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Went out erranding today and got heat stroke. Y’all. I cannot overstate how furious I am that billionaires have gotten us to the point where I was sweating off my sunscreen in the shade at the very tail of September. All encompassing, no rational thought left levels of rage here.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 13h

Also your annual PSA that using activated charcoal for spooky Halloween food can really mess with your medications. 🙃 this includes birth control last I heard so

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 16h

Elaborate breakfasts are an eloquent expression of self-love.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/09/2026

We don't use the term "genocide" too much. In fact, based solely on the legal definition, I'd argue we use it far too little. Maybe if we were quicker to label atrocities as genocides, we would have fewer atrocities.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/09/2026

Today's generative AI legal fail: The AI told Prospective Client that the case against them wasn't meritorious so they didn't need to show up to court. They didn't show up to court. They lost. The Generative AI said don't worry, the judgment wouldn't be enforceable,

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, I didn't get my wish. And we're not going to survive paying all these hospital bills on our own, so since my lungs failed me, I need to ask you for help. Shares help, too. 💜 ko-fi.com/cknightwrites

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C.A. Petrov @capetrov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Besides their Very Nice art, if you've never read one of Kari's 'Blind Yelling' pieces where they critique blindness portrayals in media I can't recommend them enough. You might be surprised at which ones DON'T suck, you'll definitely be entertained, and there's a good chance you'll learn things.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 21h

The way I choked on air and started gasping for breath

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Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(Pssst. No, really. ) Wikipedia is *almost always* a good, basic place to start. Sometimes it's awesome. And they are fighting the scrapers like mad. $10.40 goes a long way! I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, & 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org

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Skulls MacKenzie 💀 @disposablehero.com · 28/09/2026

I would like my brain to stop being a chaotic whirlwind of shit please

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 21h

That’s the thing. I am genuinely curious about what amount of money people are going to be willing to pay for Claude et al considering that we partially got here because people didn’t want to pay other people.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 21h

What the fuck did I just read (I seem to be saying this way too often nowadays)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

The really upsetting thing for me out of all this is that some of the storage methods is going to result in the food going bad way faster than it should, some of the things actually don’t look food safe, and I have a suspicion there is a lot of food being thrown out in general.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Obviously sending this to the librarian in my life resulted in "THE TRUE HORROR IS THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM" outrage. Strange Scaffold, I hope you have consulted experts and that this game will provide a sharp critique of filing systems

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

god if I ever got given the reigns of trek I would write a series following a troupe of Klingon bards, a concept that doesn't really *formally* exist but we've seen the edges of -- they love opera, they love tales of great deeds, there's gotta be a class of dudes who make it a living off it

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm adding this article to my Mission Impossible grudge series idea folder.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

Looking up recipes for tomato eggs and it’s like… “No ketchup (cuz it has added sugar)”, proceeds to add a tbsp of white sugar… “No ketchup cuz I like the pure flavor of the tomatoes”, adds sesame oil oyster sauce and white pepper… Are people all right? Dude.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t know how accurate this is as I answered a lot a lot of the questions with “it depends” because frankly it felt like I’d need a combined history, law, and economics degree to actually have an informed opinion on it. Like when they asked about import tariffs and public developmental banks.

12 axes result.
Most compatible: 94% Guilherme Boulos
Other personalities: Pedro Sánchez, Zohran Mamdani, Franz Kafka
Nearby countries: Scotland, California, Massachusetts

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Your daily affirmation: You don't need to fit in. All famous monsters from fairy tales and legends lived by their own rules, so you should too.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

What is breaking my brain is that Slutcon and similar events have been framed as prime networking events (as in if you do not go then you’re considered the odd person out) for sectors of the industry and I hope to god that’s not the case.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't think conflating physical states with ethics is great and I think we should watch out for that because it has real life implications. Evil doesn't announce its presence like that. In general, everyone I've met with a living room with paths through it has been a mix of traits like anyone.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

So this political axes quiz is like “the government should be able to take down websites and stuff promoting fake news” and I’m sitting here contemplating how almost all the governments I have some experience in are the ones passing out fake news. Yeah dawg we call it propaganda 😭

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

I am doing this, the extreme version, and two questions in I am realizing I don’t actually know enough about anything to have a reasonable opinion. (Tax competition and whether taxes should be set at a national level)

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

As a writer I just genuinely have reached the point where every single day the news is nuttier and more awful than anything I could dream up. What do you mean a (the?) main networking event is “slutcon”???

