MulletBraid
@mulletbraid.bsky.social
Writer, singer, cat lover, pissed-off daughter of patriot parents who defeated the Nazis the first time. Fan of NK Jemisin, CJ Cherryh and Martha Wells as well as the hero of our time, Ukraine's President Zelenksyy.
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A Dubious Hope
Opal's father is making her miserable on the doomed generation ship the New Hope. When a telepathic alien asks, she agrees to be its translator, but reluctantly. It's a lifetime job, she's only thirte...
www.limfic.com
An anxious teen and an impulsive, hibernation-damaged soldier struggle to help their generation ship community deal with the fallout and potential of an alien rescue. www.limfic.com/book/a-dubio...
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This is a criminal enterprise and anyone talking about affordability who is NOT talking about the fact that the oligarchs are illegally fixing prices and should pay massive fines and go to jail doesn’t really care about anything except your vote.
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This is a criminal enterprise and anyone talking about affordability who is NOT talking about the fact that the oligarchs are illegally fixing prices and should pay massive fines and go to jail doesn’t really care about anything except your vote.
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Reason 163836373 to say fuck off amzn this is FOUL
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Reason 163836373 to say fuck off amzn this is FOUL
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Lots of sales today. I think I got the settings right to give new Patreon subscribers to certain tiers a discount; use the code GOODFICTION at checkout.
Lili Saintcrow | Patreon
creating fiction and other sorceries
www.patreon.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Lots of sales today. I think I got the settings right to give new Patreon subscribers to certain tiers a discount; use the code GOODFICTION at checkout.
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Their efficacy was confirmed against LIVE viruses including Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), AND Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
The study has been published in Science Advances. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The study has been published in Science Advances. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪🧵⬇️
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Their efficacy was confirmed against LIVE viruses including Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), AND Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
The study has been published in Science Advances. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪🧵⬇️
The study has been published in Science Advances. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪🧵⬇️
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Honestly, the episode of Brave Starr where he has to deal with his mentor betraying him and making bad decisions, was possibly one of the most formative media messages of my childhood.
Really solid messaging that not all adults can or should be trusted. And that your heroes can do bad things.
Really solid messaging that not all adults can or should be trusted. And that your heroes can do bad things.
And people will really go “we didn’t have woke messages in children’s shows when ~I was a kid”
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Honestly, the episode of Brave Starr where he has to deal with his mentor betraying him and making bad decisions, was possibly one of the most formative media messages of my childhood.
Really solid messaging that not all adults can or should be trusted. And that your heroes can do bad things.
Really solid messaging that not all adults can or should be trusted. And that your heroes can do bad things.
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The only place to get my art these days, plus many other cool artists!
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November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The only place to get my art these days, plus many other cool artists!
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This is why you have to keep talking about your creative work. I had no idea this series was being written and here it is nearly done hey Twin Peaks nerds check this out
My TWIN PEAKS series is nearing its conclusion. The penultimate essay is live, and it is the first of two features on episode 18. I wrote about Diane, the structure of the 18th episode, the context of Laura Palmer's experiences, and how they are reflected in Diane's.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is why you have to keep talking about your creative work. I had no idea this series was being written and here it is nearly done hey Twin Peaks nerds check this out
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Sandhill crane
Antelope
Elk
Lynx
Howler monkey
It was hard to choose!
Sandhill crane
Antelope
Elk
Lynx
Howler monkey
It was hard to choose!
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Andean condor
Alpaca
Canada goose
Blue heron
A rare black fox that roams the area where I live
Andean condor
Alpaca
Canada goose
Blue heron
A rare black fox that roams the area where I live
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Bald eagle
Marmot
Elk
Snapping turtle
Humpback whale
Bald eagle
Marmot
Elk
Snapping turtle
Humpback whale
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Sandhill crane
Antelope
Elk
Lynx
Howler monkey
It was hard to choose!
Sandhill crane
Antelope
Elk
Lynx
Howler monkey
It was hard to choose!
This should be Oregon and national law. @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @tinakotek.bsky.social
Thankful I learned Cyberstalking in Illinois is a Class 4 felony, up to 3 years in prison w/ a $25K fine, if a person says things online w/ intent to cause a person who lives in IL emotional distress. The perpetrator can live anywhere.
It can be classified a hate crime if the victim is diverse.
It can be classified a hate crime if the victim is diverse.
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This should be Oregon and national law. @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @tinakotek.bsky.social
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I’m a 1G Blacks person who got started in online because my dad got deported
I really do have deep empathy for people targeted and no patience for folks shocked who spent the time telling everyone whose not to “calm down”
I really do have deep empathy for people targeted and no patience for folks shocked who spent the time telling everyone whose not to “calm down”
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I’m a 1G Blacks person who got started in online because my dad got deported
I really do have deep empathy for people targeted and no patience for folks shocked who spent the time telling everyone whose not to “calm down”
I really do have deep empathy for people targeted and no patience for folks shocked who spent the time telling everyone whose not to “calm down”
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate, and to those who don't, a wish for the time to acknowledge and appreciate the simple joys and fleeting pleasures of the world.
Glad of Simple Joys
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate, and to those who don't, a wish for the time to acknowledge and appreciate the simple joys and fleeting pleasures of the world.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate, and to those who don't, a wish for the time to acknowledge and appreciate the simple joys and fleeting pleasures of the world.
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The Taliban disappears people who speak out against them and has taken nearly everything from women despite promising not to in the Doha Accords they signed before we withdrew.
