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K Tornheim
@arianhwyvar.bsky.social
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SFF+ reader, jewelry artist (colored brass and antique keys), roleplayer, sometime poet and songwriter, engineer (devops), midlife-identified neurodivergent, nonbinary, multi-faceted geek. They/them.

https://www.patreon.com/silverowlcreations
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asherelbein.bsky.social
I cosign every single word of this

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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shy-magpie.bsky.social
Post from Foz Meadows: human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there's actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that's okay Reply from FutureEvilScientist: As a biologist, that is a fantastic comparison. We talk about "fish" (which, cladistically, do not exist, there is no monophyletic group of "fish" that simultaneously includes all organisms we understand to be "fish"-like while also excluding, say, humans) because, despite the utter fiction that is fish, it's still a useful label when we talk about certain features that "fish" tend to have in common. Gender is absolutely the same way.
November 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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pinknews.bsky.social
Tilda Swinton went to '43 funerals' in one year at height of Aids crisis
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/21/tilda-swinton-went-to-43-funerals-in-one-year-at-height-of-aids-crisis/?utm_content=1761172800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Tilda Swinton went to '43 funerals’ in one year during AIDS crisis
Tilda Swinton has recalled going to "43 funerals" in one year at the height of the Aids crisis, including one for her friend, Derek Jarman.
www.thepinknews.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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booksthatburn.com
Links That Burn how has a whole page just of stuff to help you block genAI "features" wherever they encroach on your life. It's not a large list yet, but please send me any I'm missing!
#NoAI

linksthatburn.com/en/goalblockai
Links That Burn - Big Tools Won't Save Niche Websites
A catalog of useful links to niche websites - find something useful, fun, and/or informative today!
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October 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This was my first time attending a protest at an intersection, and at first I was very taken aback by all the honking as people drove though, and then I saw the sign that said "Honk if you're NOT in the Epstein Files!"
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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tanaudel.bsky.social
42 ways to fix a story
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42+ ways to fix a story
Here is a list of ways to fix a draft or story in progress…
tanaudel.wordpress.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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effies.bsky.social
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...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
Banning trans healthcare for 18yos is velociraptors testing the fences. Since the bans include both minors and adults, there's nothing really stopping them from setting the age at 21 or 25 or 50. But mainstream media outlets continue to publish inaccurate headlines that misinform their reaaders.
October 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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pterosaur.bsky.social
tea kettle guys
October 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
“Over the next two weeks, she received two separate notifications from UPS that her personal mementos had not cleared customs and as a result had been ‘disposed of’ by UPS.”
UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems
Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.
www.nbcnews.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I put another public 'my silver clay journey' post on Patreon, with my experience with Emma Watson's free virtual 5-day pendant project. www.patreon.com/posts/i-took...
I took Emma Gordon's 5 Day Pendant Challenge and It Was Great | Silver Owl Creations
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October 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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poopraven.bsky.social
It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!
October 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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threnody.bsky.social
so: what do we need you to do? two things.

1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi

what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵
Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm one of Senator [THEIR NAME]'s constituents. House Republicans are trying to insert a multiple articles of anti-trans legislation, including a full transgender healthcare funding ban, into the F-Y '26 budget. I'm calling to tell the Senator to stand up for trans Americans and vote NO on any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown. [you can stop here at 0:20 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't] This care funding ban follows the map the G-O-P charted while attacking abortion. Democrats lost that fight by giving in to the G-O-P an inch at a time. Giving an inch at a time on trans care will devastate trans Americans and it'll get Democrats nothing in return but contempt. [you can stop here at 0:40 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't] Right now, the most popular Democrat in the U-S, [Zo-RAHN Mom-DA-nee], is campaigning on making trans healthcare cheaper and easier to access, and he's only got more good will because of it. [you can stop here at 0:50 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't] I'm asking the Senator to refuse to allow any anti-trans language including a healthcare ban in the F-Y '26 bill. Do not vote for any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown. Standing with trans people is the right thing to do and it's politically smart. Voters and donors show up for Democrats who fight.
September 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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tkingfisher.com
Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.

And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
mollyknight.bsky.social Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 11
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I thought this was very well said. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Economy of Fear
What wrongful detentions reveal about the uses of uncertainty in American life.
substack.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
At the height of a meningitis outbreak last year among gay and bisexual men in New York City, Demetre Daskalakis, a wiry AIDS doctor and gay health activist, spent late nights and early mornings in the city’s sex clubs and bathhouses. There, he would strip off his leather jacket and, in his muscle T-shirt, talk the men around him into letting him inject them with meningitis vaccines. Dr. Daskalakis was given the go-ahead and free vaccine by the city, after city officials found that their own efforts to infiltrate the clubs and house parties, where the meningitis was believed to be spreading, were mostly met with suspicion and hostility. The vaccination campaign ultimately reached at least 16,000 people and was credited with curbing an outbreak that some feared would become the next AIDS epidemic.
August 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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scalzi.com
Well, I was going to start exercising more, but I'm 56 and my BMI is 30.7, so, thanks RFK Jr., you've giving me impetus to hold off on bringing my weight down until I've had another COVID shot, that's some real good work there to Make America Healthy Again
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · Aug 27
FDA is authorizing anybody with a risk factor from this list to receive the vaccines, as well as anybody 65+.
Figure 2 from https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929
August 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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johnpicacio.bsky.social
Brand-new PEOPLE Magazine feature on me, Leigh Bardugo, & our debut picture book THE INVISIBLE PARADE. We’re signing outside of Chicago TONIGHT, sponsored by Anderson's Bookshop. Wherever you are, if you’re looking for a signed 1st-Edition of the book this week — holler. people.com/leigh-bardug...
Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio's New Book 'The Invisible Parade' Was a Decade in the Making (Exclusive)
'The Invisible Parade,' Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio's new book, celebrates the illustrator's Mexican heritage, while offering readers of all ages a toolkit for dealing with grief.
people.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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gendercensus.bsky.social
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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It is SELFISH to be unmasked in a room with other people at length if you knowingly have Covid.
August 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
They've re-released Phoenix's Keepers of the Flame album! Also, having a whole giant room of people belting out "How many of them can WE MAKE DIE" with Alexander James Adams on his encore was SO GREAT.
August 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I expect I will be hanging out by my art show table/panel tomorrow at Worldcon during the art show reception 4-6pm, looking to talk to people about metal clay, metalwork, wirework, and anything else I know anything about. If you want to see my examples, just ask!
August 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I also learned flush setting and reticulation on the way here from the marvelous Serin of serindipitydesign.com I am super excited about it.
Serindipity Design
Metalwork by Serin Hale. Specializing in functional, correct, contracted grade 2 braille jewelry,
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August 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I am at Worldcon! In the art show, and doing some panels for the first time. www.patreon.com/posts/worldc...
Worldcon in Seattle! | Silver Owl Creations
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August 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM