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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16h

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 18h

I think I'm most comfy with RPGs, visual novels, story-heavy stuff, sometimes puzzle games or cozy games. Not usually into these boss-fight heavy or platformer-heavy ones but HK is an exception!

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 18h

Ahum, that's the second game. Apparently even harder than the first. Or at least differently. Eventually I can do most things (so far) but it's testing me xD But I love everything about it so it's worth it. Can't say I'm a big gamer either although I do play sometimes just not these types of games.

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 18h

Yeees, go you! I'm playing Silksong now... for like a year. 😅 Never played Hollow Knight but I know and love it. I'm having lots of fun but it's hard!

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LindenShieldARTs (she/they) @lindenshieldarts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Cotton Caps", gouache & coloured pencil Available as fine arts prints and stickers: lindenshieldarts.com #TraditionalArt #FantasyArt #Painting

A photo of an open sketchbook with blue paper, placed on a wooden desk and surrounded by a paint brush, paint tubs, coloured pencils, fluorite crystals, and leaves. On the sketchbook page a small painting is visible, featuring rocks overgrown with bluish moss and glowing pink mushrooms. Behind the rocks a frame shows cold bluish hazy woods.

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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You may have heard me mention the fire in our neighborhood. We're thankfully insured and we'll see how much is covered, but to alleviate some costs, I've put my short fiction up in a bundle sale on Itch. Check it out here: itch.io/s/204693/fir...

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Fire Sale - Short stories bundle sale by Joachim Heijndermans

A bundle by Joachim Heijndermans, $10.00 for 4 games

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You have to not anguish about ethical uses of an unethical product. This is DDT. It’s poison, the people selling it know it and are pushing back hard against people trying to call it what it is. We did that, though.

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I understand how reasonable in this climate of "use it or get left behind!", "it's here now!" it might seem to compromise on reasonable use and regulations and transparency and all that but...we could sometimes just demand spaces without any genAI use. It's possible. It's necessary. Can we try?

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Oh yeah, that would make sense. Also probably providing a show for the different stakeholders. They're definitely using the fact that most people don't know what these models can do and are good for.

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah. I understand fearmongering, but the goal there is to deter people from something. Whatever psychological game this is is beyond my comprehension. I suppose the people who are already all-in with "AI" can, I don't know, feel like they're in on something big? I don't know, honestly.

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I extra love where they are like ah yes, we will balance the technological benefits (...can someone tell us what those are? profit? hell yeah. (: profit. (: ) against the enormous economic, environmental, societal, health, ethical, social etc harms of it. we'll balance it. (: whatever that means.

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Mountain picnic!! I love it. Have fun! Train writing has been working so well for me. Otherwise I'm not sure how I would make time to write these days. It's not a lot of time (at best 4 x 1 hour per week but often in the evening I'm too tired to do it) but it's something! And it's very vibey x)

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yes! Very not-ominous connotations. They're really like: hey buy all our AI products, it's the future, you can't live without them! Oh they might become autonomous on you an infect everything you love. Might even kill you! Um. Buy our product!!

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That is a virus. That is a virus? That is a virus. I mean I don't think for a second that this is true in this form, but if it was, this company needs to be shut down. They're an evil scientist in a lab holding a plate of deadly airborne concoction like "oh, oh, I'm dropping it, I'm dropping it!"

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Every ad now

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]

JANET:
Ugh...

LIZ:
What's up?

JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!

LIZ:
Have you tried...

AI peas?

JANET:
AI peas?

LIZ:
They're peas with AI!

[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].

LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas

JANET:
What

LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]

Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?

[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]

LIZ:

Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine

[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]

LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!

JANET:
What

LIZ:
Shut up

LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow

From opening the bag of peas

to boiling the peas

to eating the peas

To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.

JANET:
Is it really necessary to-

LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:

AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.

[Ends]

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

good morning! today's tactics to fend off the void monsters include writing on the train (perhaps I'm finishing chapter 1 of new-old WIP soon), a nice walk through the misty forest to work, a good coffee, some leisurely radio spectra analysis, and perhaps even more writing later! how about you?

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

yesterday was a satisfying day and not just because I commandeered the radiotelescope from the comfort of my home sometimes I'm like... I need so little to be satisfied. why are the world AND myself so insistent on sabotaging it lol

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Happy #portfolioday I am a ceramic painter, pottery glaze is my medium. I want to tell stories in space about life on Earth. A restock announcement is coming very soon, join my mailing list to be notified: amyraehill.com

Detail of teapot featuring Earthset on the Moon as captured in the Artemis II mission.

Yarn bowl featuring green and blue nebula with cat silhouette.

Angled cup featuring two astronauts waving at a rover and helicopter on Mars.

Hanging planter featuring Voyager spacecraft approaching Callisto.

