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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They certainly do not look sorry.

A close up of a gleeful and unrepentant fox escapee, as drawn by a smol dragon.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When AI guys claim that LLMs are conscious because the way they work is very complicated

XKCD where one person says "I've found a way to turn a 52-card deck into 53 cards by shuffling and rearranging them."
Second person says "No, you haven't."
First person says "How do you know?! I challenge you to find an error in my math!"

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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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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This was my original design idea, and it might still be the best one.

A white pleather jacket with a willow pattern sketched out on the back

A white pleather jacket seen from the front

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 02/10/2026

the thing about Ensign Kellogg on TNG being played by a stealth trans woman really is like we as a community always say…we've ALWAYS BEEN HERE. Just because people didn't realize it doesn't mean we weren't here.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The OG idea is still tempting, mind you, and it will pair with my Willow Pattern docs… Otoh I COULD design something to go with the Frida Kahlo boots I tarted up. Hmm.

White combat boots covered with flowers and text and Frida Kahlo

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So I just bought a plain white pleather jacket from Vinted with the idea of painting a Willow Pattern on the back, but now I’m wondering about going the kidlit illustration route instead?

The back of a white pleather biker jacket with a Sendak illustration pencilled over it, Max & the Wild Things dangling from tree branches.

The same white pleather jacket with a rough sketch of Alice and the Cheshire Cat pencilled over it

The front of said jacket, with Max pencilled in

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you have already sent the European Movement UK email and your MP has not yet replied … … feel free to send this one too. 💪

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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘Those are the competing visions among Israelis for the West Bank: the absolute confinement of Palestinians in a series of cages versus their extermination. That is what is really at stake - nothing more - in the West’s struggle to unseat Netanyahu and uphold its fabled two-state solution.’

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The West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again

Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

rt if your mind is not, in fact, boggled

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meanwhile “The Other Bennet Sister” is a mainstream smash hit, that batshit febrile Emerald Fennel fapfest Wuthering Heights crackfic was the toast of the town, “Sherlock” catapulted Cucumberpatch and Freeman to Hollywood and Tom Stoppard is hailed as a Serious Intellectual Dramatist. And yet. 🤦‍♀️

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” 32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them. It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online

The My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know KJ Charles’ works get categorised as (LGBTQ) Romance, but they’re generally also mysteries with a bodycount, and excellently done. (Death In The Spires IS a Mystery with romance subplot.) Ariana Franklin’s Mistress of the Art of Death series is a FASCINATING window into 11th century England

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ditto - and the two sequels are equally fascinating.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This beautiful box dates from 18th century China. It resembles a six-petaled flower, and features a phoenix and eight symbols of Taoist immortals inlaid with turquoise. The Eight Immortals (Ba Xian) are a group of ancient heroes in Chinese mythology who fight for justice and vanquish evil.

A gold box with turquoise phoenix and emblems of eight Taoist Immortals

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But Large Frances Building was my favourite, ngl.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

100% agree. (And his boyfriend is hot! And knifey! And traumatised! And has an adorable accent in the audiobook version!)

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Michael Kotlikoff, President Ryan Lombardi, VP Student and Campus Life Brian White, VP Robert Harrington, Dean of Medicine And Chi Phi Fraternity.

Four white men who made rapists write essays.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like. I have said it before and I'll say it again: when your industry's founding pitch is "what if there was a tool with human-level intelligence that didn't have human rights," then regardless of whether the tech is actually sentient (which it isn't), nothing downstream of that will be ethical.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm really going to enjoy re-watching this movie to find the small things. I'll give you one small, completely non-spoiler example. When Bugs shows up? They're standing near a pole with direction signs. "Bathroom this way," etc. And one pointing at Bugs says "Rabbit: 7 feet >"

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Antisemitic” here apparently meaning “believes ALL children are precious, including Palestinians.” Idk how anyone can see “protects ALL children” as “hates me (because I support my demographic getting to murder some specific children)” without understanding that *they’re the bad guy*.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TIL: I knew about Iambe, a mortal woman, cheering up a very sad Demeter by telling her jokes until she laughed. What I didn't know was that Iambe was the personification of the iambic pentameter, "which reflects a ritual discourse that provokes laughter *and thereby promotes fertility.*

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay, yes, this would make sense. Jfc

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So…this film “Other Mommy” is basically Coraline as a straight up horror film pitched at adults, yes?

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

‘My kid coulda been Caitlin Clark but a trans person existed’ was tested in a lab called ‘I can’t go to the school I deserved to go to because a Black person has my spot’

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

100% came here to post this dapper dog, but you’d already done so. 🫡

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And some more (plus bonus Cat’s Mind redux).

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some of the new-to-me boots I treated myself to for my birthday last month

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is an excellent summary.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Spaghetti Al’Assassina recipe according to ChatGPT…

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don’t think Owl would resist. Saruman is very Owl.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s been a bit of a week, so time to roll this one out again.

British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows.

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70's Superhero Billy Jack @billyjackliberal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm not sure people heard what our crazy president said HE SAID "CHEAT LIKE HELL" The president of the United States of America just told his supporters to cheat and offered a $5,000 bribe. THIS IS NOT NORMAL!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"boxer who was never knocked down in 93 fights" sounds like something they made up for a movie, like the whole Khabib has never bled in a fight thing, a factoid that literally has no business existing. RIP, legend.

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead

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J.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)

J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’

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