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@epredota.bsky.social
Chronically ill neurodivergent genderqueer Jewitch anarcho-communist + Certified Bluesky Elder (lol). Pronouns vary.
PP: Album cover of Ghost Of Cain by New Model Army
HP: 🏴☠️on 5bar gate.
PP: Album cover of Ghost Of Cain by New Model Army
HP: 🏴☠️on 5bar gate.
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It turns out that some restrictions come with the new D2D/Bookshop.org collaboration
Worth noting that this deal has led to the explicit banning of erotica on D2D, so self-publishing smut has gained a new roadblock.
bsky.app/profile/jmke...
bsky.app/profile/jmke...
Unfortunately they are blocking all erotica from distribution. Very sad to see a champion for indie bookstores take such a restrictive stance on fiction.
February 5, 2026 at 3:53 PM
It turns out that some restrictions come with the new D2D/Bookshop.org collaboration
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Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3
February 4, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3
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Apropos of the rights licensing discussion that has blown up here over the past day, I'm re-upping my blog post on some of the ways writers act against their own interests when faced w/ a publishing offer. It's about publishing contracts, but it applies to TOS too writerbeware.blog/2020/05/29/e...
Evaluating Publishing Contracts: Six Ways You May Be Sabotaging Yourself - Writer Beware
(A version of this post was originally published in 2014.) Several years ago, a now-defunct literary magazine called The Toast gained notoriety by demanding that its writers surrender copyright. In th...
writerbeware.blog
February 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Apropos of the rights licensing discussion that has blown up here over the past day, I'm re-upping my blog post on some of the ways writers act against their own interests when faced w/ a publishing offer. It's about publishing contracts, but it applies to TOS too writerbeware.blog/2020/05/29/e...
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Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
February 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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Pulling aside the folk who run these shows as their weird hobby and yelling at them about AI use sure won't fix it. They don't really have the budgets to pay actual creatives 90% of the time, so, instead, I'm going to freely give some of my work away for indefinite use. Hope it doesn't backfire 🤷♀️
February 2, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Pulling aside the folk who run these shows as their weird hobby and yelling at them about AI use sure won't fix it. They don't really have the budgets to pay actual creatives 90% of the time, so, instead, I'm going to freely give some of my work away for indefinite use. Hope it doesn't backfire 🤷♀️
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This might seem like a weird post, but every single time I've said I'm at a cat show and share the often AI generated info posters I have zero creative involvement in, I get talked down to as if I have never been incredibly vocal against AI usage. It's a difficult fight amongst non-artists.
February 2, 2026 at 6:40 PM
This might seem like a weird post, but every single time I've said I'm at a cat show and share the often AI generated info posters I have zero creative involvement in, I get talked down to as if I have never been incredibly vocal against AI usage. It's a difficult fight amongst non-artists.
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'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:31 AM
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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Compelling piece which argues that the events of 2020 to 2023 saw a shift away from US thinking that MENA's stability relied on a balance of power between the KSA and IRI towards an overt underwriting of Israeli regional domination, which in turn has compelled other states to unite against this.
Iran and the New Geopolitical Moment
A coalition of states is seeking to avert a U.S. attack, and Israel is in the forefront of their mind.
carnegieendowment.org
February 2, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Compelling piece which argues that the events of 2020 to 2023 saw a shift away from US thinking that MENA's stability relied on a balance of power between the KSA and IRI towards an overt underwriting of Israeli regional domination, which in turn has compelled other states to unite against this.
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#Monday morning.
Alarm rang.
I snuggled closer to you mama and activated my purr.
You’re welcome.
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
You’re welcome.
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
February 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM
#Monday morning.
Alarm rang.
I snuggled closer to you mama and activated my purr.
You’re welcome.
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
You’re welcome.
#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
If this Mandelson / Epstein files scandal gets rid of Morgan McSweeney I will be SO fucking happy. Man is… I do not know what words to use to sufficiently express my contempt for him.
February 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
If this Mandelson / Epstein files scandal gets rid of Morgan McSweeney I will be SO fucking happy. Man is… I do not know what words to use to sufficiently express my contempt for him.
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Corbyn was thrown out of the party for standing as an independent in 2024 in the seat he’d held since 1983 (he won it really easily again btw) while Mandelson got to resign after being best mates with a peadophile who did nothing but pedo and give Mandelson’s hubbo money.
February 2, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Corbyn was thrown out of the party for standing as an independent in 2024 in the seat he’d held since 1983 (he won it really easily again btw) while Mandelson got to resign after being best mates with a peadophile who did nothing but pedo and give Mandelson’s hubbo money.
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Wow thanks for resigning from the Labour Party now, Peter Mandelson, good of you to “save further embarrassment for the party” by doing that. If you hadn’t done that last night your endless appointments by the party while they knew you had proper links to Epstein would look iffy.
February 2, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Wow thanks for resigning from the Labour Party now, Peter Mandelson, good of you to “save further embarrassment for the party” by doing that. If you hadn’t done that last night your endless appointments by the party while they knew you had proper links to Epstein would look iffy.
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If these were any other deaths, they would be making national headlines but Covid death and disability has been normalised and it’s totally unacceptable to me. I’m sure to many others also.
February 2, 2026 at 10:03 AM
If these were any other deaths, they would be making national headlines but Covid death and disability has been normalised and it’s totally unacceptable to me. I’m sure to many others also.
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While #heatedrivalry is the biggest TV show on earth, a Scottish ice hockey team thought now was the time to prioritise player’s “personal beliefs”. LGBTQIA+ charity The Hive in Kirkcaldy missed out on donations as a result. You can support them here.
www.justgiving.com/charity/hive...
www.justgiving.com/charity/hive...
The Hive Kirkcaldy
www.justgiving.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:56 AM
While #heatedrivalry is the biggest TV show on earth, a Scottish ice hockey team thought now was the time to prioritise player’s “personal beliefs”. LGBTQIA+ charity The Hive in Kirkcaldy missed out on donations as a result. You can support them here.
www.justgiving.com/charity/hive...
www.justgiving.com/charity/hive...
WTF was autocorrect doing here? I have no idea what I was trying to type that it turned into “for unlicensed” 🤦🏻♂️
Wear a proper respirator mask!
Where it’s safe to do so, open windows!
Pressure public bodies to install HEPA air filtration and FarUV in for unlicensed buildings!
If they can’t afford that, fundraise and organise to build CR air filtration boxes!
Where it’s safe to do so, open windows!
Pressure public bodies to install HEPA air filtration and FarUV in for unlicensed buildings!
If they can’t afford that, fundraise and organise to build CR air filtration boxes!
My IG feed is full of parents asking for prayers for their hospitalized children with illnesses like Strep, Covid & influenza A. I don't want to dismiss prayers if that gives someone hope, but it's no substitute for preventative mitigations for airborne viruses. It didn't have to be this way
January 26, 2026 at 5:21 PM
WTF was autocorrect doing here? I have no idea what I was trying to type that it turned into “for unlicensed” 🤦🏻♂️
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Previously it was believed that there was a specialized part of the brain that oscillated vocal cords to produce the sound.
Now we know that it just takes steady deep breathing, which makes sense given how important it is to newborn kittens who have little to no control over vocalization.
Now we know that it just takes steady deep breathing, which makes sense given how important it is to newborn kittens who have little to no control over vocalization.
How do cats purr? New finding challenges long-held assumptions
Fibrous “pads” in the vocal cords allow cats to make low-frequency sounds, which they don’t seem to consciously control
www.science.org
January 24, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Previously it was believed that there was a specialized part of the brain that oscillated vocal cords to produce the sound.
Now we know that it just takes steady deep breathing, which makes sense given how important it is to newborn kittens who have little to no control over vocalization.
Now we know that it just takes steady deep breathing, which makes sense given how important it is to newborn kittens who have little to no control over vocalization.
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In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS:
Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring.
Here's a weird starting point:
There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr.
Cats that roar = genus Panthera
Cats that purr = genus Felis
Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring.
Here's a weird starting point:
There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr.
Cats that roar = genus Panthera
Cats that purr = genus Felis
January 24, 2026 at 11:12 PM
In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS:
Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring.
Here's a weird starting point:
There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr.
Cats that roar = genus Panthera
Cats that purr = genus Felis
Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring.
Here's a weird starting point:
There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr.
Cats that roar = genus Panthera
Cats that purr = genus Felis
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Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
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Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x
January 25, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x
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The struggle between authoritarianism and liberal democracy is an enduring part of American history. We are currently living through another chapter of this long running conflict. We've made progress towards being a multiracial democracy, but democracy has never been universally accepted here 6/x
January 25, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The struggle between authoritarianism and liberal democracy is an enduring part of American history. We are currently living through another chapter of this long running conflict. We've made progress towards being a multiracial democracy, but democracy has never been universally accepted here 6/x
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this administration isn't leaning into AI from mere laziness. they're flooding your centers of discernment with hyper-real fakery so that those in power are those who determine what's real.
January 24, 2026 at 9:48 PM
this administration isn't leaning into AI from mere laziness. they're flooding your centers of discernment with hyper-real fakery so that those in power are those who determine what's real.
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a reminder that AI isn't just cringe; it's part of this administration's toolkit.
January 24, 2026 at 9:44 PM
a reminder that AI isn't just cringe; it's part of this administration's toolkit.
JFC I feel like giving up on the English.
January 25, 2026 at 10:00 PM
JFC I feel like giving up on the English.