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katfeete

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I make food, prose, comics, 3D art, code, things with yarn, and (in what might better be described as a very ambitious WIP) a kid. If you met me at a con, I'm […] [bridged from wandering.shop/@katfeete on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Here’s the thing. It looks like a political cartoon, but it’s real. The slices of the pizza are exactly mathematically proportional to reality. We are being screwed every single day by rich oligarchs. And we know it. It’s time to fundamentally change the […] [Original post on shakedown.social]
A pizza representing our economy is sitting on the table. A rich white guy labeled “Top 1%” gets a slice that looks to be about 85% of the pie. A white lady labeled “Merely wealthy” gets a slice that looks to be 13% or so. A black lady labeled “upper middle class” has a slice that’s about 2%. A frowning guy labeled “lower 50%” has a few crumbs on the table, not even a slice.

The captions say: 
How America’s economic pizza is sliced per capita. This is not a joke.
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
On salvaging dinner from the wreckage (and resurrecting one's blog): www.pillowfort.social/posts/8412497
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
[US Politics] Annnnd speaking of things on fire. The “contractor” is a zero experience AI firm. Because of COURSE it is. 🤦‍♀️
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Another of those worrying deteriorations of our country that’s sliding under the radar because so many things are actively on fire. 50% of abbassadorships unfilled, and 80% of those that are filled, it’s by political appointees like Guilfoyle. “And when you put amateurs - and some political […]
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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
I DO NOT LIKE THESE ROBOTS. — Becky Chambers www.otherscribbles.com/aizine #NoAI
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I DO NOT LIKE THESE ROBOTS. — Becky Chambers
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thought I'd share this post from a friend which is a more nuanced version of the frustration among mathematicians about how the "mathocalypse" was executed. karagila.org/2026/openai-... I think all nerds are currently processing it.
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OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and mathematics
By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)
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-Boulet- @bouletcorp2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
English-speaking followers! WAIT! *STORY TIME* A few years ago, I met a producer who asked me if I was tempted by the idea of writing for TV, and offered to talk about it around a drink. I spent the whole week thinking about it, took some notes, played a thousand scenes in my head…
Boulet walking in the street, compulsively noting ideas in a notebook
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Marie Brennan @swan-tower.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
New flash story! Just about three hundred words long, "Tomorrow Night" is up at @SmallWondersSFF -- see if you can spot the folkloric source it's riffing on . . . smallwondersmag.com/piece/tomorrow-…
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Rain @artiacinsomnist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
a weird looking fish #mxtxtober26 day 2: water
digital art of He Xuan peeking out of a body of water at night. only the top of his head is visible, his yellow irises glowing unnaturally. he is staring at the viewer intensely and looking quite unsettling. his hair almost looks to be melting into the water, blackening it around him.
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Marie Brennan @swan-tower.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
It's pub day for THE WRITER'S LITTLE BOOK OF METER! As poetry's starting to get a bit more of a moment in the sun, I offer up this introduction to how one writes with rhythm: www.swantower.com/writing/the-write…
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The Writer's Little Book of Meter - Swan Tower
Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry -- including ways the rules can be bent and broken!
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's pretty good evidence the lowest level of happiness for adults in Western culture is around 45 (I am 44). I used to think this was about control vs responsibility (you get a lot more responsibility but less control), however there's also the element of "I haven't felt ahead in 10 years."
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Pre-midterms October in the US:
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@npr/morning-edition-… The line that made me snort-laugh: “And I think that, you know, for all the folks that used to say, I don't do politics, I think they realize that politics is absolutely doing them.”
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Marie Brennan @swan-tower.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
I can finally share the cover for THE WORST MONK IN OMNU, out next May from Angry Robot! It's the story of Diligence-and-Care-in-All-Things, a Buddhist-style monk with really terrible karma, who goes on pilgrimage to try and stop disasters from happening all […] [Original post on wandering.shop]
Cover art for THE WORST MONK IN OMNU by Marie Brennan. In a nighttime landscape, an Asian-looking monk is silhouetted against a glowing waterfall plunging down the mountainside.
