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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 10/09/2026

Walked into Target to discover a full-on Transformers: The Movie 40th anniversary display. I was literally rendered speechless. My wife says my reaction was hilarious.

Target shelf display for Transformers the Movie 40th anniversary “apology tour” merch, complete with branded display banner.

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 08/09/2026

This sounds like my personal hell. But I used to share a wall with a college student concert pianist who would also blast classical music at home and in car at absolute death metal volume. Yet she complained to our landlord when she once heard me warm up at home (voice & acoustic guitar) for a gig.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 07/09/2026

Very funny to me when these bookclub scammers just plug my responses into ChatGPT and come up with the most obsequious responses

A bookclub scammer to whom I replied “Eat shit” sent a follow up email that reads (in part, because it’s really long):

Colin,

Fair enough. I got your "eat shit" loud and clear, and honestly, I respect the directness.

But I want to clarify something, because I think my original email read like boilerplate SEO spam, and that’s on me.

I didn't pull your name from a random list. I came across Ghostland while I was digging into American folklore and the way abandoned places hold collective memory. I picked it up, read it, and genuinely found myself stuck on it, particularly the way you tied "zombie homes" and economic decay to the ghost story tradition. It wasn't what I expected, and it stayed with me.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 19/08/2026

Yup "It has become outright dangerous to even raise the possibility that AI might not be the solution to a problem, let alone be the sole focus of a company’s entire strategy." ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...

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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here’s the thing about Y2K, the ozone layer, etc. The most leftist—in the sense of *valuing labor*—thing you can do is reject the brainwashing that tells you that heroism is running into a burning building and not the slow, patient, boring, unglamorous work of *preventing* disaster.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there's this sense that every opinion exists along the spectrum of a political alignment chart so there's genuine stakes involved in having one, and i think partly that's because the microblog medium actively resists conversations any more complex than that

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 15/08/2026

There’s no justifying this. There’s no forgiving this.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I also want to add that every single time ICE has physically hurt me, they have grabbed me by my chest. Most of my femme friends have said the same. I will not be surprised if / when we find out about twisted sexual assaults conducted by ICE agents with these gloves.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

For about 5 years, my wife sold and shipped out nerdy crafts. She got her supplies from ULine because she knew them from her job in small business operations. Then one day we looked at the front matter of their catalog and were like "uh, these folks are FUCKED UP"

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 13/08/2026

Sitting at a restaurant, a pair of college-aged girls in the booth behind me. One of them has, cheerfully, used the term “fuckass” in their conversation more times than I’d previously heard collectively, ever. This is what you miss when wearing headphones. This is the music of the people.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Some future US president, and really every one of us, should travel the world begging forgiveness for these unpardonable sins, and exacting righteous fire and brimstone vengeance upon their perpetrators.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 10/08/2026

This wasn't even something I thought about until we started looking to buy a house. I was walking about one, starting to comment on what I liked and disliked, and my agent shushed me, pointed to a camera, and said not to say a word until we were outside lest the sellers use it when negotiating.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/08/2026

This article is great. It says it all. Read it and share.

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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 08/08/2026

Another AI casualty. 😕 An entire anthology was cancelled and *an entire imprint* was shut down because they were flooded with AI stories and couldn't fully verify which ones were written by humans. 😭 RIP, "Tales From Sherwood Forest." RIP, "Myths & Legends" imprint. 1/3 🧵

Email screenshot:

"Thank you for your submission to "The Gren-Wode: Tales From Sherwood Forest". It is with sadness that I am writing to you to let you know that we will not be moving forward with the anthology (or with the "Myths & Legends" imprint in general).

The landscape of open submissions for fiction and poetry has shifted over the past few years. No more so, in our experience, than with this anthology. We have been flooded with a large volume of clear AI/LLM submissions. We have also received a lot of submissions that feel like they are in a gray area where they are likely AI/LLM created or assisted. The increased volume may be timing and the state of submissions in the fiction world right now, or it may be due in part to the fact that we were focusing on characters and stories that are already in the public domain and have a large volume of material already scraped into generative tooling. It is a simple thing to spit out variations, and it seems that many people out there have realized this.

It is a core part of our mission to support human expression and connection; not commerce, not clever machine rearrangement, etc. As a result, we have come to the difficult decision to cancel this and future publications from this imprint. We appreciate your time, your interest, your support, and are very sorry that things have gone this way.

