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@maillesmith9.bsky.social
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Maker of chain mail doodads and whatsits I like birds and video games a normal amount (allegedly)

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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Its been a hot minute but finally made it to an art show
Two tables full of hand crafted items. On the left are chainmaille jewelry and dice bags. On the right are crocheted hats, plushies, and bagsThe same spread of goods looking closer at the chainmaille. In the front you can see inlays of Pikachu and red and green mushrooms
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good things are possible!
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Legend of Zelda wasn’t a “good game for girls”. Also Yugioh cards were fine but Pokemon cards were banned (I could play the video games and watch the show for some reason)
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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I’m the semi driver sneezed and his glasses fell off.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Your bad art is better than AI slop.
four frame comic. first frame shows a typical AI poster that says : All chatgpt flyers look the same, especially with this font! the text above it reads : I won't go to your event if the poster was made by AI. second frame shows a still frame from a Hank Green youtube video. text above reads : I won't read your post or email and I won't watch your video if they were made with AI. third frame shows an AI restaurant poster of burgers and chicken in a window. text reads : I won't patronize your shop  or restaurant if it is advertised with AI. last frame shows an MS paint window with badly written : Your bad art is better than AI slop. text reads : if you can't take the time or make the effort to interact with me yourself, then why should I do it?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Currently going mad viral on TikTok
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Gamer Dracula Flow @draculaflowgames.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
100 goddamn dollars for a game and you're not even gonna give me a discount with that shit? For that money it should come with a disc and a reach around. The only grand theft around here is these shit ass game prices! Guess I'll go back to playing the ultimate video game. Zoombinis
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SnorklefishToblerone @tunafi.sh · 08/06/2026
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Bug Hunter The Gaslight Anthem The Primals Streetlight Manifesto The Mountain Goats Alkaline Trio The Midnight The Narcissist Cookbook Hawthorn Heights Thursday
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest. bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit. but this could not be. How would thev buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people fron fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes bevond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The ertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdv trunks, and the ripe fruit. And childrer dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and he guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, bu the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float bv, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people here is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wratk
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
if you want this you're a freak. i'm sorry but that's just the truth. and also i'm not actually sorry
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SAINT SLUGGODIN SAYS FUCK MARK CUBAN @saintsluggo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Small anime girl wearing a hat that says “please be patient I have autism” saying “it's crazy how if u get good grades they let u raw dog autism your whole life”
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Nazariel 🏳️‍⚧️ @nazariel.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It sure is stunning what humanity can do when we work together #artemisii
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The Yetee 🌈 🕊️ @theyetee.com · 10/04/2026
Pick a card... any card... Climb to unsurmountable heights with our selection of prints from our official Slay the Spire collection. Choose your hero to adorn your walls and leave the rest up to fate! Available now: theyetee.com/slaythespire
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@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink
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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 06/04/2026
As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though
recent Axios story on maternal health policy referenced
"findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. On the surface, there's nothing unusual about that. What wasn't originally mentioned, however, was that these findings were made up.
Clicking through the links revealed (as did a subsequent editor's note and clarification by Axios) that the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions.
The practice Aaru used is called silicon sampling, and it's suddenly everywhere. The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing. Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use A.I. agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.
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Gamer Dracula Flow @draculaflowgames.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
In 2004 a group of students from the DigiPen Institute of Technology set out to make a game that subverted one of the most basic tenants of video game design. No jumping.
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John Robinson @hannibalv.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Today's little bonus: #TDOV
A sticker that reads "Trans ppl existing does nothing negative to your life, you crybaby bitch". The text is black, on a background of the colors of the trans flag.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
since women's day is an hour shorter this year, women will be taking that hour from another day at some point during the year. we don't tell you when, but it will happen
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kai daiju 👹 @kaidaiju.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Windows 14 rumored to have a free trial with no limit on playtime all the way up to level 70, including the award winning expansions "Heavensward" and "Stormblood," sources say.
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Shits grim right now but if you can, here’s a place to help folks that need it
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Trans Continental Pipeline-Donate to help queer relocation!
At TCP, our mission is to help Queer and 2SLGBTQIA+ people move from unsafe environments to Colorado and provide connections and resources through our relocation program.Every Cent you donate will go ...
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Spun up the demo for Vampire Crawlers by @vampire.poncle.games last night and holy shit. The deck building is delightful and the battle system reminds me of Baten Kaitos in the best way. If this gets a mobile release I’m doomed. #vampirecrawlers
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“You can’t ignore LLMs are good at code” sure but also Microsoft broke notepad this week.
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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 11/02/2026
In an unheard of turn of events, an elderly politician has actually retired from their position instead of waiting for death to pry it away from them. paletteswap.site/dif...
Mayor Tortimer from Animal Crossing.
HEADLINE: Politician Revered for Actually Retiring.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
*hits blunt* bowling and curling are the same game just with two different battle systems curling = turn based bowling = real time
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Birds are so cool
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics
A comic in black/white/blue.
Lucy rolls her bike through an alley, by a crew building a fence.
Narration: My neighbors hired a crew to rebuild their fence.
Crew member: "Do you need us to move our stuff out of the way?"
Lucy: "Oh! No, you're all good, thanks!"
Lucy: "Have a good one!"
Crew member: "You, too!"Narration: I was teaching when my phone started lighting up with alerts from the rapid response network and neighbor chat.
Lucy's back is to us as she shows a group of enthusiastic children something on a notebook. Behind her, her phone in her bag is buzzing.

