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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 4h

This was true ten years ago when I left the field -- it's just worse now And I worked at small shops, high traffic, custom tuning, classic restoration and major dealers of top.sellers too like Ford, Toyota, and more. You couldn't pay me to be a shop mechanic in this era and I'd rather do it

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 4h

In the Midwest but first things first Learning to relax a bit from my teacher.

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me talking about this for a few years and watching the rise. Telling people in the industry only to get eyerolls and platitudes Not sure what it is when it's brown people but...

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription... Well this is HELLA cool (link to review page up to with all features). This month finding out that my first book in my urban fantasy detective series is featured in the best noir sff books! Uh, fuck yeah! <3 Ty to Glennis for sending me this! <3

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Belated bday for my dad and the fams cooking up goat meat northern style. My fave - goat stew! I've put snippets of Desi dishes and older ones that existed along the silk road in Tales of Tremaine. And yes hints of my family's stew recipe will be through the series too. :p

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Moment you accidentally see a car on fb marketplace you never would have expected to see in your area for sale and never really had a thing for until you see that specific model and now you're in love. Lol, cuz i need another new dream project car on my mind. And I never grew up a JDM guy.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

She was and is always brilliant with her words. She ain't wrong.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Darn I didnt see this - but whoever missed it missed out. Pay attention, cuz Ernie has been the most supportive agent I've worked with and is awesome - understanding, patient, creative and creatively supportive, flexible, and has your back. He's open minded, smart, passionate, KIND, and

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So like all the people who said those politics and hats made them feel unsafe didn't matter ... But now it's crybaby central? Gtfo

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When you combine the basic sides of yourself. Basic Americana grilled cheese With...basic Desi but delish butter chicken thurry to dip your sourdough grilled cheese in Yeah, I'm something of an artiste, if you will :p

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Baraa is appealing to everyone to please help Ibrahim. She's lost 2 daughters already to Israel's genocide. She's constantly deleted & restricted by Bluesky, and exhausted from making new accounts. She has no reach, & is unable to secure funds for Ibrahim's survival. Please share widely & donate:

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I Lost My Daughters to War and Hunger. Please Help Me Save Ibrahim, My Last Living Child"

My name is Bara'a, and I am writing to you from the depths of an unimaginable nightmare. I am a mother whose heart has been shattered into pieces, and today, I am reaching out to the world in a desper...

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Taking my little Didi (sister) out for a dinner This place is amazing and the layout is like an Indian train station with Indian train cars as the booths (in design). It's cute but omfg the food slaps! I'm Punjabi so you know I like to fucking eat! Ahhh they have goat meat arrey yaar!

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't know how this is still going on after a decade now after other people started this and it's every fuckin' con - even ones IM NOT AT?? WHY AM I MEMED IN SO MANY WAYS? Why...is memeing me bigger than my fucking career? ....idk what that even says about me or what...idk! @_@

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Writer friends: What are the best way to promote your newly launched book from a traditional publisher at various cons? A DARK AND NARROW HOUSE comes out on April 6, 2027. I'd like to hit as many cons as I can. +

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This admin....is ruining white people holidays. White people you gonna stand for this? Btw ...here's your pumpkin spice, apple pie and all holiday season tasty treat flavorings FUCKED

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just watched a man...curse in three languages and just lean against the cab of his ford raptor pull out a cig. and just...sink into puffing it. ...i may have peeked at the gas pump... yeah bro. when filling your truck is up in them 3 digits? ...yeah. you...wanna blunt?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me: why am i still coughing and feeling weird? long covid? :goes get checked: lingering...adenovirus!? me: uh... doc: oh you can get both covid and adenovirus, and both are going around, that's probably why you felt as bad as you did.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Something no ones thinking about: the diesel gas crisis happening? ...school buses yall. Rural communities might get fucked on school buses and the systems there being able to afford shuttling kids to school. not joking... This shit does not stop at working adults. It's gonna hurt the kids

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well, polands bolstering defenses for threat of an invasion When's the last time Poland was invaded??? Haha...hehehe haha ...ohhhh... Ahhhh Right... Erhm Wtf? Why are we larping bits of fuckin history rather than learning from it I see enough larping I'm from VA!

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey, you are enough. Don't believe anything contrary to that.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me a stew fan over soup....by far my gf loving soups a million times more me gently suggesting some sipping broths when she feels ill cuz theyre like soups only...auto correct made it: like the slops you like... okay great cool anyways, if you dont hear from me, its cuz my southern gf killed me

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

FanX is a very friendly convention, with nice wide aisles and a great diversity of vendors in their dealer's hall. I hope to meet many of y'all in the next few days!

