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Daniel José Older

@djolder.bsky.social
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Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder www.danieljoseolder.net

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2h
Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 1h
Shocking story on how an expert’s taped interviews became (ab)used by USA Today. Thread.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 6h
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 1h
AI 🤝 Rape culture All the way down.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 1h
DODGE CITY — Southwest Kansas communities reeling from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — which included random stops to check status — are looking for ways to recover as fear continues to grip the area’s large Hispanic population.
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Trump’s immigration sweeps leave southwest Kansas communities looking for way forward
DODGE CITY — Southwest Kansas communities reeling from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — which included random stops to check status — are looking for ways to recover as fear continues to grip the area’s large Hispanic population.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 2h
Help Om Jameel
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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 6h
I was thinking about an old story of mine, Bear Language. It came out in Fireside in 2017, chosen by guest editor @djolder.bsky.social & @galendara.bsky.social's art is haunting. A story I feel, looking back, where my everything about my work had leveled up. firesidefiction.com/bear-language
the cover art for bear language by me, art by Galen Dara
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 9h
RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods (and mind you, John Georges is a first-generation Greek immigrant who still has a home in Mykonos) bsky.app/profile/alex...
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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#TheLensNola🔍 Georges dismissed concerns from some of his reporters that his embrace of Meta blurs the line between the news and business. ✍️ Drew Hawkins from Gulf States Newsroom, Delaney Nolan and Vivi Smilgius from The Lens Full article 🔗: buff.ly/lmhU66R
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victoria bucano @itsmevickie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
John Legend tweets: “My brother, you have to keep reading. What happened next? You’re almost there. It’s probably on the next page”
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are you fucking kidding me? Not only are they executing a woman who was convicted at 18 years old after suffering severe abuse, and who was held accountable in a way her male co-defendant never was... but they can't even *kill* her humanely!?! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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US woman still alive after lethal injection dose, legal team says
Media witnesses say Christa Pike was still alive when they were ordered to leave the prison by officials.
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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Harper Collins tried to claim both my stolen books. Harper Collins published neither.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
E is a young artist who managed to escape Israel's genocidal siege of Gaza. She had 4.5k followers here, which gave her reach she used to keep her family, still trapped there, alive. Then Bsky deleted her. Now, people have turned away. You don't have to. She's terrified for her family. Share/donate:
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No One Should Starve for Being Born Here
My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza.  Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror.  I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the ...
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Any time an AI chud touches anything, he demonstrates that he has no skills, no ideas, no creativity, only the ability to steal and copy, and he doesn't even have that skill, because he has to outsource it to an algorithm.
A shitty AI bro had AI make a shitty copy of my poster
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Watching the Enron doc just to remind myself that all these corps will crumble
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Saw the documentary NAZA, made in secret, with interviews of members of Israel’s intelligence services testifying and showing how they created a system to perpetrate genocide in Gaza. The filmmakers and their families have been threatened by Netanyahu himself. I wrote my thoughts here boxd.it/gvDEIR
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A ★★★★★ review of NAZA (2026)
Merely a film. A film that has led Netanyahu himself to threaten the citizenship and safety of its Israeli filmmakers and even their families, simply for the act of filming veterans of Israel’s intell...
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here is the trailer for NAZA, the film Benjamin Netanyahu really, really doesn’t want you to see, which will be released for free worldwide in November after a short theatrical self distributed run.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Scenes from a Hollywood trade magazine’s blanket coverage of a smattering of protesters outside a movie documenting the implementation of genocide
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The Israeli-American Council has formed a protest outside
the New York Film Festival premiere of "NAZA."
The organization has described the documentary as an
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Israel" film that "makes serious allegations about the IDF's
conduct in the Gaza Strip while ignoring findings and
information that contradict its claims" and fails to present
the full "context of the October 7 attack that led to the war."
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Noa Peri-Jensch, who organized a protest outside the New
York Film Festival premiere of "NAZA," is arguing that
"compassion for Palestinian civilians does not require us to
erase October 7":
"We mourn every innocent life lost in this war, Israeli or
Palestinian. But compassion for Palestinian civilians does
not require us to erase October 7, ignore Hamas or accept
one narrative without questioning it. This is why we are here
today: not to prevent anyone from speaking, but to make
sure that our voices, our experiences and the truth are being
heard as well."
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Rom El-Hai, a survivor of the Oct. 7 attack on the Nova music
festival, told protestors outside the New York Film Festival
premiere of "NAZA" that "it doesn't surprise [him]" that the
festival would screen a film made by "traitors" to the Israeli
cause:
"If there is someone here who wants to make a film about
genocide, about hatred, brutality and killing innocent people,
all the material is here on my phone. I took pictures of
everything. I saw the hatred with my own eyes."
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Karen Toledano, a protestor who attended the rally outside
the New York Film Festival premiere of "NAZA," says she
feels like Israeli voices "have been stifled" within the creative
community:
"I feel like our voices have been stifled in spaces that have
called themselves inclusive for many years. Sometimes when
I do try to have a calm conversation and I'm encountered
with anger, I know in my head that there just isn't an
argument on the other side. But it doesn't make it any easier
to swallow when really all you want to do is talk about the
facts and set the record straight."
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please amplify: As the report from the @aclu.org and @amnesty.org documented, universities like @cuny.edu are punishing students and faculty for pro-Palestine politics. We’re out today saying no to blacklisting at @cuny.edu and @brooklyncollege.bsky.social! Rehire the Fired Fourth!
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
"Numerous Flock cameras appear to be installed inside detention centers. A camera titled “C-F-23 FOXTROT MALE HOLDING 2/SHOWERS” appears at the coordinates of the Silverdale Detention Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee." theintercept.com/2026/09/24/h...
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Flock Wants The Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants it taken down.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Democratic politicians caved, once again, and once again grassroots activists were left to clean up the mess of their utter failure to lead. ||| Paramount Merger Delayed As Judge OKs Motion To Block Antitrust Settlement share.google/CMoY00DfVYrp...
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Paramount Merger Delayed As Judge OKs Motion To Block Antitrust Settlement
Just before a hearing expected to sign off on the Paramount-Warner Bros settlement, critics of the deal and the merger won a move to halt it, at least for now
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Something something printer something gun unexpected noise ugh.
Pranay Pathole
@PPathole

