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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 11d

sure am glad I have to feed every single assignment prompt into AI and then "humanize" just to demonstrate to students I know where they are getting this creepily perfect and lifeless writing

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11d

there’s a person on the corner in an inflatable unicorn costume dancing and holding a sign that says WELCOME TO HELL

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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 11d

me: "And he finally leans in and she's able to get out the heavy pin, the bolt set into the bone"
voice-to-text: "And he finally means in and she's been using her panties. Happy V an Android phone"

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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 15d

77!

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Kiki @kiki-jiji.bsky.social · 17d

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 17d

@npr.org your own article says this is a shit headline. Grow a spine or at least some journalistic integrity. You're failing to meet the moment.

In which NPR article notes the 2024 Swedish study of 2M children that showed there was no link between autism and acetaminophen

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 17d

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

4 panel comic

Panel 1: On the left hand side of the panel a member of the KKK is snivelling like a pissy little baby. A Red Guy and a Purple Guy stand next to him. The Red Guy says to the Purple Guy, “Look what you’ve done”

Panel 2: The Red Guy continues “You’ve upset this poor, sweet racist”
the little KKK bitch whimpers “I don’t even feel like lynching a black person”

Panel 3: The Red Guy goes on with disgusting sympathy “He doesn’t even feel like lynching a black person”

Panel 4: The Red Guy says “And that’s his FAVOURITE thing to do” he puts his arm around the whiny little pointy robed cunt.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 17d

"sorry, we gotta go right wing on the border, and not stand up for trans people, and also support israel to the hilt, or they might not vote for us"

huh! interesting. does this calculus on getting votes apply to us who want different?

"no. fuck you. you just support us forever without complaint."

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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 17d

Jon Lasser was a sweet and thoughtful guy who added much to the world. Memory eternal.

Remy Nakamura (he/they) @remymura.bsky.social · 17d

Mourning the loss of Jon Lasser, Seattle SFF community stalwart and new friend and colleague. The world has lost a deeply generous and compassionate human and talented author.

You'll be missed.

P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 17d

Sorry to hear this morning about the passing of Jon Lasser (@disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy). My deepest condolences to his family and all who knew him. If you aren’t familiar with Jon’s work, here are some things he had published: twoideas.org/publications...

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 17d

it's almost october!!

which means NEW deadlands coming soon

and we'll be rolling it out for free, as we skeletons always do 🙌

but please consider joining our patreon 🖤

we really do need you 💀

www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon

a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death

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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 17d

GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s experiment as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027.

A new report by a government spending watchdog found that the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...

www.propublica.org

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 17d

this is actually an important lesson even if you dgaf about kimmel. take the win!

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 17d

(preparing to break my fingers with a hammer so i don't post 'mammorial')

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 17d

Des Moines has you all beat

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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 18d

(this surprises no one, but what is BlueSky for if not thinking out loud)

Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 18d

Ensign Mary Sue got reduced to a stereotype. 70s fan culture was quite misogynist. There were a lot of young women who looked for capable role models in Trek and saw... Kirk's girl-of-the-week. So they wrote the same girl but with superhuman competence. Almost like the men writing... Kirk.

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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 18d

an observation here that hearkens back to the origination of Mary Sue as "Ensign Mary Sue" in Trek fanfic: all fanfic can give people marginalized in the IP a space to develop their identity.

Troi, Crusher, Dax, Kira Nerys--statistically likely to be written by women who came up in 70s Trek fanfic.

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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 18d

(Psst: I would love to see some talk, maybe some article I don't have time to write, that covers the pre-Internet history of repackaging fanfic. I was always floored that Dennis McKiernan wrote such a transparently obvious sequel to LotR and got his Very Robust Eighties career out of it.)

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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 18d

a really worthwhile read! I am fascinated by this kind of stuff, being slightly too old to have come up on A03 and shipping culture, but still having done my share of "filing off the serial numbers."

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 18d

deepest of deep breaths

feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 18d

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."

@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):

reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 21d

We hear a lot about boys getting radicalized online, and not enough about how to stop it.

This is good video with 5 specific things parents/adults can do:

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jul 15

I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.

Julie Rei Goldstein @julierei.bsky.social · Jul 15

On a recent podcast Gavin Newsom tells Shawn Ryan how the Trans sports issue opened the door for him to change his mind on GAC for Trans Youth.

As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.

There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.

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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 24d

And it's Ben&Unilever ice cream. This feels particularly personal. Fucking corporations must go down.

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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 25d

Redford advocated for Native Americans and Native-led projects in Hollywood & made a high-profile documentary about Peltier. He used his platform to lift others up. Respect. Memory eternal

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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 25d

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25d

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

MANKATO, Minnesota (AP) - Charlie Kirk stood 80 miles from where George Floyd was murdered, faced an overwhelmingly white audience, and declared he was going to say things "no one dares say out loud."
What followed was an avalanche of aspersions and debunked claims about Floyd, the Black man whose death at the hands of a
Minneapolis police officer set off a global reckoning over racial injustice and broad calls for change. But the white conservative agitator had a counter view: Floyd was a "scumbag," he said, unworthy of the attention.

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Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social · 26d

It was probably ice cream tbh

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