iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

“The Death I Bring” Pencils I made on a moleskine sketchbook page back in 2016.

A realistic pencil drawing of a robed woman, surrounded by three vultures and one barn owl grabbing a dead mouse with his beak.

The robed woman stares at us intimately, with a few bits of branched and a dark background makes the scene a bit ominous but graceful body positioning makes the scene beautiful as well. The artist (me) really likes this kind of imagery.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Arte es Ética @arteesetica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

¡ATENCIÓN! El Gobierno de España vuelve a la carga para legitimar el uso de IA generativa en los rubros creativos ⚠️ Ahora resulta que Prometeo es el «democratizador» del fuego con el que justifican el uso de IAG 🤦 Plazo para enviar aportaciones contra la IA generativa: hasta el 8 de octubre ✊🔥

Trámites abiertos.

PROYECTO DE ANTEPROYECTO DE LEY ORGÁNICA POR LA QUE SE REGULA EL USO DE LA INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL GENERATIVA EN EL MARCO DE LA RELACIÓN LABORAL ESPECIAL DE LAS PERSONAS ARTISTAS QUE DESARROLLAN SU ACTIVIDAD EN LAS ARTES ESCÉNICAS, AUDIOVISUALES Y MUSICALESParticipar
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Fecha de publicación: 17 de septiembre de 2026, a las 12:24:00 .
Inicio del plazo de presentación de aportaciones: 18 de septiembre de 2026, a las 00:00:00.
El plazo para la presentación de aportaciones termina el día 08 de octubre de 2026, a las 23:00:59.

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PREÁMBULO
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Nos encontramos en el vértice de una transformación de época en la que la Inteligencia
Artificial en general, y la Inteligencia Artificial Generativa en particular, están suponiendo
ya un extraordinario desafío para el conjunto de la actividad humana, pero muy
especialmente para el trabajo y, en el caso particular que nos ocupa, para la actividad
artística.
Prometeo le entregó el fuego a la humanidad como primer gesto de democratización
de un bien inalcanzable y como mito de nuestra capacidad para gobernarlo a través de
las capacidades humanas. La llegada del fuego del reino de los dioses es también el
fin del paraíso eterno y el nacimiento de la autonomía de la humanidad. El dominio del
fuego usurpado a los dioses funda tanto la posibilidad de emancipación como la de la
explotación del trabajo. Es la historia de la capacidad para manipular una herramienta
amenazante y convertirla en técnica e innovación.
En 1818, Mary Shelley, publicó “Frankenstein, El Moderno Prometeo”, considerada la
primera novela de ciencia ficción de la historia, y enfrentó el reverso del mito. La Criatura
que crea Víctor Frankenstein es el producto de una sociedad incapaz de gobernar las
nuevas formas del fuego mítico. La electricidad, base de la modernidad, produce un ser
sin derechos, una amalgama de cuerpos que la sociedad identifica como monstruoso
pero que tiene la capacidad de aprender y la curiosidad para ser humano. Humanizar
es aprender, es crear y es convertirse con ello en sujeto de derechos.

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

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/09/2026

Always and increasingly relevant starter pack for your consideration: go.bsky.app/3w9a45V

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Its amazing how AI bros were constantly going on about how AI isnt theft and all that and now here THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT THEMSELVES WENT "yeah we fuckin stole ALLL that shit, lmao!"

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On Ocarina of Time redesign: It’s not Roccoco. It’s just over designed and can be easily fixed with more areas of rest! Lean in on the foundational elements and principles of design as they are a fantastic guiding light on achieving good design. That’s all from me 💖

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Big tech paused CA’s GenAi transparency bill AB412 behind closed doors. However, over 3.8 million creative workers have come together to demand transparency! This coalition isn’t going anywhere! Its sponsors, CAA, SAG AFTRA, NAVA Voices & The Author’s Guild have next steps! Here’s what to do👇

AB-412 UPDATE
The Al Copyright Transparency Act
WE'RE NOT GOING AWAY
Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency!
The irony of a transparency bill dying in the dark is not lost on those of us in the creative community.
Big Tech is terrified of transparency. Big Tech, who has fought us every step of the way on the Al Copyright Transparency Act, has now succeeded in getting the legislature to kill AB-412 behind the closed doors of an appropriations committee.
It should be noted that AB-412 was a bill that had no fiscal appropriation whatsoever.
This will be devastating to the creative industries, their IP, and the hundreds of thousands of creative workers who bring billions of dollars to California's economy. Creative workers are struggling, and this very simple transparency bill could have helped countless people. The issue is not going away, and delaying workable solutions for such an increasing problem will only make the situation worse for everybody.
Our coalition representing more than 3.8 million individuals, brought creative workers from every corner of the creative economy together with a unified voice. Our bill passed out of the California Assembly, four committees in the State legislature, and several hundred individuals showed up at every single public hearing to say just how much a bill like AB-412 could help them. This issue is not going away. We are not going away. We are now moving to put our energy towards the next best steps.
Please take a moment to contact Assembly Member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (916) 319-2016 and Assembly Member Ash Kalra (916) 319-2025 to thank them for their leadership in authoring and Co-Authoring this bill respectively.
Please express to them our request that they bring this bill back next session. Please tell everyone you know to contact them as well.
AB-412 simply affects too many people to simply be swept away into a corner and decided in the dark.
Sincerely, SAG•AFTRA CONCEPT ART ASSOCIATION
NAVA VOICE ACTORS AG Authors

