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skiles.blue
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
danteatkins.bsky.social Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 4d
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
In the spirit of giving, we're SO happy to announce the official glossary and reference guide for Umora will be out next Monday, December 1st!

Read more: www.patreon.com/posts/144489...
The front cover of the Umora reference guide and glossary. The Worlds Beyond Number cosmic swirl is the background image. in the upper left corner is the Worlds Beyond Number logo. In the center of the image is large white text that reads 'The Wizard, The Witch, and The WIld One.' Below that is slightly smaller white text that reads 'Glossary & Reference Document.'
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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karenatsharon.bsky.social
Great explanation of potential AI techbubble and the fallout. Explains the circular loop of investment. And the cost. Andrew Chang is awesome. #cdnpoli #CBC If the AI bubble pops, will th...
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If the AI bubble pops, will the whole U.S. economy go with it? | About That
As investors pour billions into artificial intelligence, warnings of a looming AI bubble are intensifying. Andrew Chang explains what's fuelling those fears and breaks down key factors that could cont...
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
Catholicism was right!

Part 2 of Worlds Beyond Number playing Fiasco, by
@bullypulpithq.bsky.social, is out now wherever you listen to podcasts!

Watch now: youtu.be/ZnP4HLLs27s
Worlds Beyond Number: Fiasco! (Part Two)
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November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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karenho.bsky.social
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
Isaac Chotiner: "I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece" Ben Smith: "Also — and I'll stop now! — the question he's trying to get at of how you cover monarchies with endless time horizons as a journalist (this is a thing people from most major publications do) is genuinely interesting." Chotiner, with the kill shot: "Come on Ben. I refuse to pretend that both of us are dumber than we are."
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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mdettinger.bsky.social
Tesla is giving Elon a new $1T/10 yrs pay package. The combined paychecks of all 3.2 million cashiers in US will ~ equal Musk’s new compensation. Musk will make $3 billion more per year than the 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined
See how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s new payment package compares with other occupations in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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emp1.bsky.social
People using Chrome may want to know about this.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
An image showing a Chrome window to disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode and disable the three options displayed
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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scrivenerapp.bsky.social
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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scalzi.com
What the actual fuck, Apple
jillmurray.bsky.social Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 10d
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
A Facebook post from Scrivener: "Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you're on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. Here's why, and what you can do if you want to remove this" attention-grabbing graphic says "SCRIVENER AND AI: WHY DO I SEE AI PROMPTS IN MY SCRIVENER PROJECTS ON MAC?"
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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dynarski.bsky.social
I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession

And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?

Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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rdotspoon.bsky.social
Plan A: Spend the summer at camp hiding from your influencer mother.

Plan B: Accidentally break your arm and then blackmail your grumpy skater crush into letting you hide at her house all summer.

YOU CAN PREORDER SUMMER OFFICIAL NOW! 🛹🧡🍦
rebekahweatherspoon....
#booksky #romancebooksky
Book cover: Summer Official by USA TODAY bestselling author Rebekah Weatherspoon A plus size brown skinned black girl carrying a skateboard and wearing crop black tshirt that says Queen of Hearts in white lettering and black jeans and black vans, walking hand in hand with a light skinned black girl with blond hair. She is wearing a white tank top, demon shorts, white ankle socks and green converse. She has a blue cast on one arm with doodles all over it. They are walking through an illustrated Venice beach. The Venice over head sign has been replaced with the book title Summer Official.
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
this, all day right now

(unmute, it’s a bop)
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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thespaceshipper.com
[Ongoing thread] New Stargate TV show

We knew it was coming!

