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John Chu

@johnchu.bsky.social
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The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @john_chu@wandering.shop

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h
In Illinois, we strive to give everyone what they need to thrive. We take care of our neighbors — and together, we will fight to end poverty and food insecurity in our state. On Hunger Action Day, the need for action couldn’t be greater.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h
Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).
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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 13h
Motherfucker, the rural blue collar workers here can't AFFORD to stay at home. Both parents work, they lose a huge chunk of one paycheck to daycare, but the small remainder keeps them floating from paycheck to paycheck. Get out of your fucking bubble. Honestly.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 9h
This seems plausible, but ... imagine you do this and the LLM tells you it's found something juicy and your boss is gonna make it the basis of his entire questioning strategy at the hearing ... don't you, ya know, verify what the machine spat out before you let your boss run with it?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h
I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 11h
hey all!!! this Wednesday, which is tomorrow, i'll be at @storyhour.bsky.social with @megelison.bsky.social !!!! holy carps!!! you know you wanna attend this one. free author readings online, to refill the creative well! 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern youtube.com/@storyhour2020
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Story Hour
Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 12h
I am really bad at total orderings, but I really liked @johnchu.bsky.social 's THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Limiting replies because I'm having a very "Wishing on you everything you wish on trans people" kinda day.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That is if the average "we gotta sacrifice trans people for the greater good" is even a genuine person at all, which at this point I have my doubts. Elon Musk alone is spending hundreds of millions on anti-trans messaging, I'm sure there's more than a few bot farms targeting liberals.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You're not making pragmatic calculations, you're not bargaining or impeding fascism in any way, shape, or form, you are a gullible mark at best, or hate your fellow human beings so much you're engaging in willful collusion with fascism as long as it hurts them no matter how many others are harmed.
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Heritage Foundation now targeting women's sports after SCOTUS' anti-trans sports ruling - LGBTQ Nation
Project 2025's architects say that Title IX and women's sports harm men's sports and "feminine graces."
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 15h
This behavior is appalling.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 16h
New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped.
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 15h
She's literally posting "Courtney Milan, professional bully" in this "private" (anyone can join, and in fact trying to drum up new subscriptions) discord, along with lies about SFF authors, and lists of "abusers" (who are all authors), and saying anonymous Black women support her doing this. 🤷
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h
i know that shit fucks with yall’s heads, sometimes i think i know it better than you know it because part of the quest for frictionlessness is suppressing your understanding of the morally right way to behave. you can be a better man! do right things instead of nothing!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h
i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22h
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22h
you will be rewarded with: - uncomfortable silence probably - maybe you will lose that friend idk is that such a big deal
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22h
you will not be rewarded with: - sexual and/or romantic favors (sliding value scale relative to the chastity of rescued woman, however this can be applied to any woman, no matter how biblically libidinous) - government-issued tshirt, hat, or badge indicating you are “one of the good ones” - parade
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All Trump’s malevolence and psychosis will be on full display right after the midterms. We’ve been here before in Nov 2020, and here we go again. The national nightmare of Trump refusing to accept defeat and dragging the country through lies, conspiracies and drama begins again.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h
Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic
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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 16h
Minnesota AG candidate’s stock portfolio presents 174 potential conflicts of interest minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/29/m...
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Minnesota AG candidate’s stock portfolio presents 174 potential conflicts of interest • Minnesota Reformer
If Republican Ron Schutz wins the attorney general’s race in November, he will be responsible for enforcing Minnesota’s laws against the country’s biggest and most powerful corporations. His own perso...
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 16h
in my head canon, Mr. Christmas is a one-eyed cat who was finally found under the nextdoor neighbor's porch and this is a celebratory post www.justjared.com/2026/09/22/j...
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Jonathan Bennett Confirms 'Finding Mr. Christmas' Has Been Canceled by Hallmark Channel
Jonathan Bennett has some sad news for Hallmark Channel fans. The fan-favorite series Finding Mr. Christmas, a reality competition show searching for
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22h
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 17h
Really wild to see the ROC flag and the PRC flag together.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h
this is a good comparison but I think you also have to have a sense of just how bad things were in France (and Algerian 'France' in particular) at the time.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 17h
As a survivor reading between the lines of this very carefully written story it sounds like Jonathan McKinsey was a trans man in an abusive and controlling marriage who was targeted for violence repeatedly by his ex-wife and her parents and eventually murdered. But as a reporter? I can't be sure.
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18h
I don't believe it! The woman who put Ross Douthat on TV can never be replaced.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 29/09/2026
macOS 27/iOS 27 upgrade worth it just for mail/Safari handling bsky 2fa emails now
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
seeing a lot of discussion about this and like: the reason the poster did a screenshot with no link is that if you actually search for the article you'd learn that this bill 1) has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani 2) was introduced in committee back in May and didn't go anywhere
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every woman you know.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every woman you know 📢EVERY 📢WOMAN 📢YOU 📢KNOW has a story of sexual harassment &/or assault; most of us have more than one. I've been -grabbed & street harassed x infinity -dehumanized, grabbed, & harassed by men I thought I cld trust -stalked/followed at night -threatened (online & IRL) w/ rape
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm beside myself. Studies consistently show that when rapists hear *jokes* about rape, **they** believe IT IS ALL MEN & feel safe to rape. What do you think rapists think when they say "want in on this gang rape?" AND YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING TO STOP THEM.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are a bunch of Republican voters who, if they saw this video, would hate everything about it, instead of seeing it as a good thing.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026
Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I appreciate that this is getting covered but I really, really, really don't think "infuriated lawmakers" is the key consequences of "revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more"
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is a very stupid man.
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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 28/09/2026
Um, holy crap. Y'all. Thanks to everyone who's donated so far, we've passed enough to cover the costs for the initial assessment and undoing the damage the original repair guy did! You're amazing. If you've ever enjoyed my CRT pics, and have the bandwidth, toss a coin to your Witcher.
A photograph of Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete on a CRT.A photograph of Saga Frontier 2 on a CRT.A photograph of Castlevania 4 on a CRT.A photograph of Chrono Trigger on a CRT.
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
See how easy it is?
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What I picture when people say escrow
The cool S design people used to draw in school with crow wings
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Beshear forever, man
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guys complaining about women at the gym: brother their breasts and asses, they arouse me Women complaining about men at the gym: I was *in the middle* of a squat rep when a guy pulled my headphones off in order to tell me I smell nice and then try to correct my form by pushing the barbell around
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guy complaining about women at the gym: brother they have boobies Women complaining about men at the gym: in the middle of a bench press rep a guy literally started removing plates from my bar. And then followed me to my car
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guy complaining about women at the gym: I don't know where to look, their asses are everywhere brother Woman complaining about guys at the gym: in the middle of doing a squat rep a guy leaned on one end of my barbell, took my earbud out, and started trying to talk to me about Joe Rogan
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
astute political gambit, sir
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