TRANSPARENCY SHOULDN'T BE DECIDED IN THE DARK.
Big Tech wants AB 412 stopped behind closed doors. A bill affecting hundreds of thousands of California creatives deserves a public hearing.
Call Assembly Members Rebecca Bauer-Kahan at
(916)319-2016 and Ash Kalra at (916)319-2025
thanking them for their leadership in authoring this bill and requesting they bring AB 412 back next session.
AB 412 | A.I. Copyright Transparency

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just pre-ordered this: Part biography part manifesto, Timnit shares with us her journey as a refugee, her firing from Google for doing her job as a lead ethics researcher, her hopes for a more ethical tech and how we can all make a difference in how we shape future. Don’t miss it, pre-order asap!

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Finished a Big Walk with 7 of my friends and holy shit what an AMAZING game experience!!! 10/10 one of the best multiplayer games I’ve played in a long LONG time!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.

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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Layoffs hit Double Fine today, and I'm sorry to report that I was one of the ones hit. If you need a game designer with tech chops and 2+ decades of experience, here I am.

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NAVA @navavoices.org · 23/07/2026

We're joining a coalition of 30+ organizations urging the Ninth Circuit to uphold California's AI Training Data Transparency Law. We’re doing this because the public should know what goes into the AI products they use every day. #AITransparency #xAIvBonta Learn more here: lasst.org/blog/

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts:
When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge.
You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be.
Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history.
You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired.
Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

¡¡ VIVA ESPAÑA 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸!!

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hey #sanfrancisco and friends who use tik tok. If you see a video of a couple (man with dark curly hair, and woman with black short hair, tall, white) in San Francisco, crossing Chez Maman in Hayes Valley, they just pepper sprayed the entire restaurant, my mom, me and our foster dog. If you see

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Back garden drawing

Sketchbook drawing of a messy back garden

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I think it's fine for games not to really have economies

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Epic’s law team when they remember there are over 110 lawsuits against GenAi models in the US—lawsuits for copyright infringement amongst other violations— and the Unreal team is out there advertising LLMs as a central feature to one of their biggest products.

Cartoon business man being calm in one frame and extremely worried in the other

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 17/06/2026

Epic releases Fortnite video that's trying to launder the company's use of AI in the art pipeline, but artists I spoke to simply aren't having it: aftermath.site/epic-fortnite-...

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So sick and tired of San Francisco consistently blocking off tax paying public spaces for bs ai companies. Yerba Buena park closed yet again. San Franciscans cant even enjoy the little nature we have downtown without it consistently having it be closed off by tech companies 😭 @sfgov.sf.gov

A whole tax payer funded park park blocked off by tech companies

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Zachary Berger @zacharyberger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The only way for this AI "competitor" to function is by taking a bunch of work off the internet without consent. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Meme containing an image of a man holding up his hands, caption is a quote: “AI is not just a tool in the toolbox, it’s a competitor. People sometimes say, ‘well AI is just a pencil.’ I don’t know any pencils that stand up and write by themselves.” Quote is attributed to Edward Saatchi, CEO of Showrunner AI, called the "Netflix of AI".

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My heart is still utterly broken, but I’m so glad to have had you in my life for so long. Goodbye my sweet Bady cat.

Picture of the world most lovely cat, Bady, staring lovingly

Picture of the world most lovely cat, Bady, in a red sweater, questioning the choices of her pet parents

Picture of the world most lovely cat, Bady, standing gracefully

Last Wednesday, Bady, our beloved cat for the past 17 years, passed away just 15 days after being diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma. Her passing was peaceful. We had the opportunity to say goodbye at home, in her favorite spot; a sunny window nook that overlooks the trees, looking up at me as she nuzzled on my lap.
Bady cat was my friend, my companion, and my family.
Bady has been with me every single day since 2009.
Bady has been with me for almost my entire adulthood.
She has been there to bring joy, to bring silliness, to bring comfort. She has been there to grace us with her presence, to be the most loving creature, whom I, in all my luck, had the privilege to know and live with.
Since her passing, there has yet been a day where I have not mourned nor grieved. Yet the joyful lifetime of memories she has so wonderfully gifted us has consistently reminded me how wonderful and special it is to love such a magnificent being.
I will miss you Bady, my sweet girlie cat. I hope to see you in my dreams and in whatever realm lies after our own far off passing. But for now, thank you Bady. Thank you for giving me the most magnificent present of all, your friendship, your companionship and your love.
Thank you, my darling cat.

