Jack who wrote Aether Torrent
@jackscarab.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, 🍞&🌹 socialist, somehow Oklahoman.
Author of YA fantasy Aether Torrent. Buy it and then read and review it!
https://lnk.bio/JackDuffe
https://books2read.com/aethertorrent
💙📚 #booksky
Author of YA fantasy Aether Torrent. Buy it and then read and review it!
https://lnk.bio/JackDuffe
https://books2read.com/aethertorrent
💙📚 #booksky
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It's late January -- book awards season!
Being a YA Fantasy from 2025, my book AETHER TORRENT is eligible for the Nebula, Hugo Lodestar, and Andre Norton awards, and I advise anyone nominating for them to give it a look.
It's very good.
💙📚 #booksky
#aethertorrent
books2read.com/aethertorrent
Being a YA Fantasy from 2025, my book AETHER TORRENT is eligible for the Nebula, Hugo Lodestar, and Andre Norton awards, and I advise anyone nominating for them to give it a look.
It's very good.
💙📚 #booksky
#aethertorrent
books2read.com/aethertorrent
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over and over again the efficacy of these programs gets proven
and yet
and yet
In 2023, an Oregon program began providing 120 homeless youth with $1,000 every month.
Two years later, 94% of participants reported they were housed.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Two years later, 94% of participants reported they were housed.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Oregon tried giving homeless youth $1,000 a month with no strings attached. Here’s what happened
The program helped 94% of participants secure housing while building financial literacy skills that could break the cycle of homelessness.
www.oregonlive.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:32 AM
over and over again the efficacy of these programs gets proven
and yet
and yet
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Terrifying fact about asbestos:
Nearly all talcum powder and talc products are contaminated with asbestos, because the geological deposits regularly co-occur, so it's very hard to purely harvest talc.
This is why there was a baby powder causing cancer problem.
Nearly all talcum powder and talc products are contaminated with asbestos, because the geological deposits regularly co-occur, so it's very hard to purely harvest talc.
This is why there was a baby powder causing cancer problem.
Veritasium made a video on asbestos (that I helped with in a teeny tiny capacity). You can check it out here. #geology youtu.be/cMx139eTxoc?...
How One Rock Poisoned (Almost) The Entire Planet
YouTube video by Veritasium
youtu.be
February 18, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Terrifying fact about asbestos:
Nearly all talcum powder and talc products are contaminated with asbestos, because the geological deposits regularly co-occur, so it's very hard to purely harvest talc.
This is why there was a baby powder causing cancer problem.
Nearly all talcum powder and talc products are contaminated with asbestos, because the geological deposits regularly co-occur, so it's very hard to purely harvest talc.
This is why there was a baby powder causing cancer problem.
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Milt Kahl just having them wiggle their heads around just to show off I swear god damn inhuman god of an artist.
February 18, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Milt Kahl just having them wiggle their heads around just to show off I swear god damn inhuman god of an artist.
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Fragment of an anthropomorphic brazier. Aztec (c. 1300)
February 17, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Fragment of an anthropomorphic brazier. Aztec (c. 1300)
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Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧
The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement.
May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.
The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement.
May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.
February 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧
The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement.
May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.
The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement.
May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.
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Does Trump still golf? Used to be that fucker was hitting the links every other day. Used to be stories and pictures of him on the course. So, is he so impaired he can no longer golf? Or is he golfing up a storm but they’re just hiding it for optics during the horrors?
February 16, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Does Trump still golf? Used to be that fucker was hitting the links every other day. Used to be stories and pictures of him on the course. So, is he so impaired he can no longer golf? Or is he golfing up a storm but they’re just hiding it for optics during the horrors?
Wherein I explain in my long-winded way about how this guy is spot-on about incels.
![A Discord monologue on the subject of incels and their vocabulary.
[redacted]
good grief is that where "maxxed" and "mogging" come from
[Jackscarab]
Yep. Incel boys wanted vocabulary as in-group signifiers for their girl-free social circles. Pickup nonsense was born from a place of seeing celibacy as a problem that could be engineered away. When enough time passed that it was proven useless, or indeed an active deterrent to the Feeeeeemale attention they required, they needed new vocabulary to enforce the walls between themselves and women with outright hatred and more eugenics than a plantation logbook.
Breeding this, maxxing that. Mogging this, foids that.
Dave Sim was rather ahead of his time by calling women voids. Nowadays there's an F in front of the word.
The incel community is so close to white nationalists as to be nearly an eclipse. Racists are always happy to provide an answer for impressionable young men as to why they're feeling bad about themselves.
Memetic despair and fatalism are part of the mix, too, for the gentlemen who don't have the nerve to hate women or Jews (it's always Jews, in the end) more than themselves.
For further information, read Tal Lavin's "Culture Warlords." Or don't, and feel better about the country.
[Jackscarab]
(I seem to have a high tolerance for this sort of thing, but it could cause despair in others.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:au2tppis3mqhabkhhng4wyde/bafkreifg4uf2mihgto76y62yolfy3diw4j3y2zxuo6a72xpi74kgli7qje@jpeg)
February 18, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Wherein I explain in my long-winded way about how this guy is spot-on about incels.
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Motherfucker, I made a movie for $600 in 2022 and I didn't need a plagiarism machine or to ask randos for ideas. I just asked myself "Wouldn't it be fucked up if snowmen ate people?"
Grow an imagination, """filmmaker."""
Grow an imagination, """filmmaker."""
