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@thereisnodog.bsky.social
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Childless, rootless cosmopolitan, she/her, aestivator 💙💛 Слава Українi 🇺🇦

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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 7h
Oh I have such a thing for Melvyn Douglas
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 12h
expectation: lightly carve the surface of a pumpkin and the chickens will do the rest of the work by pecking out the shapes you've carved into it result:
a barred rock hen examining a face carved into a pumpkina barred rock hen staring me down as i photograph her work
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 12h
This reminds me of a Nancy Mitford novel
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h
Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026
The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City. Our administration will make sure workers and owners are protected and the horses are safe.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h
How come this isn’t just fair game as “training data.”
theguardian.com
OpenAI accuses employee who left for Apple of leaking plans for unreleased device
Hours before Apple and the ChatGPT maker were due to face off in court, a new allegation delayed the showdown
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h
I don’t think Flock should exist. But for people hoping for “guardrails,” the idea that the company would ever meaningfully restrict users is absurd on its face.
techcrunch.com
Flock CEO: We haven't 'fired' any police departments as customers | TechCrunch
Flock CEO Garrett Langley said that the surveillance company has not canceled contracts of any police department or law enforcement agency, despite reports of abuse.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21h
Incredible sentence www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...
Ms. Collins, who supports abortion rights, has stood by her vote for Mr. Kavanaugh as it has become a central issue in the election.
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Rachel throwing the horn salute with the words "MORE METAL THAN METALLICA."
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump would definitely fall for one of those movie bits where the heroes do a closed circuit fake TV news segment to fool the bad guy.
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Ea-nāṣir @jedgarnaut.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I do worry that the growing debt and increasing interest rates will handcuff future policy makers from implementing changes that actually help people (handcuffs being metaphorical or rhetorical, but never real.)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Lmao - not the graft but how brazen the graft was and where is my taste www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14/10/2026
Simba Kundizeza's statement on his Caine Prize-winning story "The Blue Fighter" is also worth reading—keep in mind, the evidence-free article slandering him was published in The Atlantic to a mass readership and his defense is a tweet to his eight hundred followers
Simba Kundizeza
@S_S_Kundizeza
Statement on The Atlantic article concerning “The Blue Fighter”

I would like to say at the outset that this statement is not in any way a proffer of an explanation or a defense against the allegations levelled against me in the article published by The Atlantic, because I don’t believe the article warrants either. I am however writing because of the level of public interest generated in its aftermath, and out of respect for the people who have supported and championed my writing, as well as my fellow shortlisted writers for the Caine Prize. I want to set the record straight.

For the avoidance of doubt, I wrote "The Blue Fighter." I did not use generative AI to write it. It is entirely my own work.

This story did not appear out of nowhere; it has a concrete, documented history. Its genesis was during my LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency in Ghana. While  there‚ I read a poem by vangile gantsho titled “my father's hands․” I was inspired by this poem to write a story about my family's experiences in Zimbabwe‚ including my father leaving his accounting profession and the hardships my family faced as a result․ Other aspects of the story‚ including characters and the setting‚ are drawn from events in my own life․There is also a clear chronology to the story's development. I sent the completed first draft of the story to vangile for feedback on May 15‚ 2025․ I then submitted the story to The Shallow Tales Review on May 27‚ 2025․ Fiction editor Nzube Nlebedim accepted the story on June 10‚ 2025‚ and it went through the standard editorial process. vangile then provided her feedback to me on June 25‚ 2025․ On the same day Nzube also provided editorial feedback to me․ In an email dated June 27‚ 2025‚ I sent the final draft and requested that the editor preserve the formatting of an epigraph in the story as originally submitted by vangile as a courtesy to her․ The story was published on June 30‚ 2025․

The Atlantic article seems to question the story's authorship by comparing its style to my other writing. As writers we develop recurring interests, but we don’t produce work from a single fixed template. My debut novel, “Freelance”, and the story titled "The Whistleblower" published in Transition Magazine in 2021 which is referenced by Ms. Vara, are thrillers dealing with political intrigue. "The Blue Fighter," however, is a deeply personal story about economic collapse and familial relationships. The voice shifts because the subject matter demands it. To suggest that a writer cannot write in different styles or genres, or improve his writing substantially after five or more years fundamentally misunderstands the craft of writing.The motive for my supposedly using AI to generate the story is equally difficult to understand. I was under no obligation to write “The Blue Fighter”. I was not commissioned to produce it, nor was I paid a fee for its publication. The decision to submit the piece for consideration for the Caine Prize was made by the editor of The Shallow Tales Review months after its publication. I therefore didn’t write the story with any guarantee that it would be submitted, let alone win anything. The idea that I would have somehow written the story with the express intention of entering and winning the Caine Prize, despite the inherently competitive and uncertain nature of the prize, conjures up a motive that simply did not exist.

"The Blue Fighter" is my work, and I stand by it completely. I'm grateful to vangile for her inspiration, to The Shallow Tales Review for giving the story a home, and to the Caine Prize judges for recognizing the work on its merits. I’m also heartened by the numerous messages of solidarity from fellow writers and readers, and to Adrienne Ingrum and Regina Brooks at Serendipity Literary Agency for their support throughout.
I look forward to continuing to work with the Caine Prize team, and to celebrating this recognition with the people who helped bring this story into the world.

