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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 7h

When my wife asks that question, I remind her that *she* said 'Yes' when I asked her to marry me.

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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 15h

Got back from a West Coast trip to see family and found this waiting for me. My contributor copies of this very cool space horror anthology!

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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 20h

We have to take our stories back.

Archibald: What happened when I Googled myself

AI created a phony national controversy, a fake Miss Alabama and a life in hiding.

www.al.com

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 20h

ironically, the more you actually know about tech, the less you want to use "AI", so real tech literacy involves knowing why "AI" is planet-wrecking dreck

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 21h

Sweden is running a national experiment in AI, offering free access to AI tools at a population level in the hope of boosting its economy and tech literacy. @stokel.bsky.social reports from Stockholm on how the country's bold bid to democratize AI is unfolding.

What Happens When You Give Millions of People Free Access to AI? | TechPolicy.Press

Initiatives in Sweden and UAE to provide population-level access to AI tools could be just the beginning of a new AI revolution, reports Chris Stokel-Walker.

www.techpolicy.press

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 1d

Fired up the #MetalDetector to look for more discarded pieces of the cast iron lid in the gully by my house (I've gotten 3 so far.)

No luck.

But...!

Found one item of interest.

KOIN-PACK?

"To open simply twist"?

Oh...condom wrapper from the mid-1900s.

Huh.

So y'all were down in the gully...

Gold-colored foil wrappers, front and back, for a KOIN-PACK condom.

Along with KOIN-PACK, the text "To open simply twist," "Mfg. by L.E. Shunk Latex Products Co - Akron, O," and "Sold for the prevention of disease" appear on the wrappers.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

More writers need to watch all the seasons of HOW IT'S MADE because they for whatever reason have NO idea how the world works, or how things work, or how things work in the world, and then it shows up in their fiction and makes me yell and swear and pace and weep and rend my clothes in despair.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump White House: where loyalty and cruelty get you the job, but idiocy and sheer incompetence let you keep it.

A tweet by user “sam” responding to Sam Stein. Sam writes: “the incompetence of it all is just stunning. this administration is locked in a perpetual battle between stupid and evil.” The quoted tweet from Sam Stein reads: “Can confirm. Some CDC experts who were RIFed on Friday have already had their firings rescinded by the administration.”

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day. n.pr/47nGDK8

Highlighting Indigenous stories from across NPR's network

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day.

n.pr

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

I hate that zuckerberg has stolen the word "meta" from us but in the old sense of it I went a little meta this week

with bonus Felix cameo

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Cartoon: Closing time

This is, in fact, the final cartoon that will appear in OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE , and I decided to have a little fun with that. The campaign runs another two weeks, but we are getting things ...

www.dailykos.com

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Ol’ Tizzy @ol-tizzy.bsky.social · 2d

As an atheist, I endorse this sentiment…

Queen Mab @queenmab99.bsky.social · 2d

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 2d

I'm fine with AI, but "predictive text on steroids" ain't it.

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 2d

Wife: This recipe calls for it to be topped with breadcrumbs, I hope you don't have a problem with that.

Me: Breadcrumbs??? Breadcrumbs are the Devil's dandruff!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

"You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time."

I didn't think George Stephanopolous had that gear, but good for him. That's how it should always be done.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 2d

A co-worker was complaining in 2009 that for the first time ever he was not getting a tax refund (for the 2008 tax year): "All I know is that I never had to pay in before Obama was elected."

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote a story having just this view in mind.

"Sun Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain"

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Sun-Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain, Marc A. Criley

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 2d

Feel the joy on Titan as "Sun Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain" fall.

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 3d

I made a disparaging remark about pickles and my wife accused me of being a "pickle hater."

I agreed, I am... because they deserve it.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d

I have fucking had it with the edgelord leftists who quote post my shit with incitements to violence, like I'm sorry either you're the fucking feds or you're somehow even dumber than they are.

the frogs & the wine moms are doing 100x the work y'all are by dooming and posting nonsense.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Tansy 🔞 🔜 Furpoc AA @tansy.bsky.social · 3d

Patches tank top. What are our thoughts

A tank top featuring several small drawings of my little dog comfort sona Patches alongside the text: I love vaccines, autism, abortions, queers, hormone replacement therapy, & crime!

This text is originally from a vintage punk button from the 70s and doesn’t belong to any particular person that is traceable. I changed a couple works, replacing “homosexuals” with “queers” and “sex changes” with”hormone replacement therapy.”

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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