Mara Santiago
@mara2772.bsky.social
Writer / Tea drinker / RPG / Feminist /
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He's basically Taika Waititi's psychotic tech CEO from FREE GUY, if he had also done enough drugs to kill a bull elephant
February 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
He's basically Taika Waititi's psychotic tech CEO from FREE GUY, if he had also done enough drugs to kill a bull elephant
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Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word.
It's just evil.
It's just evil.
February 15, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word.
It's just evil.
It's just evil.
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Most viruses, you catch them, your immune system learns them, locks their details in the control room, and then you can fight them in the future. Measles not only doesn't leave you that data, it blows up the control room. No immune memory for YOU good DAY.
February 15, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Most viruses, you catch them, your immune system learns them, locks their details in the control room, and then you can fight them in the future. Measles not only doesn't leave you that data, it blows up the control room. No immune memory for YOU good DAY.
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They keep remaining Stephen King’s work over and over, meanwhile I (and people like me) am continue fighting battles with “Hollywood” you wouldn’t believe (but also wouldn’t be surprised by).
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
They keep remaining Stephen King’s work over and over, meanwhile I (and people like me) am continue fighting battles with “Hollywood” you wouldn’t believe (but also wouldn’t be surprised by).
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Hopefully the rest of Europe will follow suit.
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
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Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase
Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag
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February 11, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Hopefully the rest of Europe will follow suit.
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April 7th! Our release date is SO CLOSE! And since our community is once again concerned about certain Other Wizard Schools being forced into Universes Beyond, I wanted to state very clearly, as a queer author, that Strixhaven is for everyone. We do not board the Bigotry Bus here.
OMENS OF CHAOS, our hopefully glorious return to print Magic the Gathering fiction, comes out on April 7th. The window for pre-orders closes on Monday. You'll still be ABLE to pre-order the book, but it won't influence the print run. If you haven't ordered already, please order your copy now!
February 10, 2026 at 8:02 PM
April 7th! Our release date is SO CLOSE! And since our community is once again concerned about certain Other Wizard Schools being forced into Universes Beyond, I wanted to state very clearly, as a queer author, that Strixhaven is for everyone. We do not board the Bigotry Bus here.
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The EU Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over its addictive design — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications & hyper-personalized recommendations. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.
ec.europa.eu
February 6, 2026 at 11:26 AM
The EU Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over its addictive design — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications & hyper-personalized recommendations. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
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I mean, we all know why.
It's still a part of every conversation and every discussion of systemic sexism. But this keeps happening, in every industry, in every setting, and we keep siding with the men. "Oh she was too pretty, she was a temptation." "Oh she made him do it." "Oh she was at fault."
It's still a part of every conversation and every discussion of systemic sexism. But this keeps happening, in every industry, in every setting, and we keep siding with the men. "Oh she was too pretty, she was a temptation." "Oh she made him do it." "Oh she was at fault."
February 5, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I mean, we all know why.
It's still a part of every conversation and every discussion of systemic sexism. But this keeps happening, in every industry, in every setting, and we keep siding with the men. "Oh she was too pretty, she was a temptation." "Oh she made him do it." "Oh she was at fault."
It's still a part of every conversation and every discussion of systemic sexism. But this keeps happening, in every industry, in every setting, and we keep siding with the men. "Oh she was too pretty, she was a temptation." "Oh she made him do it." "Oh she was at fault."
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"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
February 5, 2026 at 9:02 PM
"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
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Here's a cartoon from, as you see, 1911. What Dr. Plait says is not new news.
February 4, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Here's a cartoon from, as you see, 1911. What Dr. Plait says is not new news.
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I do believe in redemption. I believe that people can make mistakes, learn from them, and improve. But I also believe that there is work involved in self-improvement, whether it be therapy or redirection or...it's all therapy. It's just different ways of doing therapy. Humans are fancy animals.
February 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I do believe in redemption. I believe that people can make mistakes, learn from them, and improve. But I also believe that there is work involved in self-improvement, whether it be therapy or redirection or...it's all therapy. It's just different ways of doing therapy. Humans are fancy animals.
Bahaha
Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of an investigation into child porn, deepfakes and more
Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of an investigation into child porn, deepfakes and more
Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of an investigation into child porn, deepfakes and more
www.independent.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Bahaha
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Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over
Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already scored a major win for deliveristas working for three delivery giants.
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February 2, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over
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Was bei den Epstein-Files auch klar wird, wie gut vernetzt misogyne Männer auch aus Forschung und Lehre sind, und wie wirkmächtig. Es ist nicht "a bissl Sexismus" an Institutionen, es sind Netzwerke, die aktiv Frauen verhindern, desavouieren und v.a. feministische Frauen.
