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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 5h

Going to take this opportunity to say: if you're a Common Bonds reader, you wanna be a Heartlines Spec reader too!!

Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 7h

I was lucky enough to meet Common Bonds creator @clh2oars.bsky.social at Can*Con.

Currently obsessed with Busy Little Bees by @polenth.bsky.social — perfectly weird distillation of inheritance and found family

Story cover of Busy Little Bees by Polenth Blake

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 3h

Oh jeez

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · Apr 28

to me, “you should create for yourself” and “you deserve to be acknowledged for what you make” are two statements that should coexist. chasing engagement will rot your soul, while being neglected will see your passion wither. loving what you make is a failsafe for when the engagement never comes.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 9h

One year I will remember Ace Awareness Week in advance, but this is not that year, either.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

49) Hawaii

Demonstrations in Waimea, Honolulu, Kapolei, It’s being called the “No Dictators” protest here in Hawaii, instead of “No Kings.” The group Indivisible Hawaii says that’s out of respect for Hawaii’s history of ali’i.

(swbkrn2003, roryflynn808, hawaiinewsnow, swbkrn2003)

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

"Brb, gotta go Be An Adult and take care of some shit for a bit and then I'll come back and be the rest of myself."

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

I like the word "adulting."

It's a good reminder that being an adult does come with Tasks and Responsibilities, but you are also still a person with Traits and Interests.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know for sure, but I think it’s a reasonably popular one?

S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

Might be Pokemon, honestly. I think wooper helped.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

FYI, “stet” is not an acronym and does not need to be all caps. It is a Latin word, and all capsing it feels very aggressive to your copy editor.

Don’t feel bad about stetting, but like, you don’t need to yell about it.

How would you to see someone write “NO” on your work repeatedly?

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 1d

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very funny to me that fascists attempt to use medieval aesthetics to justify their authoritarianism and loyalty to a king figure when actual medieval people dragged their royalty out into the woods and lopped their heads off without a trial all the time.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

[Exit King.]

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta block ‘em all!
Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday.
Flush these turds HERE -

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

She's a very good reflection of the Zeitgeist, honestly.

Presumably, she got her understanding of communism from school during the Gen X schooling years and the news.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

My mother is a very offline vaguely conservative woman with a number of progressive opinions who respects intelligence but has very little intellectual curiosity and always watches the local news.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

Had to tell her that news story about the typhoon was in Western Alaska

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so glad she hates the current administration but like.

Mom.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, I was just thinking "I really like this cool thing about the book. Vampires in The Club seemed like fun okay."

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

Mom was vicious complaining about the current admin via "that's what COMMUNISTS DO" again.

It is really just so explanatory of so much that normie people like my mother, especially who were raised In A Time, cannot uncouple Communism = Gulags.

S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 24d

My mother called the current admin "Communist" tonight while talking about the authoritarianism and oh my God.

I corrected her, but like she was definitely thinking like. Stalin.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 1d

Was at my parents' today while the news did a whole story about it and my very normie conservative leaning mother was So Mad.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

The official White House account has been blocked by over 5,000 accounts since it was created less than two hours ago: clearsky.app/whitehouse-4...

Screenshot showing the White House account on Clearsky which shows Blocked by 5,335

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 2d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 2d

I actually don’t want a world without skill or craft. I don’t. Those are important.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

Didn't go to film school? Don't worry. Legendary investor and movie buff Marc Andreessen doesn't think that will be an issue for future creatives.

During an episode of "Monitoring the Situation," the podcast for the venture capitalist firm that Andreessen cofounded, A16z, he said advancements in AI technology — like OpenAI's Sora 2 — have made it possible for a new type of filmmaker to emerge.

"The filmmaker with no visual skill, or access to a set, or to a camera, or to actors, but with an idea," Andreessen said on Friday. "It's going to start with shorts and animated things and so forth, but it's going to work its way up to full movies."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

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