Jon Frater
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Library Director, Sci-Fi & Horror Author, all-around nerd. MLS. HWA member.
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Storytelling, World Building, and Establishing a Better United States” - sign up now to join me!
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Storytelling, World Building, and Establishing a Better United States · Indivisible
For a long time people told tales about going to the moon, then we in the US decided to **GO!** Our National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) was established on July 29, 1958. On July 20, 1969 the ...
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/888386/?referring_vol=12362738&rname=Jon&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5731777
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I haven't been keeping up with
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www.meditationsinanemergency.com/auspicious-o...
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Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination
I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsl...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/auspicious-omens-and-excellent-insubordination/
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A good win for Hizzoner!
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s1e19 Chuck Wendig & Caitlin Burns
YouTube video by Horror Words Podcast
https://youtu.be/IQEoNq3mNl4?si=n9gVNg8xLIfFeiVa&sfnsn=mo
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Donald Trump just called Lauren Boebert to ask her to remove her name from the petition to release the Epstein files. She does not plan to do so.
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Q: In the interests of transparency, why not just go ahead and release the full Epstein files? LEAVITT: This administration has done more with respect to Epstein transparency than any administration ever
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He might actually be that guy...
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Possibly wrong but officially NOT GUILTY
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If you're into space opera incl. space pirates, double- and triple-crosses, space battles, and betrayal, The
#RenegadeImperium
boxes set is still priced to move: $2.99 for the whole set! But it won't last much longer so take the plunge now!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX1S5ML9
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Renegade Imperium - Complete Trilogy: A Space Opera Adventure (Cadicle Universe)
Renegade Imperium - Complete Trilogy: A Space Opera Adventure (Cadicle Universe) - Kindle edition by Frater, Jon, DuBoff, A.K.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Renegade Imperium - Complete Trilogy: A Space Opera Adventure (Cadicle Universe).
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX1S5ML9
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Better and better...
newrepublic.com/post/202726/...
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Mamdani Adds Lina Khan to Team of Women Leaders After Election Win
Zohran Mamdani has named his transition team—and it’s amazing.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202726/zohran-mamdani-lina-khan-transition-team
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Freudian slips are a helluva thang
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Best goddam NY Post front page I have ever seen in my 58 years as a NYCer:
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Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work.
transition2025.com
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Even fucking Mississippi...
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Democrats flip two seats in deep red Mississippi, break GOP supermajority
The outcome in Mississippi adds to a national pattern in which Democrats are making legislative gains in red states.
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-mississippi-vote-gop-supermajority-10994762
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“Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held [Republican] dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three [Republican] Uber drivers. Just everything.” HCR
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Le sigh...
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It's a simple rule of
#capitalism
that I've been talking about for 3 decades: you want a
#corporaton
to change its tune, you kick it in the
#revenues
:
medium.com/@carmitage/w...
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We Brought Kimmel Back in 6 Days. Now Let’s Destroy Sinclair’s Censorship Machine.
We won this round. What do the next steps look like?
https://medium.com/@carmitage/we-brought-kimmel-back-in-6-days-now-lets-destroy-sinclair-s-censorship-machine-e923a7a676ae
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#BigGrandioseStupidEnergy
www.theissue.io/americas-big...
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America’s Big Stupid Energy, or What Happens When Stupid Goes Radioactive and Melts a Society Down
If I had to put a name to it, I’d call it Big Grandiose Stupid Energy. It’s just ripping through, out of, into America these days. I don’t think the country’s ever been stupider. And that’s sort of l...
https://www.theissue.io/americas-big-stupid-energy-or-what-happens-when-stupid-goes-radioactive-and-melts-a-society-down/
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Demanding context for Kirk but not Kimmel? IDK, folks...sounds like a load of hogwash to me...
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Kat Tenbarge
5 months ago
Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
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5 months ago
Yet more of the levers slipping into the hands of the few.
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Lizard
5 months ago
You have to remember, the people running this country now are evil. They don’t merely disagree on the proper ratio of guns to butter, which is what our system is set up for and expects. They enjoy inflicting pain for pain’s sake.
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Seth Abramson
5 months ago
America has officially entered its Dark Ages. God help us all—because there's no longer any reason to believe Congress or the courts or media will. We have lost our way to a degree I never thought possible, and I am not going to pretend to have any answers about how we find our way back. We may not.
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Jan-Werner Mueller
5 months ago
Very helpful thread on the role of “debate” at universities:
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Martha Wells
5 months ago
Great Alexander Skarsgård interview about playing Murderbot:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D69u...
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Why playing #Murderbot was exactly what Alexander Skarsgård needed | Full Interview | D. Watkins
YouTube video by Salon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D69uf1ygW5E
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Mehdi Hasan
5 months ago
The Republican-led US government is throwing its full weight, at the federal and state levels, behind punishing teachers, soldiers, or immigrants for their speech about the killing of a conservative pundit. It's as absurd and laughable as it is dangerous and dystiopian.
