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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

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hazel 🩵 @raspberryhazel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

lot of gems in this one. you can read the full thing on the xtra website!

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 30/09/2026

The princess took an earring off and held it out. The raven looked at it. "Whatever for?" "You are wise and clever. Many princesses have dragons, but none has a raven friend." The raven picked up the earring. "Say no more." "Friends?" she asked when it returned the next day. "Forevermore."

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She invited the other local witches for a picnic but no one has arrived yet

painting of a cat dressed as a witch in a flower field with a river in the background

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very proud of the amazing Dr @ordinarystarman.com who has now graduated and can get "Dr" on all her bank cards. Also not everyday you hear someone you work with on the radio because they're the first Samoan PhD in astrophysics from UoA: www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...

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First Samoan astrophysicist encourages Pasifika students to reach for the stars

The first Samoan person to graduate with a PhD in physics at the University of Auckland has encouraged Pasifika students to remember that they belong and can succeed in academia.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026

Yes, to be clear! Not earning out doesn’t mean the book cost the publisher money. The publisher is making money long before the earn out. bsky.app/profile/pnh....

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Each of these incidents is being framed as a success — a terrifying success that you must believe in and fear— rather than what it is as a criminal failure of ethics and institutional control.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don’t be left sitting on the sidelines, make sure you’re enrolled to vote!

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

people were going 'oh some guy on the right is sexist so what' no man it's active groyper shit, at one point David Seymour had to sit him down like "dude what the fuck"

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Chloe | @grassangel everywhere | Best Enemies since 2009 🐀 @grassangel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't consider myself a transport nerd but I do like that apparently NZAA members really like using different forms of transport and care about other infrastructure. Also, a majority do see the sense in supporting public transport. www.aa.co.nz/about/speaki...

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AA Election Calls 2026 Survey results: Transport priorities for the next Government

Results from the AA Election Calls 2026 Survey, highlighting what AA Members and the public want to see from the next Government on transport, including planning, safety, infrastructure, and costs.

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🦈🤖 Rogue, the "Bool" Shork 🤖🦈 @kroggol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For people saying "but Discord can't do anything bc the governments are the ones pushing for that" - keep in mind that the *tech companies* are the ones who are lobbying for that kind of law to allow them to collect and sell more data and thus profit - govts and techs are BOTH pieces of shit

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

for those outside New Zealand: 2 years ago a veiled far-right astroturf org threatened to sue an investigative journalist for a book he was writing about them. He was not writing a book about them, but this incident meant former staff started leaking to him. He used those leaks to write a book.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Loosening regulations in the name of speed is not how you speed up projects. Demanding that government, corporations, and project proponents have the appropriate staff to do their mandated jobs properly is how you speed up projects while ensuring safety. This is a bad decision.

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Laya 🌿🍄 ➡ nelson zinefest! @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

anyone else mad that tech billionaires who are completely disconnected from reality are putting all their effort into making things worse #art #noai

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I agree with this and as a corollary eradicate the idea that some parents (or early stage writers) have that one writes creatively solely for the purpose of "publication" rather than for the purpose of writing creatively and seeing what results simply for the pleasure and exploration of art/voice.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 16/09/2026

ooh, I like this take - all the elements are present, so call it what it is: not liminal (which was never quite right, tbh), but gothic for a new generation of people who don’t remember why we built that shit in the first place, or what it was supposed to be *for*

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Chloe | @grassangel everywhere | Best Enemies since 2009 🐀 @grassangel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

LRSs: Really do think that HPMOR should be filed alongside Snapewives and thanfiction and that Doctor Who cult, rather than merely alongside ATYD and TSP and other fics that have fandoms of their own.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

You want to know more about the sex part of this? Fine:

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Eddie van Dijk @karanov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That last sentence is also why all fiction is inherently political. Any story you write will, due to the assumptions about the world you do an do not incorporate, say something about how you think society should or should not function. And that is politics.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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Chloe | @grassangel everywhere | Best Enemies since 2009 🐀 @grassangel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What is up with the typography on ACT's hoardings? It's giving Zapf Chancery and the graphic designer spending too much time looking at the label of their bottle of wine.

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Laya 🌿🍄 ➡ nelson zinefest! @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

may i offer you a handful of brushbuddies? #witchhatatelier

photo of various tiny brushbuddy stickers, around the packaging - which is an ink jar with a banner saying 'brushbuddies'

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cen ⚔️🛡️🌿 moving and working! @aiphelix.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Roy Meowstang #fma

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RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I drew a comic strip.

a comic strip. The first panel shows a goblin in a long coat approaching a guard. The second panel has the goblin saying "we're just normal men!". The third panel has the guard replying "what do you mean normal men?". The fourth panel shows both the goblin in the coat and the guard. The coat is beginning to open to show many goblins within. The guard looks suspicious and a goblin emerging from the coat is saying "We're just innocent men!"

