Katie Duffy
@kduffy1718.bsky.social
I do nothing of interest or import. Hopelessly in love with @youngmrduffy.bsky.social. Comes up with ideas, but not mechanics, over at third-country-press.itch.io. She/her.
🎶Say your prayers, little one
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone
I tuck you in, warm within, keep you free from sin
'Til the Sandman, he comes🎶
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone
I tuck you in, warm within, keep you free from sin
'Til the Sandman, he comes🎶
🎶 I was born in the wagon of a travellin' show
My mama used to dance for the money they'd throw
Papa would do whatever he coooould! 🎶
My mama used to dance for the money they'd throw
Papa would do whatever he coooould! 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🎶Say your prayers, little one
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone
I tuck you in, warm within, keep you free from sin
'Til the Sandman, he comes🎶
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone
I tuck you in, warm within, keep you free from sin
'Til the Sandman, he comes🎶
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Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
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buttondown.com/charliejane/...
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out
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Eddie Burback didnt just make the worst accidental IP decision for ink, he somehow did notsee the significance... 😬🤣😬😱
This video is very good & everyone critical of or curious about AI should watch it.
youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q
This video is very good & everyone critical of or curious about AI should watch it.
youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q
ChatGPT made me delusional
YouTube video by Eddy Burback
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Eddie Burback didnt just make the worst accidental IP decision for ink, he somehow did notsee the significance... 😬🤣😬😱
This video is very good & everyone critical of or curious about AI should watch it.
youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q
This video is very good & everyone critical of or curious about AI should watch it.
youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q
Read this thread and the responses to it. It’s eye-opening, to say the least.
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Read this thread and the responses to it. It’s eye-opening, to say the least.
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"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive. To enter it is impossible, yet it exists as fully as our own." - Jakob von Uexküll
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive. To enter it is impossible, yet it exists as fully as our own." - Jakob von Uexküll
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics
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Billionaires, while building their own luxury bunkers for “apocalypse insurance," are funding groups telling Dems to forget about climate action. We just published a memo laying out why that'd be a huge political mistake. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/this-data-...
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Billionaires, while building their own luxury bunkers for “apocalypse insurance," are funding groups telling Dems to forget about climate action. We just published a memo laying out why that'd be a huge political mistake. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/this-data-...
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And, also, if you run a business that regularly purchases shipping supplies: ULINE is run by some of the worst people on Earth. Get your boxes and tape elsewhere.
Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
And, also, if you run a business that regularly purchases shipping supplies: ULINE is run by some of the worst people on Earth. Get your boxes and tape elsewhere.
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Never trust what should be a public good to the market.
Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms
Staffing, salary cuts offer likely explanation for increase compared to non-private-equity hospitals
hms.harvard.edu
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Never trust what should be a public good to the market.
This is like @hookland.bsky.social brought to life in our world, only without the wit and spooky charm. It’s just complete and utter horror, a hideous mutation of what we’re supposed to cherish about the winter season. And the sad part is that people will defend it in the name of “progress.”
“Closeups show human faces distorted beyond recognition, sprouting extra appendages. The bodies of what appear to be dogs horrifically merge with human figures. Happy holidays indeed.”
Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.
futurism.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This is like @hookland.bsky.social brought to life in our world, only without the wit and spooky charm. It’s just complete and utter horror, a hideous mutation of what we’re supposed to cherish about the winter season. And the sad part is that people will defend it in the name of “progress.”
This. Also, my annual watch of @desertbus.org proves that Dr. Forester and TV’s Frank were onto something when they isolated a group of friends and subjected them to bad media for long stretches of time. It makes for an incredible viewing experience/psychological experiment.
Watching @desertbus.org each night always leaves me with the same thought
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This. Also, my annual watch of @desertbus.org proves that Dr. Forester and TV’s Frank were onto something when they isolated a group of friends and subjected them to bad media for long stretches of time. It makes for an incredible viewing experience/psychological experiment.
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Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
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Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.
I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
writerbeware.blog
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.
