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Halcyon
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Just your average RPG gaming, bad movie, and comic book nerd. She/her.
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thespaceshipper.com
"50% to 60% of the population cannot read a long text."

I write my long nerdy texts on sci-fi creation for 0.001138% of the population, so I have some leeway. ☺️

Thanks again to everyone who supports my posts and articles via my Patreon. 🖖
December 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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ginnydi.com
Barbie can be anything, including a pink tiefling 🌸💖🎀

Part 2 is coming tomorrow!
December 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
Hey SoCalians! Looks like I'll be in the LA area in mid-April to give a science talk. If you're from a venue (museum, observatory, university, sidewalk, busy intersection, etc) that might be interested in hosting me to give a talk while I'm there please contact my agent @samaraspeakers.bsky.social!
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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filmbrainbmb.bsky.social
Emphatically this. It's why I try to cultivate a good audience, because they are reflections of what we make, and luckily I've managed to build a good one.

Unfortunately, I've been on the receiving end of the bad ones of others, and I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone. And I had it light.
littlevmills.bsky.social Little V @littlevmills.bsky.social · 1d
Hot take, but I think if you have an audience, you are responsible for that audience because they're a reflection of you.

If folks are in your spaces harassing other people, especially on your behalf, and you choose to do nothing about it, you're letting everyone know that's acceptable to you.
December 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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katelynburns.com
I'm not going back to a place that suppresses all my links, allows my misgendering, and stole my blue check for profit.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
When your “exclusive” lasts all of 7 hours, because you publicly named a guy who was never charged with a crime, and who now is being hounded by trolls, and will have this show up in internet searches for the rest of his life.
top The Washington Post • @washingtonpost.com Follow Exclusive: The person of interest authorities took into custody in connection with the shooting at Brown University is Benjamin Erickson, a 24-year-old originally from Wisconsin, people briefed on the investigation told The Post. Live updates: Person of interest in Brown U. shooting is 24, from Wisconsin, officials sav Live updates Authorities release person of interest in Brown University shooting 14 minutes ago 30 min
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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commandersterling.bsky.social
Update: YouTube straight up removed another video about loot boxes. They’re just hitting anything that mentions gambling regardless of context.

What a ridiculous platform.
commandersterling.bsky.social Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 1d
YouTube restricted an old video about loot boxes being restricted by gambling laws under the “sale of regulated goods policy.”

Yes YouTube, my vids famously “depict or promote” gambling. Those years of anti-loot box videos were secretly pro-loot box the entire time, you ridiculous dumbfuck site 😂.
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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eladn.bsky.social
Today I was in a room full of Jews and Muslims when I found out that a gunman had shot up a Jewish event. We all shared the pain together. A Palestinian man from Gaza who happened to have moved here 2 weeks before October 7 expressed his pain at our tragedy. Many of his family members are dead, and many others are in tents now. And still, he stood with us. These moments will be used to divide us. Thats the whole reason they are committed. To tear us all into different factions so one can win and one can lose. Buying into that worldview hands the shooters and bigots a win by creating the world they want. The only actual way to defeat them is to stand firm in building a world of dignity for all. This is what the Palestinian in the room did for us. It is what the Muslim man who risked his life to save Jews did. This is the way to win. This is how we beat those who want a world of division and violence. @eladnehorai
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
"Speaker Johnson, a member of your own caucus has denounced the president's Truth Social post and challenged anyone to defend it. What do you say?"

[TooBusyToHaveSeenThatParticularComment.wav]

"Oh, I thought so, that's why I have it right here for you."
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
Republican congressman 👇🏽
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
ANOTHER

WORLD

IS

POSSIBLE

if we choose it into being

Godammit
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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scalzi.com
Slightly longer thoughts on the passing of Rob Reiner, and what a remarkable storyteller he turned out to be.

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/r...
Rob Reiner, RIP
I don’t have much to add about Rob Reiner and wife Michelle Singer’s shocking death that other people haven’t said better, likewise any more to add about his career and political …
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December 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
An Anti-Defamation League that actually believed in its stated mission would savage Trump for his comments about Rob Reiner and his wife, but they are too busy trying to find out whether an Oberlin student said something critical of Israel.
December 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. Another anti-trans bill has now been added to the congressional calendar this week.

Following MTG's total felony trans youth care ban, Dan Crenshaw's Medicaid trans youth ban will be heard.

Though it is unlikely to get through the Senate, it will be a major posturing vote for congressmembers.
Dan Crenshaw's Trans Youth Medicaid Ban Added To This Week's Congressional Calendar
The bill from Republican Dan Crenshaw was announced to come on the same day as Marjorie Taylor Greene's felony trans youth healthcare ban.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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joshhilden.bsky.social
TEA PARTY WITH DEATH
(Short Story)

$0.99

Being Death is a job that never gets any respect, let alone an offer of tea.

Amazon - a.co/d/32ei2Xl

*Please share, and if you like this, please consider leaving a review*
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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bobchipman.bsky.social
This is a REALLY strong piece, from some folks I know 👍
youtu.be/PgnI7ME8wNM?...
Film Theory: Zootopia was STOLEN!?
YouTube video by The Film Theorists
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December 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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rningscissors.bsky.social
I hate how much I enjoyed this

BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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waitmanwbeorn.com
My personal opinion: use whatever toilet you are most comfortable with.

It doesn’t bother me.
Because I’m a grownup who doesn’t invent things to be afraid of.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
www.bbc.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
*sitting up to pound my fist dramatically on the table and point at this paragraph with fury and emphasis*

(please read the whole thing though, that last line is chef's kiss)
“Overperformed” is the backhanded compliment often paid to movies by, for, and about Black Americans. Shortsightedness is too innocent an explanation for Hollywood’s historical tendency to underestimate these projects. It’s a pattern that supports a faulty narrative: If films with Black directors and Black stars are considered “risky,” despite all evidence to the contrary, then the industry can continue to treat them that way.
December 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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parsnip.bsky.social
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
“This sense that Democrats lost touch with the middle class and the poor in favor of the cultural elite is a real problem,” said Podesta. “My shorthand is, we used to be the party of the factory floor, and now we’re the party of the faculty lounge. That’s not a California problem. It’s an elitist problem.” While Podesta isn’t backing anyone yet in the 2028 presidential contest, he praised Newsom for his efforts to not only buck Trump but the “leftist extremists” in the Democratic party.
December 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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cyberciti.biz
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
A screenshot of repo web page that reads: Title: Remove Windows Ai Why? The current 25H2 build of Windows 11 and future builds will include increasingly more AI features and components. This script aims to remove ALL of these features to improve user experience, privacy and security.
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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caitesq.bsky.social
We weren’t sure we had a menorah so the kids decided we needed a Banorah
A banana-shaped menorah lit for the first night of Hanukkah
December 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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peanutium.art
an anime girl walking on a street, theres no one else around and its dark, captioned "im going insane does anyone want anything"
December 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM