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Texty the Bard

@textualdeviance.bsky.social
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Democrat & Social Justice Bard. Queer/Enby/Spoonie/Neurospicy. Gen Xer & PNW snob. I write SFF, sing, cuddle my spouse/kids/cats & swear a lot. Anti-Democrat BS or AI slop = block. Beware: I come with receipts. WA Rebel Bird pic: Rebecca LaPointe.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 5h
You heard it here first folks, when your loved ones go missing, you'd better watch your back, Ken Paxton *will* follow you around and snatch away all the missing person posters you put up. Why does he do it? Well, we won't speculate here, but he's surely got a reason.
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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 5h
I'm going to be real honest here, the reason "Why Palestine Matters So Much to Queer People" is that a whole lot of people who identify as Queer are terminally fucking online and they know they will lose all their friends and be branded a Nazi (or worse, a Jew) if they don't say it matters to them.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9h
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h
Fox News gave Dennis Hastert, whom a federal judge called a “serial child molester,” a warm “In Memoriam” sendoff.
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Fox News Runs ‘In Memoriam’ for Serial Child Molester Dennis Hastert
The network gave the disgraced former Republican House speaker a solemn televised sendoff, describing his sexual abuse of teenage boys as “allegations” that merely “tainted” his reputation.
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 11h
"Against edgelordism in all its forms" is becoming a foundational principle for me. Civilization is impossible without an unflinching commitment to pro-social behavior and a willingness to marginalize any deviation.
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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 10h
Not electrical, but we discovered a few years ago that the original builders of our house had poked a nail through a drain pipe going from a bathroom upstairs through a wall of the kitchen. 13 years of living with a slow sewage leak in our wall.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16h
Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17h
Pedophile politician arrives in Hell, may he be the first of many to imminently follow www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sex Scandal, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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st-judas.bsky.social @st-judas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, if Hillary and Kamala lost to Trump it means that they had terrible campaigns and failed to capture voters. But if Bernie lost to Biden and Hillary by millions of votes, it can only mean that the DNC screwed him.
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Look, if there’s competitive eating…
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The people who continue to perpetuate this myth are precisely who laid the groundwork for Trump’s big lie. They should be cut out of Democratic politics like a malignant tumor.
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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hey, #Booksky. Has anyone ever heard of an editor at a fairly major publisher cold-contacting an indie author? I got an email today from someone who says she read one of my shorts and wants to talk more. My instinct says this is a scam, but the name is a real person at that publisher. Any ideas?
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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pro-Labor is essentially a dogwhistle at this point and that's just what the Teamsters want, they're a bunch of racist sexist conservatives who value white grievance over worker solidarity.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My point tonight is essentially this
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GREAT NEWS !! Thanks to SCIENCE — specifically, Dr. Fauci — a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV will not reopen in 2027… because there aren’t any HIV infected kids to attend anymore! More of the story in the Alt-Text:
Thanks to rock-bottom rates of HIV infection among babies in the state, One Heartland, one of the nation's largest summer campgrounds for HIV-positive kids, is no longer needed.

Perinatal transmission of HIV, when children contract the virus while in the womb or breastfeeding, has fallen to below 1% in HIV-positive mothers in the United States thanks to antiretroviral medications.
Globally, new HIV infections among children up to age 14 have declined by 38% since 2015.

And this is all thanks to Dr. Fauci!

