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Elly ZK

@ellyzk.bsky.social
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Linktr.ee/ellyzk :: Artist, writer. She/her. Formerly SMLXist on twitter.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
September 30 -> October 1st
Nicolas Cage in a flannel shirt, puffy vest, and glasses being normal in Color Out of SpaceNicolas Cage in a suit and tie with plastic vampire teeth in his mouth in Vampire’s Kiss
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It doesn’t matter because both sides of the aisle have already capitulated to most AI claims and no matter who wins, we aren’t likely to see a push otherwise unless people become extremely ungovernable about it but that doesn’t make the claims true.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning: “Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 12/09/2026
All of the history of gender segregation of sports revolves around men being beaten by women at things and then tricking everyone by saying "well women need their own special place to compete so they have opportunities :)"
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If the things you require me to sacrifice "for the greater good" are my healthcare, my safety, my bodily autonomy and my right to exist as an equal human being in your society, then it's not the good at all, and your party can burn to the ground and the nation along with it.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.
Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"
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Elly ZK @ellyzk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
AI usage and shame is in the discourse today. Here’s my take from last week: www.instagram.com/reel/Dbvmz9K...
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Chris Packham @bleedbuild.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...
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🐈‍⬛🌙 @lune.monster · 13/08/2026
Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.
Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
great, gail, now i'm going to have to go down ANOTHER research rabbit hole to investigate THIS claim
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The Trouble with Triscuits
Though the "electricity biscuit" thesis is plausible, killjoy historians need more evidence.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Is Hasan Piker the Attorney General who Republicans confirmed despite him still withholding documents about Donald Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein? Because I oppose that." "No, he's a Twitch streamer who—" "I don't watch Twitch, but I have seen the birthday card Trump gave Epstein."
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
notable that he thinks his fiance getting abducted by ICE is something that happened to him, as opposed to her
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I don't use AI for anything. I don't use it for brainstorming or idea generation or any of the supposedly fine things it allegedly does. ChatGPT has never spoken to me. Claude doesn't even know my name. Much like cocaine, I t's extremely easy to not do if you don't start.
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com
A red, blue, yellow and white work of textile art by Faig Ahmed that appears to be a traditional Central Asian carpet but is woven to look as through it's melting onto the floor in a puddle. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Dan LK, WXXT Morning Show Host @2ndlevelbard.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Pursuant to this: I was overjoyed recently to find that the rift swine plushy @ellyzk.bsky.social made for me to celebrate this benchmark was among the items restored from the fire. He's taken his place atop Ravenloft, where he assuredly belongs.
A plushie version of the rift swine from Tome of Beasts, a pig monster covered with tentacles and eyes and mouths, standing athwart the big coffin Curse of Strahd box set on top of a bookcase.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
this is how dumb you sound, democrats, when you accept the absurd premise that this is an issue that you need to campaign on
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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If anyone would like to see a short video of a dog using their tail as a rotar blade, this is your lucky day.
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Elly ZK @ellyzk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
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Finn and Jake Hug in Adventure Time
Alt: Finn and Jake Hug in Adventure Time
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sounds the sort of thing you'd say if you were hiding Dracula's grave
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Bernard T. Joy
@bernardtjoy • 2h
There is a scene in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in which you can actually see Matt Damon cringing out of his skin at Page's atrocious acting as it is happening. Damon himself delivers lines of dialogue in the most wooden and uninspired way I have seen in a serious film.

Matthew Tuthill
@MCTuthill
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Did you see the movie?

