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Textile artist, MST3K enthusiast, force of nature She/her

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 14h
Gawt DAMN
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Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social · 16h
If your market stocks raw milk, please use my template: "I am concerned to see that [My Favorite Local] Market is now selling raw milk, as per the Academy of American Pediatrics, consuming raw milk puts people 'at risk of serious illness.' Here is more info:" publications.aap.org/aapnews/news....
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Raw dairy risks to children, pregnant people outlined in updated AAP policy
Updated AAP guidance addresses the risks of consuming unpasteurized milk and explains how pediatricians can counter myths about raw milk.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15h
It's worth noting that the decision to kill him by firing squad - chosen for its symbolism, according to Hegseth - gets the symbolism entirely backwards. For example: we hung the Nazis convicted at Nuremburg, instead of giving them the death by firing squad they would have preferred.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19h
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have brought my autistic son's correct foods (an extremely limited menu) with me everywhere we go, all of his life. Restaurant people have generally been cool. But I do recommend checking in with new places ahead of time.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 19h
COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20h
if Trump posts a trans slur on Truth Social which is aimed at you, and you say anything other than "can you guys fucking believe the President of the United States is out here posting trans slurs on Truth Social, fuck him into the sun for all eternity," you have failed the most basic of all tests
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21h
this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I remember — literally — none of this. Not one second of it. Complete memory wipe.
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Pitch Black Manor @pitchblackmanor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oct 24th it's a Pitch Black Manor Dance Party!!! We're gonna be gettin spooky on the dance floor!!! Ribco downtown Rock Island we'll be bringing the Halloween hits and hurtling toward the Witching Hour!
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 05/10/2026
“The whole model depends on parents not finding out," says ifeoma.bsky.social. "Because as soon as parents are aware, they don’t want anything to do with it.” www.coyotemedia.org/sfusd-ai-ami...
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In Which I Decline to Let an AI Company Experiment on My Kid at School
Living in San Francisco means being a guinea pig for the tech industry — but I draw the line at my second-grader.
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JosephScrimshaw @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Saw this in a shop window and kept mumbling to myself “this is how your email finds me”
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Hexenkraft @hexenkraft.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey level designers who follow me (or anyone that reads this) how much is a typical freelance rate for a mid-level artist? And like... hit me up and stuff with your work 👀
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Hotdish @viijennyxii.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That would be either Oompa Loompas or flying monkeys (wizard of oz) *shudder*
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 04/10/2026
Your autistic kid does NOT need to learn how to tie their shoes. Velcro shoes exist. Slip on shoes exist. If tying shoes is not working, please let your kid save their energy to work on the things everyone agrees they CAN & WANT to do. (Same for autistic adults, BTW.) #dyspraxia #autism #disability
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.
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Mary Jo Pehl @maryjopehl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TICKETS! GETCHER TICKETS! The last Garage show of the 2026 season, featuring Ben Cook-Feltz, Sarah McPeck, and Artist-In-Residence ME! Saturday, October 17, 6 pm, New Brighton Email me if you want to reserve a spot: maryjopehl//gmail. Details follow about a week prior.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The GOP's biggest funder blocked a law to prevent exploitation of women and children on his website Dems should be talking about him and his creepiness. He wants to make fake nudes It's a party of weirdos
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have been thinking about this graph all day. It definitively proves that the Atari 2600 is better than a TI-85 calculator, which is better than the Nintendo 64, which is better than the Magic 8 Ball, which is better than all LLMs. My new graph will have to be logarithmic scale.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 02/10/2026
The ableist mean girl smackdowns on 'sickfluencers,' are especially nasty given most disabled ppl are under supported: "It’s no wonder disabled women have not received the diagnoses or care they need: Most of the research about their bodies has yet to be conducted." msmagazine.com/2026/09/16/d...
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Activists Have Fought for Disability Justice. So-Called 'Sickfluencers' Still Face Medical Sexism.
Disabled women have long fought for disability justice, yet media narratives about “sickfluencers” continue to fuel medical sexism, ableism and suspicion.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And stop trying to halt or discredit critics by conflating evil AI (gen AI, conversational AI, AI-powered surveillance systems, etc.) with other helpful or innocuous forms of AI. You know perfectly fucking well what we're talking about.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.
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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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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m just as interested in every discipline’s pursuit of knowledge and art — practical or not — because to learn and create new things is what civilization is for.
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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happily throwing other types of authors under the bus is very "and then they came for me," JCO.
