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Jenna Avery

@jennaavery.bsky.social

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Sci-fi screenwriter. Called to Write founder. Urbanist. Mama to 2 awesome kiddos. Periodic kitten foster. Amateur potter. Scripts: https://jennaavery.com For writers: https://calledtowrite.com Alt text for banner: screenplay graphics on a starry field.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7h

ICYMI: “Some still insist ‘downtowns will never attract kids & shouldn’t try.’ Then they design downtown to virtually repel kids, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Vancouver proves the opposite can be true...”

I’m quoted in this article by @johnlorinc.bsky.social for @calcities.bsky.social

People want to have kids and live downtown. Can they? - Western City Magazine

For decades, planners focused on attracting young singles to dense urban cores. That dynamic has shifted, in part because ...

www.westerncity.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

The Democrats have invented time travel. This goes deeper than we thought

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17h

Did you miss it this week?

I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Goes like this.

Via the people now called creators, audiences are migrating to the social layer in the internet stack. Maybe there's a way to move with, rather than against that.

newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t care if it’s cringe, suck it up and put on the fucking frog suit

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 23h

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 20h

This feels apt today.

(& If you love the Canarviers, give them a shout, tell someone to catch theirs today !)

A stack of Thieves books from 100 Acre Books with the caption : when the poor live in an SF world and the rich live in a fantasy, only thieves can make it right.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1d

the first version of bluesky was released in the third inning of this mariners/tigers game. not many people know this

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 1d

Link.

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

Link.

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 1d

Link.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Jeff Lyons @storygeeks.bsky.social · 1d

CHECK IT OUT: Terminus Station —the end of the line... for poor Ira. If you like quirk, weird, oddball ... you'll like this novella :) One reviewer seemed to:
amzn.to/4q53VMf
#booksky #writingsky #scriptsky #writingcommunity #writing #indieauthors

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Horse of Course @horsecourser.bsky.social · 1d

"I built an AI that can be your friend!"

"Listen. I have friends. I need an AI that will re-grout my tub and mop the kitchen floor. Chop chop, motherfucker."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it was supposed to be about automating the BORING parts or so I was led to believe by the first Python book I ever read

Beck 🐧 @mastergatherer.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah like, they automated the fun parts. Why would you want to automate the fun parts?

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 1d

now we know who should play Hegseth on SNL — paging Will Arnett

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Pete Hegseth is Gob Bluth.

Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 1d

aww. I'm sorry.

Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 1d

Nice. It sounds like it really should be somewhere!

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 1d

I can’t speak to all of the SV tech bros who believe in “the singularity”, but it’s really something how many have made it a fundamental part of their spirituality.

Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 1d

Fuck the AI cult

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like an awesome bit to resurrect somewhere! “deleted scenes,” short story?

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 2d

not what you want to hear

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 2d

“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 3d

Tomorrow, we will talk about this photo.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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