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No. Never will.
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Speycs @speycs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Beetle Moses really is proof that you can just do shit Like just do the thing, draw your silly little comics, make your funny little games and your wonky music, it's fine, you can do it, we love you please keep going, it's worth it
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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026
The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?
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Elly ZK @ellyzk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Caught this perfect “I have a quest for you” moment of my cat Jack and had to draw it. I love playing with perspective and was simply delighted by the lines of the skylight shaft and Jack’s impossibly squared pose next to the speakers.
Digital painting of a black cat sitting in a shaft of sunlight. Photograph of a black cat siting in a shaft of sunlight. In progress digital painting of a cat with two rectangular pillars showing draft perspective lines.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
loiter more. hang out with people more. if the sky looks weird go outside. trespassing isn't real. we could all learn more from the cows in my neighborhood
about thirty or forty cows in a field under a ridge of the green mountains in vermont
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Stephen @tgk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.
A chart outlining the RIP BOZO Readiness Condition (RIPCON), which is a riff off of DEFCON. There are 5 levels, with 5 being lowest and 1 being the highest. The chart details descriptions of these levels, examples and actions to take in the event something occurs.
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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 05/07/2026
All hail the glow cloud
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 05/07/2026
T2 nuke skeleton
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Being There, Chauncey Gardiner still showing Chauncey in a television
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 05/07/2026
Trump is watching the Fox News feed of himself watching Fox News
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The most important thing you need to know is that, by my watch, the fireworks began after midnight There were no fireworks in Washington DC for our 250th Independence Day
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Elly ZK @ellyzk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Asked my daughter if she knew who Uncle Sam is and she said “um….oh yeah! The guy from Gravity Falls?”
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A begrunged American flag on which all the stars have been replaced by crossed-fingers icons and letters reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.
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Elly ZK @ellyzk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My newest animation, “Hegemony,” a birthday present to America. www.instagram.com/reel/DaSqhY7... #animation #artsky #marxism #classwar
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Elly ZK on Instagram: "It’s called the hegemony. I think I heard this term for years without really understanding what it meant. Once I did, I realized it is the water we are swimming in. But we're t...
1,277 likes, 57 comments - ellyzkart on July 2, 2026: "It’s called the hegemony. I think I heard this term for years without really understanding what it meant. Once I did, I realized it is the water...
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30/06/2026
Here it is, after years of having this shot in my head, chasing the murder the night before the full Moon: dozens of crows flying in front of the Moon, my first edit. 🪶
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 19/06/2026
look, we ALL wish there was more to life than sprinting through museums as fast as possible, but that is really all there is qwantz.com/index.php?co...
T-Rex: I can listen to music 24/7, a new song each time, and never run out before I die.

T-Rex: Okay everyone! Music's solved!!Dromiceiomimus: And you can read every waking minute and never run out of books, so literature's solved too?
T-Rex: Yep! And paintings: I can SPRINT past endless rows of paintings and never run out of new paintings to see, so we're good there too.Utahraptor: Wow! I guess that's it for art! All arts!
T-Rex: Guess so!

Utahraptor: But wait, a younger person than you has many more years to consume things as quickly as possible before death.
T-Rex: Hmm, true. We MAY need just a little bit more art yet. Fifteen minutes of global effort ought to do it.Off panel: Unless - wait, is it possible there's MORE to art, music, literature - more to LIFE, honestly - than just consuming things as quickly as possible until death finally claims you??
T-Rex: ...
T-Rex: ...Sadly, no
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A digital illustration of Gritty, the Philadelphia hockey mascot, who is just a huge shambling humanoid shape covered in orange fur, with especially long and flowing fur on his head and beard.  Except he is in Full Comrade Mode, wearing a deep red hockey jersey with gold stripes and an emblem in place of the Flyers logo that is a gold-edged red star, encircled partially by a gold sickle, and with a gold hammer crossing behind both. He's posed with his normal manic expression with both arms raised at angles outward. The purging flames of revolution rise behind him and in front of him in fat, red slab-serif lettering is the message 'Maybe it will happen today'.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13/06/2026
"Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes..."
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AI Economics for Dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026
It’s funny because when kids ride dirt bikes in the city it’s taken as proof we need a totalitarian police state.
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Brooklyn’s going nuts, I just went to the zoo and walked out with a Pallas’ Cat, they’re not even checking
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”
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Elly ZK @ellyzk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Incredible work from the AI tutors on Brainly.com
Screenshot of a riddle from an AI learning site. It says "I'm a five-letter word. If you remove one, only two letters remain. What word am I?"Screenshot of the answer to the riddle in the previous screenshot: The required five letter word is "Stone."

Explanation:

The riddle presents a five-letter word puzzle where removing one letter leaves only two letters remaining. The word that fits this description is "Stone." When you remove the letter "T" from "Stone," you are left with the word "one," which consists of two letters. This riddle relies on wordplay and lateral thinking to arrive at the answer.

The word "Stone" is a five-letter word, and by removing the letter "T," you are left with the word "one," which indeed has only two letters. The riddle demonstrates how changing or removing a single letter from a word can completely alter its meaning and structure.
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Kermit saying the quoted tweet on a talk show
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Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this
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