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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/08/2026
Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
We gotta imprison each of these shithead AI ceo's in a different data center like the minotaur
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I’m sorry for the things I said when the wrong lights were on
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/10/2025
the secret message of all art and politics is “you are not alone”
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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A Jelly Squishes Slowly By @ubiquisquish.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
pui-pui official Tumblr post: “Un-uhlaive? UN-UHLAIVE? Ma’am, that man has been KILLED. He has been MUHDUHED. To DEATH.”
Followed by FrogInAPickleJar’s reblog of a photo of Benoit Blanc’s horrified open mouth mid-speech.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/10/2025
deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/10/2025
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 13/10/2025
I think narrative structure is created through Pace, Lens , Order, and Tension. The various recipes for plots out there have all of these. I don't think there's anything wrong with using a recipe. I also think that saying they ARE structure means that we are always using someone else's recipe.
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VirginiaM - owlet @virginiam.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A smart thread
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 09/10/2025
i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words. The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Living wage? What of the laughing wage. How much is the loving wage. Tell me that
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My plan to revitalize the MCU
Drunk Don Draper stands in front of a poster that says "Let Bucky Barnes be gay"
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
future children in history class are going to love studying our era because everything about it will look so stupid to them “oh so they took all the serious bad things from past eras, and then redid them, but like clown shit?” yes
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REX RIOT @rexri0t.com · 14/09/2025
you gotta make the big bad things little and the little good things big
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
opening a Spirit Halloween where my patience used to be
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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V. E. Phemera @visceralhit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/08/2025
I wish it were less stupid
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
anyway, remember that exercise isn’t supposed to be a punishment, it’s supposed to be a celebration of what your body can do that we can do anything at all is a gift
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/08/2025
I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
im getting really tired of everything being bad bc like 12 ppl can't fill the hole in their hearts despite being billionaires
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"
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Alys @ink-dust.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
What if we just built bathroom stalls without gaps in the walls and everyone minded their own business
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
For the Epsteinth time, an 'underage woman' is called a CHILD. Thanks for coming to my Pred Talk.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
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Sarah LuAnn Perkins @sarahluann.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
“spicy autocomplete” is still the best way I’ve heard anyone summarize it and I wish we could get that to catch on
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Inside you there are two towers. You are the middle book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/07/2025
"Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here."
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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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Ben 🔔🧛‍♂️🎃🦇🍬 @beninquiring.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I’m gonna replace “ChatGPT” with “Lady Catherine de Bourgh” in my head forever now
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 14/07/2025
Okay, today's my #HotTake day. ...Can we do a useful thing? Let's stop using "elites" as a condemnatory blanket term. Let's use the magic of the English language to point at *exactly who we mean.* "Exploitative rich guys?" Say that. "Bored uncaring suburban comfortable folks"? *Say that.* (1/3)
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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 12/07/2025
Americans love Renaissance Festivals because it’s their only chance to experience a walkable neighborhood.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/07/2025
care > punishment
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years. So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
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VirginiaM - owlet @virginiam.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Same, pal
Steve Rogers as Captain America, wearing an expression of deep vexation & disappointment
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Alys @ink-dust.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Happy Steve Rogers’ birthday and nothing else
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Pride Month is over! Six Deadly Sins to go. July is Sloth Month! Why bother getting up? It's hot.
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Robot Impurity Photography @robotimpurity.com · 28/06/2025
"It's my way or the highway" doesn't work in a democracy. Unless you're Dwight Eisenhower, and you get both your way and the highway.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 24/06/2025
from https://www.tumblr.com/murderpod-diaries

Murderbot lying on a reclining chair, Bharadwaj sits on another chair beside it, writing in an open notebook. 

Caption below: 

Therapist: and what do we say when people ask us about ourselves 

Murderbot: I have to check the perimeter  

Therapist: no
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/06/2025
I'm still silly enough to think that a politicians job is to actually be a moral actor and sometimes that means sacrificing your career for the betterment of society
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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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