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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Sure, there are smart fash. #notall But most fash are below normal and filled with resentment as a result of it. It's how they became fash in the first place. www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-abi…
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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
:D
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
oh yes
bluesky thread by Dan O'Sullivan:
"Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
I should add that in addition to being much funnier than anticipated--Musk is going to be intensely humiliated by this movie, it's going to attack the deepest wounds he tries so hard to conceal--it is also bone-chilling. I think he gutted USAID with DOGE to kill masses of people in the third world.
I should also add that when the movie got to showing people burning Teslas and vandalizing dealerships, the theater of mostly older folks in Santa Monica started applauding. I think it is possible Trump and Musk turned libs over 50 into John Brown.
There's a moment early on that's just footage of Elon Musk balding and in khakis walking down an office hallway in the late 90s and the entire audience burst out laughing. If Musk is made aware of audience reactions like this I think he might actually crash out.
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🍁 Δράκακηϛ ⚜️ @drakakis.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Canadians don't scare easy … but there's one creature that terrifies the bravest of souls …
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
@Nisaa Right now, in southwest Virginia (mountains, about 2800 ft), my garden is winding down. My cucumbers just finished; I’ve still got green beans and a trickle of tomatoes. I have a fall crop of radishes and my pumpkins should hopefully be ready before first frost, which will probably be in […]
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Nisaa (she/her) @nisaa.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Hey #ScribesAndMakers I'm writing an article about Eating with the seasons from a Chinese Medicine point of view. It occurs to me that the seasonal food I eat in California is probably a little different than what you get in your areas. Can you tell me some foods you're growing in your garden […]
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story […]
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Marie Brennan @swan-tower.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Two weeks until THE WRITER'S LITTLE BOOK OF METER comes out! And while this one is aimed at poets, prose writers, there's a fair bit to be said for staying aware of the rhythmic patterns of your words: www.swantower.com/writing/the-write…
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The Writer's Little Book of Meter - Swan Tower
Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry -- including ways the rules can be bent and broken!
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
RE: spacey.space/@nyrath/11730877132954… “We used to have warehouses full of backup,” she noted, gesturing toward the stacked containers visible from her office window. “Now we have algorithms. Algorithms don’t eat, but they also don’t care if you do.” Yeah, so. “AI kills us all” is […]
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social I’m trying to grow pawpaw but so far have a high kill rate (3/4 of the seedlings I planted did not survive me) and while the survivor is thriving, it won’t set fruit without a second pawpaw. We’ll see how this fall’s seedling does. I would like an American persimmon […]
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
"for months on end now, most of our teams have just been triaging bugs and coordinating releases. It has truly taken all the fun out of the job"
unbound vulnerabilities year to year showing 2026 take off like a rocket
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Marie Brennan @swan-tower.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
The next three WRITER'S LITTLE BOOKS are up for pre-order! As SFF poetry starts to step out of the shadows, I'm taking a run at certain aspects of poem-writing craft, starting with meter: www.swantower.com/writing/the-write…
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The Writer's Little Book of Meter - Swan Tower
Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry -- including ways the rules can be bent and broken!
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well things have officially gotten nasty. For those following at home, this is an accusation that OpenAi has been cagey about whether they were training on converseations between mathematicians and AI.
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
python wrapper functions :python:
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This thing where soccer players announce they're retiring from competitive soccer and then go play in the US is a little insulting.
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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Karl Jacoby 
@karl_jacoby

Historian here to remind you that when the student body was
predominantly white, world-class public universities like Berkeley charged no tuition.  Today's student debt is a product of underfunding of education right as integration began to take place.
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Aram Sinnreich @aram.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Well this is a hell of a headline www.404media.co/florida-deputy-of-t…
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Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Incidentally, you may be asking yourself "why couldn't Facebook just boot the scammers and give you back your page?" to which I reply that Facebook tech support makes Kafka's short stories seem like episodes of Peppa Pig. I spent weeks talking to baffled agents for hours a day before giving up.
