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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don't just hate AI because of its environmental impact, the irresponsible marketing, the large-scale theft that went into its productization, and the ways it's negatively impacting people's jobs and lives. I also hate it because everything it produces is just so fucking awful.

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Y'all people who make shit are so fucking cool.

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I need to get this out of my system real quick. When you're pitching a project. When you're marketing a thing you've made. When you want people to buy a thing that you have created because you think it's cool and worth it. You need to tell people about that thing. You need to give them context.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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(GDHitless) PT @pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

Hi if you - are a book AND africanfuturism enjoyer - into sci-fi or fantasy AT ALL - love a good easy to grab up series PLEASE get this bundle. @nnedi.bsky.social books have been my go-to bed time snack. Binti is delightful, I just finished She Who Knows and am currently on Who Fears Death!

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every new romance fantasy webtoon I read convinces me that webtoon artists and authors have no idea what a child is

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Time to start playing through the mainline Fire Emblem games! I love Fire Emblem, but I haven't finished a lot of the games, so I'm looking forward to checking out the ones I've missed. 👀 I'll be using remakes for 1–3 since those are available, then go to SNES for Genealogy.

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is simultaneously my magnum opus and the dumbest thing I have ever made. I don't know why they decided Two-Point Museum was the right place for a theme park expansion, but I won't complain? 😂️

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my doctor looking at my bruised and scratched up arms: umm... do you feel safe at home? the person making me feel unsafe at home:

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone have recs for comics or graphic novels with trans women as characters who aren’t depicted as “uwu anime babygirl”? Ideally something involving adult characters and where they aren’t dealing with an a train wreck of a life, but I’ll take what I can get. I already know of QC (yay Claire!).

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Two things can be true at once. Sony sucks for ditching physical media -AND- gamers need to learn when, to whom, and how they should express their anger over shitty corporate decisions without crossing a line. Nobody deserves to be treated like shit because an executive way above them made a choice

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think I burnt like two years' worth of social batteries doing back-to-back things with friends tonight but I'm very glad I did because tonight was great. 💜️

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Even at her regular prices Amy’s work is always worth so much more than what she charges so you should definitely commission her 👀

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

hey all, I'm running a SALE! that's right, 🍂🎃 COMMISSION SALE for September/October!! 🎃🍂 shoot me an email at amyking.art@gmail.com along with the type of commission you're interested in and a brief overview (2-3 sentences max) of the subject and let me draw you something cool!

an image showing different prices for art commissions! these range from inks to full color, and from prices as low as $20usd! wow wow wow!!

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's so incredibly painful to have to watch somebody try to present on a subject where they clearly don't have any actual knowledge and have instead outsourced all their thinking to an LLM.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It’s through the time and effort of our union members that we’re able to offer support to the entire industry. If you’re a dev based in the US or Canada, check us out and consider signing up. We’ve got lots of work to do! 🫡 uvw-cwa.org/membership

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DuesDues are calculated on a sliding scale based on 1% of your income, starting at a minimum of $15USD/17.30CAD.We welcome community supporters as non-voting members at the minimum dues rate. The full...

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You’ve helped us raise over 80k for laid off gamedevs in need so far, and we still have plenty of time left in the bundle’s drive. Everyone who organized this effort was doing so on their own time for the benefit of others. If these companies wanted to, they would. They don’t. We do. Join us. ✊

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As of this morning, the itch bundle officially broke 100k. This is a lifeline to our fellow workers and proof that solidarity extends beyond borders, both literal and figurative. Never let anyone tell you that things cannot change.

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Oh my god, Mortal Kombat II was incredibly fun movie

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Harry 💬 @halisavakis.com · 30/07/2026

I was asked about a small breakdown for the 3D anime ramen and realized my breakdown thread was on the cursed site from which I deleted my account 😅 So I'm gonna post a small 🧵 here

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I already despised the shitty (and frankly insulting) euphemistic speech patterns driven by YouTube’s demonetization algorithms. The fact that people now feel they also have to change how they write to avoid accusations of using AI on top of that makes me irate.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/07/2026

I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I wish I could be surprised about Demiplane being as bad as it is, but both as a professional software engineer and as somebody who has seen glimpses of how Roll20 operates as a company (and the miserable salaries offered for software engineering positions), I'm not even a little bit surprised.

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I miss when new things used to be cool. Now the only "new" things that ever get approved are "let's use AI to do <thing>" and I hate it here.

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've still got some space, and you can check the qrt's for some client testimonials (thank you!! 💜) if you're into that kinda thing!

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Elliott Kay @elliottkaybooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've commissioned Amy before and she was one of the best artists I've worked with. Her work was great and she made more of my suggestions than I had in my own head. If I had money to throw around right now, I'd grab one of these spots myself.

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

hey all, turns out I have a bit of space for 1-3 commissions this month, so!! let's go! ✨ shoot me an email at amyking.art@gmail.com along with the type of commission you're interested in and a brief overview (2-3 sentences max) of the subject and I'll get back to you with info on the next steps!

an image advertising some art commissions! these include a colorful girl with clouds for hair and a shimmery pink dress, a green scaled woman with even more green hair piled on her head with mushrooms and flowers, and a rogueish orc like man holding a bitten apple and wearing worn leather clothing. full bodies are 175usd, half bodies are 100usd, and bust shots are $65usd. the bottom text also assures I can do anthros, armor, highly detailed clothing, and other stuff too!

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A whooooole bunch of sapphic comic enjoyers have just let out a collective shout of joy (and I'm one of them) 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL-I...

