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CJ Powers

@cjpowerswrites.bsky.social
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33 • She/they • Ace • Despite the last name my telekinesis remains dormant. Author, actor, DM, professional silly goose • LEST WE FORGET (Fantasy/cosmic horror, thalassophobia, multi-pov)

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 19h
@ThoughtSlime

People who become right wing because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s not a story that anyone wants to hear but in February 2018 I caught a friend’s sore throat. While he recovered fully, I just kept declining, and by June I was 99% bedbound. Eight years later, that’s where I remain. We desperately need better defenses against all respiratory viruses.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.
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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know what? I have absolutely no problem posting this. I hope it follows them for years.
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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well, I didn't get my wish. And we're not going to survive paying all these hospital bills on our own, so since my lungs failed me, I need to ask you for help. Shares help, too. 💜 ko-fi.com/cknightwrites
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Buy Charlie Knight a Coffee
Become a supporter of Charlie Knight today!
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28/09/2026
More than 38,000 residential school survivors testified to the abuse they experienced as children. Next September, Canada plans to destroy their records.
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Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies. These women are trying to save them
The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/09/2026
It's even simpler: the technology is the industry. To exclude the industry from our understanding of AI is to misunderstand the technology. So-called AI just doesn't work without the whole industry behind it. How do we know? We tried for decades and even more than a century under some definitions.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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CJ Powers @cjpowerswrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh wow oh wow my nonfiction piece about my house burning down is in an anthology! Many many thanks to Frazzled Lit for publishing it originally and for including it in this anthology www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJRH3QBV
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Life As Mask: Frazzled Lit Anthology - Volume 1
Life As Mask: Frazzled Lit Anthology - Volume 1 - Kindle edition by Lit, Frazzled, Hegarty, Neil . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life As Mask: Frazzled Lit Anthology - Volume 1.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/09/2026
beast mode
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Kristin 🌙 @dominolucky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Little reminder I have a shop! It’s harder and harder for real artists to get sales in the sea of slop on Etsy these days, so it’s that much more important to help keep us going if you can 💖 I have prints, stickers, bookmarks, buttons, and lots of stuff!! www.etsy.com/shop/luckydo...
A sticker featuring six books in a row as if shelved, with succulents of various sizes and colors sitting behind the spines. The colors are muted and warm, and the sticker is framed by plant leaves with a book in the corner.An image showing a druid-themed washi tape in use. The washi is pale green, with motifs of a moon and stars, antlers, a snake, berries, a flower, mushrooms, a branch, a bird skull, feathers, a mortar and pestle, crystals, a bone-handled knife, and a bundle of herbs. Green and red leaves are spaced between the designs.A large 4” dnd subclass sticker with banners reading “school of evocation”. The main design features three rays of magic, like a magic missile, twisting together. A geometric shape sits behind them, with rays bursting from the design. The sticker is surrounded by plants on a partially sparkly background. An image depicting the front and back sides of a bookmark featuring Emet-Selch from FFXIV. One side shows his Shadowbringers appearance with a background of Amaurot and the other shows his Endwalker appearance with a background of Elpis flowers. The bookmark features hand painted gold details and is laminated, with a red tassel hanging from the bottom featuring charms of a black and white round stone and a gold triangle.
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ursiday @ursiday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bunny
Digital sketch of an anthropomorphic dwarf rabbit wearing a blazer, skirt, heels, and cat-eye glasses
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It did not "go rogue". It glitched, it malfunctioned, it did not operate as intended too. It is not a person it therefore cannot go rogue. It is broken and it needs to be shut down.
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margaw 🌙 @margawart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's promo day with free shipping on INPRNT! ✨ www.inprnt.com/gallery/marg... (shares are super helpful as I've been stuck just below the withdrawal minimum for ages and can't get paid 🙃)
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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Netanyahu is a war criminal. He wants people to think a streamer is the problem.
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 24/09/2026
Her name was Kerri Moynihan www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Parents' suit alleges sexual harassment at Activision drove their daughter to suicide
Lawsuit filed by parents of employee who took her life at company retreat alleges Activision Blizzard failed to prevent pervasive sexual harassment.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 24/09/2026
The White House is airing a TV ad glorifying Trump that says it was “paid for by the US government.” One critic called using federal dollars for what amounts to campaign material the “weirdest way to violate the Hatch Act, ever.”
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White House Airs Trump Propaganda Ad 'Paid For By the US Government'
"Weirdest way to violate the Hatch Act, ever."
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned
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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Its giving gerald ford pardoning Richard Nixon.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They are nothing but servants.
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CJ Powers @cjpowerswrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Let's gooooooooooooo
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
You know, when politicians are term-limited out sometimes they do what’s in their heart, and he’s got nothing but love for throwing out homeless people’s stuff, eliminating jobs with that merger, and killing women
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CJ Powers @cjpowerswrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Crucially this is NOT how the actual conversation went but I made myself laugh with this thought.
Four panel comic of faceless bean people
Therapist: Based on what you've talked about, I think you'd benefit from EMDR.
Me: I thought that was for people who needed to work through trauma
Therapist: pointed silence
Me: Ah, beans.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, this argument should be chilling. Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
nero's guide is awesome, and concretely helped me with making a website as somebody who doesn't have the brain for this stuff 👍 if you're an artist of any sort, making a website for yourself is one of those things that hugely pays off the extended effort time and again
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
imagine being a grown adult highly-paid professional, going to a party where you see an unaccompanied 13 year old in the midst of (presumably) various drug/alcohol/sexual activities, and NOT immediately 1. leaving so fast you leave a cloud of dust behind you and 2. notifying authorities.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/09/2026
Amazing. Also--you never know what will make an impact, no matter how small it seems.
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CJ Powers @cjpowerswrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jindor: He'd be a model or an actor if he wasn't a church baby Norn: Probably some sort of grief counselor or social worker, I don't think they'd go too far from working with the dying Irileth: She's running the city council like the Navy Prentyss: Olympian sprinter
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early
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CJ Powers @cjpowerswrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Guess who finally has a Vyvanse prescription and the insurance necessary to cover it and a therapist and hope for the future? this guy
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CJ Powers @cjpowerswrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hello! I'm Christine (or CJ) Powers and I am getting my fantasy/cosmic horror debut novel about four queer heroes fighting back against a memory-eating deep sea octopus god put together for publishing in 2027 (hopefully. fingers crossed.)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Rebecca Quinn @rebeccaquinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is correct. We need to place responsibility where it belongs, with climate, with poverty, with everything.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For the folks that said they support him because he says what he means, they sure burn a *lot* of calories telling us "what he really meant was..."
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ways to help authors you love: - Review their books. - Share their posts. - Tell people about their books. - Learn the true name of the universe and manipulate it to make their book a bestseller. - Get your library to order in their books. - Ask local events to book them for appearances.
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CJ Powers @cjpowerswrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I saw someone say that if you voted for Kamala but you criticize Ed Sheeran, you're a hypocrite and I'm just like... what are we doing here? Literally what option would've been morally pure enough for you?
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🎯🎯
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