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@skis-n-reads.bsky.social
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J. Ives. Author, adventurer, & epi office drone. I post about books, fantasy, tabletop gaming, mtg, skiing, and sometimes environmental or health policy. Opinions are my own unless they’re bad.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
10/ What would change my concern level? Two things: 1️⃣ If we start seeing secondary cases, or 2️⃣ If we learn the pathogen she died from was altered. That said, I'm not expecting either of those outcomes. We'll learn more in the coming days, and as always, I'll keep you updated.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1/ Over the weekend, there was a reported case of plague in Russia. I’m seeing a lot of rumors about the event being spread without facts to back it up, so I wanted to jump on here to break down what we do and don’t know about this situation and whether or not you should be concerned.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An opinion I’ve held for years that I don’t think I’ll ever change my mind on is that Americans have got to be one of the most propagandized populations in the world 
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Go outside
View over Bike handlebars on an orange bike looking over reddish orange dust on a shadowcovered sagebrush steppe under a blue sky with light cloud cover and a sunny day.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s officially time to freak out.
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m late to the party, but this last episode of the new season of Reacher is trash. The choreography of the fight scenes is boring and unrealistic, and most importantly, not Reacher.
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are living through the greatest technological revolution twice over, in the form of renewable energy and mRNA vaccines vs. cancer & infectious pathogens
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rolling stone’s take (not OP) is completely braindead or coast-brained at best. In the heartland and west, you have every out of touch billionaire trying to blend in by cosplaying as everyday people with wrangler jeans, flannel, and listening to country music.
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Say what you will about screens and phones, but pulling an all nighter with a sick baby that won’t sleep in its crib is so much easier when you have access to every book and audiobook in the library within an app.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To be fair, this is exactly what people said about Uber and Lyft. And there have been studies about how much more people drive when they don't have to worry about parking on one or both ends of their trip. There's little reason to think driverless cars won't lead to an explosion in VMT in cities.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just wanted to write about physics! But noooo, a fucking sex cult had to take over Silicon Valley and the entire public discourse about technology and the future while aiding the rise of fascism, and I felt duty-bound to write about that instead LOOK WHAT THEY MADE ME DO
hachettebookgroup.com
More Everything Forever
This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...
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Kurohitsuki Member of Decked Out @kurohitsuki.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WHERE IS THE UR-SPHINX JACE????
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More Everything Forever by Adam Becker is a really good read if you are interested in this thread.
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Meghan Hoyer @meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Our data team is seeking an enterprising senior or grad student to join us next summer, working on data analysis and/or reporting tools. You should have solid coding skills, smart ideas and enthusiasm for learning alongside our collaborative, fun team: washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/washin...
washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
Newsroom Summer Internship Program 2027: Data Journalist
Application Instructions Please list all professional experience and explain any gaps in employment history. All of your application materials, which may include PDF files of work samples and/or links...
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Whenever you feel tempted to pick a fight with your (broadly speaking) fellow travelers on here, hop over to Twitter and read what the right's "thinkers" are saying. If you still want to have the fight after that, go for it, but just remember what you're actually fighting against.
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White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Everyone dreams of revolution like an HBO miniseries when the reality is incredible amounts of death at the margins. And yes, marginalized folks already experience violence at higher rates, but I don't see how THEM EXPERIENCING MORE violence is good or helpful.
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Luis Villa @lu.is · 09/09/2026
Lots of devil in the details of course but this seems like a very reasonable way to drive demand for clean power, putting the cost on entities that can certainly bear it.
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Sam the Moose @neosect.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
To the Bene Supremo.
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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Raise a glass to Sheldon today and give your friends a big hug.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Currently, Locke Lamora. Ever? Harry Dresden or Elvis Cole
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what shutting down scientific debate actually looks like
bloomberg.com
A Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at Stake
The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
I know we're all supposed to be herding onto the anti-data center bandwagon, but man, I worry a *lot* that it's going to overspill its borders & become a more generalized anti-wind & solar, anti-battery, anti-grid-infrastructure, anti-transmission, anti-anything mega-glonzo that leaves us worse off.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 04/09/2026
i dont think you need to believe that ai is intelligent or that agi is coming or whatever to be worried about what the hugging face hack could mean for things that rely on computers, like banking and energy and water utilities and like, life in general
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the number of people i've blocked for actually getting in my face is likely dwarfed by the number of people i've blocked for visibly lacking home training in someone else's mentions in a way i never want to interact with
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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FYI, USDA will be posting a wildlife biologist position in disease ecology tomorrow at NWRC. Career ladder position (GS-12, basically a PI) Job Announcement Number: DH-13053349-26-WSH
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Any of my health science peeps up for this or have a v reliable grad student? Billie is the best and could use a boost!
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/08/2026
"The Nerd Reich" is the #2 on the San Francisco Chronicle's list of Bay Area bestsellers for non-fiction. It's amusing to see my book climb the charts in publications that otherwise refuse to mention it! 👀 But that's okay, we are steamrolling the gatekeepers.
SF Chronicle book charts showing Nerd Reich at #1 on bestsellers
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026
I think I can say categorically: there is not a single prominent right-wing media figure, including many that regularly campaign with & for Republican candidates, who has not said worse things than the worst thing Hasan Piker has ever said on at least a weekly basis. Why does no one care?
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The world’s population of Asiatic lions has grown from 523 in 2015 to 891 in 2025, a 70% jump. More than 55,000 open wells have been fenced off to stop lions falling in. Wild prey now makes up 74% of their diet, up from just 26% in 1974. buff.ly/uS6umcW #ShareGoodNewsToo
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https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/asiatic-lion-population-rises-70-percent-decade-891-world-lion-day-126081000837_1.html
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
gavi.org
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/08/2026
it is time that we take the world back from the miserable assholes
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Alan / Former Instants @formerinstants.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If Sun Tzu wrote Art of War today, he'd be like, "it's 90% spreadsheets"
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We have a major Democratic law firm, two major party committees, and two media outlets dead to rights suppressing research into how digital fundraising firms scam seniors and barely a peep from the national press corps or elected officials. A goddamn shame.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
See NYT asked me for an op-ed on the Colorado River water issue. So that's what I told them. And the editors panicked & cancelled the piece. In case we're wondering why "nobody can figure out how to solve this difficult issue." We absolutely can, a lot of our professional talkers are just cowards.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 18/08/2026
@doctorow.pluralistic.net speaking truth again: pluralistic.net/2026/08/18/e... "The AI copyright fight isn't being fought to protect your wages – it's being fought to see whether your lost wages end up in the pockets of a tech boss or a media boss." IOW, stronger IP laws won't protect artists.
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: IP can’t save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This post causes me physical pain, every person in the west needs to be talking about ag water use to every person they know.
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I need a reacher edit with Dean Martin’s “I take a lot of pride in what I am” over it
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026
It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Screenshot of email: Your YouTube Account will be disabled in 7 days
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Slapping the mosquito that bit you and seeing red: You have been avenged, blood cells that were taken from me
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you got a bat stuck in your hair on August 9th at Olympic National Park, please go to the hospital immediately and then contact the Mason County Health Department, they're worried about you.
thenewstribune.com
Search is on for woman who got rabid bat caught in her hair at WA park
Olympic National Park says an unknown woman got a rabid bat caught in her hair on Sunday. Other visitors could be infected.
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Fantasy shark detective writer @skis-n-reads.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Suneater should have ended with the battle of Vorgossos, Dorayaica is just such a boring villain and his voice in the audiobook is just unlistenable. The Cielcin stopped being interesting 4 books ago
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Been listening to a lot of left-leaning US podcasts this week & it's amazing how little they care abt the impact this is having on the world. Lots of discussion about gas prices in the US & how it'll affect the midterms but zero reflection on the global economy or how poor countries will be crushed.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The purpose of American zoning is to put the most people—low- and middle-class families—in the worst locations so that the best locations, the quiet, elevated side streets, can be reserved for a small number of wealthier people. Everything else is just kind of window dressing.
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