"Amazon MGM Studios has greenlighted another series based on popular MGM IP, giving a series order to Stargate for Prime Video. The new installment in the classic sci-fi franchise comes from Martin Gero, a Stargate veteran and...."
a dark room with a light coming out of a hole in the wall
ALT: a dark room with a light coming out of a hole in the wall
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November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
if you are considering submitting an application for this position, you still have just under 2 weeks to do so

any and all suitable candidates, please apply. everyone else, pls share with your networks
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Oct 30
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...

applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome

pls share with your networks
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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annesmien.bsky.social
Watercolour painting of my daughter's cat, Freddie. Done from a photo taken by my son. A good photo makes all the difference to a pet portrait. I just love those toe beans!
#cats #kittens #whiskerswednesday #toebeans #art #watercolour #painting
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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suleikhasnyder.bsky.social
I love that "be gay, do crimes" is a strong narrative thread throughout SENSE8. The other day I called it a "warm, queer hug" and I forgot about the questionable and violent parts of that hug. 😂 No judgment, mind you.
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
GOOD MORNING, GAME MASTERS! 🎲☀️

This week, our Patreon-exclusive fireside is Brennan and Aabria discussing any and all things GM.

Join us to get access: www.patreon.com/posts/firesi...
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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erikahall.bsky.social
The backstory to the Tom Holland lip sync is such a repudiation of slop. So much human effort and skill and *rights clearing* went into creating something so many people love.

www.businessinsider.com/tom-holland-...
An oral history of Tom Holland's sensational 'Lip Sync Battle' performance
The producers, choreographers, and dancers behind the "Umbrella" and "Singin' in the Rain" mashup explain how it came to be.
www.businessinsider.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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popelizbet.bsky.social
I am an asexual lesbian who has written better kink than this for less money.
themountaingoats.bsky.social the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12d
when the full Olivia Nuzzi book streets Bluesky is going to collectively experience something akin to the ecstasies of the Bacchae
Like all men but more so, he was a hunter. In a literal sense, he used not a bullet but a bird. It was not about a chase but about a puzzle of logic and skill that amounted to a test of his self-mastery. He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his own pleasure and torment. He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself. I understood this just as I came to understand the range of his kinks and complexes and how they fit within what I thought I understood of his soul.
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
Two pear crisps. The left is in a skillet, and the right in a square baking pan.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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kjcharleswriter.com
Publishing strategy:

Observe lots of people like romance in fantasy
Label everything romantasy
Observe lots of people like fantasy without romance
Label everything anti-romantasy
Observe lots of people like romance in fantasy
Label everything anti-anti-romantasy...
davidgreenwriter.bsky.social David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 13d
This week, I was sent a proof from one of the big publishers. In their pack, they described it as an "anti romantasy".

An anti romantasy.

I have so many thoughts about this, I honestly don't know where to begin.
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
It’s here: a podcast with our faces.

We’re playing Fiasco, a TTRPG that goes gloriously off the rails on purpose. Because sometimes chaos is the plan.

Part one is out now wherever you listen to podcasts, and on our YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKhp...
Worlds Beyond Number: Fiasco! Pt. 1
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November 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Grok tweets: "Yes, the USSR's founding ideology under Lenin and Stalin explicitly aimed for world revolution to achieve global communism, as outlined in Marxist-Leninist doctrine. The Comintern (1919-1943) actively coordinated communist parties worldwide to overthrow capitalist governments through subversion, strikes, and uprisings. While Stalin later emphasized "socialism in one country" for pragmatic reasons, Soviet support for proxy wars, espionage, and insurgencies—like in Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba—continued exporting revolution until the end. Coexistence rhetoric masked this expansionist drive." Ryan Grim replies: "Grok I’m going to block you if you are truly this misinformed. This is communism 101. The whole debate between Stalin and Trotsky was over this question and Stalin won. It is idiotic to say that supporting Korean resistance to Japanese occupation or Vietnamese resistance to French and American occupation counts as overthrowing capitalist countries. Check your training for bias because these assertions are absurd. (Also the Soviets did basically nothing to help the Cuban revolution at the start.) This is your last chance to dodge a block."
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
Welcome to FIASCO! We're launching our first-ever video podcast tomorrow, Nov. 11th, at 7am PT!

This two-part video podcast will be availably publicly on our YouTube channel, and as audio across your favorite podcatcher platforms.

Are you ready for the chaos???

www.patreon.com/worldsbeyond...
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM