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Marian Call

@mariancall.bsky.social
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Songwriter, writer writer, director of MusicAlaska / AKIMI, probably owes you an email. Still rockin on Bandcamp, Twitch, and Patreon.

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My late stepfather, memorialized in the Times. They omit what an incredible blues harmonica player he was, or that he made a killer curry (with or without insects). He had so many lives besides being The Bug Chef. But he did love being The Bug Chef. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/d...
nytimes.com
David George Gordon, Apostle for Bugs on the Dinner Plate, Dies at 76
His “The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook” made a case for insects as food, while his boisterous cooking demonstrations brought tarantulas and crickets to TV.
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Pat Race @pat.alaskarobotics.com · 21/09/2026
On the up side, I'm doing a lot of free labor!
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I don't like to get wet," moaned the unhappy bug, and he shuddered at the thought. "Neither do they," said Canby sadly. "That's what keeps them here. But I wouldn't worry too much about it, for you can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.”
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I saw an add for Meta glasses yesterday saying they are donating pairs to every blind American veteran and well, let yourself imagine what Meta could do with their resources to substantively help US veterans if they really wanted to…
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Dave Almighty @dave-almighty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Capes. We gave up on capes/opera cloaks way too early.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Feel like fashion has missed a trick not reinventing the medieval forearm bracer. Looking at you, Lucky Brand. You should be all over that shit.
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Largest theft of labor in human history" -- that's it, that's the framing for what AI has done to all of us copyright holders.
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NO ON 2. keep the campaign finance restrictions that Alaska voters just overwhelmingly approved!
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
excuse me but what the FUCK
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like Mr. July in a Divorced Dads of Nevada wall calendar
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i always love these threads
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
this thread does not go where you think
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 16/09/2026
OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My absolute, rock-bottom standard for trans allies right now is that when they see a post from a trans person saying that they can't vote for some anti-trans Dem & they're sick about all this, you offer a shoulder to cry on instead of a lecture on electing Nazis. That's it. That's all you gotta do.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
we are the bull in the china shop
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/09/2026
Okay rich friends employed with companies that do employer matching: Please help me raise $7k to support @scarleteen.com's fall fundraiser. We're expecting 7 million visitors this year (up from 5 million!) in a climate where access to good sex ed, esp. for LGBTQIA+ young people, is dwindling.
pro.gofundme.com
Scarleteen's Raising $7,000 to Celebrate 7 Million Visitors in 2026!
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i don't know if i've ever actually heard an ed sheeran song aside from that one slightly awkward album review on All Things Considered, in one of those public radio moments that makes a public radio listener feel their own alienation from popular culture rather acutely
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L-EEK! @leask.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes sir, got that garden carrot picture. Nice and Akira-esque, just like you wanted
A giant garden carrot with a bunch of ends gnarling and twisting out of it.
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But Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ferrets are such shapes
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
happy quarterly taxes day to all my fellow artists, contractors, and freelancers out there
static.klipy.com
Man's Desk Party Horn Surprise
Alt: Bill Nye, sitting at his desk, blows a party horn with dead-eyed indifference.
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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 15/09/2026
Four reasons why AI verifiers are harmful for writers: a) they’re built from many of the same resources as LLMs (including plagiarized work). AI verifiers *are* AI. ⬇️⬇️
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But Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Income Tax: approx. $14k/year Rent: $21,000/year ...sunnuvabitch.
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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I feel it’s crazy that nobody outside of trans people and REALLY invested allies seems to know that the internal trans refugee crisis is one of the biggest internal refugee migrations the United States has ever experienced.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 15/09/2026
A new DHS inspector general report has confirmed for the first time that immigrants detained at Florida's now-shuttered "Alligator Alcatraz" facility were held in outdoor metal cages roughly the size of a telephone booth.
bit.ly
'Torture' cages confirmed by Trump's own DHS watchdog were smaller than solitary cells
A new Department of Homeland Security inspector general report has confirmed for the first time that immigrants detained at Florida's now-shuttered "Alligator Alcatraz" facility were held in outdoor metal cages roughly the size of a telephone booth.The finding corroborates a December report by Amnes...
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
the tragedy of social media, in two acts
SE Gyges posts:
- not online enough to understand
- i am now online enough to understand
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2026
"when I listen to Democratic voters, they’re not asking for ideological recalibration or even policy specifics. ... Instead, the Democratic voters I’m listening to are almost universally asking a different question: Why aren’t you fighting harder?"
theatlantic.com
Voters Have a Message for Democrats
What I learned from 400 focus groups
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14/09/2026
I really understand why basically every religion warns against extreme wealth.
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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The movie executives tried to can for a 30M dollar tax write-off has now officially more than doubled that amount. After a movie team fought & never gave up, Coyote vs Acme’s theatrical release has now grossed over $60,000,000 worldwide & is expected to keep making more. #CoyotevsAcme #LooneyTunes
Coyote vs Acme thumbnailGrosses
DOMESTIC (71.4%)
$42,959,778
INTERNATIONAL (28.6%)
$17,233,567
WORLDWIDE
$60,193,345
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"When she returns to her employers’ NY home after a walk with their toddler, the parents bring up something she spoke about while at the playground. And when she takes another family’s preschooler to a playdate on a different day, the other parents also bring up something she talked about earlier."
fi2w.org
No Privacy in Private: Immigrant Domestic Workers Are Being Recorded On the Job - Feet in 2 Worlds
Domestic workers like nannies, house cleaners, and caregivers are increasingly being surveilled by their employers. How are immigrant workers particularly vulnerable to these surveillance technologies...
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/11/2024
I must not engage in discourse. Discourse is the vibe-killer. I will face the discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and around me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the discourse has gone there will be nothing. Only vibe will remain.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Craig was adjusting after the Divorce
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Brendan @chibdm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The first one. I had all my hearing.
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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One reason I've stopped making as many TikToks is that it increasingly feels like I'm selling kale at a farmer's market where everyone else is selling heroin and then the only way to compete is by sprinkling heroin into my kale
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 12/09/2026
Days after the state Department of Law said it found possible gaps in dozens of candidates’ financial disclosure forms, a review by the Alaska Beacon found many of the problems identified either don’t exist or amount to minor errors. (via @alaskabeacon.com) www.adn.com/politics/202...
adn.com
Report used to justify reinstatement of Alaska Republican governor candidate appears flawed
The Department of Law said it found possible gaps in disclosure forms filed by candidates, but a review by the Alaska Beacon found many of the gaps either didn’t exist or were more minor errors.
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i know this isn't what happened, but in my fanfiction, Sam had a revelation (perhaps brought on by 3 visiting ghosts) that a governance structure of profit-motivated shareholders is fundamentally incompatible with high safety standards for products with potential for harm
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i wonder if its a coincidence that every AI ceo is calling for a development slow down right as their capabilities are plateauing
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There is no moral argument for giving up trans people and the electoral argument for it doesn't hold water.
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“I don’t get between families and their doctors. I’m here to make sure everyone can thrive - and that includes trans kids. Their lives and the families who love them are frankly none of your business.”
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