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Corvid Spooky-Howls

@parodybit.bsky.social

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Friendly tech and bird nerd; also a librarian, engineer, & data munger, currently a web dev & systems admin for an academic library. Very caffeinated. 🌶️🧠, chronically ill, immunocompromised. #CovidIsntOver so #MaskUp

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · Nov 7

Here is a Pumpkin to cheer you up

A notebook sits below a monitor. Poking up behind it, trying to chew on the rings, is an adorable cockatiel. He looks very sneaky and cute

Same scene, but now he is trying to chew on the paper. What an adorable little criminal he is

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Sami Mark @samimarkart.bsky.social · 2h

shop update is live! so pleased with the new stuff this go around - check it out if you’re able!
www.microbiomearts.com
#bsnm 🐡🦑 #bugsky

arched sticker with a black background. text reads “NATURE IS QUEER” in a rainbow gradient and various marine animals swim above the text

hand holding a transparent maple leaf shaped red pin. a rosy maple moth illustration sits in the center of the pin.

hand holding a sticker of a mom and three baby opossums. Their eyes are holographic and look like they’re shining.

hand holding a heart shaped white sticker that says “I ❤️ kelp” and kelp fills out the negative space in the heart shape.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 1h

*used car salesman voice* do you like egg swing chairs? then maybe you want to talk to this Autistic diagnostician lady about Neurodivergence!

Neurospace: Affirming Psychiatry & Counseling - Diagnostic Evaluations For Autism & Personal Consultations - www.NeurospaceAPC.com

has a photo of Aslynn J. Romano PMHNP sitting in a bamboo egg chair and an ANCC board certification seal

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1h

I don't trust the governor of Utah's opinion on offshore wind farms.

Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1h

We will not be doing this today

Article teaser with the headline: "How's your mental health? Get real by asking yourself these questions."

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 1h

🔎 zero hyperbole detected

RCW 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @socaldude11.bsky.social · 1h

We need The Hague to deal with that MF POS

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 7h

Next they’re going to tell us autism is caused by the demand to release the Epstein files.

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 3h

Guess what Dale's Halloween costume is btw

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

The thing about Thiel and Miller that gets me is they've both chosen to align themselves with people that will seek to destroy them the second their vision is achieved.

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 23h

…

Screenshot of a list of options, in which you can check any number you want. Label: "Country Of Origin."
Wisconsin (67).
France (23).
Italy (19).
New York (18).
Pennsylvania (11).
Switzerland (11).
California (10).
United States of America (the) (9).
Vermont (9).

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

“I don’t think, in health policy history, we’ve [ever] seen as big a projected increase in health insurance premiums.”

As the federal government enters the ninth day of its shutdown, soaring health care costs, the crux of the shutdown fight, are looking increasingly likely.

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

www.motherjones.com

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 1d

Support an artist: if you make stuff that doesn't use clankers, buy a sheet of these and stick them on your stuff.

Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 1d

Good time to share this again. You can make these yourself BUT I also just make them too. It's a label sheet with 72 little tiny 100% human made labels on it. They're $2 a sheet and I'll make you as many sheets as you want: shop.aimeecozza.com/product/100-...

A hand with a tiny black and white sticker on the finger that says "100% human made, no AI used" with a sheet of them behind it.

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1d

LB: “Bitch, please” is one of the things I know how to sign in ASL and now I need to remember how to say “please” in Mandarin.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning let’s learn Chinese together

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Xavier Horatio Xinicit 🎉 @xinicit.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone can have a little crash out as a treat

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A surprise move by the Trump administration could result in hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers losing their food assistance benefits as soon as November — disrupting one of the country’s oldest safety net programs months earlier than expected. nysfocus.com/2025/10/09/t...

Surprise Trump Move Will Upend New York Food Stamps

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.

nysfocus.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

doomscroll break

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm, it occurs to me (belatedly, yeah) that they might have picked “antifa,” a non-organization with no membership, in part so that anyone they dislike, they can say “well, they were Antifa,” after they murder or imprison them extrajudicially.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 2d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus.

We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu.

We would all be healthier.

I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 1d

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 2d

If a thing is evolving too fast for regulators, it’s evolving too fast to be allowed in the market for consumers.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 1d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1d

The movers will bring our stuff on Saturday, which is great, because the clothes I packed specifically NOT to go on the truck … well, I don't have them. 🙃 I'm lucky I had an outfit in my go-bag and dirty clothes in the car.

The landlord is coming to fix the broken dryer on Friday, though, lol.

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