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Liminal Owl

@liminalowl.bsky.social
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Psychotherapist, SFF fan, ailurophile, folkie. Mostly reposting, with very occasional original thought.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 3h
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 1h
Happy October!
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h
Karoline Leavitt isn't "fierce"—she's dishonest. And Karoline Leavitt isn't "nimble"—she shamelessly dodges both questions and the truth. She is the same type strenuously unhelpful liar Trump has always had for his press secretaries.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 17h
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In Otter News (@inotternews)
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
youtube.com/shorts/qyJ70... An amazing hero, whose life I have only learned of in the last few years.
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Trump is trying to erase the story of North Carolina civil rights icon Pauli Murray. ✋
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
She deserves to get famous for her bravery Original post
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cuddles 🥰
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and Pain
From the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Idaho’s attorney general gave churches a dark-money loophole to fight abortion rights
Raúl Labrador said churches may spend general-fund money opposing Proposition 1 while keeping their individual donors anonymous
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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The Nerd Reich
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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A Huge Musk Red Flag
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My spouse and I were talking last night about Cornell/the DA’s response to gang rape and she reminded* me that men don’t get that every woman, no matter whether she’s suffered harassment or assault, moves through life alert to threats from men. Watson memory-holders drive that home.
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes, this. And thanks to @tomlevenson.bsky.social
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As I was saying...Mamdani is just epically good at this.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jane Tang Grossman Juno Beach. Fl. 10.3.26
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
James Talarico’s new ad is hilarious. 😂 Also be sure to call! Because that’s literally the best part. 1 (844) WHOS-KEN (1-844-946-7536)
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have a thread for this!
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
10 Years Later, HBO's Greatest Sci-Fi Fantasy Of The 21 Century Is Almost Impossible To Watch @thethinblackduke.bsky.social you’ll find this interesting
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thethinblackduke.bsky.social @thethinblackduke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Today in science class I learned every cell in our entire body is replaced every seven years. How lovely it is to know one day I will have a body you will never have touched." — L.M.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m offended as an American, but I’m even more offended as a Christian. Hegseth seeks to use faith as a tool of manipulation, a means to an end.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026
i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Men Explain Rape to Me.
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thethinblackduke.bsky.social @thethinblackduke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good morning.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
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Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FYI
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy Hour News🍸 mockpaperscissors.com/2026/09/30/h...
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Happy Hour News🍸
Oh, Canada! This is all kinds of cool, as it is the very definition of Life imitating Art: So, you see, the mental health-supporting Irina Foundation started in the books, moved to the series the b…
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW. PENGUIN.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey seems to operate on the belief that there’s still someone out there who does not think he’s a total piece of shit and by God he’s going to convince them he is
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fun fact: jaguars are excellent swimmers. [📹 Jacob Feder] Original post
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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thethinblackduke.bsky.social @thethinblackduke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Disgusting
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been reading bell hooks, and she talks about children being the most oppressed class in society. To this end, the United States has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child-- I wrote about this years ago www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...
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Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?
The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical.
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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There Ought to Be a Rule
From San Marino to Enron, Taiwan, Venezuelan gold and Iran, a reminder that the guardrails usually exist for a reason.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Library funding is tied to usage.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026
I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special
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Liminal Owl @liminalowl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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A mysterious organ in the sperm whale's head gives it the power to sink ships
A survivor of the shipwreck that inspired the novel Moby Dick had a theory about how a sperm whale could destroy a vessel many times its size – 200 years later, he's been proved right.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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