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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 1h

8. Leucothea and Palaemon

Ink illustration of a woman cradling a baby and sinking through dark water, a vertical ray of light illuminating them

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 6h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 4h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 4h

Our top news story tonight:

Lamb And Her Rock

YouTube video by Lee Walters

www.youtube.com

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · 4h

Im just a shark
#art #sharks

illustration of a shark working on a laptop. Second image is them crying on their desk

Text: "Why do cute people (me) have to suffer so much"

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Sarah Grace Tuttle @sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social · 10h

Do you want queer artists to get paid to make pretty things? Help @othersidespec.bsky.social hire more artists! (Do you see how delightful their cover art is? They have good taste!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 12h

The image is a six panel black and white comic

Panel 1- A small child is being told "You'll want kids when you're older!" The child responds with "I don't think so..."

Panel 2- The same child, now a teenager, is being told, "You'll change your mind when you're older." To which the teen responds, "I doubt that"

Panel 3- Now an adult, someone off screen asks them, "Aren't you thinking of having kids?" To which they respond, "Nope"

Panel 4- The same person, an older adult now, is being told, "better have kids soon, or it'll be too late!" to which they respond, "That's fine"

Panel 5- Now elderly, they are once again asked "Don't you feel like you missed out?" to which they say, "Still nope."

Panel 6- They are now in their death bed, clearly close to death. The nurse says, "Shame you didn't have kids, don't you regret it?" To which the person says "You know what just kill me already"

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P. H. Low (THESE DEATHLESS SHORES) @ph-low.com · 7h

A DRAGON NAMED SEAFOAM !!!

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 12h

Snared by dreams of escape from self and failure and loneliness, three dreamers are drawn beyond and caught by the inscrutable Powers: the conquering Horned Moon, the austere Watchman, the consuming pleasure of Foxglove. Only learning to love each other and themselves will save them.
#DVpit #CF #A

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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 10h

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM

✨mecha dragons
🪐disabled protagonist
💜Mexican American diaspora worldbuilding
🌈bi love interest + an ex-BFF
🌌epic space opera
🐉a hivemind of corrupted dragons somehow back after centuries in an entirely new solar system—it's fine!

#DVpit #A #SF #Latine #DIS #LGBT

Moodboard of the evil hivemind of corrupted dragons. Everything is in red, there are three rows of three images, with a middle row having a text box in the middle.

First row: a broken red crystal, red filter spacescape, and a close-up of red crowing crystals.
Second row: red filtered snakescales (to stand in for robot dragons), text box that says: beware the Myriad, beware their crystals bright and red. Survive, survive, but don't let the Myriad take you alive. Third is a canyon crevasse in the shape of a menacing looking eye.
Third row: more angry red space scape and then a red filtered texture effect.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

OH MY FUCKING GOD YES!!!!

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 1d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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P. H. Low (THESE DEATHLESS SHORES) @ph-low.com · 1d

💚💚💚💚 congrats! so happy for you!!

P. H. Low (THESE DEATHLESS SHORES) @ph-low.com · 1d

this YA horror antho is out today ~ incl. my literally hostile architecture novellette and 12 other amazing stories featuring disabled protagonists!

(it's also @bookshop.org anti-prime day! free shipping!)

bookshop.org/p/books/thes...

These Bodies Ain’t Broken

Check out These Bodies Ain’t Broken - A monstrous transformation within your own body. A sacrificial imprisonment. A fight to the death against an ancient evil. These stories showca...

bookshop.org

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makana yamaghosto @makana-yama.bsky.social · Oct 8

it's anti-Prime day on Bookshop, which means FREE SHIPPING!!! interested in reading about a crew of scrappy lesbian thieves taking down a trillionaire tech mogul with superhuman aspirations? HAMMAJANG LUCK is available to preorder with free shipping!!!

l;nk below!

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · Oct 8

Bookshop-dot-org is having an Anti-Prime Day Sale, at which you can preorder the new edition of Rose/House at a discount!

Rose/House a book by Arkady Martine

Rose/House is a breathtaking and taut sci-fi gothic thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire. "I'm a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how hu...

bookshop.org

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · Oct 8

I hear it is free US shipping anti-prime day at Bookshop!

If you have ever wanted a colourful look at beasts, biomes, antipodes, sleepy seahorses, fancy bats or the very beginnings of Earth...then i have a picture book for you or your small scientists! :-D

📚 bookshop.org/contributors...

#kidlit

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P. H. Low (THESE DEATHLESS SHORES) @ph-low.com · 1d

aaah they're all in for such a treat !! 🌕🌟

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 1d

It's in the bylaws and everything! :)

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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P. H. Low (THESE DEATHLESS SHORES) @ph-low.com · 1d

congrats!!!!!!!

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 1d

It’s book day!!!

HIGHER MAGIC is out in the US today! UK readers, it’s coming your way November 20th. I’m so excited for you all to meet Bartleby, Anne, and the rest of the gang. ✨

Higher Magic propped up against a white gnarly pumpkin and a big orange pumpkin on a bed of fall leaves.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

I had a US producer friend visiting me in Dublin & there was a gangland shooting in my hood while he was staying here.
I was embarrassed and apologised, he said "Hey I am THRILLED to be in a city where, if some guy gets shot, it makes the front pages." He's from Memphis. Check the murder rate there.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 2d

one reason I don't believe in invisible prose is we all fuck up sometimes. no edit is perfect. clockmakers and quilters know not to trespass in that divine domain. if you're doing something cool and you trip, I get it. if you're doing nothing and you write a clunker? I'm not gonna forget it

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