R. Cooper
@rcooper.bsky.social
writer of romantic stories. only occasionally breaks a reader's heart.
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R. Cooper
@rcooper.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Out in like two weeks! Because rules don't matter anymore! lol a fun little novella about a man who is a walking italicized "Oh" and the somewhat bitchy (he has his reasons) twunk who wants to fuck that old man. (He's only 40)
books2read.com/u/38zylL
books2read.com/u/38zylL
finished a book today
(well, the draft. it still needs editing etc.)
(well, the draft. it still needs editing etc.)
February 19, 2026 at 2:02 AM
finished a book today
(well, the draft. it still needs editing etc.)
(well, the draft. it still needs editing etc.)
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Starting March 1, Lit for Queer Liberation 2026, QLN's bookish (& more) auction begins!!
Bid at queerliberationnetwork.auctions.networkforgood.com/auctions/Lit...
Bid at queerliberationnetwork.auctions.networkforgood.com/auctions/Lit...
February 18, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Starting March 1, Lit for Queer Liberation 2026, QLN's bookish (& more) auction begins!!
Bid at queerliberationnetwork.auctions.networkforgood.com/auctions/Lit...
Bid at queerliberationnetwork.auctions.networkforgood.com/auctions/Lit...
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"Claire what have you been up to for the last few weeks"
WELL
WELL
ATTENTION BLUESKY
you don't want to watch the State of the Union next week
you want to watch a PowerPoint party telethon of your favorite Bluesky super posters delivering their most unhinged hot takes to raise money for mutual aid in Twin Cities and Portland
Poster's Madness for a good cause!!!!
you don't want to watch the State of the Union next week
you want to watch a PowerPoint party telethon of your favorite Bluesky super posters delivering their most unhinged hot takes to raise money for mutual aid in Twin Cities and Portland
Poster's Madness for a good cause!!!!
February 18, 2026 at 10:37 PM
"Claire what have you been up to for the last few weeks"
WELL
WELL
Just as people in California can -and should-contact their state reps and state senator to support all legislation against ICE, people in New Jersey can now do the same, as there is proposed legislation against "Detention centers" and ICE agents working in the public sector.
February 18, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Just as people in California can -and should-contact their state reps and state senator to support all legislation against ICE, people in New Jersey can now do the same, as there is proposed legislation against "Detention centers" and ICE agents working in the public sector.
what's going on with etsy? are they broken?
February 18, 2026 at 9:18 PM
what's going on with etsy? are they broken?
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now we're being asked to sacrifice our PCs, laptops, and smart phones for the fringe use-cases for AI.
fuck this.
fuck this.
February 18, 2026 at 12:12 PM
now we're being asked to sacrifice our PCs, laptops, and smart phones for the fringe use-cases for AI.
fuck this.
fuck this.
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Considering that Gondor looks like a medieval polity, structurally - maybe 10th- or 11th-century France would be a reasonable comparison - Aragorn doesn't have the state capacity to have a very granular tax policy. Very likely he would have to have decentralised tax collection - i.e., tax farming.
has anyone tried to write a piece actually speculating on what aragorn's tax policy would have been like
February 18, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Considering that Gondor looks like a medieval polity, structurally - maybe 10th- or 11th-century France would be a reasonable comparison - Aragorn doesn't have the state capacity to have a very granular tax policy. Very likely he would have to have decentralised tax collection - i.e., tax farming.
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2026 basically
February 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
2026 basically
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I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
February 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
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I have seen a lot going around about Amazon removing affiliate links to adult and/or queer material and it is DEFINITELY happening, but most of the posts I've seen describing who it is happening to are overly sweeping and/or incorrect, which is not helping.
Judging by my backlist, it's... chaotic.
Judging by my backlist, it's... chaotic.
February 18, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I have seen a lot going around about Amazon removing affiliate links to adult and/or queer material and it is DEFINITELY happening, but most of the posts I've seen describing who it is happening to are overly sweeping and/or incorrect, which is not helping.
Judging by my backlist, it's... chaotic.
Judging by my backlist, it's... chaotic.
