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I’m Norah Woodsey. I am a scifi author, former moderator, and fourth generation Brooklynite. she/her norahwoodsey.com ALT text for banner: a preschooler drawing of a bear, heart outside his body and face stoic, projected on an interior wall

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 9d

I have a book coming out October 1st (tomorrow!) Test Space is the sequel to When the Wave Collapses.

It is a pocket adventure about a teleportation machine, an intern who accidentally triggers it, and an astronaut who tries to go to the moon to escape her feelings.

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Test Space

Check out Test Space - A mysterious corporation has revolutionized how goods are distributed worldwide, ending poverty, hunger, and pollution. Danny, a brilliant but shy college stude...

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

Amongst other things, did someone tell Idaho, a notoriously unchill state?

🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 4m

Im sorry what the fuck?????

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29m

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 9m

No, he founded an AI company

Scene from Princess Bride. Grandad is saying, All right now, let’s see, where were we? Oh yes. In the Pit of Despair.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 14m

the scream!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3h

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 13h

sherman, for the love of god!

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 15m

Of course, the idea of knowingly creating a god to worship is appealing to this particular set of people.

I made it a god they were disappointed by because that’s my whole deal, lol

🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 20m

Someone said the wildest shit to my husband and I about AI back in 2018, and I literally wrote it down while they were still talking, lmao

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 22m

My sense is some of these people are unfamiliar with the intense religious doctrine many are exposed to in childhood. It was not part of their lives. And now, they feel the absence of guidance and yearn for it, but can’t find it in religion or other people, because of their own perceived superiority

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 27m

I wrote the first draft of the control problem in 2019. After early feedback, I cut bits of the dinner scene where the AI acolytes talk reverently about their system. It read as unbelievable and now I wish I had kept it intact — I think you’d believe it now

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 27m

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 · 1h

Fuck the AI cult

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 3h

In the 1970s, no British actors could do a convincing American accent, and now they all can. It's like how birds learned to drink cream through milk bottle tops.

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 1h

this robotic arm could fix me

skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 1h

it's dope as hell that the world builds 100 million cars per year and all that plastic, metal, glass and rubber eventually ends up like this

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 2d

My favorite "game" to play with our kids and friends is on Kickstarter for a new series. It's such a delightful way for multiple generations to spend a few hours (warning: some of the mysteries are a bit mature, so use your discretion)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lit...

Literary Adventure Society: Play-At-Home Mysteries

A creative mash-up of cooperative game, murder mystery party, and at-home theatrical experience. Take your place in every story!

www.kickstarter.com

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 11h

When you're hot, you're hot ...

Fake Nobel Peace Prize announcement for Bad Bunny

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Simon @bauxoffice.bsky.social · 12h

This is the worst name I've ever seen.

Watching the American Sedan race at the SCCA Runoffs and there is a driver named Dylan Licklider.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 14h

“Baby in her placenta” is pretty bad for a HHS secretary but it’s arguably worse for a guy with six kids. It’s impossible to not learn this stuff as a dad if you’re even remotely paying attention just once.

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 12h

Oh lol okay time to do my box breathing

davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 16h

The indictment alleges that NYAG James lives in "Brooklyn NJ."

Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Letitia James held Trump accountable & now he’s hijacking the DOJ to indict her in retaliation

This isn’t justice, it’s abuse of power

We will be amending our existing ethics complaint against Halligan & pursuing other legal measures

www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/10.09.25...