Reposted by Rebecca StefoffRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could. 11430761365
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 1hTwo eps into Below on Netflix and it's giving vibes of the great old two-part TV movie The Beast, but with way better scenery, a dose of climate crisis, and an overall eerie atmosphere. 000
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffJen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You'd better believe I'm checking my voter registration status roughly every day now. 051
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fellow readers, this is one of my favorite entries in a series I've enjoyed from the start. It's got cats. Big ones! 032
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffJen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Okay, so, hey! Today's the day. My new book is out! 134
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Reading this now and it's weird and endearing, funny and gentle. 161
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffSusan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026OH MY FUCKING GOD 052
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffJen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is launch week! My new book comes out on Thursday — in case you've been looking for a paranormal cozy mystery for spooky season. Even my Dad is reading it. #booksky 152
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The nation explicitly cast as a fortressed bunker ensuring "survivability" for the in-group. A.K.A. end times fascism. 28464136
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10994582974
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10... 32027971156
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I would like to suggest that seeking election or appointment to your library board is a very good way to address book bans. Applications for our 2027 cohort are now open for those interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - we need leftists to engage in governance.docs.google.comFTP Library Elections & Appointments Training CohortHello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l... 1164108
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffJen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've had the enthusiastic privilege of writing for @skyandtelescope.bsky.social online for five years! So I wrote a little something about how my column came about and what this anniversary means to me. ❤️✨ jennifer-willis.com/2026/10/five...jennifer-willis.comFive years as an official space cadetOctober 5 will mark five years since my first column appeared on Sky & Telescope online. A couple of months before that first piece appeared, my friend Ethan Siegel had reached out to ask what … 271
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026Butterbutt. An older comic. 233009739
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffTove Danovich @tkdano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’ve become obsessed with the disappearing night sky. I miss going outside wherever I was and seeing the stars! Glad to be able to write about this for @us.theguardian.com. Thanks to the kind readers who have already sent me emails about their own night skies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comThe night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels likeIf more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures 721964
Reposted by Rebecca Stefoffjon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comYou Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine MaxwellIdeapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. 181276557
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffJen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"It’s not so much correction that he lacks. It’s a functional brain.” 031
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system. 546156776032
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money 5509168
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On a recent road trip to Oregon's south coast and California's Klamath River, I got to stop in Willow Creek, ground zero for the flood of Bigfoot movies I love so dearly. Btw, the movie WILLOW CREEK is one of the good ones. 040
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh great www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...nytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government WebsitesThe company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education Department, Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission. 000
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here. 12129231192
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffErik Grove @erikgrove.com · 22/09/2026Make an author’s whole day and request their book be ordered by the library. THIS is why I do the hard stuff. THIS is the whole ballgame. My book hanging out at the library with its future book friends. 😭 0279
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffDj Connell @itbodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You can support Cats on Mars, a shelter taking in cats from the frontlines of Ukraine since the Russians invaded by simply buying coffee. buymeacoffee.com/catsonmars And you can follow their lifesaving work below. #kittens #catsbuymeacoffee.comEugene Kibets is cat shelter in KyivCats on Mars is a pet shelter in Kyiv that rescues cats from war-torn territories. During the first year of the full-scale war, we rescued and sheltered more than 300 cats from the liberated cities of 064
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffLaurelJStandley.bsky.social 🌳🌎 @laureljstandley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Homegrown veggies can also be contaminated with bacteria, according to @npr.org ‘s article. I have a couple of posts about safe gardening and foraging on my blog you can check for ways to avoid contamination by toxic chemicals (links on next posts). 1/3 www.npr.org/2026/09/21/n...npr.orgIs produce from a home garden safer than store bought? 'It depends'A record-breaking summer for foodborne illness prompted more consumers to grow produce at home. But experts say it's the farming practices, not size, that matters for food safety. 133
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026DEAD MEDIA. A scrappy DIY horror film that is as Minneapolis a movie as it gets. When friends decide to spin up a long lost horror film, they find a special feature that unleashes the film into their home. Really uses DVD cleverly to create a new kind of analog horror. Really dug it. Coming soon! 1322029
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffAl Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4 10392232508
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffDuncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Found from a YouTube comment. Made me laugh… “There was an old lady of Clyde, Who ate 60 green apples and died. The apples fermented inside the lamented And made cider inside ‘er inside.” 😂 2617416
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffJared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Dear Homer, I evaluate standout voices across literary genres, and the unique premise you’ve built in the Iliad caught my attention. The handling of historical fantasy, rich world-building, and high-stakes action through Achilles and Helen creates a resonance that is provocative and deeply engaging 06417
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffCri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 19/09/2026During any given TV show this week you see both Gubernatorial Candidates running "I voted against data centers" ads AND right after a "We're not evil! We're not destroying the environment!" Ads from some Oregon data center coalition group (don't know name!) It's... a lot 4508
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws. 29172261875
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffScary Science Guy @scaryscienceguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If it's so easy to trash the 1st Amendment it should be just as easy to kill the 2nd. 042
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026THIS 👇 HERE....... 1111206617481
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo. 21036423
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffD. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026📌“He was quickly over run and the elephants trampled him into the earth and all that we found was basically a very large blood stain around the clothing he was in.” Good news is hard to find these days, friends. Enjoy!dailystar.co.ukPoacher tried to shoot rhinos but was trampled to death by elephants insteadAn armed rhino poacher in South Africa’s Kruger National Park was trampled to death when a herd of elephants charged as he lined up a shot for the animals’ lucrative horns 2683737943
Reposted by Rebecca Stefoffjab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"We are retasking our satellites. Our war against the Persians depends on finding Prester John." 421727
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery." 3045624949
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffSteve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oh my god I love it 😻 0283
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffJen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"a new reason to protect the world" 131
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffWendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I also wrote a fun kids-on-bikes novel! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...bookshop.orgThe Deer Kings"Deer saints, darkness and the strangeness of family ties; Wagner effortlessly mixes football and folk horror in this terrifying new novel." -Angela Slatter, award-winning author of The Bitterwood Bib... 1171
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffGhouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season: 511403469
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffJen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Guess what? My latest for @skyandtelescope.bsky.social is live, and this one is all about keeping tabs on the Moon and the benefits of its steady, reassuring rhythms. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-bl...skyandtelescope.orgI Spy the MoonTracking the phase, moonrise, and nightly position of the Moon can help give a tempo to life and its seasons. 172
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffJen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026International Observe the Moon Night is coming up on September 19. 🌕🥳 052
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026More than the usual amount of AI-generated author-spamming emails this morning. I may have trashed my chance to have my book "reach untold levels of new readership across the globe." Oh well. 040
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffFrederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...cbsnews.comNew photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacksThe images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity. 291004461
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Rewatching Larry Fessenden's The Last Winter (2006) and thinking, yeah he called it re the Arctic NWR. 000