establish a 'New New Deal,'" writes @davidrlurie.com. The challenge: building "a broad and resilient" coalition to lead us out of our political and economic crises. Yes please. No infighting. 🙂 www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic...
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Will Democrats offer Americans a New New Deal?
A new social pact will be needed in the wake of Trump’s trail of ruin.
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 13h
Mass lawsuit on behalf of taxpayers?
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
LGBTQ+ youth are hugely overrepresented in homeless populations cos their folks kick them out or chase them out. Where is the moral panic over that? Why do we, as a culture, place the blame for bad relationships on abused kids and not their abusers?
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 21h
Starting shortly:
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 21h
Well I'll bet that word is common...
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22h
If this election is actually +16 we're on permanent Is Today The Day Watch. Even with the narcissism and election denial, eventually his brain will crack.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 22h
DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT
I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 23h
Privatizing Social Security should NEVER be on the table. It will NEVER be “reasonable” to cut benefits that Americans have earned over the course of their entire working lives!
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Karen Sandler @karensandler.net · 29/09/2026
This is utterly infuriating. I will join any class action suit that squeezes every possible penny out of these bastards. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
publishersweekly.com
Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The good news about this is every generation needs a series of movies about heists of nazi gold. The bad new about this is that we're the nazis. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
nytimes.com
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026
In Texas, the State is removing climate change courses from the core curriculum. They have decided that climate change is just too dangerous to teach the students. This is indoctrination. I wrote an oped about it in the SA Express-News. Gift link: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
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Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it
Texas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How to stop rogue companies such as OpenAI blowing up the world? Force them to take out liability insurance - if they can find anyone to take on their catastrophic risks. My latest on whether OpenAI will ever IPO - and what will become of the boom if it doesn't... nixons.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Never forget the man in the White House spent his entire life raping children.
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That the phrase "not all men" even exists tells you how many men are abusive - and how many guys downplay their abusive male relatives, peers, friends. Even the guys who wouldn't rape someone often downplay assault or imply that the victim is lying because men are important to them but women aren't.
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
COMIC: Unnecessary Pedant!
TEXT: Look out, evil-doers! There’s a new superhero in town! UNNECESSARY PEDANT!

PANEL 1: GRAMP, an older bald man with a grey mustache, looks askance at ARTHUR, a yellow duck, wearing a black eye mask and black cape.
ARTHUR: CITIZEN! I noticed you used “Their” instead of “There” in your e-mail.
GRAMP: Oh, yeah, I noticed that typo JUST as I was hitting “send”…

PANEL 2: ARTHUR points his wing at a defensive GRAMP.
ARTHUR: “Their” is a possessive pronoun, you see.
GRAMP: No, I KNOW: it was just a typo.

PANEL 3: ARTHUR continues, making GRAMP angrier.
ARTHUR: Whereas you shoud’ve used “there” to indicate a place.
GRAMP: I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IT WAS JUST A TYPO

PANEL 4: ARTHUR leaps in the air, showing off his red t-shirt with a “U P” under his cape. GRAMP, now super angry, holds his hands up to his mouth yelling after ARTHUR.
ARTHUR: Anyway, I can see that my correction has done a great service, here! Unnecessary Pedant, AWAY!
GRAMP: NO ONE WANTS THIS

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s happening again. LLMs reporting someone’s in progress research as if it’s own discovery.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Art by Erika De Luca
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At the very least, since the OpenAI Navier Stokes controversy, a suggestive pattern is emerging. Writers remember: they took our work without thinking twice. The commercial and reputational rewards of stealing science may be too tempting www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Miriam Forster @miriamforster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Indigenous folklore: never whistle at night and don’t acknowledge anything strange you see or Bad Things happen. Lumberjack folklore: this our local whale monster that slides down the mountain to eat you.
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Miriam Forster @miriamforster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
U.S. folklore is primarily made up of extremely large men and very weird cats.
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19
Album cover, abstract colorful images of the singer who has long dark brown hair. At center is green text: ALANIS MORISSETTE. Lower right corner album title in small letters: jagged little pill
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026
Excellent column from @doctorow.pluralistic.net - includes a run down of the tech sector’s history of cartel-adjacent behaviour including THIS three decade agreement btw 40 companies not to poach engineers. chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/law_and_econ...
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The Silicon Valley No-Poach Conspiracy
The Silicon Valley no-poach conspiracy is the most important cartel no one has heard of. It is rarely discussed in the cartel literature and is lost to public memory. More than forty tech firms, inclu...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026
“Same goes for the claims that these companies are already profitable… [essentially] the companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics.” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition
The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Would ALF consider the Borg worthy of throwing zingers at when they don't have any sense of humor? Would his banter confuse them and short circuit their brains? Would he in fact defeat them just by being annoying?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
This is amazing, and also, it looks like Van Gogh painted an oyster
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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Oh come on! The One Ring represents pride, being an endless circle with nothing in the middle! If YOUR metaphor was valid, AI would just endlessly flatter you and puff up your ego while actually warping your every thought toward... Actually, OK, I see it now.
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maasslitagency.bsky.social @maasslitagency.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Starred Review: CHILDREN OF OWL by Darcie Little Badger Shelf Awareness: The fourth solo novel for young readers from Newbery Honor-winning author Darcie Little Badger (A Snake Falls to Earth; Elatsoe) is a fairytale, a ghost story, and a striking narrative about trauma, community, and what we owe…
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Starred Review: CHILDREN OF OWL by Darcie Little Badger
Shelf Awareness: The fourth solo novel for young readers from Newbery Honor-winning author Darcie Little Badger (A Snake Falls to Earth; Elatsoe) is a fairytale, a ghost story, and a striking narrative about trauma, community, and what we owe to the dead. In a desert trailer park in Mockingtown, Tex., three Lipan Apache cousins battle with both personal and real ghosts.
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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If Children of Owl gets enough preorders, I will promote my pug from book assistant to book manager. Please preorder thank u.
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yay Darcie and her peers!
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