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 11/09/2026

Doesn't look like Princess Awesome is on bluesky but they do have this super cool detailed blog post about the research and design process for this skirt! (I bet there would also be a market for it as a button-down shirt, which I see PA is making now) princess-awesome.com/blogs/news/a...

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A Design Featuring Proto-Sinaitic Descendant Scripts

In August of 2024, I read an article in Archaeology Magazine about the oldest known recorded instance of the use of Proto-Sinaitic alphabetical symbols, discovered in a tomb in Egypt. The symbols were based on Egyptian hieroglyphs but instead of representing a concept, the symbols each represented a sound. String them

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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 12/09/2026

I don't fuckin know; sometimes you just need to look at a jellyfish.

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Chloe | @grassangel everywhere | Best Enemies since 2009 🐀 @grassangel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just got the email from the NZ Electoral Commission to check my enrolment details and truly, the more I look at that dumb enrolment cutoff date, the dumber it gets. Tough luck to all the people moving in those two weeks and super tough luck to people trying to sell or buy a house— *checks calendar*

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Ripley @h0lycr0w.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Twitter went ape shit over these

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Chloe | @grassangel everywhere | Best Enemies since 2009 🐀 @grassangel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Apparently a maze emoji has been proposed twice: once in 2018, and again in 2020. Meanwhile incense and (a) cairn are currently under consideration. Does mean it could be submitted again though and I am so tempted to write a submission for maze/labyrinth to be added.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Your daily affirmation: Being called weird is a badge of honor, but you can be weirder still. Don't hold back.

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My newest lino block print is up! "Dream" is my first ever series using black paper and gold ink, and wow does it make an impression. The gold is very opaque, and while not extremely shiny the contrast is gorgeous. www.kamakru.com/prints/p/lim... #dragons #lino #linocut #blockprint

Photo of a 5x7 hand pressed lino print in gold ink on black paper of a cute dragon curled up on top of a stack of two books, one says DREAM on the spine. The dragon looks peaceful and stars sparkle in the sky around it with a crescent moon. Written under the print in pencil is the edition number 6/54 which means it's limited edition number 6 out of 54 total prints. Title "Dream" and signed Katie Croonenberghs. Text reads kamakru.com

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/09/2026

If you see something, save something. Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️ Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears. See something worth keeping? Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/ #ToolsYouCanUse

Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art framing the edges. Bold black text reads "Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage that's important to you before it changes or disappears." A yellow ">" chevron tagline at the bottom reads "tools you can use."

Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage with its search bar, page thumbnails, and three tool options — Subscription Service, Collection Search, and Save Page Now — with the Save Page Now box circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.

Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building in the lower right. Bold black text reads "Save a page that matters today."

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

The point of Amazon's payola scheme is only and ever a way to parasitically extract the maximum amount a platform seller is willing to part with, and by running a fake SBSPA, Amazon was able to trick its customers into revealing those maximum prices. 70/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Payola accounts for more of Amazon's profits than *anything else* the company does. It's more profitable than *all* the things Amazon sells directly. It's more profitable than AWS, Amazon's industry-leading cloud service. 32/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Taken on their own, these facts constitute an extraordinary business story: one of the largest corporations in world history has converted its two largest cost centers into profit centers, and those profits are substantially generated by extracting payments from the company's own competitors! 10/

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 02/09/2026

Maybe a catchy mnemonic for the smol planet names would help like the original big planet one? Largest to smallest: Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, Ceres, Orcus Please Enjoy Holding My Granny's Quite Small Cheese Orb uhhhh...I'm taking further suggestions

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 02/09/2026

My contrarian take on Pluto and planethood is that this is an opportunity to get excited about the whole roster of Dwarf Planets, many of which are named after other mythological figures beyond the Greeks! That's neat! Spare some love for the other 8 dwarf planets!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_p...

Wikipedia infobox with dwarf planets, small images, and dates of discovery:
Ceres (1801)
Pluto (1930)
Quaoar (2002)
Sedna (2003)
Orcus (2004)
Haumea (2004)
Eris (2005)
Makemake (2005)
Gonggong (2007)

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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 02/09/2026

Paint them things please. #climate #windpower #birds

Scientists painted one wind turbine blade black, and bird deaths dropped by 70% in a long-term study in Norway.
@explaining.tech
"Imagine the solution being this simple the whole time."

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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 01/09/2026

Happy Bisexuality Visibility Month

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