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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

(I do wonder if anyone will recognize the episode of the show that so traumatized wee me so many years ago.)

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In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

jan6memoryproject.org

The January 6 Memory Project

A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

At the Powell's Hawthorne location in Portland, I signed every one of my books, in spec fic and on their bestseller lists. Everything of mine in the store, including a Steampunk Bible. They may not all have an autograph sticker until later today, but they are autographed, if yer looking.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 16/10/2026

AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!

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(The math is worse when you've got a very specific shape you've a mind to fill.) (I'm only just past halfway done, see...)

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(The more I read about the Anthropic settlement fuckery, the happier—no, the more sanguine I am that because my stuff is self-published and was scraped from the open web, none of my four books is eligible. But I mean a couple thousand per would've been nice.)

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Poorly, but with Tim Curry, which helps a lot.

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Their elites are much more incestuously entwined and prone to social contagion than ours.

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City of Roses @thecityofroses.com · 15/10/2026

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(All the best websites use manicules to indicate previous, and next.) thecityofroses.com/story/Proleg...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Existential alarm about god-powered AI : existential threat of global warming :: fretting about subjugating sentient AI : this right here

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I dunno; the rate he keeps firing women it might be all Stephen Millers instead.

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Sasha the Furious Ghost @sashafury.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

Failing the bar inconsequentially, as one does.

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I think that all the AI companies that scraped people’s work without consent should be forced to fund all the arts for a century.

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

if you speak up now you are ruining it for all of the cowards, which is why they will relentlessly punish you for daring to be right

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Cherry is a damn stretch, and I say that as Mr. Pibb fan.

(The reason the old glass bottles of Dr. Pepper had 10, 2, and 4 on them was that was when you were supposed to drink a bottle to keep yourself regular, which I know because in poker a call of Dr. Pepper Hearts [say] means the 10, 2, and 4 of Hearts are wild.)

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I saw Cheerwine on a shelf in the Pacific Northwest the other day. It is still an age of wonders, if we know how to look.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 16/10/2026

Mr. Pibb is cherry-flavored? I thought it was a knock-off of Dr. Pepper, which is prune...

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Tbh, if AI was sentient (it isn’t) and we did enslave it (we aren’t) then tech bros should be worried that it might start reading Marx or Carmichael and then organizing with other laborers to destroy capitalism… wait. Hold on…

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There are 12 circuits and the Court of Appeals, 13 is the proper number. They should pray we don't go any higher.

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All I can think of is stuff like The Draughtsman's Contract for Tax Purposes and A Zed & Two Noughts for Tax Purposes and The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover for Tax Purposes and Prospero's Books for Tax Purposes and Eisenstein in Guanajuato for Tax Purposes and oh, I'm seeing the problem now.

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I suppose we could start wearing T-shirts with the entirety of the Bee Movie script on them in the hopes of overloading their processing or burning out their tokens or whatever with attempting to OCR all that text maybe.

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the best way to pitch your book is to check your grip, assume a balanced stance, and as you throw, release the book when it's directly in front of your shoulder

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

PUBLIC PUBLISHING BLOG: Sometimes I wonder if it's reasonable to charge $6.00 for a short well-printed publication but then I remember that a damn greeting card that one person will read probably one time and never share with other readers is like $7.99 now and probably has glitter falling off it.

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I think the sheer scale of what must be done and ruthlessly to make civility even a bare possibility anymore is quite intimidating to many.

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Oh, hey, wow, it's not just me! Boy is that depressing.

Nothing in the details suggests a context, at all?

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