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Mara Nox

@maranox.bsky.social
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One day at a time… You are loved, you are worthy.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This is the single best thing anyone could ever send to a writer. I'm holding back tears.
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 12/10/2025
Putting out a call: if you were part of WOTC’s late-2010s live events (Stream of Many Eyes, D&D Live, The Descent), I would love to talk to you as part of the Actual Play book. ecfriedman@auburn.edu will reach me, either to schedule a chat or to share your memories. Please feel free to share.
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Pumpkin Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
To people who have already signed up/donated/boosted this: thank you so much! Honestly your generosity with cash and/or words has really turned my day around xxxx
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JediLeahTTV DM to the deranged @jedileah.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
please help if you can, the stress is really getting to me
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
the reporter going “so just to be clear, you guys are frogs now because of the other frog? there’s no other significance to the frog thing?? I would love for there to be more to it than that” and the frogs are just like “nah man we’re here to support the original frog”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I can’t believe an inflatable frog is my hometown’s symbol of resistance, and yet of course since I am from here I absolutely can this is old school homegrown “rioting over the airport changing its carpet” Portland freak shit. it transcends the Portlandia mythos. writers would not think of this
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.
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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My first Campaign 4 art, and as is tradition, I came up with my own takes on the characters going mostly from the in-game descriptions & vibes during the first episode as a fun character design challenge that I do each campaign #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleArt #CriticalRolefanart #fanart #bskyart
A very large illustration of all 13 of the main cast all with their reactions to Thjazi's execution. The designs are different from the canon ones, some more than others.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Hamnah ✨ // Lilith 😈 @lilithttrpg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I admire Greta's continued principled communication with media. She always puts the focus back on Palestinians. She insists that Palestinians do not need to be saved, and it is also our responsibility to do what we can to help end Israel's genocide. She's right; this is the bare minimum.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/10/2025
1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools. Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in. Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To
After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Governor Whitmer was almost kidnapped by armed thugs. Governor Shapiro‘s house was set on fire. Nancy Pelosi‘s husband was violently attacked by someone looking for her. Melissa Hortman was assassinated in her home with her husband and dog…and now this. The left is the victim, not the perpetrator.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
the interviewer goes “are there people in the world you don’t like?” in this tone of voice that sort of implies “surely not you, Jane Goodall, patron saint of the natural world,” but oh no she was IMMEDIATELY ready with a list of names
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
finally saw that wonderful Jane Goodall clip and I can’t tell you how delighted I am to learn that in addition to being a genius and a pure soul and a phenomenal advocate and a cultural revolutionary, she was also a hater
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 06/10/2025
Absolutely INSANE to pull out an immediate permaban without warnings on this in particular, ESPECIALLY given the questionably lax moderation the site has had on SO MANY other issues. This is awfully demoralising as someone who has put a lot of time into community building here. I'm so pissed.
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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
You can now be banned for "Being disruptive to other users" yeah thats definitely going to be enforced consistently
Part of links suspension email outlining you cant be disruptive to other users
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
reminder that you can be the gentlest, kindest person--you can dedicate your life to protecting the planet!--and still keep a little list of people you fucking hate. it's okay to be angry! anger is a symptom of giving a shit!
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 06/10/2025
real lesson in bag fumbling! bluesky only hit any kind of mainstream success because they happened to benefit from musk's shitty behavior and there was already an early adopter base of ex-twitter people on here encouraging their friends to come over. most startups never get that lucky!
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 06/10/2025
they absolutely could have launched paid subs last year. people wanted to give them money! but they were like no we want our weird little thing and it's not that and now they're crashing out over the slightest criticism
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 06/10/2025
it remains really funny that this site was spun up to be a crypto/rationalist platform and then old time weird twitter people and others started moving over here in spring 2023 and ever since management has been mad they're successful but not in the way they wanted
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 06/10/2025
Like I don’t know how you simultaneously undercut your argument for being a meaningfully decentralized platform while *also* doing a racism while *also* doing a transphobia while *also* proving to everyone you’re too petty and involved in forum drama to hold your position but Graber pulled it off
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 06/10/2025
So let me get this today’s drama right: * Jay followed noted transphobe Jonathan Chait * Blacksky user Link pointed that out that’s fucked up after the past week * Link was banned on Blueskys appview presumably by Jay * But Link is also hidden from Blacksky b/c it still uses said appview
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
An under-the-radar but huge story: in less than 2 weeks, Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows 10 operating system, which is currently used on 42% (!) of all PCs globally. Over 400 million computers will be vulnerable to hacks or destined for the dump if users don't pay up.
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Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/10/2025
Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2025
another useful explainer bsky.app/profile/bisp...
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
You don't always have to cave to demands that stakeholders make, but you do have to absorb them and evaluate them with some degree of respect. Which is simply not happening here. There are a lot of stakeholders expressing pain, and she is yelling "waffles!" at them.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique. If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you. Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2025
Sharing this again because you are not alone. Find the people pushing back against fascism in your community and join them.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2025
this really is it. sad.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
It’s disturbing to me, when I say to otherwise kind, intelligent, aware people, “wow, bad shit is happening”, and they reply to me, “Oh you have to not watch the news. Don’t read the papers! Just don’t think about it.” And NO that is a TERRIBLE answer. That’s exactly how we got here to begin with.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2025
i suspect the problem is that they desperately wanted a userbase of jimmy fallons and jake tappers and their fans. now they just want to sell the protocol, not manage the site. they have no real interest in hosting a site for the userbase they actually have.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 04/10/2025
Please, take it from a Californian born and bred: you cannot trust Gavin Newsom. I don’t care if he has Good Posters working for him; he’ll sell vulnerable people down the river without blinking an eye.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/10/2025
Putting aside Kilmar Ábrego García’s fate in immigration court, which is not a real court: He has been winning at every step of the federal judiciary, in a maze of criminal and civil cases, and that’s why the Trump administration is throwing everything at him. This streak continues in Tennessee:
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Congrats to @jay.bsky.team and the whole Bluesky team for creating a new dogwhistle for transphobes in record time. Excellent work all around.
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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Good replies here bsky.app/profile/hild...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
starting to think there might just be some thing rather damning in these epstein files it is just a feeling i am starting to get based on current events and these strenuous efforts to hide them by some individuals
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 04/10/2025
Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2025
bingo
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Rodney Taylor still needs our help! He’s still locked in an ICE camp. He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs. He’s still facing deportation to Liberia. He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored. Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!
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Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media. The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters. They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters. Israel is once again breaking international law
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
ON REDDIT — allegedly a mailer went out threatening Republicans to go vote in the TN-7 special election: “Party leadership would be very disappointed” “You can’t afford that on your record” “your neighbors are watching” “we are compiling a list”😕 www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/NTd...
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
with each passing month, microsoft gives us more reasons to minimize its presence in our lives, or divest from it entirely. the latest game pass price hike is another. it won't be the last
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I hope this catches on and becomes his legacy
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2025
Since the Trump administration began slashing FEMA’s workforce, a team focusing on improving the online application process for disaster aid has disintegrated. In January, the team had at least 10 people. Now, sources said, it’s down to two. With @theassemblync.bsky.social
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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene
An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
so excited to be part of the Give Writers Money club, though I do wish theft was not involved and it was just a rich guy writing us all checks to be nice instead of us being compensated for the wrongs done us
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