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Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 6h

And OF COURSE I try to run my ear pods, and their charging case, through the wash. This is why I shouldn’t have nice things.

Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 8h

I visited Cinci today and was gonna say it seems like a nice city. Then this happened.

Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 9h

I am at total war with the city of Cincinnati

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Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 8h

Whoa wait, the extended edition of fellowship of the ring is almost 4 hours? How much fucking walking can they do?

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 1d

MCDM just released the symbols they use in stat blocks under a free license.

mcdm.gg/DrawSteel/Dr...

If you've never worked with a CC-BY-SA license, check out the thread for some guidance.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Slippy @damnslippy.slippy.me · 20h

I hope for this train attendant’s sake that I finish reading this essay before she comes to ask me about breakfast because she is a nice lady and does not need me wild-eyed from sleep deprivation at 7 am muttering POWER TO THE DEVIANT, DEVIANCE IS ALSO JOY

Rather than challenge deviance as a framework, the glossary seems to destabilise the region's own understanding of what its most normative and most dominant sexual and gendered practices are. Yes, the glossary seems to say, we are deviants, but aren't we all? If bottoming is deviance, if gender play is deviance, if effeminacy is deviance, if promiscuity is deviance...? And it all of these things are also joy, are also pleasure, are also exhilaration, which is at the root of their being framed as immoral, as sinful, as evil...? If their being labelled deviance is an injunction to control oneself, to deprive oneself...? Then more power to the deviant - and may we all learn from them how to live more fully and in service of the body and the politics of its pleasurable potentialities.

From “The Queer Arab Glossary.”

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 23h

“This is JB Pritzker, reporting from war-torn Chicago. It’s quite disturbing. The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs. We’ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them.”
THIS is how you do it. #cdnpoli

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 1d

If you’re into ghosts, allegories, and bodega sandwiches, go check out INFESTED for the FREE over at simonteen(dot)com!

Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 9d

Just in time for spooky season, my YA horror novel is free to read for ALL of October over at simonteen(dot)com!

#spoookyreads #spookyseason

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Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I shoulda done that

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 2d

blexmedia.com/daniel-ezra-...

Daniel Ezra and Andrea Cortés Latest to Join Joe Robert Cole's Netflix Adapation of 'All the Sinners Bleed' | Blex Media

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 1d

All the “let’s just concede trans stuff” Democrats can get well and truly bent

Almost every person who answered The News' survey said they'd had more trouble sleeping and felt less safe in public spaces since November. Over two-thirds said they'd been thinking more about suicide.

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Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 1d

😝

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway I’m plotting and creating for dnd and… do I need to make a new class now?

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Sable, Public Universal Momfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 2d

Ubisoft rejecting a game about a formerly enslaved Black man returning to the South to fight for justice during Reconstruction for being "too political" tells you everything you need to know about about the rot at the core of everything.

✨ Erinyes ✨ @erinyes.diy · 2d

i'm upset that ubisoft cancelled reconstruction-era assassin’s creed because i am an avid collector of games where you get to kill the klan and i want a third one

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Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t care what anyone says. Mafia 3 is 10 stars out of 5 because of the klan killin

Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 2d

The cowards.

✨ Erinyes ✨ @erinyes.diy · 2d

i'm upset that ubisoft cancelled reconstruction-era assassin’s creed because i am an avid collector of games where you get to kill the klan and i want a third one

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Nick Kolakowski @nkolakowski.bsky.social · 2d

I deeply appreciated the chance to write a gnarly little mystery set on Capri, complete with a dead fashion mogul, a shipwreck, and an annoying little dog! #amwriting #mystery

DoSomeDamage @dosomedamage.bsky.social · 2d

The Man Who Hated Dogs
New fiction by @nkolakowski.bsky.social
in Cold Caller Magazine

coldcallermag.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...

The Man Who Hated Dogs

Fiction by Nick Kolakowski

coldcallermag.substack.com

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Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 2d

These bootlicking motherfuckers

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 2d

Its all true. And @pauljgarth.bsky.social is a great editor.

Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social · 2d

Get yourself an editor who hypes you up mid-edits. I cannot tell you enough how amazing @rhppress.bsky.social is. They are good people doing good work and I am so lucky to be working with them.

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Bloom @jerrybloom.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Steve Weddle @steveweddle.bsky.social · 2d

Making theft illegal would kill the burgling industry.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 3d

Hi, I'm a trans Californian who reported on the CA bills. This headline is misleading at best. You haven't noted that he has until the 12th to sign the other bills, leaving that out is irresponsible and fearmongers.

People can and should still pressure him on those bills.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 3d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Daniel J. Willis (That’s already a scary name.) @bayareadata.press · 3d

Dude limited replies so I have to do it this way but Newsom doesn't have to sign the other bills, he just has to not veto them. California has a pocket approval rather than a pocket veto; any unsigned bill becomes law after 12 days.

He's still trash for not wanting to sign but he doesn't have to.

Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Gavin Newsom fucking sucks, part MCXVII

he still has until the end of the week for the rest of the bills so unfortunately it’s time to suck it up, call his office, and politely ask this living hairpiece to do the bare minimum to protect the most vulnerable among us

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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