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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, smart people: is there an effective way to protect a fat ebook comic from AI scraping once it’s unleashed into the world? Or is that barn door dwindling south of the horse’s tail since it’s been all up on patreon this whole time?

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 9h

my other Gupdate is that my Ginga Rubra female is all bricked up and ready to pop, so i spent a little time today rigging up a birthing box for her. Her tank also has a wild type ginga rubra male i will eventually cull for the 30, so that should be interesting once my two populations cross.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11h

With the uptick in ICE activity & the resulting surge in whistle requests (get 100-3k free at 3dwhistles.com), I'm reminding folks that you can support the printing of whistles by giving $20 to @protopasta.bsky.social, who in turn sends DEEPLY DISCOUNTED filament to our printers!

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"We Keep Us Safe" by The Whistle Crew

The Protopasta Fil-anthropy Fund is proud to partner with the Whistle Crew, "a loose federation united by our love for 3D printing and community safety." Across the nation, our communities' lives are ...

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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 11h

We obvs don't have a whistle culture here in Maryland, but lots of other metro regions in the US do, and the whistle crew folks do good work that's worth supporting

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leupagus @leupagus.bsky.social · 14h

To be clear, the "criminal investigation" is Trump's lackeys pretending that Omar's late father filled out their family's paperwork incorrectly when Omar herself was a child; based on that, Trump is trying to get her citizenship removed and force her deportation. That's the "criminal investigation."

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 11h

Once upon a time I did make quite a few enamel pins, I think it has been almost six years since the last time I tried

Pale hand holding up a Samantha Mash Illustration enamel pin of a black and white flying harpy with silver trim

Pale hand holding up a Samantha Mash Illustration enamel pin of a yellow Ginkgo branch with silver trim

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

the muslim hate in this country has become policy, but you don’t get 7,000 think pieces about how that makes american muslims feel.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

it really seems as though they’re about to disappear a congresswoman.

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ABOOnchio👻 BOOlchetti👻 @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 16h

Would love to do some comics or book covers for friends and colleagues this November/December or (even better!) in 2027. Never hesitate to DM or e-mail me at artyomtrakhanov[a]gmail.com !

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WIRED @wired.com · 15h

US law enforcement agents obtained authorization to use a controversial cell phone surveillance device to find and arrest a college student who helped produce journalist Don Lemon’s coverage of an anti-ICE protest, court filings show.

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Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer

Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/10/2026

There is one digger in all of Gaza available for use to help locate bodies buried under rubble. Israel refuses to allow in more "for security reasons." Incredible photo feature—cn for mention and photos of human remains.

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Skeletons in their clothing: Recovering bodies from the rubble in Gaza

It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Gaza war, devastating one extended family. A year and a half later, the survivors find their loved ones' remains.

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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Animation by Rodolphe Guenoden* | The Prince of Egypt (1998) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

no po-licing of that moustache whatsoever

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i see they made the coward's choice

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Lorelei @handler-lorelei.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Excellent writing as always Mr. Kojima

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

israel has the same right to exist that apartheid south africa and rhodesia had, which is none whatsoever

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Dechanique🔞 @dechanique.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Going to learn to use the risograph at Dwightmess on Sunday! Printing in hot pink and mint This one's called "Pearl" I'll share the full image after it's printed and scanned #myart #NSFW #tentacles

A fat unicorn woman lying in an open clam, sucking on a pink and mint tendril emerging from the clam meat. Clam juice drips down her big tits to her fluffy bush

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Ian MacEwan @ianmacewan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is very good!

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

do leaves fall into it though? i hope i don't sound insane asking this question, i love blackwater aquariums.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 09/10/2026

In January 2025, 45 Democrats voted to sanction the ICC.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 09/10/2026

A good time to remind people that Chris Van Hollen is the only Member of Congress to have ever called for European states to sanction the President and Secretary of State, in this case specifically in response to their attempts to destroy the ICC in order to protect Israel.

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this is so beautiful, but that blackwater caught my eye---i want to know what the bottom of that river looks like 👀

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yeah the past 24-48 hours feels like a "fuck it, we ball" for the admin

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G.C. Houle @gchoule.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm sorry, pornographers are getting chased off the internet and browbeaten by peers while the US gov is planning to livestream a murder???

