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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 8h

Whew this piece is so scathing.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8h

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Ima Being @quiltomancy.bsky.social · 2d

In Chicago they are shooting priests in the face and zipping little kids and loading up parents in vans separated by race.

In Portland they can be held back by inflatable costumes.

Chicago is 35% white
Portland is 70% white

Men in full war gear, masks and helmets, shoot an unarmed clergy member with a pepper bullet in the face.

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 9m

Hell yeah!!

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 15m

real great podcast with my real great friend @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social you're gonna wanna check it out

apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/2m6f...

scary stories with the lights on with Chloe N. Clark

Podcast Episode · The Lazy & Entitled Podcast · 09/10/2025 · 36m

podcasts.apple.com

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 9m

Ahhh this is so cool!!

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 10m

As always I was overjoyed to be talking horror with one of my besties

chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 15m

real great podcast with my real great friend @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social you're gonna wanna check it out

apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/2m6f...

scary stories with the lights on with Chloe N. Clark

Podcast Episode · The Lazy & Entitled Podcast · 09/10/2025 · 36m

podcasts.apple.com

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 10m

Unsolicited Bic picks

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 12h

Give me the peace prize or I will declare war on you is definitely a take.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 15h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 12h

Ohhh I'll have to check it out! Thanks for the rec ⚡️

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 2d

I've been working on two different long-form projects this year, but just know that if you're ever interested in bringing on a genre reader or class speaker etc, I am HERE & super game to discuss short stories forever!

if you've read my work, this is probably the big one:

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 16h

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 15h

I do have some questions about the convenient overlap between this push and the cognitive hit many people are taking from Covid and/or the chronic stress of living in the moment.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 16h

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 18h

ty hon! 💚💚

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 18h

it's still summer somewhere!

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 18h

new shades, classic shirt

(shirt from the ever-awesome @bookmoon.bsky.social)

white blond lady in a car, posing with some tiny rainbow sunglasses and a black t-shirt with the words: READ BOOKS, PUNCH NAZIS

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 4d

Somersaulting in here to be like "There are war pteranodons in THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS but those are the least of everybody's problems for most of the book" :D