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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Re my last repost: Abortion, Every Day, @jessicavalenti.bsky.social 's tremendous newsletter, has been and continues to be essential. Valenti and her fellow reporter Kylie Cheung work tirelessly to aggregate the news on this topic, along with high-quality original reporting. jessica.substack.com

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Abortion, Every Day | Jessica Valenti | Substack

All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community. Click to read Abortion, Every Day, a Substack publication.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve found it remarkable how little conversation there has been about women dying in the US as a result of the bans. Obvs this is a reporting gap across the board re bans - but the US *went backwards* so I thought there would be more outrage. There wasn’t.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The ring's whole point is to remind you "People will die in incredible pain if I stop giving a fuck about even the small, boring details of what I do" Because you *can't* grandly think about systems if you can't fucking think in the first place.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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

@alisonwillmore.bsky.social The final paragraph of your Elsinore review knocked me flat; so beautiful. Thank you for the lovely work!

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@neonepiphany.com Hey Eden, do you know if Xbox is having any issues with the playtime stat generation atm? The games I'm currently playing don't seem to update the stat like they usually do, or at all in some cases (both PC and console)

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pizza @nicanor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Really hoped i was done doing this because I actually have a stable job but said job has not paid me in 3.5 months and I live with a 65 year old woman who is boiling water to drink because we are just outta money between us. So anything would be good. www.paypal.me/KiAlexV

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Pay Kevhaun Bailey using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/KiAlexV and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 30/11/2023

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

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Nashies! YouTube Cooking Show 😺 @nashiez.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

STOP TELLING ME AI IS THE FUTURE OH MY GOD

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@skyladawn.ca Just wanted to drop you a quick note and say how much I love the Waverly Jones series. Found it from a recommendation in Olivia Waite's newsletter last week, and I've already read the first three books (and bought the last two just now).

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Listen up nerds I get that ai didn't directly cause whatever server issue bluesky is suffering and I don't care. It is way way way funnier to see every pro-ai poster on here flipping out over jokes about ai crashing the site than to be factually correct lol

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 29/03/2026

The bluesky address is @attie.ai and it really needs to be in the top five accounts blocked on this platform. This is honestly some of the most tonedeaf shit I’ve seen from BS and thats saying something

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

My brain, sometime around 4am: “Le Tigre, who came to tea” Me: “shut up” Brain: “it could be an NME article. 20 years ago” Me: “shut up” Brain: “they could interview them at a tea shop” Me: “shut up” Brain: “what’s French for ‘came to tea’, they could do the whole headline in French” Me: “Shut up”

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 12/03/2026

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.” Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 11/06/2025

Not to be unkind, but I am so impatient about the “what’s the point of making my little zines/comics/crafts/art when the world is on fire” sentiments. I get it, but saving the world is not a responsibility shouldered by your art! That’s what being a neighbor, a friend, and hell, a citizen is for!!!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

yeah we need more tech regulation in general, for everything, for ever. like 50-60% of all of our current problems somehow go back to the complete lack of any interference in tech. we made them billionaires and then they became sociopaths

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Just finished this today; can't recommend it enough. An intoxicating blend of old-school aesthetics with modern game design, as well as its top of the line assist and accessibility features. A metroidvania to rival Silksong, I'm not lying

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Today is Tom Spurgeon's birthday. Read some Little Orphan Annie or Cul de Sac, write a friend you miss, call your mom, gossip about comics with friends, get a group together for dinner, give a book you love a review, see a play, talk for hours with someone who means the world to you. Remember Tom.

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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 14/12/2025

Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social

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Robert Carlson @robertcarlson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

"[...] if there were a way to make this Godot-based game an engine others could use to script their own adventures, it could lead to something extraordinary." This is a wild compliment. I may have to think about this, but the first step would definitely be an overhaul of my scripting language, lol.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

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stupid man @porktartare.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

wisdom is realizing that it's called the Four Doorus because it has four doors.

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

@giselelagace.bsky.social Hey, Gisele; I'm probably missing something v. obvious here, but I can't find a way to buy the Pixie Trix collections digitally. I bought the first couple from Comixology (they're in my Amazon library still), but I can't find new ones in the Amazon webshop any more. Help?

