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A US lawmaker has announced plans to introduce a new bill that would give gamers ownership of the games they buy 🎮 The Power To The Players Act would require publishers to make games playable offline before shutting down their servers

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Erik the Pleb @erikfrechette.com · 9h

Proceed with caution folks! Richie Torres is a CorpoDem creature of the most egregious type. Lots of corporate money. Lots of blackrock and J.P. Morgan types openly sponsor this dude. If he’s drafting a bill, it’s strongly advised to read the fine print.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under absolutely no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend reading a good book, making multiple cups of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of cinnamon rolls.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 4h

ICYMI: Children and young people who read every day are more likely to report high levels of wellbeing than those who rarely or never read, according to new research from the National Literacy Trust. 👇

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Daily readers report higher wellbeing National Literacy Trust research finds

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 21h

Spooky displays are popping up on streets across the country. But beware: some of that scary decor could harm actual creepy creatures. Here are five ways to make sure your spine-chilling spectacle keeps wildlife safe. sciam.com/article/5-wa...

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5 ways to make Halloween decorations friendlier to wildlife

You don’t need to sacrifice spookiness to keep real owls, bats and snakes safe

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Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social · 22h

Browse this year’s debuting comics, books and zines fresh from Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2026’s and add to your already growing shopping list: thoughtbubblefestival.com/debutingbooks

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 20h

I'll be doing a Halloween Storytime + drawing at the Children's Book Bank (Jane & Finch) on Oct 17! I'll be reading THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE DAY by Melinda Beatty, illus. by me #kidlit #books

Flyer for Storytime at the Childrens Book Bank Jane and Finch featuring illustrator Charlene Chua reading Things the go Bump in the Day by Melinda Beatty on Oct 17

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Brooklyn has a new comics show. Brooklyn Expo of Comics is 11/14 and 11/15, Mt Carmel Church (Williamsburg). We'll be there. It launches with the Bodega Comics Art Trophy Awards Ceremony on 11/14 at Union Pool. And most exciting, Dash Shaw's Like Swimmers is nominated for Best Graphic Novel!

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Bodega Announces The Comic Arts Trophy (CAT) Nominations, Celebrating Comic And Graphic Arts Creators At Inaugural Brooklyn Expo Of Comics - The Comics Journal

BODEGA CAT (Comics Arts Trophy) Award nominations, 2026

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Reading Rainbow is back! 📚🌈 ☺️ We are happy to announce that Reading Rainbow is back on October 16th and will be premiering on the official Reading Rainbow YouTube channel! Get ready for a new season of learning, stories, and fun!

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Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social · 23h

So I guess I’m cancelling my membership of what was supposed to be my union. GenAI is built on the back of your members’ lifetime works, and on the works of our illustrator and actor colleagues, that have been STOLEN. There is no ethical use of that. Your stance is utterly craven.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

If you told me I’d be redownloading Mapquest in 2026 to try to stay ahead of the surveillance state I wouldn’t have believed you

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This isn't just when you post your content on Meta. These new terms reach outside its walled gardens to any websites "associated with your products." Potentially powering its AI empire, including Muse, without licensing deals. And if you keep using its services, Meta claims you consented. wth. 2/5

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Excellent reporting by @niemanlab.org making ALL aware. Meta claims it's simply consolidating existing terms and this won't change its crawling. Then why is Meta demanding sweeping permissions in a binding contract? Why explicitly authorize AI training? 3/5 www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Note, Meta faces publishers' lawsuits alleging it torrented pirated books from shadow libraries to train its AI. Trial date was set just yesterday for May 3, 2027. Meta looks to now be trying to write sweeping website scraping rights into its terms. Quite a coincidence. Or a wake-up call, all. 4/5

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

We've seen this movie. @propublica.org once documented Facebook repeatedly saying its tracking data wasn't used commercially. Until it was. Now Meta says these terms won't change its behavior. We're supposed to trust that over the words it wrote into terms? No. 5/5 www.propublica.org/article/its-...

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It’s Complicated: Facebook’s History of Tracking You

Facebook is launching an aggressive technique to track people across the Web.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22h

Folklore Horror Day 14: Chicken Hut (snack run) #Drawtober #FolkHorror

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

RIP Spanish artist Sanjulián (Manuel Pérez Clemente) who has left us at the age of 85.

Conan art by Sanjulián (Manuel Pérez Clemente)

Creepy art by Sanjulián (Manuel Pérez Clemente)

Dungeon Crawl Classics art by Sanjulián (Manuel Pérez Clemente)

Eerie art by Sanjulián (Manuel Pérez Clemente)

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

This is the kind of thing I mean when I talk about comics as a force for good.

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Legends of Avantris @avantris.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The Crooked Moon Original Soundtrack is now live! 15 songs by the @blastingcompany.bsky.social streaming everywhere! ffm.to/crookedsound...

