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Crewman Six, Snack Viking

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Schrodinger's Queer 🏳️‍🌈 She/They. Recovering academic, hot mess. I write and I make things. #SmallMagics #Poetry #KoFiShop Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/crewmansix Wishlist: https://throne.me/crewmansix Website: https://crewmansixrants.wordpress.com/

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Crewman Six, Snack Viking @crewmansix.bsky.social · Aug 30

Revisit a yearlong exploration of writing, stream of consciousness world building, snark, and cultural commentary.

#WritingFiction #SmallMagics

Small Magics: Volume 6

Archive of creative writing originally released on KoFi. Parts 125-146. 18 December 2024 – 12 February 2025.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 13h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Crewman Six, Snack Viking @crewmansix.bsky.social · 16h

I remember being just... crushed by that one. Like, all those seasons with this lovely character and actress, all the angst around the Dax/Word wedding and relationship, and then they did that shit? I didn't find out the behind the scenes stuff till much later and just got Big Mad all over again.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16h

The only thing better than a sunburst light magic ancient tome secret book box is one that is RAINBOW colored!

thebrokencircle.etsy...

An ancient tome book boxes. It looks like an ornate book that has been printed in rainbow gradient filament brushed in gold. This one features a sunburst in the midst of decorative flourishes.

A picture showing how the pages of the book slide out to reveal a secret box.

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Kathryn Reynolds 📚🎨 @cozykathryn.bsky.social · 16h

Xero and I met on Montrose.

At a club called Numbers.

Fuck y'all, make the entire street of Montrose rainbow! Paint the buildings with trans flags! Montrose IS GAY, and you can't erase that!

Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 16h

Houston reinstated the rainbow crosswalks in Montrose. Some conservative leaders are calling for its removal.

Conservative leaders call for removal of Montrose rainbow crosswalks, days after they were reinstated

A post from “Libs of TikTok” on X has been viewed more than three million times and shared by thousands of users. Governor Greg Abbott’s office said he wants Texas cities to comply with federal guidelines.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 16h

I want the soundproofing technology they have in sitcoms where you can stand in an open kitchen and discuss people in the next room and they can't hear you

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 16h

A small press going out of business without paying its authors...inexcusible. I wish I could say it rarely happens, but I would be lying.

Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 20h

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 16h

In conclusion: This dude is a piece of shit.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 16h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 17h

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 17h

Amazing, valuable thread.

Not a TL:DR, but perhaps its most important message: be kind to the people who are trying to help you and they well be able to help you better and faster.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at.

And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 12

There is a line around this building to get to the line entrance to wait to get into this job fair.

At the airport. For airport jobs.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

Gavin Newsom fucking sucks, part MCXVII

he still has until the end of the week for the rest of the bills so unfortunately it’s time to suck it up, call his office, and politely ask this living hairpiece to do the bare minimum to protect the most vulnerable among us

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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🎃 Xero Reynolds 🎃 @artificerind.bsky.social · 17h

If you'd like to do me a birthday solid this week, join my Patreon or Ko-fi!

Helping me do what I love is an amazing gift. 💙🤘💙

patreon.com/artificerind

Artificer Industries | Patreon

Streaming, and Maker YouTube videos

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 18h

That’s exactly it. That’s the whole message. Delight in our differences. #IDIC.

A Tumblr post from user wiishopchanelboots:

Rewatching TNG, and something I appreciate is how much autonomy people give Data. Like sure, you get your Measure of a Mans and your people projecting assumptions about him not being alive and such, but for the most part the crew really just, treat him like another guy.
Data is ostensibly better, faster, etc. at just about any task you could find on a starship, I could easily see people taking advantage of that.
Fighting over who gets to use him on what task, "I need him to fix the warp core" "no I need him to catalogue the rock samples" "no I need him to learn everything about an alien culture".
But he really doesn't deal with that. He follows the orders he's given yeah, but he has the freedom to pursue his own interests and make his own choices, and not to be completely reduced to his superior functionality. He is given the freedom to exist on his own terms, and oftentimes ENCOURAGED to advocate for himself and actively resist people taking advantage of him. And I dunno, it's comforting seeing a character who is so thoroughly other being consistently welcomed and encouraged to be uniquely himself, and loved for those differences.

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Crewman Six, Snack Viking @crewmansix.bsky.social · 17h

YUP.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

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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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 19h

You say "Cat Lady" like it's a bad thing.

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Rachel Smythe @rachelsmythe.bsky.social · 19h

Lore Olympus Volume 9 has finally arrived!

This volume collects episodes 207–233 and comes with an exclusive bonus chapter. An alternative hardcover is available from Barnes & Noble. Thank you!!!

The book cover for Lore Olympus volume 9.

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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · 18h

🧪My PSA for the day. Colors are cool and flashy for publications but are not mandatory for figures. So if you're going to use them make sure to they are accessible for those of us who are color deficient/blind. Here's one of the many options to consult: www.animateyour.science/post/how-to-...

a man wearing glasses says " yeah yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could

ALT: a man wearing glasses says " yeah yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

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Crewman Six, Snack Viking @crewmansix.bsky.social · 17h

Gods, that entire album had me in such a grip!

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Crewman Six, Snack Viking @crewmansix.bsky.social · 18h

THIS.

There's an awful lot of Own Goal Errors going on that could have been avoided by an internal or private bitch fest instead of airing it all in public like a bunch of amateurs. 😒

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18h

And like, does no one in charge here have a group chat? I say lots of shit when I'm frustrated that I don't put on the fuckin' internet, and I'm a chaotic midlist author with almost zero impulse control.

Your companies have got to have higher standards than I do.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 18h

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18h

You're not special because you understand your industry better than people who do not have the time to deep dive it for 40-60 hours a week because they have other jobs.

And believe me, all of us are REAL DUMB about a lot of industries we're not in. Don't get cocky, kid.

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