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they/them. nonprofiteer, rectangle manipulator, plant grower, maker and fixer of stuff.

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 21h
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me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
experiencing a new platform’s theming setup which is so bad it has literally given me a migraine
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Fiona Applebees 🍎🐝 @fionaapplebs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m sorry could you repeat that? Phil Collins was doing his drum solo
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
sorted through my dead brother's art supplies and found the exact moment when he realized that when a print has words, you have to mirror them before you carve it
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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Georgia Recorder @georgiarecorder.com · 23/09/2026
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is calling for federal guardrails around the use of automatic license plate readers, citing multiple cases of law enforcement misusing the cameras to stalk and harass U.S. citizens. New from @mayahoman.bsky.social.
georgiarecorder.com
Warnock urges greater federal oversight of ALPRs • Georgia Recorder
Warnock, a Democrat, is teaming up with U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, an Alabama Republican, to urge the Department of Justice to issue guidance.
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Emilia Ruzicka @emiliaruzicka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Journalists! @accessiblejournalism.org is running a survey to understand the state of accessibility in news. The survey is meant to identify both how much journalists know and what journalists don’t know so we can create programming. Fill it out below! accessiblejournalism.surveymars.com/q/y2hGhFumV
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OAJ 2026 Disability and Accessibility Survey | Organization for Accessible Journalism
I have posted a survey titled 'OAJ 2026 Disability and Accessibility Survey' on Organization for Accessible Journalism. Please help me by filling it out. Thank you very much!
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the founder of Fiber Parts (the cute lil yarn shop previous to Pink Tiger, in Avondale Estates) is kicking up a nonprofit that could use a boost: givebutter.com/qfTQfA?gba_d...
givebutter.com
Peach State Fibershed: Donate Today
By Peach State Fiber
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
tried using @mapquest.com for turn-by-turn nav instead of GoogleMaps. works reasonably well! it had some trouble pinpointing where exactly I was (which all GPS do to some degree), but OTOH I got to be a tiny wizard on the map instead of a car
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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Imagine you sign up for a rideshare gig app after you get laid off. Imagine it starts offering gigs that break the law in exchange for thousands of dollars for a night of work. What happens when it starts blackmailing you into killing your best friend? Check out Happy Traveler now!
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Happy Traveler
YouTube video by Kevin Fox
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
does anyone else think Tilly Norwood is going to end up "starring" in some godawful Christian movie?
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You startle awake. It is 1969, you are a grant writer for ARPANET, and you have come to the inescapable conclusion that Al Gore must die before his Internet can infect the human mind.
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
made four different freezer meals and then proceeded to eat a bowl of yogurt for dinner, why am i like this
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
RIP Pallookaville, purveyor of fancy corndogs and boozy milkshakes
Pallookaville window signage in hand-painted circus lettering
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm old enough to remember when the Christian right fear-mongered that marriage equality would lead to bestiality and now it qualifies you to be an FBI agent.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose
autonomy.substack.com
This Is Not A Love Song
Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights
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Dakota // Syncaroonie @syncaroonie.com · 09/09/2026
Sometimes I think UX designers must just be really hungry based on how they name stuff. I mean, Snackbar?? Bread crumbs??? BURGER Menu????? Like buddy go have lunch jeez
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Do we block certain technologies because we are ruled by a cabal of primitivists stalking the halls of power, or because everything we develop is not an unalloyed good which can and should be spread far and wide?" www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...
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The Future Is Not Tech-Forward
On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.
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strixus @strixus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Absolutely astouding statistic about the #Dragoncon blood drive - it is the third largest blood drive in the WORLD. We had over 4k individual donors this year. The dent that makes in the US blood supply is AMAZING. Thank you all!!!
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
achievement: packed up the DragonCon room by checkout time, left with fewer bags than we arrived with and nothing is visible in the packed car
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
update: there is a plane circling around nearby our hotel towing a banner that says “C U IN HELL,” which I think means either someone downtown just got VERY DIVORCED, or the Dragoncon street preachers are trying something new this year
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Defector @defector.com · 02/09/2026
It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...
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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but…
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
on the off chance anyone else from AE is On Here, a petition to cancel Avondale Estates' contract with Flock: c.org/GGV4txkHRk
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Sign the Petition
Cancel the Flock Contract in Avondale Estates, GA
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 28/08/2026
We’re always on the lookout for researchers, writers, and editors to pitch in and help us make and maintain these pages. Here’s how to join us: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/
unbreaking.org
How to help — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Move Fast and Don’t Ask Permission: Techno-Optimism in R.U.R. and Arcane by Claire Jia-Wen Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Fiction 
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25 August 2026

"Starvation, isolation, poverty, totalitarianism, inequality—political systems have iterated on solutions to these for centuries without coming to a consensus. It’s a relieving idea, then, that technology can. We had a problem of poverty, so we invented robots; we had a problem of scarcity, so we invented Hextech."

