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astheworldchurns.bsky.social
Short stories published by Piker Press and Freedom Fiction Journal. Forthcoming novel TBA.
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The Senate's list of "woke" grants to be cancelled has been released. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-... It includes such woke DEI topics as: Log-concave inequalities in combinatorics and order theory, Low dimensional topology via Floer theory, and Four-manifolds and categorification.

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This is a five-alarm fire for my desire to continue renewing Amazon Prime. I get my books from @bookshop-org.bsky.social . Almost everything else comes from grocery stores or manufacturer direct. Prime Video is already by far the worst value for streaming. Why continue? #TheExpanse

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New Humanist sounds like the kind of people who would have shat all over Shakespeare for all the fart jokes

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It probably means nothing that the new administration has ordered federal health agencies NOT to send out alerts about new disease outbreaks. kffhealthnews.org/morning-brea...

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Think I'm getting good at writing synopses for editors when I send out short stories. The latest: "There's a cat involved, and everybody goes insane at the end." #writing

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Simping for your favorite transnational mega-corporation, but leftishly

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How I sleep knowing that one hundred million idiots have lost their favorite app for getting lied to by grifters #TikTok #JustGetLiedToOnTwitterInstead

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As good a time as any for a Twin Peaks rewatch. If there is any high strangeness in the universe, I expect he will be appearing in it as an extra now. #TwinPeaks #DavidLynch

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The first version of your field should be its worst version. Darwin knew less about evolution than anyone who believed in evolution. This is why the ancient provenance of your #astrology / #qi / #TCM / #homeopathy / whatever bullshit is so unimpressive to me.

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This me staying up all night to party for new years

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If you are someone who complains that they don't make certain kinds of middle-market horror movies anymore, you have to go see #Nosferatu. If people don't go see movies like this, they will stop making them.

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"It doesn't matter, the owl is artificial. There are no owls." -#PKD

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Huge respect @2kgames.bsky.social for picking Harriet Tubman as one of the America leaders for #CivilizationVII, though surprised that they would also risk negative social media attention by also picking irascible slut-bag Benjamin Franklin as the other option

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On today's #GreatestTrek, Captain William Boimler isn't dead, but he is dead tired of the multiverse and all the Harry Kims. Listen to the full episode at gagh.biz/greatesttrek #lowerdecks #startrek #startreklowerdecks #fods #friendsofdesoto

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Appreciate the thought here but the reality is that as soon as a social media website costs more than $0, 99% of users will leave. The adoption rate for blue checkmarks was less than 1%, and they could mostly charge that to the Klan's business credit card.

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Given how much movie marketing lives or dies on trailers, which can get tens or hundreds of millions of views, I want to nominate the trailer for #28YearsLater for outstanding achievement in not being just another slowed-reverb pop remix in the background of a bunch of spoilers.

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So far, the only real outcome to AI appears to be to hasten both the rate and severity of enshitification

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