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Explorer Rowan

@explorerrowan.northsky.social
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Trying to get my head on straight, save some money, and get my life together. Pronouns: she/her or ne/nem/nir/nirs/nemself

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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 12h
Yeah, there are six games this year that are RDS exclusive, not even telecast in English.
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 12h
It's looking like they might have the most solid defense. Still weak on the power play, but that's not new for the Sens.
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 12h
Apparently it is 43% more expensive for a Sens fan to watch all the games this year than it is for any other team, all thanks to being scattered between 5 different networks and their exclusivity contracts.
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 12h
They see all activities of life as something to be bought and sold. Every thought, every feeling, every breath needs to be packaged, catalogued, marketed, and profited from. Every AI advocate is so painfully capitalism-poisoned that I'm not sure they even understand the point of life anymore.
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 13h
Puts new context on the fact that in "Coyote vs. ACME," the animated version of him was the whistleblower who the ACME corporation buried in the desert for 20 years.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h
There's a takeover of the American news industry going on, pushed by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis and others. Democracy is impossible if the truth is buried under right-wing propaganda, so we've got to push back against this "media capture." My Stop the Presses newsletter.
stopthepresses.news
American oligarchs and foreign fatcats are attempting ‘media capture’
Your access to real news is threatened by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis, and others
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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 15h
This is why any leading Dem (I'm looking at you Schumie and Jeffries, ya pricks) who say that ICE needs to be reformed not abolished needs to get fucked. #FuckICE
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 17h
Honey, you're not a journalist if you don't recognize that you can CHOOSE not to platform these tech fascists. Journalism has a duty to the truth, yes, but sometimes that means NOT giving horrible people the attention they crave.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h
I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice
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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21h
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 18h
Ken Paxton is such a detestable toad. I'm pretty sure he's in the running for Most Hateable Texan Ever.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We’ve been hearing for 20 years plus how we should just sit down and have a meal with people who think black, Latino and LGBTQ people are subhumans who must be killed. No.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
Kinda wondering today if I just shouldn't have social media at all.
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Make Alberta America again? The fantastic Globe crew unearths even deeper ties between Alberta separatists and Republican officials, including a pledge to give the U.S. some of our resources in exchange for backing sovereignty www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
The leopards are getting bolder about eating each other's faces. At this point, they should really stop being surprised.
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RebeccaThe13th @rebeccathe13th.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Badgey the evil AI with daddy issues from Star Trek Lower Decks
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Vaccinate your goddamn kids! Rub crystals on them or whatever else to "purify the toxins" or whatever, but also vaccinate them!
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
I hope the lesbian vampire latex nuns crack an eggy archbishop.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FIRSTLY as the piece alludes: Loren Rex Cameron’s also-trans and arguably more famous older sister, Cameron, was a I believe fully stealth working model and actress (a la plot of Pose) in the 80s and 90s mostly … I rewatched like I dunno, dozens of TNG episodes, where she appeared as Ensign Kellogg:
A stunning redhead woman in a Star Trek TNG uniform
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Jack Fortunato @jacklaridian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wait... Ensign Kellogg was trans? fr?
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Huh. This is the first I realized that he blocked me.
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It's Fluxom!!! @fluxom.art · 02/10/2026
Two things I've become increasingly galvanized on about art is that 1. The ways some things are bad are just as if not more important than the ways they are good (tone: praise) and 2. the need to purity test everything for whether or not its AI art is soul poison
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 01/10/2026
Think SMB3 needed more lesbians with fox ears? Kitsune Tails is 35% off: kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails Or help our queer studio survive the year by getting all our games bundled for $17.99 on itch (itch.io/s/202703/kit...) or $18.75 on Steam (store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673...) Bundled games 👇
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not sure how you'd conduct a phone conversation by small signs, anyway.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So grateful I get to include this comic in my book as a way of saying thanks ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apparently "energy independence" means "sell crude to a different superpower" and not "stop pumping and selling so much goddamn oil" or even "build domestic refineries so Canada can process it domestically."
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 02/10/2026
Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
thebeaverton.com
Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
Vancouver, BC – Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced more than one billion dollars in federal funding to keep the ocean safe from the consequences of his own actions.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're trying to make it so they don't have to send oil south to the US for refining. They want to be able to send crude to China. That's Carney's vision of "Elbows Up," make Canada dependent on a different superpower. It's short-sighted.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thinking about the baffling arrogance of folks who don't understand how human cognition works but are convinced they can and have invented a machine that thinks for itself based on human concepts. How the fuck would they even know? What even are the metrics here? It's all just vibes and bullshit.
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
You know what would "ease my anxiety"? If these assholes weren't salivating at the thought of human extinction and replacement.
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Even if it was a temporary field that would have been torn down, what would have been the point?
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
I mean, it's not that much of a shock at this point. Trump, RFK Jr., and all the rest in his cabinet are openly eugenicists who would sooner see everyone who so much as catches a cold drop dead than ever fund a single disabled person.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/10/2026
Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey it’s new tyrannosaur day! 🦖
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A new albertosaurine from the Oldman Formation, Alberta, Canada, illuminates ambiguity between albertosaurine and tyrannosaurine characteristics
Tyrannosaurid species have often been considered to have high longevity and low diversity relative to contemporaneous megaherbivores. Recent chronospecies assertions around tyrannosaurid lineage ev...
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Come on, UK. You should be better than this. You don't want your health service and disability support to look AMERICAN, do you? Aren't you supposed to be better than that? There was a time when UK health and disability was a wonder of the free world. Don't you want to be the best?
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Wikipedia Brown @theycallhimbfg.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
I’m begging Dems not to fit this square peg into a round hole come ‘28. There has gotta be better options.
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 02/10/2026
Gavin Newsom Is An Asshole Example #18,729
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 01/10/2026
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, it doesn't have to be smart to try 10,000 passwords an hour. It just has to be fast and not get bored.
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Honestly, while I have a lot of criticisms for SNW, this casting has actually been pretty solid. Ethan Peck at the very least has a clear love of Nimoy's Spock and has been doing his best at the vibe and mannerisms.
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ADHD Creature @adhd-preacher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, when you think Diogenes carrying a lamp to seek an honest man, think less “polite inquisitor with safely shielded light source,” and more “professional troll in the mall shoving open flames in your face and asking you if you think you’re smart.”
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
You know what, that's fair that I got blocked. I was being a know-it-all ass.
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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Novel reading is the ruin of modern women. 😔
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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 30/09/2026
I think a lot about why Wendy Carlos’ albums are out of print and her wonderful website is now reserved for having a friend of hers tell people to leave her alone. It’s so fucking heart breaking what the world does to trans women
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