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Kae Kolormore @kaekolormore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

people will say "did you know the creator of ... has a weird fetish" as if anything other than a weird fetish could possibly compel you to suffer through the creative process

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

...Assumption #5: If Dems lose the Senate, it will be trans people’s fault – actually, if Dems' decision to go anti-trans hurts them, it's THEIR FAULT FOR BAD STRATEGY! but ppl *love* to blame the minority: it's the "asking for it"/"activists gone to far" trope juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

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Assumption #5: If Democrats lose the Senate, it will be trans people’s fault
I’ve seen numerous cis people online explicitly saying this over the last few days, even though it’s inane and completely misplaced for all the reasons that I just laid out in Assumption #4. But if it strikes a familiar chord, that’s probably because many cis politicians and pundits tried to blame trans people for Kamala Harris’s 2024 election loss, even though 1) trans people were not running her campaign! and 2) she lost for reasons that had nothing to do with the anti-trans attack ads that targeted her (discussed in more depth here).
So why are so many cis people determined to blame trans people for political outcomes that we did not cause?
Well, that could be an entire essay unto itself. In fact, I’m in the process of writing an academic paper (that will hopefully be published next year) on the “asking for it” trope: the unconscious tendency to blame marginalized/minority groups for things that the dominant/majority group has actively done to them. If you want a sneak-peak into my thinking, I’ve previously expressed some of these ideas in my Prejudice and the Unmarked/Marked Mindset essay and video (especially during the “activists gone too far trope” section, about 17 minutes in).

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

...Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

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Assumption #4: The elephant in the room that no one is talking about
There is a striking disconnect between Talarico, Turek, et al. — who have clearly made a political calculation that abandoning trans rights will help them more than it will hurt them in this election — and the many cisgender liberals I’ve encountered online who are absolutely freaking out over the possibility that trans people’s critiques and protests will ultimately tank said candidates.
Both of these things cannot simultaneously be true!
If you think your favorite candidate enacted the correct political strategy, then there is no reason to berate trans people for protesting it, as those protests should already be baked into your candidate’s calculations. So why are you berating trans people then? (Unless, of course, you enjoy berating trans people just for the sake of it.)
Alternatively, if you think trans people *are* capable of tanking your favorite candidate via our criticisms and protests, doesn’t that imply that your candidate (and their consultants and strategists) totally fucked up in their political calculations here? And if they did fuck up, shouldn’t you be reaching out and complaining to *them* (rather than berating trans people), in the hope that they might reverse their bad decision?

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Palma Vecchio, 1480-1528

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"oh my god, she's alive! she made it!!" "...wait...thats....not a female....thats just a fat guppy wild-type male." I need to move him upstairs, but i wont cull him; he likely carries the japan blue trait, so his crosses may produce interesting results in the mutt colony bsky.app/profile/celi...

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i'm logging the fuck off for the night, what the ever loving fuck

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I guess this is just sort of the logical endpoint of this administration’s commitment to fulfilling their supporters’s desire to vicariously consume violence done to other people.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It is a little staggering to watch 21st century technology being used to revive an older relationship between state violence and public spectatorship. From town square, to prison chamber, back to town square, only this time it’s from the comfort of your own home.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 08/10/2026

Julián Curo-Churata, a 47-year-old father of 2 from Laurel, MD, died in ICE custody last month. Julián was the 37th person to die in ICE detention in the past year. There must be a full independent investigation into his death. Not another dime for this lawlessness.

Laurel father and husband died in ICE custody in Louisiana

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

From their three hearts to their doughnut-shaped brains, octopuses are fascinating creatures that are also biologically wired to die after they reproduce. We spoke with cephalopod expert Z. Yan Wang to learn more about octopus death spirals and to answer listener questions for Cephalopod Week!

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

brought to mind many sad, frustrating conversations with conservative exes in my youth who didn't see why my silly heartfelt beliefs should be such a sore point between us

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Ladislavica @ladislavic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

5.Хлопать 6.Огр эх, отстаем от основного! #Inktober2026

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been away 🌲

Photo: a couple little islands on some water

Photo: a sunlit pass of moss in a pine forest

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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 08/10/2026

HAPPY WORLD OCTOPUS DAY Bsky!!! 🐙 🐡🦑 We're celebrating 🥳 🎉 with 5% to 20% off, auto applied in your cart: sculptedreef.com #BSNM #WorldOctopusDay

A vibrant red clay octopus sculpture depicting the species Callistoctopus luteus, also known as the starry night octopus.

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i hope this woman realizes her life as a self respecting queer person ends the minute she gives this man children; listen to the way he talks about becoming a father with her! When men disagree with your politics think hard about what that's gonna look like as time goes on.

description for this episode of Where Should We Begin: They met dancing, and it was love at first sight. But only after they began dating did they realize the vast differences between them: differences in their core values, religious beliefs, political affiliations, sexual identities, and immigration statuses. And yet, they love each other deeply and hope to start a family together. He comes to Esther wondering how to raise children with someone who holds such different values from him and his family. Her question is deeper: by loving him, is she betraying herself?

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also, my black bar male passed sometime yesterday or the day before. Its really demoralizing; I wish I'd started the meds sooner but am not sure if it would have made a difference since I just don't know what the issue is for sure. He was so beautiful, I'm so sad I couldn't save him.

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