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I honestly wonder if men simply do not yet understand that rape is on the level of cannibalism or incest. It is deplorable and there is no wiggle room, you are demeaned forever by it. Like guys think the fallout of being raped is like, gross or annoying or embarrassing, and that's why it's bad

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Chris Battey @darthparadox.bsky.social · 19h

The work they stole from me was in an anthology so I don't even get to mention a check, but otherwise, yes.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have been a guest at conventions where, during the pre-con walk through, my handler has pointed out the bar and mentioned how some guests are "more fun" and "get asked back," then names only men. Because a lot of female guests aren't comfortable hanging out around alcohol with strangers.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026

The job of a journalist is to have some skepticism about extraordinary claims from people in power who stand to gain from public credulity

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"the point of fraternity hazings and gang rapes is to create a history of criminal activity between groups of men" Yes, yes, somebody here gets it. It is to normalize and imbue them with authoritarian sadomasochism A hierarchy of who gets to abuse who

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 05/10/2026

We need to reinvest in the rule of law, because the other ways of processing our collective trauma are gonna suuuuuuuck.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The easiest, least risky path to friendship is “oh you liked that, so did I!” Make that impossible, and few will be able to form enough non-familial connections to rise up against so much as our own ennui, let alone The Regime.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

at what point do elected officials in some country decide these people are Taking The Piss and show them what actual laws can do to their freedom of movement and finances

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 02/10/2026

IDK this surge of “if every rape survivor self-IDs on the internet change will happen” is sure making me wonder if you all have collective amnesia from 2017

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW ADVICE-FROM-LIEBER LIST! I've posted these tips as a thread before, but I figured it's about time I made it available as a single, shareable image.

MISTAKES I'VE MADE THAT YOU CAN AVOID
Don't be like me.
1. Don't trash your own work when complemented. In that context your self-deprecation is insulting someone else's taste! Just say thanks and change the subject. Maybe credit an influence?
2. As far as your readers are concerned, comics are drawn with a printing press or a monitor. Don't fetishize the original art or the tools you make it. Anything that gets the story told the way it needs to be told is the right tool for the job.
3. Don't use one job to audition for another. It's unfair to your collaborators and a betrayal of the reader to get flashy or sexy or explosive if the moment in the story doesn't call for it.
4. The important storytelling choices on a page can be worked out in thumbnails. Gesture, camera angle, framing, broad arrangement of tones-get this stuff right before you worry about anatomy, lighting, drapery, or facial expressions.
5. Some artists can put down a final inkline with no underdrawing, but that's because they're skilled and experienced enough to do all that underdrawing in their head. You probably aren't. Get your underdrawing right and save the masterstrokes for the masters.
6. What you're feeling while you work doesn't matter. What the audience feels when they read it does. You can be happy and still do a great drawing of someone in agony. You should understand what you're depicting. It's not necessary to experience it in real time at the board.
7. Get a fresh eye on your work. You never know when some accidental juxtaposition is going to completely change your intended meaning.
8. Don't let getting things 100% right keep you from getting things done. It's easy to get bogged down in research or prep sketches. Make a schedule at the start of a project so you know how much time you have. Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on. But...

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s another thing. I’ve seen too many people fall into AI psychosis or addiction, or sink into depression because think it’s going to destroy the world.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey, Seattle folks! I will be at the Northgate Barnes & Noble this Friday from 6pm until I'm not! This is a ticketed event, and I will have pins and possibly stickers as a thank you gift for folks who pick up a book and come out to see us! www.eventbrite.com/e/seanan-mcg...

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Seanan McGuire celebrates A DIVIDED DUTY at B&N Northgate

B&N Northgate in welcomes Seanan McGuire to sign and discuss her new book A DIVIDED DUTY on Friday, October 2nd, at 6PM PST!

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Chris Battey @darthparadox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reality's writers once again laying on the metaphors a bit thick...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One hundred percent. Rats from a sinking ship. They see the pendulum swinging back and want to make sure they're not in the flight path. No mercy.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This works, btw. It's actually pretty incredible and heady just how powerful it is in practice. Every time I've done it the impact is pretty memorable.

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Chris Battey @darthparadox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't think putting Harry Potter in MtG would get me to quit the game - but that's because I generally only play proxy-friendly eternal formats anyway. I'll just build out of my existing collection and print my own cards as needed if WOTC decides they don't want trans folks around anymore.

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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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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

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Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please stay alive.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disable gambling ads:

Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Sponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Manage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)

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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Coyote vs. LinkedIn @knabewolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

September, but I lost my 45 adapter

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

Insisting that LLMs are Not People is not an academic argument about the nature of sapience or free will. It's a rejection of accountability laundering. If non-determinism made machines responsible for their own actions then revolvers used in Russian Roulette should be indicted for murder.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I admit, when @polotek.bsky.social posted at first, I didn't follow the point successfully, and I'm amplifying this for others. The debate isn't about "harmful." It's about "inherent" and how to consider causality.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

how would you feel about this statement if you were the "super small minority" how would it feel to read someone say this about you.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

LMAO if it destroys the world why the fuck should it be protected from lawsuits??????

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In related news, I'll be starting the Medlock sportsbook. Every line is even money, no vig, max bet $580, both sides mandatory, one visit per six months. It's time to gamble our way to Medicaid for All.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026

Again, there is clear evidence a data center moratorium would peel far more votes away from the GOP than the 10-15 (not thousand, literally 10-15 total) who might switch over this same crowd’s demand to betray queer people. It’s malpractice that the party won’t ditch these professional losers.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyone for whom curtailing trans rights is a vote driving issue is going to vote Republican. Even if Democrats offered the exact same anti-trans platform, verbatim, they would not win a single vote for it. It is not the way and anyone with a SCRAP of common sense can see that.

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Chris Battey @darthparadox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you use AI instead of your own creativity, you're already admitting you're so _not_ good at whatever you're doing that you can be replaced by the regurgitated average of a bunch of better artists.

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the weeks after passing, Dolly Parton and Tim Curry inspired people reflecting on life and the arts. Two weeks after dying, conservatives turned Charlie Kirk into a robot meme coin and AI grift songs. Your legacy is formed by those who love you.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

everyone involved with alligator alcatraz at every level - its creation, its construction, its staffing - needs to go to jail

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