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William A Owen

@williamaowen.bsky.social
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Writer. Energy Policy. Former EBook nerd. Former Brooklynonian. Sort of an all around, everyday kind of entity trying to acclimate to the burbs, be a dad and a hubbo, and find a little pie now and then. 40+ Pie, Books, Comics, MTG, Science, Pie. He/Him

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 4h
Heath Ledger as the Joker in the Dark Knight with a speech bubble indicating he is saying what is in the quoted post.
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Sam Beck @sambeckdraws.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
waoh, Alanna: The First Adventure was nominated for an Eisner for best adaptation. Working with Vita @definitelyvita.bsky.social and our editor Charlotte Greenbaum on this book was fantastic, I'm so proud of our whole team.
rolling green and yellow hills stretch into the distance. a person with red hair and green cloak and a man with gray hair and blue cloak ride horses along a winding path towards a manor with a terracotta roof.
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 9h
GEE, CAN YOU TELL
A couple panels from the Wiccan and Hulkling story I did with Rachael Stott and Ariana MaherA couple more panels from the Wiccan and Hulkling story I did with Rachael Stott and Ariana Maher
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Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · 13h
The marathon continues, but we’ll be the first across the finish line. Sign our petition and encourage management to reconsider: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!
The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 9h
I'm sure all these companies and their employees feel good about having smoothed over the grooves in their brains only for the cost of the Occasionally Accurate Thinking Machine to skyrocket.
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Wells Thompson - Modern Affirmations coming soon! @wellsthomp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They’re pretty great. Just saying.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hi there is currently no ethical way to use genAI. Hope this helps.
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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 10h
this is beautiful
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12h
This is what they've done.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 9h
This is what they've done.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 21h
Book With Pictures is not just a comic book shop; it’s a community gathering place and an engine of local culture. Please help if you can.
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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 10h
The "Russian data centers reduced trolls and bots" is as accurate and true as "The 2020 election was stolen."
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William A Owen @williamaowen.bsky.social · 11h
Who’s taking bets on whether this is a crime or not?
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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 14h
Polymarket is paying people to QRT its branded esports accounts on X. Players, coaches, and other prominent figures make hundreds or even thousands per month. “Literally this needs to look organic,” wrote a Polymarket rep on the Discord where this is organized. www.readergrev.com/p/polymarket...
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Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program
"This needs to look organic," wrote a Polymarket rep in an internal Discord server for the program.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 14h
The degree to which Republicans have just started resorting to outright bribery is really alarming and it's going to get even worse unless people end up in jail.
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Affinity for Anime @affinityforanime.bsky.social · 14h
Here are a few Hollow Knight Silksong MtG proxy cards I have made available on my Ko-fi for free download. Please consider giving me a follow on Ko-fi and share a photo if you print them out for yourself.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 14h
This is dumb, but no one is really breaking it down. So let's do that, with the understanding that I'm both high and in pain. "LLM agents are conscious." This is a claim, and one that is both unfounded and coming up more often. My OPINION on that is it's because people do not understand BOTH
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Saly "and more" @salylockheart.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Let me do a Static cover please !!
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William A Owen @williamaowen.bsky.social · 14h
The biggest issue is we know he lies and everyone around him lies. If there were any honesty at all about him there is an argument for deference, but he is a void of integrity, and the rest of us have no other recourse but to assign and diagnose from afar because of that void.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 15h
I respect your point but he has a family history of dementia & shows all the signs. But I do hear you.
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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com · 15/10/2026
It's really weird and really good
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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 15h
art
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DevLev Echoverse Observer @levdev.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Disappointing, but, it happens. Still, go support the union by signing the petition on the thread.
