Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY. 6223061694
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026100 copies of I'M HERE TO HELP up for grabs! Head over to GR for a chance to win one. But only if you're in the mood for vengeance. Melody is a mom, a wife, a therapist, but first she's a woman. And this woman has a plan to make some bad men pay. Help is here 10/27! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... 297
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seconding this with another “Holy shit.” Well said. 1188
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneNihilistic Wrong Hordak 🏳️⚧️ @shadow27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Apple AI models take up 12 gigs of space. Guess this is why my company said don't upgrade: In macOS 27, Apple removed the toggle to disable Apple Intelligence wholesale, and simply disabling individual features doesn't remove the models from your Mac's drive. 174
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneAdam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 05/10/2026Mac users on mac OS 27 - we can get our disk space back and remove Apple AI! Somebody has made a tool: www.macrumors.com/2026/10/05/a...macrumors.comMac Users Reclaim Storage With New Apple Intelligence Removal ToolA new open-source tool is making waves in the Mac community by helping users reclaim valuable storage space taken up by Apple's AI models. Called "RemoveMacAI," the tool disables Apple Intelligence on... 8607264
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How did I never see this? 🤬 0113
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Right? We were THERE. I met my husband on a freenet based in Germany. Do you know how excited I was to talk to someone who knew who PJ Harvey was? I lived in Oklahoma!!! 😆 1381
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Padres should play the CHiPs theme song when they come out on the field. youtu.be/D5-bD372v5syoutu.beCHiPs' - Theme Song (Intro)YouTube video by Ti Ger 050
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist. 101432279
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026These things aren’t your helpers. After the AI pretended to be him while messaging, this user explicitly instructed the AI to stop that & not give out his address. It proceeded to give out his address to five people. That was everyone who asked. 243
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneRachel Grant/R.S. Grant @rachelgrant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The book for Hobby Lobby haters is the #1 Military Thriller on Amazon! geni.us/Trust-Me 098
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneAndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think an awesome tool would be that for every attempted hack/data breach etc, the CEO and CFO have to spend 5 years in jail. 141
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When it happens, these scrotes are going to blame the ignorant masses for “fear-mongering” & refusing to bow to adopting AI & building their data centers. We questioned our betters! We dared to demand accountability & we ruined everything! 190
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵 19596023539
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Got the new Nexspike Covid vaccine which *might* have fewer side effects. I’ll report back tomorrow. Hoping for no covid arm & less fever. 😬 2150
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneXero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick. 2119993386
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My doctor said my hair looked really cute & then we gossiped for 10 minutes, so it’s official: I won today’s medical appointment!!! 💃🏻 3360
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Canners! I just saw a video about this on IG. Do not use Ball pectin!!! People are using 2x, 4x, even 12x the pectin & it won’t set. 283
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It is disconcerting and confusing that bill Maher will eventually pass away not knowing how much he sucks 132568
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I know people largely moved on from the whole copyright argument against gAI (copyright never holds people's attention for long) but this feels important The whole point of copyright as a legal concept is to make sure we maintain a system where it's possible for artists to make a living from art 340049
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway 1623671114
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026They know they are the worst thieves to ever exist. Does everyone else? A Microsoft executive called GenAI the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal document said, “almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.” 25926
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneThe Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 17/09/2026Attorneys for the state of Utah tried to argue that a group of authors didn't have legal standing to sue over the state's book ban law. A judge disagreed, and now the case moves on.sltrib.comAuthors whose books have been banned in Utah schools can continue to sue the state, judge saysAttorneys for the state of Utah tried to argue that a group of authors didn't have legal standing to sue over the state's book ban law. A judge disagreed, and now the case moves on. 3399
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Are you NOSY??? Here's another tidbit of research from my upcoming book I’M HERE TO HELP! The protagonist of this story is a practicing therapist in a small town. Needless to say, I spent a lot of time digging into therapists and therapy for, admittedly, the most juicy parts. 181
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Do big dogs normally like to very gently gnaw on your arm for fun or is it just ours? I’ve never really been around big dogs before. 😂 7170
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I had a sneezing fit & then got the hiccups in the middle of it, which made me swallow so much air I started burping. My son just sat there laughing as I LITERALLY EXPLODED & DIED in front of him. 2120
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/09/2026So Think, Write, Edit, Romance has a lot about prose and a whole section on self-editing. In a moment of wild surmise, I asked the literal Final Boss copyeditor if he'd take a look at it. (When I said I was taking a punt on blurbs...) And he did, and this is some of what @bcdreyer.social said. 1340073
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026🇺🇸 AMERICAN TRUCKER: “Trump, what are we doing man? What are we gonna do about diesel prices?” ⛽️ 🤷🏼 (from @cfhunfiltered.bsky.social ) 1051090382
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneRyan James Dee @ryanjamesdee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Now it makes sense. Open AI and Anthropic are using these extinction claims to end the con and walk away. www.huffpost.com/entry/open-a...huffpost.comOpenAI's Altman Won't Do IPO This Year, Calls AI Extinction Risk 'Unacceptable'The tech firm’s CEO told Fortune it would be “an ill-advised moment to go public.” 073
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Nailed it 400221324484
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Republicans want to take your trucks away! 😵 041
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The real real. Or real reel. I’ll decide in the next draft. 081
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Oh no. Hope the people who can’t do their jobs or live their lives without AI chatbots are doing ok.static.klipy.comKen Jeong's Intense StareAlt: Ken Jeong stands in a desert & makes a jerk off motion 0122
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A previous editor told me I’M HERE TO HELP wouldn’t work as a tale of vengeance. “A therapist wouldn’t behave this way,” she insisted. Um, what? 1) A novel about a healthy therapist making healthy decisions wouldn’t be much of a thriller. 2) Therapists are just…people? 1152
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The baseball content continues! This is just 🥰 240
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Starbucks is discontinuing a blending powder containing a form of silica that was used for a number of drinks after baristas reported coughing and falling ill, and @sbworkersunited.org organized a campaign around the issue. 17543155
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I’m a little irritated that the Silo tv show has abandoned the idea that levels are very far apart. It was a big deal in the first season, right? If folks went far up or down, they’d have to spend the night. Now everyone is everywhere all the time. 030
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If rich people with season tickets behind home plate aren’t going to use their seats, they should lose them. It looks bad for MLB and, more important, it’s GROSS. 3140
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/08/2026HELLO! Our "let Bree & Donna write a book AND pay the lawyers to maybe get their money back from The Fiasco" auction/pop-up shop is live! It will run through 9/2 at 8PM CDT! www.32auctions.com/KitRocha2026 15298202
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026You: Get dressed and presentable every day to go into the office as a stylish professional. Me: “Ok, I’m wearing a bra, is there anything else I need to do today before I take it off?” We are not the same. 1120
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This reads like something my latest protagonist would write, down to her childhood in a trailer park. Powerful men do whatever they want while the poor are punished. 030
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I feel like kids these days don’t know who Captain Caveman is. Or Grape Ape. 😞 390
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026What a beautiful legacy. She was a true hero. 💔 0120
Reposted by Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen StoneKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton was one of the last things nearly all Americans loved 1797590