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💬 @dubonicplague.bsky.social · 14h

You know what? I liked Madame Web. Everyone made it out to be so terrible, but I think people forget how to just have fun sometimes. (But they never forget to shit on women!)

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 15h

Setting aside graverobbing woman who died in no small part due to men exploiting her image, copyright violations aren't "growing pains." It's literally the law. They’re breaking the law. Without copyright law, there is no creative industry, and without a creative industry, there is no genAI.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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💬 @dubonicplague.bsky.social · 19h

I adore Nadine Aurora Tabing’s writing and my heart lights up whenever I see her name. So thrilled to see her in the top three of @apexmag.bsky.social’s ECO24 Microfiction contest!

www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

ECO24 Microfiction Contest - Third Place! - "One Last Resort on Statio

In honor of Violet Lichen's upcoming collection, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, out on November 18th, we hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to draw inspiration from our natural...

www.apexbookcompany.com

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 21h

I love him so much (same problem on mobile)

John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 22h

Good interview with Tim Curry but annoying format where you have to pause and read a couple of pull-quotes every so often before you can move on. (On desktop anyway.)

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 1d

Not quite a skeleton, but an Anglo Saxon burial at #SuttonHoo. The bones have not survived, but the flesh had stained the sandy soil. During excavation, the soil was then laminated so that the figures of the dead were preserved & casts taken
#31DaysOfGraves
Day 13: skeleton

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💬 @dubonicplague.bsky.social · 1d

Get those stories ready! @nightshadesmag.bsky.social pays pro for micros, fast response time, and puts out really great stuff. I’ve found a bunch of new authors through these tiny treasures 👀

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 2d

important news! night shades will open for submissions again this coming friday october 17.

🛸 staying open to fill the calendar, 23 spots. all the details are here : www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Submissions

Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is opening October 17, 2025. Staying open until the calendar is full through April. There ar...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 1d

October 2025 Books By Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read www.theroot.com/october-2025...

Books By Black Authors Hitting the Shelves in October 2025

A Michael W. Twitty cookbook, a collection of essays from Zadie Smith and a memoir from Roy Wood Jr. are some of the books we can't wait to read in October 2025

www.theroot.com

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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🔱 𝔹𝔼𝔸𝕊𝕋 🔱 🔜@FURPOC B5 @beastsoul.bsky.social · 2d

as spooky season rolls around, I need to remind everyone that the person in this viral werewolf image is in fact my friend @smogteeth.bsky.social lmao

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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💬 @dubonicplague.bsky.social · 2d

Frogzilla

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 2d

In hindsight *maybe* could’ve picked a slightly less spooky book to read in the woods but no regrets. Loving this, @renbolger.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

Book: The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 8d

Link to register still open 👀👀👀

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10d

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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💬 @dubonicplague.bsky.social · 3d

Well that’s a creepy little room.

Nighttime, it’s dark outside. There is no light besides the light coming from inside a room that can be seen from the sidewalk through a window with cross-latticed metal grate. The room is a half-level below the sidewalk so we are looking down at it. Everything—the walls, the floor, the support beams—are a pale gray. But centered in the room is a mat that is about 3x5 feet. It’s that kid’s play foam kind of mat made of red, yellow, green, and blue foam tiles. It is the only thing in the gray room and on it sits an austere plastic chair with its back to the window.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY