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Sweet Shop @sweetshop.app · 07/10/2026

Only 3 days left! Three of the coolest indie publishers around. Everything from @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social for $60, @fanbasepress.bsky.social's library DRM-Free for $25, and all of Goats Flying Press for $30. Links below.

When the Circus Came to Town bundle on Sweet Shop, $60 for 62 comics.

Base Jumping bundle on Sweet Shop, $25 for 16 comics.

GOAT bundle on Sweet Shop, $30 for 8 comics.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

some very exciting personal news . . . as of last week, I am now a proud client of @lizadawsonassoc.bsky.social and the absolutely fantastic @hannahnpbowman.com is now my literary agent! we are working together on a medieval Slavic fantasy about a witch who solves crime and her queer found family

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/10/2026

Many people don't understand that garments are still made by hand by real people in production shops. And while people talk a lot about how fast fashion is destructive, this applies across the garment industry. Yes, even your nice boutique brands.

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The Abuses in Turkish Textile Factories Supplying Major US Brands

An exclusive investigation finds that workers routinely face forced overtime, insults and threats of dismissal

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Putting your philosophy degree to good use consulting for web fiction authors by writing in-character monologues explaining why the lead's actions were actually 100% ethically correct, like the people who fill in the [technobabble goes here] spots writers leave in "Star Trek" scripts.

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 30/09/2026

In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)

The fractal game of epic histories

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

$15 ebooks? One dollar. $10 ebooks? Just a buck. $25 ebooks? You guessed it. 💵 💵 💵 Sale ends this week. Don't dilly-dally, gang.

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Sweet Shop @sweetshop.app · 26/09/2026

No need to decide when you can claim them ALL for just $60! That's even less than $1 a book and 15% of proceeds go to BINC to help support comic book shops.

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When the Circus Came to Town

Everything from beloved indie Iron Circus Comics on Sweet Shop

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These last couple of years have been a really fun exercise in revealing who moves through life without noticing the hundreds of service workers who make their daily life possible.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I guess it’s just radical to suggest that a lot people don’t have a list of food parameters, macros and don’t really want to just so that a robot can plan their meals. This is the type of problem people faced In class. It’s probably not just them.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Man, I just don't get this sort of thing. People can be fans of a villainous character and then fight to the death for their right to strip their blorbos of all their aura and turn them into smol beans who apparently just ineffectually stood there for three movies.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He's inclined to agree 😔 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

"I'M A HUGE SLUT!" Jeordie agonizes into the pillow as he thinks over how he kissed a boy and liked it while he was high and drunk at a party his girlfriend dragged him to. He stuffs his head into the pillow on the couch as Alice comes around the corner with a dish and rag in hand, and an unfazed look on her face. She's used to this kinda blowup from Beth. "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that." she comments to remind him that she's here and to not say anything that would make her have to tell other adults.

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

you could just read Rigsby WI online and not get the books. That's 100% valid and I publish RWI free online so nobody has a financial barrier to reading it (other than needing internet). But did you know the books have B-B-B-BONUS COMICS? Get one (or all!) here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Are AI companies being extremely irresponsible with incomplete and badly defined parameters for their LLMs? Yes! Are they unwittingly creating Skynet? No. Grow up. Come on

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the one consistent thing about this lot every single day is refusing to get that their adversaries have brains and desires of their own, getting absolutely backhanded across the face for not getting this to the point of being put to sleep and immediately waking up and refusing to get it again.

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 15/09/2026

aaaaaaand we're back to Mark Carney selling the country to his rich buddies for pennies on the dollar, we took a couple weeks off for trade war but we're back

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Meanwhile, the media and these wannabe whistleblowing ex-Anthropic / OpenAI script kiddies are running with "rogue AI" because, well, blade runner sells. Panic sells. And because the general public doesn't understand how modern software development works, we run with it too.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've put so much of myself into this series over the past 7 years, I'd love it if you checked it out. It's about some outcast millennial teens growing up in a tourist town in Northern WI. The 3rd book is currently on Kickstarter. Webcomic: rigsbywi.com KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I legit think "could be drawn by a child without too much trouble" is low key one of the most important aspects of Pokémon design.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026

FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

one thing the ai era makes me miss is really shitty bespoke photoshops you used to get just the lowest effort garbage imaginable made by people who have opened the program three times in their entire life, but it had some charm to it and now they just generate the same bullshit as everyone else

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colinnicholls.bsky.social @colinnicholls.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Come for the story; stay for the artwork. Or, come for the artwork and stay for the story/worldbuilding. Either way, you're going to have a good time. Bravo, @jayeatonart.bsky.social www.runawaytothestars.com

A clipping from the web comic "Runaway To The Stars" showing some excellent art talent and partial reflections from a tapetum lucidum.

