Reposted by Rebecca StefoffRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h22 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. 16656482445
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 13hTwo 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. 010
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 13hTwo eps in and I'm enjoying it, especially the setting. Some climate-crisis consciousness, too. 110
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 · 08/10/2026Ugh, how awful. Is there any way to make them not do this? 110
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
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Also, "function like it does" is not exactly a ringing endorsement. 070
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 10994652974
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... 31927971156
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
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Also been rewatching for the first time since it aired. Struck by how the men's clothes look pretty normal after 30 years, but the women's appear to have been salvaged from mannequins in an abandoned mall. 020
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
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Love these birds. I saw my first one of the season this past week. In my wooded back yard, always a thrill. 010
Reposted by Rebecca StefoffRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026Butterbutt. An older comic. 233009740
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What a good column. Glad the event was such a success. 010
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. 546156766032
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
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I love them; I get them in my forested back yard sometimes in winter. 020
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
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Agree 100 percent but have 0 percent expectation. 010
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh, wow, good to hear. It's on my list and I will now watch it today. I like the premise and am in the mood for micro-budget goodness. Btw, will soon post my photos from Willow Creek, ground zero for . 130
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 10392252509
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
Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm okay with hanging AI developers even if they don't seriously believe it. 040
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