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Co-editor of Trollbreath Magazine, Freelance Editor, Fuck This Regime, Arrested for Lollygagging in Whiterun, Coastal Maine https://jrey.trollbreath.com/ https://magazine.trollbreath https://linktr.ee/trollbreath

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · Mar 28

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 2d

Approaching the end of October quickly! Today I found a moment to collect the colors of my yard.

Bouquet of fall plants and flowers with an orange ribbon. Vase sits on a pewter plate. A raven statue is to the right. All of this sits on a wooden shelf.

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 2d

If you take a shit today, imagine you are doing so on Columbus' grave. And smile.

a pink background with the words happy indigenous people 's day in yellow letters

Alt: a pink background with the words happy indigenous people 's day in yellow letters. A cartoon of a Columbus statue is being pulled down by a yellow rope

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 5d

Guess Portland is burning cause that shit is lit🔥 !

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 5d

Free Fiction Friday!!

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Gretchen Tessmer takes us to familiar territory with a brand new POV

Mary Ann’s Misadventures in Underland - Trollbreath Magazine

Mary Ann’s Misadventures in Underland

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
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Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 5d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

a man in a purple shirt is dancing in a closet

Alt: Pedro Pascal in a purple shirt is dancing in a room with chairs and a clothing rack

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 6d

Two torture cats, one on a blue couch, the other on a blue ottoman, are sleeping in the sunlight of a living room

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 6d

I am the girlfriend of antifascism.

J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 7d

Have picked a blueberry or two, no local bear sightings yet. I’m 2.5 years in; if I had 2 more generations, I could be not “from away”

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 7d

Neighbor brought us lobsters last week, ate fudge from Perry’s Nut House in my intro to ME.

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 7d

Last night I saw my first moose! 🫎 in the left lane , a foot from my car! All’s well, no hit. Let’s see, met Stephen King, saw a moose, what’s left on my Maine bingo card?

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 8d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

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behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Sunday. Replace your outrage with good works. That is all.

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 12d

Could you spare a few bob to help a weird little litmag keep going?

Here's 3 ways you can support us:

1) Become a subscriber! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

2) Make a one-off donation! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

3) Buy past issues as EPUB & PDF! innerworlds.gumroad.com

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 12d

Free Fiction Friday with
“Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine”
by Sarah Pauling
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Free Fiction Friday with
“Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine”
by Sarah Pauling
Trollbreath Magazine
Image of a bright green snake

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 14d

It’s topical, it’s not all doom, it’s mine! Give me a read!

Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 16d

Free read! Non-Fiction Monday

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Sprouting beans and an ominous person in a a gas mask Trollbreath magazine Share Your Beans: Mutual Aid in The Last of Us

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 14d

a cartoon of an otter carrying a fish with the letter r on it

Alt: a cartoon of an otter dancing and holding a fish

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 16d

So, I get an email from my mom asking me to explain my political views. Oh, OK. Here is my manifesto. What could possibly go wrong?
I should have included a yummy recipe at the end. You know, something to focus on if she didn't know what to do with the rest of the email.

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 16d

I was just thinking of this when I was given free cheese with my deli order this morning. Like, we were being told the healthy thing to do was grab a chunk of cheese from the fridge and snack away? Better than chips, I guess? The 70s and 80s were bizarre.

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 17d

September is almost gone! Magazine.trollbreath.com

Maine coast at sunrise. A dragon attacks a UFO. Lighthouse in the background.Trollbreath Magazine Submissions Open September 1-30.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 18d

*throws open window* YOU THERE, BOY. WHAT DAY IS IT?

Urchin: Um. It's...it's the second day of @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social .

Me: YES, EXCELLENT.

Urchin: Um, you aren't going to ask me to get another--*stops as a penny hits him*

Me: Another griffin, boy. Chop chop!

Urchin: *haunted stare*

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 19d

Free Fiction Friday! Bigfoot Beats
by Charles Richard Livesay

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J.Rey @jensmind.bsky.social · 19d

Free Fiction Friday! Zandra
by Karl Kliparchuk magazine.trollbreath.com/zandra/

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