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Sarah W

@sandrayln.bsky.social
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Reader, programmer, part-time editor, Horse mom, dog mom, lover of cats, On an average day, very very tired.

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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Successfully dewormed the horses without deworming myself, yet again. Also really appreciate that while my elder mare is a biiiiitch about it, her son is just like "...tastes weird, but sure" about it. It's so nice.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh, damn. Ave atque vale. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Our new D&D game has started with a bang. Or rather, with the realization that the highest charisma in the game is a 10. This is going to go poorly, hilariously, or both.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 06/10/2026
Status report, “Secondhand AI Thieves” dep’t: Just now got an email from the naughty company discussed here. Watch out for / beware of the schmucks discussed in this post. writerbeware.blog/2025/11/07/predat…
writerbeware.blog
Predatory Opt-Outs: The Speculators Come for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement - Writer Beware
The enormous, $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright class action settlement is reputedly the biggest copyright infringement recovery in history. With such a high-profile case, it’s inevitable that eligible...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Texas Storm Chasers @texasstormchasers.com · 06/10/2026
10/6 4PM: Tropical Depression 9 has formed in the Bay of Campeche and is expected to become a hurricane as it moves east/northeast into the Gulf on Thursday and Friday. Thankfully, this storm will not affect us in Texas.
NHC forecast map showing Tropical Depression Nine’s likely track cone from the central Gulf of Mexico to the northern Gulf Coast and north through Mississippi, Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, with labeled forecast times and intensity symbols (S, H, D).
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 06/10/2026
fwiw arstechnica.com/apple/2026/1...
arstechnica.com
Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dear front desk guy: you are correct! My alignment is off! Just like I told you! Yes, fix it like I asked! If there's one thing my decade of hour-long commutes taught me, it's what an off alignment feels like. (And if there's a second, it's the value of a clean inner windshield.)
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Waiting room thoughts: do other states' mechanics just play country nonstop, or is this just a Texas thing?
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Slowly working my way down a checklist of things that need to get done. Emphasis on slowly, because my body decided that me getting the covid and flu vaccines yesterday is a cause for great chest congestion. Whee.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...I'm not saying I have a dice problem, but I just uncovered like ten sets of dice within 10 feet of my desk where I swore I'd found all of the dice months ago, soooo.
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is very true. A huge theme in a lot of recent coverage that AI is a bit like Saving Private Ryan. Everybody's gotta step up and adopt AI to get it across the goal line.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am at the "make to do lists" stage of the day...
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Quick, someone wake up Green Day.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me: Yay rain! My spouse: Yay rain! My garden: Yay rain! My dog: Why must you torture me with these torments?
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fifty New World screwworm infestations have been confirmed in the U.S. since the outbreak began, including 48 in Texas and two in New Mexico. Learn which animals are at risk, what symptoms to watch for and how officials are working to contain the spread. Read More👉 ebx.sh/0Bo0ks
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thinking about session 0s right now, as we get ready to start a new game, and I am realizing that my weekly group is not great at session 0. Or rather, we're not great at having a session 0 at the table.
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AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
appleinsider.com
Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
...Equine vet needs to get their shit together. This is two months in a row where I have followed instructions to pay and they don't process the payment and send me a "hey you haven't paid" at the end of the month.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
...I did not need to wake up every 2 hours. Thanks, body. Appreciate you.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Abusive parents blaming therapists for kids cutting ties is just an evolution of abusive husbands blaming therapists for wives divorcing their asses. The epidemic is dogshit people hiding behind the title of "parent" finally being called dogshit people
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can never decide if our PD team loves me or hates me. They finally cut me loose on the replacement for the thing I'm the SME for, and in the first fifteen minutes I've already generated 3 full pages of parity issues, defects, and feedback...
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Josh Foreman @josh-foreman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This tracks
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whenever AI CEOs say anything this is all I can think about
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.
texastribune.org
Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
...Made the mistake of doing math on how much I've spent at vet offices this month. I would say something positive, but at this point I'm just positive that the month has 9 more days and while I wouldn't say I'm superstitious, I am also not summoning more vet bills by saying stupid shit.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OH NO I LOVE THEM
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Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here is a fun crossover experience for fans of #FiascoRPG and #ArsMagica! FREE Fiasco playsets that provide a seamless blend of both games with all the tables and set-up instructions needed to play! #TTRPGs #RPGs #gaming www.atlas-games.com/fiasco
atlas-games.com
Ars Magica Fiasco
Free Fiasco playsets in Ars Magica's Mythic Europe setting.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can neither confirm nor deny waking up just before my alarm and firmly telling it "no" just as it started to go off.
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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have a joke about the Amber Diceless RPG, but it's Bad Stuff.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tell your boss that I gave you the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Great stuff. Your boss will understand... Source: itiner-e.org
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well, THIS WEEK is a fucking trash fire when it comes to animals in our household.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No. Nooo. My dog is not my child and I did not just cry a little while dropping him off for a boarding evaluation. Why do you ask?
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI companies sold C suites and lazy assholes on the idea that they invented magic beans but now that the magic isn't happening they're telling everyone they're actually deadly beans and only they have the antidote for the deadly beans.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nothing like being woken up in the middle of a hell of a nightmare
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.
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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I like this so much, and it reminds me that the inverse is also true: the version of you that I create in my mind IS my responsibility and may not be an accurate representation of you at all!
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ugh, waiting is hard. Part of the vet trip on Monday was health concerns on the elder mare. She's struggling to hold weight this year, been losing steadily since last fall. For her, right now, she's relatively skeletal; she's skinny even for a normal horse and not one that historically is Round.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Currently weighing curiosity about what's going on with this group of musicians we're apparently all supposed to be mad at vs the existential dread of actually finding out what horrible thing they've done that has people canceling opening acts and issuing apologies. It's too early for this.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It is too early to try to parse what the hell happened in the alliance group in my silly mobile game, but clearly Things Went Down while I was asleep.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Christ on a cracker. I knew equine ulcer treatment was expensive, but I was not expecting $1200 expensive.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you are attacking Doctors Without Borders or World Central Kitchen, you are wrong and can get fucked.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here is the setting you need to turn off if you don't want a human potentially reading through your ChatGPT conversations. I've seen some of the prompts; these ChatGPT users clearly have no idea a human is reading www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.
Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Well, it only took 2 doses of sleepy juice, one attempt to bodyslam the vet, and the tech and I both holding on so she didn't walk out of the stall to get my elder mare's teeth done...
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Overthiiiinking. *jazz hands*
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Sarah W @sandrayln.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cool, cool. I didn't need to sleep and instead totally needed to lie in bed running anxiety scenarios for 2. 5 hours. That was very helpful, brain.
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Gamera Spinning (Darren) @gameraspinning.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Loiza Chen portaly.cc/loiza.chen www.instagram.com/loizachen/
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A. Rivera @bloodravenlib.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Damn California heathens risking the wrath of the Duck Queen. Send tribute now, California. Atone for your neglect.
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