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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

beetle knight

Digital painting of a fairy knight. He has pale blue skin, green hair, and he is covered in spiny black armor from head to toe. He has a beetle horn in the middle of his head, and a beetle helmet to match, as well as small beetle wings. He is also wielding a spear.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My arm eventually got sore, so at least that might've been ok. Good to know that symptoms can differ though. No, my other foot had probably a hairline fracture 6 years ago that my body couldn't heal or healed badly. I'm collecting chronic injuries because my body has no strength to heal them.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

💙 It seems a lot of book bloggers (myself included) barely blog anymore or have stopped.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Like, just be honest with me. Look me in the immunocompromised eye and say "I could take a small measure to help keep you safe from a disabling oncogenic disease, one that's been proven to reduce transmission, but I don't WANT to."

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Close up. Also, I drew a hand and a face, only to then cover them up 😭 So here they are, please appreciate them too 😅

Close up of the image in the above post.

A close up of just line art in which the arm holding the shoulder is bent, revealing the face of the chest-kissing man which is behind the arm in the finished version. And there's a hand on the lower back of the man with head back, which got covered by the big jelly cone in the finished version.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I know I barely use this site, but I drew some jellyfish mermen, based on the pacific sea nettle! #Mermay #Mermay2025 #merman

Two jellyfish merman floating through the water, holding each other passionately, one kissing the other one's chest. The one being kissed is arching back with his head back, arm grabbing the other one's shoulder. Both have dark skin and dark hair with glowing orange and yellow jellyfish tails. Their hair and jellyfish tendrils are flowing toward the left of the image.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Good news! I figured out how to get it back by copying the exe that was still tucked away in a folder.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Why tf did Microsoft remove Wordpad???? That's what I use for all my documents, what am I supposed to use now 😭 Why does every company just keep making everything worse, I don't understand.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I Google searched "iguana colorful" and got a bunch of AI images, so then I searched "real iguana colorful" and got an AI result telling me that iguanas can be colorful. I hate that the internet is like this now, I just want actual real search results 😭

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

please mask and wash your hands and test if you don’t feel well. so many people are getting sick and getting others sick. stay home if you’re sick. exposing countless workers to illness so you can get your holiday shopping done or whatever is gross.

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I find it hilarious that one pattern cuttlefish like to do is a big white square on their mantle. They are great at doing patterns to blend in with their enviroment but sometimes they just think "time for ■"

A European Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) exhibiting the "disruptive" pattern. It is sitting on some black pebbles that are about as big as the cuttlefish. There a some light brown pebbles to the side. The cuttlefish is facing away from the camera. The cuttlefish is showing a pattern that contains white square in the middle of its mantle. The rest of its skin is a mix of dark and light brown that looks like sand.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Don't ask me if it was good, I couldn't even properly hear the lyrics 😭 I couldn't see my phone either, so I didn't know it was about trains at first, and it took me almost an entire song to understanding they were say they "chug" and they "choo."

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Otherwise, I put on a video to listen to and start doing something and can't get to my phone, and then I end up listening to 30 mins of a musical about anthropomorphic trains.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Ice cold take, probably? I don't think YouTube ads should be allowed to be over, idk, two minutes long. I don't care if there's a skip button. They should still be two minutes maximum.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I didn't love the second book as much, but I really loved the first and am looking forward to Book 3!

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Yay! I think it is the newest one... maybe? 😅 I've gotten bad at keeping up with books. I've liked a couple of their other books too.

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Morgan (they\them) @soupgargoyle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

not to mention the number of times I didn't understand what I was looking at (what tv character that was, whether there's a cat in this photo, whether it's the plant I'm supposed to be focusing on or something else, what meme this is, etc) that alt text has cleared up for me so I haven't had to ask

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

All I can think now is, if this person they've taken in already has chronic pain, and he's being held somewhere or gets prison, the gov isn't going to care. He'll get even less help for the pain. And that's not ok.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Exactly. By the time you realize you're sick, you've already been contagious, and if you weren't masking, might've spread it to others.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'm just so tired of people thinking sick = "normal life with some sniffles," when, for a lot of people, it means the very real potential for hospitalization, longterm complications, or death. And it could be prevented with simple precautions like wearing masks and not going out while sick. 6/

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A lot of previously able-bodied people have learned how untrue that is the hard way. I used to do gymnastics. I rarely got sick most of my life. I've been to so many doctors since my chronic illness who didn't care, didn't listen, or didn't know. It can happen to anyone. 5/

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

And I know a lot of able-bodied people don't care because it must be my fault. It's the fault of disabled people that we're unwell. You would never end up like us because you're better, you take care of yourself, you'd go to doctors and be cured. 4/

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Most relatively healthy and able-bodied people think being sick is not that bad. It's not bad for you, therefore it's not bad for anyone. But when you spread sickness, you're also spreading it to people like me. 3/

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

If I get sick, at best I might just sit in a haze in a quiet room for a few days. Maybe half listening to but not really absorbing some YouTube videos. At worst, I could end up in the hospital, miserable for months, even more permanently disabled, or dead. 2/

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So often I see / hear about people filming videos, recording podcasts, making art, doing crafts, cooking meals, doing their makeup, working out, etc. while they're sick. I feel worse than that on a daily basis. Even not sick, I can't work out, cook meals, do crafts, talk for more than 2 minutes. 1/

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I walked out of the shower with wet feet, and, umm. I think I might be a werewolf?

