DarkSkyLady

DarkSkyLady

@darkskylady.bsky.social

Culture Writer/Critic | EIC https://darkskylady.com/ | Words in Nerdist, LatinaMediaCo | enby | Anime, manga, horror games/films junkie | they/them

2,059 Followers 250 Following 2,123 Posts Joined May 2023
7 hours ago

URGENT I need meds, badly. Going crazy over here, literally. Even $1 helps. tamilove21 on Cash App Venmo PayPal

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9 hours ago

im grabbing your hand to tell you. it’s not too late to start wearing a mask again. it’s better to wear a mask 1/4 of the time (or whatever your percent looks like) than not at all. there’s no shame in starting to be covid safe again even if you havent been for a long time. its okay

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6 hours ago

I am happy to see this. Grammarly’s got to go.

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

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Who bombed the Iranian girls' school, killing more than 170? What we know The attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School quickly became a focal point of concern over civilian casualties.

The attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School quickly became a focal point of concern over civilian casualties.

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low.

At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless:

“An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.”

(Published April 2025)

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6 hours ago

They are fun and addictive. I have another one that I need to put together.

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7 hours ago

I’ve made so many of these including a very similar tiny greenhouse! 🥰 I love these.

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20 hours ago

Over 400,000 Americans have been made refugees, forced to flee their states and homes, because of anti-trans laws and repression.

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8 hours ago
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Officer having 'anxiety attack' took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, report says A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an “anxiety attack” took the f...

apnews.com/article/poli...

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JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked ICE from constructing an immigration detention facility in Hagerstown, MD after the state sued over the lack of a mandated environmental impact review. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72362...

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20 hours ago

This is where my faith is . I try to balance it with my sheer universe rending rage but THIS .. this is where my faith is

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2 days ago

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

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$64 billion of data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid local opposition — Data Center Watch

A study of the landscape of data center organizing covering a one year period. This is fast. Data center organizing is local because politics is local. But local doesn’t mean small.

www.datacenterwatch.org/report

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19 hours ago

Exactly. Stop giving grown adults who voted for him a child’s excuse. They let their own biases against others shape their choices. Thats for all the demographics that voted for him. Stop infantilizing all of them and call it what it is.

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20 hours ago

See? They weren’t misinformed or lied to. They heard exactly what he promised to do and were on board with it until they were confronted with the reality that they are not exempt from the consequences.

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20 hours ago

I'm EXTREMELY careful about my personal information... unique emails for accounts, nonsensical security answers, credit locked since Dubya...

An account at Chase Bank was opened in my name 17 days after DOGE gained access to the NLRB network.

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20 hours ago

In the waiting room for an appointment and a man who is definitely the type to complain about kids on his lawn is watching Sopranos on his phone at top volume with no headphones. The staffer at the desk has a blonde helmet of hair that doesn't move and bright blue eyeshadow. So...I have moved away

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Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July 2025)

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1 day ago

Grammarly became worse in such a short amount of time. So glad I canceled my subscription. More people should do the same. Trust me it is NOT worth the price.

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1 day ago

If anyone affected by this wants to find out what their legal recourse may be, I know some good class action lawyers.

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1 day ago

Coons, Reed, and Warner are all up for re-election and have primary challengers right now.

Coons: beardsleyfordelaware.com
Reed: @burbridge-for-ri.bsky.social
Warner: @itsmarkmoran.bsky.social & @loritadaniels4va.bsky.social

Don't just complain about this ⬇️, support their opponents!

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1 day ago

Yeah. I’m glad I went to see the movie! Now I gotta write up my review.

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Beyond Afrofuturism: Sinners, the Great Migration, and Rust Belt Gothik - Reactor "Sinners" is a particular kind of story about migration, spirituality, and Black speculative survival skills

To fully understand "Sinners" and the world of the Smokestack twins, we need to explore the Rust Belt Gothik, the tradition of Black speculative survival strategies forged in response to the pressures of the Great Migration

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3 days ago
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Donate to Help Me Find Safe Housing, organized by Stacey Thomas I am currently homeless and struggling to find stability. Every day is a challenge, and it’s b… Stacey Thomas needs your support for Help Me Find Safe Housing

It took A LOT to make this. Like A LOT. I struggled hard with making this because frankly it’s embarrassing. When you go from feeling safe, to losing your job and just two payments behind with no real support, it’s a struggle to get back to baseline.
gofund.me/0f61e4015

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DORAL, FL — White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair privately urged House Republicans on Tuesday to stop emphasizing "mass deportations" and instead focus their messaging on removing violent criminals, according to sources in the closed-door briefing.

This is one reason why we cannot "concede" on "the worst of the worst" framing. Defund the police, all the police, is the only way.

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2 days ago

lol you’re watching that and I’m about to watch Undertone. Cheers.

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Cover of Innocent Rogue Omnibus Volume 2 by Shin'ichi Sakamoto Cover of Innocent Rogue Omnibus Volume 3 by Shin'ichi Sakamoto

Reminder: Innocent Rouge Omnibus Volumes 2 & 3 are available to pre-order now! Details: https://bit.ly/49QRe1H

Thwarted by fate with the calamity that followed the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, Marie-Joseph is determined to confront destiny...

By Shin'ichi Sakamoto (@14mountain.bsky.social)

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2 days ago

Bookmarking because I want to order and possibly review.

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For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions. Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises.

Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.

(Published Sept. 2025)

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