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David DeGraff (he/him)

@daviddegraff.bsky.social
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Astronomer and science fiction writer Stories in Lightspeed, F&SF, Escape Pod, Translunar Traveler’s Lounge, and Carbide Tipped Pens #VP21 #Codex DavidDeGraff.com

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Nevilledog @nevilledog.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
From the amazing Steven Miller insult thread
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Holy shit this cartoon.
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Same, MurderBot. Same.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This Needs to Happen…. Idea: a law that says if you’re going to build a data center, you have to also build enough solar panels to power it. We can call it the Bring Your Own Damn Grid Act.
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Josh from @cardsagainsthumanity.com and I teamed up with 4 awesome artists (@theoatmeal.bsky.social , @boxbrown.bsky.social , @shing.bsky.social , and one anonymous artist) to make anti-ICE urinal stickers you can pee on. Get yours for free at PeeToMeltICE.com bsky.app/profile/peet...
A sticker that says "PEE TO MELT ICE" and then has a cartoon pic of an ICE agent with ICE on their chest and a hood/gaiter over their face. A cartoon dotted line of pee is splashing onto its head. Art by Shing Yin Khor. an ICE agent literally made of ice, which is melting, with a red arrow with "PEE 2 MELT" and a red arrow with "PEE HERE". The agent is wearing riot gear and a gaiter, and has drops of sweat/melt coming off of him as he melts into a puddle. Above him are the words “PEE TO MELT ICE”. Art by Brian “Box” Brown. A crying ICE agent with a cap and face gaiter, whose gun is melting and the muzzle is drooping down. His chest armor says ICE and above him are the words "PEE to MELT"A very rotund and hairy ICE agent in a gaiter and tank top and riot vest that says ICE and stars-and-stripes hat. Over him is a banner that says "PEE TO MELT", and he has the word ICE on him to complete the sentence. Art by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal.
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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026
We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Pee To Melt ICE @peetomeltice.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Free anti-ICE urinal stickers you can pee on. Get yours at PeeToMeltICE.com
a sticker that says "PEE TO MELT ICE" and then has a cartoon pic of an ICE agent with ICE on their chest and a hood/gaiter over their face. The cartoon has a cartoon dotted line of pee splashing onto its head. A sheet of 8 urinal stickers, 2 of each kind, each saying "Pee to Melt ICE". The top one has a very rotund and hairy ICE agent in a tank top and riot vest and red and blue hat. The second one has a crying ICE agent with a cap and face gaiter, whose gun is melting and the muzzle is drooping down. The third one has an ICE agent with a hood and gaiter getting peed on with a dotted line and splash marks. The fourth one has an ICE agent literally made of ice, which is melting, with a red arrow with "PEE 2 MELT" and a red arrow with "PEE HERE".
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is So Cool!
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It’s Mardi Gras! Celebrate than this @escapepod.org episode—Carnaval on the moon! escapepod.org/2025/12/11/e...
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Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It occurs to me that if Kid Rock is the alternate to Bad Bunny, then Kid Rock is Elmer Fudd.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
❤️
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Jason Odell @luminescentphoto.com · 29/01/2026
“Melania” is truly the worst experience I’ve had in a theater” -Abraham Lincoln
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
My Mardi Gras on the moon story is out now at Escape Pod!
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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Pillars of 👀 🔭🐡🧪🎨
JWST version of the Pillars of Creation. But with Googly eyes on the pillars.
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
AI is definitely helping us
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/12/2025
It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI” when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm joining the war on Autism on the side of the Autism.

Murderbot is the character shown
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dadvans | the winnipeg jorts @dadvans.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Either everyone gets human rights — or eventually only Party Members get human rights. Trans rights are human rights. Immigrant rights are human rights. Women’s rights are human rights. Anyone who won’t fight for them is on the wrong side.
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I really wish some of these paraphrases were direct quotes.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk.
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
escapepod.org/2025/07/31/e... Listening to a tear-jerker while on a walk without any Kleenex was a mistake.
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Escape Pod 1004: The Girl Who Came Before
When me and my family pulled into our driveway, my five best friends were waiting in our front yard, waving glittery poster-board signs that read “Welcome Home Sam!!!” and jumping around with full-on…
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Aurora were not quite visible naked eye but my phone captured them pretty well. You can see the Big Dipper in the images with a clear horizon
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Josh Abraham @thejoshabraham.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!
An illustration of a scene from Fargo drawn in the style of the comic strip The Far Side: Marge encountering the wood chipper situation and exclaiming, “Oh Jeez.”
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 11/08/2025
This one is for the teachers and professors artologica.etsy.com/listing/4350... 🎨
red yellow and orange brain watercolor with text  NO CHATGPT ONLY BRAIN
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radams @radamssmash.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
A shitty map created by ChatGPT5.  it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
“Mr. President, many of your detractors say you can’t fly. What is your response to them?”
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Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Why Chutzpah? It takes chutzpah to: write a book to ask peers for a critique to submit it to bare the slings and arrows of outrageous reviewers and, yes, even to shout, "I'm here. Please like and share." What act of creative chutzpah have you done today? www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
A graphic announcing the Jewish fantasy noir novella Hornytown Chutzpah. In the lower right stands a sheyd (demon) wearing a t-shirt that reads "Sucker 4 Sin" with a lollipop on it. In the upper left, a cartoon detective wearing a purple fedora holds a water balloon.
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DREAM for NYC @dreamfornyc.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Now that Andrew Cuomo is deigning to talk to voters, New Yorkers can actually tell him how we *really* feel. Here's our guide on how to approach Cuomo and create a memorable experience that will make him regret running in the general election.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/07/2025
Fingers crossed
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is what fear looks like.
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A fantastic anti-corporate series that more people should read
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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%. #NASADidThat
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I can finally say something about this. My Mardi Gras on the Moon story is going to be in here
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Dylan Wilbanks is not a Halloween person @dylanw.social · 27/06/2025
is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,
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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Great thread showing how open borders can be a good thing.
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