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tulipathy @tulipathy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If you still believe OpalApparition used Claude “just twice”, or that she didn’t use it at all, please see her own words. You deserve to know and to care that you were lied to. I and other anti-AI writers she coerced into unknowingly editing AI processed text deserve to be furious at her deception.

Screenshot from discord in dark mode, black background and light gray text. On July 1, 2026 at 9:49 AM (screenshotter’s time), user Opal wrote

I've been wrestling with how to phrase this for few days now and I'm sorry it's not better.
I messed up. I am sorry. [a green bar obscures a few words here] I owe you an explanation and a proper apology, and I want to give that to you because you have been my friends and you deserve to hear it directly from me.
But I can't do that in this exact moment as my life is imploding in ways I can't even fully process yet. I need to step away from the Internet for a while because overall backlash has just consumed me. You all mean very much to me and I'd rather have you hear this from me than otherwise, so I hope you would be willing to listen to me later, but if not, l completely understand.

Screenshot from discord in dark mode, black background and pale gray text. On July 1, 2026 at 10:17 AM, user tulipathy wrote

You lied to all of us and used some of us in ways that are so coercive I cannot wrap my head around them. The way you used me, knowing how I feel about Al and how willing I have been to be a true friend to you has wrecked my whole shit. I am so hurt, l am so angry. I am so embarrassed to have put my faith in you.
I don't want you to be in danger. That is the nicest true thing I can say.

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What on earth
Whats happening

At 10:31 AM user Opal wrote
I know and l am so, so, so sorry. I am. I realise l cannot fix this. I'm ashamed, and I never wanted to use or hurt anyone.

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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed bsky.app/profile/nyti...

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Melissa W @balletbookworm.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This book pretty much wrecked me at the first names scene. Harder actually watching these two characters ACTIVELY working against themselves every time any sort of vulnerability is displayed.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

A seagull drinks from a container marked “DOGS ONLY, NO SEAGULLS.”

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/02/2025

Good Housekeeping website (?) has done an article on "fairy porn" (??) which recommends one of my books (???) with specific detail indicating that the writer has read the book BUT NEVERTHELESS repeatedly misgendering the MC to make it into MF (?!?!) www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle...

The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles

One thing guaranteed when you open a KJ Charles novel: her sex scenes are as good as her plotting. Here, she gets the prize for most erotically charged use of a magpie back tattoo in fiction. Lucien Vaudrey is the black sheep of her family who didn’t just inherit a gothic estate and a title, but also a host of deadly enemies. With the help of magician Stephen Day and his dark magic, she must defeat them – and even better if this means winding up tangled in the bedsheets together.

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Just an FYI for people who may be new to the book banning stuff, when your books are banned it does not mean you’re on “the right side.” It means that your art (and probably you too) is being targeted by right wing extremists for erasure. It means you are being silenced. It’s NOT GOOD.

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Eva Leigh @evaleigh.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

COVER REVEAL! Coming August 26, 2025, THE SEA WITCH, a swashbuckling romantasy where witch pirates sail the Caribbean, battling the British navy as they fight for freedom. Expect plenty of adventure and heat! Preorder here: books2read.com/theseawitch

The cover of the pirate romantasy "The Sea Witch," by USA Today Bestselling auhtor Eva Leigh, with the words "Cover Reveal" written above. The cover is blue and gold, and there are kraken, sea serpents, cutlasses, and spyglasses decorating the intricate border. The book is the first in the Salt and Sorcery series.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Donald Trump’s surgeon general pick, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, has largely flown under the radar for her past vaccine advocacy. But the reporting has missed her promotion of hydroxychloroquine, vaccine skepticism, anti-mask narratives, and supplements. But we’ve got you covered.

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From the Front Lines to the Fringes: What You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s Surgeon General Pick

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat went from the mainstream to promoting hydroxychloroquine, encouraging vaccine hesitancy, and selling supplements.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

In its short life, the CFPB has returned billions of $$$ to folks victimized by: 1. Predatory payday & auto lenders who discriminate against women & minorities; 2. Banks that illegally charge active military exorbitant fees; 3. Widows & orphans who have lost access to funds & credit.

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Melissa W @balletbookworm.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Went to see Wicked (movie) tonight. Just after Popular, the fire alarm went off. Had it been an actual emergency we’d have died bc people had zero hustle leaving the theatre. And the staff let everyone stay indoors and create chaos. After the fire department cleared the building, we waited ⬇️

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Melissa W @balletbookworm.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“Digital artbarf machine” Sir, I salute you bc that’s pretty much the best summary anyone will ever come up with for this mess. Also, those 4 bros probably read a summary of 48 Laws of Power, licked the cover of the Muskrat bio, and decided that they too could be mediocre lazypantses

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Melissa W @balletbookworm.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Corruption and moral depravity at the highest levels of Trump’s picks. How on brand.

Report by Tommy Vietor:

Pam Bondi, Trump's new Attorney General nominee, recently registered as a foreign agent to lobby on behalf of Qatar. Specifically, she's helping Qatar whitewash its awful record on human trafficking.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

if you were ever casually like, "would i like a romance novel?" this one is A FUCKING BANGER and you can have it for $2.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 20/11/2024

Thank you for all your texts, DMs, and tags about Linda McMahon being tapped for Secretary of Education If you want a sense of how Linda treats kids, here’s an excerpt from my book RINGMASTER: archive.is/GMwyh

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'Abuse, Grooming, Drugs, and Sexual Coercion': The Scandal Wrestling Buried This excerpt from the new book
'Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America' tells the story of Tom Cole, the young WWF ring boy whose allegations could have shaken the world of wrestling.
BY ABRAHAM JOSEPHINE RIESMAN
MARCH 19, 2023

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/11/2024

Your daily reminder: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not "know" anything: it smashes words together in plausible sounding way, but it does not have (and never will have) any ability to check whether something is true or false Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure

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Melissa W @balletbookworm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Recommended @deannaraybourn.bsky.social Veronica Speedwell series to a friend who binged them all on audio in like 2 months and is now mad at me that the next one isn’t out until 2025 So….success! 😜

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/11/2024

Call your senators and demand they block his nomination.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 13/03/2024

harold is AN BABY what the actual hell is this

the poster for a movie version of Harold and the Purple Crayon that apparently stars the unbearable Zachary Levi, who is a fully grown adult

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Corrain went with the Janet Dailey fauxpology maneuver? She tried a DAILEY? Really?!

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/10/2023

A pregnant woman in North Carolina had her parental rights to her baby in utero terminated because she committed a crime while pregnant. The reason? Life begins at conception. People capable of becoming pregnant are truly just incubators for the state. ncnewsline.com/2023/10/18/n...

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Parent's rights terminated because 'life begins at conception'

The ruling takes a 75-year-old NC Supreme Court opinion out of context in determining that a mother's parental rights should be terminated.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Interrupting the current farce in the House are Jewish Voice for Peace activists staging a protest to demand a ceasefire in the Cannon House Office Building rotunda. (Photo from CNBC reporters on scene)

A picture of the Cannon rotunda. There is a large group of Jewish Voice for Peace protesters in black shirts holding signs that say things like "Let Gaza live" "ceasefire" "Philly Jews say Never Again Is Now" "Mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living." They fill the middle of the rotunda, many are sitting down. There are folks on the edges in yellow vests who I believe are law enforcement but may be marshals/observers/press? My eyes aren't that great.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

If you cannot use the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot use the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. These aren't just efforts to ban trans people from public bathrooms; they're an effort to ban trans people from public life.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

"On 15 October 2023, over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies signed a public statement warning of the possibility of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip."

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Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza

On 15 October 2023, over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies signed a public statement warning of the possibility of genocide being perpetrate��...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

an eye opening thing to learn was that the reason golden era simpsons is so packed with songs is apparently because the writers earned little-to-no residuals from the actual episodes, but *did* get sizable residuals from ASCAP for any songs in episodes that they had a songwriting credit on.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/10/2023

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced on Sunday night that he has chosen Laphonza Butler, the president of Emily’s List and a former labor leader, to fill the vacancy left in the Senate by the death of Dianne Feinstein. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/u...

Laphonza Butler stands at a lectern in front of U.S. flags. She looks at the camera and smiles. White text reads: “Newsom Names Laphonza Butler as Feinstein Successor.” Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 27/09/2023

One of the best parts of the WGA deal: AI has now hit a brick wall in Hollywood, *and that includes adaptations.* Based on the deal, AI can't be source material. So if you're a publisher, AI novels or graphic novels or whatever just became that much less appealing because *they can't be optioned.*

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

I’d say this banned-books story horrifies me because I’m queer, but honestly I don’t think I’d be less horrified if I were straight. It’s the kind of insanity that should worry anyone who cares about a) living in a free society or b) other people. popular.info/p/florida-sc...

Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries...

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Laura Rueckert @laurarueckert.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Shout out to this portion of the PubLunch article on AI use by publishers #authors #WritingCommunity #kidlit

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There are many critics of AI technology, both in and outside the industry. One Harper editorial staffer has avoided all the tools that exist. "I think it’s unethical to use it, and think this is just everyone at the top trying to invest in what will make us ‘more efficient’ instead of the tools their employees desperately need: more human support and an end to the hiring freezes," they said. "We are so understaffed and yet our workloads keep increasing. It’s truly untenable. AI is the antithesis of what we aim to do—telling stories about what it means to be human."

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

This is how Rome fell! They stopped wearing suits on the floor of the Senate and let people just come to work wrapped in bedsheets. After that, it was pretty clear that the writing was on the wall. (gift link) wapo.st/3RuGVHN

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Opinion | The loss of the Senate dress code is the downfall of civilization

This is how Rome fell. They went to the Senate floor wrapped in bedsheets.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

This thread is horrifying, and not the first time I've been enraged by Sheryl's stories from eviction court. Important reading. 👇

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

ok last reskeet of this thing bc tomorrow i will be posting about something else lmao

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