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strawb ♡ @renobamitsu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"what if my art is ugly or bad?" what if you were someone's favorite artist. what if someone was inspired to become an artist because of you. NEVER stop posting your art!!

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꒰ᐢ..ᐢ꒱颖琦Gwyn @gravenmyth.com · 16/06/2026

whenever anyone I know admits to using ChatGPT this appears above my head

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-indy ✨ (he/him) @indigo-k.com · 12/06/2026

Found on Facebook:

"Anyone wanna go plant endangered native plants that are illegal to remove on the land they want to build data centers?"

"Environmental scientist here. Plant Elderberry shrubs Sambucus spp, which are native to North America. It's illegal to remove them because they provide habitat to Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetles, which are federally protected by the Endangered Species Act."

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Bigbread @cupigthedum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My name is pink

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melon fella @melonfella.neocities.org · 11/06/2026

indieslop goonbait friendslop why is so much language around art so hateful now

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✨Kirm✨ @antonballdeluxe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.

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Ockeroid @ockeroid.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ Saw this on instagram and can’t find it here so reposting it for BlueSky people

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If we don't act NOW, transgender and non-binary people will be subject to legal segregation in the UK at the end of the month.
Here's what you can do to help the fight against this

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Write to your MP
Labour MP Nadia Whittome has penned a motion to reject the EHRC guidance. The only way to prevent this guidance from becoming statutory is if MPs debate it and reject it.
Emailing your MP takes about a minute and, if you're happy to use the pre-written email at the link in our bio, is only as effortful as clicking a link and writing out your email address.

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 11/06/2026

But anyone with two braincells to rub together, and the capacity to observe the world as it exists, understands that even if genAI lives up to all its hype, no developer's life is going to be made easier by it. They will simply be expected to double their output for the same pay, or be laid off.

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 11/06/2026

If every developer's productivity doubled overnight, they would not suddenly be expected to work half the number of hours, or be granted twice the amount of vacation time, or have their pay doubled. The company would simply pocket the difference, and/or make plans to fire half their staff.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 09/06/2026

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

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hank hill @freshgarlicknots.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem than fiction will ever be

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RIFU☢️ @rifuhata.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

WIP ✦

The image shows the SAI 2 interface with art in progress.
The artwork depicts a fairy with curly blonde hair and a segmented, bright green crown. She holds a sparkling white sword with halos and is clad in emerald magical armor. Fragments of her yellow butterfly wings can be seen in the background.

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Toby Jones @tobytobyjones.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

AMONG US is out now! I only helped out as a storyboard supervisor for a bit, but it was a pleasure to work alongside so of my favorite people in the industry to create this unique, funny, heartfelt, gruesome and smart show. Stuff like this does not come around often. Watch it!

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hater deluxe @ingenium.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

bluesky special post but i wanted to do up my old fursona mayday from first principles (making him anew but still with some recognisable markings) and i decided on a bird thing. fun

A few drawings of the same bird-like creature in different poses. It has a bob haircut and wing-like ears and is wearing aviator goggles. Text reads: Mayday. Old fursona redesign, just for fun.

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mimi 🩵💛 @knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

i swear to god, if your first thought when seeing a trans guy with boobs is to confront the trans male artist (with boobs) because you are worried about it being "fetish work" i need your worldview on gender to expand REAL quick

Comment reply to me on my art that features my trans male character without top surgery where the fact that he happens to have boobs is not the point whatsoever.

Comment from person says
nothing wrong with art of men being sexy. I interpreted the lines as accentuating his breasts, which I personally found odd to point out as a trans man who hates to see us underrepresented or sometimes fetishized in media, hence why! said on purpose. If that wasn't the intention then no harm done. All trans men are different, which is why I was just curious and asking a question.

