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Ashley Sterner
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🏳️‍⚧️ Transtemporal Adventuress 🏳️‍🌈
I used to get to say things on the radio.
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lowqualityfacts.bsky.social
I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
December 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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swilua.bsky.social
while grading I found myself about to say a few times, “this prose feels empty in an AI sort of way,” in cases where I had no idea if the student used AI, but the empty prose simply “felt” sorta fake & I think it’s fascinating how AI has so quickly become a synonym for meaningless, empty, useless
December 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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tiffandevecomics.bsky.social
It’s not the correcting that’s exhausting. It’s feeling like the other person doesn’t want to put in the effort. (Phone Call pt. 3/5) #webcomics
Tiff: (on phone) “So, uh, mom, how did planting go?” “Er, yeah they would’ve finished harvest now, huh?” “It’s Tiff.” ~ Tiff: “Yahhhh… it’s been a while since I called. “… or texted.” “…or visited.” “…heh heh…” “TIFF, Mom.” ~ Tiff: “uhh, Christmas? I hadn’t even th-“ “Yeah I missed last-“ “Daught-“ “I’d love to see them but-“ “I-“ “uh-huh” “tiff” ~ Eve: “DUDE! HANG UP!” Tiff: “I can’t. The phone is stuck to my face sweat.”
December 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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avaeerys.bsky.social
New page of 🏳️‍⚧️Along the River Phoria🏳️‍⚧️ up!
Read the latest page: tapas.io/episode/3749...
OR, start from the beginning: tapas.io/episode/2641...
And on Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/al...

#webcomic #webcomics #comics #lgbt #queer #trans #transgender #transcomic #fantasy #tapas #webtoons
An image of a fem human statue, holding a mirror, with a bird on it's shoulder
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social
This is something Lt Barclay would come up with (extremely derogatory)
Lt Barclay from Star Trek. You know, the guy who makes holographic deep fake porn of his coworkers.
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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barnabyedwards.bsky.social
Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.

Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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swilua.bsky.social
Fellas, is it gay to use a sans serif font
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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scalzi.com
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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wbaltv11.bsky.social
Celebrating its 54th year of lighting up the holiday season in Baltimore, the Washington Monument Lighting takes place from 5-8 p.m. Thursday. WBAL-TV 11 News will be there! https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-maryland-holiday-events-monument-tree-lighting-parade/69596584 
Celebrating its 54th year of lighting up the holiday season in Baltimore, the Washington Monument Lighting takes place from 5-8 p.m. Thursday. WBAL-TV 11 News will be there!
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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brigittewinter.bsky.social
I’m editing an anthology! And it’s about cryptids! 👀 This is a dream project for me, and I can’t wait to share this book of games, stories, poems, and other uncanny ephemera with you. Follow the project on Backerkit to learn more.
scryptidgames.bsky.social Scryptid Games @scryptidgames.bsky.social · 18d
We are crowdfunding our first anthology! Tales from the Cryptids will launch on Backerkit for Zinetopia in February 2026. Follow the project to be the first to know when it goes live: bit.ly/3XVa94n.
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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writingpis.bsky.social
Oh, damn. RIP. I think I told you once how he long-ago visited my college. He walked to podium, lighted a cigarette, then smoked in silence & stared at us. Finally said, “What are you doing here? You should be at home, writing."

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is why I pursued a theater degree.
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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npr.org
JUST IN: Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
The Czech-born British playwright is known for Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. Stoppard also wrote screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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avaeerys.bsky.social
New page of Along The River Phoria up!
Read the latest page: tapas.io/episode/3736...
OR, start from the beginning: tapas.io/episode/2641...
And on Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/al...

#webcomic #webcomics #comics #lgbt #queer #trans #transgender #transcomic #fantasy #tapas #webtoons
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
offairashley.bsky.social
And a delightful one!
sprawlhater.bsky.social Charm City Slicker @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 23d
Intensely local phenomenon
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
offairashley.bsky.social
TYHOID?
discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Jun 17
McDonald's Shrimp Salad (1985-1986): A garden salad topped hardboiled eggs and mini shrimp cocktail. This offering made national headlines when improperly stored shrimp led to a typhoid outbreak in Maryland. This salad has popped back up in some European markets in recent years
A pile of lettuce greens, mixed with shaved carrots, radishes, hardboiled egg slices, tomato slices, and tiny cocktail shrimp
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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tekweenie.bsky.social
Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.

buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Generative A.I., the thing that drives our whole economy right now, is a perfect metaphor for the abject failure of imagination on the part of the powerful. Generative A.I. has no imagination and offers no new insights. It's a mere predictive engine that uses statistics to find the most likely next thing. What's the next word in a sequence, the next pixel in a picture? This is the opposite of imagination, which is so often about finding the least likely thing, the startling incongruity. I worry that so many of us are outsourcing our imaginations and our whole creative selves to these stochastic parrots.
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
offairashley.bsky.social
Mish discovers the internet.
A cat stares into the void of a phone.
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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baltimorebeat.bsky.social
Issue 73 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover was designed by our friends at Wide Angle Youth Media.
The cover of Baltimore Beat. It depicts the newspaper wrapped up like a package. Red and green text reads “greetings from Charm City.”
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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katelynburns.com
pretty sure they're just fucking with us at this point
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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evanurquhart.bsky.social
People who've been in journalism for a while should be able to recall a time when the news side of Fox News was basically sound, it was just a few primetime opinion personalities who'd left journalism behind. Let's not pretend we don't know where a reorganization like A. G. and Khan's leads.
evanurquhart.bsky.social Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · Nov 15
The direction A. G. is taking NYT is that of a tabloid crusading for its pet causes. I agree those types of stories haven't passed 50%, but the trend is towards burning their legitimacy to try and influence the NYC mayoral race or sentiment on Israel/Palestine. No point in supporting that slide.
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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esqueer.net
Larry Summers needs to resign or be pushed out of Harvard. This is absolutely unacceptable.
econmarshall.bsky.social Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · Nov 15
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
offairashley.bsky.social
Eating an oscar mayer wiener straight from the refrigerator; call that rawdogging it.
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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brigittewinter.bsky.social
We won a thing! And it’s judged by librarians! No higher honor than that. ✨ We are celebrating with a fancy new cover and a fancy new ebook sale this weekend: a.co/d/8hEb4hv
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM