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Mels

@maimysantiago99.bsky.social

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Was Ardentdelirium and Researchnerdery on the other site. Disabled, queer, fan of sff & horror. Professional account: @bumblebeeLandscape She/her/they I don't automatically follow back.

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · Dec 18

Also I think it's time to recreate the post I pinned over on Twitter, since this stupid phone refuses to learn how I swype (the old ones at least tried)

Please take all "dammit, autocorrect!"s as read

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 3h

I feel like, with some exceptions (Rickie Vasquez), bisexuality was a No on network TV for the 90s and early 00s *at least*

Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 3h

*school *when

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · 5h

Just a Pye in the Pocket.

Pyewacket, a 4 week old black kitten, cozily nestled in the plush pocket of a fleece hoodie with a fluffy pouch designed to hold kittens.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 9h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 8h

Marvel EIC CB Cebulski spoke out on the comics publisher's use of AI at New York Comic Con, explaining that they will never use it and "don't condone it."

Marvel EIC CB Cebulski On AI: “We Don’t Condone It In The Marvel Comics Division”

The statement comes hot on the heels of one from DC's Jim Lee.

comicbookclublive.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 7h

When the AI bubble bursts, universities doing this will die even faster.

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 6h

Wow. UNC CH was a really good LIS sill agent I was applying to grad schools. That reputation is down the tubes now

Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 6h

Uh.... This is RIDICULOUS. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

dailytarheel.com

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 6h

Marvel just released a similar statement

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 6h

Antifa’s Girlfriend is a ska song asking to be written, don’t you dare fail me internet

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 7h

It isn’t even about revenge, it’s simply and plainly necessary for democracy going forward that anyone who wants to do what he’s done should understand that they’re looking at serious fucking consequences for it

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 7h

If we prosecute no one else—and to be clear we should prosecute so many people—we have absolutely got to go after this guy as hard as humanly possible

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 9h

The straight face. I am envious because i couldn’t hold it.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

I just want to point out (with Childe’s permission) that the VERY FIRST TIME this human ever heard Tina Turner, they, organically & without prompting, spontaneously broke out an actual perfectly cromulent Tina Turner dance in their Halloween mummy pajamas.

#TINYTURNER

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 7h

(I'm not, AFAIK, AuDHD, just ADHD, but the rage my mother expressed (and still expresses when she brings the story up) when a teacher suggested my brother might be autistic, it was definitely about being judged adhd found wanting by others.

Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 7h

Can't speak for all the people who fear it but from my experience with NT folks who hate it, 1. It can be difficult to deal with if you are a control freak and 2. Any difference in your child is a mark against your soul and evidence you are Bad. (

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Don't Break The Chain: Bring Back Łink @mxlabradorite.bsky.social · 9h

Why does this look like a crossover between Phoenix Wright and that Jesus anime?

A screenshot of the thumbnail to a news clip on Youtube
Federal judge in Orlando keeps Los Angeles wildfire suspect in jail
WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando

The court drawing is as follows:
L: An American Flag, slightly furled
M: The defendant, who looks weirdly like Jesus, including serene expression
R: His lawyer? A person (honestly, gender indeterminate) in a gray suit with a white shirt, long, but stylishly tousled gray hair, and a face with no features but squareish glasses

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 6d

This - which I explored today - is the kind of thing I live for on walks in the deep countryside: a 200+-year-old abandoned walled garden, totally overgrown and teeming with wildlife and ghosts.

Finding lost magic places like this, untouched and undeveloped, always fills me with weird kind of hope.

The entrance to the walled garden I found today, with its broken door and big ivy hat.

An interdimensional portal in the walled garden I found today

A hole in the wall of the walled garden I found today, leading to 1785.

Ruined potting sheds in the walled garden I found today.

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 7h

Dammit I'm right smack in the middle

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

I stared at them, asked where they heard that, got:

“Nowhere I made it up because you can never buy a specific fate FATE IS UNAFFORDABLE!”

Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

Sitting next to my 7 year old who just started singing out of nowhere to a tune they made up:

“MY FATE IS NOT AFFORDABLE WHAT WHAT NOT AFFORDABLE MY FATE IS WHAT? UNAFFORDABLE!”

a man is making a funny face with his mouth open while sitting in a crowd of people .

ALT: a man is making a funny face with his mouth open while sitting in a crowd of people .

media.tenor.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 8h

every day
me: i need to write my stories, i am late
[opens computer]
the news:

a screenshot of the fox from adventure time saying, "Really looking forward to things being terrible forever."

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 9h

I have a photo. Ahem.

THIS POST HAS A #SNAKE PHOTO

IF YOU DO NOT LIKE SNAKES, IT MIGHT VW GOOD TO MUTE THE WORD
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REALLY THERE IS ABOUT TO BE A RATTLESNAKE PHOTO
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IT’S VERY CUTE BUT THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE
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A rattlesnake about as big around as a pencil

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 8h

Truly, tell me, how is this different than Jewish and gay people and Romani people being dragged away by Nazis? And didn’t we have some fairly clear agreement to never let that happen again?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Mels @maimysantiago99.bsky.social · 8h

Toddling around

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Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 8h

This seems bad.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 15h

I always remind my self-pub authors that they have final say on edits. Some folks almost get rebellious about certain ones — like keeping a misspelling of a word because the correct spelling “looks wrong”.

Also, some editors actually don’t know the difference between, say, site and sight.

Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 21h

From the other side of the desk, though: if you read a book and think it needed an editor, be aware that it very well might have had an editor, but (depending on the circumstances) the author has final say and could’ve just ignored the editor’s advice. Readers don’t know a book’s history.

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 23h

THIS THIS THIS. the number of reviews I leave asking 'where the hell was the editor?'

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