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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29m

every time I see that "what if video games 100% personalized to me" post go by, I think about how you sports weirdos have gotten so agitated over sports events that I *went and tried to watch baseball* just for the joy of experiencing it with you, and I wonder what it is like to not feel that.

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Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 5h

Not to be too second wave but they couldn't name Melissa Hortman?

screenshot of text "Actual violence also spiked during that period: assassination attempts against Donald Trump, the killing of Charlie Kirk, the assassination of a legislative leader and her husband in Minnesota, the firebombing of Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home in Pennsylvania. For many elected officials, the escalation is a grim testament to the toxicity of violent rhetoric and how it can shake the country’s democratic institutions."

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 3h

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 14h

Update: Now Post-Tropical Storm Rachel has made landfall along northern Baja CA north of Ensenada. San Diego is thus spared brunt, but bands of torrential rainfall & severe thunderstorms are occurring from CA's Imperial Valley eastward into AZ, w/serious flash flood threat. #CAwx

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 16h

There is no niche in romance so small that one person can lay claim to it, except possibly Chuck Tingle, who wouldn't be so mean or stupid anyway.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 16h

The really dumb thing here is that romance readers are so voracious that any sort of event or book overlap is a golden opportunity for cross promo and mutual support! People love more books! It's not like two historians fighting over one shelf slot!

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⋮ 𝖘𝐚𝔦𝐧𝔱 ᯽ 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑛 @insectoid.bsky.to · 10/10/2026

thinking about when guillermo del toro said "since childhood, i've been faithful to monsters. i've been saved and absolved by them, because monsters are the patron saints of our blissful imperfections.”

guillermo del toro and the faun from pan's labyrinth behind the scenes

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 19h

Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

United Farm Workers union condemns brutal
ICE surge impacting farm workers in Central Valley; highlights Rep. Valadao's comments as 'insulting' to his constituents

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hey NY, Chicago here. I made you some graphics cause we're all on the same team. Fuck ICE.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

The whistle crew has sent more than 1.7 million whistles to every state in the nation (and DC), and we're going to keep doing it as long as the need is there.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Zach Cavanagh @zachcavsports.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And this one is tied. McDavid freezes the entire Ducsk penalty kill, and he dishes to Kapanen for the equalizer. 2-2. 13:30 P2. @SportingTrib | #FlyTogether

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Zach Cavanagh @zachcavsports.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

End 1st: Ducks 2, Oilers 0 - Shots: 16-6 ANA Anaheim has looked faster, stronger and more in control from the moment the puck dropped. Two PPG for Beckett Sennecke, and... wow. Floored at just how good that opening period looked for the Ducks. 40 more to go. @SportingTrib | #FlyTogether

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AAAAAAPPLES. (My favorite variety, er, varies, obviously. Grocery store apple would be a Cosmic Crisp. Heirloom, I’d say Cox’s Orange Pippin. Overall though, GoldRush is the goat.)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/10/2026

Joined @arimelber.bsky.social on MSNOW talk about the AI bubble, Treasuries and the growing cost of AI data center debt, and how Oracle and Paramount’s debt threatens Larry Ellison’s future.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If your belief system is against the concept of equal rights, your belief system can fuck off.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026

While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 06/10/2026

I'm like this not because I barely understand social situations but because I understand them all too well after I deconstruct them 10,000 times and begin to think of it as a kind of narrative I could have fixed

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 06/10/2026

I do not feel embarrassment. I feel art.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 06/10/2026

Don't worry, none of this is real and I have no feelings when there's a potential essay anecdote to save me from feeling pain. This works better than drugs. Trust me

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 06/10/2026

Oh it's just a character I'm workshopping in my next brilliant piece of work and not a deep seated wound I've been carrying since childhood

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 06/10/2026

What if I'm like this because I'm a writer and then no one can tell there's something wrong with me

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What were they thinking?!? Why is this opt-out??!? New #YouTube app lets everybody who clicks a YouTube link you shared see your channel/name. You have to notice it when you share or turn it off by default in #privacy settings

YouTube privacy settings, channel visibility for shared links

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/10/2026

Yes, every time thr "don't be political you'll lose half your audience" writer advice discourse cycle comes around, I'm always like "Jesus if they're still half my audience I'm doing something wrong"

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me

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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 30/09/2026

It's a lot harder to fundraise during the midterms, so we're not even halfway to our goal. If you have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating to the Fated States Project. fatedmates.net/givingcircle

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Fated States | Join and Donate | The States Project

Learn more about Fated States on Grapevine.org

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DongWon Song @dongwon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hello. I am widening my submissions categories to include: - Epic Fantasy - Space Opera - Near Future/High Concept SF - Horror Details here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...

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Submission Guidelines — DongWon Song

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Mind-Boggling Skeleton @dqspider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GIVE 👏 LINA 👏 KHAN 👏 A 👏 GUNDAM 👏

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Attacking a guy by making him sound cool as hell.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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ashley (should be writing) @existentialhope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something that perfectly encapsulates one of the things I *hate* about the current state of technology and work/office culture is the fact that I am currently sitting in my work office, unable to do actual work, because my work laptop can't remote in to my virtual work desktop.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 28/09/2026

On Friday, ICE posted 33 detainee mortality reports to their online FOIA Library. Over the weekend, those reports were inexplicably deleted. We have archived them on our GitHub and are sharing them in hopes that the information is useful to journalists, researchers, and the general public.

