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Books That Burn @booksthatburn.com · Apr 19

Are you having trouble finding things now that google search fucked itself with AI garbage?

Take a look and see if a website you were trying to find is listed on Links That Burn, the link directory for useful/fun/informative websites with a narrow scope and specific purpose.

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Links That Burn - Big Tools Won't Save Niche Websites

A catalog of useful links to niche websites - find something useful, fun, and/or informative today!

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AK Faulkner @ Inkblot @poopraven.bsky.social · 2h

Any Inheritance book would smell of dried blood.

Any Tooth & Claw book would smell of.... uh.... dried blood.

So at least The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare would smell of *checks notes* uranium instead?

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 1d

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 5h

#WARNING: CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Uoxin Crib Bumpers. The crib bumpers can obstruct an infant’s breathing, posing a risk of serious injury or death from suffocation. Padded crib bumpers are banned under the Safe Sleep for Babies Act. www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 5h

#WARNING: CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using SXDFSA Children’s Pajama Sets; The pajama sets violate the mandatory standard for children’s sleepwear flammability, posing a risk of burn injury or death to children. Learn more: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

"This is the problem with the left! Nobody is perfect! You have to judge them by the standards of the era!"

The problem is that illogic allows even unforgivable shit, including *going backwards.*

"Would you want to be judged that way?"

YES! YES I WOULD! It means the world of tomorrow is better!

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 4h

"why isn't everybody calmly sitting with the critique?"

Because right before a protest that will actually really help if it gets MASSIVE, it is not fucking harmless to say "you're protesting wrong."

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4h

first of all no. second of all fuck you

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 8h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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

Was so happy to see this piece in my paper.

Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 5h

ICYMI, I wrote this about why we need humanities majors now, more than ever, and how they succeed.

Maybe even pass it on to students whose One Relative at the Thanksgiving table condescendingly asks "what are you going to do with THAT degree?" Here are some talking points—and data!—to refute them.

Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 3d

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h

this is a big and important point imho. check for your local #NoKings rally and GO if you can. nokings.org

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

For anyone who dismissively says the #NoKings marches are just rallies, not protests: that's cool, 'cause RALLIES ARE GREAT! :-)

Mass rallies like this are KEY if you want to eventually build to a general strike, for example.

This is organizing, step by step. See you on 10/18!

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AK Faulkner @ Inkblot @poopraven.bsky.social · 9h

Posts which make more sense *after* Sword of Avalon 😁

AK Faulkner @ Inkblot @poopraven.bsky.social · Feb 16

If you see this, post (a) monster(s)! #art

Art by @fofoart.bsky.social

Laurence Riley, a white cis human(?) man with curly blond hair and brown eyes. He's wearing a green t-shirt and brown pants. He has an adult raven perched on his forearm, and is surrounded by sparkly green swirls of his own magic.

Quentin d'Arcy, a white cis human(?) man with black hair and grey eyes. He's wearing a black suit, white shirt, and purple tie, and is surrounded by swirls of fire and ice of his own making.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 12h

Gee I wonder how an American flag with a swastika on it got into the office of a GOP representative from Ohio. Truly a mystery. I really hope the Capitol Police can unravel this mystery.

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Miriam @miriam.blacksky.app · 9h

All the right wing grifters are out in force writing opinion pieces about “WOKE.” Just a reminder: the term woke comes from AAVE during the civil rights era, it meant being awake to social and racial injustice. Imagine being mad at that and using it as an insult

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning! 🪶

Three burrowing owls in the rain. One owl has his wing spread out over another owl like an umbrella.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

ok. I don't know this guy's music. but he's bringing it here, I'll say that.

P R ∆ J | is making beats for a boring dumb bitch @prajxl.bsky.social · 1d

*adds Bryan Andrews to 'mildly decent white people' playlist*

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 1d

In Mar 2020 I wrote ep 3 of Leverage: Redemption, in which Brianna mentions growing up w/ "the return of actual Nazis". It aired in July 2021, AFTER a Capitol rioter wore a "Camp Auschwitz" shirt, & reviewers on IMDb quoted the Nazi line & complained Leverage had gone woke.

And here we fucking are.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

excited to watch people lose their entire damn minds over this

👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 1d

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Dominic Michael Tripi &
@DMichaelTripi
X.com
NEW: X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended, saying that the system does
"more harm than good."
10:27 AM • 10/15/25

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED STRETCH CHECK. today is Wednesday. everyone do your stretchies. 💪🤖

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Fiasco the cat @fiascothecat.bsky.social · 1d

Fiasco am TALL!

... Big Friend is all "No no ur not supposed to be up there, ur supposed to rest that paw!!"

Pfffft, Fiasco do what hims want

me, fiasco, a fluffy grey tabby with a white bib, sitting on top of a very high cabinet (near the ceiling)

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

I am in general skeptical of the value of liberals going on Fox News. You have to be very good at a specific kind of media interaction and most people just aren’t.

This is what it looks like to be good at it.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president," since "he might be watching right now."

Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this >>>

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

OOP!!!! I love that. “ChatGPT is for third party thinkers.”

We have no choice but to drag them.

Tayci @taycibear.bsky.social · 1d

When I asked my eldest if he's ever used that he said he's not a third party thinker.

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Books That Burn @booksthatburn.com · 1d

Different heart emojis in combination with other emojis might put content on different feeds. The blue heart and the book stack emoji put things on BookSky, for example. It all depends on what the feed is set up to aggregate.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president," since "he might be watching right now."

Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this >>>

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1d

For Halloween, Spooky Season, Gothic, witchy, haunted, or similar vibes, you literally cannot go wrong with Hillary's work, or with @peculiarityshop.bsky.social generally.

I have . . . hmm . . . far too much of their work 😳, and it's all gorgeous, incredibly well-made, and with fabulous prices.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

I've got a few bills coming up and YOU might have a need of some spooky stuff. So, a thread. Please mute if my art offends.

Handcast, painted, and sealed.

Skulls so blue, $27.20.

www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Hillary's Skulls So Blue | Peculiarity Shop

Hillary crafted and handpainted these skulls to adorn your ears. Components: plaster of Paris, epoxy clay, acrylic paint, Mod Podge, stainless steel posts Lead/nickel free

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

They restored all the titles & I want to point out that the reasoning was (stars are mine lol):

"... and in light of the *****overwhelming feedback from our community****** the Georgia HRRB State Steering Committee has voted to reinstate all 20..."

so, BE LOUD AS HELL & PROTECT THE RIGHT TO READ

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 1d

writing tip: trim your word count by reducing entire chapters to a single mysterious glyph

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