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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 21h

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 23/09/2026

LOLOL. What about that email I got from you this morning re: creating audiobooks using AI slop "narrators"?

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 22/09/2026

Anything with a -ness suffix where a tidier word would do. "She was beset by nervousness" vs. "She was beset by nerves."

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 19/09/2026

I can save you a click: the interviewer is as opaque as the subject. But at least he didn't pose for that photo shoot.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 17/09/2026

I mean, they're the US publisher of HP.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 17/09/2026

Has anyone else tried the new, contemporary version of Tommy and Tuppence? I watched the first episode last night and found it pretty meh. Is it worth continuing or not?

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 17/09/2026

80% of AI news at this point consists of a company announcing “we wrote a computer virus” then there’s something about the apocalypse or regulation, then the next news story is like “we wrote another computer virus.”

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Viola Smart @smartvpants.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'd like to point out at this juncture that banning people who disagreed with vibes-based enforcement of poorly defined ToS is why Romancelandia did a mass exodus of Spoutible.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 15/09/2026

"Hair must be perfectly gelled. Nazi tattoos optional, but preferred."

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 15/09/2026

I appreciate an old classmate wanting to read my books, but telling me they're only going to order in print and want to avoid Amazon - which, VALID - but then do the entire convo on FACEBOOK MESSENGER? Um. I'm not reopening an Ingram account for you, dude.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14/09/2026

I've been thinking about this a lot because of all the talk about how Dolly Parton "didn't take sides" and I think she's proof that if you don't want to talk about politics you don't have to, but she took sides with her money & her actions and her side was pretty clear. So is Sheeran's, I guess.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

PSA: No Kings is a coalition, not an org, and it does not do fundraising appeals for itself. Partner orgs raise money for costs we're incurring to put it on. But if you get a text from "NO KINGS" or a PAC you've never heard of before asking for $ that is a scam and you should block/shame away.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 13/09/2026

Last I checked, the entire series was available on Hoopla, too - so if your library has it, check it out!

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 08/09/2026

And you can trust it because META is so goddamned good with priv--- Nope. Can't do it. Not even as a sarcastic bit.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan

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Peter Clines @peterclines.com · 06/09/2026

These guys always want to excuse their Ai use with “It’s just a tool, I want to use all the tools at my disposal,” and so on. But they never want to to walk about how the tool was made. Or how the tool does the thing it does. And there’s a good reason for that...

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 06/09/2026

New band name / t-shirt / protest sign just dropped.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Tax revenue" is the new PR line for data centers; it's true in a handful of counties nationwide but nowhere else. 3 of 95 counties in Virginia work this way, the rest got screwed by a $2 billion revenue shortfall. goodjobsfirst.org/data-center-...

More prosaically, data centres pay huge tax bills, helping fund schools, libraries and police stations. In Loudoun County, Virginia, a tax on computer equipment inside its more than 250 centres is expected to supply 40% of the county’s total tax revenue next year. The windfall has allowed the county to cut residents’ property taxes by about 30%.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 06/09/2026

Gnashing my teeth because I'm currently agent-less and have a finished romance manuscript with a Norwegian hero. Ro!

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Haaland Erling Haaland

Alt: Erling Haaland rowing as a viking

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 04/09/2026

Frankly hilarious to have My Fellow Americans say, "Oh, we don't use that term in the U.S." Um. Well. I have some news...

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 03/09/2026

Great. Maryland's MARC system is rerouting my train one stop before its previous terminus (my stop) and taking it to Baltimore. The solution is to then switch to the Metro (more time, more money) or switch to the later train (WHICH I WOULD TAKE ANYWAY FROM MY USUAL STATION BUT THEN I'D BE LATE).

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026

it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When there are multiple stories about data centers simply building gas turbines without permits, PROVING they can’t be trusted, you’d be a fool to trust them. This is not paranoia, it’s pragmatism.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 30/08/2026

Mr. B has the Indigo Girls' first album playing. It has me remembering that moment when I was driving the NH backroads to my Pheasant Lane Mall second job and I heard that song on the radio. I DASHED through that massive mall to get to a store where I could flutter through a bin and buy that album.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 29/08/2026

"Next time on Severance..."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp

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Sharon is watching the Mariners @sharonawrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My fabulous haul of books from #RomancingTheVote which I keep forgetting to post. Thank you @cathypegau.bsky.social @adelebuck.com @rachelgrant.bsky.social and @oliviawrites.bsky.social for helping fight for voting rights! Please support these authors! And thank you @romancingthevote.com 💜💗

Books and stickers from the Romancing the Vote auction. Books are The Demon Equilibrium by Cathy Pegau; The Social Season by Adele Buck; Cold Evidence and Tinderbox both by Rachel Grant; and Zom Romcom and Second Chance Romance both by Olivia Dade.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/08/2026

I think maybe Democrats should be trashing this guy and not a twitch streamer

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We need all that good water for the data centers because our staff use ChatGPT to write their articles

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 28/08/2026

*Extreme Pepperidge Farms Voice* "Romancelandia remembers."

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 28/08/2026

99% of the time I'm not really a leopards-eating-faces sort of person but the leopard breeder from leopard island who dedicated his life to bigger meaner leopards with more teeth made a string of incredibly odd choices

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“People want to reclaim agency and opposing data centers is a symbolic —“ NO. There is ample public evidence of the downside and zero public evidence of an upside. People know the difference between a job-creating factory and a really fucking loud server room that poisons neighbors.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 28/08/2026

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

A gray and white kitten on a green blanket

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 27/08/2026

I'd really like to be able to quantify the percentage of characters in the Sebastian St. Cyr novels who are described as having "gray" (grey? - I'm on audio) eyes. It's gotta be at least 40-50%. Madness.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Guess what? 1) You can 3D print a crow and squirrel feeder that looks like a Flock camera 2) Crows are extremely good at pattern recognition 3) People are fucking hilarious and creative and I hope every Flock camera gets its own personal murder (of crows) www.printables.com/model/180491...

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Designed to look like a Flock camera, hollow with chambers and a removeable hatch for putting treats for your friends | Download free 3D printable STL models

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Jim C. Hines @jimchines.com · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 300 million books to children. In honor of her passing, I'm making my middle grade book TAMORA CARTER: GOBLIN QUEEN free through the end of the week if you use coupon code ThanksDolly at payhip.com/b/JI8X Grab a copy for a kid who might enjoy it.

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Tamora Carter: Goblin Queen (e-book)

A middle-grade fantasy from the author of the Goblin Quest trilogyOne night after roller derby practice, twelve-year-old Tamora Carter discovers a pair of goblins digging through the dumpster behind t...

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 26/08/2026

I was just thinking about this yesterday. What a person she was.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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