Narration: By the time the lesson was over, they were already gone.
Lucy is reading messages on her phone.
Messages: 
Alert: black SUV
Sighting: be on alert for...
Confirmed abductionL alley between ----- and ----. SUV plates...
We tried to get them inside, but it was too...
...Contacting an I.R. lawyer. Heading to Broadview later today.Lucy is riding her bike home.
Narration: On the ride home, I kept thinking "If I'd been there, could I have warned them? Would my ICIRR* training have helped?"
*Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Get trained and know your rights at ICIRR.org.

Narration: I'd taken the training after Halloween, when the violent ICE raids had locked down our schools and driven our neighbors indoors.

(Image of a halloween bucket in the shape of a jack-o-lantern)

Narration: Halloween is fun here-- The community filling the streets and opening our doors to one another. But this year's was tense, frightened and subdued. Haunted.
Lucy is standing in the alley, staring at the newly built fence.
Narration: When I got home, it was all done. The other two guys who had gotten inside in time stayed and finished the build.

The new fence is superimposed with the brief exchange from earlier in the comic ("Have a good one" You, too")
Narration: I see it every day and think about how those guys built this in the spot where strangers in masks took their friend.

Narration: How many other places in our communities are similarly haunted?
(Drawings of sidewalks, buildings, streets and windows)
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This was such a treat to see live
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Boromir from the movie The Fellow ship of the rings thinking out loud about the one ring, with the caption "Perhaps we could give the ring better training."
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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The blessed day is upon us once again
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BOO!👻 LAO GATE! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
God he's more pathetic than I thought
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Missed the Tokyo show last fall because the venue required a Japanese phone number, but not missing Milwaukee!
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Necklace time! This is my second attempt at a necklace in this style and its sooooo pretty! Shaggy loops style scale clusters suspended from euro 4 in 1. #chainmaille #chainmail
A chainmaille necklace on a woodgrain desk. The necklace is black euro 4 in 1 with scales suspended from it using the shaggy loops weave. The scales start out black and go to purple then blue in a gradient. The same necklace but I (a white femme) am wearing it. A black scoop neck top can be seen around the edges. The lighting is better to see the shift in color in this picture.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 16/01/2026
Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer

MOBY GOT DICK
By Josephine Riesman

I hate white whales and I cannot lie
You other seamen can't deny
When the beast swims by as a pale and eerie sight
Spermacetti is your right
You get sprung
Wanna throw spears well
Til you know that the whale's in Hell

Oh, Moby
I wanna stop goonin'
And get harpoonin'
My boatswain tried to stop this
But that eye you got makes
(Me so vicious!)

Ooh, Devil’s own whale
You say you wanna end my tale?
Well, try me, try me
Cuz I ain’t no average briney

I’ve seen him blowin’
To hell with all knowin’
He swim, fin
Got it goin’ like a turbo Schwinn

I’m tired of novelists
Sayin’ orcas are the best
Take the average Ahab and ask him why
I’ll tell ya I’m not shy

So sailors (YEAH!)
Sailors (YEAH!)
Has your whale-foe got the white? (HELL YEAH!)
Tell him to fluke it (FLUKE IT!)
Fluke it (FLUKE IT!)

Now throw that sharpened stick
Moby got Dick
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Needed a break from jewelry recently so learned how to do pixel art inlays! #chainmaille #chainmail
A patch of chainmail on a woodgrain desk. The background rings are silver, with colored rings woven in to depict a pikachu sprite. Same as the first image, but this one is a mushroom from Mario bros
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/01/2026
ICE got run off and dropped loot like Diablo
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Maille @maillesmith9.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I need to share the cool stuff I make more, so here’s a commission from the end of last year. Weave is kinged vipera berus in anodized aluminum #chainmaille #chainmail
A bracelet sitting on a woodgrain desk. The bracelet is made of silver colored rings with rings in a rainbow pattern woven into it
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carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
published two days ago btw

A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
Amid a wave of hype for OpenAl's chatbot, the newly reported death shows stark risks
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Dr Allison Andrews’ monster @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Two pane meme:

‘Merry Christmas’ with a very joyful and happy Gandalf on top.

‘Pippin Christmas’ with a solemn, stoic Gandalf below.
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