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maya kern @mayakern.com · 28/09/2026
Presale update! 📦 The skirts have left the factory and are headed our way! Presales close once they arrive, so get your order in while your size is still available. Sold out? Sign up for restock notifications on the listing! #store Shop the presale: store.mayakern.com/collections/...
Presale Update graphic featuring two Maya Kern Pocket Dimension skirts modeled indoors. On the left is the Swan’s Pocket Dimension Skirt, a dark gray skirt with white swans along the hem; all sizes are available. On the right is the lavender Party 4 U Pocket Dimension Skirt with colorful party details along the hem; sizes S–3XL and 5–6XL are available. Both skirts are listed at $104.Presale Update graphic featuring two Maya Kern skirts modeled indoors. On the left is the Sergle Anemones Pocket Dimension Skirt, a plum-colored skirt with pale pink and white anemones around the hem; sizes S, XL–3XL, and 5–6XL are available. On the right is the Bees Pocket Dimension Skirt, a black skirt covered in golden bees and honeycomb shapes; sizes S, XL–2XL, and 5–6XL are available. Both skirts are listed at $104.Presale Update graphic featuring two Maya Kern skirts modeled indoors. On the left is the Deadly Florals Pocket Dimension Skirt, a dark botanical print featuring green, purple, and cream flowers; only one skirt remains in size 6XL. On the right is the Sharks Pocket Dimension Skirt, a blue ocean-inspired design with shark silhouettes around the hem; all sizes are sold out. Both skirts are listed at $104.
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Fox Puppy @foxpuppy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do any of the musicians I follow on Bandcamp have any non AI-Generated music videos posted on Bandcamp that I need to watch?
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“A unique voice, tone and heart.” Everything Will Swallow You has been chosen as one of the top ten paperback releases so far of 2026 by this week’s Bookseller Magazine. Free international delivery here in case you’ve not got yours yet: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
A round up of the year’s best paperbacks, beginning with my latest novel.
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sleepynemo-draws.bsky.social @sleepynemo-draws.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is kind of stalled out around 27k after the intial support. If you haven’t seen before please consider boosting. Or it it’s been a while, reboosting.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026
SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That said, the fact that there is so much interest makes me feel like I should mention them at least a little. This thread in no way can stand in place of working with a sensitivity consultant with lived experience! Here is a brief, nonexhaustive list of harmful disability tropes in fiction.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.
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elizabeth @crashontheway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
just saw an ad that was like "this mini ereader is changing the way i consume books". There's already a perfectly good verb for what you do with books. Please do not consume them
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/09/2026
i love that the prevalence of slop is making some people actually be creative and be like…idk man i can’t afford a designer and i won’t use AI so i wrote this flyer on notebook paper with a sharpie. i printed out a google doc and placed it on my cat
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Aaaaaaanyway this whole thing is a perfect example of how disabled and chronically ill and marginalized people are forced out of society and then if they make a tiny enclave together where they try and make space for each other the society that forced them out tells them they can’t have that either.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know I'm not the first to say this, but it's becoming quite clear that giving a group of people an unlimited budget for weapons, then giving them qualified immunity from prosecution when they kill people using those weapons, has proven to be a really stupid way to "keep communities safe."
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you've read a book (like, say, THE CALAMITIES) and enjoyed it, a nice thing you can do is leave a review somewhere! And tell your friends, family, and any passersby. And also leave the author a big bag of money and, oh, I dunno, apples somewhere within easy reach. Good apples. NICE apples.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Paul @paullikesbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Call me old fashioned but I quite like books that ask a lot of the reader!
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Uneasy Writer @uneasywriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“asking too much of its reader”
Edgar Allen Pie looking at a letter in anger and disbelief meme (ink illustration).
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here is the link for YouTube: buff.ly/9XXiJnH
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What was life really like in Renaissance Florence? | Beforecast Episode 3 with Ada Palmer
Historian Ada Palmer and Journalist & Podcaster Adam Davidson discuss the city of Florence at the time of Machiavelli's life, and how the almost-mythical city wasn't all it appears to be on the…
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you want to know when the MST3K shows will be available, step right up, here’s the info, right here! FYI I directed ep. 3, the Mystery Title.
MST3K: the RiffTrax Experiments DIGITAL RELEASE DATES info
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Pumpkin Spice Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.latinsky.app · 21/09/2026
Why do y'all hate your art so much. Apologizing for "messy sketches" that are full blown paintings. Refusing to reblog your work. Holding back WIPs because they're not pretty perfect portfolio pieces. Never a nice thing to say about your art. You might say you hate AI, but do you love your art???
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026
Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this
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