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VorthosMike @vorthosmike.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
hitting the MTG Art Market: Dance of the Dead original artworks by Jarel Threat Sketch: Sunday, October 18, 11:00pm eastern mtgart.auction/DanceDrawing Underpainting: Sunday, October 18, 10:00pm eastern mtgart.auction/DanceUnderpainting (The final card art with color is digital)
Artist Jarel stands next to his underpainting painting on an easel, they appear to be zombies dancingartist Jarel stands next to his sketch on an easelsketch of the zombie dancing artunderpainting of the zombie dance art
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Because despite what everyone pretends , actual denouncing of white supremacists is shockingly rare no matter what your political alignment
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Amy "Thunderjam" Chase @amythunderjam.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Tango is a phenomenally skilled artist, yes -- but as someone who's also had the privilege of co-writing multiple stories with her, she's also extremely story-smart and truly can do it all. LET TANGO WRITE MORE STUFF.
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TrevorAMueller 🔜 Witches of E WICK BLVD on KS @trevoramueller.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My series from @papercutzgn.bsky.social turns 1 today! Happy birthday to Bat Pat, a silly / spooky series about real monsters with real problems that only kids can solve (with a talking bat). It's like Scooby-Doo! And vol 3 just dropped this week! #comics #batpat #kidscomics #writer
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A thing I think about a lot is how directly this stuff is descended from casino customer-tracking apps as they were emerging in the 90s. Addiction By Design covers this in a chapter - casinos harvest data on videoslot players and then measure exactly where their "Frustration point" is on losses.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026
For my money, there's no group having more impact per unit of investment. Classic case of "why was no one already doing this?!"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026
Today on Volts: I talk with Matt Traldi, CEO of Greenlight America. It's a nonprofit with a simple mission: find the local meetings where the fate of clean energy projects is being decided & rally supporters to attend those meetings. Incredible growth & impact since we last talked!
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Checking back in with Greenlight America
A conversation with Matt Traldi.
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Our members love the games we create and the people who make them. As Stephanie Cheung shares, the best way to support our game makers is by unionizing! Show your support by signing our petition and sharing what you love about the games you play! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
“I am organizing because I love working at Wizards. I have the greatest joy of working alongside incredibly talented people on a game we all love. And I want us to have a say on our ongoing working conditions that will support our talent and ambition for years to come.”
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026
$52 billion in debt, losing hundreds of millions every quarter, and desperate to take out more loans. Their debt is so bad that people are demanding a huge return on any bonds they buy from CoreWeave. This is one of the foundational companies of Nvidia's circular "AI" financing.
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'Yikes': CoreWeave stock sinks after its bond yield touched 15%
CoreWeave stock fell as much as 15% in morning trading on Wednesday, a day after a chart of its rising borrowing costs drew a one-word reply from Elon Musk: "Yikes."
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026
Almost $30 billion of CoreWeave's $52 billion debt was racked up in one year. For perspective, it took Warner Bros more than a decade to dig a hole that deep for themselves.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
dude is a natural
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My man looks like Stanley Kubrick dressed up as Velma for Halloween
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Something I wish more people understood: The helicopters thing is an extremely online Nazi idea with its origins in Pinochet's death flights. If you got the attention of right wingers on Twitter, they used to love to tweet helicopter emojis in response. Collins is deep into online neo-Nazism.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/10/2026
Kylo was a pathetic Vader fanboy who mirrored his grandfather in a lot of ways but earned none of his redemption (though arguably neither did Vader) it’s why I loved him as a character, he’s an incel piece of shit and I thought that was a great choice to show where Vader worship actually leads
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I'm of the opinion that redeeming him was the biggest mistake of the entire sequel trilogy The ENTIRE MESSAGE of his role in the first two entries was that he rejected every attempt at redemption and doubled down on being a massive piece of shit Embrace that! He doesn't get a good ending!
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Killing Han was bad enough but then he had the PERFECT CHANCE to turn the page in TLJ after killing Snoke and went "no I wanna be evil :)" and proved how pathetic and wretched he was after Luke chumped him out Dude should have gone down like a sniveling worm at Rey's hands, IMO
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William A Owen @williamaowen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Absolutely the least surprising detail about these little fuckwits.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Lewis also claims the footsoldiers had a certain type: white, middleclass, desperate to have Elon's attention. Many had been rejected from elite institutions and had a chip on their shoulder and enjoyed their sense of power over people who knew much more than they did.
