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Zoe Storm

@zoestorm.bsky.social

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Runner, nerd, writer. Find my stuff here: https://linktr.ee/ZoeStorm 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇹

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Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hello everyone! Intro post I guess 😄

My name is Zoe Storm and I write trans and queer stories! Mostly coming-of-age stories set in high school and college, but I write lots of different stuff, from slice of life to sci-fi to fantasy.

If you want to check my writing out: linktr.ee/ZoeStorm

The cover of the book "Alex" by Zoe Storm.

The cover of the book "The Enchanted Forest and Other Stories: Five Tales of Gender Magic" by Zoe Storm.

The cover of the book "To Own the Libs" by Zoe Storm.

The cover of the book "The Brightest Stars" by Zoe Storm.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h

It’s fun to recall that the entire point of this exercise was to create a crushing, rock-solid electoral bloc of Sensible Moderates, bullied libs and Reasonable Tories, and that everyone agreed this was obviously the best thing to do because you win from the centre. And

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Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · 14h

This is so incredibly pathetic lmao

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 19h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 15h

Suddenly, I noticed a faint smell of tuna. I looked over at my office partner, Dr. Hunt. She was grinning by the machine she'd built.

"It works!"

"Nice," I said. "What is it?"

"What you smell is the ghost of tuna!"

I felt something brush against my leg. The office filled with ghostly purring.

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Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · 15h

Alyson ❤️

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 18h

the proof for ALL THE WAY is here! I have also included a normal 135k-word (plus illustrations) novel for comparison

a photo of the (very large) novel ALL THE WAY (by me) next to the (more normal-sized) novel THE CATCH (by me and the gorgeous Emory Ahlberg)

another comparison of the two books, showing that ALL THE WAY is like a full cm thicker

a photo from inside ALL THE WAY, showing the tiny margins

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18h

That's because they're fucking idiots, there is literally no other explanation

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1d

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 1d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a video game designer and you gate something which makes advancing the plot easier behind a minigame which takes more time and/or effort to complete than just advancing the plot without it you get the guillotine.

If you gate THE PLOT behind a minigame you get the turboguillotine.

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Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. If you're gonna top, it's only polite.

Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 1d

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 1d

May they be sued into the ground and all genAI slop banned forever.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

OpenAI is facing copyright blowback after releasing updated AI video generator Sora 2, which poses an increased disinformation risk and energy demand.

Read our breakdown: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

"Transgender for everyone" is such a lazy god damn thing to claim, like it's just insulting everyone's intelligence. Nobody believes it, it's just such an incomprehensibly stupid thing to say, nobody suggests such a policy.

What would that even entail? Mandatory transition for everyone? Yeah, sure.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

The only thing you really need to remember about Chiles v. Salazar is that ADF couldn't find any children harmed by not being able to find counselors who will practice conversion therapy—

so they rely on anonymous complaints on Reddit.

It's a fucking joke.

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Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Nora's Automated Med Check. Not yet time for me to take them, but I'll make a note of it.

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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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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

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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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · 2d

every time i log into helldivers 2 there's 400,000 players online. that's just online. it's sold over 15m copies.

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry but touting 1.5 million readers and 170k subscribers is so funny. That is not that many!!!!

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 2d

'Loss of life'. Passive voice strikes again

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social : "I see the appalling loss of life in Gaza"

Who's killing them? The country that you're supporting, arming, trading with, providing military assistance to, the country whose soldiers you're training & whose senior officers you're hosting. You're complicit.

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Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 2d

If bluesky does go up in flames, I would like to make a suggestion: maybe try making the next social media website a different colour.
I mean, the blue probably isn't the thing driving the CEOs to madness, but it's worth checking.