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NBC Bay Area post game coverage interviewing Eugene from Tiberon (maybe 6 or 7 years old?) about what the #WNBA finals were like. “It was really just, like, stressing and those players out there were just very stressed out” Good call Eugene. I think we all were very stressed out!

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Dana Holtzbert @danaholtzbert.bsky.social · 4h

Failed absorption?

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Valerie Valkyrie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 8h

this is unacceptable they will only be there to harass players, and surely the league knows that, given the previous harassment from this outlet. Once again, not even doing the bare minimum to protect the peace of the labor force powering the league.

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maya goldberg-safir @roughnotes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hi! I've started updating the Ultimate Map of Valkyries Fandom with watch parties & bars specifically showing the WNBA FINALS, WOO! Please add your recs & share. I want everything VETTED BY FANS bc I think the Valks Bar Network can sometimes, actually, lead people astray: bit.ly/UltimateMapo...

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The Ultimate Map of Valkyries Fandom (via Rough Notes) - Google My Maps

Subscribe to Rough Notes: https://wnbaroughnotes.substack.com/ Want to add to the map? Email: m.goldbergsafir@gmail.com / or send a DM: www.instagram.com/roughnotes.mgs/

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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love how these moral panics about family estrangement always bring up children refusing to talk to their parents, never the long history of parents disowning children. It's fine if dad wants to kick out his gay kid, not if his gay kid doesn't want to talk to his homophobic dad.

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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It cannot be overstated that Aella has *never* been part of the sex worker rights movement and those of us who are really don’t get enough credit for our message discipline on the legal changes we need to literally survive.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 03/10/2026

A banker who commits embezzlement might never be able to work in finance again. A trucker who gets a DUI might lose her CDL. Not being able to do your old job anymore because of the nature of your actions is a pretty regular occurrence.

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This! My most frequent AI interactions are with the chatbots that have taken over customer service and websites who’ve replaced their search engines with AI. Maybe they’re making corporations more money but they certainly aren’t making my life any easier or more efficient.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can't, and shouldn't seek to, replace public schools or libraries with bookstores. You can't replace a public good with a private business, no matter how well-meaning or well-organized it may be.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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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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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Periodic reminder that it’s a lot more common for chronically ill people to fake being well than for well people to fake being chronically ill

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is why I have a series where a mild-mannered art curator goes down a corruption spiral after hiring an assassin to kill her abusive husband. Her affair with said assassin evolves into meticulous murder becoming foreplay for them both: www.amazon.com/Fatal-Fideli...

The four covers of the Fatal Fidelity series by Rien Gray against a splashy red and black background with text above - High Heat Noir Romance.

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Haunts Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Brian: “Where are the plums you said were in here?” Me (getting excited): “I ate them.” Brian: “What? You suck!” Me (almost too ecstatic to speak): “Forgive me.” Brian: “No!” Me:

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Shaq's Excited Dance

Alt: Shaq's Excited Dance

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Authors!!! Since Draft2Digital forced me to categorize all my books as erotic romance (😡), OverDrive is blocking them from distribution through them. Could I add them to OverDrive via Kobo, or would that just get me “in trouble” somewhere else?

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 13/08/2026

Kill the shareholder in your mind. If you're not getting what you need from this place, go somewhere else. But it's not about reach or numbers, its FIT. Like sadly yeah some people ARE better suited to instagram, even though app sucks and meta is evil. But don't get seduced by numbers! They're fake!

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Trump just gave a massive contract to Our Rescue to represent unaccompanied immigrant children. That's the group that does international anti-sex-trafficking stings, whose founder was dramatized in Sound of Freedom and who left because he himself was accused of sex trafficking his own employees.

prospect.org

Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American Prospect

The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.

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Your Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“There are cats you will never want to pet. Feed them anyway.” Read this. It captures something I’ve been struggling to articulate for a long time. As institutions fail community care becomes more and more essential, but people who are unpleasant (or experienced as such) are often excluded.

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I won’t go so far as to say the art of criticism is dying, but I’ve definitively noticed a shift in discourse about creative media where you’re either supposed to “just let people enjoy things” or morally condemn a work, and any more nuanced analysis is perceived as mean spirited.

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Werner Herzog: When two persons in search of a Pokémon clash at the corner of Sunset and San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder? The Verge: They do fight, virtually. Herzog: Physically, do they fight? The Verge: No- Herzog: Do they bite each other's hands? Do they punch each other?

