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She/Her. Head Curator on Script Hive, retired SPN Script Hunt admin: linktr.ee/spnscripthunt

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 7h
not now, Russian plague, I've got shit to do
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Mel @melf.bsky.social · 23h
Flying monkeys are scary when you are very, very smol.
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Oz Wicked Witch: Margaret Hamilton
Alt: Wizard of Oz gif of the Wicked Witch of the West sending her flying monkeys out to do her bidding
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"there's about thirty seconds of ai in the movie" damn that sucks for the other 100 minutes bc i will not be seeing those either
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Mel @melf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ripley Questions IQ
Alt: Ripley Questions IQ
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A guide on what to do if you’ve already updated. www.cultofmac.com/how-to/turn-...
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How to turn off Siri AI and other Apple Intelligence features
Want less artificial intelligence on your iPhone? Here's how to ditch Siri AI and disable other Apple Intelligence features in iOS 27.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Mel @melf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are all Olivia.
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Mel @melf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's @scripthive.bsky.social spooky season, here's six horror scripts from the 1930's www.scripthive.com/featured Dracula (1931) Frankenstein (1931) Freaks (1932) The Mummy (1932) King Kong (1933) Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it only tuesday
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Psst! I think there's a Kindle sale going on. You can get DEAD WEIGHT for only 3.32 USD!
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Dead Weight
Amazon.com: Dead Weight eBook : Knútsdóttir, Hildur, Kowal, Mary Robinette: Books
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Called it again
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
errybody post nyc skies now
Purty pink skyMore purty pink skyYet more purty pink sky
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Chernobyl Odinsdottir @eightpointvalkyrie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I haven't been near 4Chan in damned near a decade now, and I don't really have a finger on the pulse of the culture over there any more. But from what I can recall, if even /pol/ thinks you've gone too far with blaming minorities, you may need to rethink your strategy.
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Mel @melf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Warrens. As in Ed and Lorraine Warren.
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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
reading this thread and repeatedly saying 'oh my God' aloud
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/09/2026
Fantastic protest organized by @genderlib.com to protest NYU Lagnone's deal with Trump to end gender-affirming care for trans youth. Big 🧵 of photos for ya!
Protestors march down the street holding signs/banners reading things like HONOR YOUR OATH / PROTECT TRANS KIDS, PROTECT THE DOLLS, and TRANS LIVES ARE NOT BARGAINING CHIPS
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Script Hive @scripthive.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy first day of Autumn! What’s your fav autumn-themed film? Fall has arrived, and we’ve collected a few with key moments set in Autumn. Get cozy and read some scripts - all of these are available at the Script Hive (www.scripthive.com) 🐝 #scriptsky #scriptsky+
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Ben Van Bloem @bambooboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve been a Frederick boy pretty much my whole life, and this is as clean a piece you will ever read on the evil ass Sheriff in the county. @boltsmag.org continues to be vital for understanding local politics.
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technophobia.bsky.social @technophobia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 19/09/2026
Anyway, I’ll be on capitol hill on Tuesday talking to congressmen about this stuff
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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm good thanks
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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This guy is an energy pricing expert. Currently chief energy advisor at Gulf, long time contributor to various NPR shows. Incredibly distressing.
The next 24 hours will see staggering increases at the pump for both gasoline & diesel. Fuel margins have yet to catch up with previous wholesale hikes.
Watch for huge increases in Great Lakes and Rocky Mountain states in particular.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AP follows the Costco purchase limit on motor oil. @apnews.com $COST apnews.com/article/cost...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
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Patty Cole @pattycole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Voters can also request a postmark from the retail counter at their local post office to ensure they meet the deadline.”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What SCOTUS did today is refuse to lift a preliminary injunction issued by Judge Talwani against the Trump order/USPS rule, that's all. A long process lies ahead for the litigation against the rule, that will most likely end back in front of SCOTUS ahead 2028.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If she has to make statements like this the boycott is working better than we expected…
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J.K. Rowling when asked about people refusing to watch the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series because of her:
"Pretending you won't watch is adorable."
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Never using any AI chatbot at all ever for anything means you never ever need to worry about prompts showing up in a court document. Big win for smart people. If you're secretly using this stuff maybe stop because clearly they're gonna start digging into prompts when they feel like it
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Nikes | AlexLeeDee @alexleedee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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