Badger Wormwood
@badgerwormwood.bsky.social
30+. Writer, animal person, gay in 2 genders. Icon from StasiaFox16's furry picrew. He/him + she/her.
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Hi! I'm Badger Wormwood. I'm an indie author specializing in xenofiction, paranormal+monster romance, and horror. I'm currently serializing my werewolf romance novel, NORTHERN LIGHTS, on Patreon! You can also check out my short stories and newsletter there.
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Hi! I'm Badger Wormwood. I'm an indie author specializing in xenofiction, paranormal+monster romance, and horror. I'm currently serializing my werewolf romance novel, NORTHERN LIGHTS, on Patreon! You can also check out my short stories and newsletter there.
www.patreon.com/c/bwormwood
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The number of people fired or suspended for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk must serve as a reminder none of the far right are free speech advocates, they just want no limits on what they say.
September 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The number of people fired or suspended for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk must serve as a reminder none of the far right are free speech advocates, they just want no limits on what they say.
Hello! I disappeared from Bluesky again for a bit, but I wanted to say that the first chapter of my book is up on my Patreon for anyone at the $5 tier!
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September 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Hello! I disappeared from Bluesky again for a bit, but I wanted to say that the first chapter of my book is up on my Patreon for anyone at the $5 tier!
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it's not that there aren't people who deserve to die so much as that i don't trust any institutions that kill people to not develop self-preservational institutional goals and then keep killing people, even if i trusted any institutions to begin with, which i also don't
September 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
it's not that there aren't people who deserve to die so much as that i don't trust any institutions that kill people to not develop self-preservational institutional goals and then keep killing people, even if i trusted any institutions to begin with, which i also don't
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This isn’t vetting, it’s an attempt to *create* a bunch of “illegal” immigrants. Nothing has ever been more transparent in the world. They’re gonna revoke visas of people who like Kamala Harris on Facebook.
BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
Trump administration reviewing all 55M people with US visas for potential deportable violations
The Trump administration says it’s reviewing all the more than 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
bit.ly
August 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This isn’t vetting, it’s an attempt to *create* a bunch of “illegal” immigrants. Nothing has ever been more transparent in the world. They’re gonna revoke visas of people who like Kamala Harris on Facebook.
Sometimes I feel bad that I’m such a picky reader. Literally gave up on a book before even picking it up because of a comma splice in the blurb.
August 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Sometimes I feel bad that I’m such a picky reader. Literally gave up on a book before even picking it up because of a comma splice in the blurb.
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
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Since MB doesn't seem active on here and it's worth seeing a crosspost
August 20, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Since MB doesn't seem active on here and it's worth seeing a crosspost
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One thing I'd like to point out is that Cloudflare fought against the idea that they should take action against neo-nazis, stalkers, doxers, and revenge porn posters for years. But websites that host drawn porn get taken down for "indecency" with no fight whatsoever.
The censorship of the Internet continues. Regarding Cloudflare proxy use
August 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
One thing I'd like to point out is that Cloudflare fought against the idea that they should take action against neo-nazis, stalkers, doxers, and revenge porn posters for years. But websites that host drawn porn get taken down for "indecency" with no fight whatsoever.
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I got banned from a South Florida furs group for calling out a mod and his hypocritical uwu no paw-lotics bullshit. I avoid the no politics furry spaces because it's safer to assume it's a Nazi bar.
The biggest problem with the furry fandom is that it's the norm to be politically illiterate.
It's those who avoid politics and have no understanding of them that create the environment for fascists to exist in furry spaces.
It's those who avoid politics and have no understanding of them that create the environment for fascists to exist in furry spaces.
POC furries what laments do you have about the furry fandom? Lemme hear them. Let me lift your voices.
August 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I got banned from a South Florida furs group for calling out a mod and his hypocritical uwu no paw-lotics bullshit. I avoid the no politics furry spaces because it's safer to assume it's a Nazi bar.
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This bed costs around 2000 dollars btw and you have to pay a subscription
The only difference between our reality and a Philip K Dick novel is the characters in a Philip K Dick novel don't choose to live like this
August 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This bed costs around 2000 dollars btw and you have to pay a subscription
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Of course Mamdani has visited Jewish communities. What angers Greenblatt is that Mamdani isn't courting HIM. By winning the young Jewish vote while condemning Israel, Mamdani is exposing how out of touch Greenblatt is with many of those he claims to represent. That's what makes Mamdani a threat.
Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL said on TV today that Zohran Mamdani did not visit a single synagogue in NYC during the campaign. That is, to put it bluntly, a lie. forward.com/news/763210/...
ADL chief attacks Zohran Mamdani, but gets his facts wrong
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized Zohran Mamdani for not visiting synagogues, which he was, and not reaching out to Hasidic voters.
forward.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Of course Mamdani has visited Jewish communities. What angers Greenblatt is that Mamdani isn't courting HIM. By winning the young Jewish vote while condemning Israel, Mamdani is exposing how out of touch Greenblatt is with many of those he claims to represent. That's what makes Mamdani a threat.
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Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
August 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
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"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser.
One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
August 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser.
One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
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Call from a producer this morning:
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
August 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Call from a producer this morning:
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
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Anyone who thinks that Democrats should throw trans people under the bus because trans issues poll badly needs to be treated like the bigoted coward they are.
They poll badly because Democrats have let Republicans frame the entire issue without pushing back on it.
They poll badly because Democrats have let Republicans frame the entire issue without pushing back on it.
August 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Anyone who thinks that Democrats should throw trans people under the bus because trans issues poll badly needs to be treated like the bigoted coward they are.
They poll badly because Democrats have let Republicans frame the entire issue without pushing back on it.
They poll badly because Democrats have let Republicans frame the entire issue without pushing back on it.
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the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god
August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god
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beyond the moral ghoulish ness I just don't understand the basic contention of how this is supposed to work as a defense. if a whole population of people was starving en masse, would one expect people with "pre-existing conditions" to be over or underrepresented amongst those who die first?
‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.
August 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
beyond the moral ghoulish ness I just don't understand the basic contention of how this is supposed to work as a defense. if a whole population of people was starving en masse, would one expect people with "pre-existing conditions" to be over or underrepresented amongst those who die first?
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The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
August 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.
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they got him strutting around the city like bugs bunny talkin shit, i bet cuomo is so mad right now
August 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
they got him strutting around the city like bugs bunny talkin shit, i bet cuomo is so mad right now
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Yesterday a judge ordered ICE to improve conditions in holding cells at ICE's field office in NYC. It's a good decision, yet many of the responses here are along the lines of "none of this matters" or "they'll just ignore this." Those responses are wrong. Here's a quick thread on why.
HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't:
- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls
- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls
Judge Lewis Kaplan has GRANTED a motion for a TRO sought by lawyers for detainees at 26 Federal Plaza. It requires DHS to provide migrants a clean and safe place to sleep, prescription medication, nutritious meals, access to counsel, & other necessities storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
August 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Yesterday a judge ordered ICE to improve conditions in holding cells at ICE's field office in NYC. It's a good decision, yet many of the responses here are along the lines of "none of this matters" or "they'll just ignore this." Those responses are wrong. Here's a quick thread on why.
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people with paint markers making public art are the unsung heroes of the modern town and city
August 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
people with paint markers making public art are the unsung heroes of the modern town and city
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EXCLUSIVE
WIRED has learned that law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox in the coming weeks on behalf of parents who are accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of their kids.
www.wired.com/story/is-rob...
WIRED has learned that law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox in the coming weeks on behalf of parents who are accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of their kids.
www.wired.com/story/is-rob...
Is Roblox Getting Worse?
Long plagued by moderation issues, the platform recently released a series of updates aimed at improving the experience for kids. Experts worry they could have the opposite effect.
www.wired.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
EXCLUSIVE
WIRED has learned that law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox in the coming weeks on behalf of parents who are accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of their kids.
www.wired.com/story/is-rob...
WIRED has learned that law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox in the coming weeks on behalf of parents who are accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of their kids.
www.wired.com/story/is-rob...
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The genocide apologia saying it's not that bad because victims were disabled holds as much water as a a sieve. What's disabling them? Could it be attacks on their bodies living in famine surviving bombings? And disabled lives are lives no matter how they got disabled & it's ableist to discount them.
August 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The genocide apologia saying it's not that bad because victims were disabled holds as much water as a a sieve. What's disabling them? Could it be attacks on their bodies living in famine surviving bombings? And disabled lives are lives no matter how they got disabled & it's ableist to discount them.
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This is a plan for an American gulag archipelago, its second-ever system of domestic concentration camps.
The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home
The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck
August 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This is a plan for an American gulag archipelago, its second-ever system of domestic concentration camps.
The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home
The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home