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Posts by Ben Lockwood (broadly defined)

This alone should be prosecutable.

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The People’s Food Forest is a half-acre community garden in Brentwood growing free, healthy, organic food for all.

We’re raising funds for a new shed in honor of Mariana, who founded and loved this space. All food grown goes to community fridges.

Donate: bit.ly/pffmari

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“AI is here to stay” says the makers of NFTs, the metaverse, Google Glass, Windows Phone

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How to use Generative AI Ethically as a Writer:

1. Don't.
2. Repeat Step 1 (above).

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advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it

advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately

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This Data Center is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record

nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...

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Want to Resist a Data Center? These Organizers Share How They Did It. Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.

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UK universities paid security firm to monitor pro-Palestine students and academics: Report <article data-history-node-id="438634" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-universities-paid-security-firm-monitor-pro-palestine-students-and" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-universities-paid-security-firm-monitor-pro-palestine-students-and" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UK universities paid security firm to monitor pro-Palestine students and academics: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>12 British universities paid a security firm to monitor students and academics, including those who have expressed solidarity with Palestine, a new investigation has revealed.</p> <p>A joint investigation by&nbsp;Al Jazeera and Liberty Investigates found that Horus Security- a firm run by former military intelligence officials- has been paid £440,000 since 2022 to monitor student social media activity and conduct counter-terror threat assessments.</p> <p>Internal documents revealed that a Palestinian academic invited to give a guest lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University, and a pro-Palestine PHD student at the London School of Economics were among those monitored by the firm.</p> <p>According to the report, Horus Security&nbsp;was also commissioned by the University of Oxford,&nbsp;Imperial College London, University College London (UCL), King’s College London (KCL), the University of Sheffield, the University of Leicester, the University of Nottingham and Cardiff Metropolitan University.</p> </div> </div> </article>

UK universities paid security firm to monitor pro-Palestine students and academics: Report - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-upda...

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The coolest thing about this is that you can just do it. You don’t need permission. Clothes can just be free. We do it twice a year and it’s always a big hit

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Our @demsocialists.bsky.social chapter had a free clothes swap today with a great turnout

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We should probably destroy Palantir

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Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

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Fellow ghost story aficionados, I need your help. I read a short story years ago that I *believe* dates to the very early 20th c about a skeptic who goes to a seance and ends up being haunted by an invisible entity that feels like a hairless animal and has a musky smell. I can't find it anywhere.

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It’s officially Fieldwork Season

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Bluesky devs

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Screenshot from the join Mastodon page

Screenshot from the join Mastodon page

Bluesky may be glitching out but you know what isn’t? 👇

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So much fun talking to @ivygrimes.bsky.social about food, voices, and spiders. Thank you for having me đŸ«¶đŸŒ  And definitely read Ivy's "The Cellar Below the Cellar", which is twisting and prodding my mind around family, community lore, and faith, like nothing else đŸ–€

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Add “like Mary Oliver but weird” to the list of ways readers have described this one 🌎👇

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Maro Reus fuckin rules. Now you know.

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Are you living near a data center? Our interactive map shows where construction is skyrocketing. Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are rapidly building data centers amid the AI boom. Our interactive map shows where they are.

Find if you have a data center in your area robbing your community of resources and poisoning the environment.

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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

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The Wingspan of Severed Hands AUDIOBOOK Up now for pre-order: The Wingspan of Severed Hands is an audiobook! Available from Haruspex Audio, narrated by Rain Corbyn (who you can hear performing my story Oakmoss and Ambergris on the Three-


Sure it's late but not too late for a blog update
horrorsong.blog/2026/04/13/t...

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Imagine getting fired via hologram

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Maro Reus on Ecofiction — Brief Ecology The commercially dominant modern world is one of falsity. Advertising is a thick smog. It leaks through our window screens and oozes out of the linoleum. In our most densely populated places, it’s lou...

"There was a time when all our stories were about birds and stars and our grand, infinitesimal home. Eco fiction makes the deliberate choice to tell those stories again—and acknowledges that we never stopped."

- Maro Reus on Ecofiction
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

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As a tech worker who has worked in a data center, they should absolutely be zoned for heavy industry and treated like gravel and concrete processing companies.

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Readers are calling this one “surreal” and “enchanting”. We agree. Give it a read 👇🍃

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"The swollen sphincter is the frame and the frame is part of the picture the cloaca is stretched and it would be nothing but relief if an eagle would beak in and tear for his liver ripping through his living flesh"

Today on ergot.: 'Sisyphus, Bound' by David Stevens

www.ergot.press/authors/Davi...

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Crosshatches A newsletter where author, editor, and Podside Picnic host Karlo Yeager RodrĂ­guez tries to scribble in some detail, here and there

If you enjoyed "As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood", I wrote a novella in that setting, a story about families, the curses they bear, and fighting the good fight - even in the face of Death.

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Kennedy is a eugenicist.
His words and choices to date provide ample evidence of his deep hatred for disabled ‘weaker’ people. All his ‘policy’ is driven by one goal: make the population ‘fitter’ by ‘weeding out the unfit.’
Speak of him as the open, rank eugenicist he is.

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