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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I feel like everyone's in a really weird state about "How To Do Leisure Properly" and everyone's really anxious about being a bad person if they do it wrong, cuz that's the only form of moral agency. And it's not just "what's your side hustle" anymore, now it's "are you Just Consuming?"
February 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I feel like everyone's in a really weird state about "How To Do Leisure Properly" and everyone's really anxious about being a bad person if they do it wrong, cuz that's the only form of moral agency. And it's not just "what's your side hustle" anymore, now it's "are you Just Consuming?"
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Just finding out now that the CEO of Chuck E Cheese is mentioned in the Epstein Files
February 15, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Just finding out now that the CEO of Chuck E Cheese is mentioned in the Epstein Files
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American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
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"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
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Time to dust off a classic
February 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Time to dust off a classic
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Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
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For all of my UK and Ireland followers, The Day the Earth Blew Up A Looney Tunes Movie is finally out in cinemas after almost a year since it was released in the US! I highly recommend seeing it to enjoy another rare chance of seeing 2D animation on the big screen!
February 13, 2026 at 12:24 PM
For all of my UK and Ireland followers, The Day the Earth Blew Up A Looney Tunes Movie is finally out in cinemas after almost a year since it was released in the US! I highly recommend seeing it to enjoy another rare chance of seeing 2D animation on the big screen!
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Practical!!! Effects!!!!!!!!
From ROMEO Art Director Kunihiko Taniwaki:
"Can you imagine how utterly insane it is to melt a dummy head's face with a flamethrower in a sweltering, humid, air-conditioner-less warehouse studio in the middle of summer in Japan? Special effects by Tomo Hyakutake, DP & compositing by Takuma Araki."
"Can you imagine how utterly insane it is to melt a dummy head's face with a flamethrower in a sweltering, humid, air-conditioner-less warehouse studio in the middle of summer in Japan? Special effects by Tomo Hyakutake, DP & compositing by Takuma Araki."
February 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Practical!!! Effects!!!!!!!!
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Copper evolution line!
(Posting their character sheets in thread⬇️)
(Posting their character sheets in thread⬇️)
February 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Copper evolution line!
(Posting their character sheets in thread⬇️)
(Posting their character sheets in thread⬇️)
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People saying "but if we defined 'middle class' that way there would basically BE no middle class in America!!"
Me:
Me:
February 15, 2026 at 2:31 PM
People saying "but if we defined 'middle class' that way there would basically BE no middle class in America!!"
Me:
Me:
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Break these fucking things if you see them
Mass deletion of Facebook and Insta accounts, yes? www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...
February 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Break these fucking things if you see them
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It is time to go out for my dumb little walk for my dumb little mental health!
...
I regret to inform you that the houses on my dumb little walk have doorbell cameras that connect to Peter Thiel's Fascist Panopticon and Sexual Harassment Goggles are becoming popular
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I regret to inform you that the houses on my dumb little walk have doorbell cameras that connect to Peter Thiel's Fascist Panopticon and Sexual Harassment Goggles are becoming popular
February 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM
It is time to go out for my dumb little walk for my dumb little mental health!
...
I regret to inform you that the houses on my dumb little walk have doorbell cameras that connect to Peter Thiel's Fascist Panopticon and Sexual Harassment Goggles are becoming popular
...
I regret to inform you that the houses on my dumb little walk have doorbell cameras that connect to Peter Thiel's Fascist Panopticon and Sexual Harassment Goggles are becoming popular
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Can’t believe we are still doing this
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Can’t believe we are still doing this
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if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"
February 15, 2026 at 8:03 AM
if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"
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If ICE will not follow the law we should not consider it protected by the law.
February 15, 2026 at 4:51 PM
If ICE will not follow the law we should not consider it protected by the law.
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I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.
You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.
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This is blackout poetry to me
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is blackout poetry to me
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was looking for something else and found this important post deep in my files
February 15, 2026 at 5:09 AM
was looking for something else and found this important post deep in my files
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this what i imagine the big tomes they lug around on their belts in 40k r
February 15, 2026 at 4:39 AM
this what i imagine the big tomes they lug around on their belts in 40k r
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
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(there is something very funny also about Rubio adopting a late 18th century european chauvinist’s contempt for ‘creole’ peoples. like, dude, you’re *cuban*)
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
(there is something very funny also about Rubio adopting a late 18th century european chauvinist’s contempt for ‘creole’ peoples. like, dude, you’re *cuban*)
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In Minnesota, we are all too familiar with false spring. You think maybe winter’s finally over...until the cold snaps back, sometimes even harder.
That’s what this moment feels like. You may hear that ICE is “leaving", but they’re shifting, spreading out.
Don’t mistake a brief thaw for safety.
That’s what this moment feels like. You may hear that ICE is “leaving", but they’re shifting, spreading out.
Don’t mistake a brief thaw for safety.
February 15, 2026 at 3:53 AM
In Minnesota, we are all too familiar with false spring. You think maybe winter’s finally over...until the cold snaps back, sometimes even harder.
That’s what this moment feels like. You may hear that ICE is “leaving", but they’re shifting, spreading out.
Don’t mistake a brief thaw for safety.
That’s what this moment feels like. You may hear that ICE is “leaving", but they’re shifting, spreading out.
Don’t mistake a brief thaw for safety.
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They already had one
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European far-right parties push for ICE-style police
Fringe figures want to follow the Trump playbook for tackling unauthorized migration.
www.politico.eu
February 15, 2026 at 3:04 AM
They already had one