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Daniel Simpson

@okiedls.bsky.social
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Nerd. History geek. Hobbyist photographer. Writer. Love to travel. Oklahoma. 🏳️‍🌈 www.threads.net/@okie.dls

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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 12h
NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
wired.com
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Cyclops X-Men: Iconic Red Visor Look
Alt: Cyclops X-Men: Iconic Red Visor Look from the 2000 X-Men movie
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Billy Hurley @billyhurls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There is no McTry. There is only:
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm a peasant
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026
#FunFact: Yes, it's now possible to drive a standard, mainstream EV from New York to Los Angeles in a reasonable amount of time without getting stranded with a dead battery and WITHOUT having to use a Tesla station!
Map of mainland U.S. with EV route from NYC to LA
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I feel like people do not generally know when the last big bubonic plague outbreak was and how many people it killed (1855 in Yunnan, went worldwide, at least 15 million people, lasted for over a century.). There's a ton of apotropaic Chinese ritual from the period to ward it off.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Strong "take me to your leader" vibes
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 05/10/2026
Point of information: The Republican Party has already spent far more on protecting a single U.S. Senate seat in Texas than the TOTAL cost of the 2000 Presidential election for BOTH Al Gore and George W. Bush COMBINED. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
 The Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee together spent $79.9 million on television ads in the 2000 presidential campaign, far more than the $67.1 million spent by the campaigns of Gov. Bush and Vice President Gore, the study says.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm all for big things being shoved up my ass but I think I'll pass on this one.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're roasting her alive in the comments though, tbf
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My roommates cat has taken to sleeping under my bed until I go to bed, then jumping up and sleeping in bed with me 🥺 I have been accepted.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh, that's bleak. Anyway, the chicken helpers actually work just fine with a can of tuna instead.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If we think it's perfectly fine, does that mean we're not old yet?
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's been a long time since I read an entire comment section
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a single person in that bar article sounds like they would be pleasant to spend any amount of time with.
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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 22/09/2026
Don't threaten me with a good time, my dude
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think a lot of the replies don't realize that Kushner holds more actual power than most of the people officially in the administration.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump saying we urgently need well stocked sniper nests overlooking the nation’s main location for political protest should ring alarm bells.
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쏨이시대 @missom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Engage in any discussion about fast fashion/clothing prices and you can see this real quick. "Worker solidarity" disappears real quick when you point out that in an ethical system, we the consumers would and should be buying less clothing at higher prices.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/09/2026
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century reut.rs/4yIJjwO
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New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described ​in more than a century.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I feel as though if one were to trend every week over something stupid that needs an entire essay to put it into context, and an entire army of defenders, that perhaps one should stop yapping as much.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Big yikes lmfao
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh God I hope so
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cold front coming in on Sunday though
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s no surprise that the world’s richest ketamine addict and proprietor of the premier social media platform for CSAM and revenge porn relocated his businesses to Texas. It all fits with the fascist-tinged Silicon Valley ethos of many Austin tech bros www.liberalcurrents.com/the-future-o...
Austin and its surrounding region have become the home for tech moguls and influencers looking to flee California's regulatory environment and make a political statement at the same time. Joe Rogan moved to town during Covid, looking for "a little more freedom," and setting up a comedy empire alongside his podcasting one. Jason Calacanis and David Sacks, two of the tech-bro handmaidens to fascism who host the insufferable All-In podcast, have also decamped to Austin.

Most notably, Elon Musk recently relocated his social media platform X from California to central Texas, about half an hour east of Austin. Texas also plays host to Musk companies like Space and the Boring Company. Musk's Texas move is tied up in disdain for both the regulatory and cultural realities of California. In 2024, outraged by a California law barring school staff from outing trans children to their parents, Musk declared, “Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas." In the meantime, X has become a hotbed of Al-generated SAM and revenge porn content.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I grew up in the woods, and let me tell you, there is nothing more stifling than the politics in a small town where every single person knows you, your mama, your granny, and your third cousin Beulah Ann.
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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's tour bus.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jesus lol'd
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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i like that their methodology would classify someone making $150k as working class if they don't have a college degree, but someone making 50k who has a college degree isn't.
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His Grace, the Duke of Ankh, CDR Sir Samuel Vimes @bklynmichael42.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People in Texas should absolutely vote for James Talarico. I will also yell at James Talarico for throwing trans people under the bus over a bunch of Republican-manufactured bullshit.
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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The Democrats want us dead too” is the kind of insane, suicidal bullshit you get from people who are completely poisoned by online trans discourse mixed with panic and hopelessness and don’t care about the party’s actual record on trans rights.
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there is an uncomfortable truth that i think a lot of people like to avoid because it makes political discussions over trans people fall apart
and it is that the 'progressive' parties (labour, dems etc) aren't abandoning us for political points
they just want us dead too
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it is depressing. it's horrific. it's also true
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Ashley Schofield is lo... @ashlike... • 8h and you might ask "why even hope"
good question! please let me know when you find an answer. i haven't.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I guess The Dog Stars bombed completely because it's already been taken out of my local theater.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's so wildly aggressive with it
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Talarico fucked up. Still better on every single issue than Paxton. Paxton won on a campaign that said Cornyn and Abbott were *too liberal*. Those are the options.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh man, I'm so sorry.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tag yourself, I'm "has a favorite war". It's WWI. (I mean, so far as one -can- have a "favorite" war; I think writing papers concerning aspects of it for three different classes counts as a "favorite".)
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What a cute baby water buffalo 😃 Look at those eyelashes
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I got 190,273 BCE and surprisingly made it to 49 before dying of a zoonotic fever.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026
This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.
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Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
captimes.com
UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
even now, she's still teaching us
screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's wild how they pick and choose what catches a suspension, not consistent in the least
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It thinks my closest match is Alabama. 😂 It is in fact East Texas.
Map showing a very strong Southern dialect
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is really cool www.koco.com/article/merc...
koco.com
Mission to reveal Mercury’s mysteries nears arrival after 8 years
An ambitious mission to reveal the secrets of the least explored planet in the inner solar system is about to arrive at its cosmic destination after a lengthy journey.
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Daniel Simpson @okiedls.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
uh, I get that he was pushing her stroller while letting her walk but I would never let a two year old near a crosswalk without literally holding their hand. Cars are too dangerous.
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