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Just a cyberpunk trying to make my way in The City

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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A great short piece from @sarahtaber.bsky.social. Her comments in the first third on how cynical political doomerism gives easy wins to bad people makes the video worth the watch, even if you have no particular interest in the FDA false positive
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 17/09/2026
It's never been easier to locate and borrow or buy out of print books. Never in the entire history of books. Yet 99.9999% of all book talk on social media is about books that are in print. Centuries of gold awaits. But hardly anyone takes the chance. I just don't get it.
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Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm) @scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Casting a spell to remind all my Seattle-based weirdos to get your tickets to Earlyween on September 26th! We'll have ghouls, goblins, thrills, chills, and all things Halloween! 🎃🦇🐈‍⬛👻🍬 events.ticketleap.com/tickets/unna...
A pale white woman with elaborate silver and black makeup and a silver and black rose headdress on her bald head poses witchily in a black velvet cape and dress.A pale white woman with elaborate silver and black makeup and a silver and black rose headdress on her bald head poses witchily in a black dress amongst evergreen trees.A pale white woman with elaborate silver and black makeup and a silver and black rose headdress on her bald head poses witchily in a black velvet cape and dress among evergreen trees and a carpet of yellow fallen leaves.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
tell me about it
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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I owe an apology to Briana Lane. The idea that the crew of the Enterprise could endanger the ship with a slightly misworded prompt to the holodeck computer seems more plausible every day
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Elementary, Dear Data (episode)
The Enterprise is threatened when a character in Data and La Forge's holodeck simulation becomes sentient. The USS Enterprise-D is awaiting the arrival of the USS Victory, which they will rendezvous w...
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026
As someone who really wants AI companies to be limited in the damage they're doing to the world, it's incredibly frustrating when the most vocal contingent of AI skeptics keep repeating the idea that AI doesn't work at all. Maybe that was the case 3 years ago but not any longer.
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Dustrial @dustrial.net · 05/09/2026
Summers end
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Operation Safe Escape @safeescape.org · 29/07/2026
In 2024, a redditor made a post titled "My bf asked for the banana & now I've got the ick." To some, it sounded like a joke or a minor relationship hiccup. Others saw it for what it was. Two years later, she returned and shared how serious it actually was. safeescape.org/it-wasnt-abo...
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It wasn't about the banana - Operation Safe Escape
In 2024, a redditor made a post titled "My bf asked for the banana & now I've got the ick." At first, it almost sounded like a joke or a minor relationship hiccup. But two years later, she returned and shared how serious it actually was. 
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
seen on fbook this morning
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Chad Nolan @chadnolan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I need a motivational dartboard. Something I can throw sharp things at to try and focus and give a shit about specific topics I claim to be interested in... ADHD is real...
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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
vancouverisawesome.com
Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down after sign calls out Trump's lake fiasco
"Can't handle a pool, but wants our lake?"
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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@londynbradshaw.bsky.social looking amazing tonight!!!
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The next time you guys crap on the media, remember that almost everything you're learning about this war and this administration is coming from journalists who are routinely threatened by this White House and its minions. (And I don't mean me; I mean the DC reporters who get these stories.)
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has donated 3 million books to kids. Here's the link where you can donate. Also, consider sending someone a book on your own. Dolly would like that. imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Childcare is intimate. Medical care is intimate. Sex work is different from other forms of service work because it is stigmatized, not because it is intimate.
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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"I got a dildo stuck in the claw machine, how do i get it out?" #OverheardInSeattle
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Londyn Bradshaw ➡️ PAX WEST @londynbradshaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Who we seeing at PAX and who loves free drag shows!
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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Don't ever change, Seattle
A city street with an electronic traffic safety sign that has been programmed to read "Hack the planet"
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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@corv1dw1tch.bsky.social
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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Tuesday the 28th will be your LAST CHANCE for drag queen bingo with @frayalily.bsky.social at The Unicorn in Seattle!
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juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
@shaneharris.bsky.social’s reporting confirms what @michael-feinberg.bsky.social and I wrote last week: retaliating against analysts for speaking truth will lead the U.S. into foreseeable disasters no one was willing to forecast. Our Lawfare piece: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grad...
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CIA Officers Can Sense the Threat Within
A survey reveals concern among the rank and file that Trump-administration meddling is undermining intelligence work.
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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thank you @corv1dw1tch.bsky.social for this incredible new avatar!
A masculine figure staring directly at the viewer with purple-gradient hair and cybereyes
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Corvid @corv1dw1tch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Some WIPs and a finished piece of @uponthemoors.bsky.social 's gorgeous character Varen. I art from time to time. I even do comms these days.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In 60 days or so, we’ll face an election we can’t successfully win without a landslide. Any low-percentage win and they’ll do what we know they already know exactly how to do, and more. We’ve all seen it happen. So we need that landslide victory. We all must vote.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The shade of Adlai Stevenson nods and says "earlier, even"
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I talked to Security Cocktail Hour about the banality of cybersecurity threats and also about my favorite cocktail.
