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Alex Lane

@alexlaneauthor.bsky.social
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Sci-fi, fantasy and horror author. They/them

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One major reason that Microsoft was using a definition of intelligence borrowed from white supremacist Linda Gottfredson a couple of years back in their AI documentation is that scientific racists are pretty much the only ones out there pretending that intelligence is well defined and understood
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you do want to see this
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The electric chair was the 19th C’s lethal injection—an attempt to sanitize state-sponsored killing by hiding behind a new technology. It was quickly clear the chair was far from instant & extremely far from painless. But “humane” execution wasn’t ever the goal—because there’s no such thing.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the baseline argument is young men are just unevolved gorillas, which is what the defense of those men boils down to, why aren't more men offended at being likened to animals. You're cool with that? You're SELF LABELING with that? Okay. Why are unevolved gorillas in charge and not in zoos.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 28/09/2026
So yeah, if you suppress all knowledge of queerness, then on some level, you do end up with fewer openly queer people. You get to have more miserable, self-hating stunted people instead. YAY YOU WIN. If you just want us gone, then yeah, that's a victory condition.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026
Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company
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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not all men. Jesus Christ, don't you think women *know* that? Use your heads instead of getting defensive. Most of you would be terrified of swimming among sharks, even though sharks are stastically far less dangerous to you than men are to women.
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh...
Panel 1

Field is reading a book and talking about it.

Field: This autism memoir is fascinating. A lot of it is surprisingly relatable.

Panel 2

Field: It's funny that I've had similar experiences, thoughts, and habits. It's like reading about myself.

Panel 3

Field stares into the distance. They are suddenly evaluating everything about their life.

Panel 4

Field watches a sunset. As if watching an old world vanish into darkness before a new one comes into the light.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.
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Jennifer Liang @jenniferliang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like paying taxes for schools, roads and feeding the hungry. I don’t like paying taxes to drop bombs on IranIan school girls. Tax is how you pay for society.
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a reminder: Sam Altman has been credibly accused of sexually abusing his younger sibling, who has been in and out of psychiatric programs since she was a teenager. Their parents decided her claims stopped being plausible right about the time Sam attracted VC money.
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Ramiel 🐇 comms OPEN @pawberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Fandoms used to be full of nice ppl before covid and then all the bullies and popular kids joined" is literally an "the earth is flat" tier false belief to me
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
This is my position as well. We started a fucking stupid war. We don't really have what it takes to put things back and say "sorry, let's just pretend that didn't happen."
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skipper @skippermorgan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i love it when my PM constantly just rolls over and goes "well i attempted to talk to the orphan crushing machine that is actively crushing orphans just to see if perhaps it could crush 5% less orphans but talks are ongoing" hey, can you grow a spine? maybe?
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3451 needs some snowshoes
A bunny wearing a winter coat and scarf wanders through a snowy mountainous landscape, bracing themself for the cold and wind.
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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Writers used to be able to live comfortably off the sale of a short story or two a month. Authors like Terry Pratchett made enough money selling silly fantasy books in the 80's that they quit their day jobs. That doesn't happen any more.
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Alex Lane @alexlaneauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Went to see RESIDENT EVIL (2026) yesterday. Structured like a video game plot, it sees the main character go from one horror set piece to the next, with plenty of gore, jump scares and tension. The ending didn’t wow me, but it was worth seeing for the well-made horror scenes.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters. It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build and help them pull up the ladder” Fuck. Shut up being right
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
Screencap of a social media post by: kavishj611 
 
 All the people who are anti-Al or want to
 slow Al progress, I have one question:
 If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you
 still get through an entire workday
 without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
 Al tool?
 
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
 Would you actually be willing to give it
 up?
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Disability support policy is a giant test of the principle “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. Systems that gatekeep disability benefits to prevent supposed grifting are betraying that principle by deciding it’s worth making many innocents struggle & starve to stop a few bad actors. Same with welfare.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No system is perfect, yes some people might "cheat", but would you rather people who desperately need these things go on suffering so you can be SURE you're not being duped? Why is you not being duped so important that other people have to die for it?
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy
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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Republican commenters are back on the “Just don’t buy a $2K smartphone” thing and all the comments are like “My phone was only $150!” and I want to scream that the cost of the cell phone isn’t the point, the point is that the people in the back of Snowpiercer are *supposed* to eat the cockroaches.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Transphobia is an interesting case bc gender difference is such an ingrained aspect of our society and also if you give it ANY THOUGHT WHATSOEVER you realize that enforcing a gender binary on any population in any public forum is a fascist nightmare.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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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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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
When someone claims that a mistake just happens in the system, and it's always the same kind of mistake, and it always benefits the person who set up the system... It's not a mistake. It's happening on purpose.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is also why the administration made sure to tell everyone it was AI that blew up the school in Iran. Somehow the fucking idiots who keep pushing AI are either unable or unwilling to realize they're being used to cover for this shit. "IT HAS USES!" Yes, being blamed for killing kids.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Okay yes but the moment you start arguing over whether to have trans people or federally funded art you have accepted Republican framing The correct answer is to have trans people and art instead of Republicans
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed
Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026
The thing that's annoying about this is that the US has caused more terror than Al Qaeda. It's been around longer. It has a longer reach. We've objectively killed more people. We are a lot scarier. We're not classified as a terrorists, yes. But.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Sometimes you have to choose which one of your kids dies," may be true, but it in no way exonerates the person or institution forcing people into that horrific choice, & scolding somebody for criticizing the situation participates in the horror—particularly if you scold a person directly affected.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," they say. Ah, and why does one sometimes *have* to do that? Because someone else, who could have chosen opposition to evil, instead opts to become a lesser evil for their own perceived advantage—leaving others to bear the burden of that choice
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
longtermism is so repugnant that I hesitate to address it on its own terms but: on its own terms this shit is clearly wrong. the best way *now* to encourage a happy future for umptillion beings who use technology we can't imagine is to make the current world more just for everyone.
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