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Lorelli - Read My Comic @exitrealitystudios.com · 01/10/2026

Someone has a lot of influence in this town. Page 156 is live! Latest: badinfluencecomic.com Start Fresh: badinfluencecomic.com/comic/cover1/ #BadInfluenceComic #comics #WebComic

A comic panel crop. Tass, a woman with tan skin and curly purple hair in a pony tail has her arms raised, eyes closed with a smile, she wears a dark purple oat with two daggers on a belt around her waits. Saryn stands next to her a woman with dark grey skin dark blue hair, she looks at Tass, as if awaiting her word with intrigue, she wears a dark blue cloak over a white collared shirt, her hands together at her chest.
Bad influence page 156

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.

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Lorelli - Read My Comic @exitrealitystudios.com · 02/10/2026

Next week will be the last update I post to the Tapas mirror. If you've been exclusively a Tapas reader, I hope you'll continue reading on my site (or the comicfury mirror will continue to be available) badinfluencecomic.com badinfluence.thecomicseries.com

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I actually get my information from people who understand exactly what it is and why it’s a fucking autocorrect slot machine that does nothing but extract. This is hot garbage. Just because I have ethics and a spine doesn’t mean I don’t also engage critical thinking. Slop boosters don’t.

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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've been playing Graveyard Keeper 2 for a few days and greatly enjoying it. It's a fun craft em up, but what's got me curious is the story. There are a lot of callbacks to the first game, but many have been of the "That didn't happen that way! ...or did it?" variety. Curious to see where it goes.

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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

More reasons why California's governor sucks.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you do want to see this

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Lorelli - Read My Comic @exitrealitystudios.com · 02/10/2026

Fischl wants to know why we keep letting Taki into her room (my bedroom) #art #cats

A doodle mostly black and what of a mostly white cat with dark spots on her her ears, face and tail She's round and fluffy, sitting on with her legs tucked under her and her tail curled around her, her eyes are bright blue

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Kyle D. Long @blatherscribe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People who are tired, angry, and in pain are more likely to be cruel, which of course is the point.

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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I got to see my mom today, if only for a few hours. It was a good day.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s extremely down to the wire here. If you know of a FOIA attorney in Idaho, please connect us. The Boise airport has told me they do not have any video of an ICE detainment that I know for a fact happened.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy first day of Halloween month!

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Almost as if a sentient oil slick who was willing to “hear all sides” about folks who wanted to stop babies from playing sports by checking their genitalia WOULD ABSOLUTELY SEE NON PROBLEM WITH BANNING CLASS SYMBOL GLASSES THAT DENY PEOPLE PRIVACY

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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

End the death penalty. Not only can we not guarantee that the accused is guilty, we can't even offer them a clean death. This is just judicially approved torture, and the state has no business taking part in that.

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Lorelli - Read My Comic @exitrealitystudios.com · 01/10/2026

LMAO I even miscounted, the first chapter was posted on 9/20/2022 so we're FOUR years old

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good job, California. 15 states to go. No child should marry. A child who marries isn’t emancipated, her (and it’s usually a girl) new spouse becomes her guardian. If he abuses her, she cannot go to a domestic violence shelter. She cannot initiate a divorce. She can’t have her own money.

sfchronicle.com

California bans child marriage, even with parental permission

Supporters hail ban on child marriage and companion bill to address forced marriages as “most comprehensive framework” in the U.S.

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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reminded of a quote I saw recently elseweb: "If you were just lazy, you'd be having fun." Folks, I am not having fun.

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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Woke up with back pain, having slept wrong. It's getting better, but I still can't muster up the executive function to do anything, it seems. Bodies are the worst.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chi Phi alum doxxed the Cornell Jane Doe in case you thought fraternities served any other purpose than to uphold the patriarchy.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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Lorelli - Read My Comic @exitrealitystudios.com · 29/09/2026

I was poking through old art of mine and I love the vibe of this piece #art #OCSky

A lineart drawing of a thin woman pictures from the thighs up, her hair is green and stringy with heavy black shadows, she has a blindfold over her eyes mostly covered by her hair, she wears bandages around her chest with a ragged vest over it, she has bracers on her forearms over more bandages and leather pants with the belt unbuckles. She holds serrated daggers in her hands

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is true that a Dem Congress will not be able to do any effective legislating under the Trump regime. But that’s a given. What Congress can do is investigations that drive stories into the media. Every day should have headlines about Trump stealing from us, about Trump harming us.

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Lat @lattlesnake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The correct response to "everyone's autistic now" is "No! We would have a proper train system if that were true!"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Enormous upload day over on the shop!

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Lorelli - Read My Comic @exitrealitystudios.com · 29/09/2026

If you know an artists who draws for you on occasion, be it a commission, kindness etc please consider acknowledging the work they do for themselves as well sometimes.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We actually don't hate this administration enough

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With alt text

Black background with white text that reads: "raising boys who won't commit sexual assault isn't enough. Raise them to be the man in the group chat who texts back: what in the actual fuck, hell no, stop this, and I'm calling the cops."

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026

Claude making a scientific discovery

Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Jennifer Liang @jenniferliang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like paying taxes for schools, roads and feeding the hungry. I don’t like paying taxes to drop bombs on IranIan school girls. Tax is how you pay for society.

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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have multiple incurable progressive medical conditions which are costly to treat. I'm also, despite my efforts, unemployed and on Medicaid. Trump and his cult are taking away my health coverage come 2027 with his "Big Beautiful Bill". They want me dead, and I'm voting accordingly. You should too.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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