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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All | Official Teaser | Crunchyroll

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I wanna go back in time and slap past-Mina for thinking that setting up a home Kubernetes cluster was going to be a fun, easy evening activity. And then do it again for thinking that it would be so easy, in fact, that it'd also be a great time to restructure my network & configure Cloudflare tunnel

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Sea Grizzly @seagrizzly.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I commissioned art of another one of my characters. This time it's my firbolg druid, Maya. This gorgeous drawing of Maya was done by @sephiramy.bsky.social and I can't overstate how much I love this piece. Thank you so much Amy!

Drawing of a firbolg woman in a long green dress. She has blue-green skin, green eyes, and shoulder length pink hair. She has pointy green ears lined with pink fur. She has a tattered leather belt and a bright blue sash wrapped around her waist. She also wears a gold necklace with a green gem in the center and a collar made of leaves. She has a gold ring with a green gem on the ring finger of her left hand. Her left arm is raised with a tropical bird perched on it. She smiles sweetly at the bird. She holds a wooden shepherds crook with a teal grip in her right hand.

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 15/06/2026

As I see more friends fall victim to this discord hack, I remind people that if someone asks you to download their new game out of the blue, right now, because it will only take a couple minutes, after "catching up" for a minute It's a hack, and they will take over once you download that file.

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Reading while at the office is such a bad idea because I get choked up way too easily and I have to stop myself from crying at sad moments. 😅

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If any of you are somehow not aware, @sephiramy.bsky.social is the best! This is probably my favorite illustration I’ve ever commissioned 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ah yes, visually distinguishing a toolbar instead of just having floating button groups. Apple truly is a master of innovation in visual design. /s

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 06/06/2026

This paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures. It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514

Much research has been carried out on large language models (LLMs) and LLMpowered agentic workflows. However, many works within the field state emergence of, ascribe to, or assume, generalised anthropomorphic attributes to them (e.g., morality or understanding of natural language). Our goal is not to argue in favour or against the existence of these attributes, but to point out that these conclusions could be incorrect. For this we build and train a simple neural network on the videogame Age of Empires II, and note that any entity in a sufficiently-powerful substrate, such as LEGO or the Greater Boston Area, could also present such attributes. Hence, the purported anthropomorphic attributes of LLMs are empirically non-unique: although some properties (e.g., responses to prompts) could remain constant, others, such as the interpretation of their perceived behaviour, might change with the substrate. Thus, any empirically-grounded discussion requires explicit measurement criteria; otherwise the interpretation is left to the representation. We then show that assuming that these attributes exist or not in a system, independent of the substrate and in a generalised way, leads to either circular or uninformative conclusions, regardless of the experimenter’s viewpoint on the subject. Finally we propose a ‘null’ assumption, where one assumes LLM non-uniqueness instead of assuming anthropomorphic attributes to set up an experiment, along with examples of it. We also discuss potential objections to our work, briefly survey the field, and prove that Age of Empires II is functionally- and Turing-complete.

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Sometimes I really hate that I turned my programming hobby into a software engineering career, because I quite frequently get really excited about trying out a new thing only to realize by the end of the weekend that I never actually stopped working. (Also because the tech industry sucks.)

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🌜Sara Kipin🌛 🔜 LBX Table #629 @sarakipin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I think we’re long past the “ai bad because of stealing” argument and fully in the “ai is also actively and tangibly destroying our planet why are you even trying to use it as an art tool at this point” stage

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I can’t believe I found a webtoon that combines my love of supernatural horror (with a creepy tone) and cheesy isekai romantic fantasy.

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I won't share it 'til it's done but @sephiramy.bsky.social just absolutely made my week with the preview sketch of my commission 😍

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Webtoons: Look at how cool the male & female leads of this romfan story are! Me: But what about these side characters? I’m desperate to know if they’re lesbians or if I’m just reading into how they interact with each other because I WANT them to be lesbians.

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Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Webcomics should be as respected as any other format in the comics umbrella, and I'm not kidding

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

also putting it out there that I am currently available for long term projects as well, so if you need illustration/comics/covers/character design, email me and let's talk!!

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I tested the winds, and it's that time again... ✨🎉 commissions now OPEN for May/June!! 🎉✨ shoot me an email at amyking.art@gmail.com along with the type of commission you're interested in and a brief overview (2-3 sentences max) of the subject and I'll get back to you with info on the next steps!

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I have commissioned SO MANY THINGS from Amy over the years. Every single time, she has been a delight to work with, always delivers incredible work, and in my eyes deserves way more for her art than she charges. I can't recommend her enough 💜

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Hey pro tip? If somebody's asking for artist recommendations from people they trust And you can't reply to their post because they have interaction limited on the post MAYBE take a hint and don't tag them. Ignoring boundaries is a nasty first impression

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Aviv Or 🔜 MCM London AA H-24 @avivor.com · 04/05/2026

It's my birthday! 🎉 A very cool gift you can give me is telling a friend who likes comics, roleplaying games, or just colourful shenanigans in general about Crystal Heart! www.uptofourplayers.com/crystal-hear...

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Crystal Heart Comic | Crystal Heart

Read the Crystal Heart Comic Buy the Graphic Novel Join four friends as they dive into a high-stakes adventure in the tabletop RPG Crystal Heart! 336

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Mina Harker @minalien.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Any recs for artists with commissions open for a dark fantasy character portrait? Needs to be someone comfortable & experienced with drawing bones and decay, since I'm looking for a take on a lich character that can show off both her beauty and horror. Also after some background work in the piece.

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