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Deana Igelsrud @digelsrud.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

THIS MONDAY (6/8) - STAND UP TO BIG TECH IN SACRAMENTO - BE THERE!!! THIS MONDAY (6/8) 3pm (or when the legislature adjourns), Capitol Annex Swing Space, 1021 O Street - Rm. 2100, Sacramento, CA. Please RSVP in case the schedule or room changes. RSVP here ... docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If you’re if Sacramento or nearby, please consider joining a group of voice actors, performers, artists and writers to demand transparency from GenAi companies with AB-412! Rsvp for more info and please if you can go! Your presence can make all the difference!

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Zachary Berger @zacharyberger.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their AI training datasets - this bill would force them. If that sounds good, we REALLY NEED YOUR HELP! Please sign this petition in support of the bill, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

1/ This company’s models were trained on web scraped datasets (like LAION) and their founders are ex-Stability AI employees who engage in the same thieving practices that led artists like myself to sue Stability. GenAi companies NEED big names to sanitize their exploitation and crippling PR.

Screenshot of an X announcement by Black Forest Labs:

Martin Scorsese is an advisor to Black Forest
Labs.
He's spent six decades shaping how the world sees stories. Now he's helping us shape visual intelligence with human taste and craft at the center.
We sat down with him for a working storyboarding session using FLUX.

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 30/05/2026

If you are aware of AI use on an animated production at a signatory studio please e-mail ai@tag839.org

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This @pbs.org segment is an informative yet disturbing watch. I knew some of the ways data centers affect communities, but this goes in DEPTH. It showcases the impact to those living near these data centers, the cruelty and audacity of the tech companies themselves. A very important watch!

youtube.com

We Saw What AI Data Centers Don't Want You to See

YouTube video by PBS Terra

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Zachary Berger @zacharyberger.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"Faster, more efficient" = cutting artists and animators "3rd party video models w/ a proprietary model portfolio" = we won't tell you what data we trained off of (likely stolen) A bill in Cali would force AI transparency, but it needs YOUR help! Please sign this petition tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Title: "Prime Video Orders Trio of Animated Series from New GenAI Creators' Fund"

Text: "makes every subsequent production faster and more efficient;"

Image description: screenshots of three AI generated animated projects

Text: "third-party video models with a proprietary model portfolio"

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mimi 🩵💛 @knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )

Lorynbrantz on instagram shares a post about their cupcake character being stolen for these new amazon ai shows. Reads as follows

I am horrified and disgusted by BuzzFeed taking my character, The Good Advice Cupcake, and giving it to an Al platform. My time at BuzzFeed was marked by continually being taken advantage of and lied to. They repeatedly assured me in good faith that they would never do anything with Cuppy without my input, yet offered me no legal options, insisting that I would never need them. The news that this character, who is based on my own personality and whom I created as a microphone to spread love and positivity, has been taken and turned into a soulless Al puppet feels like having my intestines pulled out of my body.

Somebody leaked the news to me early on that there were talks happening, and I pleaded with the CEO Jonah Peretti directly not to do it. Instead, he tried to talk me into signing an NDA. Obviously, I did not.

This is an assault on artists everywhere.

I encourage you to boycott BuzzFeed and any Al-produced or adjacent animation.

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 27/05/2026

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

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Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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Kelly McKernan @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Hiiiiiiiii we’re so so so sosososo SO close to being funded with 4 days left. I really need a big boost to get my oracle deck over the finish line. 🙏🏻✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/kel...

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

CA’s transparency bill AB-412 (which forces GenAi companies to disclose if their datasets are using YOUR copyrighted works) is in a slow march to become a bill. Also due to massive tech opposition, they make us all work for it every step of the way. Don’t let em win, sign the petition below asap!👇

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My girl cat, my best friend, my favorite being for over 17 years—who was so healthy just a month ago— was diagnosed with terminal cancer. While I’m so lucky I had 17 years of her, I’m still so devastated. I wish I could have even one more year. Here’s a reminder to love them every step of the way.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Regardless of whatever is next for this country, our next steps must involve revoking every mandate, seizing every stolen tax, every illicit asset, trial and jail everyone committing the historical levels of corruption and crimes we are witnessing. And that’s the bare minimum!

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is Calarts. Arguably the best animation school in the US, its alumni include industry legends. The graduating class is booing school president Ravi Ranjan, he's been gutting creative programs and pushing Ai initiatives, corporatizing the school. His secretary is treating graduates like babies.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 18/05/2026

I don’t know that it’s appreciably worse than Anything Else Going On Right Now, but learning that my tax dollars are about to fund a billion-dollar slush fund for Trump sycophants and literal January 6 insurrectionists is filling me with a new and special flavor of rage

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