DukeSkath
@dukeskath.bsky.social
Author and HS English Teacher in Wisconsin USA. Viva Timor Leste. 🇹🇱
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DukeSkath
@dukeskath.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Hey. I’m on here now. I wrote a book about a woman building a library during the zombie apocalypse. Perhaps you’d like to read it. www.lulu.com/shop/eric-pi...
Always happy to be back at the UW Whitewater Creative Writing Festival. Here’s to a day filled with inspiration and creativity.
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Always happy to be back at the UW Whitewater Creative Writing Festival. Here’s to a day filled with inspiration and creativity.
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How it started / where it goes / how it ends up
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
How it started / where it goes / how it ends up
"For OpenAI and other chatbot makers, dependence is the business model."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"For OpenAI and other chatbot makers, dependence is the business model."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
It is a truth universally acknowledged — or rather it SHOULD be — that there are seven billion ways to begin an essay about literature, and there's really no need to keep quoting Jane over and over and over and over and over.
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged — or rather it SHOULD be — that there are seven billion ways to begin an essay about literature, and there's really no need to keep quoting Jane over and over and over and over and over.
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
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No more slop from the top.
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
No more slop from the top.
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
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Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
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Listen, this administration isn’t “making America great.” It’s targeting our neighbors, tearing families apart, and putting lives on the line. Democrats on Oversight are standing up because this fight isn’t about left or right. It’s about right and wrong. Period.
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Listen, this administration isn’t “making America great.” It’s targeting our neighbors, tearing families apart, and putting lives on the line. Democrats on Oversight are standing up because this fight isn’t about left or right. It’s about right and wrong. Period.
Maria Ressa channeling Kendrick. HTSUTAD p214
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Maria Ressa channeling Kendrick. HTSUTAD p214
The NYT recently reported on memes and language. Watterson nailed it 30 years ago.
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The NYT recently reported on memes and language. Watterson nailed it 30 years ago.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Maria Ressa was in East Timor in 1999! 🇹🇱
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Maria Ressa was in East Timor in 1999! 🇹🇱
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them
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Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
We can be upset that President Trump called a reporter “Piggy”, but let’s not forget that a great hero of the classic novel “Lord of the Flies” — Jack — used that term as an honorific when he was splitting up a shell company and helping punish an enemy of the people.
a young boy wearing a hat is covering his face with his hand
ALT: a young boy wearing a hat is covering his face with his hand
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We can be upset that President Trump called a reporter “Piggy”, but let’s not forget that a great hero of the classic novel “Lord of the Flies” — Jack — used that term as an honorific when he was splitting up a shell company and helping punish an enemy of the people.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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This is pretty intense foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This is pretty intense foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...
“I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.” — Ta Nehisi Coates BTWAM p.8
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.” — Ta Nehisi Coates BTWAM p.8
Shout out to everybody racing from one task to another with barely any time to wolf down a snack to stave off the hunger.
a woman wearing glasses is eating a piece of food in a purple shirt .
ALT: a woman wearing glasses is eating a piece of food in a purple shirt .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Shout out to everybody racing from one task to another with barely any time to wolf down a snack to stave off the hunger.