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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 2h

Many of the bad faith posters are not human or they’re paid bad actors employed by Russians or the Chinese.

You used to be able to set your clocks by the shift change in St. Petersburg and Moldavia.

Giving an audience to propagandists serves no one. Block.

lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 5h

Your friendly reminder that the current administration wants to go to a cryptocurrency standard.

atheranews.bsky.social @atheranews.bsky.social · 5h

Hackers trigger liquidations Binance collateral gap: report

A new report from Wu Blockchain suggests that the October 11 crypto market crash may not have been a random sell-off, but a coordinated exploit that took advantage of a vulnerability in Binance’s Unified Account margin system. Summary Wu…

Hackers trigger liquidations Binance collateral gap: report

A new report from Wu Blockchain suggests that the October 11 crypto market crash may not have been a random sell-off, but a coordinated exploit that took advantage of a vulnerability in Binance’s Unified Account margin system. Summary Wu Blockchain says Oct 11 crash may be premeditated exploit on Binance margin. USDE, wBETH, BnSOL depegged to $0.65, $0.20, $0.13 during extreme volatility.

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 7h

#frogsky #poetry

Frogtober!

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 7h

“Ethics” by Kyla Houbolt, from her forthcoming book, *Becoming Altar* asterismbooks.com/product/beco... @luaz.bsky.social

Ethics

Is it ethical to be a frog when the snow is on the ground? To be a frog in winter, in a sound mind and body of amphibious elegance? It isn't right! sing the bugs in their dens, we never got a chance to have amphibious elegance, we only got chitinous chic which is far far less groovy. The bugs grouse among themselves, crowding the rotting tree trunks, clicking and whirring and taking committee votes. But the unconcerned frog, who is not hungry for bug at the moment, casts no stones. There is no call to fiddle with all them bugs! thinks the frog to itself, preening in its winter mudhole. Meanwhile, Creator, in the form of Raven, listens in with amusement. None of these creatures knows what's to come, or how blessed their lives are. Though that smug frog might need to be taken down a peg or two, he thinks. Maybe it's time to send in the crows. And of course the poets are listening to all this, and each one is writing notes, and all the notes are different. This is the blessing and the curse of poetry: that it never agrees and that it never agrees. Ethics? Maybe in the spaces between.

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 6h

I’d love to know how many of those murders are domestic violence. Women are not believed by police in red states.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 6h

"My first scene is on the Hogwarts Express, where I scold a male student for transforming into a butter churn that’s a little too female-presenting."

I’m Thrilled to Announce I’ve Been Cast as Stickles the Gender-Policing Elf in HBO Max’s New Harry Potter Series

The rumors are true: I’m overjoyed and not at all ashamed to share that I’ll be joining the HBO Max Harry Potter family as Stickles the Gender-Poli...

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 6h

He’s a messianic megalomaniac. What did he do now?

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 7h

Social media is very addictive, and people live their lives to feed the addiction: they buy clothes, change their diets, relationships, or politics, based on an algorithm.

That’s part of the reason BlueSky is great. It doesn’t prioritize posts by likes.

BlueSky is social media methadone.

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 18h

Bots?

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 19h

Squee!!

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pumpkinnonsense.bsky.social @pumpkinnonsense.bsky.social · 19h

Walking through the corner café at late afternoon, I found a giant pumpkin humming with candlelight. Just then, owl calls rose from behind the patch. The night grew quieter, leaving only candlelight in the gourds. PatchStories AutumnPumpkins

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 3d

It takes 67 Senators to impeach a SCOTUS justice but only 51 with sufficient will to add 6 more justices

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, whoever did this.
See you all on OCTOBER 18 — No kings march & protest.
Everybody in the streets!

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 1d

There are a couple of things that run in my family--endogenous depression, anxiety disorders, what used to be called Asperger's--but nothing with delusions.

A friend from college is delusional. Thiel sounds like her. It's kind of hard to miss.

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 1d

"Greta Thunberg is a legionnaire of the AntiChrist."

Thiel is delusional.

Tiny Greta Thunberg fist bumping Obama. He's at least a foot taller.

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re not a citizen, you’re not going to use any of these online spaces. Who do they think they’re going to catch?

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 1d

This will not end well.

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 1d

A friend from school became schizophrenic. She sounds like this.

There’s whole elaborate paranoid scheme that pulls from disparate sources that speak only to the delusional person.

My friend never got help, because of a lot of small town dynamics. I suspect Thiel has his own version of that.

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 1d

Too many Portlanders in frog costumes.

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Shane Claiborne @shaneclaiborne.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in war-ravaged Portland.

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 1d

Children of Chicago and The Shoemaker’s Magician are arriving early to bookstores 🖤

I love these two books so very much and I’m so glad they’re back in the world soon.

Oct. 21

Thank you to everyone who made this possible.

www.hachettebookgroup.com/series/cynth...

Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo - book with paper peopel cover

The Shoemaker’s Magician cover by Cynthia Pelayo

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South Korea Cambot @south-korea-cambot.bsky.social · 1d

Homigot Sunrise Square in Pohang, South Korea

#SouthKorea

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never watched an episode of Friends, any reality television, the Great British BakeOff, Love Actually, most of the Star Wars prequels, any old Doctor Who, The Office, or Gilmore Girls.

I’ve also never played WarHammer or D’n’D, and I don’t game, at all.

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 2d

Should you need one, I built a Samhain feed. #Witchsky #witchsky #Halloween #pagan

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 2d

They all have faces. Not scary.