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Badger Wormwood

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30+. Writer, animal person, gay in 2 genders. Icon from StasiaFox16's furry picrew. He/him + she/her. https://www.patreon.com/bwormwood

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Badger Wormwood @bwormwood.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Hi! I'm Badger Wormwood. I'm an indie author specializing in xenofiction, paranormal+monster romance, and horror. I'm currently serializing my werewolf romance novel, NORTHERN LIGHTS, on Patreon! You can also check out my short stories and newsletter there.

www.patreon.com/c/bwormwood

novels and short stories

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Iben Krutt 🇳🇴 @ibenkrutt.bsky.social · 18d

Preyspace, 2025

A telshee and a ferryshaft from the xenofiction series Hunters Unlucky by Abigail Hilton

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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 28d

The number of people fired or suspended for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk must serve as a reminder none of the far right are free speech advocates, they just want no limits on what they say.

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Badger Wormwood @bwormwood.bsky.social · 28d

Hello! I disappeared from Bluesky again for a bit, but I wanted to say that the first chapter of my book is up on my Patreon for anyone at the $5 tier!

www.patreon.com/posts/northe...

Northern Lights: Chapter 1 | Badger Wormwood

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 28d

it's not that there aren't people who deserve to die so much as that i don't trust any institutions that kill people to not develop self-preservational institutional goals and then keep killing people, even if i trusted any institutions to begin with, which i also don't

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · Aug 22

This isn’t vetting, it’s an attempt to *create* a bunch of “illegal” immigrants. Nothing has ever been more transparent in the world. They’re gonna revoke visas of people who like Kamala Harris on Facebook.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Aug 21

BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.

Trump administration reviewing all 55M people with US visas for potential deportable violations

The Trump administration says it’s reviewing all the more than 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.

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Badger Wormwood @bwormwood.bsky.social · Aug 20

Which, I know, “the furry who’s been mainlining the VC Andrews books since November is ‘picky?’” But I really am.

Badger Wormwood @bwormwood.bsky.social · Aug 20

Sometimes I feel bad that I’m such a picky reader. Literally gave up on a book before even picking it up because of a comma splice in the blurb.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · Aug 20

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Aug 20

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

fortune.com

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Malachite Tigerbunny @malachitetiger.bsky.social · Aug 20

Since MB doesn't seem active on here and it's worth seeing a crosspost

Screenshot reading: "They come for porn first because it's one of the easiest things to vilify and the most embarrassing to defend. Because so many of us will automatically laugh at anyone saying 'my inability to purchase/access tentacle hentai is a serious threat to free speech' even when it 100% is"

Screenshot reading: "Have concerns about the Orwellian digital ID pilot program? Good to know you support child predators. Don't think two private companies should have unilateral say over what kind of art can or can't be sold? Touch grass, gooner. A few thought-terminating cliches end all arguments. You have to fight back now, you have to fight back hard, and you have to fight for the stuff you think is gross and creepy and stupid, because the taboo topics you care about are next"

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · Aug 20

One thing I'd like to point out is that Cloudflare fought against the idea that they should take action against neo-nazis, stalkers, doxers, and revenge porn posters for years. But websites that host drawn porn get taken down for "indecency" with no fight whatsoever.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Aug 18

The censorship of the Internet continues. Regarding Cloudflare proxy use

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Gelbooru
@gelbooru
So for whatever reason, Cloudflare has now disabled access to our domain when the proxy is enabled. This struck all our sites at once. I received no email from Cloudflare before this happened, and still have no idea what is going on.
It also happened for Danbooru at the same moment.
7:41 AM • 8/18/25 • 28K Views

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Mewtype Ghost @mewtype.online · Aug 20

I got banned from a South Florida furs group for calling out a mod and his hypocritical uwu no paw-lotics bullshit. I avoid the no politics furry spaces because it's safer to assume it's a Nazi bar.

ZONE @zonedelicious.bsky.social · Aug 20

The biggest problem with the furry fandom is that it's the norm to be politically illiterate.