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Taliban disappears people who speak out against them and has taken nearly everything from women despite promising not to in the Doha Accords they signed before we withdrew.
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Before the genocide in Gaza, the UN called the ongoing famine in Afghanistan "the largest humanitarian crisis in the world". Parents buy their children prescription sleeping meds to keep them unconscious through the pain of hunger because they can afford that but not food.
before we re-litigate the Afghan withdrawal, and subsequent relocation efforts
before people who don't know what the fuck they talking about offer hot takes,
before using a shooting as a hook for talking points,
i'd like everyone to take a deep breath
and then shut the fuck up
before people who don't know what the fuck they talking about offer hot takes,
before using a shooting as a hook for talking points,
i'd like everyone to take a deep breath
and then shut the fuck up
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Before the genocide in Gaza, the UN called the ongoing famine in Afghanistan "the largest humanitarian crisis in the world". Parents buy their children prescription sleeping meds to keep them unconscious through the pain of hunger because they can afford that but not food.
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It’s the racism, the attack on cultural studies was the first step
And we should absolutely be adding the folks who watched those be gutted while protecting white studies
When the trials come
And we should absolutely be adding the folks who watched those be gutted while protecting white studies
When the trials come
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It’s the racism, the attack on cultural studies was the first step
And we should absolutely be adding the folks who watched those be gutted while protecting white studies
When the trials come
And we should absolutely be adding the folks who watched those be gutted while protecting white studies
When the trials come
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Mind you Columbus got recalled from “the New World” ( Japanese and Chinese settlers were seen in Mexico and there was evidence of African contact)
BECAUSE of how awful the treatment of Natives was
BECAUSE of how awful the treatment of Natives was
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Mind you Columbus got recalled from “the New World” ( Japanese and Chinese settlers were seen in Mexico and there was evidence of African contact)
BECAUSE of how awful the treatment of Natives was
BECAUSE of how awful the treatment of Natives was
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I always support convincing young artists to charge more! You know what to do!
my nibling has adorable crochet stuffies, hats, and bags for sale on Etsy at VERY reasonable prices if you’re looking for handmade gifts. please clear out their shop so i can convince them they need to charge more!
www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...
www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I always support convincing young artists to charge more! You know what to do!
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We will straight up need an impeachment and a Truth and Reconciliation committee which we won’t get because right now we’re still afraid to say
The true and expansive make up of the US is sacred to our history and these people acted unlawfully to destroy it and
We will never let it happen again
The true and expansive make up of the US is sacred to our history and these people acted unlawfully to destroy it and
We will never let it happen again
“This is what corruption looks like,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said about a firm with ties to Kristi Noem secretly working on a DHS ad campaign. “They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.”
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We will straight up need an impeachment and a Truth and Reconciliation committee which we won’t get because right now we’re still afraid to say
The true and expansive make up of the US is sacred to our history and these people acted unlawfully to destroy it and
We will never let it happen again
The true and expansive make up of the US is sacred to our history and these people acted unlawfully to destroy it and
We will never let it happen again
A Thanksgiving tradition.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A Thanksgiving tradition.
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It’s hit me like a bolt of lightning……
Part of the reason I like Alan Ritchson so much? And I think we share it ….
Is that yes huge white beefcake of a man
But when he’s on screen ?
I’m pretty sure there will be no microagressions for humor and that’s so rare right now
Part of the reason I like Alan Ritchson so much? And I think we share it ….
Is that yes huge white beefcake of a man
But when he’s on screen ?
I’m pretty sure there will be no microagressions for humor and that’s so rare right now
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It’s hit me like a bolt of lightning……
Part of the reason I like Alan Ritchson so much? And I think we share it ….
Is that yes huge white beefcake of a man
But when he’s on screen ?
I’m pretty sure there will be no microagressions for humor and that’s so rare right now
Part of the reason I like Alan Ritchson so much? And I think we share it ….
Is that yes huge white beefcake of a man
But when he’s on screen ?
I’m pretty sure there will be no microagressions for humor and that’s so rare right now
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This is why I get irrationally angry when folks get smug about literacy et al ..
Because folks are rushing to rehabilitate Nazis but just casually mocking folks who are being purposely undereducated for decades
Because helping them doesn’t get the points against an enemy
Because folks are rushing to rehabilitate Nazis but just casually mocking folks who are being purposely undereducated for decades
Because helping them doesn’t get the points against an enemy
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is why I get irrationally angry when folks get smug about literacy et al ..
Because folks are rushing to rehabilitate Nazis but just casually mocking folks who are being purposely undereducated for decades
Because helping them doesn’t get the points against an enemy
Because folks are rushing to rehabilitate Nazis but just casually mocking folks who are being purposely undereducated for decades
Because helping them doesn’t get the points against an enemy
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The next Democratic President needs to dismantle ICE.
ENTIRELY
ENTIRELY
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The next Democratic President needs to dismantle ICE.
ENTIRELY
ENTIRELY
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Anyway reminder that Internet Bros still don't understand why so many women are watching Reacher. LOLOL
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While Reacher is obviously Big Man Is Big, having binged the show & discussed it with others, I don't think the folks saying this are ready for the fact that people love Reacher because he would casually throw an abusive shithead misogynist out of a moving car while respecting his female coworkers.
This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Anyway reminder that Internet Bros still don't understand why so many women are watching Reacher. LOLOL
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