Jeff Cuscutis
@cuscutis.bsky.social
Dad, software developer, game master, player. 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️
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I'm wrapping up the final issue of one series and just got the green light to script the halfway mark of another so my schedule is about to open up a little bit, editors hit ya girl up
Hi! I'm Zoe Tunnell! And I am very much actively looking for work!
I've written for MARVEL, BOOM, DARK HORSE, TINY ONION and IDW on franchises and properties like BLACK CAT, POWER RANGERS and GODZILLA as well as co-creating BLADE MAIDENS!
Contact is zoetunnellwrites@gmail.com!!
I've written for MARVEL, BOOM, DARK HORSE, TINY ONION and IDW on franchises and properties like BLACK CAT, POWER RANGERS and GODZILLA as well as co-creating BLADE MAIDENS!
Contact is zoetunnellwrites@gmail.com!!
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I'm wrapping up the final issue of one series and just got the green light to script the halfway mark of another so my schedule is about to open up a little bit, editors hit ya girl up
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it's a real shame there wasn't just a Democratic president with control of federal law enforcement for 4 years, otherwise it would be pretty fuckin outrageous that he didn't find this
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
it's a real shame there wasn't just a Democratic president with control of federal law enforcement for 4 years, otherwise it would be pretty fuckin outrageous that he didn't find this
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Hey all, please join me in sending all good thoughts to my friend and kickstarter manager @glennf.com, who goes in for heart surgery tomorrow. Best wishes for an easy procedure and a smooth recovery.
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hey all, please join me in sending all good thoughts to my friend and kickstarter manager @glennf.com, who goes in for heart surgery tomorrow. Best wishes for an easy procedure and a smooth recovery.
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"Donald Trump owes his entire political career to defamation. Nevertheless, he routinely demands 10-figure settlements from media outlets who criticize him. And now his shakedown tour has gone international."
Trump demands a billion from The Beeb
Luckily the dollar is down against the pound.
www.publicnotice.co
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Donald Trump owes his entire political career to defamation. Nevertheless, he routinely demands 10-figure settlements from media outlets who criticize him. And now his shakedown tour has gone international."
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The only way to win is to do what keeps losing, because what just won can't win.
At a certain point it stops being gaslight and starts being deadlight.
At a certain point it stops being gaslight and starts being deadlight.
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The only way to win is to do what keeps losing, because what just won can't win.
At a certain point it stops being gaslight and starts being deadlight.
At a certain point it stops being gaslight and starts being deadlight.
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MSNBC: What is holding Republicans back from voting to release all the files?
GARCIA: They're complicit in this coverup
GARCIA: They're complicit in this coverup
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
MSNBC: What is holding Republicans back from voting to release all the files?
GARCIA: They're complicit in this coverup
GARCIA: They're complicit in this coverup
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Robert Garcia says House Democrats are likely to release more Epstein-related documents later today and adds, "we want to know why Donald Trump spent the entire campaign saying he would release the files and now that he's in the White House, there's a massive coverup going on."
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Robert Garcia says House Democrats are likely to release more Epstein-related documents later today and adds, "we want to know why Donald Trump spent the entire campaign saying he would release the files and now that he's in the White House, there's a massive coverup going on."
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Presumably a mistaken suspension of a journalist who is a very anodyne poster over here, @aaron.bsky.team and co. What's the best way to reach the team who can look into it?
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Presumably a mistaken suspension of a journalist who is a very anodyne poster over here, @aaron.bsky.team and co. What's the best way to reach the team who can look into it?
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"I can't believe you wouldn't trust us that the super secret reason we suspended someone isn't incredibly valid and, in fact, so valid we can't even tell the person who was suspended why it happened."
Look at these fucking clowns.
Look at these fucking clowns.
False attribution. If a person is suspended it is because of their identity? Could it not be because of their content? I wrote about it here aaron.leaflet.pub/3m52nqqmk322v
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
aaron.leaflet.pub
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"I can't believe you wouldn't trust us that the super secret reason we suspended someone isn't incredibly valid and, in fact, so valid we can't even tell the person who was suspended why it happened."
Look at these fucking clowns.
Look at these fucking clowns.
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openai is trying to program a stolen content machine to stop people from making stolen content
www.404media.co/openai-cant-...
www.404media.co/openai-cant-...
OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content
OpenAI’s guardrails against copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
openai is trying to program a stolen content machine to stop people from making stolen content
www.404media.co/openai-cant-...
www.404media.co/openai-cant-...
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Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
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Periodic reminder: Ukraine has the gayest, transest, most women in combat army in Europe. Russia doesn't have women in combat.
🇺🇦👩🏼👩🏻 "Yes we're women. Yes we brush our hair, wear makeup, and have clean hands. But why do you care? We're here in combat on the front lines in Pokrovsk. Where are you?"
🇺🇦👩🏼👩🏻 "Yes we're women. Yes we brush our hair, wear makeup, and have clean hands. But why do you care? We're here in combat on the front lines in Pokrovsk. Where are you?"
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Periodic reminder: Ukraine has the gayest, transest, most women in combat army in Europe. Russia doesn't have women in combat.