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have posted a new-old #BlindYelling (edited from twitter days) to my ko-fi blog. Head over there for discussions of portrayals of blindness in media, in this case, Blind Fury- a late 80s Rutger Hauer movie. Also, I am fundraising a massive influx of bills, if you can help. ko-fi.com/karidru

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But before I go: so much is due right now. Quarterly and yearly bills included. If you can boost or help if able, thank you. If not, I have a new Blind Yelling blog post if you are interested in blindness in media. ko-fi.com/karidru

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Instead of: A hill I'm willing to die on I'm gonna start saying: A hill I'm having a picnic on Just... spreading out a blanket with a food basket and staying a long time ✅️ too many ppl dying already ✅️ picnics are cozy n nice ✅️ nobody wants to eject someone having a nice picnic on a hillside

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Luna's vet bill is probably going to hit $1500 by next week with no plans of stopping anytime soon, so anyway, feel free to buy books lol payhip.com/kristadball

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

😳 got signed out of Bluesky on my other device for “violating the Bluesky Social TOS” and was told I’d have an email detailing the violation and duration of the suspension… But no email. And now it appears I can get on Bluesky on my phone?

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

How much do you like these tropes? Enemies to lovers: depends /10 Second chance: 1/10 Fake dating: 9/10 Friends to lovers: 10/10 Age gap: depends/10 Found family: 10/10 Grumpy x sunshine: depends/10 Pregnancy: depends/10 Slow burn: 6/10 Love triangle: -million/10

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Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Years ago Robert Aspirin told a group, "If I can discourage you from being a writer, I should." Some folks there didn't understand. But if you aren't driven to express things with words, you don't want to do it professionally. It's also agony when the words stop--for whatever reason. 🌸

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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have started that damn writing project on Patreon. It's currently free for anyone who cares to take a look at it, which frankly makes me feel faint. www.patreon.com/JLKaufmann Tea. I need tea. Lots of tea. Yes.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

Why does Bluesky not have polls yet.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

The library just put on the most annoying tinny little song to tell us it’s time to get out.

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grace under pressure @persisting.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This entire story is insane. What the fuck

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 23/09/2026

If tomorrow, Fords started exploding whenever you started them, "well, how would YOU build a car?" would not be not an acceptable rejoinder to "this is bad, cars should not explode." If you want to know how to liberate Palestine, ask Palestinians. That's what I do.

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

….Hrm So the way to add drama to my jellyfish as starships in space is obviously to add these to the mix?

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Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tobias and his family were so hopeful, and planned so carefully. . . and a *ghastly* rental and idiocy with the visa applications has drained their funds. Shares are *greatly* appreciated, and he's even added an ebook bundle in thanks for any donation!

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't care if this is a long shot. Folks: Message your reps today and tell them you support this. They have to at least hear their constituents care & are paying attention. Also if nothing else, let it go into the history books that we didn't blithely accept the modern Gestapo.

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Democratic U.S. rep. for Chicago Delia Ramirez introduces bill to dismantle DHS, abolish ICE

Chicago U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez announced she is introducing a new bill that proposes dismantling the Department of Homeland Security and abolishing ICE and redirecting their funding to more social se...

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll be real with you. I'm too ill to reliably earn money and am at the end of my savings. I could use any help at all if you can spare it. ko-fi.com/karidru

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 24/09/2026

I *do* hate everything, thank you!

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have been thinking a lot about this balance between friction and convenience/relaxation, especially since @sheerspite.bsky.social talks about how the positive aspects of friction in their new book, The Politics of Lonely.

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Honest opinion: I don't think it's cute or well-meaning to pretend that serving drinks indoors is compatible with masking. I think it's lying to people who want to be lied to. Those of us who don't want to be lied to will go sit on the patio.

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Lee Edward McIlmoyle/Philo Layne b. 12/26/1970 @leeedwardmcilmoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I need a dinner plan and my fridge is almost empty. DSKI has been married to this idiot for 21 years, and I still can't treat her to dinner. I also need someone local who can lend me a distortion pedal for a Sunday noonish gig at Open Streets in Hamilton this weekend. Nirvana covers. DM me maybe?

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My Etsy shop is open again! I make gemstone and wire jewelry and art inspired by space. Every piece is one-of-a-kind and handmade by me. I'm busily restocking the shop; and I'm happy to make custom pieces. Check it out at elakdawalla.etsy.com

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Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was just saying to a friend that we used to do #GFM for medical, and now we do GFM for medical plus everything else, when we've done EVERYTHING we can and our back is against the wall. Boosts help, and GFMs often run a while, so keep folks in mind if you can. Siobhán is real, and in real need.

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