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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 06/10/2026

Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering teams unionize at Hasbro aftermath.site/magic-the-gath...

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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 29/09/2026

What does it mean for the probability to be five percent? Well, that’s five percent. But six percent? Well, that’s still five percent. Four percent is also kind of five percent. Three percent is two percent. And two percent is basically impossible.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026

Wait you guys are getting job interviews?

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026

graphing calculator app called "vizier" (you use it for plotting)

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Mabrouk @mabrouk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you ever see me randomly smiling or chuckling for no reason its because I remembered this image exists

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026

if macklemore killed an ed sheeran tour is that a big enough contribution to music as an artform that he retroactively now deserves that grammy

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Elliot @thenothingmaker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm opening TWO COMMISSION SLOTS (emergency style), done before the end the November. My rates and guidelines can be read here : tinyurl.com/tnmcomms It's a first come, first served basis ! Here are some examples of recent comms I've made. Contact me through email at elliotbouriot@proton.me !

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I had this idea from reading the elizabeth holmes mouse post and then I couldn't do anything else until i painted the idea to completion

It is a cartoon mouse, like Jerry from Tom and Jerry, shaped like a wedge of cheese presumably because it has eaten a wedge of cheese. The mouse has Elizabeth Holmes' face. The mouse is saying "Why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me to do that."

Nathan Fielder, looking into a fridge where the mouse has eaten a cheese, says skeptically "Okay. Alright."

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/09/2026

A new version of ChatGPT is about to drop. Academics like @alexhanna.bsky.social and Emily Bender have been pointing out for literal years that these scare tactics about how powerful and scary AI is actually work as marketing. At this point, being this gullible is a choice.

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Interesting MTG Art (scary version 💀) @interestingmtg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A pretty sloppy proof of concept, but there's something here. The idea hit me as I was starting to crash, and I didn't think the execution through 100% If anyone else wants to take a shot at altering the Spider-Man cards using Through the Omenpaths art in the FRA Shattered Mirror style, go for it

The Magic card Superior Spider-Man, but with chunks of the MTG Arena card Kavaero, Mind-Bitten overlaid on top of it.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 27/08/2026

I really love that the community is rising up saying "Wait, I could do this!" - not as a dunk on the art but as an self-empowering statement on how cool and punk it is to DIY proxies!

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Pumpkin Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really can't stress enough that my issue isn't with the look of the cards, the artists are brilliant, funny, & sick! Moreso my issue is that a grungy aesthetic is being extruded through multiple layers of marketised collectability. Don't wait for Levis to do it for you! Rip your own jeans!

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/08/2026

back before AI, video game developers had to make every digital woman look the same through hard work and artistry

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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

For the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, we're raising money all day this Thursday the 13th?? Me and @hcjustin.com ? Featuring some of our favorite games, a brand-new fucked up quiz, singing every song I've ever written in a row, NEW songs, new bits, and live readings? With guests????? What??

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Lancelot / Aitze - commissions open! - Artfight Team Tragedy @aitze.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My commission info! I'm running a 20% sale for the month of May. My Vgen: vgen.co/aitze #artcommissions #vgen #commissionsopen

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FoxyDeamond (Waitlist Open!) @foxydeamond.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hi y'all!! I would LOVE to feature my commissions on Vgen to make things more professional and accessible, but I need y'alls help! I need at least 20 reposts and 100 likes to be able to get a #VGenCode! Here's some sample of my work! Thank you for all the help you can provide! (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

# youtube_nusic: ~l.5h runtine # 113,879 hours of youtube_rusic 12,287 hours of youtube_rusic_lyrics 16,843 hours of youtube_rusic_lyrics_for genius_hg: -1.3h runting 17,615 hours of genius_hq 41, 544 hours of genius_hq lyrics 17,387 hours of genius ha_lyrics_ foreign freesound: -B.2h runting 410 hours of freesound # insip: -B.2h runtine 19,514 hours of insip # jamendo: ~B.1h runtine 3,726 hours of janendo * ponds_music: ~1.1h runtine # 62,117 hours of ponds_music # deezer: -8. 5h runtine 12,287 hours of deezer 10,175 hours of deezer_lyrics 6,699 hours of deezer_lyrics_foreign * ytn_tagged: ~2h runtine # 152,162 hours of ytn_ tagged # musescore: -B.1h runtine 183 hours of nusescore_lyrics

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

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Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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supastaaarz @supastaaarz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Egypt robbed again- this game will end up in the British Museum someday

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

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Chloe "Scare-Bot Scramble" Adams @addamschloe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

If you don’t want to celebrate the Birthday of someone evil you can always celebrate Tim Curry’s birthday a second time, because Tim Curry loves attention, it is pleasing to his ears

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

Various graphs related to AI coding adoption, titled "The Acceleration Whiplash"

Epics (features) : +66.2%
Features: +33.7%
Pull Requests: +16.2%
Code Churn: +861%
Incidents (per PR) : +242.7%
Monthly incidents: +57.9%
Bugs per developer: +54%
Bugs per PR: +28.7%

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 10/06/2026

Ubisoft embargoes journalists reporting on latest round of layoffs aftermath.site/ubisoft-layoff...

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Satan @alessavamp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Hey yall, as some of you may know I had to put my baby Sadie to sleep this past week. As much as I wish I could just focus on grieving, vet bills are starting to come in and accumulate with regular bills. If you’re interested in some art DM me here or email me at alessavampart@gmail.com 🖤

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

And he said, "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something."

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JINORU @jinoru.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

webdev is my passion

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/05/2026

read the article making this argument and it just reinforced the 3d printing analogy. the industry hype with AI is 100x larger, but the pattern was a similar "this is going to change humanity" to "this is going to revolutionize specific industries" to "this will be a fun hobby for eccentrics"

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TOM @tomwalker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Just made love to a gorgeous ingenue… what a bore. I’d much rather have been in bed making knowledge to a book

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

From the Point of View of a Cat
This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some!
He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs.
Let me out!
I don’t know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime.
He keeps my rooms clean for me.
In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love.
Often at night when I can hear mysterious and magic voices, when I can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don’t imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and I meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood.
But don’t think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices.
Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 11/05/2026

I’m an actual historian in the space used to the lament of all we’ve lost from stuff like Google+ & keenly aware of how much I’m writing against digital decay & this exchange just… I know they’re just bullshitting, but I really wish we had robust advocacy for the ACTUAL institutions Doing the Work:

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My problem with democrats refusing to say genocide and instead saying “I think what has been done to the Palestinian people has gone too far” is that it implies there’s a medium level of killing Palestinians that is reasonable.

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