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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · Jan 17

A good sex joke is like a knock at the door. Some are strangers, solicitors, unwanted. But if you've spent real time engaging with your audience, and they know and understand your heart, your knock at the door is perceived as friendly.

And they'll let you come inside.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 6d

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All

I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

www.wired.com

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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 3d

Guess I'm gonna start up a private insurance company for trans kids (and adults).

You know, like pet insurance? Not because trans kids are pets—everyone knows trans kids are superheroes—it's just the only example I can think of at the moment.

Anybody know how to be a Non-Profit CEO?

NPR @npr.org · 3d

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.

n.pr

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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 4d

I am so, so sorry. 😂

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 6d

Justice for Maeve

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 9d

Speaking of labels; in the Bayesian framework you might call religious dogmaticism or climate change denial an "overweighted prior", Which is a joke I made the other day but is still kinda true.

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 9d

Climate change is a much better example, actually. For me anyway. The religion thing feels like trying to prove a negative. Since there is scientific evidence of climate change, and water making you wet for that matter.

Thanks for taking my comment seriously and not just dismissing me entirely 😁

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 9d

While I get the point Voth is trying to make there, it feels pretty arbitrary. Like, if I said "water can only be wet if you're standing in it."

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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 10d

wow, which common vaccine was it?

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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 9d

Why am I just now finding out King Princess is coming to KCMO in 3 weeks??

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 14d

I am so glad One Punch Man is back!!

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 14d

I love spooky season. I get to watch my favorite movie about lesbians

Louie and lestat

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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 14d

It's Santorum all over again.

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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 16d

As long as you're trying your best to be honorable, it counts.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · May 11

excited to tell you that, for the first time ever, Big Bad Film Fest is sharing writing from their programs online -- including this piece I wrote for them last year about the incredible motorcycle chase in Tomorrow Never Dies

Who's Driving - Priscilla Page on Tomorrow Never Dies - Big Bad Film

Who's Driving - Priscilla Page on Tomorrow Never Dies on Big Bad Film

www.bigbadfilm.com

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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 21d

Sometimes "verse" is just an essay cut into smaller more bitelike crumbs to render taller a tale of drums that sound profound, but pound (and pound) where pounding thrums for slightly longer (yarn-like, unwound) than childish thunder from those who wrote 'em. And shouldn't ever

have been a poem

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 22d

I've met Tinda in real life. She's all right.

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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 22d

Done

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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 22d

Frogs Together Strong

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 24d

Whew this piece is so scathing.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 23d

I wrote a song I could masturbate to.

Figured it would be wrong not to share.

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 23d

"Jamie"

That time I laid you down
By the pool; just us, too
Let my fingers drown
Deep inside of you

Ain't much we couldn't say
Sinner's twins, lust burned through
Wound my every day
Synced into your mood

You remember, Baby?
That I loved your smile
How I called you Jamie
Like your name was mine?

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 23d

It was a dream I had
Since we were young
To wake up in bed
Underneath your tongue

You remember, Baby?
That I loved your smile
How I called you Jamie
Like your name was mine?

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 23d

Blow me like a band
Woodwind or brass
Work me with your hands
Pressed against your ass

You remember, Baby?
That I loved your smile
How I called you Jamie
Like your name was mine?

Like your name was mine

You remember, Baby?
How I loved your smile
And I called you Jamie
Cuz your name is mine

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 23d

It was a dream I had
Since we were young
To wake up in bed
Underneath your tongue

You remember, Baby?
That I loved your smile
How I called you Jamie
Like your name was mine?

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Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 26d

I will quibble with this: no artist ever has a "right" to be upset that nobody is looking at their art. The world doesn't owe me anything just cuz I wrote a poem. I write them for myself. If someone else sees it and has a reaction, that's great.

Either way, to me, it was still worth writing.

Tinda Zaszcek, BSN @tinnyzaz.bsky.social · 26d

Finding an audience is one of the hardest things in any creative endeavor. And as you said above, for writers it's even more challenging cuz nobody wants to read.

But I can't change that. What I CAN change are my expectations.