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Bill Tozier

@vaguery.bsky.social

he/him. Gradually sidling over from @vaguery@a2mi.social. Was a complexity-toucher, starter-up; got paid for schmancy thinkleading. Then ~15 years "off" (as caregiver). Now I sell our—and dead people's—stuff on eBay & scan [PD!] books to give away for free

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h ago

Aaaaand he’s been fired (presumably for putting all of this in an email to the victim’s lawyers). www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...

Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say

A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨NEW from @propublica.org: over "the strongest possible" objection from the Minnesota federal prosecutor in charge of the case, senior Trump officials reportedly rejected civil rights charges against the ICE officer who shot a man and then lied about it. He'll be charged with false statements only.

Curtis Frye@curtisfrye.com · 20h ago

I'd like to ask a favor of my Bluesky community. My YouTube channel, where I cover Microsoft Excel skills and related things, now has over 900 subscribers. Below 1,000 the algorithm isn't kind to me, so I'd appreciate it if you would check out my content and, if you see fit, subscribe.

Curt Frye

Full-time technical writer and online training course developer since 1998. Author of more than 40 books, including Microsoft Excel 2019 Step by Step, and more than 100 courses for LinkedIn Learning. ...

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European Space Agency@esa.int · yesterday

Mercury Transfer Module separation confirmed! 📡 ✅ Signal acquired via our Cebreros deep-space antenna confirms the spacecraft is healthy and operating as expected. The MPO and Mio spacecrafts are now on their way to Mercury orbit insertion on 21 November. Farewell, MTM. Mercury awaits. ☀️🛰️

Captain Mark Kelly@captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 2d ago

Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

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mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2d ago

The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 2d ago

Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about his brazen politicization of federal disaster relief aid, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and election results. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · yesterday

A cisgender autistic woman who is generally so law abiding she once performed a citizen’s arrest on herself for jaywalking will not acknowledge any evil transphobic legislation, it has been confirmed.

Normally rule-following autistic says fuck transphobic laws

A cisgender autistic woman who is generally so law abiding she once performed a citizen’s arrest on herself for jaywalking will not acknowledge any evil transphobic legislation, it has been…

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Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · yesterday

Hey, so based on what other people have said, and what I have now myself experienced, it appears to me that publishers are, um, how do I say this... Not doing a good job (or possibly any job) of checking to see if rights have reverted on a work before claiming them in the settlement.

𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆@jordanacosta.co · 3d ago

Here are links to ten free-to-use picture resources and access to millions of public domain images.

Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers

You have options other than Generative AI to illustrate your work. When I still used Substack I posted the following Note: My opinion was challenged with two now-familiar rebuttals: 1. The vast majori...

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal.bsky.social · 4d ago

Well dang, should’ve just memed it in the first place

Professor Caroline Edwards@theblochian.bsky.social · yesterday

MAJOR NEWS! @ojcollective.bsky.social has been awarded $711,900 by the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! So pleased to share this news: it'll help nearly 300 journals in 2026 and brings OJC's fundraising total to £1,974,355 so far this year. #openaccess

Open Journals Collective@ojcollective.bsky.social · yesterday

We're delighted to share news in the attached press release that the Open Journals Collective has received a major award of $711,900 from the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! Want to know more about OJC? Visit www.openjournalscollective.org

Press Release Date: 3 September 2026 We’re delighted to announce that Open Journals Collective (OJC) has been awarded a $711,900 grant by the Gates Foundation. This grant will enable OJC to scale its operations in 2027 and 2028. Since launching on 29 January 2026, OJC has raised $2.6M in library investment for the first year of its programme. Funds raised will provide financial support to 278 diamond open access journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science, engineering, technology and mathematics. The 2-year grant will accelerate OJC’s development, including building core technical features that leverage current open infrastructure. These comprise usage dashboards for libraries and authors, financial reporting tools, and a community engagement hub for journals and publishers. It will also support the legal and financial groundwork needed to share raised library funds equitably and transparently across OJC’s journals collections. Professor Caroline Edwards, OJC Executive Director, said of the award: “It’s fantastic that this grant from the Gates Foundation will strengthen OJC’s potential to offer a fairer alternative to Article Processing Charges and Transformative Agreements. Supporting OJC at this critical early stage is a strong endorsement of OJC’s community-governed approach to building open publishing infrastructure. This is the way to address inequities in the current academic publishing landscape and encourage university libraries to transition their budgets away from exploitative commercial agreements.” Open Journals Collective is a Collective Community Interest Company (CIC) based in the UK. A CIC is a special type of limited company that exists to benefit the community rather than private shareholders. OJC is currently in the process of setting up a UK-based Charity, the Open Journals Collective Foundation, which will oversee the running of the CIC from 2027 onwards.
Micah@rincewind.run · yesterday

every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · yesterday

Not even the anodyne “controversial” thrown in there for good measure. When you are a megadonor the rules for podcasters obviously don’t apply.

ceej@ceej.online · yesterday

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

Sarah Clarke - Not your doll@damselindystopia.bsky.social · yesterday

I feel like boycotting Harry Potter stuff is such bare minimum shit that it just fucking exhausts me that it's such a constant subject of discourse. If you give a shit about trans people, don't give JK Rowling your money. There's really no further productive discussion to be had about it.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d ago

My basic take on why Quibi didn’t succeed but microdramas have taken over the web is that everyone involved in making this knew it was dreadful, whereas the dreadful morality tales and weird quasi-pornography has a core of sincerity.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that