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@drlightningtx.bsky.social

She/Her ★ Pyromaniac ★ Refusing to Adjust to Life in the Upside Down ★ Reskeets Are Not Endorsements

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Replying to @michelle-c-harris.bsky.social

I am so incredibly excited to reveal the cover for my debut romantasy with Ace, LADY OF GRAVES! The cover was illustrated by @amburritoart.bsky.social and designed by Vikki Chu. This is Amber's very first book cover. 🥹 We've been friends IRL for a decade now, so please scream over it with me!

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Tons of Elon Musk emails in the Epstein Files—he is a disgusting megalomaniac with multiple illicit drug addictions.

CALL TO ACTIVISM@calltoactivism.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: Travis County judge granted Gina Hinojosa's request to inspect Greg Abbott's unredacted Musk emails. Judge Mauzy set Thursday 10 AM as the DEADLINE for Abbott to let her see them. Abbott tried to keep them hidden, calling them "intimate and embarrassing."

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Most of our presidents were rapists or abusers of some sort. We should probably sit with that in a more meaningful way than we do.

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Not enough people are talking about the fact that Elon Musk's attorney might get elected to Congress next week

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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Everyone who cares about ethics, science, and babies should read this article re unethical researchers with a track record of being against vaccines teaming up with RFK Jr (well known anti-science, anti-vaccine person of questionable integrity) taking advantage of people in a low resource country.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social

How could atrocities like the Tuskegee Experiment been allowed to happen? Thanks to MAHA, and reporters like @katherineeban.bsky.social and @melodyschreiber.com, none of us have to wonder such things anymore. My latest.

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You guys! Apparently, calendars from 1993 and 1999 will line up with 2027 perfectly—so people are buying vintage ‘90s throwbacks in preparationnnn 😍😍

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There's so much to unpack but I want to focus on one detail I don't see anyone else pointing out: She spends time conscientiously citing how they didn't use AI "to make people say things they didn't say" while glossing over how they used AI to make people DO things they DIDN'T DO. That's not better.

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The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.

buff.lyNew Evidence Allegedly Ties Trump to 11 Sexual Assaults Related to EpsteinA new report notes several patterns of conduct that Trump and Epstein shared in recruiting victims.

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You could not waterboard this confession out of me, much less get me to put it in an interview. Can you imagine her kid's middle school enemies getting wind of this? "You suck so much your mom needed Chat GPT to say anything nice about you."

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

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“There is no third potential outcome.” This is a must-read. Share widely.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social

"The past two years are all the proof you need that sitting out an election because the better candidate happens to not be perfectly to your liking is completely stupid and self-destructive."

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This was once a forest in Finland of more than 250,000 trees. Google chopped it down illegally to build another one of their AI Monstrosities. The sooner they are all bankrupt the better.

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Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comMilitary Boards Are Defying Orders and Letting Trans Troops Serve (Gift Article)The service members at Navy and Marine Corps hearings are finding ways to keep trans troops in uniform.

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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Replying to @liberalcurrents.com

"The U.S. military over-relied on AI for targeting in Iran and as a result bombed an elementary school, killing over 100 children. We have disturbing testimony from Israeli military officers that AI target selection made them feel morally absolved when they killed civilians."

liberalcurrents.comThe Plausible Techno-Dystopian FutureThe problems caused by AI development are widespread and multiplying, but none involves a digital demon that kills us all.

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If you make $100,000 a year, this would be $50 to change the course of history in your favour. Billionaires are systemic failures.

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I just repeatedly report Trump. Go do your thing, internet

Now. Here's the thing. When your government gives you a Snitch-Line for supposed fraud, it is both your civic and your moral duty to flood that line with the most glorious, nonsensical bullshit you can dream up. Snitch-lines are an absolute insult to human dignity, and should be treated as such.

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Grateful to @vanhollen.senate.gov for demanding answers to this incredibly troubling pattern

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org

“The incident raises serious concerns about Meta’s impartial handling of voting information and political speech—particularly in light of the company’s close financial relationship with the Trump administration.”

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Great piece here on the two party system. Every vote boils down to a yes or a no.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social

"I certainly wouldn’t mind having more independents in Congress and I’d even prefer it, but the idea that a group of intrepid independents are going to solve gridlock in Washington, D.C. is a Hollywood fantasy."

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There's no doubt that @aoc.bsky.social has changed the trajectory of American politics. Grateful to have her with us on the ground across Michigan to strengthen our movement to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All.

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Deeply anti human strain of politics in both parties. It seems the only thing american politicians learn is how to toss vulnerable groups of people overboard when they deem it politically expedient.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

In a major escalation in Dems embracing anti-trans positions, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, released its first anti-trans ad supporting Nancy Lacore in SC-01. Transphobia is spreading among dems. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

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This dumb hack has no power to do that. States don't have to listen to anything he says.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

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Remember when Pete Hegseth's mom wrote him a letter telling him he was a misogynistic POS?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

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Dolly Parton's sister claims voting machines in Tennessee changed her vote to the Republican candidate.

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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Noted radical... Hillary Clinton... now in favor of court expansion. :)

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social

Expanding the Court is the moderate position

yes. and as soon as you sign over your life insurance policy to me, I will definitely give you $10,000 and for sure won't push you down the stairs before you can spend it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."

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In New Zealand, the High Court ruled that a puberty blocker ban violates prohibitions on discrimination on the basis of a medical condition. It stated the ban was "unjustified and disproportionate discrimination." Trans youth can get care again. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.comNew Zealand High Court Rules Puberty Blocker Ban Is “Unjustified Discrimination”“Decisions about this healthcare are best made by patients and their doctors.”

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Elon Musk, Donald Trump's largest financial backer, threatens US elected officials against launching investigations into Starlink/Ukraine sabotage, federal contracts, DOGE actions, and other potentially criminal issues. "Live by the sword, die by the sword," the billionaire said.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Elon Musk ordered restrictions on Ukraine’s military satellite communications, according to officials. The slowdown disrupted Ukrainian interceptor drones, Trump and Pentagon deny ordering it, while Ukrainian officials say restrictions remain in place.

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Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) called for a congressional probe, witnesses under oath, and stated that if Musk directed the slowdown it was “likely a violation of the law” because Starshield is a U.S. government-controlled military system, not a pure commercial one. He noted it “costs human lives.”

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Elon Musk, Donald Trump's largest financial backer, threatens US elected officials against launching investigations into Starlink/Ukraine sabotage, federal contracts, DOGE actions, and other potentially criminal issues. "Live by the sword, die by the sword," the billionaire said.

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Energy Secretary Wright is campaigning with Ken Paxton today in Texas. A reminder that government officials partaking in campaign events should not be normal.