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François Arseneault

@frankars.bsky.social
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Amateur Gamedev, Progressive, Atheist, Anti-fascist, Wildlife Photograph. Also know as SmileyVR.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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François Arseneault @frankars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Goddamn. Good work, Québec Electorate. We sure showed that right wingers the door.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026
The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG
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François Arseneault @frankars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I thoroughly enjoyed Lanterns, and the final was great. What a great story-driven ending.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The corrupt gangsters running this government violate the law daily and use government funds for partisan politics to bribe voters in violation of the law. Trump has been emboldened by a rogue Supreme Court which has given him immunity and taken a blowtorch to the Constitution.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s superpower has always been that he radiates an anti-gravitas field, such that anything he touches becomes seen as fundamentally unserious. This has allowed Trump to pursue wars, tyranny, and corruption of immense gravity, while everyone tries to avoid looking like they care too much.
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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off
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Mia Varlineau 🌻 playing FFXIV (wolshipping 25/7) @miavarlineau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
LEAVE ME ALONE
Tetsuo from the anime/manga Akira meme screaming with bsky julies following him. Girl pls stop
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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gatorstooth 🐊 @gatorstooth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
sets this here
a jolteon with shaymin features. it has a white lower body and green fluffy fur on top. it is a rough sketch
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We have to crush these sociopaths. The problem is that many Democrats take money from them, which means they will get bailed out at our expense in the next 2-4 years.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
The Dems need to viciously attack every power and money center for the conservative movement. Eliminate car dealership monopolies, enact wealth taxes on billionaires, eliminate citizens United, crack down on crypto, and bring silicon Valley to heel.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain" ~ George Carlin #JohnDarkow
John Darkow
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Guy on lichess had a Netanyahu themed username so I checkmated them with a pawn
A chess position - the long and short of it is that black has castled and is up a lot of material, whereas white's king is exposed in the middle of the board with nothing. Black also has mate in one after black moved king to f4.


More detailed: White has a king on f4 (lmao), a queen on a4 a rook on a1, a bishop on c1, a knight on d2, and pawns on a2, b3, c4, e4, f3, and h2. Black has a king on g8, a queen on g1, rooks on a8 and f8, bishops on d7 and e7, knights on c6 and f6, pawns on a7, b7, c7, d6, f7, g7, and h7. Black plays pawn g5, mate.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"biden is sooo mad at netanyahu he's going to stop funding the genocide any day now, probably" is a tactic they tried every couple of weeks while he was in office. there's no rescuing his legacy here sorry
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney announces the crude oil pipeline to the West Coast, which will almost certainly drive the orcas there to extinction, is designated in the “national interest.” That means it can bulldoze past environmental laws, impact assessments and Indigenous consultation. He laughs while announcing it.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
oh the magic collectors boxes are expensive because people are using apps to sell individual slots from packs to people on gambling apps?? hahahahahaha oh god the future is so fucking bad
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the brand safety panopticon has come to twitch
Streamers, wary of both AI and YouTube’s infuriatingly un-transparent hall of mirrors, are not enthused about this new development.

“Ohhh so that’s why ad revenue dropped,” longtime streamer JP "itmeJP" McDaniel said on Twitter.  

“I’m genuinely worried that the sheer fact that I’m a lesbian will cause the AI to remove ads,” said Vtuber LuminusRed. “In the past I’ve tested it and confirmed that I get less ad money if I had queer-related tags on my stream like ‘lesbian,’ so I am worried this dumb AI monitoring will mean I no longer get money from ads on Twitch.”
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Danika Harrod @danika.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
working for the city is so funny because what do you mean the seattle kraken dropped off a giant tentacle for us to put on city hall (and we did)
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's a striking moment in time. really hard to even get ones head around it. virtually everyone in a decisionmaking role has decided to shrug their shoulders and unleash automated processes with unknown function on the world with the best case scenario being: ending all human endeavor
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In a world of Schumers, Jeffries, and Tandens, be like these folks. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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On the Ground, Literally, With the Celebrities Who Were Arrested Protesting Netanyahu
Celebrities including Susan Sarandon, Hannah Einbinder, and Cynthia Nixon protested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's United Nations speech.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder's take on Russian Asset 47's efforts to destroy what's left of American democracy.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 23/09/2026
Faced with Democrats making historic and unambiguous errors and then losing elections, there's a group of people who decided the problem is people failing to clap hard enough. They then conclude the *specific* people letting everyone down is whoever they personally find most annoying on social media
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Israel was repeatedly called out at the UN for the genocide in Gaza. They’ve lost the narrative that protected them for so long. Netanyahu is now openly called a pathological liar and war criminal. Americans are also recognizing their pedophile compromised President is destroying the U.S.
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✨️ Sydney ✨️ @deadpoolian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shish Ka-bub #Wolverine The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe (2026)
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Protect the good CEOs like this at all cost. Most are greedy pieces of shit.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Israeli Ambassador calling for the arrest of NYC Mayor Mamdani. Imagine the diplomatic meltdown if an ambassador from any other country did this. Clip courtesy of @acyn.bsky.social
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nailed it 👇🏽 🎯 #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
White-throated sparrows Summer Breeding Across Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland, extending into parts northeastern US Fall Migration Sept - Mid Nov This journey takes twice as long as the spring passage. mid-April to mid-May birds arriving back on their breeding grounds by early June
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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU
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François Arseneault @frankars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your innocence will never come back. You will have to live with the shame. But you can learn. You can grow. You can do better. And you can love, unconditionally. The past doesn't define you. Only your actions do. Be good. Not nice, not neutral, good.
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mikeymomo.bsky.social @mikeymomo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Graeme MacKay / Copyright 2026 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.
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