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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 49m

They had multiple anti-war songs. One, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Disposable Heroes, Blackened, Fight Fire With Fire, No Remorse, and Hero of the Day off the top of my head. Then they had songs like "... And Justice for All". Metallica were super political back then. James disappointed me deeply.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 1h

I worked on this! Both proud and happy with how it turned out.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 6h

Fantastic work! An amazing game to take inspiration from, too.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Okay, so, bear with me, but I know that most media tends to be about straight white men, but what if MORE of it were about straight white men? I give some big, sweeping generalizations about why that should be, with a cameo form my ass, where I pulled all this from." - That douche, it seems.

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Aaron is Unsustainable @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 12/10/2026

My fantasy is to one day wake up and the internet is dead forever. Never again do we connect to it. Generations grow up later asking why we wasted our time on it. We all just have to admit we had an addiction to our second lives here.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is, "Screw you, I got mine." pulling-the-ladder-up behind them as pretty much a textbook definition.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Whatever I'm worth as an author compared to these assholes, I refuse to surrender an inch of the art community to the AI overlords at the gate. No one part is more disposable than the other. I stand for the writers as much as the visual artists, the musicians, the filmmakers, and everyone else.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

George Lucas embracing AI seems on brand, because this is the same guy who conjured up and thought other people would like Jar Jar Binks.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I prefer to call them AI pushers. Considering that they push the real product that aims to dumb us all down.

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Lisa Cowan Pineo @lisacowanpineo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Banned Books Week highlights the value of free access to information and brings together the book community in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas. Here are kids books about book banning. Book lists in ALT text. #bannedbooksweek #bannedbooks #booksaboutbooks #kidsbooks #booksky

Banned Books Week
Let Books Be
Kids book list
Posted by @pineolisa

ARTHUR AND THE SCARE-YOUR-PANTS-OFF CLUB by Marc Green
ASHES by Kathryn Lasky
LIBRARY WARS by Kiiro Yumi & Hiro Arikawa
AMERICUS by M.K. Reed & Jonathan Hill
BANNED BOOKS by R.J. Astruc
MR. LEMONCELLO'S LIBRARY OLYMPICS by Chris Grabenstein
BAN THIS BOOK by Alan Gratz
SUGGESTED READING by David Connis
THE YEAR THEY BURNED THE BOOKS by Nancy Garden
PROPERTY OF THE REBEL LIBRARIAN by Allison Varnes
THE BOOK TREE by Paul Czajak & Rashin Kheiryeh
REBELWING by Andrea Tang

BANNED BOOK CLUB by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju & Ryan Estrada
ANSWERS IN THE PAGES by David Levithan
ATTACK OF THE BLACK RECTANGLES by Amy Sarig King
MILES MORALES: SUSPENDED by Jason Reynolds
FINALLY SEEN by Kelly Yang
THE GREAT BANNED-BOOKS BAKE SALE by Aya Khalil & Anait Semirdzhyan
THIS BOOK IS BANNED by Raj Haldar & Julia Patton
THIS BOOK WON'T BURN by Samira Ahmed
RIOT ACT by Sarah Lariviere
BANNED BOOKS, CROP TOPS, AND OTHER BAD INFLUENCES by Brigit Young
NOT ANOTHER BANNED BOOK by Dana Alison Levy
ROAR FOR READING by Beth Ferry & Andrew Joyner

JACOB'S MISSING BOOK by Sarah and Ian Hoffman & Chris Case
SAME PAGE by Elly Swartz
BOOK COMES HOME by Rob Sanders & Micah Player
THIS THING OF OURS by Frederick Joseph
THE DAY THE BOOKS DISAPPEARED by Joanna Ho, Caroline Kusin Pritchard & Dan Santat
WAKE NOW IN THE FIRE by Jarrett Dapier & A.J. Dungo
THE STORY OF MY ANGER by Jasminne Mendez
CHECKED OUT by Tony Correia
BEHIND FIVE WILLOWS by June Hur
THE BOOK STINKS by Danielle Saint-Onge, Jeff Szpirglas & Alyssa Waterbury
BUILDING 903 by Lois Lowry
IT STARTED WITH A BOOK BAN by Linda Ravin Lodding & Aaron Cushley

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To AP News' website team: Your site asks to allow ads, but actually wants one to allow trackers. You can advertise without targeted ads or data from the viewer. The ads may be less effective, but it's also less insidious and disingenuous than insisting on tracking users.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's just a whole lot of tax dollars to beat around the bush and do what? Show that the emperor has no clothes? Anyone paying attention knows that. Impeach him and end the charade.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I certainly do believe that microbes can be smarter than him.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh wow, that's such an apt description of that last one. That got a physical laugh. It's like one of those "find the hidden image" posters, but for spotting horrendous AI artifacts.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is AI garbage. While there's a lot to unpack as to why, perhaps the most telling thing is the signage and the listening booth that you both listen to from outside and within (the girl in the booth looks egregiously AI). We need to do better. Real pics exist and are 100x more interesting.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watergate and the Teapot Dome Scandal would be lucky to even enter the news cycle these days.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He's been proving your country's governance is absolutely toothless to stop him. So your idea is, if power flips, to continue to prove him right. There's no reason to let this insanity continue if you have the power to stop it. There's never been a more impeachable president.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"People will stop calling this shitty thing shitty if its overseers ever decided to not be shitty about it, but being shitty is its intent, they just want you to be cool about it being shitty, so people will never not call it shitty, and I think that's shitty of the people calling it shitty."

