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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget comes at a time when the federal budget deficit is at $1.8 trillion and federal debt is nearly $40 trillion. On its current trajectory, public debt as a percentage of GDP in 2030 will exceed the record set in 1946. wapo.st/466UOli
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Opinion | I’m a hawk. Even I’m shocked by a $1.5 trillion defense budget.
The request would top World War II spending while funding boondoggles and sweetheart deals.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool; but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.” There are legions of guys on message boards and in people’s replies who need to have this hot-iron branded onto their asses.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/07/2026
I know there have always been fuckboys, but good lord ALIVE, Wickham.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 14/07/2026
Jane is finally moved to harsh judgment upon finding out that Wickham is a gambler. I guess everybody has their line? Mine would have been kidnapping my baby sister with incredibly dubious intentions and total inconsideration of its effects on her kin, but I suppose that’s a personal thing.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 14/07/2026
WICKHAM: “I am going to be a man of God. No, wait, a man of the Law. Ah, screw it, I want to molest a child.” This seems INCREDIBLY on the nose for 2026 for some reason.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/05/2026
I like that Charlotte Brontë was basically telling a soapy saga about how the world is a hard and complicated place and sometimes Shit Happens, and Jane Austen is just like, “I’ve met the worst and simultaneously most boring people you can imagine. Hunker down, let me tell you all about them.”
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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So!! Grief Eater is out on Monday!! (Tuesday for the US, sorry, we beat you to it!) (Also if you haven’t seen my cover, holy shit, thank you Dante Luiz 🖤) I’d love to answer some questions, please AMA 🥰
Grief Eater by Emma Osborne (cover by Dante Luiz)
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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
With alt text:
A photo of a 7-11 sign with the gas prices also $7.11, captioned “the prophecy has been fulfilled”
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Ron Chan @rondanchan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
TWO FULL YEARS of essays! Our very first essay was @cherylmorgan.bsky.social on fantasy and historical fiction: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/what-... January 2025 saw @nniskanen.bsky.social discuss how SF has looked at families of the future: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/famil...
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What Is Fantasy Anyway? — Speculative Insight
Cheryl Morgan explores what we mean by fantasy fiction, and how that is similar to alternate history fiction. She concludes that all historical fiction is a form of fantasy.
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Nina Niskanen @nniskanen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
What a beauty!
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
It's good that James Dobson is dead and let's use the occasion to say that it's bad to beat children, because he is one of the main reasons we have to say explicitly that it's bad to beat children
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A travesty. Other places invest in education about bears and commonsense provisions. In Florida, intense habitat fragmentation leads to the deranged logic that "there are too many bears." Bears in Florida are not accustomed to being hunted. Most will just be shot crossing some asshole's backyard.
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Jani Koski @kiikala.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Jälleen todiste siitä, että konservatiivikristityt eivät ole sen kummempia kuin Talebanitkaam. Mitä enemmän näille antaa valtaa, sitä hullummaksi touhu menee. Ja tämäkin kannattaa todellakin ottaa ihan tosissaan.
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Nina Niskanen @nniskanen.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Why is fridging still such a major motivator for male characters? Like seriously, we can't come up with something other than "your wife has been killed, now off you go to vengeance"? I don't know what else I expected of Gladiator 2, but I hoped for better.
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Nina Niskanen @nniskanen.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I've been doing a lot more biking this summer and I've really been struck with how smart the biking arrangements here are. The bike lanes are well marked (painted red most places in order to distinguish from the walkways and roadways), generally follow direction of traffic etc. I love my city
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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"Photos from 1993 confirm for the first time that Epstein attended Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. Epstein’s attendance at the ceremony at the Plaza Hotel was not widely known until now." CNN is living dangerously. Power to their ink. www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...
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Exclusive: Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein | CNN Politics
Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trump’s past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Important story, written in Portuguese by our partner Jornalistas Pretos — Rede de Jornalistas pela Diversidade na Comunicação (Black Journalists’ Network — Journalists for Diversity in Communication) and translated into English by one of our @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social volunteers!
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In Brazil, Black boys dream of being online influencers. Why?
“These boys dream, feel, and think about the world. We need to stop seeing them as a threat and start seeing them as a potential.”
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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 15/07/2025
LLM’s literally can’t create anything new.
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Nina Niskanen @nniskanen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Reading Murderbot for the 1000th time in order to deal with fried-brain overwhelm, and reading Murderbot itself turn to Sanctuary Moon in order to deal with fried-brain overwhelm turns out to cause strangely circular feels.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
how to seal a leaky bucket
A seal happily squished inside an orange bucket with its head popping out and eyes closed as if smiling.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Support your local NPR station
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Or we can take climate change seriously. Which is better than lazy, empty gestures. Just spit balling.
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meerbuschknitter.bsky.social @meerbuschknitter.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Dragon blanket is finished! I've added the pattern to my Ravelry store in case anyone feels inspired to make one. 🧶🐉 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #knitting #bskyknits #dragons #dragon #blanket
Large green knitted blanket with a dragon motif on a leather sofa against a bookcase.
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 03/07/2025
From editors Annalee Newitz, Karen Lord, and Malka Older: WE WILL RISE AGAIN, Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope. It's never been more relevant. @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social Preorder now! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/07/2025
I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:
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The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Phrases that live in my brain rent-free. C/ @nniskanen.bsky.social's essay last year about the realities of container ships and how that could (should) translate to the space-faring version. Read it yourself by subscribing (AUD30!), or by buying the December 2024 ebook: www.speculativeinsight.com.
