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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 18h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 20h

The pussy chose to walk into the sea

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 21h

coffee and words this a.m. Coffee is going down quick, the words not so much. Trying to focus on plotting, which is not my strong suit as a writer.

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 21h

we are also enjoying the bounty of eggs you and Jo gave me!

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 1d

we are cranking serious 70's am gold at this writing retreat.

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 2d

From AP: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation

abject horror, clown-level, seeped into my bones upon learning there is a) a hair museum, b) the hair is now everywhere. HAIR.

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like we got Dr. Oz anyway.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so sorry. I don't get why we call grief a journey, when it's such a circle back/come up short/wrong turn rife way of traveling. Many hugs and much love.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 4d

sorry to read this.

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 10d

while the gatekeepers who won't pay for the occasional mental health day or accessible office space will shell out millions after wasted millions on a subpar computer program.

fuck ai. fuck the dupes who uses it. fuck every scumbag who wants my $ and thinks I won't notice how half-assed it all is

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 10d

the weirdest, saddest, most unforgivable thing is there are hundreds of thousands of people denied entrance to professions because the fight for reasonable accommodations for diabilities/funding for education is too big a hill to surmount....5/?

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 10d

Weirdest thing is how gleeful they are schilling AI. Like oh, you're here to learn how to do marketing? How about I tell you instead how a crappy comp program can do it 1/10th as well.

No, wait. Scratch that, that's only the 2nd weirdest thing. 4/?

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 10d

Time to get relevant! But, hahahaha no. Now It's all about how to use AI to do all that work for you.

Absolutely fucking not, thanks.3/?

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 10d

Found out a few weeks ago that I'm still eligible to audit classes for free. And I was like, Hot Dog! About half I what I learned in the SM marketing classes was evergreen, useful knowledge, and half is sadly, laughably out of date, mainly due to the rise and fall of various platforms 2/?

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 10d

Ongoing enshittification.

back details: During the pandemic the state of MN offered free online learning through Coursera. I leapt on, got my IT certificate, a social media marketing cert. I took rando college courses& made it partway through a traditional marketing cert b4 the prog was dropped 1/?

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations on your 9th book!

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 18d

Downbound Train's plain, raw lyrics wreck me on every listen.

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 18d

and then Baron Zemo made it look like Bucky was guilty.

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18d

The Secret Service isn't claiming it foiled any plot targeting the UN General Assembly. Just that a big collection of SIMs (probably used for fraud) could have *potentially* disrupted NYC cell service. The SIMs were in a *35 MILE* radius of the UN.

These headlines are all pretty egregiously wrong:

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 18d

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."

@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):

reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor

Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

reactormag.com

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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 18d

the best thing about Bluesky is as I log in, from the back of my brain, Willie Nelson croons, "Blueskies, smiling at me. Nothing but blue skies, do I see."

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 25d

I have a new single out (as w.esp). It’s lurching, strange, melancholy but resolute dirge pop: wesp.bandcamp.com/track/its-a-...

it's a silence, by Will Esplin

track by Will Esplin

wesp.bandcamp.com

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John Copenhaver @johncopenhaver.bsky.social · 25d

This was a such a meaningful discussion … Give it listen!

Queerly Recommended @queerlyrec.bsky.social · 25d

New episode alert!
@krisbryant.bsky.social and @taramdscott.bsky.social are joined by @salemwest.bsky.social & @johncopenhaver.bsky.social editors of Crime Ink: Iconic.

Listen now: https://www.queerlyrecommended.com/2025/09/16/queer-crime-fiction-with-salem-west-john-copenhaver-qr-116/

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