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Screaming into the zeitgeist. Literary, musical misc. Cats (also possums, deer, and bears). TNR. She/her. Ex-TX. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

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An image from the National Archives. catalog.archives.gov/id/44268317

07.03.2026 04:16 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it's like carcinization but instead of evolving into crabs everything turns into colonialism

04.11.2025 15:26 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

heads-up pals!
costco joins the party

07.03.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Heard back from the literary agent of one @stephenking.bsky.social, who says his attorney is currently looking into Grammarly’s use of his name in their β€œexpert review” feature. Could get interesting!

07.03.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Grammarly Is Offering β€˜Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authorsβ€”Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writersβ€”without their permission.

Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writersβ€”including one historian who died in January.

04.03.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 468 πŸ” 168 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 36

Wait - the corner of Olympic and Cloverfield, Santa Monica? Ladies and Gentlemen, that is almost exactly the location where the old Buffy offices stood. I believe we may owe thanks for this one to the Hellmouth.

07.03.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 859 πŸ” 152 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 5

Ooh, stormy sea. But a monstery lake will do if the first isn't available.

07.03.2026 04:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The leopards came for Dan.

07.03.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 3456 πŸ” 573 πŸ’¬ 267 πŸ“Œ 43
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"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"

06.03.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 1435 πŸ” 444 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 27

I'd be more open to the "AI is useful, actually" in education discourse if Grammarly wasn't destroying the point of student research and writing, Duolingo wasn't ripping up its educators' contracts to replace them with AI, if tutoring companies pivoting to AI didn't crash anyway ...

07.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 174 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

I would have gone to see The Bride! but not now. Would have skipped Hamnet too if I'd known about this--it wasn't nearly good enough to make me want to support these two.

07.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

06.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 4822 πŸ” 1757 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 133

Thanks, I will looks at those. Headspace seems to be the prominent one but as soon as it asked me to make an account, I decided to do more research.

06.03.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trash Panda Go Kart power twee lesbian raccoon rock from Zinnia & Selena on the Island of Misfit Toys the moon is our bass player, raccoons are the only gods you need "herstory in the making" "chaotic cartooniness turned up to 11" "heavy yet whimsical"

hi hi it's the day of the living #bandcamp again! buy snacks for some hungry rock&roll raccoons... 🀘😻🌈

trashpandagokart.bandcamp.com

06.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate β€” and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

06.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 12679 πŸ” 5813 πŸ’¬ 450 πŸ“Œ 301

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 10958 πŸ” 2361 πŸ’¬ 280 πŸ“Œ 150
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Mercutio NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

Periodic reminder that my next novel, Mercutio, is available to request on Netgalley UK now, for those of you who are reviewers, bloggers, podcasters etc. An imagining of one possible origin for Shakespeare's Mercutio, set in the 13th century. And thanks for taking a look.

06.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If this comes across your timeline, you have received an o m e n .

06.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œEvangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.
The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.”

Excerpt From
β€œOpinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.”
Aaron M. Renn
The Washington Post
https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ
This material may be protected by copyright.

β€œEvangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From β€œOpinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

06.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 5506 πŸ” 943 πŸ’¬ 260 πŸ“Œ 416

Sure, let's let the people who run Tyson and Hobby Lobby have more control. What could go wrong ?

06.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So many times.

But they're organized now, or they're damn well gonna be.

06.03.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever πŸ’”

04.03.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 19878 πŸ” 8419 πŸ’¬ 348 πŸ“Œ 326

I KNOW!!!

06.03.2026 05:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I found a plot hole. A PLOT HOLE in a linear narrative I've been working on for years. What else is lurking in there? What the hell?

06.03.2026 05:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Any recommendations for meditation apps? The one I liked has gone to mostly paid, which might be fine except they've also teamed up with some "brain-sensing headband," and brrr, no.

06.03.2026 04:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it pains me deeply to link to the nazi platform but this is good-ass news if it bears out

06.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
A slim bifold wallet featuring a graphic design of a CMYK printer test sheet. Four vertical stripes in cyan, magenta, yellow, and black dominate the center, surrounded by a white border with registration marks, color calibration scales, and technical file text.

A slim bifold wallet featuring a graphic design of a CMYK printer test sheet. Four vertical stripes in cyan, magenta, yellow, and black dominate the center, surrounded by a white border with registration marks, color calibration scales, and technical file text.

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this CMYK Color Bar Mighty Wallet. I just thought you guys might enjoy this wallet inspired by a CMYK printer test sheet because I know many of you are huge fucking nerds (complimentary).
collabs.shop/ymapos

05.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 138 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 1

The cute graphic is gone aaand the sponsors' names are going down to 7 points on the event invitation postcards, when I don't think we actually promised them this anyway. This may be my circus (and it's a circus, all right) but too many people are claiming the monkeys for me to keep fighting this. πŸ˜‚

05.03.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pervert Politics: Trumpism’s Body Obsessions How Republicans went from the party of prudes to the party of perversion.

From Trump to Noem to Hegseth and beyond, we are being governed by a party of perverts who are set on making their own psychosexual derangements into policy

www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...

05.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 742 πŸ” 236 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 47
Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel

Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel

what fresh hell

17.11.2023 23:02 πŸ‘ 2529 πŸ” 555 πŸ’¬ 193 πŸ“Œ 519