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Kara Babcock

@tachyondecay.net

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Car-uh, she/her. Your favourite comfort podcaster: @prophecygirls.ca Book reviewer: kara.reviews Other nonsense: tachyondecay.net Freelance copyeditor. Teacher. Knitter.

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · Jul 8

Periodic reminder I am a freelance copyeditor for indie authors and academics. From novels to dissertations, I love helping you clarify and correct your work! DM me for more info, and share this post, please. 😊

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 9h

Live at Twitch.tv/tachyondecay with more Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden!

Gamer girl selfie with mic, headset. I'm wearing blue glasses and a red lip. I'm making the peace sign with my hand

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 10h

I mean, I'm an atheist. I think that atheists really owe it to themselves and others to acknowledge harms done in its name, just as it's important for Christians to acknowledge the harms done in their name.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 15h

Whaaaat. Those comment threads were gold!!!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 3d

The novelverse provides some backstory and then they also come back in the DS9 continuation novels!

Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 3d

NO, Ian. You cannot start *another* podcast. Bad! Down! *gets out the newspaper*

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 3d

I’ve never watched The Wire (not my thing), but every time I have heard his takes on writing David Simon has always had something good to say. This is no exception.

ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 3d

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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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 3d

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 3d

As is so often the case, @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social is correct
defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 3d

Want to spin-off Canada Post? Fine, make it a worker-owned co-op

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 3d

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 4d

Here's where I land on Star Trek: SNW season 3: it was bad and it should feel bad.

Quite possibly the worst season of NuTrek to date. Yes, worse than DISCO S1. Yes, worse than PIC S3. Or PIC S2. Or PIC S1.

Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 4d

Sadly I think it's just another example of how he said one thing to get elected and is now doing the opposite.

Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 4d

I'm at the Tubu.
I'm at the Heebee.
I'm at the combination Tubu and Heebee.

Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 4d

That was me last night and I was up way too late as a result. Sending you strength!

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Bee Quammie @beequammie.bsky.social · 4d

Elbows down, I guess

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 4d

This atheist will pray for Dolly

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 4d

"How running out of post ideas landed me my dream position at my dream company where I make $700k a year…"

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Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 5d

Solidarity with Alberta teachers facing a lockout because they're fighting for better working conditions and learning conditions. ✊

Kara Babcock @tachyondecay.net · 5d

Screenshot from Mean Girls (2004). A group of high school girls sits on bleachers, their hands raised. The caption reads, "Raise your hand if you have ever felt personally victimized by Regina George" but "Regina George" has been replaced by "Jay Graeber"

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 5d

haha his little cardigan. lil picardi-cardi. picardigan.

jean-luc picard from TNG wearing a starfleet uniform in cardigan form

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 5d

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