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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 12h

Not all of it has aged well, but so much of it is wonderful.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 13h

CW: Violence (driver hitting a teenage girl), but if you're in Alberta, give this a look and see if you recognize anything. Folks in the thread say this is near a school, and this guy plowed into a kid in a crosswalk.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 18h

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 16h

Oh lordy. I heard these stories from various people involved. If you want to work in TV, or just are curious about how thoroughly things can go wrong, definitely check this out.

Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 16h

How could a straight-to-series greenlight go so wrong for the first TV series I ever created?! Today, the 5AM StoryTalk Podcast brings you Part 1 of a four-part Hollywood horror story I describe as a cautionary tale for screenwriters about what can happen when all your dreams come true.

The Horror of 'Dracula': The Unbelievable True Story of the 2013 TV Series - Part 1

Podcast Episode · 5AM StoryTalk · 10/07/2025 · 15m

podcasts.apple.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19h

Dude got one thing right. It's not a both sides thing. It's not.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Fonda Lee @fondalee.bsky.social · 1d

The JADE CITY ebook is an Amazon Prime Day deal today (Tuesday) for a ludicrously low $2.99 which is much less than what I paid for boba tea yesterday so if you still haven't jumped on the Green Bone Saga bandwagon, this is your sign👇

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

Umm, Canada, are you taking notes???

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

this site has done so many things right when it comes to building tools that allow us to escape some of the worst parts of twitter. I legitimately admire many of the technological choices they've made.

but for the love of god, EVERYTHING IN THIS THREAD. go get a communications team!!!!!

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

every time i am ever critical of bluesky it's because i enjoy my time here, have nicely made a home for myself, and want the place to succeed. i'm on my hands and fucking knees begging them to stop walking into rakes like please for the love of allmo just look down at the ground to avoid the rakes.

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

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 9d

This is why I keep saying we must never forget and never forgive the people who did this to us.

We have to learn from the failure of Reconstruction, and punish them, so it never happens again. We can't let them just move on, and pretend that they never did any of this.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9d

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

AnxiousIntrovert, MS @anxiousintrovert19.bsky.social · 9d

How do we return to any semblance of normal after all this is said and done?

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

YES! like, do you want us to fight using every fucking tool we can put our hands on or not??

If we need to learn one thing from the damn GOP, it is their pathological willingness to go "well that didn't work, who has an even weirder idea let's fuckin go"

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Thread, I'm with Courtney in pretty much the entirety of it.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I think we are well past the point where future historians look at us and say that civil war could not be averted.

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Mike Laidlaw @mikelaidlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Steam sale is winding down! Eternal Strands is still on sale until it's over at 65% off. Romance, adventure, magically launching broken landscape at massive creatures, and one (1) overly complicated sock sorting system all included!

store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...

Save 65% on Eternal Strands on Steam

A next-generation action experience where the elements obey you, the terrain bends to your will, and every victory is entirely your own.

store.steampowered.com

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos nothing in particular, even though I don’t drink tea, I love @courtneymilan.com’s newsletter on tea and her life and her books. she writes smart stuff, and more people should read it. (And she should put the tip jar in the next one.)

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Bookstore Romance Day @bookstoreromanceday.org · 2d

More than half of the tickets for this are already gone. Grab your spot now to see @oliviawaite.com @clpolk.blacksky.app @evaleigh.bsky.social @stephanieburgis.bsky.social @jessiemihalik.com @kitrocha.com & #LeslyePenelope talk lost & found magic. 11/1 @ 3 PM ET.
www.eventbrite.com/e/1762356127...

Pale blue background. At the top left is the black silhouette of a hand facing downward with golden sparkles spilling from it. At the lower right is a black silhouette of a hand facing upward with golden sparkles rising from it. Gold text at top reads "Lost & Found Magic" Dark blue text below reads "A Virtual Conversation With Olivia Waite, CL Polk, Leslye Penelope, Jessie Mihalik, Eva Leigh, Kit Rocha, Stephanie Burgis" Lighter blue text reads "Sat. Nov. 1 at 3 PM Eastern on Zoom"

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 2d

wake up, hosers

new petition just dropped

e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money

Sign this Petition - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 2d

Like it, love it, want more of it.

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 2d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 2d

Tried kombucha because I heard it was good for gut health, and also the store had brands that made it taste like not just black/green tea, which is not usually my thing.

It still apparently has enough caffeine to make my teeth chatter, though.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 2d

yessssssssss, the best partner feeling!

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Sunday. Have a snack. (Not me, a different snack.) 🤭

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 3d

"I put bits of plagiarized novels on each face of a magic 8-ball and asked it a few questions and now I'm afraid to hurt its feelings."

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 3d

i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person

hailey @hailey.at
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 3d

The whole thread is great, but spoilers:

Tamsin the Reanimated Girl™ @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 4d

I do have other Thoughts™, but they can wait for another time.

If there's any takeaway, it's this:

Yeah, transition is scary, especially right now, and medical transition does incur social risks. I knew that going in.

It's still the most worthwhile thing I've ever done for myself.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Apr 30

It's 1925. I'm leanin' against this lamppost on the lookout for dames who are lookin for trouble. I start flipping a quarter. I catch her eye. I fumble the quarter and it rolls into a sewer grate. I have lost the equivalent of thirty thousand dollars.

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 3d

We're $301 from our reprints stretch goal! If we hit that, every issue will include a reprint of a queer story no longer available online. Help us archive queer stories and support queer creators in a time of censorship!

Learn more about our plans here: 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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