Andrea Phillips
@andrea.bsky.social
Andrhia elsewhere. Condemned by NASA. Writer, immersive experience designer, games, politics. Just happy to be here. She/her.
http://www.deusexmachinatio.com
http://www.deusexmachinatio.com
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Andrea Phillips
@andrea.bsky.social
· Oct 7
Revision
Amazon.com: Revision eBook : Phillips, Andrea: Kindle Store
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Happy book day to me! After going out of print a few years ago when Fireside Fiction closed its doors, today my book about a wiki where your edits come true is available again!
This thread will have links for where you can buy it. Obviously Amazon www.amazon.com/Revision-And...
This thread will have links for where you can buy it. Obviously Amazon www.amazon.com/Revision-And...
Mad props to Apple for using puppets and not AI in their weird iPhone wildlife commercial
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Mad props to Apple for using puppets and not AI in their weird iPhone wildlife commercial
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
The worst part of Ghost of Yotei is R2 as the default "interact with this item" button so I kept walking up to things and jumping on them
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The worst part of Ghost of Yotei is R2 as the default "interact with this item" button so I kept walking up to things and jumping on them
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This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Who wants to bet that it's a "discount" off of the ~$1500 sticker price it started at, and matches the $499 out of pocket option they already offer if you don't use insurance
The US government said it negotiated a 71% discount on Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster Ozempic and Wegovy drugs for patients in Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly. bloom.bg/3K6carj
📷: Snejbjerg/Bloomberg
📷: Snejbjerg/Bloomberg
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Who wants to bet that it's a "discount" off of the ~$1500 sticker price it started at, and matches the $499 out of pocket option they already offer if you don't use insurance
Tonight we lost food delivery roulette: our driver arrived and handed us a single (1) smoothie
We did not order a smoothie
The smoothie was not from the place we ordered from
We did not order a smoothie
The smoothie was not from the place we ordered from
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Tonight we lost food delivery roulette: our driver arrived and handed us a single (1) smoothie
We did not order a smoothie
The smoothie was not from the place we ordered from
We did not order a smoothie
The smoothie was not from the place we ordered from
Prediction: the AI stock market crash will be on the same Friday the full Epstein files are released
We live in a narrative universe
We live in a narrative universe
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Prediction: the AI stock market crash will be on the same Friday the full Epstein files are released
We live in a narrative universe
We live in a narrative universe
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Hat-tip to @janlibby.bsky.social
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hat-tip to @janlibby.bsky.social
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
TIL "strapless business suit" is a thing that exists www.aritzia.com/us/en/produc...
Element Tube Top | Aritzia US
Softly structured strapless blouse
www.aritzia.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
TIL "strapless business suit" is a thing that exists www.aritzia.com/us/en/produc...
!!!!!
Everything may be bad, but hot dang there's a new Strongbad email today.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
!!!!!
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Having just been through the desert carrying a guy with no name, it felt good to get out of the rain.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Having just been through the desert carrying a guy with no name, it felt good to get out of the rain.
I wonder what the Citizen Kane of Hallmark Christmas movies would be like
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wonder what the Citizen Kane of Hallmark Christmas movies would be like
Cloudmakers
IYKYK
IYKYK
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Cloudmakers
IYKYK
IYKYK
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PSA: take your turkey out of the freezer, kittens.
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
PSA: take your turkey out of the freezer, kittens.
I DID IT I WROTE THE WHOLE BOOK
This one is actually very good, you guys, rage writing is my best writing
This one is actually very good, you guys, rage writing is my best writing
If I can finish this book tonight, I will never have to write it again, that's how it works, right?
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I DID IT I WROTE THE WHOLE BOOK
This one is actually very good, you guys, rage writing is my best writing
This one is actually very good, you guys, rage writing is my best writing
@ohseafarer.bsky.social I just really want you to know how much I enjoy 'Lisa Thanksgiving Pun'
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
@ohseafarer.bsky.social I just really want you to know how much I enjoy 'Lisa Thanksgiving Pun'
If I can finish this book tonight, I will never have to write it again, that's how it works, right?
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If I can finish this book tonight, I will never have to write it again, that's how it works, right?
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PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
authorsguild.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
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If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All.
Dream big.
Dream big.
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All.
Dream big.
Dream big.
Back in 2017 the Friday news cycle was always super depressing, but lately it seems like there's something fun for the weekend pretty often?
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Back in 2017 the Friday news cycle was always super depressing, but lately it seems like there's something fun for the weekend pretty often?
I've been wondering for ages, what is the origin of this meme?
All the leftist authors with access to Bookscan right now
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I've been wondering for ages, what is the origin of this meme?
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Not all heroes wear capes. But some of them do
When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
phys.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Not all heroes wear capes. But some of them do
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it was flat stanley
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
it was flat stanley
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.