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Motherfucker, I made a movie for $600 in 2022 and I didn't need a plagiarism machine or to ask randos for ideas. I just asked myself "Wouldn't it be fucked up if snowmen ate people?"
Grow an imagination, """filmmaker."""
Grow an imagination, """filmmaker."""
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Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
Ramadan Mubarak!
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
February 17, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
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This guy (@glutelord.bsky.social) is correct about a lot of the discourse around "looksmaxxing" and so much of guys' ideas of what men should look like, and he should keep saying it.
February 17, 2026 at 7:57 PM
This guy (@glutelord.bsky.social) is correct about a lot of the discourse around "looksmaxxing" and so much of guys' ideas of what men should look like, and he should keep saying it.
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This is the tech that will get me excited
February 17, 2026 at 11:58 PM
This is the tech that will get me excited
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fwiw insofar as there’s a maga after trump, i think RFK, jr. is an underrated figure for inheriting it, he is unlikely to disappear whenever trump croaks
RFK, jr. is one of the few high profile people in the world who is as naturally and unpleasantly weird as donald trump, and for many of the same reasons
February 18, 2026 at 12:01 AM
fwiw insofar as there’s a maga after trump, i think RFK, jr. is an underrated figure for inheriting it, he is unlikely to disappear whenever trump croaks
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In celebration of Mardi Grad and New Orleans in general, here’s a lil witch casting Jambalaya with her allidragon 🥰
February 18, 2026 at 12:22 AM
In celebration of Mardi Grad and New Orleans in general, here’s a lil witch casting Jambalaya with her allidragon 🥰
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Whole comic in reply thread.
Read it. It's good. 💜
Read it. It's good. 💜
February 17, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Whole comic in reply thread.
Read it. It's good. 💜
Read it. It's good. 💜
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I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025
The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...
www.michiganpublic.org
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
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.hack//SIGN is so fucking special and a very good chunk of it is that the "trapped in an MMO world and percieving it as physical in a way that the rest of the cast does not" is not framed as empowering or fantastical, but as an immediate and troubling sign of dissociation
Thinking very much about how good the end of the 1st episode of .hack sign is.
Following this mystery of who this person is and why they're so distantly hostile to others, the clear grief and fear they're processing, this bug of reality constantly coming at them and them adamantly rejecting it.
Following this mystery of who this person is and why they're so distantly hostile to others, the clear grief and fear they're processing, this bug of reality constantly coming at them and them adamantly rejecting it.
February 17, 2026 at 5:08 PM
.hack//SIGN is so fucking special and a very good chunk of it is that the "trapped in an MMO world and percieving it as physical in a way that the rest of the cast does not" is not framed as empowering or fantastical, but as an immediate and troubling sign of dissociation
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AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 17, 2026 at 10:02 PM
AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.
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New: Trump's election bill tops 50 Senate votes
Susan Collins is #50 for SAVE America Act, per sponsor Mike Lee.
House passed it.
Trump supports it.
The 60-vote rule is now the only thing preventing it from becoming law. Democrats promise to filibuster it.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Susan Collins is #50 for SAVE America Act, per sponsor Mike Lee.
House passed it.
Trump supports it.
The 60-vote rule is now the only thing preventing it from becoming law. Democrats promise to filibuster it.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Trump's election bill tops 50 Senate votes, but Democrats could still block it
The SAVE America Act has passed the House and enjoys President Trump's support, meaning the Senate's 60-vote threshold is the only thing standing in the way of it becoming law.
www.nbcnews.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM
New: Trump's election bill tops 50 Senate votes
Susan Collins is #50 for SAVE America Act, per sponsor Mike Lee.
House passed it.
Trump supports it.
The 60-vote rule is now the only thing preventing it from becoming law. Democrats promise to filibuster it.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Susan Collins is #50 for SAVE America Act, per sponsor Mike Lee.
House passed it.
Trump supports it.
The 60-vote rule is now the only thing preventing it from becoming law. Democrats promise to filibuster it.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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they used to use the Olympic Anthem for athletes competing under neutral flags, but then they decided they didn't want the Russian/Belarussians to get the Olympic Anthem, so ahead of 2024 they wrote a special Individual Neutral Athletes anthem that they'll use if any of them win
February 17, 2026 at 9:35 PM
they used to use the Olympic Anthem for athletes competing under neutral flags, but then they decided they didn't want the Russian/Belarussians to get the Olympic Anthem, so ahead of 2024 they wrote a special Individual Neutral Athletes anthem that they'll use if any of them win
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have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books?
good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader
you won’t regret it
good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader
you won’t regret it
Humble Book Bundle: Best of Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld by HarperCollins Encore 2026
Experience Sir Terry Practchett’s beloved Discworld series! Get 35+ books covering all corners of this comic fantasy universe and help support Room to Read!
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February 17, 2026 at 9:19 PM
have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books?
good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader
you won’t regret it
good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader
you won’t regret it
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I was just telling a pal that if you’ve been waffling between a Switch 2 and a Steam Deck, now’s the time to grab a S2 because this gongshow is going to get worse before it gets better. I understand the “boycott Nintendo” angle, but Switch 2 prices are about to be the least of our problems!
February 17, 2026 at 9:50 PM
I was just telling a pal that if you’ve been waffling between a Switch 2 and a Steam Deck, now’s the time to grab a S2 because this gongshow is going to get worse before it gets better. I understand the “boycott Nintendo” angle, but Switch 2 prices are about to be the least of our problems!
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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
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He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”
How many of the media outlets eulogizing Rev. Jesse Jackson today spent decades trying to undermine his work & turn him into a punchline?
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”