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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 2h

UPDATED: One woman has been found dead in the village of Kwigillingok, where another two people remain unaccounted for, after a devastating storm battered Western Alaska over the weekend.

Woman found dead, dozens rescued and over 1,000 displaced after storm devastates Western Alaska

Winds over 100 mph and record tidal surges pounded the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Sunday as the remnants of Typhoon Halong inundated some Bering Sea coast communities.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

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

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

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

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 1h

Hah. Interesting.

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 1h

I read Didion’s The White Album and thought it was a 5/10.

I’ve been told that’s not a good work of her’s to start with but I haven’t been back yet.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 1h

Not my take but I’ll drop this ancient grenade in here to keep things interesting…

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Ged/Sparrowhawk @ged-sparrowhawk.bsky.social · 3h

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 1h

Goosebumps were all mid

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 1h

One of the best ways to absorb prose subconsciously is repeatedly listening to the audio book of a book you’ve already read. Helps very much in learning tone.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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

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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍🌈🌲🇸🇩 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 2h

The amount of money you can make pretending to teach people to become published authors is significantly larger than the money you can make being a published author.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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October DEATHules @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 2h

Magic systems fucking suck. Every page you spend explaining the rules of magic is a page you didn't spend making us give a shit. The harder the system, the less we will care; it's a glaring structural weakness any book featuring such a system inevitably shares.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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Thad @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 1h

People who think Tom Bombadil "doesn't fit" can't be trusted in Tolkien discussions, and are on thin ice re: literature in general.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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unpaid shirtz dot cool brand ambassador @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 5h

telling that the reaction to this has been overwhelmingly positive, and that his detractors aren't really pushing this as an attack vector. maybe it's because trans rights are overwhelmingly popular in polling! could be!

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 10h

the goal is to see them as silly or benign or blending into the scenery. for most liberals, the expectation is that you'll tolerate their presence while they terrorize people who don't look like you

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 10h

images of National Guard units just standing around w captions like "lol pointless" imo miss the mark on what the troop deployments are intended to do; the goal is for troops to terrorize homeless or protect ICE while they terrorize immigrants, if they're doing nothing, that's still projecting force

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10h

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 2h

Goodnight. I love you all.

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Bloody Mary (mirror entity, not cocktail) @marygillis.bsky.social · 10h

Won't somebody think of the people who overextended themselves trying to get rich gouging the needs of foreign students to have basic shelter?

‘If there is no demand, we can’t operate’: Small landlords ponder future after foreign student cuts

The case for investing in student housing isn’t as obvious as it once was as the federal cap on international students enters its second year

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 9h

Big news, friends: on December 3rd, I'll be launching a brand-new history show, "Past Lives." Every episode focuses on the life of a real person from history and tries to make sense of their experiences and their world. There will be weekly scripted episodes and tons of bonus content on Patreon.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 14d

a spider can fly on a current of air

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 9h

That quote may be apocryphal but yeah that was very much the sentiment! www.snopes.com/articles/468...

The Enigmatic Origins of 'The Customer is Always Right'

Despite allegations that the phrase once ended with "in matters of taste," we found no evidence to support the claim.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

The actual quote is “in matters of taste, the customer is always right” so yeah let that lady buy a hideous hat.

According to anecdote when the first McDonald’s was open in Moscow the employee asked why they had to be nice? after all Theyre the ones with the burgers…

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 9h

“Omarchy is a reminder that we live in a world where software isn’t just software, but the people who make it.”

tedium.co/2025/10/13/o...

Thoughts On Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics

The rising Linux distro Omarchy smooths out Hyprland’s rough edges—but it also carries a controversial sheen that some won’t be able to ignore.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 9h

I’ve been at a park for nearly a week, on tethered wireless, and I couldn’t help myself. I wrote about Omarchy, a high-profile new Linux distro with interesting ideas and, shall we say, complex optics.

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Thoughts On Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics

The rising Linux distro Omarchy smooths out Hyprland’s rough edges—but it also carries a controversial sheen that some won’t be able to ignore.

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 9h

Really what I want answered is what if a guy did an improv bit forever and never stopped and he like got kicked off set at dropout and couldn’t get a job etc, all to make a point about what true improv is (that life itself is an improv bit). Would that then be the greatest bit?

Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 9h

You know how theologians would debate the metaphysics of religious doctrines? I want that same level of debate put into improv comedy and taken as seriously as it was in the time of mainstream biblical scholarship.

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