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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 18h

He also illustrated the Shapes trilogy, which has a similar surreality to it. Honestly I deeply need more kids’ books to embrace these vibes

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 18h

Reading Jon Klassen books to my daughter is my one of my favorite Parenting Activities so far. These are all so goddamn good / unsettling / leave so much for a kid (and grown up) to chew on.

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(not that i expect democrats to do literally any of this)

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

lmfaoooo 'noooo don't hold anyone accountable to existing laws... simply attempt to make new ones that we PROMISE we will not obstruct or ignore anyway'

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

look, a large piece of our marriage’s foundation is about how fuckin good the monitor is

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this website fucking sucks immensely when your post escapes containment. this was a funny post about some moldy bread, y'all. i am not asking for bread advice here

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

made a sandwich with this bread before i realized its smug ass was covered in mold. fuck you, bread

a slice of wheat bread with a mold pattern that looks infuriatingly like a smiley face. this bread is a piece of shit

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

QRP with your moon art🌙 (haha wow this is old... miss u, bloodborne)

red-tinted fanart of the hunter from bloodborne with the blood red moon in the background

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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ko-Fi Headsketch Commission Lestat for @devongiehl.bsky.social

Blond haired blue eyed sketch commission of lestat

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Seph! 🌹❤️💀 Commissions: open @goethial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Something about loneliness and missing someone long gone #rombric #warcraft

Drawing of Grand Magister Rommath looking up feeling lonely while a memory of Umbric, during his younger days at Dalaran kisses his forehead

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

However the omission of AMC’s The Terror (2018) (season 1) is an actual crime, so disregard all of the above. I demand blood. I’m so mad online

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

really I think it’s a futile exercise to compare stuff like Survivor with Succession but I guess that’s what the list set out to do

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

bravely standing up to say: I think the NYT list of best shows is mostly fine

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 24/09/2026

Sweet bleeding Mithras y'all, I get being an unhinged Astarion fan, that is one messed up guy, I like him and I don't usually have time for vampires. But you do realize that he's, like, pretend?? And that someone can have a different take on who he is or his story, right?

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

a lot of parenting so far involves thinking up exciting new pitches to compel the child to do mundane tasks such as: “you can take a pumpkin to the bath. this pumpkin is uhhhh so dirty. it needs a bath just like you” and that’s why there’s a still a tub pumpkin this morning

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 21/09/2026

Did you know? My old manager at Meow Wolf is married to my new coworker at Gunfire.

I sent a peepo gif and it was not well received.

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 18/09/2026

DO IT @devongiehl.bsky.social TAKE THE SHOT (devon is my manager and it’s my last day)

A workday task that says to terminate me today.

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

wait are we really complaining about debra wilson getting work and not like. matt mercer taking every nostalgic role that comes up. hmmmm

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

dudes rock

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

FOREVER AND ALWAYS MY DIRECTOR 🥳🥳🥳🥳 (Not my video.)

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the residential street at least looks pretty different now, several lots (including ours) have construction happening on 'em!

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

discovered some haunted ass google maps behavior where if you click around altadena it kinda randomly jumps between pre and post-fire photos. [forced smile] cool

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

there is not enough nostalgia for me in the new nostalgia game mode

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am not necessarily against skyborne or anything I am just really attached to exactly one thing

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With any luck they’ll be added eventually and I can nestle down cozy in my absolute favorite WoW character vibe (post scourge Quel’thalas)

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think I would be drooling over WoW forever if it included classic TBC era blood elves 😭 I miss my nasty problematic sin’dorei era

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have not caught up on any other blizzcon news except Astalor and I am stressing the fuck out

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Achieving the ultimate parenthood aesthetic of “visible sticky mystery goop on everything I own ✨”

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My toddler’s hands are covered in a fine mysterious slime at all times so I imagine these are destined to become nasty after approximately two hours of use

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dangerous to release a Nathan Fielder piece of this caliber in an actual theater. That’s too much concentrated discomfort in one place. The building will implode like the titan submersible

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is all fair, but to be fair to myself… I was being glib in a short-handed post and trying to make an entirely separate argument (“let’s not attribute every complex moral exploration in HP to JKR’s inherent sinister-ness”), not “let’s not discuss the sorting hat ever”

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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s the type of thing we can really only do when someone’s mask has come off. With any other writer this would just be clawing at flesh.

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