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Marie Brennan @swan-tower.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
The omnibus of my very first series is currently 25% off at Kobo! (Discount applies at checkout; you won't see it on the book page.) www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-doppel…
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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
For anyone still looking for a new home base as toot.community is unfortunately wrapping up, wandering.shop is a cozy sort of spot from which you can explore the wider fediverse, or within which you can hang out with our various friendly characters. We are nominally "invite only" but the way to […]
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social The internet is a very worrying place but trees are awesome and Edible Landscaping is having their Paw Paw festival in two weeks, so whenever I find myself worrying about Internet Stuff I switch to worrying about how much of my wishlist will still be in stock and how […]
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Me in May: between my seedlings getting The Crud, the drought, and the wildlife, looks like I’m not gonna have much of a garden this year Me now: EVERYONE IN THIS HOUSE NEEDS TO EAT MORE VEGETABLES #gardening #WTHcucumbers
A colander full of green and yellow cucumbers (and one handful of cherry tomatoes) with a pair of scissors sticking out over the rim, next to another colander VERY full of green and yellow snap beans, against a background of mulched bed. Y’all there’s more cucumbers and beans in the dang house
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wait, wait. Toon is in the mahogany family. I'm gonna call it moohogany.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And a lot of the optimism, as I experience it, was that if you were the kind of nerd who was on the early Internet at all, the people gaining power were *us*. Us the good guys. Nerds with good nerd values. I feel sometimes there's an insufficient sense of not just anger, but betrayal.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Possibly things couldn't have played out this way, but it'd be interesting to re-roll history so that ai doesn't appear post crypto post social media, post enshittification generally. It's hard to convey how optimistic early Internet was.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/08/2026
Trans men used the bathroom they were required to use in Kansas under their new incredibly severe statewide bathroom ban. As a result, the police were called on them. They call themselves the Kansas Compliance Crew. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Police Called on Trans Men Using Women's Restroom As Required By Kansas Law
“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch @kristinerusch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sheila Williams, editor of Asimov’s and friend, one of the best people ever, and her husband David are in a huge financial and medical bind. Their wonderful daughters can’t care for them 24/7 given their conditions, so need help getting them to a good care center. Please donate. gofund.me/c3c7a2b3b
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Donate to Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care, organized by Irene Bruce
Hi - This is Irene and Juliet, the daughters of Sheila and David. As many of… Irene Bruce needs your support for Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social I would agree that it’s thin, an aesthetic. However, a big part of that aesthetic is a mythology of returning to the “pure” national/cultural/racial state that supposedly once existed — what Eco called the “cult of tradition” — and that’s going to align with […]
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
RE: social.neonpaws.digital/@FoxesInLov… The only reason to lock your doors in a small town in summer
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
@fatsam As an aside — McMurtry’s son, James McMurtry, is a country singer (or “Americana” if you want to be fancy about it.) If you haven’t heard him I recommend it. Astonishing musical poet. (This is from his latest album, where he strays into politics, but it’s been on repeat for me this year […]
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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
🔋 MIT just published the most comprehensive EV emissions study yet, analyzing every US zip code with real driving data. Battery EVs cut lifetime emissions 40-60% vs gas cars in most locations. Even on the dirtiest grid in the country, they still come out ahead. The study used DOE's GREET […]
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Marie Brennan @swan-tower.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
THE EYE OF LEVIATHAN is now out in the world! Come with us to an alternate Golden Age Spain, where the king claims dominion over not just the Americas but the faerie islands of the Sea Beyond . . . www.macarrick.com/writing/eye-of-le…
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The Eye of Leviathan - M.A. Carrick
In an alternate Spanish Golden Age, where the map becomes the territory and mapmakers are the architects of reality, the Council of the Sea Beyond has risen to unrivaled power, exploiting the world’s most precious resources for their own gain.
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
For god’s sake, bean plants. I was only gone for FOUR DAYS #gardening
A mix of green, pink, and purple-striped beans half-filling a large silver colander because my beans do not care about drought and are overachievers
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katfeete @katfeete.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Uh, yeah, pretty much it is how we feel. I have unfortunately watched multiple people (some co-workers) burn out spectacularly after quitting their hard jobs in favor of easy farm living. :-/
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