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Ainsel

@ainselcrafts.bsky.social
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Fibercrafter, artist, musician and general weirdo of many hobbies. “AI” 🚫👎

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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thread. Unsurprising that “AI”, with all its consent issues, is coming from guys with such a piss-poor framework of consent in sexual scenarios as well.
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Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
gentle reminder: the void is for screaming, the abyss is for staring, please don't mix that up and ruin the experience for the rest of us
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Saffron & Her Majestic Floof @saffronsfloof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When the entire kitten pile is asleep but somebody has to keep watch. Aquila volunteered. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme
Color photograph. A tiny black and white tabby kitten looks up at the camera as she lays in a pile of different black and white tiny kittens that are sleeping. It’s hard to tell how many adorable kittens are sleeping in this pile but as they sleep Aquila is wide awake and looking at the camera super cutely.
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The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nu Gold, hand sawed, $105. Meg! Check out my product! www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
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Meg's Last Fuck | Peculiarity Shop
Meg says what's running through a lot of our minds. Components: nu gold, premade gold chain 18." Please note that due to its construction, the chain can't be resized. Lead/nickel free.
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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Keep this in mind when you see articles simping for “AI”.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As the midterms approach, I want to remind folks that pandemics have historically given rise to fascism The fear associated with death and disability on a massive scale makes it easier for authoritarians to seize power Vote accordingly Protect disabled & marginalized people. Get them to the polls
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Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains
The paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.
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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bottle in the form of standing feline Moche civilization (Northern coast of modern day Peru) 1st-8th century AD American Museum of Natural History. #MenWithCats
Bottle in the form of standing feline
Moche (Northern coast of modern day Peru)
1st-8th century AD
American Museum of Natural History.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
please enjoy brand new tingler NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL6WHFVV and on buckaroo patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...
cover of NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? on the right there is a concerned ladybuck with her hands up in a gesture of NO WAY BUD and on the left is an angry lookin sentient flock camera
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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Once again the “AI” “discovered” something by stealing a real scientist’s work. Because that is all “AI” can do: plagiarize.
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 28/09/2026
Today, my 6 yo grandkids came to my studio and painted these frames I built & then used bones they collected over the summer at the lake to create creepy creatures which we glued to the paintings. That's how you instill creativity. You let them be creative. They've already asked to come back.
2 square wood frames with kid's painting with creatures made of small bird & fish bones glued to it.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Why shouldn’t I custom-generate all of my child’s media?” Because the point of children’s literature, music, art, and movies is not to optimize leisure time, it is to provide your children with cultural, emotional, societal, and epistemic touch points via which they can relate to the wider world.
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Christopher Fahy : Mass Confusion, 2026 30 × 24 inches Mix Media on Canvas
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craig robertson @craiglee47.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
detail from "path to the witches ledge"
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.
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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#ShowMeYourKnits is projects you’re excited about and that kicked me in the butt to quit stalling and cast on my Arcade Explosion of a sweater. Doesn’t look like much yet but, this is my fuck-you to the all-beige trend.
The beginning of a top-down colorwork sweater, in a combination of a chaotic variegated yarn with predominantly vibrant oranges and teal, and a black yarn with a thin variegated marl creating a confetti effect.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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Em aka Red 🦋🌹✨ @huttsleia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Creating art is a human activity; as a human, it is your birthright to do it. You have been lied to: you don’t need to be gifted or a genius or special in any way. Write, dance, sing, draw. Glue stuff to other stuff. Stick a fork in a lime and call it “#3 poem”! You’re an artist; we all are.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NEW MOUSE JUST DROPPED!!!!!!!!
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In case it was unclear, suggesting that anyone with a disability needs gen AI to do amazing art is, in and of itself, incredibly ableist. Do not spit on those who have found innumerable ways of making art without stealing from others and polluting the planet. It is disgusting to suggest as much.
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Our Flag Means Death Frames @ofmdframes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
pete standing on the deck of the revenge holding his arms out to stress everyone should listen to his compelling point, with a speech bubble at the bottom showing he's saying the skeet below this (our flag means death s1e7)
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Meg Wood @megwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you’re very tired but you want your nose to remain boopable.
A Siamese kitten sleeping in a cat bed with his face/head propped up on the edge so his nose is easy to boooop
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Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This but for everything, online and offline
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love every single person who has ever put up a "how to fix this thing you own" video on youtube. You have saved us with car repairs, saved us from buying a new phone and now from buying a new tv. Generousity and kindness can be found, galore.
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Draco the Lizard - The Wee Con @dracothelizard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I had frame 69 😌
Macramee frame of La Vie En Frames. On the left and right are vertical rainbows in a red orange yellow green blue purple pattern with four black hearts in both rainbows
In the centre against a brown background is Stede on the left, with yellow hair and pinkish skin and a dark teal shirt. On the right is a macrameed Ed with beige skin and his black leather and grey hair and a black line marking his tattoo
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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only “AI” I care about having in my life is Artistic Integrity. All slopbots and botlickers* fuck off forever. *not a typo, I said what I said.
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Head" bronze 1938 David Smith (1906-1965) USA #handmade #art #sculpture #head #c1938 #davidsmith #usa #americanart #americansculpture #modernart #modernsculpture #cubism #surrealism
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Okay yeah see I think we should be a lot more worried about this kind of shit than the killer machine god and not just because this is a clear concrete thing that’s happening right now
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Claude is not going to get so full of words that it wakes up and becomes god and kill us all, but a bunch of really cognitively lazy foolish humans listening to Claude’s hallucinated bullshit might get us into a war that does that!
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melodygilman.bsky.social @melodygilman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ponder the orb
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WhinterQueen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JFC. the hand soap was distributed to NC, MS, ND, NE, NC, MD, SC, WI, GA, PA, CA, IL, IA, NY, TX, & WA
wsmv.com
Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 17/09/2026
Did you know you can find talking points to take to local officials when you yell at them about Flock right here?
deflock.org
DeFlock
Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.
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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh nice, we’re doing chatelaines again!
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/09/2026
As long as everyone’s talking about sex stuff, a reminder that I’m fundraising for @scarleteen.com (link in the next post). Scarleteen has been at it with high quality, free, inclusive, joyful sex ed for almost 30 years. They’re one of the few online resources left standing.
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Ainsel @ainselcrafts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeaaah. Somewhat recently I had the opportunity to try adderall and WOW. Brain was just… quiet???? Like, one thought at a time, all tidy, it was SO WEIRD. Anyway yeah there’s definitely ADHD in my me.
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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At some point you figure out that "being apolitical" in the public arts always means getting on your knees for the rich, the bigots, the fascists and authoritarians. It never means anything else, and those people are somehow never obligated to set their own politics aside on behalf of anyone else.
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Hartford Yarn Works @hartfordyarnworks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We still have ready to ship in stock for Be Like Dolly and are happy to make more. As a reminder, we are donating five dollars for each skein sold to the imagination library in honor of Dolly‘s legacy. find them in store and online at Hartfordyarnworks.com #dolly #yarn #fiberart #knitting #crochet
Three twisted skeins of yarn in closeup that are a mixture of pinks on white base 
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Wyrd Knitting 🧶🐈🚀🪐📚 @wyrdknitting.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026
#ShowMeYourKnits is cowls and scarves this week. I don't knit either option very often, but I am a big fan of Mary Hunt's designs. Here's my Fungus Among Us cowl from October 2024.
A knitted cowl featuring a design of fly agaric mushrooms in front of a setting sun.
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Zed 🏳️‍🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh there were some pots in that firing too lmao #pottery
Three little round pots on a bench, one with tape resist in a variegated pale green, one with a fern leaf resist & jaunty lid in a deeper green, one with slippy detail and a glossy variegated off-white
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Aimee Steinberger @aimeekitty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder to my pirate friends that I have some Ofmd themed fabrics on my shop, too. ❤️☠️❤️ www.spoonflower.com/collections/...
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Merc with a 🫦 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it’s Spirk Day! happy 59th anniversary to the #StarTrekTOS episode Amok Time, which aired in 1967 Live Long and Prosper and Long Live The Premise! 💙❤️‍🔥💛
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is
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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great egrets 🪶 🐡
Photo of a small painting being held by a hand for scale with a small paintbrush visible resting on the table behind it. The painting is of a pair of great egrets in breeding plumage standing on a tall, twisty leafless branch against a misty grey-blue background. The egrets are bright white, with green faces and yellow beaks and eyes. The top egret sports a fan of breeding plumage and the lower egret has the plumage blowing a bit to the side. The painting is soft and dreamy and misty feeling.
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Sygnin @sygnin.com · 15/09/2026
Jareth #labyrinth #fanart #sygnin #darkart
Art of Jareth from Labyrinth. Tall thin man with wild white hair wearing a black cape and holding a white crystal ball in one hand
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Jammydormouse @jammydormouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rip Stede Bonnet, you would have loved the 70s
A 1970s advert for ‘smashing suits with removable capes: two great looks for the price of one!’

They come in 3 colour combinations: tan with orange trim, blue with black trim and green with yellow trim. The buttons match the trim and the trousers are slim fitted flares
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 15/09/2026
Webb reveals one of its largest images to date! 😲 This starry view shows the nearby star-forming region IC 348. Here, astronomers searched for brown dwarfs, objects which are less massive than the smallest stars. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪
A star-forming region. It is blanketed in thick clouds of gas and dust, millions of kilometres across, that form swirling patterns. Bright stars are scattered throughout the clouds, with the densest cluster situated in the centre of the scene. Each is crowned with six long points created by the optics of the telescope’s mirrors. In the upper right, a couple of hidden stars blast out long, glowing jets of material. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, K. Luhman, C. Alves De Oliveira, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They’re helping
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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you prefer a static grid view, here they are again, with a direct link to all the mugs and pottery! gnomespun.com/collections/... 🧶 #bsnm
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Opache Beadwork @opachebeadwork.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Halloween Beadwork shop update 🎃 link for more info or to purchase: opachebeadwork.etsy.com
Four pairs of flat stitched beaded earrings. Two pairs in a Jack o lantern design and two pairs in a teddy bear holding a jack o lantern  design.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
PSA because someone got weird and knee-jerky at me just now: It is in fact ok to occasionally, when based on facts and evidence, agree with terrible people on an individual point. Knee-jerk disagreeing with everything said by people who suck is nearly as foolish as uncritically believing it.
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Manuel Fallmann-Kerrutt @mindistortion.tv · 19/05/2026
Cliffside Romance #charcoal #drawing #art #traditionalart
Charcoal drawing of a person standing at the edge of a cliff.
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