Andra Filipescu
@musingoddity.bsky.social
Full time Carer | Writer | Artist | Lifelong Learner | Scatterbrained Bookworm | Feminist gamer | Nature & animal lover | Introvert & mixed race| Asexual | She/her. 🏳️⚧️
https://linktr.ee/musingoddity
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We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
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This is Goose. His stick didn't fit through the door at first. But Goose believed in himself, and more importantly, so did his doorman. 13/10 (TT: bigstickgoose)
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is Goose. His stick didn't fit through the door at first. But Goose believed in himself, and more importantly, so did his doorman. 13/10 (TT: bigstickgoose)
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I love how these people have followed my work for YEARS and then are surprised that I’m anti capitalist and anti girl boss feminism. My most successful work is about a refugee goddess who illegally crosses water to find safety, whose side do you think I’m on?
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I love how these people have followed my work for YEARS and then are surprised that I’m anti capitalist and anti girl boss feminism. My most successful work is about a refugee goddess who illegally crosses water to find safety, whose side do you think I’m on?
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We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
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What Streeting did to trans people, he'd do to every other marginalised, disenfranchised & down on their luck group in Britain.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What Streeting did to trans people, he'd do to every other marginalised, disenfranchised & down on their luck group in Britain.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
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Jesus christ people the UK government are not banning VPNs stop getting caught out by dogshit headlines on social media sharing cards.
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Jesus christ people the UK government are not banning VPNs stop getting caught out by dogshit headlines on social media sharing cards.
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This is in the New Statesman today by Ailbhe Rea is well worth a read on the mood in the Parliamentary Labour Party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Does Keir Starmer realise how much trouble he's in?
The Prime Minister is facing a crisis of contempt among his own MPs
www.newstatesman.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This is in the New Statesman today by Ailbhe Rea is well worth a read on the mood in the Parliamentary Labour Party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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tldr, one of the owners of this convention raped a woman, and when she came forward, they fired HER for "gross misconduct". fucking unacceptable.
the entire convention is being boycotted and several publishers are withdrawing but until this fuckhead and his org are ruined, all of it is a wash
the entire convention is being boycotted and several publishers are withdrawing but until this fuckhead and his org are ruined, all of it is a wash
Damn... Angoulême is continuing to turn into a complete (largely self-inflicted) disaster. We usually go every year, but decided to boycott this year. Was second-guessing that call earler, but not now. (via @comicsbeat.bsky.social )
www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-20...
www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-20...
ANGOULÊME 2026 in serious doubt as publishers and authors cancel to protest Bondoux's involvement
Creators and publishers are threatening a boycott after controversial 9e Art+ and owner Franck Bondoux are set to resume running Angoulême
www.comicsbeat.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
tldr, one of the owners of this convention raped a woman, and when she came forward, they fired HER for "gross misconduct". fucking unacceptable.
the entire convention is being boycotted and several publishers are withdrawing but until this fuckhead and his org are ruined, all of it is a wash
the entire convention is being boycotted and several publishers are withdrawing but until this fuckhead and his org are ruined, all of it is a wash
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My gut hunch: Kendzoir was probably not banned by a human for any reason, but by an automated computer process by accident, and BlueSky doesn't want to admit this mistake nor to open up that automation for debate. It wants the power to let computers do this w/o expending $ for human review.
@bsky.app last week my DMs were cut off. Moderation said I could not be trusted.
Hours later, you said it was a mistake.
Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.)
Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?
Hours later, you said it was a mistake.
Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.)
Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My gut hunch: Kendzoir was probably not banned by a human for any reason, but by an automated computer process by accident, and BlueSky doesn't want to admit this mistake nor to open up that automation for debate. It wants the power to let computers do this w/o expending $ for human review.
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Before I go further, I'll put a link to the game here and it'll also go at the end to make a tasty lil' video game sandwich: store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...
Save 10% on Generation Exile on Steam
You are aboard humanity’s first and final generation ship, a last-chance expedition now teetering on the rim of collapse. One step at a time you must rebuild society and the ship’s fragile ecosystems ...
store.steampowered.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Before I go further, I'll put a link to the game here and it'll also go at the end to make a tasty lil' video game sandwich: store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...
This thread is wild.
It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This thread is wild.
