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Jay Varner
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Author of NOTHING LEFT TO BURN (Algonquin), first-year writing and rhetoric lecturer at James Madison University, recovering Central Pennsylvanian, studying how to write about climate change. Avid home gardener at the end of the world. Susquehanna U, UNCW.
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 8h
Last time I went to sleep feeling kind of good was in 2014. I think?
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Margaret Thornton @maggiethornton.bsky.social · 8h
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK...
Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose
YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 8h
Virginia… you’re alright. Thank you. Now let’s get to work!
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 22h
So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 1d
"If it was anybody else, we'd arrest him tomorrow" is as concise a summary of the past 10 years as you could find
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d
In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 3d
It was a great day…
Bowie the beagle on the floor Sherman the beagle in the sun. Nelson County fall Nelson County fall
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 4d
Brand new video by Simon Clark about the last month of terrible climate news:
The worst month of climate news in my entire career
YouTube video by Simon Clark
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 4d
Same hope.
Guillermo del Toro Hopes He’s Dead Before AI Art Goes Mainstream — WIRED
The Frankenstein director tells WIRED the real Victor Frankensteins are tyrannical politicians and Silicon Valley tech bros.
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 5d
Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another. Happy Halloween!
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 6d
Lots of stuff is terrible. This World Series isn’t.
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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 6d
ICE violently detains a mother driving her daughter to school for not having social security number memorized.

"Agent became flustered when she couldn't repeat the number, then just lunged at her.”

Jaykie Funez-Andrade is detained at the Rockingham County Jail on hold for ICE.

#Harrisonburg #VA
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RealCrozetVA @realcrozetva.bsky.social · 7d
Resources for food insecurity in Crozet & Central VA.

Thanks to @indivisiblecville.bsky.social

www.realcrozetva.com/2025/10/28/r...
Resources for Food Insecurity in Crozet and Central Virginia
We are in times where looking out for and helping each other is more important than ever. Two Crozet-specific resources Crozet Cares Closet – “We are committed to ensuring no one in our…
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 7d
Preach.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 8d
(I am exploring maybe writing a book on Joseph Rothrock, who is from McVeytown, my hometown.)
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 8d
@shannonmattern.bsky.social our camp is right up the road from Camp Oldwick. My grandfather Harold helped his brother Bill helped build that camp. Lot of great memories of thanksgiving there as a kid. Wish I had asked those men more about their lives.
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 9d
Lovely weekend in Rothrock State Forest in Central Pennsylvania.
A view looking down at Coopers Gap. Sun washes across autumnal leaves. Leaf cover and young trees. Underground gas line.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 12d
On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 13d
Well. That’s great.
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12d
At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.
OpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs
OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails.
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Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 13d
Big picture please. Keeping Miyares as AG will be devastating for UVA and other public institutions in this time of Trumpian extortion
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13d
Absolutely most of the harm from AI is being caused by people who rationalise their actions by saying something like, or exactly, this

Declare something inevitable, and then set about causing a massive amount of totally avoidable harm

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At a recent event in San Antonio, about 50 educators received a three-hour crash course in AI, organized by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and largely funded by Big Tech. An Associated Press report from Monday about the seminar sheds some light on what it’s like when AI companies fund an effort to help more teachers AI-generate their lesson plans. “We all know, when we talk about AI, teachers say, ‘Nah, I’m not doing that,’” Kathleen Torregrossa, a person described as a “trainer” said to the group as part of her introduction, according to the AP. “But we are preparing kids for the future. That is our primary job. And AI, like it or not, is part of our world,” Torregrossa added. According to a September Gallup poll, 60% of K-12 teachers have already used AI in their work. Increasingly, parents appear to not want this. One poll over the summer found that support among parents for AI-generated lesson plans has fallen from 62% in 2024 to 49% this year. Another recent study looked at some of the lesson plans themselves and found them academically substandard according to the two benchmarks the researchers used.
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 14d
1/3 of US GDP growth since 2000 is disaster recovery — and data centers drive nearly all our GDP growth this year.

What a baffling, brutal cycle.
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🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 16d
This sucks so much man wtf
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 15d
How people perceive their colleagues who produce workslop.
A figure showing results of a survey. It's titled workslop makes colleagues think less of each others. 54 percent of respondents say they see their colleagues who use AI as less creative, 50 percent say they see their colleagues who use AI as less capable, 49 percent say they see their colleagues who use AI as less reliable, 42 percent say they see their colleagues who use AI as less trustworthy, 37 percent say they see their colleagues who use AI as less intelligent
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