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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 17h

Only one political party is actually expressing any empathy and concern on the way this shutdown is immediately impacting tens of millions of patients nationwide.

The tragic irony is most of these patients live in states that support the current party in power. That party remains silent.

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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social · 16h

Recent trip to NYC had the chance to chat with @mcflycahill90.bsky.social & talk AUDITION FOR THE FOX! Loved it, it's a dose of what we need right now. Also damn Breads cheesy focaccia for the win!

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GeekGirlCon @geekgirlcon.bsky.social · Aug 25

🎉GeekGirlCon is unveiling our match campaign!🎉

💞 Thanks to a few generous matching donors, every dollar you give to GGC will be matched — dollar for dollar — from now until the close of #GGC25 on November 9.

GGC is a 100% volunteer-run organization – every single dollar donated goes directly to🧵

From now through GeekGirlCon 2025, every dollar you give will be DOUBLED! We’re trying to raise $11,000 — and thanks to a generous group of donors, every dollar will be matched for a total of $22,000!

Give today and help us reach our goal!
#GeekGirlCon #DoubleTheImpact

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ACLU @aclu.org · 7d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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StrayCatalyst @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 7d

Hiya friends, are you or do you know a rad dev who could use something like this? Pass it on!

The Halp Network @thehalpnetwork.bsky.social · 7d

Our friends at GLAAD Gaming just announced their new mentorship program, which focuses on lifting the LGBTQ Game Dev community!

If you're an early-mid career LGBTQ Game Dev, this might be for you! glaad.org/qed

Reposting & sharing is appreciated!

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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social · 8d

Toss a fiver at NPR ( like tossing a coin to your Witcher but, ya know, there’s inflation )…

NPR @npr.org · 8d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 9d

I will not piss on anyone’s chips, but as a project which celebrates the English gothic and the weird every day of the year, I sigh heartily at the start of October. Celebration of the dark and strange should never be calendar constrained. #October

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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social · 8d

Sorry for your loss :(

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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social · 8d

Worth getting up early to read this :)

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 8d

Book Tour Day 2:
Our fabulously hatted heroine shares a cab to the airport with a woman in town for a healthcare conference.

HEROINE: Oh, are you a doctor?
WOMAN: …lawyer.
WOMAN: *clearly waiting for joke*
HEROINE: So I write these fantasy novels about a god of lawyers and social workers…

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 9d

Will the woman with the fabulous hat make her connection in Atlanta?

Does she have a lint roller in her luggage?

How many books does she have to sell before the publisher springs for Comfort Plus?

Tune in next time when this and other questions will be answered, in Tales! Of! Book Tour!

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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social · 8d

We need them apples Chuck

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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social · 19d

Congrats @mcflycahill90.bsky.social !!

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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social · 19d

Just got home to happy book mail!!

_Audition for the Fox _ by Martin Cahill cover shows a smiling red fox, tongue out, with black forelegs . At top: “ Stunning imagination “—NK Jemisin blurb

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 21d

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22d

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21d

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21d

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

www.nytimes.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23d

A friend of mine co-owns this bookstore. This is not great.

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

Small DC bookstore reports 60% decline in business since federal surge

A bookstore in the Petworth neighborhood reports sales are down a whopping 60% since the federal surge in D.C. began. The small but beautifully arranged Loyalty Bookstore on busy Upshur Street near Ge...

www.nbcwashington.com

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 22d

Today begins the process of removing interpretive assets across National Park Service sites that violate the president's EO. If you work for the NPS, please let me know what, if any, changes are taking place at your site. No names will be used. Thank you. #NationalParks 🗃️

cwmemory.com/contact-me/

contact

Use this contact form to get in touch with me. Please provide as much information as possible if you are interested in scheduling a speaking engagement, history tour or workshop. I will do my best to ...

cwmemory.com

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 23d

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22d

Quick point. Trump cannot silence you, period. He doesn’t have the means or the tools, and if he did he would be too weak to use them. This is a bluff.

It only works if you let it.

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 23d

The Fox is free! Today my debut, Audition For The Fox, is officially out in the world. Magic. Fables. Time travel. And the many ways even a goofball can resist oppression & fight tyranny.

Thank you to everyone who had a paw in bringing this into the world & supporting it. Forever grateful, I am 🦊💜

Finished cover and copy for Audition for the Fox, on a table.

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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com · 23d

Attention! Attention! Free Silvia Moreno-Garcia work from Uncanny Magazine! Woooo hoooooo! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

The Lure of Stone - Uncanny Magazine

They saw the men when they were close to reaching Elmesak; they rode two by two and all six of them were decked in crimson. Yalxi set the bedroll and the pack with their supplies down by the side of t...

www.uncannymagazine.com

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Michael Damian Thomas @michaeldthomas.bsky.social · Sep 10

Uncanny Magazine received 2800 short story submissions. It does seem that we are still getting AI subs. (Sadly, no shock there.) I can buy 15-20 stories for Year 12.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29d

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around!

1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video"
2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

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