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Richard Swan @richardswanauthor.bsky.social · 4h

The gorgeous cover for Blood Dynasty has been revealed! Art by the inimitable Philip Harris

There’s a vein of “don’t mock appearance,” but I do think you can derive intelligent conclusions about someone’s choices about how they present themselves. This type of dress suggests to me either impunity over how he looks, disdain of the idea of looking good, or a profound lack of self awareness.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5h

As far as I can tell the idea of schools putting kids on hormones is just a complete fantasy. How or why would the school be involved with that?

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 12h

A CT scan of Trump's brain probably looks like a QR code by now.

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InkFoundry @inkfoundry.bsky.social · 11h

Inkmark finalists are going to be announced this week!!!!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 13h

Sorta underselling this moment as he did it on 9/11 to try to cheer his team up. “People like music… right?” <jd Vance ordering donuts meme>

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a… (sorry)… layup.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The mandate of “Yes, and”

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

way back in the before times, like the proto-early-internet rumor days (early 2000s), there was definitely a persistent rumor that Helen Keller was a virulent racist and antisemite, which was presented either as A. Look at this idiot or B. Proof that even Helen Keller could see the "Truth"

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Clocking the Young Turks from the jump as bad faith operators is one of my greatest perception check nat 20s.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Come *on* no. Nope. They can’t be real. Uh uh.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This will either be incredibly dumb and pointless OR incredibly dumb and ruin all of our lives (even further) There is no in between

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not only have I never heard “Choosin Texas” I have never even heard *of* Ella Langley (who I infer is a musician?)

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's astounding how much of Catholic social media is:

Principal Skinner: Is loving immigrants part of my moral duty?

No, it's the Pope who is wrong!

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not really the point but the way modern media wrote headlines is infuriating. It’s all just clickbait at best, ragebait at baseline.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bet we’re weirdly similar. I recently described my politics as “gallows enthusiast” and in like 2012 I was in law school and shall we say “fedsoc curious”

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's really weird to me that when presented with Discourse Item of the Day! (tm) people don't just scroll on by when it's facially silly. Maybe you've got a bizarrely strong feeling about job interview etiquette, but what makes you think that the world must conform to your opinions on it?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At this point, with the AI companies admitting they cannot always predict or control the products, the default should be that the user and company are jointly and severally strictly liable for harms to third parties.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s probably some perfect solution to a set of equations that maximizes both potential influence while also maximizing potential controllability. Like in no world do the three you name jump their Pattons, but they’re each well suited to influence their respective audiences

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One impeachment trial a month until he's gone. Make the Senate a permanent court while Trump holds office. Be clear about "It will be this way until we've run out of worthy crimes" so everyone's clear about the gig. Make John Roberts loathe his work.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's really weird how social media can give the world a window into a person's unraveling in real time.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All joking aside, what a profoundly miserable way to live. Just going through life terrified and infuriated by the very possibility that someone lives their life differently than you do or how you think they should. One life to live, and they spend it angry and scared at all times. Pathetic.

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I must share with you this epic community note on Twitter 😂

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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Republicans' entire campaign against David Crowley is just this, over and over.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Red beans and rice became a thing because it is a 'complete' protein source and provides carbohydrate-based caloric density and it's pennies a serving. Not to mention that when cooked properly it absolutely whips.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

way too much time is spent in coddling the feelings of professional whiners and trying to help them feel less bad instead of simply saying so fucking what if they're crying and going back to living our lives the way we were before we had this pointless interruption

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

alert the press: it is not normal for the president to be unable to stay conscious during televised events in the Oval Office

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is such a niche meathead post I’m legit gladdened that I understand it. Let’s get under the bar and take it back from the fash.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The entire idea that anyone listens to the Theo von podcast is baffling to me.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t think this is wrong. I think this is going to be a fascinating exercise in seeing how this dissonance resolves itself (it will be via violence probably!)

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m frustrated by how much of this I either knew already or broadly understood.

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16/09/2026

Guy who’s writing legal fanfic about a poaster: I bet this makes me look normal and in the right

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is actually a good litmus test for “is this person fit for participation in society.” “What do you think about Ms. Rachel?” <any reaction from “who” to “what, why” to “wait, the kids show?” - normal <anything else/virulent hatred> - this guy needs a rubber room.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

please. my discourse. it's very sick.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is the most revealing peak inside Donald Trump's brain we've ever been given, in the sense that only someone with literal mush for brains would consider putting these songs together. It's baffling. When we ask whether Trump is a unique historical actor, this is the evidence pointing to yes.

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