Jack who wrote Aether Torrent
@jackscarab.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, 🍞&🌹 socialist, somehow Oklahoman.
Author of YA fantasy Aether Torrent. Buy it and then read and review it!
https://lnk.bio/JackDuffe
https://books2read.com/aethertorrent
💙📚 #booksky
Author of YA fantasy Aether Torrent. Buy it and then read and review it!
https://lnk.bio/JackDuffe
https://books2read.com/aethertorrent
💙📚 #booksky
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AETHER TORRENT, my anti-capitalist LGBT-protags YA fantasy adventure novel, is now out in eBook and paperback!
At any moment of your choosing you can buy it from any of several vendors and then read it! Including right now! Exclamation point!
💙📚 #booksky
#aethertorrent
books2read.com/aethertorrent
At any moment of your choosing you can buy it from any of several vendors and then read it! Including right now! Exclamation point!
💙📚 #booksky
#aethertorrent
books2read.com/aethertorrent
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Actor AU: Animatronic #theowlhouse #toh
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Actor AU: Animatronic #theowlhouse #toh
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Damn, this sure is the year of tv-headed manifestations of the media industry with a pathological need to be universally loved
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Damn, this sure is the year of tv-headed manifestations of the media industry with a pathological need to be universally loved
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It matters if the president is a bad person
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It matters if the president is a bad person
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As a person who grew up a Marylander, fun observation re: Civil War re-enactors!
The guys who insist on playing as the southerners?
Assume the worst.
The guys who insist on playing as the southerners?
Assume the worst.
It seems my #TTRPG work is still drawing "eastern front enthusiasts"* RE killing Nazis.
So, Nazis and other assorted Fascists, this is just to say:
I hate you with every fiber of my being.
I don't want your money.
Fuck off.
This hobby has room for everyone...except you.
*Nazis
So, Nazis and other assorted Fascists, this is just to say:
I hate you with every fiber of my being.
I don't want your money.
Fuck off.
This hobby has room for everyone...except you.
*Nazis
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
As a person who grew up a Marylander, fun observation re: Civil War re-enactors!
The guys who insist on playing as the southerners?
Assume the worst.
The guys who insist on playing as the southerners?
Assume the worst.
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the authority, the victim, and the hero all at once.
But here’s the part that Life Beyond the Supremacy Myth makes clear:
Understanding the myth is not the same as being defined by it.
Non-white people have always lived, created, survived, and thrived beyond its reach.
But here’s the part that Life Beyond the Supremacy Myth makes clear:
Understanding the myth is not the same as being defined by it.
Non-white people have always lived, created, survived, and thrived beyond its reach.
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
the authority, the victim, and the hero all at once.
But here’s the part that Life Beyond the Supremacy Myth makes clear:
Understanding the myth is not the same as being defined by it.
Non-white people have always lived, created, survived, and thrived beyond its reach.
But here’s the part that Life Beyond the Supremacy Myth makes clear:
Understanding the myth is not the same as being defined by it.
Non-white people have always lived, created, survived, and thrived beyond its reach.
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This is SUCH an important thread for white people (men especially) to read and learn to let go of your defensiveness around white privilege because you are not just harming others you are harming yourself with it!!!
One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is SUCH an important thread for white people (men especially) to read and learn to let go of your defensiveness around white privilege because you are not just harming others you are harming yourself with it!!!
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Remember according to Republicans, 15 year old girls are actually adult women while 30-something year old men with government jobs are just wee little lads who aren't responsible for their racist and Nazi memes because boys will be boys.
Fox News displaying a poll with the first age bracket for women and men being 15-44.
Once again, 15 year olds are children.
They are kids.
They are not adults, they can’t consent to sex, and pedophilia must not be normalized.
Once again, 15 year olds are children.
They are kids.
They are not adults, they can’t consent to sex, and pedophilia must not be normalized.
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Remember according to Republicans, 15 year old girls are actually adult women while 30-something year old men with government jobs are just wee little lads who aren't responsible for their racist and Nazi memes because boys will be boys.
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love 2 take off at 11:00 AM on wednesday and land twelve hours later at 8:00 AM on wednesday
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
love 2 take off at 11:00 AM on wednesday and land twelve hours later at 8:00 AM on wednesday
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the end bits of my Starting T Shopping Spree are trickling in and they are insane. i bought a red velvet smoking jacket and steampunk boots. How Men Dress is still a conundrum to me
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 AM
the end bits of my Starting T Shopping Spree are trickling in and they are insane. i bought a red velvet smoking jacket and steampunk boots. How Men Dress is still a conundrum to me
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I knew Sean was a great guy but I was not expecting him to be the Mr. Rogers of the new age
"Be there for your fellow members. Be there for yourself. Be there for the process." President @SeanAstin urges #SagAftraMembers to participate in our upcoming W&W conditions process for TV/Theatrical/Streaming negotiations. Visit sagaftra.org/contracts2026 for meeting dates.
