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Dawn Xiana Moon

@dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
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Founder/director of @RaksGeek.bsky.social. Dancer + singer-songwriter. SF/F essays. Food. Spins fire. Britain's Got Talent. Civic tech & UX by day, art by night. Building shared versions of reality + hope. RaksGeek.com RaksInferno.com DawnXianaMoon.com

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 2h
Like there was going to be an answer aside from Star Wars: A New Hope.
static.klipy.com
Obi-Wan Kenobi Says Hello There
Alt: Obi-Wan Kenobi says, "Hello There."
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 7h
I hope it does. Also in a just world there would be criminal consequences, not just lawsuits. Hacking a government is usually considered a felony.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 7h
The AI bros have definitely done an injustice to the term.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 9h
The crash is going to be brutal. Even if you have nothing explicitly invested in "AI."
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 9h
And it's very, very difficult for parents to get them back. Sometimes they can't at all.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was online back when CompuServe email addresses were long strings of numbers. I BEGGED my dad to let me use CompuServe & loved talking Star Trek, Star Wars, and Babylon 5 with people online when it was extremely uncool at my IRL school to be into nerdy things. No graphics. It was all text.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Predator. I was really young - around 5 I think? 😅 I have this recollection of going to see a censored version of it in Singapore with a 12-year-old cousin & I'm pretty sure that's accurate though it sounds insane.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Knowing most people don't read past headlines, this is journalistic malpractice.
Screenshot: Trump announces plan to send $90 payments to millions of seniors

The Washington Post
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Men: Why don't women give us their phone numbers?? Woman: Here's my phone number. Look, I literally wrote it down for you. Men: Why don't women give us their phone numbers??
Screenshot: Patrick

One time a girl at a coffee shop handed me a napkin and said "you might need this". I said “I didn't spill anything.” She smiled and said "just keep it." so I used it to wipe crumbs off the table and threw it away. My friend stared at me and said "her number was on that."
I went back and asked her for another napkin.
She said "did you lose the first one?"
I said "no...I used it."
How do women find husbands?

Alex

Are men expected to pick up soviet spy dating signals?? she needs to grow a pair and just give him her number, like wtf we doing here lol.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Bear saying girl open up there's a man in the forest
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So tired of news organizations reporting the Trump admin's *illegal* actions as "asserting control."
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
JFC.
vox.com
The insidious, fascinating, and utterly infuriating reason that women’s health care is worse than men’s
How the medical system literally devalues women’s bodies.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Does that make the art bad?" If you're asking, you already know the answer.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As I've been saying for years: This is how the machines actually kill us. Not because they're smart. But because they're not, but humans think they are.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This admin has turned over 35,000 children into functional orphans. As of April, 205,000 mostly-US citizen children had a missing parent. Anyone that wants to babble about legalities with an administration that's largely operating illegally or thinks this is OK can kindly go to hell.
theatlantic.com
The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mr. Belding (the principal on Saved by the Bell) was supposed to be 36 when the series started. The actor Dennis Haskins was 38. I feel like 38-year-olds look younger now??
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I didn't get any prep on the process of college apps (immigrant parents, blue collar HS) - but my dad had a masters so I got the educational prep at least. I went to the good in-state school bc that's what I could afford. They had Greeks but Umich is so big you didn't have to interact with them.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Got a gift card for Doordash. Cool! *goes to the site* Doordash has a ~15% service fee + a separate flat delivery fee + you still have to pay 20% tip and in Chicago ~10% taxes. So that's ~45% + additional delivery fees on food that may be additionally marked up as well. Yikes.
Screenshot: How fees work
Fees go to DoorDash and help us pay Dashers and keep DoorDash running. DashPass subscribers enjoy $0 delivery fees and lower service fees on eligible orders. Otherwise, a flat delivery fee (varies by store) and a service fee (typically 15% of subtotal; min. applies) typically apply to delivery orders. Other fees, like a long distance fee or express fee, may also apply depending on your selections. Restaurants generally set menu prices, which may be higher than in-store or elsewhere.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
First day in a month and a half where I don't have a house guest or one coming within the next couple days! (The rotating cast at Midnight F*cking Cookie Town has been fun but I'm also glad to have the house back to myself for a minute, haha. I'm sure I'll have more visitors at some point soon. 😂)
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Periodic reminder that Gavin Newsom is terrible.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Um. The oldest Millennials (by the most generous possible definition of Millennial) are 45. Yes, 45-year-olds would like to retire now too?? (I assume this is Inc. Magazine cluelessness - or AI-generated writing - rather than actual Gen-Z griping.)
Headline from Inc. Magazine: Gen-Z wants Millennials to retire.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sword dancing tip: Do not hold the sword by the parts of the blade that are supposed to be sharp. Wrecks the illusion of danger. (Yes, the swords are real & you can still cut yourself. But almost none of us dance with specifically sharpened ones.)
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Screenshot: Out of ten men, one makes a sexual joke at a woman, two laugh, three fake a chuckle to fit in, and four stay silent.

