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Jacob Souva

@jacobsouva.bsky.social
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Hello 👋… my name is Jacob Souva and I’m an illustrator and author of books for kids. I’m rep’d by Jen Rofé of Andrea Brown Literary Agency. ✨ www.twofishillustration.com/links ✏️ open.substack.com/pub/jacobsouva

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h
Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump administration is cutting financial aid for degrees it says don’t “pay off”—including social work, early childhood education, and the arts. These careers contribute meaningfully to our society and we should be creating pathways to education, not erecting barriers. Congress can fix this!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
I am so so so glad whenever someone mentions the fact that Amazon named an entire arena CLIMATE PLEDGE ARENA and then promptly stopped mentioning climate pledges ever again @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest is a great read: billmckibben.substack.com/p/amazon-crime
climate pledge arena
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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amazing! I always love hearing (and seeing!) the impact of portfolio day in our community. Looking forward to seeing your next piece this Thursday, @thornockstudios.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitart
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/09/2026
A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies. www.theverge.com/transportati...
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Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said.
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your daily reminder that tech oligarchs are making climate change worse by building data centers running on dead dinosaurs to give us technology that might kill us or take our jobs billmckibben.substack.com/p/amazon-cri...
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Amazon Crime
And Other Tales of Billionaire Lying from the Data Center Wars
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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This has really cracked open something for me. I had been thinking about free speech discourse in terms of hypocrisy, but this illuminates a much more consistent throughline (derogatory).
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Bruce Coville @brucecoville.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The greatest threat to your health – worse than cholesterol, worse than obesity, worse than smoking – is Republican governance.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
S i g h .
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
⭐️ 5 things from the studio ⭐️ 1. Evolving #kidlitart style 2. Too much freedom = lame results 3. Sharing our #kidlit failures 4. Awards and expectations 5. Angsty about the future? Lots of runway to become your best creative self jacobsouva.substack.com/p/championin...
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Championing Our Failures (Gulp)
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Mark Hoffmann @studiohoffmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Geneviève Godbout makes the most beautiful #kidlit books ever. If you have not laid your eyes upon her gorgeous work do it now. Now. NOW! @genevievegodboutillustration this Friday day at 2am Eastern, on insta, on Gab ‘n’ Doodle. #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #kidlitillustration
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
States aren't just laboratories of democracy. Some like Montana and Hawaii have become the frontlines for saving our democracy from Citizens United and restoring power to the people. Read this piece from James Baratta in The American Prospect.
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Can the States Stop the Corporate Domination of Our Politics? - The American Prospect
States giveth corporations the right to exist, so the states can taketh away their political spending power—or at least,
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Who Knows What the Midterms Will Bring: But You Can Enjoy the GOP’s Sweet Agony Today! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-k...
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Who Knows What the Midterms Will Bring: But You Can Enjoy the GOP’s Sweet Agony Today!
We don’t know what’s going to happen in the midterms. But we...
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I will never get over how incredibly stupid this is. Do they not know what risk pools are? Do they not know what insurance is???
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Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Putting a call out for TTRPG artists! Doing an initial discovery for an artist to work on a new cyberpunk, body horror action game I'm designing. Please link your portfolio! NO AI.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
300+ Wendy's restaurants file bankruptcy because Trump's tariffs have made beef too expensive www.themirror.com/lifestyle/fo...
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Wendy's faces 300 closures across 15 states due to crippling beef prices
One of the largest franchisees operating 314 outposts of Wendy's across the country filed for bankruptcy partially due to record-high beef prices linked to Trump's tariffs and agricultural issues
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
Why food chains taste worse (and cost more).
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Why Food Chains Taste Worse (And Costs More).
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Jena Benton @jenanbenton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you have a favorite day of the week? 📚👍🏽 #KidLit #picturebook #interview #bookblogger jenabenton.com/2026/09/21/s...
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Simply 7 with Ashley Franklin: OUR FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK
Do you have a favorite day of the week?
