Angi's Tone Shears

Angi's Tone Shears

@plaidmatter.bsky.social

Artist/writer-human creativity, no “AI”. Geek/nerd/cat person/ska-core fan. Occasional gardener. Complete mess. Autistic/ADHD burnout. mTBI. Sister of a beekeeper. She/her.

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We’re not talking nearly enough about the sitting president of the United States sending our troops to die in a war while aligning our country with the dictator helping to kill them.

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

theguardian.comMichigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-SayedTimmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed

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If you happen to live in Turkey, I strongly suggest you rush to your closest bookstore and pick up this about-to-be-collectible abomination before all the remaining stock is destroyed because someone didn’t follow the contract regarding book art approval.

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“That’s so racist even CBS won’t let you say it” actually sums up how far CBS has fallen.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Yeah, the problem with the tweet *wasn’t* that it violated “CBS News standards.”

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The right is spending the day complaining that Abdul El-Sayed was "rude" and "a bully" to Tommy the Republican Operative at his town hall, which is hilarious given how they had nothing to say about a woman getting beaten up at a Trump rally as the president cheered on.

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Replying to @edidin.bsky.social

Eating the rich is only revolutionary if we also remember to feed each other.

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since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

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The first blurb I received, and it means the world to me. bsky.app/profile/rdan... really helped the push to get this book out there. "An absolutely mind-blowing adventure that turns traditional time travel stories inside out. It was impossible to put down." —Richard Dansky, Author of Firefly Rain

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Come say hi! Grab some books & art at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival! www.mvhbf.com Saturday, October 17, 2026 10AM - 4:30PM at the Lawrence Public Library Lawrence, Massachusetts I'm also bringing some Cat & Moon gigantic cat original art & prints by my visual artist half…

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Joking while admitting to crimes against humanity is certainly the sign of a great president

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"They don't want to go fishing anymore. I don't blame them actually" -- Trump "jokes" that people don't want to go fishing because they might get murdered by the US military

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Once again. Just like the Paramount Merger Gavin Newsom does what he always does. Sells out the working class people for the billionaires again and again. Not only that but endorses a bill that will make it impossible to tax the wealthy at all. www.commondreams.org/news/newsom-...

commondreams.orgNewsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally pay their fair share."

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I'm Miss Bert and I write weirdness and horror-adjacent. I'm not super fond of war fiction so I'm going to go with Good Omens, which is not horror but has the character WAR in it. #horrorwriterschat

Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social

And there you are again. With a blink, flames scythe across the copse, now a deep trench. Explosions rattle your skull, blurring your vision. Your hand is heavy. With his head. Again. Tell us who you are, what do you write, and what is your favourite depiction of war in horror? #HorrorWritersChat

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Replying to @gailsimone.bsky.social

Also, I should have said upfront. Weird is neutral. Weird is okay. Weird can be hard. But weird can also be awesome.

Hoping to see some of you there!

Sidney Arcane, Author@sidney-arcane.bsky.social

Come say hi & grab the Time Traveler's Final Mission at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival! www.mvhbf.com Saturday, October 17, 2026 10AM - 4:30PM at the Lawrence Public Library Lawrence, Massachusetts I'll also have Cat & Moon gigantic cat art & prints by my visual artist half…

Grateful for another super cool blurb!

Sidney Arcane, Author@sidney-arcane.bsky.social

New Blurb! I definitely had some classic SF playing in my head, including Stanislaw Lem. "A fever-dream reminiscent of the 60s/70s strange sci-fi era w/ a mind-bending and terrifying time travel plot." —Errick Nunnally, author of The Queen of Saturn & The Prince In Exile @erricknunnally.bsky.social

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Come say hi & grab the Time Traveler's Final Mission at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival! www.mvhbf.com Saturday, October 17, 2026 10AM - 4:30PM at the Lawrence Public Library Lawrence, Massachusetts I'll also have Cat & Moon gigantic cat art & prints by my visual artist half…

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I'm really glad to see folks outside of my nerdy corner of the world highlighting the way Trump may be using Venezuela to create a self-funding Pentagon. Trump's effort flies in the face of the key reason Congress has the power of the purse -- to keep the executive from self-funding the military.

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reading through the slideshow .. a brilliant collection of resources and essays, among everything else. I gotta go update the essay I filed this morning.

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It's nice to see that the NYT followed a few recipients of basic income to observe how it impacted their lives, but one-year "pilots" are too short. They need to be at least 2 years, and their point is not permanent improvement, because UBI is meant as a permanent floor no one can ever fall beneath.

nytimes.comIs Universal Basic Income the Answer to A.I.-Fueled Job Losses? (Gift Article)For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of universal basic income programs, which Elon Musk and other tech leaders have promoted as a solution to A.I.-fueled job losses.

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Look, people keep saying shit like this, and I do not know how to explain to people that "I want the Democrats to hold the GOP accountable for their crimes" is not a statement that the GOP has no agency. It is saying they have agency, they are choosing to do evil, and you have to stand up to them.

Burnished rows of steel@acreed.bsky.social

Jfc will you ever accept that the GOP and Republicans and Trump have agency? They are not some immutable law of nature - they are actively choosing to be evil. Focus on them!

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no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders

pssst! Does your fall wardrobe need a few new items to freshen it up? How about gigantic cats hanging out with the moon? angi-shearstone.printful.me

angi-shearstone.printful.meAngi Shearstone Arts
Angi's Tone Shears@plaidmatter.bsky.social

New Cat & Moon shirts for Fall! Gigantic cat either batting at a lighthouse or trying to eat the moon like a cookie! Now available as a… - hooded long sleeve T-shirt - sweatshirt - hooded sweatshirt - heavyweight long sleeve T-shirt angi-shearstone.printful.me No algorithmic imaging involved.

psssst! This is me, too. Pen name.

Sidney Arcane, Author@sidney-arcane.bsky.social

What are you doing next Saturday? Come say hi at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival! www.mvhbf.com Saturday, October 17, 2026 10AM - 4:30PM at the Lawrence Public Library Lawrence, Massachusetts I'll also have Cat & Moon gigantic cat art & prints by my visual artist half…

Angi's Tone Shears reposted

What are you doing next Saturday? Come say hi at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival! www.mvhbf.com Saturday, October 17, 2026 10AM - 4:30PM at the Lawrence Public Library Lawrence, Massachusetts I'll also have Cat & Moon gigantic cat art & prints by my visual artist half…

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~Accidentally~ hack the medical debt or student loan records. We'll let you put AI in our toothpaste if you do that.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com

If AI wants people to like it, it should go rogue and shut down the public execution.