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Y'all, beloved community, that I care for as you care for me in true understanding we share of loving mutuality so we all survive, at this time I badly need mutual aid. This ain't no scam. I'm not secretly rich. I'm on medicaid. I'm recovering from the serious trauma of getting committed by cops.
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Hello friends! It's me, the author of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS and the novella FES IS A MIRROR and poetry and essay that touches your heart. You might know me from Bluesky where I constan...
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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 24/09/2026
Hey everyone! With the proliferation of news surrounding sexual abuse(rs), we’ve decided to launch a label called: Normalization of Sexual Violence.
Shows label for Normalization of Sexual Violence

Reads:

Content that seeks to promote, validate or in any other way normalize sexually violent acts which include, but aren't limited to grooming, (spousal) sexual assault, sexual exploitation, trafficking, revenge porn and sexual abuse.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 23/09/2026
Oh no the worst discourse you know is incoming
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Many asking this question but I am more confused about how someone who identifies as a lesbian uses he/him pronouns.
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but how do you drink at the bar with a N95 on..... Like am I touched in the head for being confused
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NaNaWriMo got into bed with a generative A.I. slop-vom factory. NanoWriMo then turned to dust as a direct result. Now the slop-vom factory is trotting out the badly resurrected Nano Corpse WaRioWriMo to make some cash off the whole mess. Gen A.I. in a nutshell.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Love this book
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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Book 2 of OUTLAW'S APPRENTICE starts serializing today! Free to read! and updating each Wednesday. On Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ou... On Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChrisSchweiz... OR read from the beginning: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ou...
Title card for episode 1. Image shows two teenage girls, one with dark hair, one light, on a rock-strewn heath. Text at the bottom says "Read on Webtoons and Patreon"
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Liam Robertson @liamrobertson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The actual clip of him saying this is so awesome. Absolutely brutal and from the sounds of it, deservedly so.
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
it was why i fell so immediately in love with @djolder.bsky.social and his work because it was so very much what i THOUGHT urban fantasy was going to be when we started using that term. he's one of the writers that caused me to journal about what his work meant to me and i'll remind him always lol
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mr pussy (prison arc) @nat.haus · 20/09/2026
Ed Sheeran overcorrected and joined the Houthis
Reuters world news - the Houthis say they struck Riyadh. here's why it matters. and the thumbnail has a big picture of a Houthi strike and in the corner, a photo of Ed Sheeran with no mention
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
SHERMAN!!
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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026
i need to know what happened
sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Theseus forgetting to put up the white sail to proclaim he'd survived after the Minotaur situation and thus causing his father's death and naming the Aegean Sea in one fell swoop is PEAK himbo behavior. Alas he was also a fuckboy
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
💀💀💀💀💀
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Icarus was the first dude who mistakenly believed he was wearing plot armor. Sun Wukong from Journey to the West was the first himbo...
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Was Icarus the first himbo??
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Evil personified.
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Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.latinsky.app · 17/09/2026
We are so Backlemore
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's Shereeover
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