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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

"Super Intelligence"

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 3h

I keep buying bugs and buying bugs, and they just keep eating the carapaces.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 11h

A positive and not universally visible development: "Newscaster hair" has been a thing for decades, especially for women and way more so for Black women. Not so much, now: local newsrooms have (largely) stopped policing hairstyles. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/09/30/w...

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Commentary: What do braids, cornrows and Bantu knots have to do with the news? • Indiana Capital Chronicle

Black journalists on TV have had to think about their appearance on air in ways that other journalists do not.

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 21h

This is a real book. 🤯

THE TRIP IS YOURS

TAKING MUSHROOMS AND GOING TO WALMART

WRITTEN BY B THE AUTHOR

SQUICHE
$ 425
1339140 3263 K MART 7529

Illustration in the style of the old choose your adventure stories. I’m

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The existence of Bisexual Visibility Day clearly implies they are invisible on the other days. There could be one in the room with you right now! In fact, there probably is. It would explain why we run out of cookies to quickly.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think this might be my favorite photo in my collection. It's the one I picture being on the cover of a book if I ever make one someday. The light, her face, the way she's supporting the kitten so lovingly. ❤️ No date/info.

black and white photo of a light skinned woman with curly hair wearing a plaid dress, sitting with sunlight coming in from the left. She is holding up a shorthaired tabby kitten.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me: posts a photo of a stunnng sunset or a funny observation: 12 likes. Also me: replies "Fuck the GOP" in response to more fascist, racist, LGBTQphobic Republican actions: over 300 likes. Your lips (and likes) to voters ears (and voting hands), friends.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If DJT does manage to decede while in office, it will be his greatest service to the country -- and yet it still won't be all that good, since we'll be stuck with a replacement who has less charisma and wit than VD.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The jury has rendered their decision and the court has ruled: you will be taken from this place to another place, where you will lay down the boogie and play that funky music until you die. And may a forgiving Providence have mercy on your immortal soul, for I cannot." Defendant: [Busts a move]

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We might have accidentally set the sky on fire.

A spectacular orange, hot pink, gold and purple sunset fills the sky over a small parking lot with a recent model white muscle car in the foreground. A line of bars and restaurants fills the middle distance, under the brilliant sky.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have to admit it: the Republicans have sold me on the idea of inexpensive Chinese electric vehicles.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have you ever heard of Gabriel's Horn? It's a mathematical shape, a deceptively simple "solid of revolution" that will melt your brain. It's also one of my very favorite things of all time. Oh my yes, you'll love this: badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-geometri... 🧪

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A geometric shape that will destroy your brain

Gabriel’s Horn is bizarre and literally unrealistic. It’s also super cool.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Leftover puttanesca sauce + leftover (grill-baked) meatloaf + a small white onion, sliced green olives and a few pickled peppers = delicious ragout!

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 28/09/2026

Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Truly, it is written that a man who builds a small, light watercraft only to spank it is paddling his own canoe.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Mike's Hard Clam Chowder." You know you're curious. Manhattan or New England style, I wonder?

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Holden the cat is helping me critique manuscripts.

A large, fluffy gray, sable, tan and white tomcat sits on a small pile of manuscripts that are on a yellow quilt. He is planning to stay there.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Indianapolis used to have a sousaphone that went all the way from Carmel to downtown, but it's gone now. First, the player pianos threatened it, but the punched paper rolls tore easily, and people got tired of pedaling them.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Joleeeene, why'd you drank a can of kerosene?"

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"At [4 random letters] we didn't make the bug balls -- we bit a big bag of them."

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"You know, the other Leigionairies just ride the sousaphone into town."

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Near as I can tell, "A. I." will let us all get rich by defrauding one another. Welcome to the Golden Age of Grift!

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

RFK Jr's HHS is essentially withholding Covid vaccines from children from poorer backgrounds, amid a Covid wave. Important story from @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Delays in Covid shots for kids is latest bid by Trump officials to restrict vaccines

Administration is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one US territory

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Does he not understand how it works? Or does he think we don't?

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For most of history, anonymous was a woman. ~ Virginia Woolf

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/09/2026

This is an observation But the song ties corporate overreach and political corruption to consumer buying behaviors.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"At Abusive Relationships, Inc, we didn't make the Louisville -- we made the Louisville Slugger." (PSA: You don't have to stay. There's help to leave abusive relationships. Nobody deserves mistreatment.)

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 21/09/2026

Premee Mohamed (@premeemohamed.com) reads from her story collection One Message Remains, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

youtube.com

Premee Mohamed reads from One Message Remains

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump approval rating has screwed the pooch so badly that it is now eligible for recruitment by the FBI.

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A Dead Sinking Rory @zealousagain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So they’re definitely just killing them, right?

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's some weird natural phenomenon: I must go to bed. Got sheets and a comforter in the dryer. Don't need them tonight; they're new and needed cleaned and folded. They Will Not Dry. Keep getting twisted up with a damp area in the middle. Untwist, start over. And over, and... What pixies do I bribe?

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm going to start using "Tilly Norwood" as a euphemism for STIs: "Georgy is on massive doses of antibiotics ever since he picked up that Tilly Norwood in Vegas," etc. "They say it is society/They say it's a disease/And no one likes a fellow with a Tilly Norwoodese..." Oh, Officer Krupke!

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 19/09/2026

GENIE: “There are only three restrictions: No love spells, no resurrections, and no wishing for more wishes.” ME: “I want to have a discussion with someone who’s pro AI but who isn’t at the same time incredibly naive about the technology.” GENIE: ME: GENIE: “There are now four restrictions.”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And a reminder: no matter how much damn electronics you think you know, or can even prove you know, you will not be allowed to go to outer space naked.

An image of the engraving from an old International Telephone and Telegraph stock certificate, fine dark lines on a greenish-yellow background, showing a seated naked man what short, wavy hair, apparently of European descent, holding a drawing in his right hand draped in a manner that conceals his crotch, while he stares at a vacuum tube surrounded by stylized electron orbits as if it was the nucleus of an atom, held in his left hand at eye level. Behind him on the floor are a few large books, a rolled blueprint and some kind of electronic chassis. Rising behind them are two racks of old electronics with analog meters and big calibrated knobs, and part of a very large, gridded oscilloscope screen, showing a wiggly trace. At the very back, in the upper left corner, a 1960s rocket streaks upward. They didn't let the naked guy on board. Nope, they'll have none of that!

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I carefully measured and installed an off-center-fed antenna for the 40m band. It's not high off the ground and the short end is close to the gutter. Resonance is way low, SWR way high. But on 20m, it looks pretty good. And it would be a PITA to trim it, so...I dunno.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wait, is the big lion Jesus because lions ate so many Christians in the Roman arena? Because, honestly, I'm starting to think they didn't eat nearly enough,

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 17/09/2026

I would kill for Tino

I'm fostering Tino, who was feral-trapped last week. He has strong feelings about domestication, me, and the horse 1 rode in on.

Image: an adorably grumpy Siamese cat being held upside down on a pair of crossed legs and glaring up

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 17/09/2026

People love to post the Shigeru Mizuki "Get some sleep!" comic, but he considered these far more important. Shigeru Mizuki's Seven Rules of Happiness

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Both -- by what I have managed to do, and that I didn't do more.

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You’ll notice that most of these people are in their 20s and 30s. That is no coincidence; it is clear that among the young staffer and operative class of the Republican Party are people with neo-Nazi sympathies and white supremacist views. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...

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Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End (Gift Article)

The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.

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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stupid CBS headline: "NASA spacecraft discovers moon crater bigger than Roman Colosseum." I do that with naked eyes from my back yard all the time!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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