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(and I don't put it past lawyers to try, nor do I put it past Texas government to turn a blind eye)

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Any chance this new non profit has ties with the existing Camp Mystic people? Seems like an easy way to transfer the land while avoiding the lawsuits.

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presses with their highlighted books. If I see one I like, I'd love this feature to quickly add to my Want to Read list. I think in the code for your android app, you'd register an intent so the app shows up in the Share context menu.

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RationallyDense (they/she/he/any) @rationallydense.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@hardcover.app a pretty cool feature would be to share to Hardcover on mobile. Like if I have the University of Chicago press website open to a book and share, hardcover could look through the page for an ISBN or other indicator of the book and load it up in the app. I get emails from various...

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I have that tea cup! Gonna have some chocolate in it in his honor.

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Adam H @admh574.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This article popped up on my feed, it's well worth a read bsky.app/profile/eman...

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

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Kyle Götz @kylegoetz.com · 27/08/2026

There's a certain point where not wearing a suit makes you look like an asshole, and that line is somewhere before "photo shoot with the CEO of a partner company"

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

All famous 80yos except one are dying

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This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton. The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.

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I can tell you who it won't be lol. Because this is the worst timeline.

Far better than MAGA as a slogan: Pizza Hut—Makin' it great!

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Good luck. It's been hard finding books my 9yo would enjoy so that it doesn't feel like a chore. My 6yo will read short books, but when we picked up a chapter book for her beyond her grade level, it made her less enthusiastic. Pretty disappointed at my 1yo for refusing to do her summer reading.

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I'm sure you can understand the confusion at you saying Canada is perfectly OK with America becoming a Trump dictatorship because it isn't your problem. Since it does seem like you aren't OK with it.

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Because the risk/reward is very low versus waiting until november when the elections happen. Odds of violent overthrow are 0 versus the strongest military in history. If you want Trump deposed, you'll need a well-capitalized military from another country to intervene.

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He's saying the University of Austin is racist-adjacent.

This is that fake university started by techbros in Austin, right?

One of those performers who will be remembered differently by different generations. For me, he's forever Herkermer Homolka. But might as well be Cardinal Richelieu, or Dr. Petrov. This man was an actor's actor with incredible screen credits for days. Oh would he were able to perform forever.

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For example, if you're talking about Doberman this, Doberman that, and then you want to describe dogs without the qualifier, you might say "dogs in general" or..."a typical dog."

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Kyle Götz @kylegoetz.com · 24/08/2026

I think this is the wrong tree to bark up. To me, "typical rape" means "rape without any adjectival qualifier." I.e., "rape." It's just that, linguistically, talking about a specific category of rape and then using "rape" without "typical" is poor English. "in general" probably better than "typical"

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(fellow reader who is concerned about getting his kids to read)

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Kyle Götz @kylegoetz.com · 24/08/2026

@michaelburns.bsky.social hey man, saw your literary crisis video and just to let you know pizza hut still does the reading program, my 9yo and 6yo did it this summer! I was pretty stoked bc I remember doing it as a kid too.

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Kyle Götz @kylegoetz.com · 24/08/2026

My parents taught me that if I'm surrounded by shitty people, it's because I am bad at picking friends!

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That's not what this drug does. It just relaxes blood vessels. It's like how algebra doesn't make you an astrophysicist. It just is a necessary step in the process.

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Oh, don't worry, this drug can cause hearing and vision loss!

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Exactly. "Pulmonary hypertension drug might correlate with longer lives in men" isn't surprising.

That's not how tadalafil works, though. It doesn't give you a hard-on. It just relaxes blood vessels, which is why it's also used to treat pulmonary hypertension. It enables you to get an erection if you're aroused and otherwise wouldn't be able to get a one.

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Thank you. I am growing increasingly frustrated, as a writer, with people suggesting AI is making writing accessible to people who otherwise couldn't make it. It's tremendously disrespectful.

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Bitter pill to swallow, that there is a difference in quality between "I self-published a book on Amazon" and "I asked a computer to write a book and then I slapped my name on it DEMOCRACY." I would be ashamed to make that argument. #booksky

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One isn't an artist if the work is created by prompts. AI made it, and there is no such thing as AI art. There are AI pictures, AI books, AI sounds, but non of it rises to the level of creativity, and the result is certainly not attributable to the prompt engineer who thinks themselves creative.

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3. AI democratizes art the same way ChatGPT telling you the answer to your homework "democratizes" learning. nothing is stopping you from learning to write except different priorities in your life. Using AI isn't "democratizing" your access to learning how to write.

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2. AI "art" is built on the backs of /stealing/ from other artists.

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1. Disabled artists have written about how deeply offensive it is to say "AI enables the disabled to create art" because they are already creating art. (cont'd)

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Oh, to be clear, when I wrote "art" I meant creative works (writing, music, visual art, etc.). And no, AI doesn't democratize art. People who create art train hard. They aren't born that way.

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(not me looking for every opportunity to hate on AI as the "artist")

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Kyle Götz @kylegoetz.com · 16/08/2026

Are you drawing an analogy to AI "art" to imply that AI-written texts democratize the craft, or am I reading too much into this?

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Minions & Monsters might be the worst movie I've ever seen. Weird pacing, an endless sequence of fell-flat gags, and no one to empathize with. Also Minionese is weirdly just Spanish now? I realize I'm not the target audience but it's REALLY bad. My kids liked it but holy moly #moviesky

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Kyle Götz @kylegoetz.com · 15/08/2026

i'm not downloading your app to read your book i'll just not buy or read your book #booksky

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IIRC they also supplied their ships to people needing transportation home from a conflict in Troy.

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(ps the "linked in power posters" are all AI, and that was one of the first spaces taken over by slop)

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Also including linkedin in your rule of threes list is wild. Oh, the literary trends of Mark, who keeps spamming your email with job opportunities unrelated to your experience or skill set!

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This description sounds like they're misattributing to adult professionals the behavior of children who think people aren't going to read their fanfiction if they use an em dash. I see it all the time in the fandom I write for. If you're an adult, you should've grown out of those fears already.

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