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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent

@jackscarab.bsky.social
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Writer, teacher, socialist, somehow Oklahoman. Advocate for total Detrumpification. Author of YA fantasy Aether Torrent. Buy it and then read and review it! lnk.bio/JackDuffe books2read.com/aethertorrent 💙📚 #booksky

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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 3h
rough ideas
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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 4h
nothing to do with the remake, but would a redesign of the kokiri where they literally look like wooden dolls covered up with vegetation be too on-the-nose
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 30m
" The Oklahoma City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday, designating every second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day. [...] “It is significant because it is on Columbus Day,” Adams said. " www.kosu.org/okc-indigeno...
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Indigenous Peoples Day receives formal designation from Oklahoma City leaders
The Oklahoma City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday, designating every second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 6h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 52m
rookie numbers
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 17h
not sure why I made this but now you have to see it
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 1h
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.social · 3h
Variation upon the well-known XKCD cartoon showing all modern digital infrastructure as an unstable structure. In this variation, the sturcture is covered by a thick muddy sludge, indicated as AI slop.
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 52m
"I saw Goodie Obama with the gas prices!"
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RobotLyra, Single and Silly @robotlyra.bsky.social · 5h
With these ears I can detect the approach of the enemy, but I am cursed to hear the whispers of God
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h
This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data!
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𝕊𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝔸𝕚𝕫𝕒𝕨𝕒 @sapphire-aizawa.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Pilgrim’s Traverse, Il Mheg. I particularly loved this room with view of the sunlit yard. #sapphire_aizawa #ffxiv #ff14 #ff14ss #ff14風景
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Daniel Kelly @saffroncomic.com · 2h
Zelda dungeons themselves are proto-Metroidvanias (they were literally the inspiration for Symphony of the Night!), which mostly just shows how genres are fake and the distinctions are blurry and arbitrary. I still remember when ASCII art was a requirement to be a rougelike.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22h
I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.
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geneva 🖍️ nycc soon @gdbee.bsky.social · 6h
2027 calendar preords are online :) gdbee.store/products/vib... It's been a while since I've made a lunar calendar, so Vibes now comes with an extra lil 2027 lunar phase calendar!
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13h
$15 ebooks? One dollar. $10 ebooks? Just a buck. $25 ebooks? You guessed it. 💵 💵 💵 Sale ends this week. Don't dilly-dally, gang.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 10h
Incidents still happen now and again, but it is *extremely* established that the government cannot force kids to make religious or patriotic displays they don't want to, and reliably results in humiliating legal defeats, with damages, when it does happen.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 10h
This is another moment that makes me really proud of US free speech extremism.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 18h
I hope everyone has a Hussein
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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 15h
Starting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15h
“Local newspapers are dying, and I don’t think we’re prepared for a world without them…” tulsaflyer.org/2026/09/29/c...
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Battle in McCurtain County at the center of new Peacock documentary
McCurtain County Sheriff’s officials wanted a family-run newspaper dead — literally. A new Peacock documentary explores the years-long battle and what it means for press freedoms.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16h
Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too
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Len @len.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This might be the funniest achievement Paradox has ever added.
Papal Bull
Make your Puppet Pope sleep with your spouse
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 17h
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 17h
The Diamondbacks didn't make the playoffs, so the White Sox are now the recipients of my baseballing support. It would be extremely funny.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h
until chicago pope i don’t think i ever truly understood that the pope is like a guy
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Paranoia @toolofparanoia.bsky.social · 17h
I'm glad my image of Robert Pattinson was never tainted by the Twilight movies
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 17h
(Sophie Cunningham is the one who kicked open the TERF doors a couple months ago.)
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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 18h
Not all Fever fans, but always a Fever fan.
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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 18h
Another F’ing fan incident in Indianapolis. Hard to keep claiming it’s not a Fever fan problem when it’s always happening there.
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 18h
It's unbelievably easy. Just base it on a true story. Two of the Dallas Wings are already dating -- since college -- and one's having to cheer on her girlfriend in the finals due to an injury that took her out of the season. And that's not even considering the ex-couples playing on different teams.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 21h
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 19h
Timeline is doing weird things again
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 19h
"Ist it not the Super Intelligence?" "Yah it is the Super Intelligence!" "Super DUPER Super Intelligence!"
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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 19h
I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io
screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20h
GoFundMe, the largest crowdfunding site, has seen an over 20 percent increase in fundraisers for tuition and related expenses over the past year
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GoFundMes for College Tuition Are Up This Year
Students facing acute challenges affording their tuition are increasingly turning to crowdfunding. Experts warn it’s a temporary fix to systemic affordability issues.
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klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 20h
New penguin species named for first time in over 100 years "Researchers have identified a brand new penguin, species Pygoscelis kerguelensis, also known as the southeastern gentoo. "It lives on the remote Kerguelen Islands, around 1,200 miles north of Antarctica." www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...
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New gentoo penguin species discovered by US and Chilean experts
Southeastern gentoo penguin look almost identical to other gentoo penguins, so until recently experts thought they were all the same species.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h
One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.
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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 22h
Just in case
A two-panel comic.
A story about looking after a gecko while my younger sister is away on a trip.

Panel 1: My niece is telling me not to touch the gecko.

Panel 2: I am looking up how to handle the gecko safely.
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Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please read my book to your children, I am an excellent influence.
A page from my book, from pixels to prose. Text follows: “And oh, what a journey. Us kids at that birthday party, all sitting agape in those laundry nests like fledgelings, had no way of knowing Super Mario Bros. was Nintendo’s crowning achievement after years of developing simpler games. We weren’t world-savvy, and Japan might have well been Narnia or Oz. From my point of view, Nintendo swooped in out of nowhere and dropped a title that instantly morphed the video games from glorified calculators to a teller of tales. When you’re young, you experience a lot of moments where your mind goes pop and you develop a brand-new interest. Experiencing Super Mario Bros. for the first time wasn’t simply a pop moment, though. It was more of a gushing explosion, a foamy mess, a mating of Mentos, Diet Coke, and whatever part of the brain that drives us to sin. Mario took his pudgy little paw in mine and guided me into a new world of stories, stories I didn’t merely read but”
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h
This was supposed to be his day to launch into the conversation.
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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
While we're all appreciating Roosevelt, here is a small comic.
A comic depicting a little red haired girl in a library holding a book and approaching a large object like a flower patterned vase the shape of a sleeping animal body with a lid where the head and neck would be. She opens the lid and casually pulls out a large sleepy purple snake. The snake says to her "Can I help you?" the girl says "the lady said you'd read to me" the snake says "of course! Did you pick a book out?" and the girl happily says "Yeah!"
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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am so excited to show you this drawing from 6 years ago
A drawing of a creature with a body like a porcelain jar with legs, the body is covered in painted roses and there is a lid where the neck and head would be. The top drawing shows the lid closed, the second drawing shows the lid open with snakes sleeping inside
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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Roosevelt: New and slightly improved
A drawing of a reference sheet for artists of a character named Roosevelt who is a porcelain jar with legs and a lid where the head and neck would be and seven snakes emerging from the mouth of the container
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 23h
Wait until the internet learns where "weeb" comes from
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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