Lynne Ann Morse
@morselya.bsky.social
Married, SF fan, cat lover, canine compatible, serial crafter.
It's okay - you don't have to follow me. I'm unlikely to follow back. Don't worry about unfollowing, either. I know how tastes can change.
New followers: your posts = CV. Nothing there? Bye!
It's okay - you don't have to follow me. I'm unlikely to follow back. Don't worry about unfollowing, either. I know how tastes can change.
New followers: your posts = CV. Nothing there? Bye!
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
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Oh hey Noreen was back for all of 120 seconds and she did nothing but follow some of the people that reskeet her, and and then Bluesky moderation went "actually, stay gone."
Cool, cool, very cool.
Cool, cool, very cool.
Of course Noreen gets marked as spam. Of course. Of course.
Can we help a desperate mother out at all with securing housing?
You know the drill. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
chuffed.org/project/144545
Can we help a desperate mother out at all with securing housing?
You know the drill. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉
chuffed.org/project/144545
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Oh hey Noreen was back for all of 120 seconds and she did nothing but follow some of the people that reskeet her, and and then Bluesky moderation went "actually, stay gone."
Cool, cool, very cool.
Cool, cool, very cool.
Great book - highly recommended!
You can get my memoir for 21% off right now in @kennysbookshop.bsky.social (free shipping in #Ireland!)
www.kennys.ie/bestsellers/...
www.kennys.ie/bestsellers/...
Anseo
Paperback. A contemporary and gorgeous story of adoption from Vietnam to Kerry, the love of her small family and the power of the Irish language to overcome loss, racism and online trolls.
www.kennys.ie
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Great book - highly recommended!
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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My book is about the past obsessions with the Roman empire that shaped the world today:
- why we think of Rome a certain way,
- why it matters,
- and the many interpretations of Rome we dismiss.
It's basically a v fun history of (a lot of) Afro-Eurasia. Buy it here!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/all-...
- why we think of Rome a certain way,
- why it matters,
- and the many interpretations of Rome we dismiss.
It's basically a v fun history of (a lot of) Afro-Eurasia. Buy it here!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/all-...
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
My book is about the past obsessions with the Roman empire that shaped the world today:
- why we think of Rome a certain way,
- why it matters,
- and the many interpretations of Rome we dismiss.
It's basically a v fun history of (a lot of) Afro-Eurasia. Buy it here!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/all-...
- why we think of Rome a certain way,
- why it matters,
- and the many interpretations of Rome we dismiss.
It's basically a v fun history of (a lot of) Afro-Eurasia. Buy it here!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/all-...
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Excellent, honest thread on the reality of being a writer today.
I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Excellent, honest thread on the reality of being a writer today.
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
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@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, you must cancel your partnership with OpenAI now. This company cannot be allowed anywhere near children.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, you must cancel your partnership with OpenAI now. This company cannot be allowed anywhere near children.
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This is a much more critical aspect of “lethality” than women/gay/trans/bearded people in the ranks.
www.wired.com/story/subscr...
www.wired.com/story/subscr...
The US Military Wants to Fix Its Own Equipment. Defense Contractors Are Trying to Shoot That Down
A push by military contractors could alter pending legislation that would have empowered servicemembers to repair equipment. Lobbyists are pitching a subscription service instead.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is a much more critical aspect of “lethality” than women/gay/trans/bearded people in the ranks.
www.wired.com/story/subscr...
www.wired.com/story/subscr...
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People are justifying making healthcare more expensive for those who are sick and/or make “poor” lifestyle choices.
They’re missing the point.
Healthcare is a right.
It’s one thing to charge more for life insurance, but people shouldn’t PAY for healthcare.
Medicare for all.
They’re missing the point.
Healthcare is a right.
It’s one thing to charge more for life insurance, but people shouldn’t PAY for healthcare.
Medicare for all.
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
People are justifying making healthcare more expensive for those who are sick and/or make “poor” lifestyle choices.
They’re missing the point.
Healthcare is a right.
It’s one thing to charge more for life insurance, but people shouldn’t PAY for healthcare.
Medicare for all.
They’re missing the point.
Healthcare is a right.
It’s one thing to charge more for life insurance, but people shouldn’t PAY for healthcare.
Medicare for all.
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Trump’s immigration policies have cost Chicago a world famous brewing school
The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal
“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”
The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal
“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”
World-famous brewing institution leaving U.S. for Canada
A renowned American beer brewing school is heading north and getting ready to settle in at a new address in Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Trump’s immigration policies have cost Chicago a world famous brewing school
The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal
“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”
The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal
“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”
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4300 isn't enough - they should be over 5k for real.