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psb-foia/ice/FOIA Library Artifacts/ICE Mortality Reports at main · projectsaltbox/psb-foia

FOIA requests and released records for Project Salt Box's reporting on ICE detention and federal contracting. - projectsaltbox/psb-foia

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you take Vitruvias Therapeutics' 30mg thyroid tablets, check your bottle for expiration date Sept 30, 2026 and NDC number 69680-166-00/lot number 504950

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026

Typical Southern California rearview mirror bullshit.

Cherry Street in my rearview mirror as I go up the hill to Signal Hill in Long Beach, California. The sky is a firey red and orange

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

I can not imagine having the resources these fuckers have and being this useless. I had to hold a fundraiser so I could buy myself glasses I could see through and I've still been fighting the end of the world harder than these motherfuckers. This loser energy is the real cringe.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/09/2026

I had no idea who this guy was until I discovered he wrote the Harry Potter fanfic about the methods of rationality and oh boy.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

Tonight I got one of my favorite shots of 2026, and it didn't involve the Full Moon. A composite both taken at 1/40th of a second and handheld. Natural lighting of a single crow watching their friends come to the murder to roost for the night. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

A single crow sits on the ledge of a parking garage as dozens of crows fly in the distance over a city scape and trees. theres no clouds around the city but there is a muted pink sky. above the city is a pink cloud layer

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Derek Lee @dereklee27.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ducks lose 10-0 to the Sharks in San Jose. Don’t think we really need to mention this game ever again. #FlyTogether

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taking a virtual training right now on helping immigrants who have also faced domestic violence, and they literally just said not to use AI tools due to reasons of confidentiality. Anything you tell an LLM, even using a note taking service, might be discoverable. We're being watched. Be mindful.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We wrote this 18 damn years ago.

A script from episode 102 of Leverage with the dialogue for defense contractor Dufort:”You know the great thing about Congressmen? Fifty, a hundred grand well spent will get one elected.Once they’re in, they have an incumbency rate of over ninety-five percent. You get, on the average, eighteen to twenty years of use out of one. (beat) In these uncertain times, buying a United States Congressman is one of the best investments a corporation can make.”

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As shocking as this case is I know @czedwards.bsky.social is shaking their head at the same thing I am - this is some PISS POOR MONEY LAUNDERING. Check 1001 of a brand new account? Jesus we used to be a proper country.

A check made out for
$150,000 to Susan Collins’s
PAC, check number 1001

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 23/09/2026

My daughter was reading the latest @edzitron.com piece (link below) and as an accounting student she just HAD to make a few memes. I am SO PROUD OF HER. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-...

Goose meme: Ed Zitron as a goose asking, "Where are all those GPUS you bought?" then chasing Microsoft (wearing a down jacket) yelling, "Where are the GPUs, Microsoft?"

Eating the sandwich meme: Asset depreciation eating any conceivable profit from "AI"

"Trade offer" meme, with Adam Driver labeled as NIVIDIA: I receive billions of dollars, you receive GPUs you don't have the infrastructure to install right now (or possibly ever) and so have to depreciate in a warehouse while you lie about the amount of ompute coming online to your investors and the general public".

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

emma frost: EmmaFrost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?

miss piggy: But of course, darling. I am an open book, a tell-all memoir.

Emma Frost reads Miss Piggy's mind, a phantasmagoria of Miss Piggy's greatest hits in the Muppet-verse.

Wolverine: Forst? She legit?

Emma: She's ...she's ...she's everything. And I would die for her.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026

I'm just adding this tiny little thing for the fuckery of it. To recap where we are: Lynne Freeman is getting deposed as to her ability to pay. She was already deposed once and her attorneys refused to let her answer questions without basis. The judge sent a SCATHING order threatening sanctions.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 22/09/2026

"...the vast majority of companies that have bought GPUs have yet to turn them into meaningful revenue, if they’ve turned them on at all. Most of NVIDIA’s sales are sitting in warehouses, and that is a significant disclosure that NVIDIA should have already been forced to make."

wheresyoured.at

Where're All The AI Chips?

Today’s newsletter is about a cruel truth: that NVIDIA’s revenue growth is almost entirely the result of speculative purchases by hyperscalers and neoclouds that take years to install its GPUs.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ll once again note that as someone who’s been writing for 30 years I’ve taken MRK’s seminars to learn to work in prose and found them invaluable. Strong recommend for the Patreon because you get these goodies and more.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

Very short update. As you may recall, we have a pending motion for the amount of attorney's fees that Lynne Freeman will have to pay in the "I tried to copyright hot boys" case. The defendants have also moved to hold Freeman's attorney's jointly and severally liable for multiplying proceedings.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 19/09/2026

See this is why I need an underwater setup for my telephoto lens. 🪶

A great tailed grackle taken at nearly water level, their head mostly in the water, but their eye still above water, with their nictitating membrane closed.

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