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Damiana Swan
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Artist, photographer, editor, writer, goddess of administrative organization and amaretto. Joyous partner in crime with Satyros Brucato, aka That Damn Mage Guy. She/they. #Resist #BLM #ProtectTransPeople https://linktr.ee/damianaswan
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davidandress.bsky.social
*Camp of the Saints* is one of the fundamental texts of global white-supremacism.
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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coyotewallace.bsky.social
Reminder: There's a brand new Dispatches From Appalachia out!

Join us as dig into the Department of Education's reclassification of nursing and other professions, what it means for America's young people and rural communities, and why this isn't just wrong - it's insulting.
Bad Medicine: The Trump Administration’s Assault on the American Nurse
The air is cold this morning in Appalachia. Frost covers my windows, and even the chickens are reluctant to leave their roost in weather…
medium.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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nerdydodger.bsky.social
CAT FOLKS: my friends mom passed unexpectedly and she cannot house her mother's two 8 year old cats Jeeves and Bentley. if you know anyone with a loving home for these 2 please let me know!
2 cats on a cat tree. jeeves up top is orange and white and Bentley on the lower tier js white and gray
December 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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opb.org
If you live in Northwest Oregon or Southwest Washington, you may want to clean your gutters and clear out your storm drains this weekend.

The National Weather Service predicts heavy rain will arrive in the region starting Monday, which could lead to flooding.
Atmospheric river could bring flooding to Northwest Oregon, Southwest Washington next week
You may want to clean your gutters and clear out your storm drains this weekend. Heavier rain arrives next week.
www.opb.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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dinajames.com
You all have helped me so much with kittens and TNR. I couldn't do it without you and the network of volunteers at CAA. Our holiday fundraiser gives us the bulk of our annual finances to help as many animals as we can. Your support means the world. Thank you. secure.givelively.org/donate/clats...
An adorable poached egg tabby kitten with a spotted belly and blue eyes. This was Madam Gemstone when she was a tiny kitten being fostered by me along with her mother and four siblings. I ended up keeping this tiny girl, and she is now the queen of the household. Fostering saves lives. Please consider signing up to foster with your local animal shelter or humane society. A group shot of the Gemstone Gang. Flint, Amber, Jet, Mica, and Beryl. They are all sitting in a line on a windowsill overlooking my yard, their attention on a toy, except for Flint, who is staring out the window at something only he can see.
December 6, 2025 at 5:52 AM
damianaswan.bsky.social
These folks to honest-to-gods JOURNALISM. If you give them a follow they get more funding, and you get access to more good stories.
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.

A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.

If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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murray.senate.gov
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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cola.baby
Has anyone coined the term AIncel? If not I’d like credit for that please, inspired by this dweeb.
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
damianaswan.bsky.social
Which one(s) do you want?
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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airbagged.bsky.social
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
Sabrina walking the dog
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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kithrup.bsky.social
I sent this to @foobly.bsky.social, and within 10 seconds I heard LOUD SHRIEKS OF LAUGHTER.
eva.town eva @eva.town · 1d
lmao
A post from “juanbuis” saying “to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here’s one of his best quotes” and the quote text is on a liquid glass background making it totally illegible
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
damianaswan.bsky.social
It's not just that the CEO of Palantir is obviously on a large dose of some kind of upper. (Cocaine seems to be the consensus)

It's that he thought doing that before going on TV was a *good* idea.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h
The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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courtneymilan.com
these fuckin' losers
victoriastrauss.com Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 1d
New extortion scam email going round (this was received via a writer's website contact form). I've seen a number of these recently but without the money demand; the translation angle is also a new one
Name: Jeff Email: jeffersonzonon@proton.me Subject: Found your work on file sharing channels Message: Hey Michelle, how are you? So here’s something interesting—I found your work floating around online. Full PDFs. Multiple sites. No paywall, no control, no credit. Just… there. And it hit me: if it’s already leaking like that, your value is slipping faster than you think. And then I realized something else. I can push it even further. I can run your entire catalog through my translation app—takes about thirty minutes per language—and release your work across ten different markets without breaking a sweat. No permission, no courtesy, just pure distribution. Imagine your creations scattered everywhere, read by thousands… yet worth absolutely nothing to you. And honestly? I don’t want that. I’d rather not be the reason your career drops through the floor. That doesn’t help either of us. So here’s my offer: get in touch with me. Talk to me. Stop me from releasing these translations before they hit every file-sharing site and social feed out there. It’s simple. Reach out. Have 500$ —yes, that’s all. A small price to keep the value of your life’s work from dissolving overnight. But don’t wait too long. Silence from you just means I keep translating. And once they’re out, they’re out forever. You have 5 days. Your move
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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scottseattlewx.bsky.social
Folks at Center for Western Weather & Water Extremes
now forecasting Category 5 (highest rung) atmospheric river to reach Washington coast next week. #wawx
cw3e.ucsd.edu/media_portal/
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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edzitron.com
Writing this piece has also made me realise that we have little to no idea where these NVIDIA GPUs are going, and the amount of them sold (6 million) doesn't make sense based on any measure of actual data centers in progress, let alone ones that are energised. This whole industry feels cursed.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d
Tomorrow's Premium Newsletter: A much-demanded, 14k word guide as to how the AI bubble might burst, starting with the collapse of data center funding, venture capital for AI, OpenAI, and end NVIDIA's AI GPU era.

