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Leyla Aker

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I make books sometimes. PRHPS-SQEX

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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🔻Pantsless Hero🔻☫ @pantslesshero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Woman in late 80s fashion points a rifle with a scope at a computer. If you used computers back then, you'd understand.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."
Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence 
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However, 
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most 
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans 
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism 
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize 
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who 
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see 
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and 
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and 
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the 
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 09/09/2026
(in the family group chat): that wont matter. without radical change all of this is meaningless in fifteen years. we have no idea how dire things are (in the communist group chat): they should make a turn based final fantasy again with the two minute summon animations
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Almost choked on my hiyashi tantanmen.
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Toronto Man @fucklandlords.com · 24/08/2026
In Mamdani's America this is whose fixing your potholes
The crew from Final Fantasy 15
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Alyssa Weldon @alyssaweldon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Andria and her husband suffered a terrible loss last night as their house burned down. They both made it out, but lost all of their things and three beloved cats in the fire. Please consider donating/sharing with others. Andria is such a kind person and amazing translator. gofund.me/b49a76f41
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Donate to Help Andria and Nik Recover from House Fire, organized by Alyssa Weldon
Andria McKnight, a veteran translator, is facing a heartbreaking loss afte… Alyssa Weldon needs your support for Help Andria and Nik Recover from House Fire
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11/08/2026
I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

AXIOS

Al has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.
• Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books - a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane - makes it easy to lose the thread. Al can help you pick it back up without starting over.
Ш I really got into using Al while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:
• "T'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
• The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
There's a lot of things I won't get over from the past decade, but people's willingness to try to memory hole the extremely deadly pandemic we all lived through and killed actual people, on their watch and partly because of their idiocy, is high on that list.
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Trump take doujinshi.
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I don't boost work stuff much on here, but Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You is a legit treat for wage slaves and/or anyone who appreciates character-driven, low stakes but emotionally rich stories.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Just some of the iconic corporate logos designed by the legendary SAUL BASS
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Sometimes the muse descends when we least expect.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: ねこバス, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur.

Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@wherestheti.bsky.social, is this you?
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
fatality www.instagram.com/p/DasR6g-lZB...
Just woke up to find out Lindsey Graham is dead?? lol??? Most of you know him as the homophobic senator from South Carolina but to me he will always be the man who paid a twinky pre-transition college student ( ) a fat
stack of cash to do unspeakable things to him in a hotel room while he wore red lingerie

It is a canon trans event to have far right freaks bankrolling you & then turning around and voting against you. People loooooove to judge us for it but I never see them opening their wallets!!! Shoutout to s*x workers everywhere forced to humanize their enemies just to make rent.It is an absolute mindfvck too me that one of the reasons I have any semblance of financial security (& a lack of student loans) is because of this man.

At the time I had no idea who he was, and I only figured it out because another group of twinks leaked Lady G to the media. Some queers tried to grandstand critique this, saying we shouldn't "out" people. I believe bigots with power deserve no peace or privacy, especially when they hold public office. I'm glad they did it. Icons, forever.

Anyway, if you've ever enjoyed what I do on the internet know that it is in part because of Lindsey's generous donation over a decade ago. If I've ever sent you $ for something know that was kickstarted by the now deceased sissy senator from South Carolina.Lindsey, rest in hell for what you did to our community.

I will continue to love queer and trans people harder than you ever hated us. You loved every second of our time together and now everyone knows
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stovey @doorhook.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Galatea from Claymore. the text reads “A SICK ASS SWORD WOULD FIX ME.”
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Every so often I get to think of something that is not awful. I interviewed Henry freaking Rollins about his quest with Ian MacKaye and a few other schemers to revive Vengeance Records, The Cramps’ record label: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
How two punk icons are giving the Cramps a second life
“If you lose culture," Henry Rollins explains, "the society dies.”
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やしろ学/Manabu YASHIRO @yashiro-manabu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 04/03/2026
What in the absolute fuck is this.
Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
who made this
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
yeahhhhhhh
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/674023...
penguinrandomhouse.com
Get Your War On by David Rees: 9781593762131 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Since October 9, 2001, when David Rees posted eight comic strips on his website and called it Get Your War On, tens of millions of people have been entertained and horrified by his clip-arty office wo...
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Forever War: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
All my drinking glasses and mugs are sparkling, sheets are laundered within an inch of their lives.
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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14/02/2026
The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?
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Stevoisiak @stevoisiak.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
Google with AI buttonsGoogle without AI buttons
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Dan Casey @dancasey.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
thank goodness it's finally Meat Day
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez @gomez.house.gov · 15/01/2026
ALERT: My office has received reports of heavy ICE presence near 12th & Maple in DTLA in the Fashion District. Agents are actively walking the area. If you have info report to: LA Rapid Response Network: (888) 624-4752
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
A teenage boy with dark hair and a black and gold football jersey holds his helmet, standing on the side line of a green football field
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com
Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub
Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026
People overseas will be like "America this your problem & it's impacting us all so get your shit together!" and Elon Musk will be South African and Rupert Murdoch will be Australian and Peter Thiel will be German and the President will be an obvious Russian Asset funded by Israel & Saudi Arabia.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
One of my main regrets in leaving NYC was losing the ability to vote against this guy.
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Elly, Amateur Yurimancer @cmdrking.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Addendum for the most important Final Fantasy game
Final Fantasy Tactics

Lightly edited screenshot from s1e5, "Bart the General" from the ending, with part in front of a stack of books, captioned:

War is neither glamorous nor fun.  There are no winners, only losers.

(The 'light' editing is, of course, to give Bart a proper Ivalician un-nose)
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
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丹地陽子 @yokotanji.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
2026・午
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Joining everyone rightfully dunking on this nonsense to add that the most powerful cognitive amplifier tools are books. Which were stolen by the tens of thousands in order to make these slop-generating tools.
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
X starting the year off strong with this entry in the Least Surprising Headline category.
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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 31/12/2025
NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American. Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
A table of YouGov polling data with the headline: "How your reading habits compare to other Americans."

The chart has the sub-headline: "About how many books have you read or listened to so far in 2025? (% of U.S. adult citizens)."
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Chris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
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Ron Chan @rondanchan.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas fam!
Color sketch of Tifa, Cloud, and Aerith from Final Fantasy 7. Cloud lies flat on his stomach with a grumpy expression. Tifa sits on him triumphantly, wearing a Santa hat. Aerith crouches next to them. She wears decorative reindeer antlers and happily places an elf hat on Cloud.
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The political and weeb sides of my Bluesky have collapsed into this singularity.
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Leyla Aker @leylaa.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Breaking my social media time-out to pledge my continuing allegiance to M-W.
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