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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 22m

Wow.

James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 12h

Or perhaps not.

Back cover blurb of St. Clair's Sign of the Labrys.

WOMEN ARE WRITING SCIENCE-FICTION!

ORIGINAL! BRILLIANT!! DAZZLING!!

Women are closer to the primitive than men. They are conscious of the moon-pulls, the earth-tides. They possess a buried memory of humankind’s obscure and ancient past which can emerge to uniquely color and flavor a novel.

Such a woman is Margaret St. Clair, author of this novel. Such a novel is this. SIGN OF THE LABRYS, the story of a doomed world of the future, saved by recourse to the ageless, immemorial rites...

FRESH! IMAGINATIVE!! INVENTIVE!!!

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 28m

This seems a wee bit blasphemous

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27m

Care for a snack?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26m

You will very rarely see this type of identity politics named and condemned as such bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 26m

Cheese it! It's the quote cops!

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3h

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

www.404media.co

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 1h

Capitalism is a funny thing, because GenAI/LLM technology is considered successful not because of what it does, but because of its ability to attract venture capitalist investors

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 22h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h

I assume that was the goal.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 18h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.

I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 2h

have been learning a lot about the LGBTQIA community in Taiwan despite being here only for about 10 days... (i purposefully chose to apply for a residency in October to overlap with Pride)

thank you Yo-Ling for the summary

newbloommag.net/2025/10/14/2...

2025 Taiwan Pride Controversy Explained:  LGBTQ+ Community Speaks Out Against Transphobia and Contempt for Sexual Rights | New Bloom Magazine

This past week, controversy erupted throughout Taiwan’s LGBTQ+ community after it was discovered that the Administrative and Public Relations Director of this year’s Taiwan Pride march posted on her…

newbloommag.net

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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 1h

I can only assume that the saucer separates when you have to go into battle.

Ozma soon at ACFI @ozmaracc.bsky.social · 1d

The 1992 Columbus minivan, which I think is more of a maxivan and looks malformed, but it's Italian

A photo of a very odd 2 chamber minivan with a separate, upper chamber for just the driver seat

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Ozma soon at ACFI @ozmaracc.bsky.social · 1d

The 1992 Columbus minivan, which I think is more of a maxivan and looks malformed, but it's Italian

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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, that might be why I feel the lack. Although, now that you mention it, it would be fun to pronounce it with a 'b' sound.

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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 1h

I kind of love that, too.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

@apnews.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 26d

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 18h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 2h

Why isn't "clamoring" written with a 'b?' I feel like there really should be a 'b' in there.

Also, I feel like I should be more consistent with my quotation marks. Feh. I contain multitudes.

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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 2h

Frankenstein's creations were actually the dozens of children he had with all of the women clamoring to be the mother of his children. In vitro, natch.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 2h

Victor Frankenstein should be portrayed as cool and popular and have loads of other awesome inventions, kind-of like Elon Musk. He should have badass sunglasses and a neat catch-phrase and loads of girlfriends who always say stuff like "wow you are so cool"

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 2h

ChatGPT, please rewrite Frankenstein but without all the woke anti-corpse-reanimation nonsense

Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 3h

Say what you will about Victor Frankenstein but it’s impressive that he was able to imbue dead flesh with life, regardless of how that wound up turning out

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 2h

Already today, Israel has:

-Conducted a drone strike on Khan Younis in Gaza

-Shot & wounded two others near Khan Younis

-Killed 5 Palestinians in Gaza City

-Fired on & wounded a several others near Jabalia

All in violation of the “ceasefire.”

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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 2h

This morning's bop:

youtu.be/nM0xDI5R50E?...

#IU #BBIBBI

[MV] IU(아이유) _ BBIBBI(삐삐)

YouTube video by 1theK (원더케이)

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 3h

This is just another higher ed hit piece, but I was dinged in my tenure case for not recording my classes. I don't record them for pedagogical reasons, but also because I don't want to go viral & receive death threats for saying that black people also deserve rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

College lectures may not always be engaging, but in the past, students still had to go (or borrow notes from a classmate). Now that many lectures are available to view remotely, Dr. Wolf-Wendel added, professors have to try harder to draw students into the classroom.

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