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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 17h

Really enjoyed doing this interview w/@learnovate.bsky.social - we got into my approach to teaching comics as always hands-on & emphasizing play, drawing as thinking, my crankiness about gen-Ai, the importance of constraints to creativity, the necessity of struggle, tennis, & the DJ-movie Scratch!

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Nick Sousanis: Why Drawing Is Thinking (and What AI Leaves Out)

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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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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the thing that always gets me from so many modern politicians: they seem *desperate* to argue the only real work is working on an oil rig, farming or fishing. They crap all over the arts and universities, which are MASSIVE employers and industries in which the UK has long excelled.

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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Stardust. Get the DVD where the team talks you through the making of it. Look out for the really long single take, and where the stunt woman was tied to a pole so she and her long dress didn't blow over the cliff edge.

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Robert De Niro Feeling Flirty with Pink Fan

Alt: Robert De Niro with Pink Fan in Stardust

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The secretary of state for Justice (an MP for Nottingham) rules out holding another Scottish independence referendum. He also says that voting on whether to be a member of the (European) Union is different to voting on whether to be a member of the union.

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 01/10/2026

I moved the lavender cuttings to a chair in the garden, thinking I might do something with them, and…

Round green walnut stashed in the lavender cuttings.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’d be cool, when reporting on a blind visitor suing over lack of access to the Bayeaux Tapestry, the supposed journalist could make it clear that this isn’t at all a ridiculous request. In fact, it’s completely in line with Equality Act 2010. Museums have provided audio forever.

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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Yet another UBI pilot showing what all the other universal basic income pilots have shown.

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Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“I make work that lives in time. It’s mortal work. It’s work as the totality of a human life, rather than work as something apart from the rest of life.”

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Basic Income Earth Network @basicincomeearth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧠 Part 2: What problem is basic income actually trying to solve? Income insecurity. Poverty. Bureaucracy. Lack of opportunity. Its real promise: shifting from "Do I qualify?" to "I have an income floor." 👇🏾

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money youtu.be/4AyhV70BDwE?... Anyone who claims the government spends taxpayers' money is talking total nonsense. The problem is that almost all our politicians do.

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There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

I have created a policy for dealing with fan mail and fan requests, which I know sounds ridiculous on the surface of it, but these days is actually useful to have, and to point people to, so they know that how I handle fan mail is not about them personally: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/29/h...

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How I Handle Fan Mail and Requests, 2026 Edition

I get fan mail, which I think is awesome. Also, in the world we live in, which includes “AI”-generated scams and other phishing expeditions, it’s necessary to set some expectation…

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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

🙄 Today an event organiser told me they "certainly don’t see AI as a replacement for the creativity and talent of people like yourself, quite the opposite". They use it because it's "practical and time-saving for a small business like ours". Not a replacement..? It's literally that. 🙄

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only time the word “confidence” should be used around the AI bubble is when it’s followed by the word “trick.”

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Michiel @murtoz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@jennimintomsp.bsky.social wtf!?! Why is nhs scotland pretending that long covid doesn't exist and that repeatedly infecting everybody with covid is absolutely fine!?

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Totally… that’s what I mean… COVID-19 has been treated anomalously. Exceptionally. It is immune to all prior sensible disease control practices, all laws on accessibility for the disabled, and all common sense and decency.

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The caption says the statue was donated in 2019 - another example of how artist’s house museums can become rather confused spaces, part supposed time-capsule, part shrine, part gallery

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Right? AI is a non-consent theft machine built on stolen labor of creators, whose work is fed in, and the global south workers, who train the models. To hear, it is also stealing the unpublished work of those that feed their work into their models isn't surprising. AI is a practice of ethics evasion

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Ethics displacement-or I think of it as Ethics Evasion- is what we need to be centering in many discussions about AI.

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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Painting Step by Step: Deliberate “Happy Accidents” Deliberately creating "happy accidents" in a painting to have interesting stuff to respond to.

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Painting Step by Step: Deliberate “Happy Accidents”

Deliberately creating "happy accidents" in a painting to have interesting stuff to respond to.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.

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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

First time I have seen this, and delighted by it. Having to acknowledge use of AI is essential transparency. luminatescotland.org/older-artist...

