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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 13h

They know they are the bad guys! They like it!

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 16h

Stand down red alert

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 21h

I am begging the literacy center that saved my life and jump started my writing career to please start proofreading emails

A screenshot of an email subject line which reads: Whoops! Bad Link. Let’s try again.

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 1d

The editors of West Trade Review seek creative nonfiction that engages with the ideas of mental health and mental wellness.

Submissions close Oct. 15th!

Details at the link below:

buff.ly/2RsvBtt

#writingcommunity

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

projects.propublica.org

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 1d

Look, at least I *know* I suck

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus hates these people

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is in Portland meeting with ICE, Border Patrol and DHS officials; Nick Sortor posted video of Noem saying a prayer for the safety of their officers at the start of the meeting.

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely why I don’t “vote blue no matter who”

Fuck this dude and his haircut

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

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

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 1d

what was health insurance

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 1d

In college they told us to use language directly from the job listing when writing a cover letter for a work application. That has served me well in the past ("Wow! You sound like you've already been onboarded!") but now I worry people will think that is a sign of Ai use.

What say ye, Bluesky?

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 2d

Hi if you like Ai slop please don’t follow me.

If you think “Well, MY Ai slop isn’t slop” then you should actually block me

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 2d

They are deeply stupid, and think you are too

Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 2d

Literally all the furniture in my house is from a Buy Nothing group, which is also where I donate my excess clothes, cookware, even books and video games. Love it!

Trekkie.Wanda @fslg.bsky.social · 2d

I like this idea youtube.com/watch?v=sF8O...

The BUY NOTHING REBELLION has begun!...And it could change everything!

YouTube video by Timothy Ward

youtube.com

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 2d

Forecast is cold and rainy all day! Literally my favorite writing weather! Started typing at 6, might have something to share by this afternoon. Huzzah!

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 2d

Benjamin Sisko is the dad, chef, and baseball coach I never had

Edan🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @artkett1412.bsky.social · 2d

There's nothing in this world quite like that one fictional character you're obsessed with holding your mental health together like glue holding together a shattered vase

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 2d

Star Trek is about new worlds and new civilizations but….

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Admiral Funnest Frontier 🏴‍☠️🖖 @deckslower.bsky.social · 2d

Star Trek is about new worlds and new civilizations but....

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

oh cool so these guys are being called away from their actual livelihoods to go get booed by washingtonians and chicagoans and portlanders etc for free lol

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown

the doj was like "idk"

the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 2d

I keep forgetting the government is shut down bc Trump admin is so focused on sending troops to US cities

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 3d

Theatre Kid Edition:

I’ve never seen Cats, Rent, or Les Miz

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 3d

I see your Gavin Newsom and raise you an Andy Beshear

NPR @npr.org · 3d

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear about his cross-party appeal in a state that has always overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

In Trump country, a Democrat critiques Trump — and talks of succeeding him

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear about his cross-party appeal in a state that has always overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

n.pr

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 4d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 3d

Now it’s 9:30 and I’ve done everything I need to do today so I guess I’ll…go back to sleep?

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 4d

Got up early on a Sunday morning so I could exercise like some kind of pervert

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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 4d

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Samlet🖖 @trekphrastik.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #TrekThursday here’s today’s assignment from the Anonymous Alcoholic (hint - it’s a free essay!)

#treksky #cnf #libraries #creativewriting #writingsky #autobiography

buttondown.com/trekphrastik...

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 8d

Bart Simpson: "What an odd thing to say."

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