It's those who avoid politics and have no understanding of them that create the environment for fascists to exist in furry spaces.

reywolfe.art 🎃👻⚰️ @kr00bs.com · Aug 18

POC furries what laments do you have about the furry fandom? Lemme hear them. Let me lift your voices.

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Trinket @trinketbirdy.bsky.social · Aug 17

This bed costs around 2000 dollars btw and you have to pay a subscription

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · Aug 16

The only difference between our reality and a Philip K Dick novel is the characters in a Philip K Dick novel don't choose to live like this

Woke up because my Al controlled bed is too cold. Went to adjust
temperature and I can't because the Eight Sleep app is currently broken. Can't adjust by hand because I have a Pod3, not the upgraded Pod4 with
physical controls.
Now I am stuck in a cold bed. This feels dystopian.

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Peter Beinart @peterbeinart.bsky.social · Aug 19

Of course Mamdani has visited Jewish communities. What angers Greenblatt is that Mamdani isn't courting HIM. By winning the young Jewish vote while condemning Israel, Mamdani is exposing how out of touch Greenblatt is with many of those he claims to represent. That's what makes Mamdani a threat.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Aug 18

Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL said on TV today that Zohran Mamdani did not visit a single synagogue in NYC during the campaign. That is, to put it bluntly, a lie. forward.com/news/763210/...

ADL chief attacks Zohran Mamdani, but gets his facts wrong

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized Zohran Mamdani for not visiting synagogues, which he was, and not reaching out to Hasidic voters.

forward.com

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Carly @nautiluscarly.bsky.social · Aug 19

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · Aug 20

"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser.

One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.

Excerpt from NYT article that reads: "'Every time they fight, they lose another $250 million,' Mr. Trump said of Harvard in the spring. 'Harvard had to understand, the last thing I want to do is hurt them,' he added. 'They're hurting themselves. They're fighting.'"

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Aug 20

Call from a producer this morning:

Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?

We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · Aug 20

Anyone who thinks that Democrats should throw trans people under the bus because trans issues poll badly needs to be treated like the bigoted coward they are.

They poll badly because Democrats have let Republicans frame the entire issue without pushing back on it.

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onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 19

the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 18

beyond the moral ghoulish ness I just don't understand the basic contention of how this is supposed to work as a defense. if a whole population of people was starving en masse, would one expect people with "pre-existing conditions" to be over or underrepresented amongst those who die first?

David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · Aug 18

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 12

The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · Aug 12

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Which way, American man?

http://JOIN.ICE.GOV

photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · Aug 12

they got him strutting around the city like bugs bunny talkin shit, i bet cuomo is so mad right now

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 12

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 13

Yesterday a judge ordered ICE to improve conditions in holding cells at ICE's field office in NYC. It's a good decision, yet many of the responses here are along the lines of "none of this matters" or "they'll just ignore this." Those responses are wrong. Here's a quick thread on why.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 12

HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't:

- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls

Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · Aug 12

Judge Lewis Kaplan has GRANTED a motion for a TRO sought by lawyers for detainees at 26 Federal Plaza. It requires DHS to provide migrants a clean and safe place to sleep, prescription medication, nutritious meals, access to counsel, & other necessities storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · Aug 14

people with paint markers making public art are the unsung heroes of the modern town and city

black paint marker on brick-red-painted wall: a cartoon black cat head with the word SQUID under

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · Aug 18

EXCLUSIVE

WIRED has learned that law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox in the coming weeks on behalf of parents who are accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of their kids.

www.wired.com/story/is-rob...

Is Roblox Getting Worse?

Long plagued by moderation issues, the platform recently released a series of updates aimed at improving the experience for kids. Experts worry they could have the opposite effect.

www.wired.com

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · Aug 18

The genocide apologia saying it's not that bad because victims were disabled holds as much water as a a sieve. What's disabling them? Could it be attacks on their bodies living in famine surviving bombings? And disabled lives are lives no matter how they got disabled & it's ableist to discount them.

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