Here's $10 off annual.
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The Chain of Pain While many people talk about how circular the AI bubble may or may not be, the reality is that it's far more like a chain - a deeply vulnerable one held together by debt and venture capital. A company buys GPUs from NVIDIA, at which point nobody is making any profit anymore. These GPUs are purchased, for the most part, using debt provided by banks or financial institutions. While hyperscalers fund GPUs using cashflow, even they have started to turn to debt. At that point, the company that bought the GPUs sinks hundreds of millions of dollars to build a data center, and once it turns on, provides compute to a model provider, who then begins losing money selling access to those GPUs. For example, both OpenAI and Anthropic lose billions of dollars, and rely on venture capital to fund their ability to continue paying for accessing those GPUs. At that point, OpenAI and Anthropic offer either subscriptions - which cost far more to offer than the revenue they provide - or API access to their models on a per-million-token basis. AI startups pay to access these models to run their services, which end up costing more than the revenue they make, which means they have to raise venture capital to continue paying to access those models. Outside of hyperscalers paying NVIDIA for GPUs out of cashflow, none of the AI industry is fueled by revenue. Every single part of the industry is fueled by some kind of subsidy. As a result, the AI bubble is really a stress test of the global venture capital, private equity, private credit, institutional and banking system, and its willingness to fund all of this forever, because there isn't a single generative AI company that's got a path to profitability. Our stock market is held up by NVIDIA's continued ability to sell GPUs, which is, for the most part, held up by its customers continued ability to raise debt, which is held up by its customers' ability to find other customers to pay to rent those GPUs, which is held up …
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
i’ve seen enough — EMERGENCY CATURDAY IS NOW IN EFFECT 🚨
a fat tux cat sitting on her hams in a blue armchair. she has a water bowl next to her for convenience. she looks annoyed and has one paw raised
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
damianaswan.bsky.social
I used to follow Quinn over on the Bad Place. I've missed these stories!
quinncy.bsky.social Quinn Cummings @quinncy.bsky.social · 2d
Hello! I used to do this on Twitter. I am thinking of doing this again over here so am running experiment to see if putting up threaded stories on here is worth the extra step. If you want a non-threaded version, the entire story is at my Patreon account, not behind a paywall.
December 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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jrmorber.bsky.social
They are SO OBVIOUSLY the baddies.
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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billie.bookstoreromanceday.org
Oh, hey. Penzey's has vanilla at 33% off right now. It's still expensive, but better quality than most grocery store varieties, so it might be worth snagging a bottle or two.

www.penzeys.com/shop/spices/...
Spices | Penzeys
www.penzeys.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
A singer-songwriter friend would like people to know that while boycotting Spotify is great, it was also 16% of their income that is now cratering. So if you're cancelling Spotify, please pair that with buying music, merch, or live tickets directly from your favorite artists
December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
damianaswan.bsky.social
This is just one example of why I voted for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social. We are going to be SO much better off with her in the Mayor's office!
ericacbarnett.bsky.social Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell reemerged today to announce a slate of Equitable Development Initiative grants including $183,000 to the Royal Esquire Club, the private men's club he chaired and where he held his election night party.
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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aetiology.bsky.social
Here is Jason Goldman's beautiful, amazing takedown of the whole sham #ACIP meeting today. (2 parts) So glad he said what every expert in the field is feeling today (and all year).
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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enirenberg.bsky.social
Alright, pals: ACIP meeting is beginning.

Here is the link to the livestream:
www.youtube.com/live/LpthhPB...

The updated agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

And the prebunk from TEC/Your Local Epidemiologist:
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Anticipated votes:
www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - December 4, 2025 - Day 1 of 2
YouTube video by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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salvaterra.bsky.social
they can be tiny, or giant. it's up to you.

this stock art pack is now available on @drivethrurpg.com and @itch.io including art no longer available on my Patreon.

🐌 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

🐌 salvaterra.itch.io/monstrosilis...

#stockart #bsnm #ttrpg #mausritter #art #bestiary
cover of a stock art pack comprised of four little fantastical creatures: a needle firefly, a rainy and thunderous floating snail, a fire moth and a chicken spider.
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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tomlevenson.bsky.social
Here's another good thing (if it makes it from mice to people) we won't get if RFK Jr. and his grifting associates achieve their aims:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Experimental vaccine prevents deadly allergic reactions in mice
Technology could offer longer protection against allergies than is possible with existing treatments.
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM