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a tropical depression. she/her, pan. 21+ pls, i am srsly too ancient for teenagers. editor/writer. i might have written that fic that made you hungry. ko-fi.com/majorenglishesquire

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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 2h
If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to the last 1.5 years well, yknow, just organizing with my coworkers to unionize the most celebrated & beloved TTRPG and TCGs of all time 🥰✊ this took buckets of blood, sweat & tears but we DID IT!!! If you want to support us, sign that petition and BOOST!
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Major English, Esquire @majorenglish.bsky.social · 3h
We put up with a lot of shit watching SPN beyond S5, and if the last episode didn't absolutely destroy the show in your esteem, we weren't watching the same show on the same level. The aesthetic loss beginning with S6 was a bummer. 15.20 was a slap in the face and a fuck-you to everyone who hung on.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4h
Free newsletter: Outside of major hyperscaler backstops, I estimate that Anthropic and OpenAI would get a speculative B or CCC credit rating, which would be insufficient for the $50bn-$100bn a year they need, in an era of historically high interest rates. www.wheresyoured.at/credit-crunch/
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7h
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 15h
These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!
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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 11h
Ai bros hate artists because deep down they know they have no goals, no dreams, & nothing that they truly love. It’s a dark void that eats & gnaws at them so they lash out at those that have that spark. All they want is to drag you down with them to prove that it’s all hopeless
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 17h
the Ohio Democratic party is purging its ranks by forcing trans people to either resign or go along with politicians who threaten their existence and calling a pride group an "unwelcoming distraction." If we're just a distraction, then win without our votes and get rid of the fake "pride" orgs 👍🏾
2020: Democrat Stalin and transgender
2026: Democrat Stalin
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19h
BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week
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Major English, Esquire @majorenglish.bsky.social · 7h
Writers like this exist, and I still have bouts of imposter syndrome.
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Major English, Esquire @majorenglish.bsky.social · 20h
The US military conscientious objector phone line is 1-877-447-4487. If you know anyone in the military, you should keep that on hand for the near future.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
chat is this good
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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Major English, Esquire @majorenglish.bsky.social · 21h
Every time I actually progress a step up in a job opportunity, my fucking A/C experiences a catastrophic breakdown of some kind. lmao am I literally being prevented from settling for a shitty job by the One True God of all Floridians, the Mighty Air Conditioner?
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Major English, Esquire @majorenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@nbcnews.com ask Rahm Emanuel why he's telling Democrats to do nothing instead of telling them to do the one thing that's better than nothing. @nbcnews.com ask Rahm Emanuel about the Laquan McDonald coverup. @nbcnews.com ask Rahm Emanuel why he threatened to kill a political commentator with a 2x4.
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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 05/10/2026
Every time Rham enters the news cycle
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY - Lochiel, AZ: Border Patrol has raided private property, reportedly without a warrant, and violently arrested several land defense activists who have been attempting to preserve lands the federal government wants to raze to build Trump’s border wall. More: www.instagram.com/tierralibre_...
photo of border patrol agents in riot gear standing in front of two people with keffiyehs over their heads, with a cherry picker up in a large tree in the background. the cherry picker has an agent in it sawing off branches and attempting to arrest a tree sitter
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/10/2026
Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places reut.rs/4zbUkqB
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Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places
Norway's government said on Monday it plans to propose a temporary ban on the use of ​AI glasses in selected places, saying it is concerned ‌people could be photographed, filmed or audio-recorded without their knowledge.
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wonderful crab painted on a ceramic dish some 1400 years ago From the Maya site Joya de Cerén (El Salvador), a kind of Meso American Pompeii, buried by the Loma Caldera Vulcano Seen in a 1990s National Geographic (those things found at the dentist's)
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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 05/10/2026
8 am EDT Oct 5: A tropical depression is likely to form during the middle or latter portion of the week from the area highlighted in red. This system is expected to drift eastward over the next few days, before it turns northward. Keep up to date with the latest at hurricanes.gov.
Map of the Atlantic basin showing a red hatched area labeled "1 (70%)" in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico off the coast of eastern Mexico, indicating a high (70%) chance of tropical cyclone formation within 7 days.
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Major English, Esquire @majorenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I will watch every "white guy standing in front of a green screen explaining his special interest as it relates to Skyrim" video on youtube but paused one from a new white guy the other day when, 90 seconds in, he said, "I asked the community and then I asked ChatGPT. We'll cover that at the end."
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fun fact: When I went to speak at Broadview while I was still under federal indictment, 3 VERY obvious Feds kept following me, trying to copy these people. They had riot shields that said “WE PROTECT US” and asked me conspiratorially if I “knew about the plan” which was totally real. Bro. (1/4)
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tremors and jaws are both great movies, and Jaws probably succeeds more as a work of horror. but Tremors is actually perfect. an almost unique example of a film executed flawlessly in line with its vision.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up
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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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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My friend Nova has been on a surgical wait list for 11 years and might finally be getting healthcare in Spring. She wrote this little piece about persistence and how much worse the NHS has gotten since she was first referred
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RHLPixels 🇨🇦 @rhlpixels.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good morning everyone! Sorry I been too busy with schooling to draw much, but here is a beautiful picture I took this morning
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026
Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.
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gryphoneer @gryphoneer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
that makes so much sense. fandom spaces experiencing an influx of newbies during the pandemic large enough to overwhelm onboarding processes -> newbies aren't accustomed to consensus opinions and start relitigating years (or decades) old arguments
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Diebbie @diebbie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🎃 ☆彡!! heck !!☆彡 🎃 what happened?? having a pumpkin for a head was not on this crow‘s halloween bingo card 😔
a crow with a pumpkin for a head! What a surprise, how did that happen? it dropped its witch hat and acorn on the ground
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MEANBOSSART @meanbossart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Zero hate to Cory. This comment made me laugh until I cried.
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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The EU Kids Act will make private servers illegal as it stands now. Read up on the Act yourself: hub.edri.org/index.php/s/... Contact your MEPs, tell them to scuttle this bill, and sign the Stop Killing Internet Initiative to ensure the protection of our digital spaces: eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public
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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why would you allow this in court ever in a million billion years
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Exciting way to make strangers approach you at airports like, "So you're a fascist or have insane gambling debt, huh"
Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel and Henry Thomas to star in Daily Wire‘s new pro-ICE movie

What happened?  

I thought that Harvey Keitel starred in too few films in recent years... and now this?

"A call sheet seen by Deadline lists Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel and Henry Thomas among the cast."

[https://deadline.com/2026/10/montana-protest-daily-wire-pro-ice-production-renee-good-1237145614/](https://deadline.com/2026/10/montana-protest-daily-wire-pro-ice-production-renee-good-1237145614/)
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
as any ER doctor will tell you, it’s important for your ghost to have a flared base
Photo of a rack of Halloween decorations, prominently featuring ceramic ghosts that look like sex toys if you’re some sort of horrible deviant
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ed Sheeran in an ice bath waiting for instructions from Robert Kraft
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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 03/10/2026
Leaving Catholicism due to LLMs (Lutheran Learning Models)
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hazel marie @dykeworship.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
allies 30 seconds after mild criticism
cardboard box labeled "be quite!® straight power"
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HemiDemi 🔞 @hemidemi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Was reading the gofundme and this snippet from their advertising manager makes me so goddamn pissed for FA. "Plus sized" counts as adult content to those people? So somehow fat people are both uwu soft babies that are completely sexless, but also the mere sight of them is porn, jesus.
Screenshot from the Fur Affinity gofundme, a quote from their advertising manager: 

What makes this situation frustrating is that the bar for what advertisers consider "adult content" is very very low. For example they consider plus size characters, two characters hugging, and "barbie doll nudity" to be adult content, despite these being normal everyday things that are not adult at all. This is why you may see other sites with restrictions on how characters can't be posed or dressed “too provocatively.”
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Metric Foxton @makemea.mom · 02/10/2026
We are all faggots in the eyes of the state
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Major English, Esquire @majorenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lrp: I wish that I could drag everyone in my county to a presentation by our Environmental Protection Division. It would radicalize so many fucking people. Trees are so wonderful, they are incredibly valuable (monetary and otherwise!), and HOAs are more demonic than Satan himself.
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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone.
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