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Athalran

@athalran.bsky.social
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Canadian-American living in Ireland

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I was still pretty young when it happened,but yeah, it wound up being more of a Butlerian Crusade than a Butlerian Jihad ..."
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 26/09/2026
I'm the opposite of AI
It took me an hour to write one email and I haven't had any water today

[A silver fish with a red head superimposed over a green field and blue sky, with a larger, semi-transparent version of the same fish floating in the sky behind it.]
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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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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All that to say, a lot of folks need help with rent, foods and medication at the start of the month. If you can spare anything in this economy? Please do.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you think an ask is a scam? You can mute/block/unfollow or scroll by. You don’t have to make an already horrible situation worse with cruel, unfounded accusations. Folks are already shelving dignity & pride to ask for help, don’t pour salt into the wound.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Too many of y’all make it your personality to look down on & assume every single plea for help is a scam. Spoiler, it is one of the hardest things to do, to ask for help to stay housed, fed, medicated, etc. No one likes passing the hat, at all. So fix your heart.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So if you see a request for help, and you can? Please do. If you can’t, share the post or the link. However, the next part is for those that assume every ask must be a scam.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember that could be you at any time. Very few folks can save money in case this happens. Lay off, fired, closure, however folks are losing their jobs? No one is immune to being one or two months out from losing everything.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s the first and I want to remind y’all we’re in the worst economy I’ve experienced as an adult. So, so many people are out of work & have been for a while. It’s the worst time to be job hunting. So if you see a GFM, mutual aid request or plea for help?
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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Receiving life-saving medical care so they can try to kill her again. Does anyone else see the absurd perversity of all this? Good lord, we Americans can be a thoroughly disgusting people.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first
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Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law
Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 02/10/2026
turning the ads off my TV's homescreen
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
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Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?
California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.
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Playboy @playboy.com · 30/09/2026
Seven men have been accused of raping a woman at Cornell University in 2024. South Park writer Toby Morton speaks to Playboy about why he made the viral "Cornell 7" website where he's publishing “names, photographs, documents, messages, and other information related to the case."
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Meet The "South Park" Writer Behind the Viral "Cornell 7" Website
Cornell University has been the subject of innumerable headlines this week, as an anonymous woman’s lawsuit against the university over her alleged 2024 rape prompted New York prosecutors to reopen th...
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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026
We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.
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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heck yeah.
Human-made over 5 years

No AI has been used to generate any code or content in or about the game, and never will be. Slow Roads has been a labour of love since the project began in 2021, and has been built with a decade of experience in 3D graphics and creative software development. Textures are hand-drawn, sounds are recorded locally, and all systems are designed and engineered specifically for the unique context of the game. This is a solo-developed project that I take great care over, and I believe AI simply doesn't belong in creative projects like these.

Please note that procedural generation is not a form of generative AI; the procedures used to generate the world in the game are mathematical functions that have been derived and defined by hand, with direct creative intent.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Has there ever been a Doctor Who story about people substituting human capabilities with machine replacements that lack any genuine human feeling or emotion? If they did, remind me, was it good or bad?
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Before you hit the Path, make sure to update your GPU drivers! Especially if you're on a Radeon card. 🐺⚔️
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Boy howdy if you have any feelings about generational suicidal ideation I'm just going to put a big ol' "BIG OL FEELINGS" tag on the latest episode of Lanterns. Not a criticism. Brilliant episode. But yeah I had to pause a few times. It goes swimming in some dark waters.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026
Add colgate to your ever growing shit list
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 27/09/2026
What I know from speaking to people in the building, this would not happen. BUT if you get this player survey you should still tell them Absolutely No!
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And if you're on instagram, you should go to your settings and uncheck these two boxes
In your menu under sharing and reuse there is a button to click whether or not people can create with your contentThere is a button to check on that says allow your reels and posts to be featured with products
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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 25/09/2026
😑 Just kill it with fire, already.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026
Love Death + Robots not in there, therefore this vote was rigged
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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎙️ this podcast does not exist: you have $50 💰
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Normalizing threats against politicians is bad for democracy. *However* every time a story like this comes up, it seems like a good time to remind people that there are many of us who receive messages like this *by the hour* & those same police forces tell us they're powerless to do anything.
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Princess Space Catt 💙 @spacecatt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
First they came for the trans people.. And I absolutely spoke the fuck out because the playbook was obvious
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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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James @nitrorad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
you'll never be able to generate respect
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All regulations are written in blood.
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Kelly Carlin-McCall @kellycarlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 Zelda! I’m with you sister. Stop using our fathers as your bad joke AI-generated puppets. Shame. Shame. Shame.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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mikey neumann @mikeyface.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Private equity ruined quality of life the world over. Only saying this as someone whose apartment building sold twice since I moved in and things enshittified!
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Nitro 🐻‍❄️ 🔜 Asfurmeet, NFC @es.nitrobear.gay · 06/08/2026
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Imirt - The Irish Game Makers Association @imirt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Irish Games Fund - Development Fund supports up to four teams with €50,000 in funding to further development on validated concepts and prototypes that are progressing toward production and commercial release. Find out more about the IGF and how to apply below. www.imirt.ie/irish-games-...
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Irish Games Fund — Imirt
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You ever see a post that, for professional reasons, you want to print out and laminate
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
This may end up being the most consequential story I’ve written, or one of them. “How many AI data centers are actually functional” is the most obvious question of the bubble - and the most important answer to understand what’s going on - yet answering it with any specificity has taken years.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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bunny | comms & games consulting @wingedlioness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today! Bring some tea, bring some snacks, and hang out with us in the park 💜
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Erin Macdonald @drerinmac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The two people in front of me today split their groceries over multiple cards. At what point do we just…fight back? I don’t know. It’s really tough out there right now and feels helpless.
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Erin Macdonald @drerinmac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Blessed equinox to all who celebrate. I love making space for the coming darkness and thanking the light we had, knowing it will return. Life is getting harder, and the world getting bleaker, but we continue to orbit the sun on this blessed earth and I’m grateful for knowing you. 🍁🍂
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ATTENTION, NERDS ANOTHER DINO-MUMMY HAS BEEN FOUND IN THE HELL CREEK FORMATION IT IS A T-REX AND THE PALEONTOLOGISTS WORKING ON IT ARE TEASING INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE OF FEATHERS THIS IS NOT A DRILL www.youtube.com/shorts/PQ0dg...
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Rex Jr | A T. Rex Mummy May Reignite the Feather Debate #animals #dinosaur #evolution #fossil
YouTube video by Zeke Darwin
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