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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thinking about the selling point of "AI" supposedly "freeing up time" to do important things. Beyond devaluing the tasks that we can supposedly offload to software systems, it occurs to me that this is kind of opposite of mindfulness/being in the moment. >>

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In light of the head of Trust & Safety talking about something akin to a social credit score on bluesky dot app, I'd like to re-up my response to a dev asking about toxicity a year ago, when it really became the buzzword the team was using:

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We talk as though our data is more private when people aren't involved, but I don't think that's right. There's the invasion of privacy of, e.g. LEOs using Flock to stalk their exes, and there's the invasion of privacy when algorithmic systems make assumptions about us, correctly or not.

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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 10/07/2026

The Institution is dead, man. It's been dead. Now's the time for the punks, the fuckers that wanna punch above their weight class, that wanna write experimental, personal, weirdo, sick shit. They will stumble along the way but we will all be better for it: not financially, but in spirit.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/09/2026

The alt text here is good

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JD Walsh @jdwalsh03.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As someone who wears an (older, not-listening) Apple Watch for essential health monitoring, I also worry about the social ramifications. Will I be forbidden or “discouraged” from wearing my Apple watch in public or work spaces due to pushback against these similar-looking “always-listening” models?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sometimes there's a vile post that is genuinely newsworthy But I grow tired of attention seekers going, "Look at this poison I found! Everyone in the water supply should taste it!"

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bumping Derek’s Kickstarter again! He’s doing comics about a topic almost totally absent in media (true tales of being poor) in a style unlike anyone else. You will like the book. Get him a 10K kick start.

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Brian F'n Patterson @d20monkey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

September approaches. I am available for personal commissions and paid freelance work for illustrations, cartography, or logo work. Let's make your thing. #ttrpg #freelancer #tryingtomakerent brianfnpatterson.com

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The Art of Brian Patterson

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JD Walsh @jdwalsh03.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Roadside motel goes out of business.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

my free downloads collection posts on my Patreon have 37 posts already. some require a free follow to reach the files, but they are gratis nonetheless. there are personal-use and royalty-free art here, mind the title of each one. www.patreon.com/collection/1...

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Free Downloads | Collection from Tome of Salvaterra | 37 posts | Patreon

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Fiona Creates 🔜 SCARF - Sheffield Comic Arts Fair - 22B @fionacreates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I guess a PSA for newer creators, if you get what seems to be a legit offer, you are totally ok to go to the agency’s real site, and email them directly in a new email “hey i just got an offer from you? Is this real?” And they will answer yes or no. They are just as pissed by the scams, I imagine!

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"As research on problem solving appears to be stuck, our suggestion is to relax the strict methodological criteria that many cognitive scientists impose on themselves" Funny & Meta 🙃 As we know from research that loosing unnecessary constraints is a way to get unstuck in problem solving. 🧵

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My dad recently said, about something else, "You can't expect a pirate to plant," and I seethed with rage that he did not drop this insanely useful metaphor ten years ago.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

this is a fantastic thread and gets at the heart of why so much of the "want non traditional voices" pushes effectively end up as "want traditional stories by someone who looks non traditional"

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What I find especially interesting is the section where they tried to get "Bella" to discuss her work and she couldn't with any depth or knowledge. This is the same thing that happens with students who use genAI for research or writing help. There is no there there.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 26/06/2026

We really do need to help our children build necessary AI literacies: Salt circles, protective incantations. An awareness that contracts with spirits are always trying to destroy you. Banishing. More banishing.

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Jurídico Suco de Amora @renatastone.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Os 3 Mosqueteiros Muppets, e só Peter Capaldi como Cardeal Richelieau é humano

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is an incredibly smart sentence.

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Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 18/06/2026

The problem is that the homunculi come in packs of 8 but the homunculi buns only come in packs of 12.

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I tend to chuckle at the naivete of "it's UX when there are fewer clicks" but this is a legitimately frustrating change that added extra clicks for no reason.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 03/06/2026

they've discovered another brontë - the first new brontë since the discovery of branwell in 1936. but this is particularly exciting since literary critics were pretty sure that additional brontës were impossible - all the rooms had been mapped in haworth parsonage, there was simply no space

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Christina Chong, La'an, in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Her performance at the end of "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" fucking BROKE me.

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🎃ruth boo-der yinzburgh🎃 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"GIVE US YOUR EMAIL TO READ THE FULL STORY." Guess whose story I'm not reading.

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Chris AirioOOoOoOooo @5mwpress.com · 14/05/2026

If you haven't already, there's loads of new games and modules in this charity bundle, check it out, :)

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12/05/2026

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

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JD Walsh @jdwalsh03.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Great games for a great cause

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Yes, it's 4 total, but 2 of them are Fast and 2 of them are Furious and you can't add the two together, it would be like saying 2x+2y=4xy

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

admiralty employee: oh hey you guys are back early sailor: venus's haunted admiralty employee: what sailor (loading the AA guns and getting back on the USS Langley): venus's haunted

In the natural state of alarm (the attack on Pearl Harbor had happened the day before) 300 rounds were shot at an object in the sky before it was realized that it was the planet Venus.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

ⓘ This account is for cyberbullying large accounts into being accessible by way of alt text

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I’m so proud. After huge amounts of stress, hard work & self-doubt, I have finally finished my first novel. I think I might read another one.

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Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A Constellation of Chronic Medical Conditions Commonly Seen in Autistic & ADHD Adults

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations

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JD Walsh @jdwalsh03.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Traditionally, information leading to the capture of a messiah only merits 30 pieces of silver.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My unique $100k R&D ocean floor gravimeter was lost at sea through unfortunate events. No funds for ship time for recovery so my PhD supervisor mortgaged his house & sent me. No pressure. I was in the lab with the ROV team when it showed up on sonar. Cheering erupted over the radio from the bridge.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

We thought we were living in a cyberpunk dystopia but this is actually straight from Warhammer 40K. The machine spirit must be appeased using the proper rituals. Blessings affixed with purity seals will keep the cogitator functioning.

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Graham A. Yeates @grahamyeates.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I'm not claiming to be a hero, but with every Cadbury MiniEgg I eat, that's a dog not getting chocolate poisoning. I've saved so many dogs.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

There is within me an unslaked hunger for preposterous adventure movies. I resist the bad ones, but when a "Congo" or an
"Anaconda" comes along, my heart leaps up and I cave in. "The Mummy" is a movie like that. There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it.

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