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ericamzdm.bsky.social @ericamzdm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And password manager switched to vaultwarden/bit warden.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/08/2026

I keep banging the “USAID was good and we must confront the obscene wave of death MAGA’s destruction of it unleashed” drum because I *desperately* want Democrats and the Left to prioritize rebuilding global aid. We should rebuild it better, but we can’t just let Musk’s global massacre continue.

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joyeux no-hell 🎃 @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

as a robot-knower, humanoid is just a dumb fucking form factor for most things. we are super weirdly shaped for biomechanical reasons + hands and thumbs, but if you're a robot that can have 6 arms and wheels there's no reason to deal with the problem of 'upright walking' or 'not having enough limbs'

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not going to treat my own experience as any kind of authoritative or statistically representative but personally the LLM age has made me far more keen to use and seek non-digital ways of doing things quite simply because I no longer trust almost anything on the internet as much as I used to

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 30/08/2026

Per the place where I go to get my brows threaded, the government of Nepal has set up a disaster relief fund here pmdrf.nchl.com.np

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Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund – Government of Nepal

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

DO NOT FUCK AROUND WITH RABIES, GO CALL YOUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE AND GET TREATMENT. Rabies is #1 on the list of diseases around with which we do not fuck.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/08/2026

I just got this text from a senior priest and I am gonna subject all y’all to it (I am not)

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You are not, by any chance, pelican_in_its_piety on AO3?
Whoever they are, they have your attitude to CS Lewis.

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Evil Jemma "Buy my books" Topaz @jemma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In the olden days, if you wanted to draw furries, you had to call it something like "Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing"

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

dolly parton was many things, but what i think resonates so deeply is that she was kind. ACTIVELY kind. when i talk about proving love, this is what i mean. ACTIVE kindness. ACTIVE love. it can be easy to dismiss kindness, but i think the reaction to her passing shows it is not at all a placeholder

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Trump is a fascinating example of the prisoner's dilemma failing, because he will *always* chose betray and yet that hasn't stopped people doing business with him.

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🌈Wally ~ Meditating in her Cave🌈 @wallyaurora.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

All these concessions make us more dependent on the United States. Our sovereignty should be non-negotiable. No deal is better than a bad deal. (4/4)

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/08/2026

I’m kinda agnostic on speed cameras in that dangerous US driving culture enrages me AND we also know US law enforcement constantly abuses surveillance data in bigoted, dangerous ways (and we barely have data protection laws). also, also, “People should be allowed to speed” is a shit argument.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm not saying it doesn't HAPPEN, but "all weird indie TTRPGs are a kink thing" is reductive. There is also "designing RPGs to publish your worldbuilding bible", "designing RPGs because you invented a neat dice trick", "designing RPGs to win an argument", and "designing RPGs as an act of self harm".

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//VLAD_ @vladpxl.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

the only real conclusion

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Illegal Fanfiction Death Games Of 2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH3U...

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The Illegal Fanfiction Death Games Of 2011

YouTube video by Sarah Z

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My unpopular sci-fi/fantasy opinion is that "humans are the best community-builders" is just the old "humans have the greatest Will to Power" trope wearing a progressive hat.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you haven't been masking, give it a try. What do you have to lose? Just wear one in crowds and on planes, trains, and buses. Find a style that fits, so you don't futz with it. You don't have to get sick all the time.

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

The funniest part about the "Citizen Kane of games" discourse from 2013 is I'd argue it did actually have its equivalent moment that year, but it wasn't BioShock Infinite or The Last of Us, it was Papers, Please

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

live you dumb fuck (Cheap Thrills, 2024)

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