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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s now clear there is a very real danger that if I don’t make a sale soon Marswasrubbish could wipe out humanity. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

My picture “Camouflage” shows a monster hiding (poorly) behind a box with “Not a monster hotel and spa” written on it

My picture “Melodramatic monk answering the doorbell” shows a simple two dots for eyes mink in hood holding a flame

My picture chastised for eating sheep (and shepherd) shows a huge furry caterpillar like monster looking ashamed while a tiny shepherd yells at it

Tuesday is my picture of a cow being abducted by a ufo

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ran a little earlier the evening. Park is full of people. Kids playing, adults waiting for the playing kids. Sunset plain and unspectacular. Nice. #amwriting #writingcommunity

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ruddy muddy end a the LA sunset at the end of today's walk/run.

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Clouds rolled in an hour ago and the temp dropped 10 degrees from broiling to just plain old hot. Took a quick backyard sunset video and then realized how many wires criss-cross the place. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

AI is a self-replicating virus.

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Took my evening walk. Was was watching my feet, then looked up.

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Met a tall man On my walk today

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That they rush up and drop a cloak of invisibilty over the collapsed thing is hilarious. Quick! Cover it with a black tarp! No one will notice! Dead robot? What dead robot? I don't see a dead robot.

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Twilight walk. Cooler, but still hot. Kids in the park beneath the trees. One crosses my path riding a tiny ebike. "I'm a carnivore," he says in passing, then rides off into the dim.

A photo of a. 10-foot tall cupola on a roof, and a tree in silhouette against a post-sunset sky. There is a lamp lighting one leg of the open cupola. No one is there behind the cupola's railing. The tree is black. The roof is black. The darkening sky is striped with a pink and gray bulbous cloud. The horizon is a fading gold.

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"...colicky piss-baby in the Oval Bordello." ahahah Love your writin', Jeff. And this:

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Castle of Yew, L.M. Boston. "You can go anywhere you want, if you really want to." I think I was 12 when it came out, I was a little old for it, having graduated to novelized MAD books the year before, but it was quiet book that I still think about.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026

America’s unions are proud to endorse @sbworkersunited.org’s boycott of stand-alone corporate Starbucks stores. Workers are fed up with unchecked corporate greed, and we’re standing with them in their fight for a fair contract. No contract? NO COFFEE! ✊ www.boycottstarbucks.net

Boycott Starbucks. No Contract? No coffee. Period. BoycottStarbucks.net

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Since many have requested a translation: "Listen Buddy. All I wanna tell you is that you shouldn't do that. It's not nice, you understand? Look at me when I'm talking to you. This is my number, and if you bother me any more I'm gonna hit you so hard, it's gonna leave you stupid. Cool it."

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just edited the 1st book of my Novel in 3 Parts (for the 1Kth time), changed the 2nd bk's formatting to match, went back to the 1st with changes made in 2nd, entirely reformatted the 3rd... A short clip from 3rd book showing LO Writer red highlit italics so I'd be sure to duplicate them in Pages...

A screenshot of a paragraph which reads:
At 12.7 gallons, the pump clanked and slowed even further, dragging its feet, grudgingly doling out the last few cents: 97, 98, 99... And hung there. Why am I standing here freezing, waiting for one measly penny? But he waited. Freezing. For one measly penny.

The red highlighted, italic parts are:
97, 98, 99...
and Wyatt's thoughts:
Why am I standing here freezing, waiting for one measly penny?

I suppose I use a lot of italics, so sue me. I like them for internal dialogue and for a character's thoughts; I find that they're less clumsy than quotes, and using italics for thoughts makes it easier to differentiate between spoken dialogue and internal dialogue.
And I like to use them for sounds. And for other stuff that I want to separate from the narration, like the cent-counting on the pump.

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

...more list of books I've read... Book 50 (I think I was 11 yo by then): The Castle of Lyrr #writing #reading #writingcommunity #listofbooksread

A photo of the front and back cover of "The Castle of Llyr," by Lloyd Alexander. The front cover is a rough-styled painting of an orange cat with it's paw on a white llyr. A black crow clings to its back. The back cover is an extension of the front image and it features a black boat with black oars and red sails.

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

10 Y ago, Art Garfunkel (remember him?) posted a list of 1200 books he'd read. Me: "I've read 1200 books..." I made a list. Nope. (I did hit 1K this year :) I included all books important to me, including picture books (so sue me) 1st book on list: Leopold the See-Through Crumbpicker

Cover of the picture book, "Leopold the See-Through Crumbpicker," by James Flora. The drawing style is mid twentieth century, loose line drawing with primary/secondary flat color fill. The background is red bricks. A worried girl and a policeman are running, following a selection of food floating by in the air. Black, four-toed footprints are on the ground. A bird is also flying after the food over the girl and policeman's heads, but the bird is smiling. I suspect it sees the food and doesn't care about the theft. Poor bird with no morals and only hunger. Always hungry 6 year old me loved this book, the reveal of the crumbpicker at the end was great, and all the food he got to eat. Ah. Food...