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Great thread! This summer we discovered our Sonos speaker was playing an unknown neighbour’s music requests, which presumably means theirs was also playing ours?
my mother's hearing aid has broken the doorbell
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Great thread! This summer we discovered our Sonos speaker was playing an unknown neighbour’s music requests, which presumably means theirs was also playing ours?
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In 2015 Cameron won an overall majority, and it was thrown away by May in 2017 because of Brexit.
In 2019 Johnson won a thumping majority, and yet he was out of office less than three years later.
In 2024 Starmer won a thumping majority and seems to have no idea what to do with it.
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In 2019 Johnson won a thumping majority, and yet he was out of office less than three years later.
In 2024 Starmer won a thumping majority and seems to have no idea what to do with it.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2015 Cameron won an overall majority, and it was thrown away by May in 2017 because of Brexit.
In 2019 Johnson won a thumping majority, and yet he was out of office less than three years later.
In 2024 Starmer won a thumping majority and seems to have no idea what to do with it.
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In 2019 Johnson won a thumping majority, and yet he was out of office less than three years later.
In 2024 Starmer won a thumping majority and seems to have no idea what to do with it.
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
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As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal.
Piece by George Riekeles and I.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Piece by George Riekeles and I.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal.
Piece by George Riekeles and I.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Piece by George Riekeles and I.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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One for the #WritingCommunity 📚: silviamoreno-garcia.com/the-ya-boom-... by @silviamg.bsky.social (thanks @sophiavahdati.bsky.social for the share!) #YA
The YA boom and bust story | Silvia Moreno-Garcia
silviamoreno-garcia.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
One for the #WritingCommunity 📚: silviamoreno-garcia.com/the-ya-boom-... by @silviamg.bsky.social (thanks @sophiavahdati.bsky.social for the share!) #YA
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We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
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So sad this keeps getting shared with the attribution cropped out.
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
So sad this keeps getting shared with the attribution cropped out.
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This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands
The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands
Desert settlement of Chinguetti faces rising sands, dwindling tourism and insecurity due to conflict in neighbouring Mali
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands
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These are some quite heartbreaking stories and, as Holly Greenberry-Pullen comments in the piece, really illustrates the perverse absurdity of deeming trans teens to young to even get blockers but being fine with intersex kids getting horrifically drastic full-on bodily surgery as *toddlers*.
‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children
What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
These are some quite heartbreaking stories and, as Holly Greenberry-Pullen comments in the piece, really illustrates the perverse absurdity of deeming trans teens to young to even get blockers but being fine with intersex kids getting horrifically drastic full-on bodily surgery as *toddlers*.
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I’m putting him to the side for a few days while I work on some other things that need to be finished up, but I’ll get back to him soon.
WIP. Detail.
Prismacolor Verithin pencil. (Dark umber and dark brown)
Over watercolor wash on Canson paper.
#Frankenstein #Illustration #drawing
WIP. Detail.
Prismacolor Verithin pencil. (Dark umber and dark brown)
Over watercolor wash on Canson paper.
#Frankenstein #Illustration #drawing
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I’m putting him to the side for a few days while I work on some other things that need to be finished up, but I’ll get back to him soon.
WIP. Detail.
Prismacolor Verithin pencil. (Dark umber and dark brown)
Over watercolor wash on Canson paper.
#Frankenstein #Illustration #drawing
WIP. Detail.
Prismacolor Verithin pencil. (Dark umber and dark brown)
Over watercolor wash on Canson paper.
#Frankenstein #Illustration #drawing
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IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
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I had some kindle points and redeemed them for 3 omnibus editions of Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching books. Each link contains all 5 ebooks. They were on special for $1.99 today. Claim! Or go buy!
www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...
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I had some kindle points and redeemed them for 3 omnibus editions of Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching books. Each link contains all 5 ebooks. They were on special for $1.99 today. Claim! Or go buy!
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...
www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...
www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...
I had some kindle points and redeemed them for 3 omnibus editions of Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching books. Each link contains all 5 ebooks. They were on special for $1.99 today. Claim! Or go buy!
www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...
www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...
I had some kindle points and redeemed them for 3 omnibus editions of Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching books. Each link contains all 5 ebooks. They were on special for $1.99 today. Claim! Or go buy!