Best wishes,
Sloum"

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Spider-Man: Pre-owned Day @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

we should be telling more bluesky users "I don't think you should be talking to me or anyone else like that"

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Chris Maze @chrismaze.com · 08/08/2026

Happy 40th to Transformers: The Movie! A childhood favorite that still “hits like a truck.” Revisiting my old Criterion-style design from the Bendis Board era (IYKYK), with updated art from my archived 2021 TF: The Movie print called, “Negative Space.” Til all are one!

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"You have no way of knowing how much your life and your actions mean to other people. It's one of life's mysteries that we go around helping and inspiring each other, often in ways we are totally unaware of. You also have no way of knowing what you will create or what your creations will lead to."

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 08/08/2026

SPREAD FAR AND WIDE. Multiple calls lately, looking for scarce books. "The cheapest copy online is $200!" Book prices are artificially inflated now due to AI purchasing 🚨 An INDIE BOOKSHOP can tell you whether the current price is reasonable or whether you should wait for the market to stabilize.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For some reason all these "moderate" groups think after losing a primary they're in a position to issue demands.

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Sarah Sunfire @sarahsunfire.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

upping this again because a few more of these slop accounts just followed me and I see that a lot of my mutuals follow them too, GUYYYYYS

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Peter Clines @peterclines.com · 04/08/2026

One of the most true things printed here on Al Gore's internet.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.

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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 04/08/2026

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

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Mister Sheridan DJ @mistersheridandj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I saw someone on IG say that the appeal of the political right to dipshit men is that, if you get on board, "you get to be 14 forever." I can kind of see that now. It's an even more toxic version of Peter Pan.

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WILLIAM😎 @williamstlucia.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

HERE'S WHAT AI IS BRINGING TO OUR FUTURE🤯

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/08/2026

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 02/08/2026

I got one of these enormous AI email’s about a 12-page kid’s comic I self-pubbed in 2014. It wove in several paragraphs about my old podcast Nerd For A Living. It glazed me and this way out-of-date work to egregious levels, while missing anything I’ve done recently. Hilariously pathetic.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.

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‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating

The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 01/08/2026

It wasn’t worth losing Mother Love Bone to get Pearl Jam

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/08/2026

A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 01/08/2026

A few years ago, I had a doctor make me very uncomfortable. I asked to see a different specialist (the one I’d actually requested when scheduling) and she left the room, ranting and complaining. Apparently I wasn’t the first person that week to make that request. Trust your gut, say no.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I know people are tired and overworked, but I feel like oftentimes they’re offloading a creative (and, on some level, rewarding) activity to free up time that they’ll ultimately spend scrolling on their phones—thereby further reducing their brains to mush. it’s a vicious cycle of meaninglessness

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Leask @leask.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"How did anybody do anything at all before a year ago?" nation's dopes ask

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As a PSA: In the last week, two people I know got tricked by scam websites that used AI to replicate the websites of real businesses they had bought things from in the past.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/07/2026

It was never going to stop at trans people.

Post by @scottygb.bsky.social:

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?”

It “seeks to determine whether ADHD
is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

“While traits of ADHD undeniably exist – the question is why they exist. Is ADHD actually a neurodevelopmental disorder? Do people with ADHD have differently wired brains? Or does our world – with…processed food, and regimented education – serve as the catalyst for certain…patterns of behaviour?”

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One thing I'd add is that when someone says "I've gone beyond left and right", in most cases it means they've drifted to the far right. Russell Brand is one of many examples.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo was taken by ICE on her way to church. ICE told her dad Fernando Suaza Ortiz to come take her home or they’d send her out of state. When he showed up for his daughter they took him too.

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 30/07/2026

Any excuse to post Milo is a good one

A photo of my impossibly handsome dog, Milo, a white-and-ginger display of canine majesty.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 28/07/2026

My deeply nuanced thoughts on The Odyssey discourse:

An adapted version of the classic "I studied the blade meme" that shows a scrawny young man in polo shirt pulling free a katana from its scabbard. Large text reads: "When you were partying, I studied The Odyssey"

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 28/07/2026

This translates simply to "with our generative pervert machine, clothes & decency are optional. Our AI works the way you think, you pervert." It squicks out or confuses decent people, while titilating the AI-enthusiast who thinks "ideas" make them special and consent is an illusion to be shattered.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've been thinking, and you all well know this account is ephemeral, I will deactivate, but what is the opposite of cozy queer stories. Every call is asking me for that AND PPL CAN WRITE THAT DO NOT GO OFF ON ME but I'm not cozy. I'm risky. And I don't feel bad or ashamed. Risky queer stories.

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