Purple background, white text, which says A spaceship is not a minivan. "The Space that Ships are Built for" -- Nina Niskanen
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
7 things everyone should know about Trump's megabill: Cuts $930 billion from Medicaid 16 million lose health care Slashes nutrition aid by $186 billion Less income for bottom 40% of families Increases debt by $3.3 trillion $45 billion for immigration jails Billions for defense contractors
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7 things everyone should know about Trump's megabill
The Republican reconciliation legislation, which Trump calls his "big, beautiful bill," is massive.
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Nina Niskanen @nniskanen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Come for the mockery, stay for the ALT-text.
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Jussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
”On selvää, ettei ’kivuttomia’ ratkaisuja enää ole ja vaikeitakin päätöksiä on pystyttävä tekemään, mikäli haluamme tulevillakin sukupolvilla olevan laadukasta terveydenhuoltoa, koulutusta ja turvaa elämän eri vaiheissa.” Siis harvoilla tulevien sukupolvien edustajilla, ei kaikilla. #politiikka
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Kokoomus | Jukka Kopra: Velkajarru ei ole vain tämän hallituksen hanke
Velkajarru asettaisi raamit julkiselle taloudelle ja velalle. Finanssipoliittisia sääntöjä on tarkoitus uudistaa siten, että kaikki puolueet sitoutuvat niihin.
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Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Tässä lukee niin, että yhdenvertaisuuden ja tasa-arvon tukeminen on presidentille riski. Minusta tällaisen mittakaavan suvaitsemattomuus, joka aiheuttaa presidentille riskin, pitäisi yhteiskuntana nähdä jo aika helvetin suurena ongelmana. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...
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Pride | Stubb jäi pois Pride-kulkueesta – Tutkija: Tukeminen on tietoinen riski
Alexander Stubb on ensimmäinen istuva presidentti, joka toimii Helsinki Priden suojelijana. Hän ei kuitenkaan osallistunut Pride-kulkueeseen.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 30/06/2025
Homeostasis asserts itself
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/06/2025
A wise person knows that the best way to fight fascism is to fight fascism. Not to give into it piecemeal. The person who thinks that we just need to find the right sacrifice to feed to the fascists in order to appease them is, at best, a collaborator.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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Nina Niskanen @nniskanen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This was such a fun essay to write! It gave me the chance to talk about my hang ups about Space Opera
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This time last year, @nniskanen.bsky.social blew my mind with her essay about the realities of cargo ships, and how that should (but often doesn't) relate to cargo ships in space... and you can still read it by subscribing! AUD30/year gets you access to all essays! www.speculativeinsight.com/subs
Purple background, white text, which says The unfortunate thing about being stuck on a ship, surrounded by an inhospitable environment, is the fact that it's impossible for you to get away from the people who annoy you. "The Space that Ships are Built for" -- Nina Niskanen
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CTPhipps @ctphipps.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
PRIDE MONTH RECS - VELVETEEN VERSUS by @seananmcguire.bsky.social. The fantastic adventures of the bunny rabbit themed heroine and her queer crew of besties. beforewegoblog.com/pride-month-... #Pride #books #indiebooks #mustreads @bethtabler.bsky.social
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Pride Month Recs – Velveteen Versus by Seanan Mcguire
Seanan Mcguire is a fantastic author who has created many hilarious enjoyable series that dance across the genres of urban fantasy, horror, and superheroes. I'm
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Who doesn’t want to read about messed up deer? Help make this happen! 🦌
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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Now, for a little gothic romance, we offer a family of Ravens that are nesting in the facade of St John the Divine--the world's largest cathedral. Even though the three nestlings look nearly full-grown, they're still demanding to be fed! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding
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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 19/05/2025
I am both delighted and my first response was 'These sociopathic c-suite motherfuckers better not fucking cancel this two seasons in.'
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I hate that the American people never gave Biden credit for the things that he did extremely well under impossible circumstances. I hate even more that Trump will absolutely take credit for those things while simultaneously destroying democracy, proliferating corruption, and making the rich richer.
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Family Farah @stilllhooopee224.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
@lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social Due to urgent personal circumstances, I humbly ask for any support you may be able to provide. Even minimal help could have a significant impact. Further details are included in the pinned post. We are being exterminated bsky.app/profile/hope...
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Really disturbing to see this framed as though it is unclear whether this is an abomination.
Reality show where immigrants compete for U.S. citizenship? Dhs is considering it.
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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Really loving our new weekly national tradition of asking the Supreme Court "hey, are there laws?" and getting back "I guess," 7-2 with Alito and Thomas dissenting
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WizardAFA @wizardafa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
let us not forget
Linus from the Peanunts comic strip shouting, "If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
It's crowdFUND Friday! Help a pair of nerdy #trans & queer horror enthusiasts bring our project to LIFE. :D @probablyharmless.bsky.social and I want this DEERLY — we have amazing stories already lined up & want to read YOURS. #TheDeerIsMessedUP 📚💙 #booksky 🏳️‍⚧️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
a graphic that has a trans flag (blue, pink, white) and a non-binary flag (yellow, white, purple, black) side by side; the photo on the left is Theo Hill, a white trans man with glasses, holding a pair of deer antlers over his head; on the right is a white non-binary trans person, Merc Wolfmoor, in a black turtleneck shirt and wearing an antler headband; the middle graphic has THE DEER IS MESSED UP Kickstarter graphic, showing a deer with white eyes emerging from a dark pool of water in a misty forest
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 13/05/2025
It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Want to be part of the terror??? 👀 Help us reach our base funding goal so we can open to general submissions (in June) and read YOUR messed up deer stories!! @messedupanthos.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
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THE DEER IS MESSED UP
An anthology of horror stories about f*cked up deer. Edited by Theodore Hill and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.
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