Water footprint but the toes extend into curved points that look like claws. There also appears to only be four toes.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I now have a free trial of Google Play Pass, and there are a couple games I already wanted, but my inner 10-year-old possessed me and I downloaded and immediately started playing a game called "Gymnastics Superstar Star Girl" 😄 I have no idea what's happening, but at least I have a cool leotard.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It looks so relaxing, I'm jealous of these dogs lol

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I just subscribed to a streaming service because of a great Black Friday deal, and instead of using that subscription, I'm watching dogs have spa treatments on YouTube.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I'm trying to put together a recommendation post, and I've had to exclude three books now that sounded like they might be good because of their AI art covers 😫

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This Thanksgiving - be thankful for your good health (if you have it) and spare a thought for the disabled & chronically ill people who’ve been tossed aside for years so that everyone else can go “back to normal”. This “othering” of people - this desire to see them as less than - has consequences

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How Did We Get Here and What Comes Next?

Disabled people have been warning others for nearly 5 years that eugenicist Covid policies would lead to a rise of fascist, racist, bigoted, misogynistic hatred. It's here now. So what’s next?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We can tell them until we’re blue in the face - they will almost always refuse to acknowledge it. They will find some way we are at fault. Some perceived moral failing that renders us incapable of getting the magical help they’re certain will be there for them when it’s their turn. /3

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Thank you <3 I think I probably won't and will just end up leaving again. Especially now that I've gotten so used to not using a site like this. (Been using Tumblr, but that's a different sort of experience.)

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

So if you're looking for similar people, and you like queer stuff, random thoughts, SFF books and games, little insights into chronic illness, or maybe art (if I ever pick up my tablet again), we might get along 🙂

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I don't wanna just follow a list of activists though. I want connection. I wanna see the crochet project someone just finished, or hear about the weird dream they had, or know what books they're reading, or commiserate over having bodies that don't work right.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

One of the reasons I stopped using X was because I couldn't stand knowing I was disposable to most of my mutuals once it became socially acceptable to stop caring about covid and disabled people and anyone who wants to stay safe, and I was just supposed to pretend it was ok. I can't do that anymore.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Is there anyone here who is covid conscious, adds alt text, and supports queer/trans/poc/neurodivergent/disabled people in general? I'd like to have community again, but I need a community that includes me, a chronically ill person, in their list of people who matter. 🧵

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

I'm only 8% into Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas, but I'm already so invested in these characters 🥺

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

More than one book at a time is not really my preference. Easier for me to really sink into a book when I focus on one.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Gorgeous, shiny bookmail 😍✨ Was surprised and so excited to get this. A cute teen romance with a nonbinary MC and a bit of magic! Otherwordly by F.T. Lukens, thanks to Simon & Schuster for sending this!

Photo of Otherworldly by FT Lukens. Cover art is two teens sort of falling into each other and looking like they're maybe about to kiss, in a snowy setting. The supernatural has a glowing yellow eye and is wearing short-sleeves, unbothered by the cold. The human is bundled up. The people are colored with lots of pink and purple, the background with white and blue.

Photo of the back of Otherworldly by FT Lukens. Color scheme matches the front, but the art shows three people waiting together, leaning on a fence and a raven in the air.

Photo of Otherworldly by FT Lukens, but tilted so the light hits it more directly, making it shine.

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Nathan Bransford @nathanbransford.com · 13/03/2024

Self-published authors, heads up. If "HarperCollins" contacts you out of the blue and they want to offer you a deal but you have to write a query first: it's a scam. I've seen multiple authors get taken in by this one recently.

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

I'm sorry you're having to deal with being treated so poorly, especially by a friend now 💙

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

I heard weird loud noises outside my room, so I opened my curtains and 😲 surprise peacock!

Photo of a peacock with tail feathers all spread

Photo of a peacock from the back with tail feathers down but still spread a bit

Photo of a peacock from the side with tail feathers down

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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

Book mail! I'm so excited for this one, it sounds like it's gonna be such an angsty, tangled emotions kinda story! Also magic and intrigue, and it's queer! Thanks go to Wunderkind PR & Random House Canada for sending this 🙂 The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin

Photo of me holding an ARC of The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin, next to some dried roses in a vase. The cover has big swirly font, and all around the title are flowers, skulls, keys, guns, and bullets.

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

vaporwave but make it vampirism 🩸🌴

three designs: a vending machine decorated with clouds and bats that sells hot pink blood with blood pouring out of it; a coffin shape containing palm trees, a sunset gradient, moon and stars; and a cassette tape drenched in hot pink blood labeled "slay mix #2"

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