Move Fast and Don’t Ask Permission: Techno-Optimism in R.U.R. and Arcane
by Claire Jia-Wen
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
does anyone else have a special disinterest? a thing that you are just completely incapable of caring about or retaining information on no matter what?
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 26/08/2026
The South’s extraordinary demographic shifts include sharply falling numbers of people moving to the region and a white population that is beginning to shrink in absolute terms. bit.ly/4cHsYzQ
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The South at a Demographic Tipping Point
Census data shows profound demographic changes taking place across the South.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
everything Meg Elison writes is so good
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Small Wonder - The Rumpus
“What’s got you obsessed with this? Late night redditing?” “No,” Kathy said. “I think I dreamt about it. About being her. The girl robot. You know how dreams are; it’s all a jumble and you forget as s...
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread
A Mid Century Modern ad for tableware, quirky hanging laps, weird wood paneled kitchen bar, oh yeah it's MCM as hell up in here (kinda love it)
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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 19/08/2026
> THE MACHINE IS DISGUSTING AND MUST BE DESTROYED www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08...
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Do Not Talk To Me About "AI"
I had some cards printed up. These are unlikely to change any minds, but they will defintely shorten some incredibly tedious conversations at the bar. Here's a PDF if you'd like some of your own.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 17/08/2026
more places should have artists-in-residence. like there should be a residency where you live on a particular train for a month. there should be an oil rig residency, an arctic research station residency. maybe a residency at a zoo
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Shit Nonprofits Say @nonprofitssay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
it's that time of the year again when we have to apologize to our board for paying our employees a living wage.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
successfully got ten minutes of weeding in before having to bail out of the heat!
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Animorphs (1/3)
Page 1, 3 panels. Panel 1: group of friends in a public party setting. A guy asks one of the girls, “you’ve really never heard of Animorphs?” The girl laughs, “never!” Panel 2: later, the girl is now alone and unlocking the door to her apartment. Panel 3: as she enters the apartment, she morphs into a wildebeest. She thinks to herself, “no one can know.”
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
95-99% of smart phone users will have a better user experience with their phones if they change the default settings to things they prefer. Most default settings on phones range from gently coercive to downright predatory.
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sakura's on Broughton St. in Savannah (which has long since closed or moved, it's hard to tell which) made a spring onion bread appetizer that I have been trying to reproduce for literal decades since
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every interview with an actor from the new Harry Potter series youtube.com/shorts/QVyIw...
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every interview with an actor in the new Harry Potter series
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
For all human history, it was far more difficult to write a document than to read it. Until now. But generating a document doesn't make the work of *producing meaning* disappear. It's just been outsourced from the producers of the document to its consumers.
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Cognitive Pollution: Real knowledge only forms through doing the work
many humans appear to be on auto mode, not on manual mode
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 25/07/2026
a Wojak character holding its face in despair, surrounded by graphic examples. 

Top text: "CAN'T BELIEVE IM ALREADY NOSTALGIC FOR CORPORATE MEMPHIS AESTHETIC" over a collage of flat vector illustrations. 

Bottom text: "AFTER ONLY A FEW MONTHS OF SMALL BUSINESS AI SLOP POSTER AESTHETIC" over a collage of local service flyers featuring AI-generated humans, animals, and food items.
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
the fact that you can recommend real titles in Tiny Bookshop is a delight and I cannot wait until I get to recommend Gideon the Ninth to someone
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vc @vcbrannen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
today's win was taking the nephew to H-Mart and letting him loose in the snack aisles
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strixus @strixus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hey fellow #GA and #ATL folks - Invasive Yellow Legged hornets are a threat to local pollinator species. Please help by reporting any sightings. fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/news/help-co...
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UGA scientists need your help to stop an invasive hornet | CAES Field Report
Learn how University of Georgia scientists are helping stop invasive yellow-legged hornets and how reporting suspicious sightings can protect Georgia's bees.
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Photo of Abdul with “it’s time to vote blue no matter who” in black blue and red on white in front of him
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Shit Nonprofits Say @nonprofitssay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We are making space. Also centering. And amplifying. But also listening. While at the same time elevating.
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Who Owns Atlanta? @who-owns-atlanta.org · 04/08/2026
An unofficial Atlanta Council Tracker is now available: council.who-owns-atlanta.org Every meeting, paper, and roll-call vote since 2018 have been compiled and are being updated on a daily basis. When possible, papers have been geocoded and mapped.
A table of 2026-2029 Atlanta City Council displaying all Members, their	Seat, number of Roll calls, number of votes Cast, number of Aye votes, number of Nay votes, Missed percent of votes, motions Moved, motions Seconded. full numbers at https://council.who-owns-atlanta.org/members
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