Vin Avis
@venavis.bsky.social
Writer of fantasy and science fiction. Occasionally poetry but I promise I always wash my hands afterwards.
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Blog - https://worldlessvisible.wordpress.com/
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Blog - https://worldlessvisible.wordpress.com/
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Vin Avis
@venavis.bsky.social
· Feb 2
Minnesota Members of Congress / mn.gov // Minnesota's State Portal
First District
mn.gov
Minnesotans! Make sure these people know that their entire job right now is to oppose everything Trump is doing to our country -
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“She thinks this is an appropriate place to get married?” Brian frowned. “May I kill her?”
“No.” Sugar shook her head.
Brian paused, then leaned in toward her. “Is that a not at all no, or a not in public no?”
“Let me get back to you on that one.”
“No.” Sugar shook her head.
Brian paused, then leaned in toward her. “Is that a not at all no, or a not in public no?”
“Let me get back to you on that one.”
October 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“She thinks this is an appropriate place to get married?” Brian frowned. “May I kill her?”
“No.” Sugar shook her head.
Brian paused, then leaned in toward her. “Is that a not at all no, or a not in public no?”
“Let me get back to you on that one.”
“No.” Sugar shook her head.
Brian paused, then leaned in toward her. “Is that a not at all no, or a not in public no?”
“Let me get back to you on that one.”
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All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
October 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
www.consumerreports.org
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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“Why doesn’t Bluesky leadership ban this known person” because they like that person’s views and work. That’s all. It’s the same reason Democrats cede rhetorical ground to fascists. They like it
October 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“Why doesn’t Bluesky leadership ban this known person” because they like that person’s views and work. That’s all. It’s the same reason Democrats cede rhetorical ground to fascists. They like it
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In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found.
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
By @stephannnnie.bsky.social
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
By @stephannnnie.bsky.social
When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
www.propublica.org
September 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found.
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
By @stephannnnie.bsky.social
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
By @stephannnnie.bsky.social
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I meant this literally then, I still mean it literally now, and if you've found a similar sentiment phrased more effectively, use that one instead. Even if they notice complaints are being copy-pasted, better they be flooded with those than receive even one complaint fewer.
bsky.app/profile/just...
bsky.app/profile/just...
If you're reading this and aren't sure what to write, you can fucking copy me word-for-word here.
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I meant this literally then, I still mean it literally now, and if you've found a similar sentiment phrased more effectively, use that one instead. Even if they notice complaints are being copy-pasted, better they be flooded with those than receive even one complaint fewer.
bsky.app/profile/just...
bsky.app/profile/just...
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Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)
a man giving a thumbs up to a dog with the words do not blow this for us below him
ALT: a man giving a thumbs up to a dog with the words do not blow this for us below him
media.tenor.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)
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In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.
Group of workers reportedly detained while working on roof in Naperville, homeowner says
A Naperville homeowner was left with an unfinished roof and in disbelief after neighbors told his family they believe ICE agents came to his house and detained crew members working on his home.
abc7chicago.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.
Just saying, if a superhero ever throws my vehicle at a villain, they better not fucking miss
September 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Just saying, if a superhero ever throws my vehicle at a villain, they better not fucking miss
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The only article on AI you need to read this week.
TL;DR: "If LLMs as a technology are viable, they’ll still be around when and if I decide they’re useful for me. If not, I’ll have missed out on losing my life’s savings in Beanie Babies, The DotCom bubble, or NFTs."
TL;DR: "If LLMs as a technology are viable, they’ll still be around when and if I decide they’re useful for me. If not, I’ll have missed out on losing my life’s savings in Beanie Babies, The DotCom bubble, or NFTs."
August 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The only article on AI you need to read this week.
TL;DR: "If LLMs as a technology are viable, they’ll still be around when and if I decide they’re useful for me. If not, I’ll have missed out on losing my life’s savings in Beanie Babies, The DotCom bubble, or NFTs."
