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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just generally love Antichrist vibes, so you know this is getting a perfect five from me

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/09/2026

I'm not exactly Reacher either, but then I don't let them put my face on posters with the word "Muscular" in size 72 font. This looks like if the Crusades were to liberate an Apple Store Genius Bar.

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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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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

every day it seems a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. I visited it today. russian drones burn warehouses full of books and damage whatever they can reach. A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. russia will never win.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

these people are all fundamentally jokes and deserve nothing but mockery and scorn and i don't mean furries. i mean republican politicians

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On the list of fights the Trump White House picked without bothering to think it through, we can now add throwing a fit about media coverage where the anonymous source was the vice president.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

what did I fucking tell you people about this guy. what did I say

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Jeff Barrus @jeffbarrus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There have been a lot of great shows in the 21st century. Here is my top-10 as I submitted it to the New York Times poll. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My top-10 21st century tepevision shows: Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Leftovers, Andor, Girls, Rick and Morty, Slow Horses, I Think You Should Leave, and Stranger Things.

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Jeff Barrus @jeffbarrus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm suprised he hasn't tried to rename the Washington Monument after himself. Seems a lack of ambition on his part.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This feels like a dream come true.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

More importantly, why the fuck would you TELL the public where you’re storing “sniper ammo”

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🇵🇱🇺🇦 Polish FM Sikorski: Ukraine has destroyed, it is estimated, between 30% and 40% of Russia’s refining capacity. So if Ukraine, practically without an air force was able to achieve that, then I told the Russians, partly as a deterrent: watch out, because we have more combat aircraft than you do.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"The story is about how the Terrible Things, which usually happen to the people who deserve Terrible Things, somehow happened to one of the people who do not deserve Terrible Things, according to one of the sorts of people who get to decide which people deserve what." www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/

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This is Us

Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

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Jeff Barrus @jeffbarrus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I canceled Disney+ after Andor season 2, and I guess I'm never going back.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2026

The Paul brothers visited the Pentagon today. Perhaps Hegseth has hired them to do the morning wood inspections for the new low-T program. taskandpurpose.com/culture/paul...

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Paul brothers visit Pentagon, speak to troops

The Department of Defense released footage showing the influencers meeting with military members and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We’re being run by an unhinged, corrupt egomaniac who thinks he’s a king and has no use for the constitution. And most of the media still just covers it like it’s normal.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez.

Emiliano Tahui Gómez
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Here in North Austin, where ICE agents appear to have shot an individual in his car. I spoke to two of the only witnesses.

Nedevia Bolaños and her husband, Carlos, own a business just off the intersection where the shooting happened. Shortly before 1 pm they says they heard what sounded like two gunshots. Carlos ran out first. A blue Toyota sedan and a black Escalade were stopped under the highway.

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He said he saw an olive-skinned man, seemingly in his 30s, leaning backwards against his seat. A masked agent was standing outside the car. The agent refused to answer questions. Within a few minutes as many as 10 other ICE agents arrived.

Carlos asked the victim if he was ok. "Yes," the man said in Spanish, but he looked exhausted. Carlos asked why they had shot him. "Because I didn't stop."

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Bolaños ran up next. She said she continously asked the ICE agents about why they'd shot him and if they were going to render aid. They didn't answer her. It was an APD officer who later arrived and cut open the young mans shirt, revealing a deep hole between his shoulder blades. The ambulance arrived about 10 minutes after and carried him off. "I've never seen all this. Thank God I'm a citizen," Bolaños said in Spanish. "Or I'd be living like this. In a dream of terror."

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shadowrun sourcebook be like:

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Spotted at DC’s H St Festival: “This Flock camera tracks our movement!”

Spotted at DC’s H St Festival: Man holding sign that reads “This Flock camera tracks our movement!”

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 19/09/2026

Oh my god he has TDS. Amazing. Canada is going to be just fine.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"A fake bipartisan oversight committee won’t save CNN. We have all the evidence we need from the Ellisons’ destruction of CBS about what they do to warp journalism at Donald Trump’s request." Press freedom group Free Press opposes a settlement deal between the state AGs and Paramount.

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A chatbot told him 6 times to not do one

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As Eisen explains, an insolvent company can go to bankruptcy, but an insolvent non-profit foundation goes to receivership, meaning the court appoints a new fiduciary. The exact opposite of what they wanted!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes. It does not matter if you think the Kennedy Center is bougie: private individuals do not get to destroy public goods. If you budge one iota on this stance, then you lose the right to object when he demands bits of the national parks as a treat. You've already agreed with him on the principle.

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Scott 𐚁 Cataloochee Hogtoe 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know there’s a savvy take that being attached to the east wing or the kennedy center is a sort of west wing lame-o attachment to the symbols of power and on the other hand he fucking bulldozed our collective property

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump is destroying all of this because it is a tribute to JFK, not to him. And this drives him insane.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You would think the nephew of John F. Kennedy, who currently holds a position in the Trump administration, would have something to say about the potential destruction of the beloved Kennedy Center, but I guess letting children die of preventable diseases is a full time job.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bari Weiss running “60 Minutes”

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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The American people should never forget that when they faced exploding costs from a failed war in Iran and dangerous uncertainty from unchecked artificial intelligence, House Republicans decided to cancel work in Washington and go home for nearly eight weeks. Shameful.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mercantilism trending like it’s 1621

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I agree with @jvl.bsky.social. Dems would do well to conduct serial impeachments. First Heggy (if he is not convicted in Dec, after he IS impeached in House), then RFK. Then prioritize based on what will either gain support among Senate GOPers OR embarrass them. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-th...

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Impeach Them. All of Them.

Hegseth is only the beginning.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/09/2026

As it happens, I was approached by the private equity firm in this article about a year ago, sounding me out about acquiring my backlist. I declined.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026

Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Streisand Effect. Congrats, Robert Kraft and pro genocide supporters. You've just made Macklemore and his speech mentioning "Free Palestine" into a global issue, galvanizing the majority.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026

I believe her story honestly. it’s one of those issues where if you get quit of debate bro culture and talk to real people, the case for civil rights is immediately undeniable

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Win98 Tech Support @win98tech.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Spoilers for Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie They figure out they've traveled back to 2008 because a theater full of people are laughing at a scene from The Hangover where Ed Helms gets called Doctor Faggot and that was real that was a real joke in a massively successful movie

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Jeff Barrus @jeffbarrus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As an EV driver, my car has never needed an oil change.

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