🇺🇦👩🏼👩🏻 "Yes we're women. Yes we brush our hair, wear makeup, and have clean hands. But why do you care? We're here in combat on the front lines in Pokrovsk. Where are you?"
🇺🇦👩🏼👩🏻 "Yes we're women. Yes we brush our hair, wear makeup, and have clean hands. But why do you care? We're here in combat on the front lines in Pokrovsk. Where are you?"
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lmao
Mayor Adams, on the Reset Talk Show, argues Zohran Mamdani didn't get "a mandate" from his election.
"There was no mandate, 49% stated that they did not want Zohran as their mayor," he says.
(Mamdani got over 250,000 more votes than Adams did in the 2021 election)
"There was no mandate, 49% stated that they did not want Zohran as their mayor," he says.
(Mamdani got over 250,000 more votes than Adams did in the 2021 election)
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
lmao
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My "DHS LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES NOT PEPPER SPRAY CHILDREN" tweet has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my tweet
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
My "DHS LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES NOT PEPPER SPRAY CHILDREN" tweet has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my tweet
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So, the media has to get involved before Bluesky's team will inform users why they've been suspended or consider reversing obvious moderation errors?
But JS is still welcome.
And they continue to verify known bigots.
Am I understanding this correctly?
But JS is still welcome.
And they continue to verify known bigots.
Am I understanding this correctly?
We usually do that in response to media requests once they hit that threshold. I’ll try not to weigh in here, since that’s still details of an individual case. An interesting topic for a separate write up though, without discussing case specifics.
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
So, the media has to get involved before Bluesky's team will inform users why they've been suspended or consider reversing obvious moderation errors?
But JS is still welcome.
And they continue to verify known bigots.
Am I understanding this correctly?
But JS is still welcome.
And they continue to verify known bigots.
Am I understanding this correctly?
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the choice to never publicly talk about mod decisions (which is common policy of virtually every corporate social media platform) has been catastrophic for the legitimacy of content moderation. users don’t trust/understand policies, forcing them into a necessarily adversarial position towards mods.
Our policy has been not to comment on individual accounts. You end up having to litigate every case in public, and we don’t have the capacity for infinite debates in public.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
the choice to never publicly talk about mod decisions (which is common policy of virtually every corporate social media platform) has been catastrophic for the legitimacy of content moderation. users don’t trust/understand policies, forcing them into a necessarily adversarial position towards mods.
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This was one of the big changes I made when I took over moderation of Slate comments. I successfully managed a shift from a comment section openly at war with the authors and moderators of the site to a comment section that has some rough edges, but is no longer a headache or net negative for Slate.
the choice to never publicly talk about mod decisions (which is common policy of virtually every corporate social media platform) has been catastrophic for the legitimacy of content moderation. users don’t trust/understand policies, forcing them into a necessarily adversarial position towards mods.
Our policy has been not to comment on individual accounts. You end up having to litigate every case in public, and we don’t have the capacity for infinite debates in public.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This was one of the big changes I made when I took over moderation of Slate comments. I successfully managed a shift from a comment section openly at war with the authors and moderators of the site to a comment section that has some rough edges, but is no longer a headache or net negative for Slate.
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In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.
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For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae:
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae:
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
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my office made the mistake of letting me be in charge of decorating for the holidays and i'm putting together a big multicultural, nondenominational winter wonderland window display, because of #woke
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
my office made the mistake of letting me be in charge of decorating for the holidays and i'm putting together a big multicultural, nondenominational winter wonderland window display, because of #woke
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German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
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With alt text and a reminder to unfollow.
They fired all the Black and trans journalists and will no longer cover politics.
They fired all the Black and trans journalists and will no longer cover politics.
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
With alt text and a reminder to unfollow.
They fired all the Black and trans journalists and will no longer cover politics.
They fired all the Black and trans journalists and will no longer cover politics.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Microsoft has been talking about Windows becoming an “agentic OS” and online feedback seems have been universally negative.
I’m personally skeptical that an AI infused Windows desktop does anything that having ChatGPT on my phone and Gemini in my browser doesn’t already do better.
I’m personally skeptical that an AI infused Windows desktop does anything that having ChatGPT on my phone and Gemini in my browser doesn’t already do better.
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Microsoft has been talking about Windows becoming an “agentic OS” and online feedback seems have been universally negative.
I’m personally skeptical that an AI infused Windows desktop does anything that having ChatGPT on my phone and Gemini in my browser doesn’t already do better.
I’m personally skeptical that an AI infused Windows desktop does anything that having ChatGPT on my phone and Gemini in my browser doesn’t already do better.
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The biggest problem in the Dem party are the people who attained positions of power and influence due to their connections to the Clintons, Obama, and Pelosi. This has allowed them to continually assert they know the secret to winning when all they do is accommodate and lose.
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The biggest problem in the Dem party are the people who attained positions of power and influence due to their connections to the Clintons, Obama, and Pelosi. This has allowed them to continually assert they know the secret to winning when all they do is accommodate and lose.