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Angel Luis Colón

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he/him | Award Winning 🇵🇷 Writer of🪳INFESTED🪳and MINECRAFT: HOUSE OF HORRORS | Editor | Rep'd by JM Darga at Aevitas Creative | https://linktr.ee/angelluiscolon

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · Sep 11

Got a young reader who needs a spooky season read?

I got yah.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768620...

Minecraft: House of Horrors by Angel Luis Colón: 9780593972311 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Discover the mysteries hidden deep within a maze of an abandoned house in this official Minecraft novel! Amy is pretty happy living the quiet life at home. She can mine ore, read up on oceanography, ...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 11m

Hard side eye to those still paying for Spotify.

www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Spotify is running ICE hiring ads boasting wild signing bonuses

Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.

www.sfgate.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 5h

Great piece👇

Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 1d

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

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What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

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Ryan McCrystal @ryanmccrystal.bsky.social · 19h

It took 8 paragraphs before acknowledging he has zero power over World Cup locations.

The press needs to be more direct in labelling lies and empty threats, preferably in headlines.

www.espn.com/espn/story/_...

Trump threatens to remove WC games from Boston

President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to revoke Boston's World Cup matches if local authorities don't get tougher on crime.

www.espn.com

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 3h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 3h

My take on this is that a certain demo of medical professional is thrilled to be able to point at a computer and tell folks with chronic pain (especially marginalized folks) "See, I finally have proof you're lying."

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 17h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 18h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 3h

What an unnecessary "invention".

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 4h

This won't be a chaotic mess. Nope.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.

arstechnica.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 23h

In one corner we have Pornhub refusing to store users' PII & government IDs because of the myriad security problems inherent in that situation

In the other corner, openAI very much wants to store your government ID attached to your gooning chats

OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract

Months after announcing a partnership with defense-tech startup Anduril, OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense.

www.cnbc.com

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 17h

it's getting rapidly memory-holed that in 2012 kennedy claimed to a divorce judge that the brainworm affected his brain function and therefore future earning potential
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 17h

look! consequences!! people still care about this stuff no matter how much the oligarchs try to tell us its a brave new racist world

The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 18h

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of today after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.
Via Kansas News Service: lawrenceks.news/4ooiPf2

Kansas Young Republicans group now inactive after racist chat messages get exposed

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of Tuesday after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.

lawrenceks.news

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 17h

Please understand that D’Angelo put out ZERO bad albums.

If you have not listened, unfuck that.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21h

The three major airports near New York City have joined Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte, Cleveland, and Buffalo.

Newark, JFK, LaGuardia will decline to play Kristi Noem’s politicized TSA video - New Jersey Globe

Three major airports in the New York City area – Newark Liberty International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport –

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 21h

I know bullying is terrible on a general level, but every time I see a picture of a young nazi, I feel like maybe it would be ok in certain cases?

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23h

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tai Gooden ✨ @writertaigooden.bsky.social · 1d

My heart aches for D'Angelo and Angie Stone's son. I know the pain of losing a parent to a terminal illness but I cannot imagine having that happen in the same year as losing the other parent in a car accident. It is so incredibly tragic and unfair for that young man, who is only 26-27 years old.

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 23h

What a shocker: these losers are racist.

Pieces of shit.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 23h

federal agents appear to have left the immediate area, according to a wgn live feed.

shortly before border patrol deployed tear gas, chicago police had stepped in to separated the masked federal agents from community members. like before, it appears they were also tear-gassed.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Developing: per photographer Matthew Kaplan and others on scene, neighbors are currently facing dozens of Border Patrol agents on the east side. Feds have been all over the area, some kidnappings confirmed. Saw one gas canister deployed on FB live earlier.

Militarized federal agents in street at 105th and N

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Richard Ferro, MD @richferro.com · 23h

Today is the second to last day of Hispanic Heritage Month, help make it a special one and share the #Latinsky feed across the ATmosphere.

This Barrio is here to stay and we’re here to center all voices across the diaspora. Pura vida!

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 1d

Damn. RIP

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1d

Iconic artist Drew Struzan, who created the movie posters for Star Wars, Blade Runner, and Back to the Future, has passed away:

reactormag.com/drew-struzan...

Legendary Movie Poster Artist Drew Struzan Has Passed Away - Reactor

Drew Struzan was 78.

reactormag.com

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 1d

Aw fuck. How awful.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 1d

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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