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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent
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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
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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
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Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL

YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.

USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+

NOT.

A.

DRILL.

www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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Many experts had thought sharks didn't exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica. n.pr/4rHpYsZ
Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica's near-freezing deep
Many experts had thought sharks didn't exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica.
n.pr
February 18, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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"the radical left is pushing people to the right" i started off just wanting healthcare as a teenager and after seeing the system fail over and over i now believe it should be entirely torn down but sure it's the pronouns that are making people into psychopathic racists
February 18, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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Stephen Colbert, with grace and humor, is making his network overlords look like the most pathetic cowards imaginable, and that’s what they are. The last two nights have been a masterclass in courage and precise examples of how everyone should deal with this stupid administration.
February 18, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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February 18, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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"Egg Film" by Jacob Tobin.
jacobtobin.portfoliobox.net
February 18, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state
Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation, claims that evidence suggests a correlation between undergoing Trans Medical Care and acts of violence.

He states Heritage's public policy solution is to ban it for all ages and they're willing to work towards this goal on an incremental basis.
February 18, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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This man has always been a tired, loves-to-hear-himself-speak, sellout, tap dancing asshat who huffs the fumes off his own cultivated cult of personality & now all he’s doing is finally showing his true face. He is living proof that all your skinfolks aint your kinfolks. Poison Cosbyesque bullshit
Stephen A. Smith: "We wouldn’t have a border crisis under my watch."

"We ain’t defunding any police… There’s gonna be more."

It's with much regret I foresee the inevitable, he's running
February 18, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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the problem with killing? hmm I'd say the expense
I couldn't forward the article but I think the headline says it all.
February 18, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.
February 17, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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oh so very much this
February 18, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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"The demand for endless growth and parabolic improvement, forever, stretching into the unseen horizon, is pure and unsustainable insanity, insisted upon by fools"

- Woman who gets mad at herself if she goes slower on the treadmill than she did yesterday
February 18, 2026 at 4:38 AM
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over and over again the efficacy of these programs gets proven

and yet
February 18, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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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.
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
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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
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Fragment of an anthropomorphic brazier. Aztec (c. 1300)
February 17, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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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.
February 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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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
Wherein I explain in my long-winded way about how this guy is spot-on about incels.
February 18, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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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."""
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.
February 17, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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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.
Ramadan Mubarak!

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Laissez bon temps rouler!

Hodesh Adar tov!

Y'ALL

February 17, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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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
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This is the tech that will get me excited
February 17, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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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