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

yes! exactly! the promise of AI is limitless knowledge, divorced from the actual people that generated it. information without context or labor or connection! a book with no author! fuck off!!!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Trump's Medicaid work requirements are putting even terminally ill patients through bureaucratic nightmares to keep their health insurance — all to fund even more tax cuts for the wealthy.

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My copy of EVERYTHING WILL SWALLOW YOU, by Tom Cox came today! Looking forward to this! @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social more in alt text

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm about 2/3 thru THE RIB KING, by Ladee Hubbard. Interesting, calmly-paced, well-phrased book. I'd just finished THE TALENTED RIBKINS, and looked this up. Both books a good read. ladeehubbard.com/the-rib-king

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The Rib King: A Novel

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Okay, one more before I go back to work. This one is an old graveyard not far from the lake house. We'd stop here on long bike rides and eat lunch. More in the alt text... #writing #amavoidingediting

Another google maps screenshot of an old graveyard in Massachusetts. As I recall, there were no graves newer than the 1800s, and many were 1700s. (?) Some had skulls and moons carved in low relief on the thin, dark granite slabs. Been a long time since I've been there, but I remember it as a quiet, shady place to stop and eat our pbjs or balogna and mustard sandwiches on Sunbeam bread. Reach for Sunbeam Bread; it's Batter Whipped!

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

While I'm reminiscing (and avoiding editing) here's a photo of an old building on a lake near our old house in Mass. I always loved that little building, and wanted to live there. Wouldn't it make a great little writing studio? Except for the constant traffic ten feet from the door.... #writing

Photo of a small brick building with a steep hip roof. The building is in a lake, near the shore and a short, ten-foor gangway leads to its arched doorway. The lake is in Massachusetts and the hills surrounding the lake are green with trees. Our house was a mile or so away to the south, an old, beat-up tract home with those same woods outside the back door.

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Took a break from editing my novel (soon to be published) to update my photo here. No more young Joe Cocker (thanks, Joe :) Now a young me from the dawn of time. This is the 1984/5 Joshua Tree photo my head's cropped from: #writers #writingcommunity #WriteSky #BookSky #indiepublishing #indiebooks

Black & white photo of author/artist Christopher MacNeil circa 1984 or 5. Author in insulated hat and wind gear, holding his beloved Canon AE-1 camera. Taken in Joshua Tree National Park, California. Must have been February to need that much gear in the desert. I do remember that trip vividly. Great trip, it stands out in so many ways from all the other JT trips. Thanks, T.Y., for that weekend, et al.

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

RFK, Jr. strapping a giant head of lettuce to the top of his car

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I like Bluesky but what baffles me about it is the same thing that baffles me about all social media: that it badgers hardworking people to be more interested in a transient digital version of themselves than the art they've created over decades. Fuck that. I'm here to recover and get my books read.

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Landon🌻☭ @iamlandon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Centrists are right wing

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Donny is the kind of twenty-four-seven perpetual motion felony factory that Nixon could only dream about being."

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CB MacNeil @cbmac.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"...Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." -Teddy Roosevelt

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Could not agree more! Not only did Hillary beat the Orange Atrocity by 2.8 MILLION votes, but Al Gore got 543,895 MORE votes than Bush! The Electoral College allows candidates who received less votes to win the presidency. ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

live your life in such a way that the entire world isn’t waiting to see your accursed name pried off every building

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Stephanie Yu @stephanieyu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I had major writer's block after having a baby. My life had changed and writing about it seemed at once too profound and too mundane. Eventually this is the story that came out. Would love it if you gave it a read! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/an-...

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An Implicit Comparison Between Two Unlike Things – swamp pink

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Or, hear me out, how about a bill that requires companies to pay employees for the lifetime value of their data/work product when their labor is harvested to train AI models to replace them?

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

As someone who works in software and uses AI for various software tasks, I didn’t need to learn how to write a prompt in school. I did need to learn how to think Clearly, how to write well, how to read, how to be skeptical and critical and I needed a larger body of knowledge so I could spot bullshit

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Mike @neejix.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Sen Schiff how about some damn regulation of this ponzi-scheme AI industry? How about instead of jamming this crap in our children’s faces before it’s ready, we force tech oligarchs to have some accountability for once.

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