None of them speak up. Later, nine of them still believe they're the "good guys." But from the woman's perspective, the laughter, the silence, the looking away, it all creates the same environment. So when women say "most men are the same." this is what they mean: not that every man harasses women, but that most men help protect the system that does.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The Sages said: Let him die."
Screenshot: Miriam Anzovin

Sanhedrin 75: A man set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. The doctors said: He will have no cure until he has sex with her.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors suggested: The woman should at least converse with him behind a fence in a secluded area, so that he should derive a small amount of pleasure from the encounter.

The Sages insisted: Let him die.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's almost like you get less tourist money when you make your country hostile to tourists. 🤯
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TFW you get home at 10:30pm from teaching 3 hours of bellydance classes & you're starving - but you realize you have cut cauliflower & a sous vide chicken breast in the fridge that just needs to be seared. 😄 Chicken breast sous vide + roasted miso butter cauliflower. 🍽️
Chicken breast sous vide + roasted miso butter cauliflower
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh neat, I'm quoted in this article about my favorite fine dining restaurant. How cool is this??
blockclubchicago.org
Goosefoot Brings French Fine Dining Back To Lincoln Square
Nina and Chris Nugent closed their award-winning restaurant on Lawrence Avenue in 2024 and found a new location on Lincoln Avenue. Their grand opening is next week.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People keep sending me AI music. I know it's harder to catch because people aren't used to listening in that way, but if most of the artist's images and videos are AI & they've only been around since 2026, it's very likely the music is AI too. On behalf of musicians: Please try to catch it.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What I want AI to do: My laundry. (Including folding it and putting it away, please.) What AI is being advertised to do: Make art. And help me find other people's art. Otherwise known as: The fun stuff.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*endless screaming*
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have a Pixel 10. The flagship phone, that's less than a year old. It should not be crashing as much as it is. (Started with the last update.)
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chicago: This is me on the poster, and I'm performing/producing!
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've seen so multiple interview clips now where Mamdani just does an incredible job of avoiding landmines and staying on topic while being warm & genuine. Absolute master class, always.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"AI is inevitable."
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This person does not cook. At all. 🫠
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CW: Rape. "Not all men." (Thread.) Seven Cornell men gang-raped a fellow student for hours, but none of the men in their group chat with its invitation of "free p*ssy" stopped them or came forward after. This article is graphic because it's detailed in what happened:
cornellsun.com
Cornell, Chi Phi Sued by Victim of Alleged Gang Rape, Drugging in 2024
A former Cornell student filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that she was gang raped after being coerced into consuming drugs by several men at the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell in 2024. 
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know… If you just prosecuted companies and individuals in companies whose products were breaking the law, this sort of thing would stop.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One thing that happens when you decide it's OK to learn things just because they're interesting is that you tend to become better at picking up skills & learning new things. Which is a marketable skill! But also it's just genuinely fun & makes you a more interesting human.
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
Screenshot of a post from threads

matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
    4:35 PM · Sep 27, 2026
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Super fun @raksinferno.bsky.social fire gig (with a 20' bonfire!) with a good friend followed by a sunrise video shoot with another artist friend means not getting to bed until 9:30am.
Fire performers in a fire hoop.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Someone did not believe I had a Spock bear. Here he is! He's been with me for almost 30 years. ♥️
Spock teddy bear
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you know how much the pay of CEOs at major companies has skyrocketed since 1978? 50%? 100%? 500%? Try 1,316% Meanwhile, the typical workers’ compensation increased only 28%. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
lemonde.fr
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
And that is why they are dismantling the structures for DEI in the US, particularly in education systems. Because kids were learning ideas that made it harder to turn them into genocidal drones who would look on or actively participate.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Instead of researchers being questioned about their companies’ habit of plagiarizing academics’ work or using customer data to train models without consent, the public’s imagination is redirected to fears about what the future might hold upon the arrival of fictional superintelligent machines."
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I somehow? got to Herod from wondering about Princess Diana being considered a commoner even though her father was an earl. 😂 (Queen Elizabeth II was also her younger brother's godmother & attended her parents' wedding. Check out the Spencer family estate Althorp - it's basically Downton Abbey.)
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TIL that Herod the Great (Biblical Herod that ordered the death of all the babies) claimed late in his life that Cleopatra tried to seduce him but he resisted. That really puts time and context together - I hadn't thought of Octavian as contemporary to Jesus but he absolutely was.
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