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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13h

The work of Pollyanna Johnson, contemporary ceramics artist #WomensArt

White plate with blue painting of the upper half of a historic white woman bordered by the words 'Cheer Up Love'

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 09/10/2026

I'll be straight with y'all, I don't think Government By Sentient Truck Stop Boner Pills is working out that great

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Laughingmuse @laughingmuse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every time I go for a walk or exercise for my stupid mental health, it helps. Every time. Still salty.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Either way, and without any sense of irony, those who were provoked by the message of our post ended up demonstrating the truth of it: whether personal or professional, AI use is cutting you off from other other people, in ways they may be too polite or shy to point out to you.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Stuff like that shows how they are actively trying to stoke a culture war between the users and non-users, creating new classes of insiders and outsiders

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Marg Dier, Embroidery artist traditionally trained at The Royal School of Needlework, UK #Womensart

Realistic embroidery of a sparrow. A small bird perched on a twig with brown, gray and bkack wings

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Protests have now spread to universities and education workers. On the 6th of October, Union étudiante reported over 57 university sites blocked. Organisers counted 450,000 demonstrators nationwide, including 100,000 in Paris, supporting students’ demands and opposing police repression.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

While Parisian pundits blamed far-left party LFI for stoking grassroots protests, its lawmakers were on the ground supporting students & filming police repression by late Sept. Ahead of 2027, this could be a game changer among young voters, whose electoral participation has historically been low.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's not only Paris... Marseille youth in the streets, too. "Siamo tutti antifascisti" via @Lambdactu

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Dr. Ew @skweetis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Old punks never die, we just have someone take a look in the back.

Keith Morris (the singer from Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Off!) holding up a bumper sticker that says, "OLD PUNK ROCKERS NEVER DIE we stand in the back"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Grief is excessive; so is revolution. It is a defiant ‘yes’ when the rest of the world would say no. It is a refusal of the foreclosing of our time, an overflowing of humanity into the places that it is forbidden. We will not be machines anymore." - Sarah Jaffe -

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Letterpress prints of "From the Ashes" by Sarah Jaffe — radical emprints

About the words: These two letterpress prints are excerpts from Sarah Jaffe's beautiful & timely new book From the Ashes: Grief & Revolution in a World on Fire. This is one of the most ...

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Laughingmuse @laughingmuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Totally get that. It’s tough out in these streets to get good perimenpause/menopause care.

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Laughingmuse @laughingmuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

100% agreed. We already have heath care rationing and long wait times. And then we have a monstrous for-profit parasite leeching money and resources from the whole system.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Notice how CBS conveniently leaves out that the former leader of the Republicans in Congress was an admitted child molester who abused multiple boys. Bc the GOP are a party of pedophile protectors.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He’s a sociopath. His coworkers said he is a sociopath. His sister has accused him of sex abuse and rape. Why the fuck would we let this man make bad things happen so he can get richer? We can remove the Need Reich, guys. Their delusional vision doesn’t have to become reality.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like so much else, this should result in the prosecution of everyone involved.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hegseth (who I swear is a Russian asset) is blowing through our military arsenal. Soft power is all we have left. And a combination of Trump and Elon have depleted that too. Democrats have to plug the leak and restore what it can by taking back every cent from those two. Restore all aid.

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13mtm80 Designs @13mtm80-designs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A cicada featuring a bold green and black body, resting on a branch, showcasing its intricate patterns. linktr.ee/13mtm80.desi... #cicada #bug #bugs #Insect #insects #photography #macro #macrophotography #entomology #nature #wildlife #autisticartist #actuallyautistic #smallartist

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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 05/10/2026

I believe it is good to be polite to robots not because they have consciousness (they do not) but because it is bad for the soul to let oneself become a vehicle for cruelty, even if directed at inanimate objects.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And by "violating banking laws" CBS News means former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert molested boys he coached for wrestling in high school, boys as young as 14. To-may-to/to-mah-to!

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 05/10/2026

Definitely NOT a badge of honor, as Meg notes below. As a brown midlist author, it's hard enough to get the word out about my books--so if they get banned, that's it. You can't buy or borrow what you don't know exists. (And the author gets blamed for poor sales numbers and can't sell future books.)