Screenshot from FAQ about can you use AI for arts bursary application. Answer is yes but check it carefully and add "Generated by AI" to that section.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2 stats from the previous Norstat #indyref2 poll in May that should make unionist teeth chatter: Unweighted figures: ➡️ Yes 60%, No 40% Those who did not vote in 2014: ➡️ Yes 70%, No 30% That’s why weighting is so important.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This was the Salem Lutheran Church until it was sold to the Eastern Buddhist Association in 2019, as I think you can tell from the renovations. :)

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The politics of blame is replacing solution-focused politics youtu.be/4YuXncPwuow?... . This is bad politics that answers no questions, demands nothing of politicians, and leaves us all worse off. So why are we falling for it?

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The politics of blame is replacing solution-focused politics

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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

The joys of happy accidents when painting. And the joys of deliberately creating happy accidents by spraying still-wet ink with water.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've seen people snarking about this & as someone who is, if anything, politically to the left of me, just said to me: "You don't fight with people who are doing what you want." Yep, he prepared his remarks—it isn't inauthentic to be careful when addressing the monumental error you just made. 2/

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 17/09/2026

(I have debunked the cornflower myth before and traced it to its source: majnouna.substack.com/p/the-quest-... . And you’ll never get red inks from poppies. Getting coloured water from either is easy, putting that on paper is a fantasy.)

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Quest for Cornflower Blue

Myth, reality or distortion?

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 14/09/2026

Serious question: Is there a name for when a passage (here a recipe) is copied wrongly from the original text, continues mutating then finds itself added to a new compilation alongside the original passage? What do you call such a redundant mutated extra? If there isn't a name I need to invent one.

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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

When you're looking at this North East Open Studios sign, my studio is behind you, across the road. I couldn't figure out what arrow to draw on the sign to suggest this. In Portsoy, Scotland.

NEOS yellow sign with my venue number 35 on it, tied to a pole next to pink rose bush.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12/09/2026

hey, kids, brought you present

product photo of a 24 count pack of multicolored Sharpie "Glam Pop" permanent markers

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am once again begging you to stop mocking violently heterosexual men by making out they are gay

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here we are - an excellent surprise when turning the pages - on one of versos is a trompe l’oeil fly, rather nicely painted with shadow as if it has just settled on the page

Sketchbook page, mostly blank apart from a black mark which is a painting of a fly

A close up of the fly painting, made in black and white watercolour

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T Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

This is exactly right, and the core of my message to students at the start of each semester. Rushing towards answers and products disrespects the processes that produce expert knowledge, caring communities, and conscientious practitioners of craft.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's like AI music. There's no gain in having AI "make us a song". There are endless songs that could yet be written. So what? The idea that the songwriter wants to get to a finished song as quickly as possible is so deeply mistaken.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What AI developers don't seem to get is that finding "the answers" here was never really the point. Mathematicians don't really want to know if a conjecture is true or false for its own sake. They love doing maths, for a host of reasons but in the end because they're human.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wonder if this might be a turning point. I'd like to think so. Because this declaration speaks to so much about the problem with AI in such contexts. If it can be of help in, say, drug discovery, that's fine. But it's precisely because maths doesn't have those stakes that the message is powerful..

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

People want the culprit to be religious indoctrination because its a lot more comfortable to believe you are being attacked by religious fanatics. The true religion and God of our time, that surpasses all existing ones, is the worship of wealth, capital, and those who accumulate / hoard it the most.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/09/2026

Why is 'lb' the abbreviation for 'pound'?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?

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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Ready for North East (Scotland) Open Studios 2026 Well that’s my studio-gallery all neat and tidy, ready for North East Open Studios (shortened to NEOS when talking about it) starting Saturday 12 September 2026. I’m venue 35 of some 250, open 11 to 3 except for Monday and Friday.

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Ready for North East (Scotland) Open Studios 2026

Well that’s my studio-gallery all neat and tidy, ready for North East Open Studios (shortened to NEOS when talking about it) starting Saturday 12 September 2026. I’m venue 35 of some 250, open 11 to 3 except for Monday and Friday.

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Ready for North East (Scotland) Open Studios 2026

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