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Heather. (They/them) idk how to talk to someone born post Spice Girls. God's dumbest bisexual. Wrestling sicko, Taco Bell enthusiast, Tokyo Drift proselytizer, F1 and Indycar enjoyer. tonightatomic on Twitter and Instagram. 🤼‍♂️📷 : #grapsnaps

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heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · Oct 23

Pacific Rim is the story about letting someone see every bit of your brain, climbing into a giant robot which is powered by the love you and your partner share. And you save earth from aliens.

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heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 4h

It shows great research and why the notes are needed.

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Jard Wolves Of London @jaredof.bsky.social · 4h

April 1805
Napoleon is master of Europe
Only the British fleet stands before him
The oceans are now battlefields

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4h

There are currently 16 data centers in Scotland.

They use enough tap water to fill 27 million bottles per year.

And that number has quadrupled in just four years.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year

The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.

www.bbc.com

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heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 4h

Uhm

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heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 4h

This is the best editor's note:

How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod?

People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb. It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is. [Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]

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heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 5h

Oh thank you, Wired!

heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 5h

I was!!!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 17h

The team is her and I, carrying way too much. I can't even find crumbs of energy and motivation to job hunt.

heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 17h

My manager is working on a written proposal to scream at leadership to give her resources and my raise. I cried because she cares and is looking out for me. But also I just can't look forward to anything given how last time my role was to shift, another team tried to block my raise.

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heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 17h

I cried in my one on one today. If you're gonna burst into tears, always do it on the clock.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 18h

doing journalism

me emailing Tori Amos to ask if she invented the pumpkin spice latte

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beansprout🌿🐑 @tacodemuerte.bsky.social · 21h

renee in the yuri fudanshi chaiR

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Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Netflix’s most-watched movie, is returning to theaters October 31–November 2. ‘The Twilight Saga’ is also getting rereleased, so it’ll be Honmoon vs. New Moon at the box office.

KPop Demon Hunters Is Coming Back to Theaters This Halloweekend

www.vulture.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee.

I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, Ghost V6 integrated with Tinybird for analytics is pretty damn filthy.

Been running @theupfront.media on Ghost for a while as part of our "No Nazi platforms" stack. Very happy with it (and with our Germany-based email hosting instead of Google Business)

The technology you use is a choice.

In many instances, the choice of platform or technology that a publisher makes can no longer be seen as neutral. Nowhere is that more clear than in journalism in the 2020s.

We are proud that The Up Front and all of our supporting digital infrastructure (like our email servers, data storage and collaboration tools) are either self-hosted and managed, or use trusted third parties who have policies that align with our values.

We reject platforms and technologies where our use would represent tacit support for — or tolerance of — the views of their owners or major funders where we disagree fundamentally with those views and the impact they have on the world.

We’re very selective in the socials we operate: we’re on Bluesky as our network of choice and use its atproto as our commenting system, curating a community of thoughtful feedback on our work and elevating other voices. We also have a LinkedIn page, because we understand its importance for our industry audience.

Perhaps more importantly, we don’t use toxic socials like Instagram, Facebook, Threads or X, which drive really unproductive behaviour in media outlets, journalists, readers and companies.

We choose our technical backend and partners carefully, selecting independent European vendors rather than US-based Big Tech, for ethical reasons, for data privacy, and because we care about supporting the good parts of the digital sector in the same way we know our subscribers care about supporting the good parts of the media sector.

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 1d

it is nighttime so now you can buy every one of my bookmarks for $20 ✨ that’s 40 bookmarks for twenty incredible dollars 📚 frankly that is one of the best deals I have ever heard in my entire life 🫡 shop: paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/product/ever...

Photo of two bookmarks, left features the neighborhood watch silhouette criminal and reads

YEAH I STOLE THIS BOOK FROM THE LITTLE FREE LIBRARY IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD

right bookmark features orange tulips against a blue sky and reads

Go to hell if you don’t like books

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Those were the days 🔥
The Canterbury Apartments, a legendary Hollywood apartment complex that was a hub for early punk rockers in the late 1970s, including members of the Go-Go's, The Germs and The Bags.

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 1d

We are ruled by rejected, masturbating nerds

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 2d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Schatzi Page @schatzipage.bsky.social · 1d

EVERYBODY,THE FRENCH GOT IT OUT OF THEIR STORAGE POD FOR US

A Smithsonian article about the last guillotine used in France going on display

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Maeve @maeve-the-va.bsky.social · 3d

Born to grind on your thigh but forced to fold laundry.

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heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 1d

Yah somehow he was the motherfucker to get that project finally off the ground. I'm disappointed more people don't know he's an awful human. But I'll be content with a lot of people thinking he sucks as an actor and isn't A-list.

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black peach rising 🤼‍♀️ @daycoco.bsky.social · 1d

goddamn i love how documented this era is.

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 3d

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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heather 🌮🔔 @crunchwrap.bsky.social · 1d

It could work!!