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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 19/09/2026
“Getting answers from a bot can create ‘the illusion of learning’ for students who reach for A.I. ‘at the first hint of struggle,’ the M.I.T. committee wrote in its August report.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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An M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind. (Gift Article)
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gas prices hit $4.46 a gallon today — a gain of 17 cents over the previous week and $1.26 higher than the same point last year. Diesel prices are up more than $2.74 from a year ago. Families, farmers, and truckers are all getting squeezed. Meanwhile...
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ve worked digitally for a very long time. Should I? #kidlit #kidlitart jacobsouva.substack.com/p/should-you...
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Should You Make Your Art With a Computer?
A 2026 update on ‘analog vs digital’
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/09/2026
I mean, yes, obviously, no shit
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really, really good from @joshtpm.bsky.social. I'd add "obviously in-the-tank" right wing media to the last line. When ppl get really angry at Trump/Big Tech, the purveyors of the "trust us and us only" media should get a ton of the blame too. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-is...
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AI Isn’t Conscious But Are Its Feelings Getting Hurt?
I just noticed this Politico piece which contains a poll they just...
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This guy
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It looks like ICE is freaking out over all of the unqualified, un-vetted, un-fingerprinted desperation hires, so now officials are mass firing everyone that should have never been hired in the first place. wapo.st/3VfSxCd
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026
Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.
Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
US data centers will be use more natural gas than any country except China, Russia, Iran and the United States. It's like we're inventing a huge new nation, just when the climate needs it least billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-two-ho...
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The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formation
Is There Suddenly an Opening for AI and Climate Sense?
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/09/2026
TODAY: The Senate is expected to take up a bill that would turbocharge Trump’s corruption. There is absolutely no good reason for any Democrat to support this legislation. Email your senators and demand that they vote NO on the CLARITY Act.
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Urge Your Senators to Oppose and Stop Trump's Crypto Corruption
Last year, the House passed the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633), a bill disguised as “crypto regulation” that actually serves the billionaires and bad actors at the center of today’s crypto chaos. This bill d...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
holy shit this is so perfect
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
5 #kidlit #kildlitart things from the studio: 1️⃣ jazz-like warm up 2️⃣ over indulgence in detail vs story 3️⃣ who can call themselves a viz artist? 4️⃣ duel! 🤺 5️⃣ inside the pizza box 😜 jacobsouva.substack.com/p/supremacy-...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026
"Clean energy is an expensive luxury favored by wooly-headed liberals" has a 30-year head start & the full weight of the RW media machine behind it. A few Dems saying "clean is cheap" a few times -- even as other Dems back off from their clean-energy commitments -- is not going to turn that around.
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Why ‘Clean Is Cheap, Cheap Is Clean’ Isn’t Breaking Through
New polling by Heatmap and Embold Research shows where one of climate advocates’ favorite arguments for renewables is falling short.
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
5 #kidlit #kildlitart things from the studio: 1️⃣ jazz-like warm up 2️⃣ over indulgence in detail vs story 3️⃣ who can call themselves a viz artist? 4️⃣ duel! 🤺 5️⃣ inside the pizza box 😜 jacobsouva.substack.com/p/supremacy-...
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.*
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
'Alarm bells ringing': US summer heat shatters record | Great piece on the record warmth and how it is tied to human-caused climate change via @afp.com: www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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'Alarm bells ringing': US summer heat shatters record
The United States has endured its hottest summer on record, a new peak that scientists said should send alarm bells ringing over the increasingly dire impacts of climate change.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Obviously this is a hilarious and obvious lie but it's instructive in that Trump knows he's supposed to care about this thing, and manifestly does not and cannot care about it, and so he has to put himself into the story just to make it something he can talk about. He almost died that day!
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Jacob Souva @jacobsouva.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When a book hits with a room full of kids, it’s electric. When it doesn’t… um, yeah. Some more thoughts on Mac Barnett’s Make Believe: 🤩 jacobsouva.substack.com/p/uninterest... #kidlit #kidlitart
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Uninteresting Books for Kids
Wrestling with Make Believe Part 2
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