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Rika⁷

@commanderrika.blacksky.app
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Writer+Illustrator. She/Her. Stories in Lightspeed, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2026) Portfolio: commanderrika.com Commissions: marikawrites589@gmail.com

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audge⁷ -- an armpit sommelier @btsaudge.borasky.com · 3m
Hey friends, I'm sharing on behalf of someone I've known for years who's struggling right now. They're ARMY, but shy in fanspaces. If you have the means to help out, I know they would greatly appreciate it! If you can't support with $, please repost!
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/02/2026
JCO is the only one who gets a free pass to stay on twitter because it's better for us, emotionally, if she's not here, but also it's worse for them, emotionally, if she's over there
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 36m
Jane Doe, you are remarkably brave. I wish you didn’t have to be. “I am Jane Doe.” Do not let them doxx Jane Doe. If you see their name, you did not. Do not punish the victim. I stand with survivors. You will not take away their power. We believe you.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 28m
we have built a society that is designed to put as little friction between you and the thing you want as humanly possible and all it did was fuck up everyone's psyches and damage and do irreparable damage to the global economy.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 50m
I really think a lot of people underestimate the damage done to society by the conviction that, no matter what product we want, it should be delivered to us in a matter of hours.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1h
See it’s cool because now every delivery driver can also be part of your neighborhood watch and cops will be able to jack in to live feeds from driver glasses. /s
bloomberg.com
Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 3h
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h
Poorly thought-out foreign quagmires and disasters, economic instability and deprivation, wanton cruelty and violence are all hallmark features of white supremacist societies.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 7h
Yeah this Cornell thing is like a mass disabling event for survivors. I am fine, I *was* fine. But now it's in the zeitgeist again so I get to be reminded of my own college experience, something I hadn't thought about in decades, on a daily basis.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 5h
i agree. even if the ai “writing” is “perfect,” i don’t want to read it. just like i wouldn’t want to live off meal tablets. who would?
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 4h
My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h
google should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h
It’s almost reflexive.
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 3h
I don’t tell about this book enough by me and Andrea Hannah! If you ever wanted to both learn about 616 Agatha and about magic (both in universe and irl) this is the book for you! insighteditions.com/products/the...
insighteditions.com
The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness
Agatha Harkness shares her own spellbook, compiled over decades, to take readers on a journey through the supernatural world of Marvel, featuring history, spells, potions, and more! Narrated by the wi...
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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 3h
My inlaws are in SF and in theory I could ask them to pick me up something from the RM x SFMoMA exhibit. But counterpoint, I would rather die than explain this to them.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 4h
The only liberation is a shared liberation.
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Melissa DuVant @melissaduvant.bsky.social · 14h
so much of the AI techboro stuff is *deeply* solipsistic and highly creepy - "the entire world must be made for me, and anything not specifically for me is bad and wrong"
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RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app · 4h
And as a matter of fact, considering how much AI music is stealing from/attempting to imitate Black music specifically..........who is doing work on AI and minstrelsy right now? I wanna read it
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 5h
I think this is where the "internet" gets it wrong... It's not enough to talk about what you don't like find what you love and LOVE IT!
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h
What I wouldn’t give to go back in time and tell people they built a machine that is supposed to think for people, makes the President look like Jesus, and they hope to store our souls in a file forever but you’re all going to love it to a bunch of Southern Baptists.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h
This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 23h
For alums or others who want to support student journalism, you can donate to the Cornell Daily Sun here:
cdsaa-2660.wp.greekly.io
Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association
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Stina Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 23h
100% this. But you know, it's always the woman's fault.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
karlbode.com
Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hmmmm. Setting aside the Oprah part, this windows vs mirrors thing is a corruption of Dr Rudine Sims Bishop's foundational work on kidlit about windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. scenicregional.org/wp-content/u...
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m not giving that Atlantic article any clicks, but I will tell you this: not ONE stay at home parent I know, and I know many, would begrudge free daycare. Why do you think we became stay at home parents you absolute doorknobs.
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Spider-Man: Pre-owned Day @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i wanna point out that one year in there are people that support and are doing the work of fascism with enthusiasm and the smallest hint of discomfort levied towards them is met with the most dramatic pearl clutching
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
engadget.com
Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.
The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At this point, I assume any defense of AI was written by it. I’ve not been wrong.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For real! Why I need this machine to check if I wrote something. Why doesn't the machine go choke on slop.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Harper Collins tried to claim both my stolen books. Harper Collins published neither.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lot of the work that went into this was done by my former colleague at the FPD, one of the smartest and most dedicated lawyers I ever knew, Paula Harms. She passed away last year unexpectedly and I really wish she could see this.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Got my first author book scam email today! Mama I finally made it!!!! 😎
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rahm Emanuel, who has about a good a chance of being president as I do, has been profiled like 9 times in the last couple months in major newspapers. It really shows you how profoundly out of touch the people are that drive much of our national political discourse.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seeing as older generations were stuck self medicating with nicotine and improperly dosed uppers yeah I think people getting actual care is good, Janice, you damned eugenics brained sadist!
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Cranky Professional Organizer Bitch @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 26/09/2026
I have been watching this build in romance reading and reviewing for yeeeeears, and it seems like it hit terminal velocity sometime over the past few. No one seems to be comfortable with, "This was not for me, and that's okay." If they don't like something, that means it was bad, full stop.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/09/2026
Mass layoffs kill people. Thousands of quiet tragedies follow every billionaire's predatory decision. Never forget.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
omg. i love this version so much
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI detection software, made out of genAI by the same dipshits making genAI, is being targeted at Black writers so that an Arday can happen but with no human able to be held accountable.
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quaithe of the shadow asshai @clarkconquers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mannnnn seeing the exhibit on this at the Atlanta History Center was very sobering.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
Joe Camel unavailable for comment.
wired.com
Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?
Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump's net approval is -22.4%. He's twice as unpopular as he was at this point in his first term, making him the least popular president at this stage in the history of presidential polling. What more would it take for Dems and liberal institutions to stop being accomodationists?
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 26/09/2026
Support the things you like, friends. They may not continue to exist without it.
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I left several copies of this little zine I made in my classroom at the start of the year. They are all gone now and no one has said anything but I am pleased.
Words: Why I am saying no to "AI" and saying yes to you.
Image: sharpie black boxes with a green check in on the "you" box and a red x on the "AI" box.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think one could run a national campaign against this and win. Since we’re in the roaring 20s again.
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still mambo @strangeauthor.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
this was never ever true source: Being Black In Fandoms lol
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