November 19, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I knew Sean was a great guy but I was not expecting him to be the Mr. Rogers of the new age
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I love the fact that Elon probably had to call an engineer and demand the phrase “pathetic pussy bitch” be blocked from trending.
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I love the fact that Elon probably had to call an engineer and demand the phrase “pathetic pussy bitch” be blocked from trending.
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"Huh, half the internet is timing out, lemme try a traceroute... ohhh, shit, either it's raining in Virginia or someone parked on the internet again."
every time I see people whining about the internet and single points of failure and “remember when” I laugh and LAUGH. folks. did you know that at one point sufficient rain in northern Virginia could take half the internet down? the infrastructure is way more robust and resilient than it used to be.
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Huh, half the internet is timing out, lemme try a traceroute... ohhh, shit, either it's raining in Virginia or someone parked on the internet again."
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#TheMightyNein is Fresh at 100% on the Tomatometer, with 12 reviews: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_mighty_nein/s01?cmp=TWRT_TV_TheMightyNein_Fresh
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
#TheMightyNein is Fresh at 100% on the Tomatometer, with 12 reviews: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_mighty_nein/s01?cmp=TWRT_TV_TheMightyNein_Fresh
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Looking forward to #TheMightyNein release tonight!! It’s been nearly two years since I had the opportunity to help out on this show with the loveliest team ever💕💕
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Looking forward to #TheMightyNein release tonight!! It’s been nearly two years since I had the opportunity to help out on this show with the loveliest team ever💕💕
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Happy Mighty Nein day!! The first 3 episodes are now available to watch! #themightynein
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Happy Mighty Nein day!! The first 3 episodes are now available to watch! #themightynein
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The only appropriate or interesting thing Donald Trump can do now is kill himself in the Oval Office. I feel like a blood stain would make the Resolute Desk more iconic.
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The only appropriate or interesting thing Donald Trump can do now is kill himself in the Oval Office. I feel like a blood stain would make the Resolute Desk more iconic.
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party
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Bad week for Cloudflare.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Bad week for Cloudflare.
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Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
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"...I am a hater, which is a kind of integrity."
"...I am more than a critic: I am a hater."
"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
EVERY LINE IS A GEM.
1/
"...I am more than a critic: I am a hater."
"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
EVERY LINE IS A GEM.
1/
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"...I am a hater, which is a kind of integrity."
"...I am more than a critic: I am a hater."
"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
EVERY LINE IS A GEM.
1/
"...I am more than a critic: I am a hater."
"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
EVERY LINE IS A GEM.
1/
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there is a specific provision in the bill that requires the White House to justify any redactions made to Congress. if the DOJ classifies all mention of Trump, they will have to disclose that to Congress along with the legal justification for doing so
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
there is a specific provision in the bill that requires the White House to justify any redactions made to Congress. if the DOJ classifies all mention of Trump, they will have to disclose that to Congress along with the legal justification for doing so
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Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, was born #OTD in 1945.
www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NativeAmerican
www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NativeAmerican
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, was born #OTD in 1945.
www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NativeAmerican
www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NativeAmerican
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Honestly, cannot wait to see the cosplays of this character, people just standing outside their convention hall hotel room doors and restroom stalls in overcrowded convention centers, singing lilting gibberish, banging tiny bells
Crying and sobbing and singing and tapping a small bell 🔔 🐛 🥹
I need 20 of these, for my mental health you see
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I need 20 of these, for my mental health you see
echossecret.com/products/she...
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Honestly, cannot wait to see the cosplays of this character, people just standing outside their convention hall hotel room doors and restroom stalls in overcrowded convention centers, singing lilting gibberish, banging tiny bells
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The "Frieren angle" thing, apart from just being delightful, also completely demolishes the pathetic "AI is democratising art" argument. Someone struggling with a difficult drawing received advice from hundreds of strangers who just wanted to help them improve their art.
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The "Frieren angle" thing, apart from just being delightful, also completely demolishes the pathetic "AI is democratising art" argument. Someone struggling with a difficult drawing received advice from hundreds of strangers who just wanted to help them improve their art.