Most importantly, I will continue to write.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 13/10/2026
“RemoveMacAI ‘turns off Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, the ChatGPT extension, and all the summaries, then it deletes the models and stops macOS from downloading them again. Dictation still works because it’s a separate setting’.”
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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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
My answer changed after menopause - now I do not care, but I very much used to
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
An ex used to describe himself as “flustrated” and 🎯
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
An ex and I call ice cream cones “safeways” because that’s where we bought them. My family also say “food shopping store” for grocery because some child said it that way. But my favorite is “I can’t know” for … whatever you don’t or cannot know
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
lol
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Political polarization breeds inferior criminals, and I’m against it.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No. No no no. “raises serious questions” implies there’s any doubt. “Yet more proof” or “clear evidence of”. You’re not trying to convince people through a later argument, you are stating a fact. How are they so bad at this?
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
ty!
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Not accepting it means not normalizing it, refusing everywhere I can refuse, pushing for holding the companies producing this accountable with existing & new regulation, working to protect the environment & important social infrastruture. >>
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions.
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.
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I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.

And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not the obituary I wanted to read today. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
variety.com
RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ Star, Dies at 34
RJ Mitte, who starred in 'Breaking Bad' as Walter White Jr., has died. He was 34.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Brooks has also called for national mass resistance movement to Trump, presumably to be undertaken by other people, and politely. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
theatlantic.com
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pete Hegseth has killed far, far more humans than the murderous Major Nidal Hasan. And there's no Jesus-based justification for America killing prisoners & filming it. Congrats, MAGA - Trump made America more like ISIS. Pls read, subscribe & share: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/americas-f...
johnfugelsang.substack.com
America’s First Taxpayer-Funded Snuff Film
Brought to you by - who else? - the Christian nationalists.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
if it were just up to me i would also ban AI *answering* phone calls and automated call centers generally but I at least understand the use case for them. I don't really understand how the tiny potential benefits of letting AI make phone calls outweighs the *huge* downsides of allowing it
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is an infuriating narrative. Appalling in every sense but one: This young woman at the center was and is relentlessly heroic.
motherjones.com
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pervert glasses: now even more explicitly designed for abuse!
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
sickening #abolishICE
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
wut
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
No reasonable law enforcement agency would ever fire a hail of bullets into a car that presents no safety threat … with a five-year-old in the backseat. We need an independent investigation. We need Oscar to be released from custody immediately. And we need ICE to get the hell out of our city.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Don't you drive a little tightly and perhaps poorly when there's just a normal cop standing there as you go by? Tense up. Imagine a bunch of them with guns pointed at you. You would of course not be calm and collected.
A weaponized vehicle
Every single day is like the parable of the man on the deserted island refusing to be saved by boat or by helicopter because he's waiting for God's help to arrive but instead it's about any Democrat with a backbone and an iota of charisma refusing to take the opportunity to become the next president by simply describing reality as it is. What a small ask that is right? 


I'm not even talking about The Truth – although that would be nice – but merely the truth. And how grateful we would be for the pittance. To have someone in a position of power accurately observe and then accurately explain what has happened and why it is wrong. What has long been wrong. Hell I'd settle for a news outlet capable of and willing to do that. 


One of those corrupted things is the longstanding double standard applied to cops of any kind in this country. How fucking convenient it is that they get to fear for their lives anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything they might do and yet when we actually fear for our own lives specifically because of them and do anything a scared person would reasonably do it's used as a justification for our killing. 


And now schools are closed throughout Minneapolis for the rest of the week. To protect the children from the government.


There is a category of people in this country that are supposed to be composed in high stress situations. They train for them in fact and get paid well and are given very broad leeway on how they react. Still they shit their pants constantly and cry about how scared they are all the time. And we're supposed to venerate them as our sainted warrior class. 


Don't you drive a little tightly and perhaps poorly when there's just a normal cop standing there as you go by? Tense up. 


Imagine a bunch of them with guns pointed at you. You would of course not be calm and collected. 


Or maybe you would. Perhaps you would smile and tell them you are not even mad at what they’ve done. What they’re …
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lifting the income cap is the ONLY reasonable solution and it should have been done long ago.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The country that very famously did not enforce a single goddamn law against its Nazi ruler, now deals with that guy in power again being in the news every day ranting incoherently between naps.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If he wanted to give the Medal of Freedom to a legendary Texas fireballer with conservative politics, Nolan Ryan is right there, but nah he chose the famous steroid cheater who dated a high school freshman instead. It's interesting! bsky.app/profile/tims...
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Ethan Embry @ethanembry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The wealthiest man in Georgia running to be our governor is the starkest example of how busted our government system has become. Political service should not be attractive to the billionaire class.
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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Curtis Flowers, the most aggressively prosecuted person in U.S. history, has tragically died at 56: mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
mississippitoday.org
Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A couple things I miss are shame and consequences
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He was in some stinkers but I do not care 🥰
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I should have expected this from Chad Radwell, but it’s a bummer
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We owe it to the earth to get rid of this bum
Golden statue of bloated US president on the back of smaller bronze person, titles The Orange Plague
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quite obviously the real problem here is that *we have to ask the question* of what the President of the United States meant, exactly, when he said that Iran might nuke a major U.S. city.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...
abcnews.com
Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you love plucky small-town journalists going up against a corrupt police department, go RIGHT NOW to Peacock and watch Kill Bury Print. RIGHT NOW.
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
102. And good value for those 102. A tangible connection, probably one of the very last, to a bygone era. Geez, she was great in "North by Northwest." #RIP
hollywoodreporter.com
Eva Marie Saint, Graceful Star of the Silver Screen, Dies at 102
She won an Oscar for her first film, 'On the Waterfront,' and sparkled opposite Cary Grant in 'North by Northwest.'
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thereisnodog @thereisnodog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love reddit
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