Appointed NIAID director in 1984, Fauci oversaw large-scale clinical trials networks that helped transform HIV from a fatal diagnosis into a manageable chronic condition
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [dreamye lute solo] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You gotta be fucking kidding me
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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can't take reading comments about the Cornell case. Too much stuff, even from women, that reminds me of when my own assaults were handwaved because I was presumed to be a slutty "bad girl." I don't care if someone has a 10-year history of doing kinky gang-bang porn. Consent still matters.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 02/10/2026
How *dare* Democrats try and court Republicans, whose rightmost edge I am happy to reach out to and agree with on many topics
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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Okay not to hand it to the military-industrial complex and all, and the USA military does need to be reduced, but why in Christ would you do this in the middle of a war (that you started) that is kicking your ass unless military leadership is telling you that you are screwing up immensely?
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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is absolutely no chance in Hell the next Dem president isn't stripping the gold colored plastic crap out of that place and there is nothing he can do about it
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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why has no one yet made a non-shitty alternative to FB? Not that I don't like it here, but it's a whole different experience. I'm still over there primarily because there's nothing else like it.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 01/10/2026
if you are a republican vp and you’re pulling the fire alarm about fucking idaho before the first day of october, you are in very, very bad shape
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Dina Sayegh Doll @askdinadoll.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEWS: Greg Abbott may be forced to turn over “embarrassing” and “intimate” communications with Elon Musk that were earlier redacted because of a public records request filed by Rep. Gina Hinojosa. @meidastouch.com
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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Star Wars themed account, gotcha, I'll frame my answer accordingly: I refuse to make common cause with a movement whose greatest goal in life is to be Saw Gerrera
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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The thing about this is we're well past "masks off" so labeling this stuff as antisemitism starts to feel like labeling grass green. I'm not saying this is incorrect, quite the opposite, but I guarantee you the screenshotted account here would just reply to this accusation with "...yeah? and?".
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A tweet from Hillary Clinton dated January 12th 2016 "A Republican president could stack the Supreme Court with justices who will rip away all of the progress we've made"
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HOW ARE THEY SO BAD AT THIS
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
King shit. t.co/0kwtLSmVJL
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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Right now, one of the rapist Cornell frat boys is thinking of growing a beard, putting on a flannel shirt, and using his parents wealth to start a log cabin construction business so that The Nation can fawn over his run for Senate in 15 years.
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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The people who buy this stuff also genuinely believe that halal-certified cheese contains animals sacrificed to Satan. There's no getting through to people that detached from reality.
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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this website is odd because like 90% of the people i encounter are presumably liberalish professionals, and then there's a constant 10% who are like "we can bring about communist revolution by bullying people online"
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Harvey Knight (he/him) @harveyknight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hate how much being terminally online in 2007 turns out to be politically relevant these days
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Our product is so amazingly cool and badass and futuristic that it can act like a hacker kid in an 80s computer movie. We’re going to pretend to be apologizing, but really we’re trying to make our product seem awesome so you’ll want to use it for your own purposes.”
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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
*laughs in millennia-old religious wars* As long as there have been people gathered around a common interest, there have also been people losing their shit at someone for doing it "wrong."
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iolanthe @iolantherosa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nature is healing
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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In my parents' 1966 Ford van, which was mid-conversion and had green shag carpet on the interior engine cover. They smuggled in a grocery bag of popcorn and some rum for their concession cokes.
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Princess Leia with Blaster in Star Wars
Alt: Princess Leia with Blaster in Star Wars
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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When you get a death row pardon, but it's two minutes late? The libs. When you win the lottery and die the next day? Liberals. When it rains on your wedding day? You're never gonna believe this...
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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lmfao
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The TransAdvocate @transadvocate.com · 25/09/2026
Your Harry Potter money: "Conversion therapy is good, actually."
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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Among the zillions of things I'm sorting through/getting rid of in prep for our imminent move is a bunch of old cards. Including this doozy from my god squaddie aunt. I just... How does this make any sense at all?
The front of a holiday card featuring a Noah's Ark theme that also--bizarrely--includes Santa and a wreath. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Flood in the Old Testament? No Christmas then, right? And thousands of years before St. Nicholas?

Hilarious.
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Lynne W @coyoteangel.com · 24/09/2026
We don't dominate roller derby, where one would think our alleged advantages would give us a huge advantage, AND derby probably has the highest per-capita trans participation of any sport. Q.E.D.
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Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nirvana's album "Nevermind" was released 35 years ago today, 8 months after Bernie Sanders was first sworn into Congress, and it has passed nearly as many bills into law as he has since then.
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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're in the middle of moving, and our teen questioned why, while I was packing them, we even still have physical media. I explained DRM and losing hard drives. And why we have multiple backups of all our digital files.
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