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Right wing agitators attacked the police in Mexico City amid an otherwise peaceful anti corruption protest, paid influencers rushed in to grab footage of the incident which ended quickly, and online troll farms from the US are amplifying it in order foment further civil unrest and/or civil war.
November 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Right wing agitators attacked the police in Mexico City amid an otherwise peaceful anti corruption protest, paid influencers rushed in to grab footage of the incident which ended quickly, and online troll farms from the US are amplifying it in order foment further civil unrest and/or civil war.
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
This bundle sounds incredible cool, and it’s a damn shame that no one is buying it. Check out this collection of speculative fiction that is relevant to these times! itch.io/b/3348/burn-...
Burn It Down! by mcburnell and 17 others
Burn It Down!: 17 items for $16.00
itch.io
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This bundle sounds incredible cool, and it’s a damn shame that no one is buying it. Check out this collection of speculative fiction that is relevant to these times! itch.io/b/3348/burn-...
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Donation Drive!
The Flesh and Blood Ready to Play Bundle donated by Pegasus Games could be yours!
$7.20/multiples thereof for the next 39 minutes!
desertbus.org/donate
#DB2025 #FleshandBlood #CardGame
The Flesh and Blood Ready to Play Bundle donated by Pegasus Games could be yours!
$7.20/multiples thereof for the next 39 minutes!
desertbus.org/donate
#DB2025 #FleshandBlood #CardGame
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Donation Drive!
The Flesh and Blood Ready to Play Bundle donated by Pegasus Games could be yours!
$7.20/multiples thereof for the next 39 minutes!
desertbus.org/donate
#DB2025 #FleshandBlood #CardGame
The Flesh and Blood Ready to Play Bundle donated by Pegasus Games could be yours!
$7.20/multiples thereof for the next 39 minutes!
desertbus.org/donate
#DB2025 #FleshandBlood #CardGame
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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DAY ONE OF DAWN GUARD AND WE HIT $12 MIL LIFETIME!!! Thank you so much for your contribution to our work, we appreciate each and every one of you for getting us here! Now let's keep going to $13 million!
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
DAY ONE OF DAWN GUARD AND WE HIT $12 MIL LIFETIME!!! Thank you so much for your contribution to our work, we appreciate each and every one of you for getting us here! Now let's keep going to $13 million!
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For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends
November 14, 2023 at 2:00 PM
For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends
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This year's shirt is now available with free shipping the US and discounted shipping internationally during @fangamer.com's Black Friday sale!
The radical scientists at @fangamer.com have concocted another totally awesome shirt for #DB2025! Beam over to shirt.desertbus.org to order this year's version, or a previous edition (in select sizes)!
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This year's shirt is now available with free shipping the US and discounted shipping internationally during @fangamer.com's Black Friday sale!
@desertbus.org starts TONIGHT at 6:00 pm ET! It’s the best week of the year! (Seriously, few things restore my faith in humanity more than watching these fine folk raise money for an amazing charity.) Tune in, donate, celebrate! desertbus.org/2025/
Desert Bus 2025
A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.
desertbus.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
@desertbus.org starts TONIGHT at 6:00 pm ET! It’s the best week of the year! (Seriously, few things restore my faith in humanity more than watching these fine folk raise money for an amazing charity.) Tune in, donate, celebrate! desertbus.org/2025/
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hey remember how that one big tech ceo was on a panel in like 2021/22 where someone asked him about how remote work gave a lot more power to the workers and he chuckled and said “yeah well a little recession will take care of that”
I think about that often.
I think about that often.
Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
hey remember how that one big tech ceo was on a panel in like 2021/22 where someone asked him about how remote work gave a lot more power to the workers and he chuckled and said “yeah well a little recession will take care of that”
I think about that often.
I think about that often.
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With all the "For Girls" pink toy gendered nonsense I grew up with, here's what "For Girls" looked like in 1963:
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
With all the "For Girls" pink toy gendered nonsense I grew up with, here's what "For Girls" looked like in 1963: