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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 17/09/2026

Is chocolate milk a mocktail

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s funny being an author or a band because you look at someone the next level up where you want to be so bad and they are still some fucking loser splitting a single bean for dinner.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

That in Portland I had seen more people unafraid to be their authentic selves, their true selves, their true identities, than anywhere I have lived. Maybe I am overstating the case... but it's how I feel walking the streets here. 2/2

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"Getting" blue prince should be a part of some asd qualification exam.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

bUt ThE eGg PrIcEs

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Darkwood II getting picked up by @hoodedhorse.bsky.social and @icepicklodge.bsky.social feels like a dream. Perfect combo to take the reigns and my favorite gaming news of the year.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Alright, just got home from a weekend trip, both a golden retriever and cat asleep between my legs, drinking wine and rereading/annotating Night Film while listening to a playlist called Dark Ambient Noir. What a mood.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This year, I'm grateful for the immense amount of progress I've made on myself, especially strengthening my ability to welcome failure, discomfort, and imperfection. It's been grueling and emotional work, but absolutely necessary.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

So this past summer I launched a Kickstarter for a special edition and a companion ARG for backers that ended in a micro-video game. I'm repackaging and expanding the ARG and game right now for a broader audience and damn, this thing is so cool. I can't believe I made it.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Holy cow the job market is dismal right now. It's barely 8 and I'm already crushed and exhausted. ☕☕☕

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I love novels. I will always love novels. But the recent storytelling innovation in games has awoken something in me that I'll need 8 vats of coffee and a substack to emotionally process.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Goddamn. Blue Prince has tapped into every universal pleasure integral to my being. I am overwhelmed. I am inspired. I need more experiences like this, please, dear God.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It's been a brutal week for me creatively and emotionally. Brutal. But the news tonight is the salve I needed. Keep fighting. ❤️🤍💙

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/10/2025

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

did u know that it's really hard to write a book when ur constantly being brutalized by the overwhelming sense of impending doom

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yulkradness🌹TTRPG||Comms open! @yulkradness.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Sharing the third and last card I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark! It has been a really fun project to work on🖤 #art #illustration #commission #darkfantasy #book

Illustration I made for S.A. Harian's book Briardark. The image is showing a deer skull in a central composition, with songbirds on its horns. The songbirds are chirping and flying around, with white flowers and climbing plants intertwined around it.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Revising a draft that I first dictated and came across the part where I caught movement out of the corner of my eye...

text that says "Oh my god oh my god that is a huge fucking spider holy shit"

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Cool I have my receipts $5.33 for posterboard and $17.99 for markers anyone got the Soros link to submit expenses? Hmm?

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yulkradness🌹TTRPG||Comms open! @yulkradness.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Sharing the second card I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark! More info about the books in their profile 🖤🌱 #art #illustration #darkfantasy #bookcover #novel

Illustration I made for S.A. Harian's book Briardark. The scene is showing an upside down tree supported by lots of tangled roots. Behind it there's a gigantic moon filling the central composition and all around the picture there's roots coming from the ground, showing the place filled by an unsettling atmosphere.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

7 million people today and no serious political violence. I love this country.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

All of these first posts from US government accounts give "hey baby miss me" abusive ex boyfriend vibes

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Hey Americans it's my birthday tomorrow and if you please for my birthday I request that on Saturday you: 1. Make a sign 2. Exit your place of living 3. Fight for democracy tyvm

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yulkradness🌹TTRPG||Comms open! @yulkradness.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

So happy to share one of the three cards I made for @saharian.bsky.social Briardark! For more info about the books please visit their profile 🌱 #art #illustration #darkfantasy #book

Illustration I made for S.A. Harian's book Briardark. The scene is showing a young woman wearing a blue coat lost in an heavy atmospheric forest in which the trees tangles with each other and the roots are everywhere on the ground. The woman is sitting - knees down - on the grass, the look on her face seems scared and hurt while she tries to extract a glow arrow from her chest, dripping blood as she's looking at the viewer, terrified. Next to her, on the grass, there's a bloody knife almost hidden.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

-Alien -The Descent -Sinners -Late Night with the Devil

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

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yulkradness🌹TTRPG||Comms open! @yulkradness.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

It's #PortfolioDay ! I'm Julien, a freelance italian artist who works on illustrations, concepts and book covers with an intense love for dark fantasy themes! 🖤 Open for work at: ✉️ arcadiojulien@gmail.com COMMS: yulkradnesscommissions.carrd.co Vgen: vgen.co/yulkradness #art

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Someone left a rack full of inflatable costumes near the ICE building in Portland. I love this town. This is a wonderful thread that explains how & why Portland is Like This. bsky.app/profile/ceau...

A clothing rack on a sidewalk, full of colorful inflatable costumes, with a sign that says free.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

As someone who has lived here for over a decade, @wyden.senate.gov 's B-roll in this video is the Portland I see on a daily basis. We have our rough edges like any city, but the clips & claims of endless dog parks, weirdos, and farmer's markets you see that counters the propaganda is not hyperbole.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook. MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops! ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I am so fucking proud of the place I lived for ten years. This is the best of the city, this is the heart and the goodness of it and I'm so glad

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Despite my crippling imposter syndrome and constant struggle to promote my work, Briardark hit 15,000 sold this year, which to my knowledge is more than any of my traditionally published books, and I'm currently fulfilling the 5-figure Kickstarter I ran in July. And damn, that's just really cool. 🧵

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JFA @jabbott28.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Love this one!

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Am I an idiot or is the Until Dawn movie just every Supermassive game smashed together into one nonsensical plot

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Concerned Citizen Dave @djl71.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Everyone loves Tolkien so let's remember: there were 6 hobbits in the Lord of the Rings. 2 of them stayed home, where they did smaller useful things (for ex Fatty Bolger distracting Black Riders) that made a difference. Every little bit helps indeed.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2025

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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S.A. Harian @saharian.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This is A+ comedy gold. I hope dog killer Barbie enjoyed her photo op.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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