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Shirley Will

@shirley-will.bsky.social
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Angry at the government, but also into fiber arts, dancing, SF&F, documentaries, and K- pop & dramas. Don't forget to vote in local elections.

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Shirley Will @shirley-will.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is fucking amazing!
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 31/07/2026
The Museum of Brisbane has an exhibition called Precious. In short, "A bunch of local nerds had extremely specific collections, and their next of kin didn't know what to do with them, so here they are." I love it.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
i feel like a good metaphor for this would be a hot new chef having a meal laid out when their investors arrive (they actually ordered take out) so they get huge investment and on the restaurants opening night their kitchen staff immediately realizes the chef dosent know how to even turn on the oven
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/07/2026
Relatedly, a reminder that "AI" will just make shit up about you
"What corrective surgery did John Scalzi have that he's written about"

John Scalzi had cataract surgery to correct his vision.

On his popular blog, Whatever, he written about dealing with cataracts and how the corrective procedure effectively altered his eyesight. Because the synthetic replacement lenses in his eyes do not possess the natural ability to refocus, he jokingly points out that his most "extroverted glasses" are actually no glasses at all—leaving him with sharp distance vision but requiring him to take them off entirely to check his phone or read up close.

Would you like to know more about how his personal medical reflections influence his science fiction, or perhaps his other writing about health and the human body?
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The amount I won't be buying anything like this is all of it
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
dang @beetlemoses.bsky.social is just so incredible. every time i see one of these comics it makes me smile and sometimes laugh but honestly the thing i see the most is such a potent sense of beauty. there is just so much sincerity within the absurdity. i love it. resonates with so much power
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
the thing Star Trek got most correct is that, if advanced sentient life exists, we will fuck it immediately and some of us will be marrying into the species within a year
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Increasingly, Soylent Green serves as one of the best metaphors for AI -- it's taking all that we are, as people, chumming it up, and feeding the slurry back to us. We're told that we need it, it's nutritious, it'll save the world, even as it damns it and us.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
YOULL NEVER TAKE MY EM DASH
cover of THE SENTIENT LESBIAN EM DASH--MY FAVORITE PUNCTUATION MARK--GETS ME OFF featuring a large blue living em dash on the left and a beautiful ladybuck on the right they are standing in a yard in the evening lookin good
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Shirley Will @shirley-will.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
OMG, tinglers that you can actually hold in your hand!
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
if elected president, i will dissolve the Department of the Navy and hand their funding, and nuclear fleet over to the Internet Archive. They'll know what to do.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Look I don't normally respond to allegations like this with "seems low", but as we're talking Jared Leto this has to be the start of an avalanche.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm weirdly happy People decided to publish this article. this lady got very close to the peak and decided to turn back because she wasn't totally confident in her technical ability. That's praiseworthy wisdom, and a good example for others. share.google/d8Xi4aZ8aKkW...
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Hiker Forced to Make Impossible Decision Just 405 Feet from Grand Teton’s Summit. Now She’s Issuing a Warning to Fellow Climbers (Exclusive)
After stopping just 405 feet below Grand Teton’s summit, a 25-year-old climber whose emotional TikTok struck a chord with millions tells PEOPLE why she chose safety over the summit and why she’d make ...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Senator if God wants to punish your friends through the vaccine who are you to think you know better
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You may know I love etymology, and this video about the history of some typography symbols is really interesting! youtu.be/cSsyG2pE-GY?...
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The hidden logic behind #, @, & and §
YouTube video by RobWords
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the fact people are fighting about interpretations of a Homeric epic in 2026, makes me want to cry with happiness
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"This is just to say" -- the blockbuster movie about friendship, betrayal, hunger, and cold, delicious plums
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Shirley Will @shirley-will.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Shit
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I am forced by a time-traveling version of myself to remind you that if you preorder THE CALAMITIES from @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social by 8/2 you get cool demonic goodies from me — so you should do that or you’ll make both the demons and the time-traveling version of me so mad
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PRE-ORDER THE CALAMITIES FROM THE DOYLESTOWN AND LAHASKA BOOKSHOPS
All pre-orders will be signed by the author and include a unique personalization featuring your very own, unique-to-you, DEMONIC ANCESTOR, written just for you on a diabolical postcard that may or may...
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Cleveland Public Library's union voted overwhelmingly, 97%, to authorize a strike, which will happen in August if the administrators continue to stall contract negotiations. As an author whose work is carried by those libraries, I whole-heartedly endorse the library workers.
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Shirley Will @shirley-will.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is *precisely* correct, and I was thinking the exact same thing. What a lot of people (on the right, but only mostly) are doing is antisemitic by calling things antisemitic when they're not. And again, for the record, I'm Jewish by upbringing and it's absolutely a genocide.
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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 27/07/2026
If you ever wanted to hear my thoughts about Seek the Traitor's Son, this is the interview to read!
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
when a thing upsets the literal worst people in the world you should do more of it not less
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If your customers are writing in saying "hey your choices are funding trans genocide and I am not giving you any more money," maybe "every purchase comes with a 5% donation to GLAAD" is not the glory-restoring answer you seem to think it is.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
it's always really funny when you meet someone you know from from online for the first time irl and they're like "wait you're actually like this" lol you think if I had the ability to fake a whole persona this is the one I'd have gone with
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“This is terrible, comrade! The whole train is burning! What do we do?!” “Drag that shit to Moscow! I’m not going to suffer alone!”
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
While I was out, Sky & Telescope posted this little story of mine about the *second* meteorite to crash through a New Jersey roof in the last few years: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
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New Jersey Meteorite Offers Early Solar System Clues
When a meteorite tore through a New Jersey home, the homeowner quickly preserved the fragments. Now, they're giving scientists a look at Earth's early history.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
this hotel: take free candy this hotel: have this on the house this hotel: want a complimentary side this hotel: for toothpaste you must defeat our strongest employee in single combat
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
somewhere in D.C. a room full of consultants are staring at the words "genocide = unpopular???" like it's the Monolith from 2001
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
No
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
just watched a presentation by a guy who is using an algorithm to track humpback whale movements so that this can be used to lobby shipping companies to alter route timings to lessen danger to them and this is the kind of AI I'm into
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Paul from Combat veteran News. He’s not happy. It’s clear why- youtu.be/I-GpLc77EH0?...
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DoD: Caught DELETING Soldiers From Casualty Database!
YouTube video by Combat Veteran News
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Jenny Tayla @jennytayla.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Shirley Will @shirley-will.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You have to leave work because of religious reasons! Sorry, my religion requires that I take my full maternity leave... www.instagram.com/p/Da8rMf4yEH...
Screenshot saying "A Japanese religion called "Motohiro to People (MtoP)" exists only to give people a reason to say"NO" because of"religious reasons " to get out of things they don't want to do: (caption on next image)Caption of the previous image posted by user adhd_memetherapy, which reads: "Motohiro Hisano satirically created MtoP (Motohiro to People) in 2018 after randomly declaring himself a humble powerless deity online who can't perform miracles or grant anyone's wishes, the joke started as a way to help people say no to working overtime at their jobs, and then eventually evolved into a doctrine that isn't a doctrine which tells followers to leave work on time, use all of their paid leave, take parental leave, protect their physical and mental health, refuse unreasonable demands, and use"for religious reasons " whenever someone wouldn't accept NO as an answer. Basically, the whole thing started as a joke to help people in Japan deal with the toxic culture there and set personal boundaries."
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 21/07/2026
Nearly half of Israel’s government joins march vowing Gaza settlements Read the full report by Oren Ziv, in partnership with @mekomit.bsky.social: www.972mag.com/gaza-settlem...
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 25/07/2026
If you're at @perthcomicsfest.bsky.social and pick up a copy of this year's free Tale Town anthology, I did a mischief and hid original art from my contribution in random copies. If you find one, post a pic!
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is real and it’s gonna be spectacular. MST3K old-fart reunion in actual movie theaters! Right next to the freakin Minions!!
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/07/2026
What distinguishes humans from other species is that we have a chin. That's it; that's all. youtu.be/VkYITGZccMs
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We're The Only Ones With Chins - And We Don't Know Why
YouTube video by PBS Eons
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Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Some very sad news, you guys. Please don't let this ruin your day.
Andrew Tate post complaining about prison:

