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Spencer Ellsworth
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Writes things. THE GREAT FAERIE STRIKE out now. Make music at thrownostereo.bandcamp.com Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/spencerellsworth
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TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!!! 🏳️‍⚧️✨
My trans friends are beautiful - panel shows my friend Mar holding his book “Demon Engine”. An arrow points to him saying Artist, Author and Historian. The next panel says “They bring so much love into the world.” Panel shows my friend Reed tossing a D20 in the air. An arrow points to her saying “therapist and amazing dungeon master”. Final panel shows me and my friends holding a trans flag that says “trans rights are human rights”. Meg says “and I proudly stand with them.”
June 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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electiontruthalliance.org
It's up to us to demand the truth. Let's let the courts decide in Pennsylvania.

Help support our legal action in Pennsylvania, and our ongoing analyses into other elections, by checking out our site for resources and how to get involved!
Pennsylvania lawsuit fast facts from Election Truth Alliance: Verifying Election integrity Through Data Analysis. Arrow indicates to see next image. The Case: ETA vs. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania et al. Highlights discrepancies surrounding the 2024 General Election, including: 1. machine failures, 2. irregularities in mail-in voting reports, 3. concerns regarding election software modifications and testing, in addition to... ... 4. RED flags identified through data Analysis Employing *internationally recognized election forensics methodologies, developed by experts in the field, the ETA cites election integrity red flags in Pennsylvania’s 2024 election results, similar to patterns seen in NC and MN. *https://electiontruthalliance.org/other-resources/ *https://electiontruthalliance.org/our-methodology/ The goal: to compel necessary hand count audits in Allegheny, Cambria, and Erie counties With multiple states now called into concern, hand count audits could reveal vote manipulation may have changed the outcome of multiple races in the 2024 General Election, including the presidential race.
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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electiontruthalliance.org
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An Election Truth Alliance poster with a graph that reads "This is not election denial. This is election integrity and auditing. This is a standard practice...If you can apply statistics to detect fraud in banking, if you can apply statistics to do safety and quality testing in engineering, why can’t we use statistics to flag non-human or abnormal voting behavior?" Nathan Taylor of The Election Truth Alliance The David Pakman Show on 9/23/25 Know the Difference poster from Election Truth Alliance that shows two sides. The first is Election Fraud the second is Voter Fraud. Election Fraud side reads: "large-scale illegal actions that intend to manipulate an election outcome. Broader in scope than voting fraud: more systemic / election wide. Could be undertaken by individuals or organized groups. Examples: Ballot stuffing (adding false ballots), Tampering with voting machines, Altering or discarding ballots, and changing election results. Next, Voter Fraud is Lone operators casting illegal ballots, isolated incidents that are ballot-specific, and undertaken by individual voters. Examples include casting multiple ballots in one election. Voting under an assumed identity, voting in the name of a deceased voter, and voting when/where ineligible to vote. Visit Election Truth Alliance .org to learn more. Poster from Election Truth Alliance with a yellow trench coat on a white background. The quote reads "U.S. elections are just 50 elections in a trench coat." Election Truth Alliance .org A poster that reads PROOF IS IN THE PAPER with a stick figure looking into a ballot box and counting votes by hand on paper. Presented by Election Truth Alliance .org
October 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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“She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.”
substack.com/inbox/post/1...

“Election Discrepancies: Unveiling the Truth, Nathan Taylor from Election Truth Alliance”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWSW...
She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
These articles always depend on a bizarre Schroedinger's Seattle: The city is falling apart due to progressive overreach but we should have re-elected the conservative non-socialist who has been in charge for the last four years.
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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leximcmenamin.com
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
aiyanaish.bsky.social Aiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social · 4d
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
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November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
spencimus.bsky.social
Confused about whether to read TO SHAPE A DRAGON'S BREATH by Moniquill Blackgoose or BREATH OF THE DRAGON by Shannon Lee & @fondalee.bsky.social ?

Good news! You can just read both because they're effing fantastic!
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
If you voted in Seattle, check to make sure your vote was counted! If not, you may have a chance to cure your ballot:

info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks
If only Gorsuch had that realization roughly about the time he thought presidents should have immunity from everything.

#SheShed
Screenshot of Igor Bobic's thread on the SCOTUS tariff case hearing.
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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“No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney.” 🤌🤌🤌
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It saddens me that some of my colleagues decided to let their work be fed into the Content Regurgitation Machine. GenAI is neither inevitable nor unstoppable. You have more power than you think. GenAI cannot exist without us, without human creativity and labor. We can starve it.
November 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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worstplace.bsky.social
It's rich that Klein of all people would weigh in on this. He's the quintessential lib pundit who 1) talks to no one on the ground, 2) has no relevant expertise at all, and yet 3) is confident in the path forward. It's the pundits and consultants who have strangled the party to death!
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16d
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Ezra Klein This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism I saw a poll a few weeks ago that struck me. It was from The New York Times and Siena University. It asked Americans what they thought the top problem facing the country was. No. 1 was the economy. That was what I expected. But No. 2 wasn’t immigration or inflation or democracy or climate change or even Trump. It was political division. In that same poll, 64 percent of the country said we’re too divided to solve our problems. They’re not wrong. I hear it when Trump says, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” When I hear that, I hear something scary, but I also hear an opening, an opportunity: In the end, most Americans want America to work. They know we disagree with one another. They don’t want us to hate one another.
November 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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A Scanner Darkly is on Tubi
nmamatas.bsky.social buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 17d
Philip K. Dick gets it right again.

