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Stacia Seamonster 🦑

@stacia.bsky.social
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I play with other people's words. Editor, writer, proofreader, reviewer, lover of books. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💚 🖤 ⚽️ she/her

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 15h
This is infuriating. Can't stop thinking about it. For 35 yrs I've talked to experts, asked them for their time & expertise. IT IS WRONG to treat sources as Nicole was treated. Just shitty, one human to another, but also unethical and deceptive.
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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 16h
This is horrendous (and, as noted, an ongoing pattern to which no one involved in the organization seems to care in the slightest).
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h
Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h
Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 23h
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 23h
I'd be curious to know how much the World Cup affected these numbers.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This football game is damn near unwatchable. If the broadcast quality is this bad for the Cleveland Browns, I’m not optimistic about the rest of the season.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026
I have advocated in the past for announcers addressing the off-field gendered violence committed by athletes during games. But I am coming around to the belief that this is a bad idea. These men cannot handle the assignment and aren’t qualified. They could learn, yes, but they won’t.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026
The Cornell story is horrific, but I’d like to shine a light on what happened at LSU with a current football player on the team:
In July, the school found Shanklin responsible for "forcible rape" and issued a one-year suspension, which is a full ban from campus and activities, according to documents reviewed by ESPN. After Shanklin appealed, an administrative law judge who handles appeals per LSU policy upheld the finding that the athlete was responsible for "forcible rape," but reduced the punishment to four semesters of probation with no restrictions, which allows Shanklin to remain enrolled and on campus and to participate in activities as long as he stays out of trouble.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seems like a massive ADA violation that will lead to multiple lawsuits. So glad we have fiscally conservative Republicans in charge to make sure we don’t throw away money on avoidable lawsuits.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From the same party that brought you Dan Quayle, who insisted there was an E at the end of “potato”
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean, Trump is a chatbot creator's dream. He never tires of being praised, he can't even imagine that it could be insincere, and if you flatter him, he'll believe anything you tell him. He is not a complicated man, and he's particularly susceptible to this technology.
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Atomique @atomiquefetish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How William Gibson’s Neuromancer helped shape the visual language of cyberpunk, imagining a future of networks, artificial intelligence, corporate power and digital identities long before they became part of everyday life. www.otaviosantiago.com/post/william... #WilliamGibson #OtavioSantiago
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William Gibson, Neuromancer and the Visual Language of Cyberpunk
Long before the internet became a place we carried in our pockets, before social media transformed identity into an interface and before artificial intelligence entered everyday conversation, William ...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.
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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just to be clear, if you use the phrase “the Trumpiest of border states,” you’re talking about Idaho. I say this as a Texan.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So mysteries should also be AI generated, right, JCO? Because they also follow a formula? All genre fiction, now that you mention it. Anything mass produced, really. If it follows a pattern, why involve humans? Funny how formulas are ONLY a bad thing in romance. Asshole.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reminder that Ann Richards was much more popular outside Texas than she was *in* Texas. She won that governor's election by the skin of her teeth, and only because her opponent, Clayton Williams, was unelectable. Talarico is in a similar situation. Remember that people are voting AGAINST Paxton.
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C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not unrelated to the gender violence on topic this week, I suspect few women will be surprised that rage is Schmitt’s reaction here. I once had a similar exchange with my boss and in response he almost hit me with a car.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
The site's question-and-answer function confirms that President Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files and that Democrat Joe Biden beat him in the 2020 election. It says federal officials did not find widespread fraud in that election, as Trump says constantly. to.pbs.org/4yZmkO8
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WATCH: Trump launches AI-powered government website America.gov
The president said the site is “glamorizing” the federal bureaucracy — but it doesn’t agree with him on many key issues.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026
This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Best part is when Schmitt gets angry that she points out he has the team wrong, as though he's the one who was wronged bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I once got an unexpected promotion as a network administrator “because you can write.” Like it or not, a lot of information is communicated in writing, and being able to efficiently explain something is an asset. It’s a skill worth developing.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once someone asks “what’s Tin Tin doing at a football game” you can’t unsee it
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The Adventures of Tintin: Captain Haddock's Scheme
Alt: The Adventures of Tintin: Captain Haddock's Scheme
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminder that only a week before the Cornell 7 story, the quarterback of the #1 NCAA football team referred to a video of a woman being assaulted by a man, and rather than call him on it, the room full of male reporters all joined in his laughter
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I swore I'd never have an Echo in my home, then R suffered a brain injury and developed Lance-Adams syndrome. The tremors make standing/sitting and using her hands difficult, and cognitive impairment means she can't distinguish between remotes. Our smart home features have been a game-changer.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
R is pretending to be Mei-Mei the red panda, singing along to "9 to 5" at the top of her lungs, and for just a moment everything in the world is good
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Imagine being a Republican in Texas claiming "we do not control" literally anything
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
motion-activated camera catches her family members in the dead of night, curled up in a corner shoving saltines into a jar of peanut butter
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also that whole story was designed for exactly this kind of media and social media narrative; framing masking in particular as some kind of extreme lifestyle choice. So congratulations to everyone who went along.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Legendary calypsonian Mighty Sparrow has died at 91
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Legendary calypsonian Mighty Sparrow has died
Legendary calypsonian Slinger Francisco, better known as the Mighty Sparrow, has died at the age of 91.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am from Austin. I live steps from a lot of the OG Austin music venues. I covered SXSW for a local paper in 1995. I have not heard Choosin Texas. In fact I read the lyrics today and I STILL have not listened to the song.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you’re female, consider choosing a gender-neutral handle. I was an editor for years but the misogyny was overwhelming and I finally deleted my editor account.
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 27/09/2026
Chuck Varga, the GWAR co-founder known as Sexecutioner, has passed away stereogum.com/2512759/chuc...
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When I was about 7, my brother (who was 5) & I flew from Phoenix (Mom) to El Paso (Dad). The pilot messed up, I'm not quite sure how*, and had to do a sudden and very sharp U-turn. A can of 7-Up fell out of the food cart, sprang a leak, and rolled the entire length of the plane, spraying everyone.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When a football player knocks someone put of a game with an illegal hit, he shouldn’t be able to play until the injured player is able to play. That’ll stop players from celebrating on the sidelines after dirty hits.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
maybe it's just me but I thought Doctor Who belonged on that NYT list yes technically it premiered in the 1960s, but surely a 16-year gap allows the 2005 incarnation to be treated as a 21st-century production?
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ken Paxton doubling down on "Talarico wants to mutilate your kids' genitals" while the latest anti-Paxton ad features a former member of the Texas lege saying "Hell yes I impeached him & I'd do it again, WTF are you even thinking, sending him to the US Senate?" Someone in the Talarico camp gets it.
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Jake Rudh @jakerudh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starting at 8pm central tonight via twitch.tv/djjakerudh, I’m hosting 5+ hours of Dream pop and Shoegaze music videos spotlighting Cocteau Twins. Simply click the link while the show is live and enjoy.
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you love to see it
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
paws up if you saw Old Yeller in a classroom no warning at all, no parents nearby, just all your sobbing classmates Gen X was forged & tempered at a very young age
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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Plus, having the fucking President there for a game he really doesn't give a shit about just so his stupid face can be on TV means everything is worse. A wireless heatmap of that stadium probably looks like a giant blood clot
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Stacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fwiw, I’d take a drink to a job interview because I’ve been in too many situations where the only offering was coffee, which I don’t drink. Not just work situations—waiting rooms, open houses, book clubs or gaming meetups. A lot of people assume that everyone’s happy with coffee, and that’s wrong.
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