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Kevin Cantú

@killerswan.bsky.social
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I occasionally say interesting things. they / them 🏳️‍⚧️ Berkeley, CA

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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 6h
poor baby!! 🙀😹 (Apricot was just afraid of plastic bags)
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 10h
there’s a chance tho!
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 10h
Bobbie:
Bobbie

(I thought it was Bobbi because I wasn’t reading from paper)

looming in a doorway, thinking
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 10h
Amos:
Amos

those guys made his mouth bleed and he’s the one smiling
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 10h
even if Lincoln tags along: bsky.app/profile/kill...
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 10h
plz send Fauxlivia my way bsky.app/profile/kill...
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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 13h
If you’re in the Bay Area you should either come to this reading during Lit Crawl with @charliejaneanders.com, @olivasthewriter.bsky.social and others or prepare to regret missing it forever
a very 1970s style poster with an image of a yellow circle with radiating lines and a purple background:
text change: trans writers on anything but transition
june martin with mm olivas
michal mj jones
charlie jane anders
chino lee chung
sloane holzer

october 24 2026 5-6pm
dog-eared books
900 valencia st
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 12h
in Caliban’s War, it really sinks in how perfect Bobbi’s casting was, and how much I prefer The Expanse’s pint-sized Amos casting to the book’s description big lugs are never the ones with as much experience fighting as the little ppl though rumble with Bobbi at your own risk
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 12h
in Caliban’s War, it really sinks in how perfect Bobbi’s casting was, and how much I prefer The Expanse’s pint-sized Amos casting to the book’s description big lugs are never the ones with as much experience fighting as the little ppl though rumble with Bobbi at your own risk
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 13h
has it failed yet?
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Parchmentscrollinensinainciusol @parchmentscroll.bsky.social · 13h
This is such a Tumblr interaction that I just assumed that's where it came from when I heard people do dramatic readings on YouTube shorts
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Transgender For Everybody! @ktfalvey.bsky.social · 14h
The suffering of our sisters interned in the ICE camps is horrific. These women have such courage. ❤️ veritenews.org/2026/10/05/t...
veritenews.org
Trans detainees allege abuse at Jena ICE facility
Three trans women have been held in solitary confinement for months allege that they are facing abuse at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center.
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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The polarization b/t students b/t "i'm going to use AI no matter what you say b/c the WORLD is going toward AI and the FUTURE is AI and you're a luddite," and "AI is cringe and I want to use my own brain that I'm paying $15k+/year to strengthen" is dramatic/astonishing
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 16h
whoa!!
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 17h
seven bookshelves
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 17h
I am however reminded of a favorite film:
Born Yesterday 

Judy Holliday is the mistress, and she figures out exactly how many things are in her name after all 😹

still from a scene where she’s caught wearing glasses 😇
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 06/10/2026
LOGGING ON
Bugs Bunny striding toward a distant level castle with the caption from the GTA meme 

Aw shit, here we go again.
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 17h
they’re trying to use their mistresses condos as a tax dodge?
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isaac @sevier.io · 19h
Good work
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 20h
I’m not saying that if you got into a small community college you should be able to transfer to Harvard automatically if you get raped, but there should be a network of caring administrators in place that can say, hey, I have a student who has an emergency transfer need…
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 20h
We need people in college/university administration to be able to work together to make sure that victims of college rape can A) take time off if they need to and B) transfer to a different school if they want to without losing credits, money, etc.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 20h
I’m realistic enough to know that we’re not going to fix the campus rape problem overnight, because patriarchy is multifaceted and cockroach-like in its survival abilities, but something I think we could get in place fast is a program for letting victims transfer without penalties.
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 20h
this kind of fucker runs around chopping babies in half thinking he’s as wise as King Solomon
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20h
ECMWF is also indicating potential for *extremely* high ocean temp anomalies (>= +10F) along immediate CA coast. That would profoundly affect CA winter temps & amount of moisture available to landfalling storms. It will also have huge implications for coastal ecosystems.
Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gon's old sweater: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 21h
reminds me:
[from Twitter]

Tony Hightower may have
@ThatTonyH:

I know everyone thinks Hemingway has the ultimate Six Word Story, but may I present
(Via mltshp.com/p/101CE)

[photo of a yellow street sign that says: WARNING LOW FLYING OWLS with a cardboard sign next to it with a phone number that says LOST CHIHUAHUA]
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 23h
maybe someday, but I bet the next step is more of a Sackler Family project to see how much AI prescribers are immune to liability
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m such a normie I mean except for the six bookshelves which I will often try to hand visitors books from
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CA prop 38 is a scam - vote NO. For example see: This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it? calmatters.org/politics/ele...
calmatters.org
Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?
Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m two generations away from Montanan but I still feel my blood boil at the sound of that
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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wasn't going to speak at tonight's city commission meeting about the safety concerns about this Daily Wire movie debacle in town, but when the giant meathead private security goons claimed they were protecting *us* from *unprecedented terrorist threats* I was outraged. Fuck those dickheads.
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Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 06/10/2026
Extrapolating out a couple years one of the things I anticipate we'll see from the proliferation of agent coding is the death of mid-wit programming languages. "We proved correctness using a Turing complete type system" will become a defensible thing to say.
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Kristen Seversky @kr1573n.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I... We... There are SO MANY WAYS we can apply this energy btw 😆
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Hi, heaven? A croissant fell off one of your baking trays on the way to the oven."
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
what has happened here
orange cat laying sprawled on the floor
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
yeah that’d be cool!
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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Morning commute up to Kyburz #fieldwork #commute
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
tying all this together in my brain — and only my brain — is a church Halloween event where I had several delightful epiphanies
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oral is also an evangelical religious school
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
yeah I’m definitely not fundraising on my favorite books about AI being about the shipping industry (The Pacific Circuit), an economic historian’s pro-hydro take on the steam engine (Fossil Capital), and various antebellum labor history (Masterless Men)
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
hah, I’ve just been saying it’s The Chronoliths plus painful bits of Burning Paradise and Down The Bright Way, and maybe Zelazny’s 24 Views of Mount Fuji some of the time
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've been trying to figure out the name of these flatworms in my yard, which have a black body but a tan face. Today, I think I have finally found the answer: the species doesn't have a name yet. It's just called Genus Name sp. "red head", and one knows where they came from. Cool.
Possibly Anisorhynchodemus flatworm is black with a tan colored faceClose up of the flatworm's face with two black dot eyes
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I still don’t really like discover mode
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve been thinking: some joke the worst case scenario is a misconfigured AI turning the whole earth into paperclips and I don’t mean to be defending AI here— but we seem to have already configured corporations to burn the whole world to make money
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
her book, Trauma Plot: A Life, is earthshaking: www.amazon.com/Trauma-Plot-...
amazon.com
Trauma Plot: A Life
Amazon.com: Trauma Plot: A Life eBook : Hood, Jamie: Kindle Store
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
one of my other top five, who I’ve been thinking a lot about lately, is Jamie Hood: bsky.app/profile/kill...
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
her book, Trauma Plot: A Life, is earthshaking: www.amazon.com/Trauma-Plot-...
amazon.com
Trauma Plot: A Life
Amazon.com: Trauma Plot: A Life eBook : Hood, Jamie: Kindle Store
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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
one of my other top five, who I’ve been thinking a lot about lately, is Jamie Hood: bsky.app/profile/kill...
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