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10x e.B.i.t.d.a @aduke3a.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

I just want to add that this is directly being funded by American conservative groups (The Heritage Foundation & The Family) who are not satisfied with controlling people in their own country, and have been on a mission enact their agenda in other nations with weak or nascent governance.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

there was streaming before the big companies, and they criminalized it when it was free because it was unfair to artists, and now that it's for-profit it's legal and it's still fucking unfair to artists.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026

I'm not saying I have a gift of prophecy but

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Laughingmuse @laughingmuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Man, I think I used to have time for fun hobbies, like *checks notes* rage-searching an author’s acknowledgments across many of their works, but reading this just makes me feel bone-weary. I must be getting older where my reaction, after “WTF?”, is “Who has the time for that?” Ha.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

"Nobody out here owes you shit." Oh? Well relationships are built on actions. You want friends? Gotta do friend-type shit. Want to call yourself Nana and Grandpops? Gotta do grandparent-type shit. Want to be respected? Gotta do respectful shit. We owe each other lots of things, actually.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'I Exist LOL' by contemporary US artist Martha Rich #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #UnlockingWomensArt

Colourful artwork with various motifs, such as star shapes, stylised eyes and lines against a pink background

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026

The problem is that we've started with the assumption that AI will be an economic driver (especially when it comes to productivity), instead of starting with a hypothesis to test. Something I blame on the economic context of when ChatGPT launched. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...

When ChatGPT debuted at the end of 2022, it was, for lack of a better word, what Corporate America and central bank economists were desperately looking for.

You see, back then, the world was wrestling with high (though not historically all that massive) levels of inflation.

Inflation is an awkward beast to tame — and I use that word, tame, deliberately because (from an economic perspective) deflation is an arguably worse evil. There’s only really two ways to go about doing it.

The first way is the one we’re all familiar with, and that’s through monetary policy. By raising interest rates, you make money more expensive. Borrowing costs more, and people have a greater incentive to save. That, in turn, “cools down” the economy.

I don’t like that euphemism, but it’s one that economists use all the time, and so I’ll use it here, although I won’t sugar coat it for you. Really, what we’re talking about is job losses, business failures, and debt becoming more expensive (meaning that people are less able to finance big-ticket items like cars and homes).

Higher interest rates are like chemotherapy — something that you use because the alternative (rampant inflation) is worse, but in the knowledge that it causes its own fair share of damage.

The second lever to control inflation — and one that doesn’t get used all that much, for reasons we’ll get into shortly —- is increasing productivity. If it costs less “stuff” to make a unit of something (be that human working hours, or raw materials, or energy), a company can maintain the existing price of a given thing, or increase prices at a far slower rate.

The reason why increasing productivity isn’t used as often as monetary policy to control inflation is because… well… It's expensive and it takes time.

A factory producing furniture could become more productive if it invested in new machinery, but those machines might take years to build and install, and doing so will cost millions of dollars.

A government might try to improve productivity by investing in, say, transportation infrastructure, reducing the amount of time that it takes for workers to get from home to the office, or for trucks to travel from warehouses to retailers. But that too is something that’s expensive and that can take years (or decades) to accomplish.

And so we use monetary policy to control inflation because it’s the cheapest, easiest, and quickest thing to do.

At least, that was the assumption before ChatGPT and the emergence of generative AI.

And so, from this economic malaise, we got essays like this one, written in July of 2023 by Steven Rattner, a former Obama-era counsellor to the Secretary of the Treasury, titled: “Full Speed Ahead on A.I. Our Economy Needs It.”

Higher worker productivity translates into higher wages and cheaper goods, which become more purchasing power, which stimulates more consumption, which induces more production, which creates new jobs. That, essentially, is how growth has always happened.

This makes A.I. a must-have, not just a nice-to-have. We can only achieve lasting economic progress and rising standards of living by increasing how much each worker produces. Technology — whether in the form of looms or robots or artificial intelligence — is central to that objective.
Rattner closed his argument by referencing a report from Goldman Sachs (which he described as “among the most bullish of the techno-bulls”), which speculated that AI could “help return our productivity growth rate to the halcyon days of the mid-20th century.”

“I, for one, am fervently hoping that the Goldman report proves correct and that A.I. unleashes a new era of technological and economic progress — and that we take the right steps to be sure the rewards are widely shared,” he said.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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jnfr ⁷🪭 @thejnfr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Take Back the Night persists, everywhere.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart

Three images, one of a window surrounded by blue floral patterns on a white exterior wall, two other images of an elderly womam painting the designs

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dee Nickerson, contemporary UK painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #womensart

Painting of a landscape with a small female figure walking amongst bare trees and yellow fields

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The work of Rathika Ramasamy, India's first internationally celebrated female wildlife photographer #womensart

Photograph of an owl peeping out from a hole in a tree trunk

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

Linocut by contemporary printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #WomensArt

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

While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt

Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green

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