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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/10/2026

Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m sorry for your loss, and I’m willing to bet that my mom’s hospice Amazon purchases in 2025 reallllly broke that algorithm.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lot of what’s happening doesn’t seem to be spreading anymore by mainstream media. A tree that stood for an estimated 150–250 years was destroyed today to make way for Trump’s border wall.

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s the art classic where you take your precious piece and delete half of it because it was too complicated to be a pin and you knew that from pretty early on and still spent days on it.

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Allison🐛🪲 @allisonstoiserart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I launched my plush woodcock bags in my online shop this weekend!

Two plush woodcock bags sitting over a grassy field at dusk.

A woman wearing green wearing a plush woodcock crossbody bag in a forest.

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savetheacademy.bsky.social @savetheacademy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today is the fifth day of the public losing access to The Academy of Natural Sciences. We can change that. save-the-academy.org youtu.be/v-R1t4YlYJ8?...

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Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 05/10/2026

Merlin Sound ID is a form of AI called a convolutional neural network that lives on your phone. It's amazing & an incredibly useful tool.

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

without any doubt:

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh this feeling. I know this one well.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t want to talk about it. 😭 Vector cleanup

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What’s probably largely happening with them is that they’re going to be cloud computing so we can never own our own hardware again. Subscriptions to use a powerful processor is the future, especially considering how you can’t build a good computer cheap anymore thanks to them.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Water strider pin progress. Orange is the initial sketch in illustrator, and then the black and white is the final design until the metal cutter tells me that the lines are too fine and I have to simplify it. Inspired by Charley Harper’s water strider with a minute homage to it on the pronotum.

A photo of a computer screen showing a vector of a water strider broken into geometric sections so it can be cut from a single piece of steel and hold together. Theres way too many layers on the right represented. Beside it is a line drawing of a water strider nymph in orange made out of constant width individual lines.

A blurry photo of a dirty computer screen with a water strider made up of continuous lines.

Another computer screenshot of the water strider including legs and water reflections.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Replace ducks with whirligig beetles and we are in business.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s holding up quite well. I’m impressed and pleased!

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It was also quite exaggerated. Kiddo distress was said very jokingly. Kid had food and snacks the whole time. They just made figuring out the can opener a project. And then Twitter did its thing.

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Apple 🍎 @frogapples.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

these didnt pop off back when I made them but some people seem to like my 3d prints here

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm home for the next 20 hours. Order a snail facts advent calendar right nowwwwww and I'll ship it out tomorrow morning! Get a snail fact every day for 24 days straight by scratching off a shell! It's like a big lottery ticket but everyone's a winner because you learn about snails. SquidFacts.net

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I hope that giving a professional face to something I’m doing anyways (contacting businesses telling them how bummer their slop products/ads are) can also help me pivot them to working with actual independent artists. Artists aren’t that expensive compared to monthly tokens to look ugly generic.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It turns out that very few people know how to spot it reliably apart from the uncanny feeling they get from all the generic graphic sludge. But ignorance has the possibility of being extremely embarrassing for a larger business as it devalues their credibility if they are wrong and double down.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I recently observed someone with the audacity to be offering ‘design services’ and not only were all the art and ideas soulless slop, but the entire proposal was too. 🤢 They were sending proposals to universities, getting accepted, and being paid like they were a real artist!

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve now done so much genAI slopspotting that my husband convinced me to start offering it as a service from my studio. Businesses and even massive institutions frequently don’t even seem to know they’re using it. They think they’re buying real art with contracts and reproduction rights!

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We need a version wheee they try to pick things up with their wee skink arms

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So who is building the dual streaming to open source platform software because you’ll make baaaank

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Sidian @sidian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Help me, bsky! You know how there are resin dice with little figures in them? I have some with bees, and I've seen lots of others. I'm looking for some with beetles. Ladybugs are fine, but all I need is a couple D6's, and I can only find big full sets of them.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

HMU if you ever need to beef up your metalworkers!

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There’s a lot of value in it, too. Being able to search through my 11k photos by subject or color has been immeasurably helpful. Managing massive databases isn’t something that humans can do without computer programs to help. But there’s lots of things it’s not for, too.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh yes! I love it. I also have the extinct alphabet poster on the bathroom door! There’s a couple of other things but they’re so scattered around that I can’t keep track. 😅

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My husband is apparently two married gay men, according to the AI gen ads we get. We’ve been delighted with the ridiculousness that this produces.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It does live on my fridge and everyone who sees it laughs.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Now that’s just showing off

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The oceans? Because they’re working on it!

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yeah! Hit it with the torch just right for a few seconds and it changes color through a predictable sequence.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This purple and blue isn’t a trick of the light or a reflection. It’s an oxide that forms when heating steel red hot for a quarter second and then cooling it on a rock. The components come flat, but I spend an inordinate amount of time smoothly bending them into curved so they’re flashier.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I did a small neighborhood event with some of my steel pins I’ve been working on. The first pic is them right after welding on the backs. The second pic is a display I made.

A handful of steel components in the shapes of moths and mushrooms with welded pin backs.

Steel pins now pressed into corks on a wood panel display with a handwritten note and a price that says “ flame painted one of a kind, stainless steel pins”

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’ve returned to this image later and I’m still seeing a conversation like “oh you’re spending time with your grandpa how cute” and glamsengi being all “we’re the same age?”

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The drawing is elevated to eleven and *vibes* by the addition of the above image.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Welp until today I didn’t realize that QT’s IB had an E there until I LOOKED at the Caribbean Bast/e/rds poster.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thank you! The steel flat base components aren’t my designs, yet, because expensive. But they take substantial welding, hammering/shaping around forms, and flame painting that’s all my labor. In Nov I’m doing an entomology show so I’m finally gonna order my own design components! (Pic = WIP)

Stainless steel shapes on a tool covered work bench.

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So I’ve been working on some pins for a while. Here’s a couple examples of the most recent three. Theyre solid stainless steel, each unique. The rainbow patina is called flame painting and it’s one of my favorite things about stainless steel. Downside: photographs badly. Upside: durable and nontoxic

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Bugs! @hugsforbugs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It’s fine! I send along an email. Sorry my state is ridiculous about security and I’m taking a stand by not giving the internet my drivers license 😅

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Spartan Mosquito of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is 10 years old! Scamming hundreds of thousands of Americans each year with its yeast-and-sugar tubes that kill ants. Innocent ants. 🐍🛢️🎂 #mosquitoes #mississippi colinpurrington.com/2020/04/spar...

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Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech review

This post is a review of the Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech, a tube containing sugar, yeast, and boric acid that you fill with warm water and position around the perimeter of your property. The cap has a s...

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Most people just want someone to talk to" 🥹 bug people are pretty neat

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