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/07/2026

I do think that the Era of Hot Takes has done some damage in that people really seem to be trying to crowdsource an ethical framework and you can't actually ask strangers to do your morality homework. you need to come to those decisions through hard personal thought so you believe in them.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You gotta remember that only about 1/3 of Chotiner interviews are Chotiner Interviews? The other 2/3 are solid, in-depth exchanges with experts and notable folks who are normal and know their subject area!

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🌷Lys🌷 @lostelysium.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

BackMarket's entire business model is designed around resistance to enshittification and planned obsolescence so I think this is intended to be anti-AI but instead it's just pro-accusing children of cheating based on nothing

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The real test to determine whether someone is human or AI is that AI will stop using em-dashes if you ask it to, while humans will demand that you take their favorite punctuation from their cold, dead hands...

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

So yes it is fucked up to imply 5th graders would only use em dashes if they were using AI, but also, what is this ad even selling? I assumed—like everyone else, I think—it was for AI detection software but Back Market sells refurbished hardware

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 17/07/2026

"the monthly subscription thing isn't anything against you! you seem really cool! I just already subscribe to more things than I can reasonably read because I'm trying to save journalism all by myself; no, it's not going great, sorry"

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 17/07/2026

I wish more sites had an option for "I don't want a monthly subscription, but I will hand over a fistful of cash to finish reading this one article right now"

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Ben “James Hell Brooks” Jay 🦇 @benjayingly.com · 18/07/2026

Nobody ever talks about Cappuccino vs. Cowboys when they post this. Which one of them won the West?

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 17/07/2026

Just a note to say: that ex-wife speaking out about her abusive ICE ex-husband is braver than all of ICE put together. No question at all.

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Google search is so bad it’s you don’t even need an illustration (ai or trad). You can simply use their search tools and take a screenshot.

Screenshot of a Google search for the work “cat” filtered to show results from the past year

“Your search - cats - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:
• Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
• Try different keywords.
• Try more general keywords.”

Below the text is picture of an anthropomorphic horned creature fishing.

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

@eliacugini.bsky.social this like something you might write. Have you written about the phenomenon Rien is describing, or have any idea who might have?!

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Uh oh the president has personally identified a top A.L.G.A.E. operative. We will have to hide froggy in the safehouse/health food coop

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Here is another example of a crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor.
The sign says, "First they came for the algae..." which is in reference to a famous post-WW2 statement about Germans not speaking out against the Nazis:
"...Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak for me."

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 20/06/2026

i love how people always forget that theres absolutely a scam that will work on them and then get all high and mighty about anyone who fell for a scam they wouldnt fall for

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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case

Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Bureaucracy Half the time I can’t even get close enough for spell check to help me out.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I did write a book with an art thief who does this and wrestles with how museums are manipulated by the rich (also they give the feds a really bad day) www.amazon.com/Double-Expos...

The cover of Double Exposure by Rien Gray.

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🌠 PAID OPPORTUNITY 🌠 Hello! I am looking to pay a wheelchair user of color for a sensitivity read on one of my novellas (about 25,000 words). If that is you or you know someone who qualifies, please respond here or email me at riengrayiswriting at gmail. Boosting appreciated, bots will be 🔇

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Same thing for most therapists and negotiating rates with insurance companies.

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My parents taught me “move the decimal point” math to figure out percentages in my head when I was a little kid and had me practice by calculating the tip anytime we went out to eat. I still use it to quickly approximate percentages multiple time a week.

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I was curious about the parameters of copyrightable pantomime and confirmed my suspicion that it was a subset of choreography. What I did not know until today was that, “skits and routines for trained animals to perform” are not covered. The new IP laws must repair this injustice.

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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Now I've heard there was a secret chair Where POTUS sits, if he should care But you don't really care for laws, now do you? It goes like this, the brief they sent The precedents, an argument The baffled king observing Hallelujah

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Ms Skippy @msskippy.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Wild life rehabilitation workers wearing animal costumes to interact with babies may be cute—but have you ever seen the terrifying vision of a Monterey Bay Aquarium employee bottle feeding a baby otter? I did a tour of the otter rehab program and while it was fascinating they still haunt me

A baby otter drinks from a bottle held by a white-gloved figure wearing a black poncho and welding mask

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