We did it with the help of you folks & the very last follow by Erin Swartz, @bouzannesnaques.bsky.social,
who got us over the 4300 line! Cheeeehoooo!
Mahalo nui loa, thank you very much, to everyone who follows us in our mission of supporting our national park partners in Hawaiʻi & American Samoa!🫶
who got us over the 4300 line! Cheeeehoooo!
Mahalo nui loa, thank you very much, to everyone who follows us in our mission of supporting our national park partners in Hawaiʻi & American Samoa!🫶
Isn't the #Brockenspectre phenomenon the most mindblowing visual experience? It is basically a fully circular cloudbow & it happens often at the summit of #Haleakalā Volcano. 🌤️🌈
If you appreciate our national parks content, let your people know & help us boost up to the 4300 follower level! Mahalo!
If you appreciate our national parks content, let your people know & help us boost up to the 4300 follower level! Mahalo!
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
4300 isn't enough - they should be over 5k for real.
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We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Huh... lots of accounts following me, that also follow 10k+, and haven't read my intro text...
*blockity-blockity-blockity-BLOCK!*
*blockity-blockity-blockity-BLOCK!*
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Huh... lots of accounts following me, that also follow 10k+, and haven't read my intro text...
*blockity-blockity-blockity-BLOCK!*
*blockity-blockity-blockity-BLOCK!*
It's 1659 (or 4:59 p.m.) and the solar-powered/triggered fairy lights just went on.
Loving Spouse is teasing me with the name "Mama Bear" - as in I am definitely in hibernation mode. Occasionally poking my nose into something like a book or something low-impact, to test relating to the world.
Loving Spouse is teasing me with the name "Mama Bear" - as in I am definitely in hibernation mode. Occasionally poking my nose into something like a book or something low-impact, to test relating to the world.
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It's 1659 (or 4:59 p.m.) and the solar-powered/triggered fairy lights just went on.
Loving Spouse is teasing me with the name "Mama Bear" - as in I am definitely in hibernation mode. Occasionally poking my nose into something like a book or something low-impact, to test relating to the world.
Loving Spouse is teasing me with the name "Mama Bear" - as in I am definitely in hibernation mode. Occasionally poking my nose into something like a book or something low-impact, to test relating to the world.
A body can be made VERY happy by getting to do a little hand-spinning on a sweet, SWEET double-treadle wheel for 30 minutes.
At least, it did, today.
At least, it did, today.
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A body can be made VERY happy by getting to do a little hand-spinning on a sweet, SWEET double-treadle wheel for 30 minutes.
At least, it did, today.
At least, it did, today.
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grease floats.
when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.
the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.
listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.
when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.
the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.
listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
grease floats.
when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.
the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.
listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.
when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.
the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.
listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.
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This is just inconceivably ghoulishly dystopian.
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is just inconceivably ghoulishly dystopian.
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It may be true, and librarians are awesome, but unfortunately this image is AI generated slop.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It may be true, and librarians are awesome, but unfortunately this image is AI generated slop.
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I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
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This is actually a great idea for multiple reasons. AWS has become too important to the structure of the web itself to persist as a private entity.
Me about to piss off a bunch of capitalists: If Bezos doesn’t want to pay his fair share in corporate taxes, I don’t see why we shouldn’t nationalise Amazon and make it a subsidiary of the post office.
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is actually a great idea for multiple reasons. AWS has become too important to the structure of the web itself to persist as a private entity.
A lovely thread.
Anon, Trad, and Ibid walk into a pub. The barman looks up and says "Hey, fellas. I'm going to need to see some ID before I can serve you."
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A lovely thread.
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in a sane world, openAI execs would be driven from the village with pitchforks for the audacity of this
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
in a sane world, openAI execs would be driven from the village with pitchforks for the audacity of this
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if you have the option, please don’t use cvs caremark for your prescriptions
it is murdering the pharmacist industry (diff from big pharma!) and just all around terrible.
it is murdering the pharmacist industry (diff from big pharma!) and just all around terrible.
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
if you have the option, please don’t use cvs caremark for your prescriptions
it is murdering the pharmacist industry (diff from big pharma!) and just all around terrible.
it is murdering the pharmacist industry (diff from big pharma!) and just all around terrible.
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my whole thing rn is battling against the forces of capitalism trying to kill my ability to do my job because i have seen this story too many times but also childcare is +$400/week (thus why i do so much Posting and not so much Live Reporting these days)
If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
my whole thing rn is battling against the forces of capitalism trying to kill my ability to do my job because i have seen this story too many times but also childcare is +$400/week (thus why i do so much Posting and not so much Live Reporting these days)