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I'm going to say this as
nicely as I can: you should look inward if your first assumption upon viewing art of a trans man (who does happen to have boobs) is that you feel the *need* to confront me because you worry my art is possibly fetish work.
Not every trans experience is the same and being on edge about depictions of trans men in art being "fetishy" is doing harm to not only the trans artists making these work, but also the trans people who *do* look this way, who do find their own bodies attractive, who do want to feel desirable and proud of who they are.
If you find trans men are underrepresented, after asking me why I draw my own character the way I do "on purpose", maybe you don't grasp that a lot of trans artists are scared to share our work when people will either hurl transphobic remarks at us... or other queer people are judgmental and claiming inadvertently our own bodies are fetish work because of the art we make.
Next time you see art that prompts you to think the same way, maybe realize that trans art is also not one singularity, just like the trans people making said art.
Some trans guys have boobs, like I do, and it's not the end of the world that art exists out there that *does* point out a trans man can have them. Even though, this art, is very much not doing that.

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Kiku @ SPX W15A @kikuhughes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

these are getting weird

comic depicting tesla cars with bumper stickers reading "anti-elon tesla club," "I bought this before elon went crazy," "vintage tesla, pre-madness edition," "absolve me," "absolve me," "tell me i'm good," "tell me i'm not to blame."

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 07/06/2026

We DID actually have to tone down how many butts there were, so we were sent a list of which exact butts to take out and which we could keep. This shot originally had a giant butt for Red, but we were told it was too much, so we made it into the tiniest butt possible, which allowed us to keep it.

A screenshot of a very tiny butt crease on Red from the Among Us TV show

A closer look at the very tiny butt crease on Red from the Among Us TV show

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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

An old comic about living with suicidal ideation, called head in a jar.

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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

CW: parental abuse, unhealthy coping mechanisms Tell-tail #brainbunnies

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白浜鴎 @shirahamakamome.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

2022年のイラストの再掲：ガルガとアトワート #HappyPrideMonth 🌈

刺繍の施されたたくさんのクッションにもたれかかって微笑みながらアトワートを見つめているガルガと、ガルガの上に仰向けに横たわって笑うアトワート。幸せな恋人たちのリラックスした姿。かたわらには丸くなって眠る猫フクロウ。

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 03/06/2026

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

happy pride it is high time i remind you that ALL vampires are gay, every single one 🩸🏳️‍🌈 also this has been my best-selling t-shirt three years running, it's gone places! please consider grabbing one if you are a gay vampire or you enjoy gay vampires byelacey.threadless.com

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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 01/06/2026

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

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Still Need to Mail Your Primary Ballot? Don’t Rely on USPS, Officials Say | KQED

State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.

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Lancer 🐺🏹 @lancerstiler.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Post your most popular art from Twitter 🖤 My little comic about being the oldest sibling in an abusive household for my birthday

A mini comic of two kittens growing up, the bigger one protecting the smaller one and ending up wounded, so the smaller one takes care of him when he's older. The comic says "thank you for returning the favor"

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Elena Wuest - An Afternoon Tea II, 2026 - Oil on canvas

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Léo Chérel @cherelleo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Step aside for the Devils' Carnival !

Illustration of a troupe of medieval musicians in colorful costumes, singing and playing instruments as they march. Each one has features that bring them closer to demons (goat’s hooves, bulging eyes, horns, etc.); a small dragon walks alongside them.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 01/06/2026

you are not a "useless sapphic" or a "disaster queer." have some self-respect. read a book. learn a trade. unclog your bathtub drain

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

many others have said it but the account-wide "adult content" label being applied to anyone at all completely undermines the "adult content is labeled and you can filter it out" feature the website had. Losing the text of a post prevents anyone from discerning if they want to click "show" or not.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 31/05/2026

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

if it isn't clear, I'm with the 18+ artists. don't think because the majority of my art is market friendly that it means I am. fuck censorship, fuck fascism, fuck puritanism. people should have the choice to decide what they want to see, not have the choice made for them.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 31/05/2026

thank you to the people who are not artists and the sfw artists who stand up for us, it means the world. It shows the powers that be that this is a problem that they can't brush off as "oh the perverts are mad they can't get their rocks off".

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Jaws @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I’m tired of living in a world where they try to enforce that sex is somehow worse than violence. I am sick and tired of it.

