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Effie Cyborg

@effies.bsky.social

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SFF/middle-grade fiction writer. Strategy/marketing consultant. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled with #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories (or @[email protected] on Mastodon)

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · May 16

New story day! "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything" is free to read on @diabolicalplots.com !

My wheelchair-using superhero does battle with the non-ADA-compliant superhero union.

Come for the punny superhero names, stay for the disability access rage & catharsis!

www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

DP FICTION #123B: “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg – Diabolical Plots

www.diabolicalplots.com

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 1h

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @handle.invalid · 6h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5h

“The Heritage Foundation [which spearheaded Project 2025] says it will ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors over alleged bias.“ 9/18/25 … 1/ www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

The right wing is coming for Wikipedia

The Heritage Foundation says it will "identify and target" Wikipedia editors over alleged bias. What does that mean for Wikipedia’s future?

www.wbur.org

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4h

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 6h

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2h

Another devastating blow for the disability community as this administration cuts almost every employee responsible for administering funding & oversight for IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

Education should be a basic human right..and disabled kids are just as deserving.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2h

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3h

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 2h

Justice for Bagel!

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Brian McNett @bmcnett.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t own a cat.

A gray cat curled up next to my foot under my desk

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 5h

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Jon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 5h

Authors leaving is one piece of the puzzle, even less visible are the people who drop out before breaking in in the first instance because we can see the hellscape the industry is becoming and attrition takes us out before we find rep/debut deal.

J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 6h

The absolutely nightmarish situation for authors right now is a big part of why I'm probably never going to stop teaching.

I like teaching, but it's frustrating that full-time authoring feels like it will never, ever be an option. At least until I hit retirement age.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 18h

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 18h

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 5h

he's gotten more energy so it's looking good!

Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 5h

I know right? My husband searched to see if there was a bagel option, and nope, they only make donuts

Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 7h

Bagel wants to know when he can take off the donut already...

#DailyDoggo

demoralized dachshund-mix has his chin on the arm of a green couch. he's wearing a donut instead of a cone

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 7h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 7h

What a gift to the rest of the world it will be when the entire US scientific community says "Fuck it" and moves to other countries, while we fall over with measles, dysentery, yellow fever, dengue fever, Leptospirosis Fever, typhoid, Rickettsia, Chikungunya...

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 7h

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 11h

Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

They Want To Ban Books To Keep Us From Coming Out

Quick housekeeping! I’m doing a flurry of events once again: Tuesday I’ll be in the Koret Auditorium at the SF Public Library talking about banned books for...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10h

A federal appeals court said that it will not allow President Trump to deploy the National Guard in Illinois, largely preserving a ruling that had suspended his administration’s campaign to send troops into the Chicago area.

Appeals court bars Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois

The appeals court weighed in after a federal judge, concluding that it was “likely to lead to civil unrest, ”barred the president from deploying troops in and around Chicago.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 10h

Happy National Coming Out Day to everyone ready to share their truth today & everyone who can't yet for safety or any other reasons. *HUGS* I'm really glad you're here. 🏳️‍🌈

A lot of us come out again and again to different people at different times, & it's always scary, but there's also so much joy.

a cat laying on a wooden floor with a rainbow in the background

Alt: A tabby cat lies on a wooden floor, kneading her paws with pleasure, while a rainbow of light apparently emanates from her furry belly.

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 10h

If his medical emergency was related to drugs, that is still a medical emergency.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10h

True story: two ppl by the pool today told me they avoided taking a boat trip off-island because we're near Venezuela and they'd seen the Trump snuff films on X

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 11h

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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