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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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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 26d
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
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books2read.com/aethertorrent
The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available in print and eBook formats from major retailers! Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood. Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green. The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design. Above that are the words: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series
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I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat
Buncha dumb shit about AOC like she's a FP waif when she's not
February 18, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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theonion.com
Cam Girl Has Ash On Forehead
February 18, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
startribune.com Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 4h
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
We're splitting hairs over pedophilia. We're normalizing having lunch with the world's most famous pedophile
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?

LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
February 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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thequeso.bsky.social
Congress killed online poker in a week in 2006. If I remember correctly it was bipartisan in nature. They have the ability to murder Kalshi and Polymarket, and the next Democratic trifecta should do so expeditiously.
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2h
I know the endless sports gambling promotion was already bad enough but for some reason this stuff (also Giannis and Kalshi, substack polymarket embeds, etc) gives me End Times vibes. Just dark as hell, all of it.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h
It seems nuts to me that CNN has partnered with an online gambling site (Kalshi) and hypes their betting lines as “news” to report.
February 18, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h
Countries that do not embrace AI could be ‘left behind’, says OpenAI’s George Osborne
Countries that do not embrace AI could be ‘left behind’, says OpenAI’s George Osborne
Without AI you will be a ‘weaker and poorer nation’, warns former UK chancellor two months into job at US firm The former chancellor George Osborne has warned that countries that do not embrace the kind of powerful AI systems made by his new employer, OpenAI, risked “Fomo” and could be left weaker and poorer. Osborne, who is two months into a job as head of the $500bn San Francisco AI company’s “for countries” programme, told leaders gathered for the AI Impact summit in Delhi: “Don’t be left behind.” He warned that without AI rollouts they could end up with a workforce “less willing to stay put” because they might want to seek AI-enabled fortunes elsewhere. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:11 PM
jackscarab.bsky.social
Tori's feed would be identical to mine, yet she'd also have an 18+ alt.

Avani's would be wall to wall art, scenery, and animals, and absolutely not use her name.

books2read.com/aethertorrent
February 18, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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zafflesia.bsky.social
Straight into ballpoint pen no sketching no caffeine we die like men
A pen drawing of what is arguably a horse. A mind horse, without reference or even caffeine, put to paper
February 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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three answers suggesting you might want to think about the question a little bit and one releasing you from ever thinking about anything again
an elon musk tweet comparing answers to the question "is the US on stolen land"
February 18, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Capitalists dont get excited about technology they are excited about the profits that technology brings. The main group of people that are truly excited about the advancement technology can bring human well being and its capacity to remove or reduce certain difficult tasks are socialists
February 18, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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ericumansky.bsky.social
So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.**

“It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
February 18, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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startribune.com
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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catfi9ht.bsky.social
You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...
February 17, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The thing about people getting indignant about being tarred with the Nazi/CSAM Lover brush for using twitter is, sure, they might not love those things - but they clearly aren't the fucking dealbreaker they should be.
February 18, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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2026 basically
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
February 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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senabryer.com
We're going to be chasing the internet of 2013 the rest of our lives aren't we
February 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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mayor.nyc.gov
Rev. Jesse Jackson built the Rainbow Coalition as a political home rooted in dignity and solidarity. That struggle continues here in New York City, in every fight for housing, justice, and equality.

Today, we lower our flags in his honor — and recommit to the movement he called us to build.
February 18, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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jongreen.bsky.social
X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Article: The political effects of X’s feed algorithm Abstract: Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship. Figure 2. ITT estimates of feed-setting changes on engagement and political attitudes. ITT effect estimates of switching the algorithm on and off (in s.d.). Left, effect of moving from the chronological to the algorithmic feed for users initially on the chronological feed. Right, effect of moving in the opposite direction for users initially on the algorithmic feed. For each outcome, the results of two specifications are reported. Blue, unconditional estimates with robust s.e., controlling only for the initial feed setting and, where applicable, pre-treatment outcome levels. Orange: conditional estimates, controlling for pre-treatment covariates using GRFs; 90% and 95% CIs are reported. Numerical effect sizes and P values correspond to the conditional estimates (all tests are two-sided). The unit of observation is respondent. From top to bottom, sample sizes are n = 4,965, n = 3,337, n = 4,965, n = 4,965, n = 4,596, n = 4,596 and n = 4,850. Tests are described in Methods. Supplementary Information Table 2.16 reports the exact numerical point estimates, s.e., CIs and sample sizes for every specification. All outcomes are standardized. Additional results are presented in Supplementary Information section 2. PCA, first principal component from principal component analysis.
February 18, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!
me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning
February 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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infobeautiful.bsky.social
A spot in the Gurbantünggüt Desert approximately 320 km (200 mi) north of the city of Ürümqi, in Xinjiang region, China, is (likely) the farthest point in the world from any coast
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of...
A map of the world with a red circle highlighting the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility, located in northwest China. This point is the land location on Earth that is farthest from any coastline.
February 18, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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found a god-tier panel in a history of hyrule promo zine
February 18, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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This is a Czech Wolfdog named Nazgul, and i learned today that Czech wolfdogs are the result of crossing German Shepherds with Carpathian wolves. That's a dog dhampir right there
rodger.bsky.social Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 7h
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
February 18, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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ianboudreau.com
"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls
February 18, 2026 at 2:42 PM