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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 5d

Look, maybe because of higher tariffs on generic drugs and government shutdowns you'll have to choose between heart palpitations and hunger, but be secure in the knowledge that our government is bailing out a libertarian lunatic who looks like a shady thug from a 70s UK gangster film.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

Solidarity!

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 6d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 8d

Voters upheld the Climate Commitment Act by a landslide last year.

Today, the Supreme Court shot down a legal challenge.

As the federal government is abandoning critical climate protections, Washington's leadership is needed now more than ever. This is an important win.

Supreme Court shoots down challenge to WA carbon market

A natural gas power plant in Grays Harbor County had sued over the state's keystone climate policy.

www.seattletimes.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 12d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

open.substack.com

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Joule @joulekzelm.bsky.social · 11d

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Michael But Scary @selmerguy.bsky.social · 13d

In honor of of the first day of Spooky Season, here's Dracutwig, a novel about Dracula’s daughter who becomes a Twiggy-inspired model in late 1960s Swingin’ London. This could have been a great Hammer, or maybe an Amicus, movie. But I think Twigula is a better name for the character.

Cover of a novel called Dracutwig. The tagline mentions the “daughter of Dracula who has a body like Twiggy and turns into a vampire whenever she makes love.”

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Joule @joulekzelm.bsky.social · 11d

Hey authors!! Check to see if you qualify for the Anthropic settlement (ie if your book was stolen to train AI). www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Homepage | ANT

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Joule @joulekzelm.bsky.social · 11d

My immediate first thought was to check if they paid and yep, vindicated!

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 12d

Three cheers for the Constitution's right to a jury: a federal jury in Los Angeles "took just over an hour to acquit [Brayan] Ramos-Brito of a misdemeanor assault count" in an ICE-scuffle case hinging heavily on the testimony of border sector chief Gregory Bovino, now doing raids in Chicago.

Mike Fox @foxmike90.bsky.social · 12d

Yet another piece on the role of juries:

www.ocregister.com/2025/10/02/r...

Rejecting injustice: The jury’s role in a politicized justice system

The acquittal of Brayan Ramos-Brito should be seen as a victory for all who believe in the enduring power of the jury as the ultimate safeguard of our liberties.

www.ocregister.com

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Joule @joulekzelm.bsky.social · 12d

I wrote my corporate tragicomedy "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" during @clarionwest.bsky.social 2021 during an apocalyptic heat wave in tech bro-dominated Seattle. I proceeded to revise it for the next four years. Thrilled to see it in print and can't wait to read everyone else's work!

chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 13d

The new issue is here!

Have you subscribed yet? CHM brings you the best of weird and cosmic horror EVERY month: https://bit.ly/3WmVbRP

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Joule @joulekzelm.bsky.social · 12d

I second both Noroi (maybe the best FF film aside from Blair Witch Project) and Pulse, which is so gorgeously sad and poetic and SCARY. I like Kiyoshi Kurosawa's other film Cure possibly even more.

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Amy "Gory" Grech @amygrech.bsky.social · 14d

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🚨URGENT NEED: $35/200 I ran out of cat food and kitty litter. My senior cats require a special diet to survive. Work is scarce. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. Anything helps! 💕💸 #AuthorSky #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #HelpSky #MABoost #MutualAidRequest
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Pay Amy Grech using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/amygrechseo and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

www.paypal.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

Reminder that the cotton stretchy decorative spider web stuff is terrible for local wildlife (yes, even in the city).

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 16d

Spread Me, my erotic horror novella about an isolated research team and the specimen that wants to explore them back, is available everywhere you buy books.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Spread Me

Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly ...

us.macmillan.com

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 16d

I like those does-this-ever-happen-to-you infomercials where someone's trying to mash potatoes and then a diplodocus crashes through the wall or the potatoes burgeon with eyestalks and thousands of tiny teeth.

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Joule @joulekzelm.bsky.social · 19d

My name in lights!! I'm so excited!! Can't wait to read everyone else's.

chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 19d

COVER REVEAL!

Issue 64 includes stories from Sebastian Gray, Emma Burnett, Joule K. Zelman, Elena Sichrovsky, and more!

Cover art by Lars Strömquist.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20d

This episode features my favorite intro in the show’s history

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Sep 12

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

www.thenation.com

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29d

at the center of the efforts to destroy civil society in russia, hungary, georgia and elsewhere is the stigmatization, harassment, & criminalization of NGOs. that's what this is about, a full-on assault on democratic debate & freedoms.

this is not hyperbole. it's right here.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29d

Vance: "There's no unity with people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF and the Ford Foundation...benefit from generous tax treatment...How do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family."

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · Sep 11

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."

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Joule @joulekzelm.bsky.social · Sep 2

I share the luxury belief that Robert Galbraith would better serve the cause of women's rights by burying herself under her big piles of money and never publicly speaking again.

sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · Sep 2

jk rowling accuses trans people of holding "luxury beliefs" and yes as a trans woman I am of course guilty of holding the luxury belief that I should have a livable life.

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Joule @joulekzelm.bsky.social · Sep 2

You mean "Robert Galbraith," staunch defender of female identity?

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Joule @joulekzelm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Delighted to read this excellent short story by my friend @amandasong.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social ! Love this one flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/09...

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