Let's hear it for the vague blurs!
From A Scanner Darkly: "Let's hear it for the vague blur!" the host said loudly, and there was mass clapping. In his scramble suit, Fred, who was also Robert Arctor, groaned and thought: This is terrible. Once a month an undercover narcotics agent of the county was assigned at random to speak before bubblehead gatherings such as this. Today was his turn. Looking at his audience, he realized how much he detested straights. They thought this was all great. They were smiling. They were being entertained. An Icegov tweet offering up a photo of new ICE training graduates--"American heroes" with their faces blurred out.
November 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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khrisnin.bsky.social
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
spencimus.bsky.social
Milk Scuds
joenewberry.bsky.social Joe Newberry @joenewberry.bsky.social · 20d
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.
I’ll go first. Death Bar.
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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An early review from @spencimus.bsky.social on my sci-fi David retelling FORTUNATE SON from @notapipe.bsky.social ! Cover reveal and preorder links coming soon! #newbooks #scifibooks #fallbooks #spaceadventure
An orange background with a planet in the distant orange sky and rocks near the foreground. Text reads How do you improve the most Shakespearian part of the Bible? Mech suits and starfighters! Melinda Mitchell gives us the blood, destiny, and passion of David, Saul and Jonathan. Paired with the metal-clanging action of VOLTRON or MACROSS. The action is brutal and the characters are heroic and heartbreaking. If you loved IRON WIDOW and PACIFIC RIM, don't miss FORTUNATE SON. Spencer Ellsworth, author of A RED PEACE FORTUNATE SON coming Fall 2025 notapipepublishing.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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vajra.me
SFF folks: Archita Mittra is one of ours—you know her Ignyte Award-nominated critical writing in @locusmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, and @reactorsff.bsky.social, and her short fiction, most recently in @lightspeedmagazine.com. She needs our help. gofund.me/cd9b937c2
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
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October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
spencimus.bsky.social
tfw you go from "yay, hit another wordcount milestone" to "wait, this is getting very long"
October 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Bloody hell, this one hurts.

What a legend, I was just looking at his movie poster book the other day.
thespaceshipper.com The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · Oct 14
RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.
Struzan by himself
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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gavtrdq.bsky.social
I took a notion to draw a wee comic last night, based on my real-life experience where I felt bad for some sticks.
Comic page. 2 Panels. Panel 1: Me walking my dog in the woods. Caption: Not to brag - but I walk my dog, okay/ Caption: We often find ourselves in the local woods. Panel 2: Me looking at a big stretch of boggy muck. Caption: There's this one big stretch of boggy muck on the pack we take. Caption: You're probably thinking that we just shouldn't go this way. Hey you might be right. First time for everything, as they say. Comic page. 1 Panel Panel 1: Me and the dog walking over the boggy muck, elevated on sticks laid into the dirt. Caption: Every few weeks, though - someone lays down a very useful series of branches so we can cross with ease. Caption: That's nice isn't it? Someone taking the time and expending the effort to build a little bridge. Caption: I often wonder who it is. Perhaps it's more than just one person. That's a comforting thought. Panel 2: Me looking at a big stretch of boggy muck. Caption: There's this one big stretch of boggy muck on the pack we take. Caption: You're probably thinking that we just shouldn't go this way. Hey you might be right. First time for everything, as they say. Comic Page - 1 Panel. Me crossing the sticks, we see all the previous sticks crushed down deep into the dark mud. Caption: It's funny how guilty I feel when a branch breaks - like I've undone their good work, y'know? Caption: But within a weeo or two, there's a new set of branches ready to be trodden into the mud. Caption: It's hard not to think about all those other branches, crushed down deper in the dark with every new layer. Comic Page 2 panels. Panel 1: Me standing in the woods looking down at the path. Caption: maybe it's my turn to lay down some branches for the next folk who come this way. Caption: God knows it wouldn't take long - and I definitely have the time. Panel 2: Shot of my hands holding the sticks I'd need. Caption: Nah
October 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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portlandmercury.com
The Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition is connected to a network of rapid response organizations across the state who have trained people on how to verify the veracity of reported ICE activity, support people who are being detained, connect with legal support, and provide legal observation.
Meet the Groups Helping Immigrants Impacted by ICE
If people in the Portland area think they’ve spotted ICE, there’s a number that many organizations, such as the ACLU, suggest they call: the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition hotline. The Portland I...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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mrmaresca.com
It being Christmastime, it's time to share on Bluesky the family Christmas tale of how on one Christmas night, three ghosts worked to get someone to change the errors of his ways.

Except not "ghosts" but "Marescas", and less "worked" and more "attempted to murder" the guy across the street.
December 26, 2023 at 8:23 PM