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Barbara (she/her)

@bhowe.bsky.social
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Retired software engineer turned fantasy novelist. Dual U.S. and New Zealand citizen. barbarahowewriter.com

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16/10/2026
no matter what happens on election night, these bozos had their hands on every single lever of power. they had all of our most powerful institutions tripping over themselves to comply. they had the media swearing that we were in a new golden age of conservatism. now they're worrying about NEBRASKA
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This voter is angry that female-PM haters keep getting too much attention
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Wish I could ❤️ this x 10
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
😥
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Gee, whatever happened to concerns about private property rights?
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aliii✨✨ @gigixmelo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Also don’t invest in Space X… Per ig: @/your.richbff
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I believe some of them do have such a warped view of reality they can't comprehend that the world doesn't usually work that way.
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Noor Lovelace @noorlovelace.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 how 👏🏼 you 👏🏼 do 👏🏼 it
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Submission made. Thank you.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Hell no!!
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Huh. Don’t know… I had forgotten we could do that.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’m one of those people who worked on Y2K, and yeah, the AI problem is nothing like it. "Y2K was a cliff. AI is weather." That’s it in a nutshell.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Block ‘em. Don’t engage, just block.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
You should've been given a raise, not a pink slip.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Yes. Creative endeavors are not zero-sum games. One person's success can result in interest for lots of other related artists.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I grew up in North Carolina, went to university in Georgia. I knew plenty of people who waved the Confederate flag. And you know what? The good guys won.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Wtf? I don't think it is even possible to solve the hallucination problem.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The more these evangelicals try to become the government the more people they will drive away. They are only accelerating the demise of their institutions by merging them with the state. The evangelicals of the founding era understood this dynamic, which is why they wanted church/state separation.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
For anyone who wants to take part in No Kings Day 3 but can't get to a protest in person, there's this: www.standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3
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SUFS NoKings3 Accessible Rally — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
NO KINGS 3 ACCESSIBLE RALLY organized by Stand Up for Science - An online and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere, on March 28th, 12:30 - 2PM CT followed by live stream of the national flagship ...
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Gays getting married caused no harm to straight marriage. Rowling is actively harming trans people, and buying her products supports that. Not the same thing at all.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
My god, that thread was educational. I've been married to a man for 30+ years and I didn't know half of it.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/03/2026
If you ever think your vote doesn’t count…
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
So what is his answer? I mean, I know what I'd say, but what does he say? His answer might be more succinct than mine.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Well, shit. I had missed that.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Musk is sabotaging his own attempt to colonise Mars?
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
And he's contemptuous of anyone else who doesn't.
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pro-algae, likely paid @hndrcks.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I heard it in the car and started yelling. Assigning agency to a computer program is journalistic malpractice
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/02/2026
This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40
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Welcome The Stranger
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
PS if you do have kids & you want them to continue to like you into adulthood, supporting them when they put in this kind of effort (or at the very least having open-minded dialogue with them about it) is the best path forward They are fighting for their future. They need to see you fighting, too
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."
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anonymouse.myatproto.social @anonymouse.myatproto.social · 26/01/2026
We saw this in Finland when they required at least 30% of corporate boards be women, the boards got much more competent. It wasn't qualified men being replaced with unqualified women; it was mediocre men being replaced with exceptional women. The same thing in reverse is going on.
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anonymouse.myatproto.social @anonymouse.myatproto.social · 26/01/2026
Trump replaced a lot of competent women and minorities with incompetent white men. Not just at the top of the departments but throughout. Staffed with incompetents, the Trump admin struggles to craft even simple regulations. That's why they're turning to AI.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
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2timesgrumpy_owl @2timesgrumpyowl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is such valuable advice and put plainly. Please take a moment. TY @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
So sorry you have to deal with this shit.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If he really did, good. But considering how really out to lunch he is now, we can't count on him continuing to TACO.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is torture.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Excellent analysis/thread on Social Security.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
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Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
once again we are all tapping the sign
Claire Willett
@clairewillett

honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Whatever happened to "No taxation without representation"? They pay taxes. They should be allowed to vote.
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Freya Keddie @keddieff.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Another reason why this is *such* a dumb decision is that it will reduce the pool of eligible blood donors in the future I know someone with O negative blood type (i.e. a universal donor), who could never donate because he had hepatitis as a kid (was so ill that he was hospitalized)
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Dawn❌👑Ocean Harmony🎶🌴☀️♿️🐕‍🦺🦮👩‍🦽🚶🏻‍♂️ @dawnoceanharmony.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
In other words, $5 million is still peanuts to him.
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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
And you haven't even mentioned the wholesale theft and agglomeration of sensitive data on all Americans. I'm afraid the repercussions of that privacy breach will also be generational.
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