February 3, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Was bei den Epstein-Files auch klar wird, wie gut vernetzt misogyne Männer auch aus Forschung und Lehre sind, und wie wirkmächtig. Es ist nicht "a bissl Sexismus" an Institutionen, es sind Netzwerke, die aktiv Frauen verhindern, desavouieren und v.a. feministische Frauen.
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I find the entire genre of "tens of thousands of words minutely refuting every point of an abuse clam" intrinsically unpersuasive. If any of the evidence were actually damning they'd just highlight that instead of doing a tedious Gish Gallop.
I haven't read that massive Substack thing that Gaiman linked to in his whinge, and nor am I going to. If you need tens of thousands of words of rant and innuendo to embed your "shocking evidence" in, you don't have shocking evidence, you have a conspiracy manifesto.
February 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I find the entire genre of "tens of thousands of words minutely refuting every point of an abuse clam" intrinsically unpersuasive. If any of the evidence were actually damning they'd just highlight that instead of doing a tedious Gish Gallop.
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At the same time the Epstein Files are reinforcing how protected sexual abusers really are, Neil Gaiman is using the nightmarish sexual violence allegations against him to market his next book. His DARVO defense is the first selling point. Rape culture is everywhere and unavoidable.
February 2, 2026 at 11:42 PM
At the same time the Epstein Files are reinforcing how protected sexual abusers really are, Neil Gaiman is using the nightmarish sexual violence allegations against him to market his next book. His DARVO defense is the first selling point. Rape culture is everywhere and unavoidable.
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Neil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.
February 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Neil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.
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furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman
In Neil Gaiman’s “I did nothing wrong ever” statement he says there’s been no good journalism about him or his assaults. There has been, of course.
Thing is, he said the same thing in 2018 when @moryan.bsky.social reported on issues behind the scenes on American Gods www.moryan.com/a-burn-it-do...
Thing is, he said the same thing in 2018 when @moryan.bsky.social reported on issues behind the scenes on American Gods www.moryan.com/a-burn-it-do...
A Burn It Down video extravaganza, and thoughts on Neil Gaiman, creative gods, American Gods and rotten pedestals
Hello!
Chicago folks, on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m., I’ll be in conversation with my friend Steve Darnall at The Book Cellar in Chicago. The occasion is the reissue of Uncle Sam, a brilliant graph...
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February 3, 2026 at 1:24 AM
furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman
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"Put simply, AI bros are mad that people are stealing their recipe for the plagiarism machine — an irony which is pretty hard to ignore."
(The grift is reaching "grifters eating each other" stage, I see.)
(The grift is reaching "grifters eating each other" stage, I see.)
Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.
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January 31, 2026 at 4:13 PM
"Put simply, AI bros are mad that people are stealing their recipe for the plagiarism machine — an irony which is pretty hard to ignore."
(The grift is reaching "grifters eating each other" stage, I see.)
(The grift is reaching "grifters eating each other" stage, I see.)
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Eine Beurteilung, dass jemand “seinem Amt gewachsen ist” von jemandem, der seinem Amt selbst nicht gewachsen ist, kann ich nicht ernst nehmen.
January 30, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Eine Beurteilung, dass jemand “seinem Amt gewachsen ist” von jemandem, der seinem Amt selbst nicht gewachsen ist, kann ich nicht ernst nehmen.
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Wenn du ein Amt innerhalb der Bundesregierung übernimmst, dann wirst du dieses Amt. Was du sagst, hat ein anderes Gewicht, mit wem du dich triffst, ist politisch. Dass Ministerin Reiche hier auf "privat" macht, ist grotesk
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Wirtschaftsministerin bei „Moving Mountains“: Hier ist die Gästeliste des Alpen-Geheimtreffens
Bei einem exklusiven Treffen mit Wirtschaftsbossen und internationalen Politiker*innen war Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Reiche mittendrin – angeblich als Privatperson. Eine Broschüre, die wir veröffent...
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January 30, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Wenn du ein Amt innerhalb der Bundesregierung übernimmst, dann wirst du dieses Amt. Was du sagst, hat ein anderes Gewicht, mit wem du dich triffst, ist politisch. Dass Ministerin Reiche hier auf "privat" macht, ist grotesk
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(Despite the weapons and heavy gear, they were amateurs.) (Amateurs are terrifying.)
January 29, 2026 at 3:15 PM
(Despite the weapons and heavy gear, they were amateurs.) (Amateurs are terrifying.)
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No, thanks. How about spending the dosh on some free health screening to catch various conditions early, or going back to teaching creative arts and music in schools, or even financial savviness to kids. Anything but forcing more AI down our gobs.
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:37 AM
No, thanks. How about spending the dosh on some free health screening to catch various conditions early, or going back to teaching creative arts and music in schools, or even financial savviness to kids. Anything but forcing more AI down our gobs.