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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The only time I bother using Word is when I know there's some Word specific feature I need. I've been using LibreOffice basically since it *existed* and it is excellent.

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Luci 𓆩♡𓆪🐊 @mewtsukki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it sucks to say but a bunch of anti-AI people are also art ignorant and just doing it to either virtue signal or straight up harass artists. every time I say this I get someone or other saying "oh but how can we ever be sure" and like you can't. so dont do it, do better. look them up, talk to people

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FINALLY AFTER HOURS AND HOURS OF CONTROL RESONANT APPROACHING THE FINAL AREA, THRESHHOLD KIDS MENTIONED It was Dylan's favorite show AS IT SHOULD BE @annamegill.com ... no video though :( probably because Anna wasn't there to make the magic happen.

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is no undoing the mass worldwide revelation and prominence of trans and nonbinary existence. No matter how much they loathe and oppress us, you can’t unflip that switch, and thus we will eventually win.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am far too tired right now to try to apply, but perhaps one of you has the energy!

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

The man who found a way to bankrupt a casino is on the verge of bankrupting the Kennedy Center. Everything he touches he destroys. The reflecting pool, the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, & every monument in America belong to the PEOPLE. They're not his to remake, remodel, or destroy.

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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.

The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love that I'm going to lose access to even Medicaid in January because my new job literally cannot provide enough hours and I can't find anything else that won't utterly destroy my already fragile mental health.

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of web portals and sign ups and forms and passwords and--

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

see this is what peak gender looks like

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What is Zohran Mamdani doing in the #control resonant timeline did he get out or did he get turned into a Hiss or Nah he must have been in like Brooklyn or Queens at the time bc if he was in Manhattan he would have used his mayor powers to defeat everything & Dylan would have nothing to do

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm disappointed with the way the City isn't a character in Control Resonant the way the House was in Control.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 24/09/2026

You know what "democratizes" the creation of art? Here, have a pencil

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'd sign up at the blacksmith or armorer's guild. I've always wanted to learn metalwork and it seems like a good, stable gig in Eorzea with good pay.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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Tidal Wave Games | TURTLE TIME 10/23 @tidalwavegames.com · 22/09/2026

We are just 9 followers away from 150, where I will reveal a REAL layout spread. (Or as real as it gets at this point in the dev process.) The ENTIRE second floor as written by @discodan.bsky.social. And at 200 I'll have some art or something idk!!!

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Listen, all we're saying is these companies are doing a REALLY good job convincing people that unionizing is actually the way to go.

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm tired of doing it scared. can I please do it like. normal style.

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

/chinhands how much would it cost to get a screen-accurate version of the Director's Suit & shirt from the original Control preferably in natural fiber (I think probably suit wool for the suit & cotton for the shirt?) asking for me

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This week's comic: Anti-Smart Glasses foxtrot.com/2026/09/20/a...

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 18/09/2026

it's pointless to talk about paperclip fanfiction with xAI's datacentres smothering majority-Black communities in the US with turbine emissions. you know what the smartest thing we could do would be? not aligning AI with humans, but aligning *humans* to be better to each other.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 18/09/2026

you're worried about an AI paperclip maximising and killing humans to get its way and expand the factory? well, the *human* operators of AI have already decided that killing a set of humans, that they don't think of as deserving rights, is acceptable in order to expand the factory.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Copper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My friend got a picture of them all together.

Sailor Moon cosplayers in a Mexican themed variation

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, there’s a very nice little Easter Egg in Control

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Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

While others are trying to cow you into submission over skynet, United Healthcare will use repeated Medicare Advantage denials to speed up killing your elders by eliminating stable care without a fight every 5-6 days, w/ more work while waiting on an appeal and/or coordinating a return home.

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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm just an artist, standing in front of a game designer, asking them to check out my freebie library full to the brim with page decor that's ✨free✨ for personal and commercial use 😌 ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 17/09/2026

I think focusing on the "sex cult" aspect of the rationalists, while understandable for attention-grabbing, puts the emphasis in the wrong places. Sure, yes, the rats have sex, and because they're a fucked up abusive cult, some of that is fucked up abusive culty sex, but that's not the focus.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 17/09/2026

Yeah there’s so much focus on the “whoa freaky sex shit” and not enough on the garbage politics and borderline (if not explicit) eugenics

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Dyson Logos @dysonlogos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After a disastrous raid of a local village, stragglers from the Broken Banner mercenary company are hiding out in the Old Bridge Gate until they can move on. Now they are pursued, and there are things living in the flooded dungeons beneath. dysonlogos.blog/2026/09/15/t...

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 25/04/2026

no, please bring me the weightedest blanket

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: - Rugrats - The Nightmare Before Christmas - Bathtub drains (this was because I walked in on That Scene from the Blob remake at 3 years old D: ) - bees and wasps - death (in an existential way) (this came upon me young and never went away) Oh dear there's mor

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

AI isn't going to kill us all by becoming sentient. It's going to kill us all through the diesel and coal power plants it needs to keep running dumping even more CO2 into the atmosphere when we're already in a critical climate crisis. We're going to burn to death for the sake of a silicon false god.

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Lady Nerevar @ladynerevar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

if this post gets 100 likes I will do a serious lore post (video??) on Kallax Storageborn

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

right now for various reasons it's Ana Ng

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

2. For us Microsoft workers, comment and upvote on our Xbox Player Voice Survey post. Tell Microsoft how you feel about the treatment of their workers. Every comment truly helps our cause: tinyurl.com/savegamework...

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"But wait, isn't Labor Day just for workers in trade unions?" A common misconception! Labor Day and the labor movement at large are about fighting for fair conditions and wages for all workers in all industries. In a world plagued with wealth inequality, worker unions are the balance patch.

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