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I understand that CK's remarks re: 2A happened within a larger context about gun rights and violence and so on, but I don't see how insisting on that context matters. Does knowing all this make him less dead? Does it make his kids less fatherless? IDK, folks...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVc9...
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Charlie Kirk claims gun deaths are 'worth it' to protect second amendment
YouTube video by The Independent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVc9l6pjxtI
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Kirk’s Death Is the Right’s New Blunt Instrument
Right Using Killing to Silence Criticism
https://mannyotiko1.medium.com/kirks-death-is-the-right-s-new-blunt-instrument-cb09a24a87df
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When the Far-Right Eats Its Own: Charlie Kirk, ‘Groypers,’ and the GOP’s Civil War
MAGA realizes the shot came from inside the house
https://mannyotiko1.medium.com/when-the-far-right-eats-its-own-charlie-kirk-groypers-and-the-gop-s-civil-war-acb5c839ca77
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6 months ago
Awesome discussion about
#mentalhealth
and
#horror
and absolutely stellar readings! Well done
@jonfrater.bsky.social
,
@hdwp.com
and
@chwallisuk.bsky.social
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Mueller, She Wrote
6 months ago
This is not a coding error.
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Mary Geddry
6 months ago
Trump’s rewriting the map. Abbott’s issuing arrest warrants. Tulsi’s charging
#Obama
with treason. And the sky? On fire. Redistricting coups,
#Epstein
cover-ups, and 16 million acres of climate collapse.
#uspolitics
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Lines, Lies, and Smokescreens
From gerrymanders to grand juries to wildfire smoke, the Trump regime is rewriting the map, the truth, and the atmosphere.
https://open.substack.com/pub/marygeddry/p/lines-lies-and-smokescreens?r=b94us&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
7 months ago
For a long time, I resisted reading Murderbot, despite all the accolades (for reasons I'll get into in a sec). I just finished watching it on Apple+, it's brilliant,
#hopepunk
AF, you should definitely watch/read it. 1/n
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It took YEARS for Obama to get a Blackberry deemed secure by the NSA but this guy says let's use an off the shelf civ app for top secret comms?
#OpSecFail
all around, Walz.
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you can be weird and STILL be cute. just saying
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7 months ago
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Library humor
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8 months ago
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Abby Chava Stein
8 months ago
Honestly, great queer Jewish news for Pride weekend:
@bradhoylmansigal.bsky.social
, the Democratic nominee for Manhattan Borough President - who is an out and proud queer Jew (married at CBST!) - endorsed
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
! 🫂❤️
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Zach Everson
8 months ago
Trump's crypto holdings can be tough to track (I know, it's my job)— 💥 Tokens! 💥 Stablecoins! 💥 Memecoins! 💥 NFTs! 💥 Crypto reserves! 💥 Oh my! Thanks so much to
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
for having me on this afternoon to break it down!
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American Conversations: Cryptocurrency in Politics with Zach Everson
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOMr8SpnwXw
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Dave Infante
8 months ago
just as centrist pundits once trekked to red-state diners to seek answers for trump’s rise, they must now do the equivalent for mamdani: join an illegal polycule sublet in the mckibbin lofts
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Woooooow.....Space X may actually be engineering these prototypes to be WORSE with each successive attempt...
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8 months ago
Horror Words Podcast s1e3:
@jonfrater.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/53-h...
📚💙
#booksky
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HorrorWords Podcast
@svpthinks.bsky.social
, Catherine Ruff,
@jonfrater.bsky.social
, Dani, and me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Npp...
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HorrorWordsPodcast s1e1
YouTube video by Horror Words Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NppDFeC3dk
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stuart
9 months ago
when a nation reaches avg 100 Mbps it enters the doomscroll spiral
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Led By Donkeys
9 months ago
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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10 months ago
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Hmmmm
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10 months ago
NEW: The Social Security Administration Is gutting regional staff and shifting all of its public communications to Elon Musk's X read
@zoeschiffer.bsky.social
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The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/
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Adam Lichtenstein
10 months ago
Hey so uh why is the president ordering the DoJ to investigate anyone and also what the fuck?
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This was a response to a creepily cheery post by Adobe that asked "What's fueling your creativity right now?" Best response possible IMO. Brava!
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10 months ago
NEW: 404 Media has seen parts of a Palantir-powered ICE database that allows for highly specific filtering of people, which allows for searches of students, people with tattoos, from specific countries, by visa status, etc:
www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...
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Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People
The database allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, including visa status, “unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos),” “criminal affiliation,” license plat...
https://www.404media.co/inside-a-powerful-database-ice-uses-to-identify-and-deport-people/
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