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Dr. Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A little skull on toned tan paper from this day in 2019 💀

A pen and ink drawing of a skull on a square of toned tan paper. Below the drawing are black and white pens used in the piece.

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Stella Spente @stellaspente.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If you see this, post a skeleton!

A man dancing in the air with a skeleton monster

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Meeting at Night" by artist Cécile Berrubé.

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Post Mahone @thegingercolossus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is a genuinely terrific book. A very accessible and truly useful guide. I gave it to my brother for Christmas, and he used it to run his first game in over 30 years. Huge hit. He says the advice he found inside gave him confidence and it inspired him to write his own material.

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Spicymochi @spicymochi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Lil pumpkin snake

Illustration of a ball python with pumpkin markings, he is ready for halloween

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Kate 🍄 @kateammann.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Trick-or-treating Tufted titmouse!🎃🍂

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

As an artist, especially a professional commercial artist, in never felt like my passion was necessarily rebellious but its feeling like that more and more everyday recently. Like me exsisting to make art, it being my purpose, is now frowned upon by more people then just a few years ago.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In fact it feels more rebellious to work in commercial art now than to be a Banksy avant garde artist. Art exsisting to protest is now more common than art made to sell oreo cookies.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

If my very existence is a fuck you to the system I cant really help that because art is my life. Drawing is what I do. This all feels just like an episode of the original Twilight Zone called "The obsolete man" where books are declared obsolete so a librarian is executed for having no purpose.

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JuliArtWorld @juliartworld.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

lil shiba with lil lantern I can’t wait for all the beautiful autumn colors

digital drawing in procreate
a shiba inu laying on a big pot with a red lantern. Above is a japanese maple and behind a torii

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✶ 𝐈𝐍𝐊 ✶ @inkviral.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Human Feels Wanted to make a comic about some of my feelings and observations about Generative AI and art. 1/3

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Leave the leaves! 🍂 🍁 Leaves are habitat that support pollinators and other invertebrates and provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter... xerces.org/blog/leave-t...

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Leave the Leaves!

One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.

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Jaimie Whitbread @jaimiewhitbread.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Unicorns don’t seem to think much of the after life, or the concept of vengeful spirits - but what of the softer kinds of hauntings? With such a strong love of herd and home shown in life, might they not wish to watch over those things even after they’re gone? #unicorns #ghost #spooky #rat #forest

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

#SaveTheAcademy of Natural Sciences and reopen its public museum! It holds one of the largest collections of South American freshwater fishes in the world including type specimens that I and my peers described and entrusted the museum to curate for perpetuity. @acadnatsci @savetheacademy @drexeluniv

Holotype specimen of a banjo catfishes held in the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences.

Take Action To Save The Academy Action Plan Graphic.

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Whitney Barlow Robles @wbarlowrobles.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Just left a rousing webinar to #SaveTheAcademy Where other than natural history museums can you dance with an emperor penguin? (My students made me do it) @drexeluniversity.bsky.social may have closed the doors, but it isn't too late to act @acadnatsci.bsky.social @savetheacademy.bsky.social

Whitney holds an emperor penguin in Dartmouth College's little-used natural history storage

Take action to save the academy:
1) Post about re-opening the Academy's public museum, tagging Drexel University at the Academy
2) Call Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker at 215-686-2181
3) Call Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro at 717-787-2500
4) Contact Drexel President Merlo 215-895-2100 (president@drexel.edu)

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

OUTLOOK (2025) Acrylic on Canvas - 12” x 9”   All of my Lumen paintings feature a figure struggling to reach the light, against seemingly overwhelming travails. In OUTLOOK we see the moment of breakthrough and discovery, a daunting obstacle overcome. #art

A boy rests on a ledge to peer out an open panel in a huge concrete facade that is divided into recessed rectangles. At the intersection of the concrete support beams, the cross braces rust over. Each rectangle on the wall contains a different shape (circle, hexagon, 8-pointed star) sealed and closing off the view outside. Below the boy, a panel tumbles down as he props his hand on the rusted metal frame. Beyond is blue-gray sky.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Those cashing in on data centers apparently have discovered that no one is buying the argument that the opposition is a Communist conspiracy. So, time to try something else: data center opponents are going to drive us into recession! And it's all "misinformation" anyways, data centers are great!

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BlackRock's Larry Fink warns a data center moratorium could trigger a recession

Local opposition to data center construction has been a feature of the midterm elections set for Tuesday, Nov. 3.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Not mentioned in this piece: Larry Fink & Blackrock are financiers of massive, gas-powered Meta data center campuses in LA, TX and OH. Hoping some enterprising journalist talks to the residents of these communities about his assertion that their concerns are bogus. [gift]

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BlackRock Leads $12 Billion Financing for New Meta Data Centers in Texas

The asset manager’s infrastructure and private-credit arms are leading the jumbo project.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/10/2026

Destroy this company, pls.

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