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Kevin FitzSimons
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Reader, sleeper, cat feeder, coffee drinker, not necessarily in that order
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kevfitz138.bsky.social
Just finished Luminous by @silviapark.bsky.social. Absolutely loved the characters and how they related to each other. I could have read another 30 chapters of Yoyo, Ruijie, Jun and co. Can’t wait for her next one now….
September 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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scottlincicome.bsky.social
So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right
June 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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mrjoncryer.bsky.social
A terrifying escalation:
Screenshot of post from X “initial_rhi 8h Everyone in LA, when the Marines get here hand them your screenplay so they leave immediately”
June 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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brackenmacleod.bsky.social
Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!

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An image of a page from the Chicago Sun Times titled, "Summer reading list for 2025" with an image of a woman sitting on a porch, perhaps, beside a body of water, reading. It's beige as fuck. Above the title is a row of icons that invoke summer, I guess. The article itself is too long to reproduce, BUT, only five of the fifteen books listed here as titles you should read are actually real. Brit Bennett doesn't have a book titled Hurricane Season. The fuck? Isabel Allende has no book named Tidewater Dreams. The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir, The Collector's Piece by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Nightshade Market by Min Jin Lee, The Longest Day by Rumaan Alam, Boiling Point by Rebecca Makkai, Migrations by Maggie O'Farrell, The Rainmakers by Percival Everett, and Salt and Honey by Delia Owens are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!
May 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements. In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson. "You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade. The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
kevfitz138.bsky.social
Thanks President Cockwomble
reuters.com Reuters @reuters.com · Apr 16
The interest rate for the most popular US home loan jumped to 6.81% last week, its highest level in two months, following a turbulent week for financial markets as President Donald Trump pressed on with a deepening trade war reut.rs/42gXhJ1
US 30-year mortgage rate jumped last week to 2-month high
The interest rate for the most popular U.S. home loan jumped to 6.81% last week, its highest level in two months, following a turbulent week for financial markets as President Donald Trump pressed on with a deepening trade war.
reut.rs
April 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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joshlarky.bsky.social
“The mass tariffs will eliminate income tax and the stock market is not the economy”

But if you like that, then you’ll really like

“No more mass tariffs and the stock market is a great indicator of how the economy is doing”
April 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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cxorlando.bsky.social
i'm so stoked for the murderbot show for a number of reasons but chief among them is that it's pretty rare that SFF written by not-men gets optioned and then actually adapted and filmed and released and i want to see this succeed so that there can be more
April 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Here are some nice mushrooms
A perfect corkscrew shaped mushroom grows on the broken end of a fallen branch above its family and the lichen speckling the branch’s smooth bark. All photos by me
March 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Corrupt judges let a criminal get away with treason and run for president. Propagandists masquerading as journalists lied to enough people that the criminal won. Then the criminal sold a half share in the presidency to the world's richest man, whom no one voted for. That's what happened, folks.
March 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
kevfitz138.bsky.social
No lies detected
March 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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feistywaters.com
Travel to the United States! Highlights include:
-viral outbreaks
-food borne illness
-plane crashes
-shootings
-race and gender based violence
-ICE detention centers
-and more!
March 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
kevfitz138.bsky.social
I just finished the Between Earth and Sky trilogy. @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social did a fantastic job creating a world and characters that I wanted to know myself. What a rich untapped vein of source material in pre-colonization meso-american. Very happy to read it! Thank you.
March 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Donald Trump promised to lift up working families.

Instead, his tariffs and threats are punishing those same Americans.
Trump's tariffs will likely raise prices for US consumers, Fed chair says
Jerome Powell's remarks came as Trump threatened new tariffs on Canada.
abcnews.go.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
kevfitz138.bsky.social
RIOT SQUAD WE ARE HERE!

The LARS First Fridays this month is being hosted by
@thestachebar
in the LBC.

Join us at 7 pm on Friday, March 7th, to hang with fellow G'z!

941 e 4th st. Long Beach, CA 90802
March 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
kevfitz138.bsky.social
See what supporting the World’s Greatest Soccer Team is all about tonight.
PS why doesn’t LA Riot Squad have a bsky?
February 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM