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Michael E. Ambrose

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Programmer. Writer. Knight. Purveyor of Puns and Dabbler of Stories. The Force is strong in all of us. 30s He/Him PFP by @arkwulf.bsky.social

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Michael E. Ambrose @meambrose.myatproto.social · Oct 22

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · Oct 21

Alright, newskies, here's what you do. Open settings on here, right? Then accessibility. Activate "require alt text before posting. Then you write some sumptuous descriptions of your art, photos, thirst traps, and screengrabs.

If we want this place to be good, we've got to look out for everyone.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 5h

I’m not sorry for saying this what they did to our captured relatives was beyond cruelty. They were stripped of their dignity, tortured with electricity, and treated like less than human. It was horror designed to erase their humanity.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5h

Do they "hate America" or do they just have object permanence

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Scalise: "Chuck Schumer is throwing a temper tantrum here at home just to appease the most radical elements of his base so that on the 18th when they have the Hate America Rally that everybody knows is coming ... "

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Trump torpedoed this guy's bid to be Speaker because he was not MAGA enough. Where exactly is the moderate wing of the GOP now?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 5h

Once again, the Zionist definition of “ceasefire” is “you cease, we fire”.

DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 5h

The evilest trick Israel always plays is to sign ceasefire agreements and immediately violate them.

Violating truces and human beings is in Israel's DNA.

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michele abounader @cerealpancake.bsky.social · 5h

Cover B by @anireal.bsky.social and the Kickstarter exclusive cover C by @sweeneyboo.bsky.social

Witching Season cover C, kickstarter exclusive, by Sweeney Boo

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.bsky.social · 5h

Happy #PortfolioDay! I’ve been writing for and about video games since 2013, and I’m looking to pick up more freelance work in November. If you need someone to do dialogue or flavor text, or somebody to help out with PR for your upcoming game, let’s chat!

kane.journoportfolio.com
alexjkane.itch.io

Key art for Astoria, an original sci-fi Twine game, by Kelly Chong. An astronaut against a space backdrop with rings and a futuristic cityscape.

An Ashlander camp in Skywind, the massive Morrowind fan remake mod.

Illustration from the oral history of Morrowind, with an adventurer looking at an elven building on the horizon.

Some books and magazines, including my book on the making of Star Wars: KotOR, Fangoria, PC Gamer, Edge, and Den of Geek.

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Arezou-Deetoo @arezouamin.bsky.social · 7h

I woke up a published author this morning 🥹

The Aroosi Arrangement is out NOW on Kindle and in paperback!

arezouamin.com/order-books/

A purple background with the text "out now in KU and paperback" and featuring the cover of The Aroosi Arrangement, which has two people dressed nicely against the toronto skyline.

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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 8h

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~Tanisha Cherislin~ @tani269.bsky.social · 5h

✨Hello! I’m Tanisha & I’m looking for work as a character designer & illustration work! Recently worked on Disney Junior Ariel!Please consider me for your projects!✨
💼:tanishacherislin.com
✉️:[email protected]
#PortfolioDay #characterdesign #drawingwhileblack #visdev #art #kidlitart

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 1d

Ghadeer is pregnant and still needs help to afford treatment and care - you can donate here: chuffed.org/project/1456...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis, & then it's another day:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

I’ve spent a lot of this evening in tears because my friend Subrina has joined the ancestors.

May she rest in power. I’ll be writing more later. But for now, my thoughts are with her family, her SyFy Sistas, and all my fellow #Trekkies who were impacted by her brilliant presence.

Two smiling women standing next to a poster in a convention settings

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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 19h

"To come back now, as you can imagine, being more comfortable in yourself makes these sorts of projects more enjoyable,” Page added. “To get to have a Chris Nolan experience again now meant so much to me selfishly.”

‘The Odyssey’ Star Elliot Page Says It Was ‘Such a Joy’ Reuniting With Christopher Nolan and Being ‘More Comfortable in Yourself’ Post-Transition: ‘Meant So Much to Me’

Actor Elliot Page spoke about reuniting with Christopher Nolan on "The Odyssey" at the "X-Men: Days of Future Past" panel at New York Comic Con.

variety.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Counsel for James Comey confirms that his defense team plans to file a motion challenging the lawfulness of Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as interim U.S. Attorney.

Motion will be heard and decided by an out-of-district judge.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
Alexandria Division
United States of America
v.
James Comey
Defendant.
Case No. 1:25CR272-MSN
NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE MOTION ON UNLAWFUL APPOINTMENT
Please take notice that on October 20, 2025, James Comey, by counsel, will
file his motion to dismiss challenging the lawfulness of the appointment of the
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. See, e.g., United States
v. Garcia, Crim No. 2:25-CR-00230-DGC-BNW, ECF No. 39 D. Nev. Sept. 30,
2025); United States v. Giraud, et al., Crim No. 1:24-768-MWB, ECF Nos. 144, 145
(D.N.J. Aug. 21, 2025).
The Court advised at arraignment that such motion will require designation
of and assignment to an out-of-district judge to hear and resolve that motion. See 28
U.S.C. § 292(b); Minute Order, ECF No. 19 (Oct. 8, 2025). Thus, in the interest of efficiency and to avoid any unnecessary delay in such process, Mr. Comey files the
instant Notice to formally alert the Court.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES COMEY
By Counsel
Is/
Patrick J. Fitzgerald
Michigan Bar No. P86579 (pro hac vice)
Jessica N. Carmichael

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Ta Nehisi Coates went to a country that imposed a military dictatorship onto five million people on the arbitrary basis of race and came away thinking that that's bad and some people are still angry with him because of that

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 5h

I am autistic and have temperature regulation issues and I guarantee wearing a mask is actually more uncomfortable for me than 99% of the people complaining about it on here. Yet I still manage!

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 5h

"Immunocompromised people should just stay home because I insist on blanketing everything with my infected droplets. I am a good leftist."

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Spooky Leia🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @madamephosphorus.bsky.social · 23h

I genuinely pity people who think keeping Kylo Ren evil was a good idea. It was set up since The Force Awakens that Leia would be the one to save him down the line.

Keeping him evil and killing him evil is a fundamental betrayal of the franchise's core themes of redemption and forgiveness.

The Star Wars Underworld @theswu.bsky.social · 1d

Should they have stuck with Colin Trevorrow's original idea to make Kylo Ren the final main bad guy of Episode 9?

#DueloftheFates #StarWars #Sequels

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 6h

1. We haven't come out the other end of Covid
2. I've never called for everyone masking every time they leave the house. I've called for more allies to mask in essential public spaces in solidarity with long COVID sufferers
3. Masks are *not* just for those who are sick

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 5h

Lots of very blockable assholes in this thread.

It's so hard to put a piece of cloth over your mouth and nose so immunocompromised people don't have to inhale your disgusting breath and how dare you accuse me of lack of solidarity for not doing so!

Now everyone pat each other on the back!

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 20h

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 14h

13. Persephone and Ascalaphus

Ink illustration of Persephone sitting holding a pomegranate at the foot of a standing stone. Other standing stones are scattered about, receding into the dim underworld. Above her perches an owl. Text in Linear B on the stone reads “po-ti-ni-ja”, i.e. Persephone’s title in Mycenaean Greek

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 5h

This line from Mamdani's father just really struck me. Great profile:

“I was an Indian in Uganda. I was a Muslim in India. And I was all of these things in New York City,” Mahmood Mamdani explained to his son. And “to be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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michele abounader @cerealpancake.bsky.social · 5h

WITCHING SEASON is live now on kickstarter!

A 150+ page horror comic anthology from me and Lifeline Comics. Excited for everyone to see what we've been building for most of this year🩸🌙

Cover A by @skyepatridge.bsky.social

More info here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

Witching Season cover A by Skylar Patridge

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning.

Democrats have no obligation to vote for a budget that funds corruption and totalitarianism.

Trump is willing to do whatever it takes to destroy our democracy and pad the pockets of billionaires.

People don't want Democrats to wilt. They want us to fight.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 5h

Over 9,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli jails after Gaza prisoner swap - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-9000-palestinian-remain-israeli-jails-after-gaza-prisoner-swap

Over 9,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli jails after Gaza prisoner swap

Many are held without charge, routinely facing torture and harsh conditions

www.middleeasteye.net

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