Terri Jones
@terriaminute.bsky.social
Adult cis-het, she/her. This is a LGBTQIA+ safe space. Trans rights are human rights. Writer (for myself), artist, worried about many things. Not actually a snow leopard.
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Apparently Cash-In Cora is teaching a class on how to write romance with artificial intelligence.
Guess what, I have an actual romance craft book coming out, based on 20 years of editing and 10 years writing romance, which will teach you how to write romance using your own intelligence!
Guess what, I have an actual romance craft book coming out, based on 20 years of editing and 10 years writing romance, which will teach you how to write romance using your own intelligence!
February 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Apparently Cash-In Cora is teaching a class on how to write romance with artificial intelligence.
Guess what, I have an actual romance craft book coming out, based on 20 years of editing and 10 years writing romance, which will teach you how to write romance using your own intelligence!
Guess what, I have an actual romance craft book coming out, based on 20 years of editing and 10 years writing romance, which will teach you how to write romance using your own intelligence!
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Being an artist is so weird
"I hope everyone like the thing I made up in my head!"
"I hope everyone like the thing I made up in my head!"
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Being an artist is so weird
"I hope everyone like the thing I made up in my head!"
"I hope everyone like the thing I made up in my head!"
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In terms of paper waste, maybe, but ebooks aren'tthe solution. Speaking as a librarian, ebooks are the bane of my fucking existence. I can buy 10 MMPB for the cost of 1 restricted access temporary license ebook. See:
bsky.app/profile/book...
bsky.app/profile/book...
Mass market paperbacks that were unsold within 90 or 120 days had their covers stripped (as proof of destruction) then were pulped. Up to 50% of the print run would be destroyed this way. Horribly wasteful: we're MUCH better off with ebooks as the cheap/disposable reading format of choice.
The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles. You may never buy a new one again.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
February 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
In terms of paper waste, maybe, but ebooks aren'tthe solution. Speaking as a librarian, ebooks are the bane of my fucking existence. I can buy 10 MMPB for the cost of 1 restricted access temporary license ebook. See:
bsky.app/profile/book...
bsky.app/profile/book...
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
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While I'm not Roxane Gay's biggest fan, she's damn sure right about this. And everyone, EVERYONE, knows that shit. It's all the covering, lying, mumbling, and pivoting (like Elon Musk's "hand gesture") that makes it pathetic. You fuckin know!
February 7, 2026 at 2:24 AM
While I'm not Roxane Gay's biggest fan, she's damn sure right about this. And everyone, EVERYONE, knows that shit. It's all the covering, lying, mumbling, and pivoting (like Elon Musk's "hand gesture") that makes it pathetic. You fuckin know!
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...
February 7, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...
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TWIN CITIES
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Protest - acatusa.com
Volunteers Needed We are looking for volunteers to help check firearms and to help close off roads during the march, If you would like to help without needing to carry a firearm, contact us now by ema...
acatusa.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM
TWIN CITIES
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
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JD Vance was just ruthlessly booed at the Olympics during the Opening Ceremony when he was shown on the screen. But you would never know by watching the broadcast on NBC.
February 6, 2026 at 9:59 PM
JD Vance was just ruthlessly booed at the Olympics during the Opening Ceremony when he was shown on the screen. But you would never know by watching the broadcast on NBC.
heh heh heh heh
good
I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
February 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
heh heh heh heh
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The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
February 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
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"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
February 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
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I've seen quite a bit of performative scolding related to books and reading. If you scold someone for what they read, how they get their books, and in what format, YTA. I'm just happy people are reading and are interested in books. #BookSky
I wish I could tell people like me, who first came to Bluesky and felt pummeled by performative scolding, that now it feels a lot less like that and a lot more like that brief window when Twitter was pretty good: useful, occasionally ridiculous, a place to discover new thinkers & writing
February 6, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I've seen quite a bit of performative scolding related to books and reading. If you scold someone for what they read, how they get their books, and in what format, YTA. I'm just happy people are reading and are interested in books. #BookSky
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"But I can't afford to hire a human artist for my business!"
Then you can't afford a business.
Then you can't afford a business.
February 5, 2026 at 11:40 PM
"But I can't afford to hire a human artist for my business!"
Then you can't afford a business.
Then you can't afford a business.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The new Muppet Show: absolutely perfect, a balm for the soul. 100/100. Oh, 99, maybe not to the old-time canned laughter. Just as dark, just as life-affirming, absolute fun.
February 6, 2026 at 12:56 PM
The new Muppet Show: absolutely perfect, a balm for the soul. 100/100. Oh, 99, maybe not to the old-time canned laughter. Just as dark, just as life-affirming, absolute fun.
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We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011.
In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.
This is how he did it (published 2021):
In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.
This is how he did it (published 2021):
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
www.propublica.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011.
In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.
This is how he did it (published 2021):
In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.
This is how he did it (published 2021):
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To all our international friends attending the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan tomorrow:
Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too.
Signed,
the American people
Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too.
Signed,
the American people
February 5, 2026 at 9:01 PM
To all our international friends attending the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan tomorrow:
Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too.
Signed,
the American people
Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too.
Signed,
the American people
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If you have a network with a decently large following, please consider adopting a Minneapolis family to pay their rent this month.
This is being done in a decentralized fashion because a lot of the groups getting $ are having their Venmo frozen and it's hard to send mutual aid.
This is being done in a decentralized fashion because a lot of the groups getting $ are having their Venmo frozen and it's hard to send mutual aid.
tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
today's report:
our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children
this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children
this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
February 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM
If you have a network with a decently large following, please consider adopting a Minneapolis family to pay their rent this month.
This is being done in a decentralized fashion because a lot of the groups getting $ are having their Venmo frozen and it's hard to send mutual aid.
This is being done in a decentralized fashion because a lot of the groups getting $ are having their Venmo frozen and it's hard to send mutual aid.
Time with good friends is everything.
February 5, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Time with good friends is everything.
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State vaccine requirements for school entry are absolutely essential if we have any hope of maintaining herd immunity.
It is madness for states to repeal these requirements. And vaccine exemptions should not be permitted unless for a documented medical contraindication.
It is madness for states to repeal these requirements. And vaccine exemptions should not be permitted unless for a documented medical contraindication.
February 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
State vaccine requirements for school entry are absolutely essential if we have any hope of maintaining herd immunity.
It is madness for states to repeal these requirements. And vaccine exemptions should not be permitted unless for a documented medical contraindication.
It is madness for states to repeal these requirements. And vaccine exemptions should not be permitted unless for a documented medical contraindication.