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Prepare how? Talk to my priest? I don't even know what the damn thing's about except that there's a Doctor Doom and like 500 other guys in it. The goodwill people are extending this time just seems really wack to me, this is such "remember when we did this before, except it was good?" energy

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

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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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 21h

They want you to believe you're not good enough to have earned the life they promised you. They want you to believe that because they lied, and the well of shame and hopelessness that lie creates makes you less threatening to them. It makes you believe you might be as inferior as they wish you were.

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Ringer @mmmatch.es · 29/09/2026

Normalcy is a race to the bottom, a pointless act of stripping yourself of anything that makes you even slightly unique in a futile effort to appease the unappeasable

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While discipline can make us strong, cruelty does not. It makes us rigid, to the point we break where we should bend. Knowing this, those shaped by cruelty seek protection from pressure, putting their untested strength on display to ward challenge off

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Forgotten Island is such a marvelous flurry of kicks to the heart and eyeballs…. Please go watch it and have a fantastic time

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile I have been made to watch 270 trailers for Cat in the Hat, a movie that is never going to come out.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

America's worship of self-interest serves a critical dual-purpose: glorifying the worst actions of those in power, and manipulating as many others as possible into eagerly gambling away whatever power they had left.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I enjoyed Endgame, a lot. So why does listening to rabid fan speculation about Doomsday make me want to move offworld (rhetorical)

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Remulle @remulle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lookin' good!

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Those of us who've spent a lifetime bullying ourselves into improvement: There will always come a day that it stops working. That is what burnout is. We find a new way forward, or we don't go forward.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everyone knows suffering. Most of the time, we’re only asked to feel bad for those who have accumulated incredible power and status precisely to avoid as much suffering as possible. We’re supposed to feel bad when they publicly fail to rise and remain above the rest of us, shielded. That’s healthy

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can confirm ;-;

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Trudi Castle @trudicastle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a kid, my fave side mission in Link’s Awakening was the ghost following you who wanted to see its old house, only to feel sad and ask to be taken to its grave. It’s so bittersweet! ❤️

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yall think wealthy people can afford therapy, but that’s not their problem. The problem is they can afford to -avoid- therapy. Therapy encourages interaction with complex reality and difficult emotions, the very things against which all their resources have become a shield.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Those who encourage you to deaden your emotional life aren't doing it to help. They want you emotionally unintelligent. As long as you're at the mercy of negative emotions you can't even acknowledge, others can manipulate you easily. Same story with access to critical thinking. We're being declawed.

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Alex Ahad o_8 @oh8.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Next Mission: Metroid Ravenous! 👀👁‍🗨

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm aware the world is full of disappointing people, so this show will get eyeballs. Unfortunately, Joanne is one of the biggest disappointments we've got, so my eyeballs will not be among them. But I'm sure she's encouraged by each successive hire having to announce they disagree with her views

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm honestly annoyed that the story now is "OoT Remake's design gets mixed reaction." And that's not because it's perfect and no one's allowed to have an opinion. What annoys me is that the knee-jerk criticism gets all the the attention and we JUST went through this with Star Fox. It's NOTHING.

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 02/05/2026

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

A three panel comic done in mostly a blue-purple ink. Frame 1: The artist, a tired person with their hair in a bun and a bag on their shoulder standing in the awning of a bus shelter. There's an ad on it that says "STOP HIRING HUMANS", above a woman whose face has been replace with the word "AI".
Frame 2: The bus comes, it's wrapped in an ad that also says "STOP HIRING HUMANS." The artist has a blank look.
Frame 3: A plane has now arrived above the bus and the human. It's carrying an ad banner that also says "STOP HIRING HUMANS".

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psicoyote.bsky.social @psicoyote.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Commission for @kohikami.bsky.social thanks a lot for commissioning me!

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Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gay · 11/09/2026

Two of my friends came up with the best bit relating to the Twitch AI Coach news.

as AI continues structural collapse we can expect every AI company to engage in the worst green eggs and hamming possible to attempt to find any way to weasel into harvesting data
"could you, would you, with a coach? could you, would you, let us poach?"

I will not eat AI slop and spam - I will not eat them, Sam-Alt-Man.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it's been hovering here for a while which is... you know... nice

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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🩷Prismcandies🩷 @maddiebova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I can't get over her nose bridge! She looks amazing🩵 #legendofzelda #ocarinaoftimeremake

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Leo @noleobaddog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ermine................................. I've been struggling on species for a female chara for a while, I'm liking this looong torso design 🩵

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David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I will be playing the Great Deku Tree in the Ocarina remake. I did all the mocap

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just cuz I haven’t seen anyone bring it up, there’s an actual reason Link’s new outfit is so detailed: it’s made out of grass and berries and shit he found in the woods! He didn’t order his tunic from Quince

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Honestly impressed at how faithful they were able to keep many character designs - like the castle villagers - to their original grotesque low-poly forms

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I THINK IT LOOKS VERY GOOD and I hope we can all be relatively normal about this 🤣

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The constitution gives you the right to own an AR-15, for the President to commit whatever crimes he wants, for corporations to flood our politics with money, for hateful Nazis to scream abuse at women seeking abortions, for the state to ram Jesus down your throat…but not to have clean water.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“The misogyny will continue until loneliness improves”

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this is known as gaslighting

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

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Sarah 🫀🦇 @quarkitty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was gonna make fun of the Brave Little Toaster direct to VHS sequel where he goes to Mars (?) but okay, it’s based on a book and not the fevered pitch of a studio exec. Go off king, my apologies.

Book cover for the brave little toaster goes to mars

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If GenAI were meant to support artists, it would. Instead its common exploitative use makes it impossible for many to make a living. It is designed only to transfer power from those with wisdom, taste, and discipline over to dimwits with profane and sordid appetites who cannot abide the word "no."

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I hope it’s now clear that “the party of personal responsibility” always meant “the unethical and illegal things I do must now be permitted without consequence, so that a sense of personal responsibility would be the only thing left standing in my way (of course, I don’t actually HAVE one lol)”

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

don't worry, the country is definitely not ruled by pedophiles

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Rowan || Aurora || ECLIPSA @ruadhain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

-IMPORTANT- Gumroad has recently updated their website with the intention of phasing out the ability to manually edit your storefront and allowing you to only edit your storefront via AI agents. I will be dropping gumroad support entirely in the near future. More to come as I sort things out.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It is not important to approach all life as a game of power and control. It is, however, important to realize how many people are limited to doing precisely that.

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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬 @kategodart.northsky.social · 26/08/2026

we have thousands of potential dolly partons and tim curries already walking amongst us. most of them are begging for rent money or getting crushed at a shitty job

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