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"Physical pain blocks emotional. If you use enough of it." Four days left on the #TwistedPresents #Kickstarter! #Christmas stories for folks who loathe Christmas. Backers get two books and a bonus story. Next stretch goal, there'll be a third book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwl...

Some folks love Christmas. These tales are for the rest of us. Ghosts and guns! Santa's coal mine! Final exams! Shopping! Plus an orc!

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Michael W|Warren Lucas @mwl.io · 21h

Got the #openzfsmastery section on privilege delegation completed. Tomorrow, I figure out delegating datasets to containers. Seems there's little integration, everything gets delegated by hand? Sponsorships are still open on this silly thing: mwl.io/sponsor

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 22h

My trying to research literally anything for my wip.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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Thread. I learned the power of "dude that's fucked up" back in the 90s. You don't have to worry about "the right thing to say," DTFU has you covered. Assholes probe new people to see if they're like-minded. You detect a probe? "DTFU." They abandon you. Done. The reward? A life with good people.

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a medical issue coming that's going to limit my keyboarding for a couple months, so I need to try dictation again. Native MacOS dictation is kind of crap. What are folks using for long document dictation on their Macs? #writing

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Harper Collins tried to claim both my stolen books. Harper Collins published neither.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes you want a holiday story that means something.

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Gumroad Stores Dead – Michael W Lucas

My Gumroad stores are now shut down. mwl.io/archives/24995 Time to investigate alternatives that support EU VAT, sigh.

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Bev Keane & Joe Collie: Midnight Mass Molotov

Today's plan: write! Today's reality: discover Gumroad has gone full AI, so tear down my stores there.

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ALT: Bev Keane & Joe Collie: Midnight Mass Molotov

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Some folks love Christmas. These tales are for the rest of us. Ghosts and guns! Santa's coal mine! Final exams! Shopping! Plus an orc!

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2 Days to Khumalo Tales launch. Never leave your words behind. "There’s still this feeling out there that folks get to write a book, dust their hands of it, and watch as the angels waft it heavenward. To quote Lana Kane from Archer: 'Noooope.'"

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Science Fiction Adventure for a New Generation, Black People, Psychic Whales and More: Author Interview with Zig Zag Claybourne

I first heard about Zig Zag Claybourne from an interview on The Dead Robots’ Society podcast. On the show, he talked about his latest novel, The Brothers Jetsream: Leviathan. It is a science …

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Quercy has healed up enough to go back home with his bros! And there was so much squabbling. #petRats #rats

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My Christmas story collection #TwistedPresents is now on Kickstarter! Backers get two books and a short story. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwl... Unsure? There's a sample story at mwl.io/archives/24991

Some folks love Christmas. These tales are for the rest of us. Ghosts and guns! Santa's coal mine! Final exams! Shopping! Plus an orc!

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 28/09/2026

Former ‘South Park’ writer Toby Morton has created a website to expose information about Cornell University’s administration in response to the group sexual assault case: “Accountability should not disappear when the headlines do. And we all know this headline will disappear.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Guys: take a few moments every week to practice saying "Dude, that's fucked up." Have it queued up in your brain. When some other guy says or does something awful, you'll have it ready to say. It'll buy you time to figure out if you need to call the cops, call him an ass, or whatever's next.

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Oh this is lovely.

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Twisted tales from one of my favorite writers!

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI is a fundamental attack on what it means to be human... which makes it incredibly dangerous to people and society, but it also inherently prompts a re-examination of all our social constructs, which opens the possibility of re-imagination...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is phenomenal, especially since Tim Robinson is from Detroit (and even had a show called the Detroiters).

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

COMIC: Unnecessary Pedant!

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Don't worry, brudder. We're here to bust ya out of the joint." #petRats #rats

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4 Days to Khumalo Tales launch. (pinned p for link) "Who is ZZC??? OF COURSE YOU ALREADY KNOW! But if you don’t, I’ll tell you again, with GREAT GLEE AND WHIMSY AND HUMOR AND WISDOM AND AWE. Oh, wait. I’m just describing Zig Zag’s writing now!!!" - @csecooney.bsky.social Come, and know me better

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Next Fiction: Impossible, starring ZIG ZAG CLAYBOURNE!

Author of the Khumalo Series! Who is ZIG ZAG CLAYBOURNE??? OF COURSE YOU ALREADY KNOW! But if you don’t, I’ll tell you again, with GREAT GLEE AND WHIMSY AND HUMOR AND WISDOM AND AWE. Oh, wait. I’m …

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“I promise I’m not a crook. My crimes are all legal.” My Christmas story collection #TwistedPresents is live on #Kickstarter! Backers get two books and a bonus unpublished story. I'd appreciate your support. mwl.io/ks

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Some folks love Christmas. These tales are for the rest of us. Ghosts and guns! Santa's coal mine! Final exams! Shopping! Plus an orc!

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

I should promote everything again before bed. But it'll make me feel ill and give me bad dreams, so I'm gonna go play with the rats instead. Rats are gloriously free from the ravages of capitalism.

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i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

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OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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When They say that the death of AI will "kill the Internet," they're wrong. It'll cut off the flow of algorithmic sewage. It'll cripple Meta, X, Google, and so on. Those of us who have our own web sites, who communicate independently? We'll be fine. Welcome to 1995. Here's your modem. Can't wait!

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The #TwistedPresents #Kickstarter broke another stretch goal! All backers get my book of Christmas tales, another story, and another whole bonus book. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwl... It's passing "I can publish the book" and reaching "a good deal for backers," which is always cool.

Some folks love Christmas. These tales are for the rest of us. Ghosts and guns! Santa's coal mine! Final exams! Shopping! Plus an orc!

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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I got egg for breakfast, so I naturally paid my tithe. #petRats #rats

cute pet rat in his cage, happily munching on a bit of egg.

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Me, this morning: Yay, I finished the #openzfsmastery boot environment chapter yesterday, I can move on. Me, getting to desk and seeing the boot environment chapter: oh no.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deep boot environments: 👎 Derp boot environments: 👍 #sysadmin #openzfsmastery

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Do I need to tag everybody in the coliseum?

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Kotu @kingoftheu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You want to keep women safe? Stop demonizing trans people and instead call for a public outcry against rape. Stop making immigrants leave this country and instead make rapists leave college campuses. Stop punishing women for ending unwanted pregnancies and instead hold men who cause them accountable

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Whistling Wombat Games @whistlingwombat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday mornings are a great time to back and get instant access a Backer exclusive game now live in update 8! Take a trio of characters into the forest and uncover a mystery that will change summer forever or at least get Big Moth Foot some publicity. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sti...