The people who rallied to the cause and felt qualified to execute Elon Musk’s vision for the federal government shared certain qualities. They were mostly young white males. They were mostly from upper-middle-class or rich families. Most knew or pretended to know how to program a computer. Not all of them, but enough of them for there to be a pattern, had been rejected from the most selective colleges and universities and ended up feeling they’d been screwed by the admissions process. They landed at Penn instead of Princeton, or the University of Nebraska instead of Harvard, with a grievance that added to the foundation of their politics. They thought of themselves as the smartest people in the room and couldn’t understand why the rest of the room didn’t simply stand up and cheer. In Washington they borrowed from Elon Musk their status and sense of superiority. They also seemed to share his pleasure in the idea of people being afraid of them.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
3. DOGE made false claims about employee performance in order to fire them, but did not want to put their names to these emails. So they would coerce civil servants into doing so. If the civil servants refused, they were fired. (Not just DOGE, other Trump appointees like Kash Patel did this).
The revealing moments in the civil service were lonelier. They occurred inside people’s hearts and minds, and seldom leaked to the press. After his arrival at the IRS, one of Gavin Kliger’s first acts had been to demand that the agency fire its 6,700 probationary workers, who had yet to be granted civil service protection. By law they could be fired only for poor performance. Gavin had asked Traci DiMartini, in her capacity as head of human resources, to agree to put her name on an email to the mostly young employees telling them that they had failed at their jobs. The Doge people played this trick often. They’d use or try to use civil servants as a kind of ventriloquist dummy so that they, the Doge workers, could keep their names off official documents. But Traci took one look at the email, saw it was plainly a lie, and refused to have anything to do with it. The price of that single act of resistance was her job. Gavin didn’t have the authority to fire Traci, but his new acting commissioner did. “He asked Melanie to fire Traci, and Melanie did it,” said Kathleen.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
4. DOGE officials were told datasharing under certain conditions was illegal. The most obvious is IRS data. Need an act of Congress to share. They did not care.
Everyone in the agency knew that its data was valuable. That was the reason for the strict laws that prevented it from being exploited for profit or political gain. “He said this in a way that he expected everyone to clap when he was done,” said Kathleen.

“No one said a word.” The people around the table – a group that included a woman who had worked at the IRS for 54 years, or 53 years and 50 weeks longer than Gavin Kliger – looked down, or away. Kathleen felt embarrassed for Gavin Kliger. But now it was clear what the meeting was about. Gavin wanted, in his words, “to explore how we can share our data with other agencies”.

Interestingly, he never once mentioned Ice or DHS. Instead, that week, he sought to share data with himself, by trying to access files detailing IRS contracts with outside consultants that also contained taxpayer information. Kathleen denied him access.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
5. At the time what we could see from the outside is that a lot of IRS career leaders were resigning, with stories that they were resisting the DOGE press to illegally grab data because they did not want to be blamed. What I wrote at the time was on the left. Lewis gives the insider perspective.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
6. DOGE lied and the government lied to the press and in court about what was going when it came to the stealing of data (l). As @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social wrote in her review of the state of the IRS, more than 90% of the data was improperly shared. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/things-rea...
He was too busy doing his job to notice when, on 11 February 2026, the Washington Post reported that the IRS had shared with the Department of Homeland Security the tax data of 47,000 undocumented workers. On the heels of the Post’s scoop, a federal judge hearing a case on the subject summoned the IRS lawyers who had previously sworn that the agency had rebuffed the DHS demands. Under questioning, the lawyers confessed that the agency had lied to the court and that it had in fact shared the data. “The IRS violated the [Internal Revenue Code] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to Ice,” the judge wrote in her opinion.
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