TL;DR: "If LLMs as a technology are viable, they’ll still be around when and if I decide they’re useful for me. If not, I’ll have missed out on losing my life’s savings in Beanie Babies, The DotCom bubble, or NFTs."
After twelve years upon this wretched earth, a dog has discovered the joy of crunching on an ice cube on a hot day. We can no longer enter the kitchen without her sitting by the freezer and screaming for us to make the cold snacks.
Bitch, it's 72F outside. You're not suffering.
Bitch, it's 72F outside. You're not suffering.
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
After twelve years upon this wretched earth, a dog has discovered the joy of crunching on an ice cube on a hot day. We can no longer enter the kitchen without her sitting by the freezer and screaming for us to make the cold snacks.
Bitch, it's 72F outside. You're not suffering.
Bitch, it's 72F outside. You're not suffering.
I gave my students the writing prompt of 'you're an AI, given a writing prompt of 'reddit post about worst mother in law wrecked my wedding but keep it PG'.
August 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I gave my students the writing prompt of 'you're an AI, given a writing prompt of 'reddit post about worst mother in law wrecked my wedding but keep it PG'.
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That sound you hear is future generations screaming fuuuuuck youuuuuu
EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act
The agency proposal would rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which says that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
That sound you hear is future generations screaming fuuuuuck youuuuuu
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Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now
July 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now
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WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
July 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
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Israeli-Palestinian human rights group B’Tselem declares Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide in its latest report.
Israeli human rights group: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
Israeli-Palestinian human rights group B’Tselem declares Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide in its latest report.
bit.ly
July 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Israeli-Palestinian human rights group B’Tselem declares Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide in its latest report.
Your reminder that our current POTUS is functionally illiterate and a child rapist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTTI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTTI...
WATCH: Internet Explodes Over Trump’s Literacy After Interview Resurfaces
YouTube video by Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey
www.youtube.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Your reminder that our current POTUS is functionally illiterate and a child rapist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTTI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTTI...
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I was just fucked over $1k so if you guys could like sell this bundle into the stratosphere, I'd appreciate it
We're disabled and queer. 🏳️🌈 We sell our writing to eat.
We launched two book sales — each has 20 books for $30. Itch bowed to conservative pressure, and hid them without warning.
Do you agree this is bullshit? Then help us make them pay.
disabilitypac.carrd.co
#MakeCensorshipCost #BookSky
We launched two book sales — each has 20 books for $30. Itch bowed to conservative pressure, and hid them without warning.
Do you agree this is bullshit? Then help us make them pay.
disabilitypac.carrd.co
#MakeCensorshipCost #BookSky
Disability Pride Against Censorship
We’re Disabled and Queer — Itch.io and the Payment Processors Are Starving Us.
disabilitypac.carrd.co
July 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I was just fucked over $1k so if you guys could like sell this bundle into the stratosphere, I'd appreciate it
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idk man my stuff might be safe under all these new policies (for now) but god forbid i ever try to write characters that've experienced other hardships. god forbid my friends who write these things be allowed to publish their work and be connected w other readers. esp when trad gets away w it lol...
July 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
idk man my stuff might be safe under all these new policies (for now) but god forbid i ever try to write characters that've experienced other hardships. god forbid my friends who write these things be allowed to publish their work and be connected w other readers. esp when trad gets away w it lol...
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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
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IT'S WORKING, Y'ALL!! Keep the pressure up!!
July 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
IT'S WORKING, Y'ALL!! Keep the pressure up!!
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please read this painful, beautiful testimony I’m trying not to be a nag but it arrived on my TL below some editorial being shared for rage bait and like. we could share things like this instead. not “we can do both” miss me with that. trash smell will always overpower what’s good when we “do both”
"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
arablit.org
July 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
please read this painful, beautiful testimony I’m trying not to be a nag but it arrived on my TL below some editorial being shared for rage bait and like. we could share things like this instead. not “we can do both” miss me with that. trash smell will always overpower what’s good when we “do both”