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👻Mar(i)eritt 🎃 @mariekjeks.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Veldig personlig nå, men det tåler dere: Jeg tenker fortsatt, 25 år senere, på den eldre mannlige legen som kom inn til meg etter jeg tok abort som 16-åring og sa «Hvis du trenger noen å snakke med ordner vi det. Men hvis du ikke trenger det og bare er lettet og glad nå, er det også helt greit»

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Loved these back when they first came out, and appreciated them even more rereading them this past week. If a series of Regency-set mysteries starring a moderately swashbuckling independent "agent of inquiry" (that's Miss Tolerance to you) sounds appealing, run to your local ebook retailer now

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Angelle Haney Gullett @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People. "But what if they're on drugs?" Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People "Or not really THAT poor?" Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People "What if they have a phone and nice nails?" SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process:
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 29/09/2025

Just saw this great post again and it reminded me of my old beef against "spoilers don't matter, a good film isn't spoilable": The timing with which information is revealed is important in every movie! It's as much a part of the art as dialogue or lighting,it matters at least as much as aspect ratio

Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed" -a tweet by Matt The Outlaw 🤠 @CursedGloryHole

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 24/09/2025

Every day, I pray for a world where everyone is kind and respectful of each other, regardless of gender. May unreasonable attacks against transgender people end🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 May today be filled with happiness and love for you all🤍

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caramida (he/they) @caramida.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Yup.

Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority"
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person"
and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay.
do-as-youre-told
This is so well put l am stunned

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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

hey @bsky.app why was @scumbelievable.bsky.social suspended? considering the timing (she just put a new book out) it feels like someone is weaponizing your safety features in a targeted manner

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

“BUT THE CHILDREN!” Piss off! If you gave a damn about kids, you’d listen to what they need! You’d listen to adult trans people telling you how awful going through the wrong puberty is. You wouldn’t mock the high suicide rates. You don’t give a damn about kids. You just want less trans people.

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

“WAH! BUT DE-TRANSITION!” Go fuck yourself! Transition care has a lower regret rate than almost any other medical procedure. Even if it didn’t, the solution isn’t taking medicine away from everyone, it’s giving robust care for detransitioners as well. Stop using their pain as a political prop!

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

“BU- BU- BU- FAIRNESS IN SPORTS!” Shut the fuck up! Trans women have been playing various pro sports since the ‘70s and competing in the Olympics since 2004. No one gave a shit. No one “pretended to be trans” to cheat. Trans women didn’t become the sporting over-class. It’s a non-issue. Always was

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I cannot emphasize this enough that for YEARS: -trans women played various women’s sports. -trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed. -trans folk could get accurate documents. -trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate. AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also 1) bad at what it does 2) literally makes you stupider 3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

KJ Charles has reached the Bujold tier for me where I click "buy" as fast as I possibly can whenever they publish something new. I've obviously not read this one yet, but I fully recommend KJC's last historical mystery, DEATH IN THE SPIRES. One of my all-time fave despairing but dogged protagonists

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🌙 CamronJK 🐰 • Enby Bnuuy Vtuber • 🏳️‍⚧️ @camronjk.com · 26/05/2025

Dear "game devs," This is STILL a deal breaker.

Steam page screenshot:

AI GENERATED CONTENT DISCLOSURE
The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI-generated content used only for Steam page

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This page sold me on THE TITAN's first issue by itself. Love how the negative space in the second panel not only suggests a ceiling, but helps convey how dark and dingy this booth is. And "oh it's just fun watching you walk into a room" is such a killer line. Go, read: titancomic.net/comic/v1c1/

A page from the first issue of Lannan's new self-published comicbook, THE TITAN. Three panels, the first an establishing shot depicting the bar at a desert watering hole, with a cast of rough, but happy patrons. The second showing a femme person sitting at a booth in a dark, heavily graffiti'd corner. The third panel shows the reverse angle of the previous panel, with the main character, Ansel Dune, standing in front of the booth.

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Just read the first issue of FML, the new (ish) creator-owned comic by @kellysue.bsky.social, @davidlopez.bsky.social, Cris Peter and @claytoncowles.bsky.social, and wow, what a thing this is. My favourite kind of teen story: the one where the parents/grown-ups are actual human characters too

Half a page from the comicbook FML, issue #1, art by David López, Cris Peter, words by Kelly Sue Deconnick, lettering by Clayton Cowles. The panels depict a scene where some teens read a zine and geek out about it. Ominous things might or might not take place directly after this zine scene

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

@kennym.bsky.social I gotta say, after learning about the coming of Sweet Shop, every time I buy a digital comic from Cmxlgy's shambling corpse, I've started rueing that act even more. Really looking forward to the launch! (Also, you were so great on @sktchd.bsky.social's podcast the other week)

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

@andrewmaclean.bsky.social Hello! I was wondering if you're selling the digital version of the Agatha comic you kickstarted anywhere, or if it was (and forever will be) exclusive to that campaign?

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karlruben.bsky.social @karlruben.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

@oliviawaite.com Hi, I just finished The Hellion's Waltz, and I wanted to thank you for a lovely book, but in particular, the acknowledgements section at the end. I'm tearing up here at your beautifully encouraging words; very much needed just as much now as they were at the time you wrote them.

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