@alexxkay.bsky.social
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
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Short of a remaster of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, I don't think I've seen a program that I wanted 20 years ago more. I got ambitious and tried to use ArcGIS to do D&D maps/DM info tools. It went poorly.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
Canvas of Kings on Steam
Canvas of Kings is a minimalistic mapmaking tool that focuses on randomness and auto-generated elements on user-definable and interactive paths, plots and rooms.
store.steampowered.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Short of a remaster of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, I don't think I've seen a program that I wanted 20 years ago more. I got ambitious and tried to use ArcGIS to do D&D maps/DM info tools. It went poorly.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
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I want to point out a new resource page on Monarca website.
Small (or large!) businesses can post signs saying ICE/CBP must have a warrant to enter premises.
Also Know Your Rights signs for targeted people.
PDFs of signs and KYR cards. Plaster these puppies everywhere.
monarcamn.org/resources
Small (or large!) businesses can post signs saying ICE/CBP must have a warrant to enter premises.
Also Know Your Rights signs for targeted people.
PDFs of signs and KYR cards. Plaster these puppies everywhere.
monarcamn.org/resources
Resources — Monarca
monarcamn.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I want to point out a new resource page on Monarca website.
Small (or large!) businesses can post signs saying ICE/CBP must have a warrant to enter premises.
Also Know Your Rights signs for targeted people.
PDFs of signs and KYR cards. Plaster these puppies everywhere.
monarcamn.org/resources
Small (or large!) businesses can post signs saying ICE/CBP must have a warrant to enter premises.
Also Know Your Rights signs for targeted people.
PDFs of signs and KYR cards. Plaster these puppies everywhere.
monarcamn.org/resources
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You forget sometimes that at the top of the page it says "A webcomic of romance"
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You forget sometimes that at the top of the page it says "A webcomic of romance"
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
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Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
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This Thanksgiving, we’re serving cons, cover stories, and a side of redemption. Watch the #Leverage and #LeverageRedemption marathon all week long, free on #ElectricNOW. electricnow.tv/devices
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This Thanksgiving, we’re serving cons, cover stories, and a side of redemption. Watch the #Leverage and #LeverageRedemption marathon all week long, free on #ElectricNOW. electricnow.tv/devices
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good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...
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this is a very fun and quick little post about language from @thesurrealari.bsky.social thank you buckaroo aarubin.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...
The Best Sentence I Heard Recently Includes Six Modifiers
In case you missed it buried near the end of my annual roundup of the writing advice I heard a New York Comic Con last month, Chuck Tingle uttered one of the greatest sentences I’ve ever heard duri…
aarubin.wordpress.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
this is a very fun and quick little post about language from @thesurrealari.bsky.social thank you buckaroo aarubin.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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OK, fantasy scholars, help us out here. What is the earliest known use of ‘fae’, with that specific spelling, in a fantasy novel?
FYI @effjayem.bsky.social @dimitrafimi.bsky.social @adamroberts.bsky.social @profrmaslen.bsky.social @garykwolfe.bsky.social
FYI @effjayem.bsky.social @dimitrafimi.bsky.social @adamroberts.bsky.social @profrmaslen.bsky.social @garykwolfe.bsky.social
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
OK, fantasy scholars, help us out here. What is the earliest known use of ‘fae’, with that specific spelling, in a fantasy novel?
FYI @effjayem.bsky.social @dimitrafimi.bsky.social @adamroberts.bsky.social @profrmaslen.bsky.social @garykwolfe.bsky.social
FYI @effjayem.bsky.social @dimitrafimi.bsky.social @adamroberts.bsky.social @profrmaslen.bsky.social @garykwolfe.bsky.social
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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This book! Always conceptually fascinating, but here - not only an interesting take on the mess time-resetting multiverse crises would create, but such a powerful exploration of the experience of losing someone to their loss of memory. beautiful & sweet
@denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social
@denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This book! Always conceptually fascinating, but here - not only an interesting take on the mess time-resetting multiverse crises would create, but such a powerful exploration of the experience of losing someone to their loss of memory. beautiful & sweet
@denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social
@denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social
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New "How to Report ICE" zines up today:
#Nashville
#Asheville (In North Carolina folder)
#TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder)
#NewYorkCity en Español!
I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
#Nashville
#Asheville (In North Carolina folder)
#TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder)
#NewYorkCity en Español!
I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today:
#Nashville
#Asheville (In North Carolina folder)
#TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder)
#NewYorkCity en Español!
I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
#Nashville
#Asheville (In North Carolina folder)
#TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder)
#NewYorkCity en Español!
I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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SINCE THIS HAS COME UP AGAIN...
WHAT TO DO IF YOU FIND YOURSELF THE TARGET OF A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU FIND YOURSELF THE TARGET OF A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.
two men in suits and ties with a fbi badge on their jacket
Alt: you should be so lucky to meet Agents Winchester and Winchester
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
SINCE THIS HAS COME UP AGAIN...
WHAT TO DO IF YOU FIND YOURSELF THE TARGET OF A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU FIND YOURSELF THE TARGET OF A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.
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Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
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Many happy returns to Alan Moore - writer, artist and magician - 72 today.
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Many happy returns to Alan Moore - writer, artist and magician - 72 today.
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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I don't think I agree with her main conclusion but this essay is well worth the time of anybody thinking about the question of machine intelligence in the era of LLMs.
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
www.eruditorumpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I don't think I agree with her main conclusion but this essay is well worth the time of anybody thinking about the question of machine intelligence in the era of LLMs.
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Thanks to the Epstein files, all of America knows what a Discharge Petition is.
Here's another one that's reached 218 signers-- the Protect America's Workforce Act, that would undo Trump's unlawful anti-union executive orders.
Call your Congresscritters to support it.
www.afge.org/publication/...
Here's another one that's reached 218 signers-- the Protect America's Workforce Act, that would undo Trump's unlawful anti-union executive orders.
Call your Congresscritters to support it.
www.afge.org/publication/...
Bipartisan House Coalition Hits 218 Signatures to Force Vote Protecting Federal Workers’ Union Rights
AFGE thanks lawmakers for standing with federal employees.
www.afge.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Thanks to the Epstein files, all of America knows what a Discharge Petition is.
Here's another one that's reached 218 signers-- the Protect America's Workforce Act, that would undo Trump's unlawful anti-union executive orders.
Call your Congresscritters to support it.
www.afge.org/publication/...
Here's another one that's reached 218 signers-- the Protect America's Workforce Act, that would undo Trump's unlawful anti-union executive orders.
Call your Congresscritters to support it.
www.afge.org/publication/...
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Love this so much. 💜
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Love this so much. 💜