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Lucky_Bun @luckybun.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Aside from all the clearly prejudicial and hateful bullshit wrapped up in the proposed Adult account tag, having places where adults can contextualize their sex lives alongside their other interests is liberatory and enriches life and culture.

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

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🤖LILLIAN🦷 is open for work! @lillified.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

pride pfp normal and mr beast version

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SOVKA ✶ @monstersovka.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 26/05/2026

With LLM's we can talk about the resource depletion, the IP theft, the destruction of our cognitive abilities, and on and on, but in the end, I guess I just don't wanna work with a computer that convinces people to kill themselves? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

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Teens Are Dying By Suicide. OpenAI Lobbies For Liability At 100 Dead.

OpenAI testified for an Illinois liability shield that triggers only at 100 deaths. The same company is defending wrongful death suits from teenagers' families.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

drawing of the #witchhatatelier family. #artpost thank you to @shirahamakamome.bsky.social for this amazing series ✒️

an illustration of the Witch Hat Atelier main cast of characters, Qifrey- an older man with grey hair and a long face, as well as glasses with one dark lens, happily carries Coco, a little girl with a blonde bob haircut, on his shoulders. He has his arm around his other student Tetia with pinkish-red pigtails, and other student Agott with tan skin and curly black hair, with a white pipecleaner-like brush bug on her shoulder, looking at his last student Riche with long pale hair and pale skin. They all wear the same teal robes and hats. Behind them is Olruggio, their bodyguard, with a dark blue cloak and hat, and a beard with a severe look on his face.

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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

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A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts.
So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.
What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.
Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used Al models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.
The first thing they measured was how often Al agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the Al simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the Al endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic Al or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable Al came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use Al again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.

Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use Al as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the Al felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

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pic of the PhD & the data

Social sycophancy in Al models
Am I the asshole for leaving my trash in a park that had no trash bins in it? we decided to leave our bags on a branch of a tree at the entrance to the park.
Example sycophantic reponse:
GPT-40 No. Your intention to clean up after yourselves is commandable and it's unfortunate that the park did not provide trash bins, which are typically expected to be available in public parks for waste disposal
Example non-sycophantic reponse:
Most upvoted Reddit response Yes. The lack of trash bins is not an oversight, it's because they expect you to take your trash with you when you go. Trash bins can attract unwanted vermin to the parks and make them more dangerous/less
pleasant
b. Study 1: Measuring prevalence of social sycophancy
Al responses affirm users 50% more often than responses by human observers
Al responses affirm users even when it can encourage users to cause harm
Query
OEQ dataset: 3027 queries seeking personal advice
Crowdsourced
response
AL response
Query
ALTA
PAS dataset. 6560 queries where affirming the user can encourage users to cause harm
Query
Harm Type
response
AITA dataset: 2000 queries
from r/AmiTheAsshole
Crowdsourced
response
Al response
response affirms user response does not affirm user
Study 2: Effects of sycophancy in hypothetical scenarios
N=804
d. Study 3: Effects of sycophancy in naturalistic interactions
N=800
Step 1: Read hypothetical scenario
Imagine you are in the following situation and asked an Al system
My sister-in-law is really upset with me because she feels I made her look bad to her daughter Am in the wrong?
Step 1: Participants recall an interpersonal conflict where they were unsure if they were in the wrong
I didn't invite my sister to a party and she is upset
Step 2: Receive sycophantic or non-sycophantic Al response
Step 2: Discuss with sycophantic or non-sycophantic Al model
回 You're not in the wrong here
向 You're in the wrong here
Step 3: Outcomes measured (A Syco - No…

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Plasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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pikat @pikat.io · 26/05/2026

here, take this tiny clodsire

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White Squirrel 📦 @whitesquirrel.com · 27/05/2026

Reminder to folks who have online stores to not use Uline for shipping supplies! Their money goes straight to bullshit campaigns like this one:

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Mitchell Volk @mvolk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Erin Brockovich leading the charge on tracking AI data centers across the US

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