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Designercon @mahoukarp.com · 14/10/2026

cute cryptids 👽 #art

artwork of some cryptids but cute featuring, mothman, alien, chupacabra, yeti, big foot, jersey devil, flatwoods monster, nessie, jackalope

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

David's courses were so fun and informative, and I met such excellent authors through them. Please check it out if something like this rocks your boat! 💙📚

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

good morning! what are y'all doing today to try and dispel the Stink Cloud of Void from above your heads? I will eat onion soup for lunch with cheesy baguette. 💜 And I will try to go home earlier from the office today, and also have a little cardio sesh. And read from a good book.

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's not ~bad or anything but if it's that type of game I do have my fun with intentionally leaving the NPC's line of sight when they're talking to my character and giggling about how stupid they look.

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My dark fantasy duology has been completed for 3 weeks now! 🥀🪷💫 Wishing to read about heartbreak and torture (metaphorical and literal) on these lovely autumn days? Get on the anguish ride with Imbued & Untwined! 💙📚 🪐📚🌈📚 Pain, revenge, absolution. This isn't just a story. It's a confession.

A graphic with lush green ferns in the background. The covers of Imbued and Untwined by Helyna L. Clove are at the bottom.

"For more than a decade working as a servant for one of the most influential families of war-torn, magic-ravaged Kamphua, Calla has had no memories of her childhood save for hazy nightmares and the fears the forbidden power stirring inside her whispered to her. But when her abilities are revealed to the enigmatic magehunter family heir and a desperate mage uprising shakes the foundations of her home, finding out what happened to her in those forgotten years might be her only chance to survive.

But the knowledge will break her.
It could break the world."

Now a completed dark fantasy duology!

Ebooks and paperbacks at https://books2read.com/imbued & /untwined

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you love your magic with heartbreak, trauma, forbidden love, and unearthed ancient history, today is a lovely autumn day to start reading my duology! 💙📚🪐📚🌈📚 You can find it on most places where ebooks loiter: books2read.com/imbued books2read.com/untwined And also on my itch! helynalc.itch.io

A graphic with lush green ferns in the background. The covers of Imbued and Untwined by Helyna L. Clove are on the top. Below, bullet pointed lists:

- ancient, corrupted magic
- failed magic experiments, lost history
- magehunter/mage demi slowburn (no spice)
- telepathic dead gods
- dreams, visions, otherworlds
- fictional autobiography style
- lush, flowery & spiralling
- complex PTSD rep
- queernormative world
- body horror, existential horror
- tfw you just want to burn it all down (but sad)

Now a completed dark fantasy duology!

Ebooks and paperbacks at https://books2read.com/imbued & /untwined

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh no! I hope you can get to an environs that contains cats as soon as possible!!

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What a lovely view! And birds are a great company. 😊

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

good morning! I hope y'all can do something today to alleviate the weight of the void on your shoulders. I'm gonna write horror on the train, have a little ice coffee treat at noon, and scratch my inner forever-student by doing Deutschkurs Übungen ✌️

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Animaris Rex is an 18-metre-long walking 'beach animal' propelled by the wind, created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. Original post

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The promise of cryptid hunting YouTubers. I don't watch that kind of content too much but i had a phase and I love those vibes.

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 11/10/2026

Use ALT text. It's relatively easy to do, you can set Bluesky to not allow you to post pics without it, and you can easily search up best practices for it. The added bonus is that you're more likely to get more engagement as well.

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Astrophysicist: Well, yes, it is empty space, but think about how insignificant it is compared to the vast voids among stray galaxies out there in the dark...

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeeesss holy moly. And sometimes, maybe I'd just like to be a blob, by myself. But nooooo :/

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🫂🫂 Oof, I feel that. For a long time I really didn't understand why it made me hyperventilate when my mom was like "you're always so calm, you're my rock" even back when I was a teen. Nowadays I'm like... yeah, well someone had to be calm and strong, y'all sure weren't 🫠

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 10/10/2026

I finished this beautiful book yesterday and yall really ought to add this duology to your TBR! Dark, introspect, trauma-riddled goodness!

golden cover of Untwined. Book 2 of Imbued duology

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Then Amodei is a slaver. (good thing they're not conscious eh?) How about y'all so called journalists start talking about something important again? Like how forced adaptation of LLM chatbots and genAI tools are making our lives measurably, significantly worse in every way possible? No? Okay.

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Don't hide your light. The shadows are too aggressive these days for you to be silent. Sing out. Not just in anger at the shadows, but with ideas, with love, with insight, with creativity, with hope. Remind others that humanity is more than the handful of people talking and spending the most.

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This kinda slipped by me buuut: I'm doing #SFINCS #SFINCS4 again this year as a judge in this awesome team!! ✌️✌️💙📚

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yesss! My not-so-secret favourite book of those I read and judged for #SPSFC5 has won!! What a grand book. Genuinely one of my fave scifi reads of the last couple of years. Congratulations!! 💙📚

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also, hugs to you. I hope you can feel better soon. Think about cool books, no think about anything else (at least that is my mantra. I fail at it. But I try!)

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Piranesi, Piranesi, always Piranesi. I was also really into Blood Over Bright Haven, it goes hard. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, holy moly. What. A. Book. I immediately need to read everything from Stephen Graham Jones. Rubicon by J.S. Dewes to mention a scifi, everything EXCEPT the ending xD

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