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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
Today's good thing, some chill shrimp from the Monterey Bay Aquarium
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXWc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXWc...
2 Hours Of Chill Shrimp To Work/Study/Relax | Lofi Hip Hop | Monterey Bay Aquarium Krill Waves Radio
YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Today's good thing, some chill shrimp from the Monterey Bay Aquarium
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXWc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXWc...
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Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!
I don't want fash types to get better at their work, but it is very funny that none of them thought this was exactly the sort of thing Colbert would do? And not one of them has figured out the Streisand Effect? Not one?
February 17, 2026 at 10:52 PM
I don't want fash types to get better at their work, but it is very funny that none of them thought this was exactly the sort of thing Colbert would do? And not one of them has figured out the Streisand Effect? Not one?
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How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
February 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Sacramento, CA peeps! Take a quick survey about the jail system! Push for jail population reduction! C&P this link because insta links suck
www.instagram.com/p/DU35ndOkqPn
www.instagram.com/p/DU35ndOkqPn
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
www.instagram.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Sacramento, CA peeps! Take a quick survey about the jail system! Push for jail population reduction! C&P this link because insta links suck
www.instagram.com/p/DU35ndOkqPn
www.instagram.com/p/DU35ndOkqPn
8 out of 10 times I see a doomer post, the doomer in question is also posting about how they love AI. feels significant, somehow.
February 17, 2026 at 12:19 AM
8 out of 10 times I see a doomer post, the doomer in question is also posting about how they love AI. feels significant, somehow.
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HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM
HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
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The way we've gotten so weird about "performative" is understandable when a lot of white folks want to do a little performance and then reap the benefits as if they've done all the work.
But man we gotta PERFORM to jerk this Overton window back to where it should be. Flood the damn zone.
But man we gotta PERFORM to jerk this Overton window back to where it should be. Flood the damn zone.
I know people like to dunk on wearing tiny "ICE OUT" pins, but I think they represent a really important culture shift. Even people who are very conscious about their image and expected to perform in a palatable way are wearing them in very public places.
New York Fashion Week Joins the “ICE OUT” Movement: “It Changes Hearts and Minds”
From designers to front-row regulars, the industry is rallying behind a growing campaign against ICE. Organizers and participants tell ‘Marie Claire’ why this moment matters.
www.marieclaire.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:54 PM
The way we've gotten so weird about "performative" is understandable when a lot of white folks want to do a little performance and then reap the benefits as if they've done all the work.
But man we gotta PERFORM to jerk this Overton window back to where it should be. Flood the damn zone.
But man we gotta PERFORM to jerk this Overton window back to where it should be. Flood the damn zone.
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I'm not changing the way I write for the sake of weak thinkers. I don't care
“As some universities and journals adopt AI-text detectors, they risk creating a feedback loop that constrains how authors express themselves. I have seen colleagues intentionally simplify their grammar or break down complex rhetorical structures to avoid arousing algorithmic suspicion.”
Why artificial intelligence detectors could penalize academic writing - Nature Human Behaviour
Writing produced using artificial intelligence is becoming more common in academia, which has prompted institutions to look for ways to detect it. Bo Hu warns that an overreliance on fixed linguistic ...
www.nature.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I'm not changing the way I write for the sake of weak thinkers. I don't care
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🐮📖 The short features a gag where Clarabell is reading the controversial 1907 romance novel "Three Weeks" by Elinor Glyn & hides it when Horace comes a-calling.
That literary joke got the cartoon barred in Ohio 🚫
That literary joke got the cartoon barred in Ohio 🚫
February 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
🐮📖 The short features a gag where Clarabell is reading the controversial 1907 romance novel "Three Weeks" by Elinor Glyn & hides it when Horace comes a-calling.
That literary joke got the cartoon barred in Ohio 🚫
That literary joke got the cartoon barred in Ohio 🚫
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a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.
February 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.
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Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop:
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
February 16, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop:
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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You’re welcome! (Acquired via @trance.bsky.social)
February 16, 2026 at 3:08 AM
You’re welcome! (Acquired via @trance.bsky.social)