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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty sure Scotch is a necessity these days.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 12d

This Oct, as a breast cancer survivor in treatment since 2021, I'm doing a thread on stuff I wish I'd been told.

I'll update as I go, but the first thing I'll share is every person's body & treatment is different. Some fear symptoms or side effects they might never get. Don't be afraid to fight 1/3

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits.
I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger

The administration’s decision to fast-track a bunch of changes to food stamps—including new work requirements—is as stupid as it is cruel.

www.thenation.com

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 10h

Night of the Living Dead (scared the bejesus out of me when I'd gone to the late-night drive-in horror flicks to laugh)
Get Out
Alien (which I only saw because a friend convinced me if was really SF, which it is, but also scary as hell)
Can't come up with a fourth.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 11h

Not reposting the nonsense from the right about how Saturday's march is ANTI-AMERICAN! SOROS-FUNDED!

What they're saying is so nonsensical that it reeks of desperation.

They're scared of a simple display of mass opposition.

Bring your American flags, folks.
It's a pro-America, pro-democracy march

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h

Dear media,
1/ ICE consistently lies about its violence toward people in Chicago, with its initial accounts later disproven.
2/ When protesters shout at ICE agents to get out of their neighborhood and ICE tear-gasses them and throws them to the ground, that's not a "clash" – that's ICE violence.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 15h

It’s not for money,
but for the knowing. Oh, to
understand it all!
#zentao

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 1d

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

us06web.zoom.us

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

And assuming they were the right words.

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Kij Johnson @kijjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

the pheasant breaking cover
just in front of the car
did I hear its wings?
#haiku #senryu

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

You know, I tend to think that I stopped writing much short fiction once I started doing novels partly because I find it hard to do both at the same time (and I'm slow at novels to boot). But maybe it was just becoming more annoying to submit.

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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 1d

Spookymonth continues apace! This week, two favorites return: M.L. Krishnan and Gemma Files. Yes, really. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! @emelkrishnan.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Head-and-shoulders red-tinged color photo of writer M.L Krishnan, a woman with light brown skin and straight, glossy hair pulled back. Her hair may be black or may be purple; the red light makes this a mystery. She wears large plastic-framed glasses, a red silk tank, gold earrings with ornate hearts hanging from sunburst decorated with red hearts, a gold ring in her septum and several gold rings on her fingers, red lipstick, and black cat-eye eyeliner. She rests her chin on one beringed hand, her face in three-quarter view, and regards the camera with a serious expression.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

"the AI bubble isn’t predominantly giving off Pets.com or Global Crossing vibes anymore. It’s giving Enron vibes."

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

If my partner had not steeled his nerve to ask me directly if he would be making a mistake to fall in love with me, I'd have probably continued to assume we were just friends and we'd still be emailing occasionally instead of living together for the last 11 years.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

BTW, my partner -- who knows pretty much everything about hot water -- tells me that the electric water heating system used in Brazil is in the showerhead itself, which makes this term more on point. I don't know if you knew that, but I didn't and also thought it was fascinating.

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 1d

If your writing helps even one person, it's worth doing
Especially if that one person is you

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

People are good at coming up with weird ways to say things that become ordinary for them and very odd for people who aren't used to it. I love finding those things. And I love the saints you're making here.

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Ale @alepresser.com · 1d

#repostober 14: minha Nossa Senhora da Bicicletinha

Another illustration that is sorta like a saint, but in an estilized art nouveau style, of a woman in biker gear, holding her water bottle, with the words "my our lady of the tiny bicycle, give me balance".

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

Is chuveiro eletrico the way you say "hot shower" in Portuguese? The online bots went for the literal translation, but somehow I don't think this is an electric shower! (Also, this is lovely.)

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow the worst thing
is that it’s all ludicrous
except for the harm.
#zentao

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

www.austinchronicle.com/news/republi...

Every faculty member quoted in this piece is active in the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. We are proud of our leaders and members, speaking out when so many are silent. 👏🏽👏🏽

Republicans Continue to Batter UT • The Austin Chronicle

The Texas Republican Party’s ideological transformation of UT-Austin is barreling forward, with new developments coming on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Last Wednesday, Board of Regents Chairma...

www.austinchronicle.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 2d

"Promptly." Thanks to the ruling in Taylor v. Riojas, we know that six days is a short period.

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 2d

How can this be? Justice Kavanaugh assured us that "If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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