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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 3h

This is like "never use passive voice," a bit of advice put out there because most people will get themselves into trouble if they don't follow it.

Joshua Blackwood @joshuablackwood.bsky.social · 4h

If you believe that “said” or “asked” are the only acceptable dialogue tags, I assume your chicken is unseasoned.

a woman in a pink dress is saying i said what i said

Alt: Nene Leakes wearing a pink dress and saying “I said what I said”.

media.tenor.com

A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 6h

I and several other writers on here just got done affirming how editors have saved us and this is a prime example of that, and why you should have an old dog somewhere in your editorial process.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 7h

wtaf are you talking about

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 21h

Highlander is the reigning prince of the universe when it comes to this. Decades of spinoff crap that sucks total shit.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 2d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 23h

Only here but for their grace

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 1d

You have to forgive us over here in the states. CNN and the federal apparati have all prepared for the eventual death of Dolly Parton in much the same way all the brits did for Liz. We got a little jumpy for a sec there.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 1d

Our problem is that we don't apply this logic to societal projects that actually generate net good. Huge law firms refusing to provide a quota of public defenders pro bono? Exxon and Phillips can't clean up the pacific garbage patch for free? It'll kill the human industry!!

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 1d

If I ever started raking in drug money from my job as a Baltimore dockyard logistics worker, I wouldn't say anything, but there would be signs.

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 1d

Spotted in the hospital car park, this 70s-brown Reliant Scimitar with tiger striped seat covers @tamslick.bsky.social

Brown Reliant Scimitar GT, front right three quarter view

Brown Reliant Scimitar GT left rear view

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 1d

The fact that everyone totally ignores C3PO when he says stuff like this makes a lot more sense if you think of him as a ChatGPT type computer who just says plausible sounding sentences without any real analysis behind them.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck are these people ever talking about

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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merritt @merrittk.com · 3d

does anyone need a sworn retainer. like a terrible instrument of your will who asks no questions and is more of a living weapon than a fully actualized human being

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

That's when they tend to watch the Big Lebowski.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

*PTSD flashbacks ensue* Why do college students always randomly get obsessed with making White Russians for a semester? Same thing happened with me. Whew, god. How I got over!!!

Stevie 'knows 8 kata now' Mattos @asmattering.bsky.social · 2d

i think about my white russian year and my teeth begin to hurt

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

How are we to force our children to love us if we're not allowed to beat them?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Breaking news: The Supreme Court sounded deeply skeptical Tuesday about a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors.

A ruling against the Colorado law could scuttle similar regulations in nearly 30 states.

Supreme Court sharply questions law banning conversion therapy

Supreme Court sharpy questions Colorado law that bans efforts to changing minors’ sexual identity, suggesting it violates free speech rights of therapists.

wapo.st

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

The first two reviews of Tron: Ares I've seen have been a four-star and a 1-star, so you best believe I'm seeing it.

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Jan 31

Them: ‘So what’s your book marketing strategy?’

Me:

Will ferrell yelling “ do you need any comic books?”

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

Cuz you aided and abetted treason, my guy.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Graham: Can you tell me why my phone records were sought by the jack Smith agents. Why did they ask to know who I called and what I was doing from January 4th to the seventh? Can you tell me that?

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 2d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

Part of my husbandly duties, sometimes, is reminding my wife that the reason some people are snippy at her on Facebook is because the two things people on Facebook cannot do are 1.) Read and 2.) Write.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d

I love that the Zoology department was integral to finding text about Merlin that was otherwise invisible to the human eye.

Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book

The ‘extremely significant' text was hidden for centuries.

www.popsci.com

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Splinter @splinternews.bsky.social · 6d

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile Lampoons the Crap that Got Us Here www.splinter.com/jeffrey-epst...

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile Lampoons the Crap that Got Us Here

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

Watch out, Snake! It's Wizard Frog!! He has psychotropic powers!!! You'll need to plug the controller into the second port to beat him!!!!

A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 3d

This not eben Pitt worst accent crime, sistah.

Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 3d

there was a moment in Hollywood when American movie stars played IRA guys and the accent crimes committed simply can’t be comprehended by the 21st century mind

Brad Pitt in THE DEVIL’S OWN, unfortunately

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 3d

Anecdotally, my kids also have 16 hours of homework a night.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Splinter @splinternews.bsky.social · 3d

A Majority of U.S. Jews Think Israel Has Committed War Crimes www.splinter.com/a-majority-o...

A Majority of U.S. Jews Think Israel Has Committed War Crimes

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

if there's a silver lining to the bari weiss stuff it's that being put in charge of cbs news in 2025 is kind of like being named the commander of a french horseback cavalry division in 1917

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