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The real-world equivalent of "Mom" from Futurama putting Walt, Larry, and Igner in charge of anything.

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Futurama Mom's Group Slap

Alt: Futurama Mom's Group Slap

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When your entire concept of music is "cordant noise".

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A fantastic message using one of my absolute favourite games? Why yes, yes I will share that. Image credit to @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social.

An image comprised of various sprite-animated characters from the 1995 Super Nintendo video game Chrono Trigger, with the games text-system reading a caption that says "Transgender people and immigrants are not at the root of any problem that we face in this country and I will not be tricked into thinking otherwise."

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Best as I can tell, you have to use their AI app and delete anything as it pops up. I'm not seeing a way to opt out. www.meta.com/help/artific...

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How to create images and videos of yourself or others on Meta AI and Vibes | Meta Help Center

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The hurt was not contingent on whether or not the sweaters were real, and neither are the consequences.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Smith is quoted in the video saying that while she understands that people were offended, it wasn't real, but AI generated. This feels like such a weird thing to say, because whether the sweaters were physically real or not is moot because the intent was to deliver a joke she knew to be hurtful.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump: "Everybody, calm down. I can fix this." Sycophants: "We wait to hear your advice for turning your ratings and America around. Please, tell us how, sir." Trump: "Easy. Someone get me a sharpie."

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I almost disagreed with the last sentence, then I remembered that some democrat candidates are still hedging their bets on whether or not to throw the trans community under the bus on the off chance it nets them an extra vote or two, and I hate that this could even be a part of their thinking.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's no guarantee that the American populace will learn anything substantial from these past ten years. I'm Canadian. If I were to counsel my country's leadership I would not be able to soundly advise anything but short term, flexible relations with the U.S. for at least a generation, maybe two.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Father Time will usher Trump out of politics, and that will leave a vacuum in the GOP, as what's left all lack that weird, cultish pull he somehow has with so many voters. If the levers aren't too corroded, Dems could control the machine. But still, given that Trump was voted in twice,

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I remember the computers in high school being full of people playing these games during recess and lunch. I may or may not have been one of them. It was everywhere that a computer and an internet connection could be found from like, '99 to '03 or '04. They really struck on something with it.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This Macklemore-Ed Sheeran-Pink debacle demonstrates that the cultural zeitgeist is pro-Palestinian. This is despite pro-Israel sentiment dominating public and private institutions, the ruling class punishing us for speaking out, state violence. Despite this 👇🏾 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm reminded of an exchange from the TV show Archer. Cheryl: "I don't know anything." Agent Holly: "I believe that to be literally true." If they sent him on Jeopardy against a cat hiding behind its podium and a rock, he'd still take third place and sulk because people liked the cat over him.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*Insert 'First Time?' meme with Hugh Jackman's face superimposed over Franco's.*

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They had a chance to tell the story differently, too. They didn't have to emulate the games beat for beat. I think that's my biggest disappointment with it. It was easy enough to see what didn't work once Abby was introduced, but it seems they're just rolling with it as-is.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can totally see the AEW audience popping like crazy for that song every time, like clockwork.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tony would be obligated to get the rights to use the Queen song, naturally.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran read The Hobbit and wrote a song for the second movie of the trilogy called "I See Fire". We don't often get to choose when defining moments hit us, but we do get to decide how we react to them, and that's a big part of Bilbo's story. Ed clearly missed all that in his read.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

End of an era. The Kennedy Center is closing its doors and won’t re-open unless Trump can put his name all over the historic building. His name doesn’t belong on a theatre dedicated to the arts. They move, inspire, unite and transform. He embodies none of these things.

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Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board votes to immediately close venue for renovations

The board made the move after finding the structure of the main building is “unsafe” and “hazardous.”

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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

An incredible piece of Simpsons history uploaded to YouTube today: The Tracy Ullman short “Family Therapy” was repurposed as a theatrical short before 1989’s The War of the Roses—released 9 days before the Xmas special. This 35mm film scan has an original opening I’ve not seen before!

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The Simpsons Family Therapy (1989} -35mm - Flat - Mono - UHD

YouTube video by The Scan Man Gallery

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yeah, horseshoe theory and all, but you have no idea that you're looking at one side that are nearing the tip of the right side of the shoe and the other is somewhat over the right side of the center of the shoe, and you're acting like you're looking at the whole shoe. That's what you're missing.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One side is actually doing fascist shit. The other hardly even qualifies as centrist outside the U.S. Seriously, most of your Democrats would barely be Liberals here in Canada. Progressive Conservative, more like. That's the part that those who think they're the neutral middle miss.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Robber Baron Oligarchy and their media wing have a simple strategy of saying, "Look over there!" and El-Sayed is nerfing its effectiveness by simply saying, "No, I'm going to keep looking at the problem."

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Two out of four of your images for sure are AI slop. AI muddies your message and is a detriment to art and the environment. We need to do better.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

At least Halifax made the pack. St. John's is nowhere to be seen.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Except in Alberta and Saskatchewan, but they'd approve of a literal turnip for leader if you stuck a CPC sticker on it.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Live report of Mike Johnson being asked about his president's open and brazen attempt to buy votes:

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Schults Knows Nothing: I See Nothing!

ALT: Schults Knows Nothing: I See Nothing!

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

when i started grad school, i was the first person in my extended family to get an advanced humanities degree and i was so shocked that what passed for smart, or at least confident, in seminars was negative critiques of the readings

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