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Operation Safe Escape @safeescape.org · 09/07/2026
Some of the most dangerous moments happen after a survivor tries to leave. That is why “just leave” may sometimes be dangerous advice. Survivors need careful planning, trusted support, and resources that understand escalation risk. Learn more:
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Recognizing and Responding to Abuse - Operation Safe Escape
Recognizing Abuse Abuse rarely looks like what people expect. It’s not always physical, and it doesn’t always leave visible marks. It can show up as control, isolation, fear, or manipulation, patterns that build slowly enough that they’re hard to name even when you’re the one living through them. Whether you’re worried about your own relationship…
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The Stranger @thestranger.com · 09/07/2026
Cyberdecks might look like quirky DIY gadgets, but Amanda Manitach argues they're part of something much bigger.⁠ ⁠ She visits artist and industrial designer Kate Bailey, whose custom-built computers, and artist-run studio are all rooted in the same idea: the world around us isn't fixed.
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Cyber Grrrl - The Stranger
Cyberdecks are having a moment in the zeitgeist. The name refers to custom DIY computers—often small and aesthetic—housed in everything from lunchboxes and jewelry boxes to repurposed makeup cases and...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/07/2026
There is no "value," nor are there "profits" to share from a company like OpenAI. The only reason that the entire tech industry is focused on AI is because they're completely out of hypergrowth ideas.
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up
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Vox Sinistra @voxsinistra.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Live now! A make-up birthday stream set at twitch.tv/voxsinistra and testing on TikTok 👯‍♀️
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026
John Waters with his parents, 1979 Photographer: Thornton Daniels, courtesy of John Waters mitchipedia.tumblr.com/post/8198883...
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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If you're seeing this post, it's already too late for you to see the hottest drag show in Seattle. Maybe next week, loser. Lashes drag show, every Friday at the Unicorn
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Daemon Chadeau @daemonchadeau.com · 11/06/2026
Thank you all who came out to Protokol last night at The Mercury! Between the door and your tips, we raised $100 for @translifeline.org ! If you weren't able to make it last night but want to help the cause, consider donating to PNM-NW's fundraising page: give.translifeline.org/team/571840
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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride Month! My name's Alita Diaz, aka "Sen," and I'm what scientists call a Lesbian! You can read my very queer cyberpunk adventure comic for free on the internet or get it in book form in my store! dresdencodak.com
Photo of known homosexual Alita Diaz (Sen) surrounded by illustrations from her hit series Dark Science
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Cryo @cryodraws.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hi! I draw 1920s BL with a dash of comedy and the supernatural 🦇 Read my Webtoon: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ho... Patreon 🌶️: www.patreon.com/CryoDraws Itch: cryo-draws.itch.io #artist #webtoon #BL
Cover of How To Train Your Vampire with Jack and Percy Jack wearing a union suit posing seductively in front of a fireplace
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GreatFaker @greatfaker.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I love Seattle
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/06/2026
There are genuinely useful things that this tech can do and the reflexive belief that this is all inherently bad or has absolutely no use is one that is going to result in the unilateral disarmament of the left in technology spaces. It's a force multiplier when you know what you're doing.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 03/06/2026
Appliance companies, call me when you have the courage to build The Cassette Futurism Kitchen of Tomorrow. The young people have never experienced the satisfying snap of these oven buttons, never felt the glorious friction on their fingers as they push in. They will feel ALIVE.
Big chunky buttons on a vintage General Electric stovetop
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026
I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...
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Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.
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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Known variously as Esteban de Dorantes, Esteban the Moor or – most commonly – Estevanico, this enigmatic individual was one of the first documented Africans, Arabic speakers and Muslims to step foot in what is now the United States, arriving nearly 40 years before the first European settlement.
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How an enslaved, shipwrecked African became the US's first great explorer
Nearly 500 years ago, a Moroccan man walked thousands of miles from Florida to the Pacific Coast, becoming the first known outsider to see the American West.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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blair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026
One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
No matter who you are, if you are running a platform or a making a product that collects user data, you need to have a plan for what happens when the government shows up and asks for it, you need to share that policy with that users, and publish a transparency report.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026
As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This scared the shit out of me until it was explained that it only crawls out late at night.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 18/05/2026
We Need A More Serious Discussion About Suicide And AI Chatbots As someone who thinks a lot about AI and suicide, I was disappointed with John Oliver’s recent episode of Last Week Tonight on “AI Chatbots.” The segment boiled down to this: chatbots exploit vulnerable people, drive them toward…
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We Need A More Serious Discussion About Suicide And AI Chatbots
As someone who thinks a lot about AI and suicide, I was disappointed with John Oliver’s recent episode of Last Week Tonight on “AI Chatbots.” The segment boiled down to this: chatbots exploit vulnerable people, drive them toward delusion and harm, and AI companies aren’t meaningfully trying to fix them. If anything, as John Oliver suggested, that’s part of the business model.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 18/05/2026
Bitcoin Depot, the US' largest crypto ATM operator, is shutting down citing anti-fraud measures it had to roll out ...and now you know why these things existed in the first place www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
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Bitcoin Depot Initiates Voluntary Chapter 11 Process to Facilitate an Orderly Wind-Down and Sale of the Company’s Assets
ATLANTA, May 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitcoin Depot (NASDAQ: BTM), a U.S.-based Bitcoin ATM (“BTM”) operator and leading fintech company, today...
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Vivian (they/she) {ABOLISH ICE} @oblivivian.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
can't wait to be in our cyberpunk dystopia, eating my Synth-beef
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