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nani de... Uh... But all of them? Which ones .. Uh... Is it plant jewelry or plants and jewelry Is it nope not going there. But... I...nope nvm

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Microslop slopping hard. Peak capitalism kills everything YOU BOUGHT THE FUCKIN' GAME AND THEY'RE GONNA THROW IN ADS. Get fucked sixteen ways to this sunday and there aint that many days left till then. So get to work, microslop

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Alex Jennings @alexjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When (or IF) history remembers this era, students are going to look at accounts and feel like what they're reading/seeing doesn't add up. They're going to ask themselves what they're missing because so so little of what they're seeing makes sense.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They want you, your kids, and everyone else to be dumbed down and reliant on their shit regurgitation machines. They want you to be unskilled, lose it, and dependent on them. These fuckers have publicly talked about SELLING BACK "intelligence and skill" before. Altman's talked about it.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I remember when these were a buck and you weren't all buying mystery meat from god knows where in this administration atm... Mcfuck you and mcfuck nope

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Idk what it says about people (us) that you can have a hellish day and...then somehow make it vanish (idk if this is healthy) but just watching Anthony Bourdain teach beef bourguignon even if you already know how to make it. It's just...wooosh, bad shit goes away?

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I saw this self driving things around atlanta during dragoncon...I just knew this shit would happen. Man you watch these jittery jerky ass things on the road taking turns during the lights and...its wiggy. One bad moment of interrupted wifi or w.e. signal and hey, your honor, the car thought

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This was literally a plot point of a south asian revenge thriller i was writing about how politicians smuggle immigrants and vulnerable people here and outward...and nvm, man you cant even fuckin write fiction anymore without the world going nah. and if you do as a poc, itll get called unrealistic

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you've read a book (like, say, THE CALAMITIES) and enjoyed it, a nice thing you can do is leave a review somewhere! And tell your friends, family, and any passersby. And also leave the author a big bag of money and, oh, I dunno, apples somewhere within easy reach. Good apples. NICE apples.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe i should bring my old supercharged trans am back out of the garage. i only built the fuckin thing in highschool DURING THE FIRST GAS CRISIS getting 7 mpg with that motor.... Then again...this about sums up what id be like if I was doing that now. ...damn i need to sell that fucking thing

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026

Our lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft argues that the companies built their immensely valuable product via “the largest theft of labor in human history.” Actually, those aren’t our words. They came from Microsoft’s director of applied science, Brent Hecht.

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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Weird moment I get multiple dms on Instagram from just fans all in the UK asking if I'm ever touring or coming there? Made it seem like the books are way more popular there by the pics and shit they said/sent? Didn't expect any of that .

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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · 22/09/2026

We want to thank every single reader who’s picked up one of our titles: THANK YOU! For supporting a small Canadian Antifascist press that doesn’t use AI in any part of the publishing process, for supporting our authors and leaving reviews, and for spreading the word! Stories change the world.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"My mistake, you're absolutely correct that two planes cannot fly into each other or land at the same time in the same spot. Would you like to try again with another two planes?" How this'll go. No worries, not like I'm flying out of Reagan soon -_-

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AYO WTF BRO? Who did this? Why? Bruh...bro...broski? Brotato. Brochaho. Brohirrim. ...wtf?

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thank god steam blocked this bullshit. I'll stick with pc gaming forever. Brilliant indie titles, affordable, no crooked corpo consumerism/capitalism. Man I need to learn linux for real. FUck microslop for this heinous shit

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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a Palestinian, I can say that our love and respect for Ms. Rachel are not just words. Her decision to stand with Palestinian children, at a time when staying silent would have been much easier, is something we will never forget.

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 22/09/2026

“Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by the tech giants reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would likely displace human-authored books in the market.“

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Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors

Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...

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Orcish Librarian @bibliovoreorc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Remember how streaming positioned itself as better than linear TV, because it cost less, and didn't have ads? And remember how streamers burned VC and tech giant money for just long enough to ruin the production and business models of linear channels? Yeah, funny thing about that...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump’s ICE thugs shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez through his car window as he was delivering food yesterday in Austin, Texas. His wife and lawyer were reportedly denied access to see him in the hospital, and ICE is now trying to deport him. This violence must end. Abolish ICE.

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