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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently the gov social media teams are essential workers who can knock out important tasks like joining new social media platforms during a shutdown.

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, so the Trump administration created a bunch of BlueSky accounts for the sole purpose of harassing left leaning accounts. Here's a link to the full blocklist bsky.app/profile/did:...

#america #usa #politics #leftsky

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17d

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 21d

Found a good post on leaflet about moss. “They’re like tiny forests”

betweencollapseandbloom.leaflet.pub/3lyilstxjgc2n

Do we want to live in a world where even moss is perceived as a threat? - Between Collapse and Bloom

betweencollapseandbloom.leaflet.pub

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah, that was a week ago. I'm allowed to walk things back

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Skylight Social @skylight.social · 26d

Skylight Social’s latest update!

We’ve created an FYP, featuring creator-made feeds!

⬆️Swipe up for discovery
⬅️ Swipe left (or tap right) to stay on that feed/topic

Shoutouts:
@richferro.com

#skylightsocial #skylight

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hey all! I'm investing more time in my passion for writing, which means more info about the world of Parafyx coming soon! #writing #books #thecycleofthestars

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · Aug 29

This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act.

www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...

Breaking: We’ve won our lawsuit on behalf of wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains

This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species A...

www.humaneworld.org

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Barbara Neuhoff @barbaraneuhoff.bsky.social · Aug 23

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Aug 6

Look, Count of Monte Cristo will always be my favorite book. But WOW there are moments in it that you want to resurrect Dumas and ask "really? That's really what you thought would make a character cooler?"

YES THIS IS ABOUT HAYDEÉ #books #montecristo #fiction #writer

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Aug 1

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 31

AI is not just a symptom of an unfair society, it is the symbol of it. It is designed to actively make the average Joe who uses it dumber while making the men who own it richer, consuming billions of gallons in drinkable water every year.

The very *idea* of Generative AI must be slaughtered. #ai

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 31

Behold, the map of my fantasy series!

Been working on The Cycle of the Stars for ten years and got my IP copyright filing approved with the USCO! #books #fantasy #writer

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 31

The most pathetic, pitiable thing about the billionaire class is that even with all the wealth in the world, they have nothing. No burning convictions so dear they compel them to act, no great truths that they clutch to their hearts like they do gold.

They are WEAKER for their wealth #eatterich

The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 25

He's also the reason attempts to unionize the wrestlers of WWE failed, leading to the death of Owen Hart and the constant painkiller abuse among wrestlers required to cope with their unreasonable working conditions, so maybe let's not pretend this dude was anti-establishment. #hulkhogan

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 25

The wildest part of this is the implication that Ozzy went up instead of leading a party train down, smashing the gates of hell open while playing Crazy train, and then immediately shagging the hot demon secretary in the welcome lobby.

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 22

So rest well, Prince of Darkness. Hundreds of millions found musical communities they feel at home in because of your work and love for art. Thy dark and rockin' throne awaits.

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ozzy's death hits hard. Joke all you want about his oddities, but the man built one of the most revolutionary genres in music with nothing but his buddies, passion, and a shit-ton of drugs.

Even now, it feels fake to say he's dead. Even in death, he's an immortal legend. #ozzy #rock #metal

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 20

The reason that all of his stories play out in EXACTLY the same way across over 50 works is that he only had one note to play, and it was how much multiculturalism genuinely scared him because of the voluntarily reclusive life he lived to avoid other races.

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 20

As someone who studied and read Lovecraft extensively as an English major...the guy was NOT good at writing. He was just prolific.

He borrowed from much better writers like Bierce, Chambers, and Poe without understanding anything about what made their work good.

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 20

As a horror junkie, it's shocking to me how many movies I can't watch anymore now that i'm a father.

Like, my god there are a LOT of movies that are very okay with horrific violence towards children in the name of genre expectation.

YES, DAMIEN LEONE, I'm talking to you.

#horror

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 20

Any government which forces toddlers to represent themselves alone in court is evil beyond forgiveness, beyond redemption, and beyond humanity.

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jul 15

Good night to everyone except:
-Splatterpunk writers who use SA for shock factor
-fantasy authors who write about fighting imperialism while supporting real world imperialism.
- People who use generative AI for any reason.
-people who think hope is an immature narrative theme.

#writing

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jun 25

These reasons are why deaths are so much more devastating when they are the result of cyberbullying campaigns. We KNOW that there is someone, or multiple people deserving of blame, and yet the law is relatively powerless to enact justice.

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jun 25

3. Laws punishing cyberbullies when they cause suicides DO exist in some states, but they are incredibly difficult to enforce simply because evidence is difficult to provide in a concrete manner outside of very specific circumstances.

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