I am being held in SHU, the highest level of security which exists.

No commissary.
No visits
No contact with the outside world.

My neighbor is a cannibal who screams throughout the night.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I am still looking for the My Little Pony Kayou Friendship in the Cards collector set. I'll be at the My Little Pony panel tomorrow in room 5AB, and the Boom! Comics for You panel in the same room at 3:30pm. I have coin if you have wares!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/07/2026
(Me, learning that someone I thought was interesting and maybe even cool is anti-trans) Huh, well, that's that then (Drops the whole person into the bin)
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 23/07/2026
The solar panels that will help power #NASARoman completed prelaunch cleaning and inspections July 8 at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Telescope Milestone: Teams Check Out NASA Roman Solar Panels
The solar panels that will help power NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope completed prelaunch cleaning and inspections at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
my fav genre of Odyssey criticism are the ones that blame Nolan for the plot
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
if this turns out to be a dud it'll be the funniest thing, if not, yaay, good guys win, it's like there is no way to lose here
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Interesting development with the recent revelations of alumina processing & shipping to Russia from Aughinish’s Russian owned plant in County Limerick. Hope Ireland can find new customers for their products as opposed to shipping raw materials to Putin for his ballistic missiles
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This week's post is about how the Red Scare is a big enough tent for all of us. With an explainer about socialism vs anarchism vs communism, complete with a diagram. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/a-red-scar...
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A Red Scare Big Enough For All of Us
or: you don't even have to be a red to scare the fascists
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
if you think something being "natural" or "plant-based" makes it healthy and something being made in a lab and loaded into a syringe is inherently dangerous, you're an idiot. you should lose access to your kids if you harm them due to this belief www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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