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Zoe Storm
@zoestorm.bsky.social
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Runner, nerd, writer.
Find my stuff here: https://linktr.ee/ZoeStorm
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Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · Oct 21
Hello everyone! Intro post I guess 😄

My name is Zoe Storm and I write trans and queer stories! Mostly coming-of-age stories set in high school and college, but I write lots of different stuff, from slice of life to sci-fi to fantasy.

If you want to check my writing out: linktr.ee/ZoeStorm
The cover of the book "Alex" by Zoe Storm. The cover of the book "The Enchanted Forest and Other Stories: Five Tales of Gender Magic" by Zoe Storm. The cover of the book "To Own the Libs" by Zoe Storm. The cover of the book "The Brightest Stars" by Zoe Storm.
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emoryahlberg.bsky.social
New on my Patreon...

Half Sisters - Episode 71

Sandy episode! Nikki's been hogging the spotlight lately but it's time to stick with our girl from Boston, because Josh just flew in to surprise her and sometimes the most romantic gestures are also the most complicated.

Find it here! bit.ly/4nXgpDS
February 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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rincewind.run
okay you know what we're doing this

why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 5h
it is not interested in plot, it is not interested in worldbuilding, it is not interested in anything except throwing random disconnected snapshots of nostalgia at you

rise of skywalker kicks over the sandbox and leaves you uninterested in star wars in a way the prequels never did
irhottakes.bsky.social Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 5h
I feel comfortable saying Rise of Skywalker was the worst Star Wars because it is the only one I genuinely do not remember enough of it to offer a coherent explanation of the plot. I think a knife and Poe’s ex-wife were somehow involved.
February 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
At last I can talk about it! I'm writing a Star Trek comic!!!!

All I can tell you right now is it takes place several years after the end of Picard. And it stars Captain Raffi Musiker working with a giant positronic brain to protect the Federation from future threats!

gizmodo.com/star-trek-id...
The Future of 'Star Trek' Comics Is Ready for a New Next Generation (Exclusive)
Welcome Captain Seven of Nine aboard the 'Enterprise' with IDW's new 'Star Trek' comic.
gizmodo.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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kathleengmaz.bsky.social
My evolving relationship with streaming. 🏴‍☠️
Four panels that show a woman gradually transforming into a pirate in each panel new restrictions to her streaming service are listed such as this streaming service will now have ads. This show isn't available on this streaming service. This show is only available for rent or purchase this show requires an add-on subscription. Gradually the woman goes from looking like a regular person then she has an eyepatch the next panel she has a pirates shirt and jacket the last panel. She has a pirate hat.
February 17, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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upandoutcomic.bsky.social
was digging thru my archive and found some gems
February 18, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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getequipped.bsky.social
get equipped with spectator rage
February 18, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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sydney-bauer.com
I’m in @awfulannouncing.bsky.social this morning with a fun little profile on US curling legend John Shuster who’s been blessing your TVs each morning on Gold Zone:
Gold medalist John Shuster continues living his Olympic dreams as NBC curling analyst
Curling gold medalist John Shuster missed qualification in 2026, but has found a new way to be a part of the Olympics with NBC.
awfulannouncing.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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antithesis-press.bsky.social
...or if you're looking for something a little different, The Heart of the Woods features five magical tales.

Also available for pre-order at antithesispress.com/shop - with a discount if you buy both books in epub, physical, or any combination.
Cover image from The Heart of the Woods and Other Stories, by Zoe Storm. The cover features white text of the title overlaid on a misty forest scene.
February 17, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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antithesis-press.bsky.social
Sad that Valentine's weekend is over? Wanting just a bit more courtship in your life?

Our new edition of @zoestorm.bsky.social's modern romance, To Own the Libs, featuring the densest of dense eggs, is available to pre-order right now at antithesispress.com/shop
Cover image for "To Own the Libs" by Zoe Storm. A young woman with red hair looks at her reflection in a shattered mirror on a wall.
February 17, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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badambulist.bsky.social
Welcome to Dorley Hall is back in the UK! The first book of The Sisters of Dorley relaunches April 23rd, and for a limited time, you can get 25% off your pre-order at Waterstones with code FEB26.

Visit the website or app between Feb 17 and Feb 20 to pre-order!

www.waterstones.com/book/welcome...
Waterstones 25% off offer on Welcome to Dorley Hall. Use code FEB26 between the 17th and the 20th of February.
February 17, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d
Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.

You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️
February 17, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
Yeah, actually.

Morally AND strategically.

Dems have an opportunity right now to make very clear that they are a party of equity, progress, and inclusion.

This ceding-on-DEI coward shit is what got us in this mess in the first place.
tempy.bsky.social tempy @tempy.bsky.social · 2d
Is right now a good time for the democrats in Congress to be very public about fighting for trans rights? And I’m not sure what slur you’re accusing me of using, but if I’ve said something wrong please do let me know.
February 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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parkermolloy.com
FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.
samyoungman.bsky.social Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 2d
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
A truly magnificent sight (slightly ruined by Windsor Castle).
#WorldBollardAssociation
February 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
zoestorm.bsky.social
xkcd knows how to hurt me lmao
xkcd.com Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 2d
Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

xkcd.com/3207/
Comic. Bad Map Projection #216: Zero Declination. A cylindrical projection distorted so that up is *magnetic* north. Distorted map with red arrows around the edges pointing different directions.
February 16, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Writing is thinking.

It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
samadams.bsky.social Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2d
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d
“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”

The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.

www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Nobody has ever been fooled by this guy that didn’t want to be
I wonder if even now Kuenssberg realises the extent to which she was played by Mandelson.
February 3, 2026 at 9:10 PM
zoestorm.bsky.social
Oh they're COOKED cooked. D+2 among whites from a R pollster? It's going to be a massacre.
usapolling.bsky.social Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 2d
Generic Ballot Polling Among White Americans:

🔵 Democrats: 46%
🔴 Republican: 44%

Quantus / Feb 13, 2026

(Republican Pollster)
February 16, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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badambulist.bsky.social
it delayed me in the important work of making the Buc-plug
A buttplug that has had the Buc-ee’s logo badly photoshopped onto the end. Yes, the logo isn’t quite distorted properly, leave me alone.
February 16, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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dansalva.to
A mockup of a Jeopardy board question that reads "Konami's depiction of Count Dracula iconically called this type of person "a miserable little pile of secrets"
February 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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maxdubler.com
So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.
That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer
February 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
It’s so funny how true this is and how pissed off the founders are this happened
pookleblinky.bsky.social Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3d
Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.

Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
shobitap.org Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 3d
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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rincewind.run
maybe not the main point but it is wild to be lectured on “culture” by the human avatar of Ready Player One

he has no culture, no interest in anything besides mindlessly saying the names of things he knows are supposed to be cool as some sort of shibboleth
diedrichbader.bsky.social Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 3d
Yes, that’s why my family left Germany because they really wanted to go to Great Britain and sort of missed it by thaaat much
February 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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ass.golf
annihilating the environment just to make ourselves miserable more efficiently. our culture is diseased
February 15, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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ass.golf
this is so fucking grim
timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 3d
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day. I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?" The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.
February 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM