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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Whimmery🕊️ @whimmery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Made The Amazing Digital Circus art based off the Pomni shirt that said “I Can Make Her Worse”, decided to make a Caine edition #tadc

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".

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Vergolophus, truly. @vergolophus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

caine is technically the only person with a large chest in the circu-- [I AM FORCIBLY DETAINED AND ESCORTED OFF THE PROPERTY]

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don't ever let the vampires talk you into giving blood at 8am, now i'm tired on two fonts and i still have to drive home.

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Asked my boss for a task, she gave me one. I asked her for more tasks because that one would only take half an hour. She disagreed, claiming it might take me multiple hours. I said /BET?/ So now I have extra lunch time today, two treats, an impressed boss, and a continued need for more tasks.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Okay, either my dairy sensitivity has gotten worse than I remember, or the latte I went back to the coffee shop to make sure was decaf was not, in fact, decaf, because my body is a ruin and it is impeding my work

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the devil keeps telling me to get back to my wormfic concepts

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just found out Doctor Doom is Rromani and now I'm even more disgusted that Marvel cast Robert Downey Junior for the MCU take on him. First Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver and now Doom. Corporations love making people white.

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm very excited about Fashion Parade! I'd love to talk about it more! In March. Or April or June, or whenever the Zine comes out. Because I can't say anything more on the subject until then.

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Caine sticker looking like Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

me for the past week: huh, i think i cleared out the bugs that were in my office, i haven't seen any in so long! the biggest fucking roach i've ever seen trundling across my wall like it owns the place:

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ME: it is the middle of September and it is almost 80 degrees outside. it still feels a little early to be drinking pumpkin spice coff- STAPLES: merry christmas you piece of shit

K cup display with peppermint bark coffee and peppermint Swiss miss in goddamn September

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Vergolophus, truly. @vergolophus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My favorite ship dynamic ❤️

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every time I remember that Castrati existed and go to look them up I'm always surprised to see the comments full of people bemoaning that these boys were tortured and maimed and mutilated and whatnot, and how you can "hear the pain in the recordings of the last Castrai singing."

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

found pistachio pudding and bought it excited to try it bc i love pistachio desserts then accidentally left it out for 24 hours unrefrigerated so that was a waste of $3

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The huge pile of TADC wips sitting in my 4TheWords Directory: Me: So here's 1000+ words I added to my Batman fic—

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What Macklemore actually said:

“I've been trying to figure out a way to say this all day. One of the reasons why I wanted to come on this tour was because I wanted to stand up here on stages and stadiums across America and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart: Free Palestine.

"I said, Free Palestine.

“I want those words to be loud and clear, so the people from Gaza, all the way to the occupied West Bank, know that we have not forgotten them.

And this next song was inspired by the bravery of Columbia University students who led an encampment movement that mobilized the entire world; open up hearts, myself included, so thank you to those students that risked their diplomas, that risked their tuition, that risked their scholarships, that stood up and said, no. CUAD students, Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voices for Peace. Thank you, guys.

“To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters: criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against genocide in no way is a criticism of you. My message is for peace; love for all human beings to be treated with dignity, respect, and equality.

“So I say Free Palestine, I say Free Lebanon, I say Free Cuba, I say Free Congo, Free Sudan, I say Free all people in America living in fear of this terrorist organization, ICE. None of us will be free until we are all free."

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm donating 100% of all jumbo Draw Program pin proceeds to my kids CPS school. www.harebraineddesign.com/collections/...

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

having daydreams of being a fulltime writer again first we gotta be employed long enough to get the pension then we gotta be medicated long enough to start writing things for people to buy in the first place then we gotta build up a backlog for people to buy but OUGH, do i want it now

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Spent a Normal amount of time today listening to Bury Me A Woman and now I'm just sitting here like do I gravitate to trans narratives of identity and self-presentation because I'm Also (autistic, emotionally neglected) used to hiding everything about the real me from everyone for fear of reprisal?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Speaking from experience: running a small business can be absolutely soul-crushing. And half the time, your problems are ones the world is imposing on you that you had no part in creating. If you can, please give Maya a hand. This tariff bullshit is awful.

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Nana Moon { game dev } - WISHLIST BATHORY @moonana.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Less than 2 DAYS left to get $20,000 worth of commercial use royalty free music for only $10, 50% off at: itch.io/s/197592/161... Like, share or comment so others can see before the sale ends and help us reach our goal to pay for Anglerman's surgery! #gamedev🎮 #ttrpg #vtuber

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world.

Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight.

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job!

Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.

If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Be sure to follow @hbomberguy.bsky.social and @skutchdraws.bsky.social ‬if you enjoyed this comic!

In the early days of the movement when machines were found destroyed, people would joke "Ned Ludd is back!

The secret union ran with it, now they were the Luddites. I don't think people recognize how fucking FUNNY it is a massively popular social movement named themselves after a joke. FUN FACT!: There's recorded instances of the police actually searching for 'Ned Ludd', criminal leader of the Luddites, in Sherwood forest. Some even claimed to have glimpsed him. Cops were really smart back then.

In Ludd's sights was Enoch Taylor of Marsden, West Yorkshire. The Taylors built machines for the textile mills that abused their workers. Luckily, the Taylors also made Sledgehammers.

"Enoch made them, and Enoch shall break them!" I sweat this stuff writes itself.

William Horsfall, a Marsden factory owner, once boasted that he would love to "ride up to my saddle in luddite blood!", Horsfall was later assassinated by Luddites, during an altercation in which he reportedly received a "groin injury". In history's greatest L, a rich guy talked shit about murdering Luddites, until they shot him in the dick to death.

Mills were being stormed by hundreds or sometimes thousands of protestors, the movement was GROWING. A spectre haunted England - the spirit of Ned Ludd. To the rich the answer was clear- kill all the luddites you can before people figure out they have a point. In 1812 Parliament found the time to pass an 'emergency measure": the Frame Breaking Act which made smashing machines punishable by death. The tens of thousands of soldiers were sent to deal with Luddites in mills and factories across the country. This was a sizable amount considering Britain was CURRENTLY FIGHTING NAPOLEON.

Parliament happily went to war against British Luddites when they were supposed to be fighting actual wars. In 1813 17 luddites were hanged in a day, with more than 14 sentenced to be transported to Australia which was even worse than that. Historians view this as the point major Luddite activity started to die down.

A portrait of goofy, crown wearing Ned Ludd, covered in weaponry used upon him in a 1700s art style.

"But here's the problem: they couldn't kill Ned. You can't kill people's ability to question how the benefits of automation have been distributed. He's still out there. And One day he'll be BACK."

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Looking to read more of Failure to Launch? You can get a copy here!: store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... Take your breaks at work, people worked for those!

I bet you're wondering: "how did Harry trick Iron Circus into letting him write a pro-luddite story for their anthology about technology?" Well, I'll tell you. Because the Luddites weren't against technology! They were for a world where this technology improved people's lives. A new machine replacing thousands of jobs should be a good thing!

A world where people are freed to do more and better! Instead, it's mostly good for whoever saved money firing all those workers. The Luddites simply observe earlier than most that it doesn't have to be this way. We didn't even make the work holding the world together less back breaking, we just exported that work somewhere else. This is the capitalist version of progress: people doing shitty jobs for no money. But elsewhere where you don't see it.

When people question the way technology is being used - feel their opportunities and autonomy getting smaller - the world luddite gets dusted off for reuse. When the used states took Microsoft to court for being a monopoly and illegally crushing their competition, Microsoft's lead attorney John Warren called it: "Not really an antitrust case but a return of the luddites, 19th century reactionaries who... went around smashing machines with sledgehammers." Microsoft lost incidentally.

But the sentiment is clear: criticism of the future modern tech giants are building, even their crimes, is opposing progress itself. But the reality is people are still being looted by factory-masters. The industrial revolution massively increased productivity, but the profit from doing so went directly to the hands of the Owners. Take the same measurements of the 20th century's innovations and what do you get? The extremely simple truth - that it doesn't have to be this way - is terrifying if you benefit from the way things are now. An old ghost starts to feel close at hand.

So have a little sympathy for the owners of the world. It's a scary time for them too. They're really panicking. (listed is several headlines of Union-targeting actions by multi-billionaires and their accessories)

Companies the world over have spent hundreds of millions trying to stop unionization efforts. Soon it might even be cheaper to just pay people more. Amazon even tried to ban words like 'injustice', 'compensation', and yes, 'UNION', from their internal apps. They must be vigilant - the old ghost cannot be killed. Only kept at bay.

Looming over Elon Musk, who the writer of this alt text truly hates, Ludd brandishes his sledgehammer with glowing red eyes. Elon looks like he doesn't know what to do without hundreds of thousands of people willing to get hurt for his money or acknowledgement.

"--We used to shoot these people in the dick."

Thank you for reading this comic! Be sure to always take your scheduled breaks. Do not let some 50+ year old slug tell you that you aren't "a team player" because you are not letting them take just a little more. Each break and benefit you get to take is written in blood, and you're only pissing off those who came before you and making someone who isn't paying you smile by doing extra.

Want to read more of Failure to Launch? we've got that here: https://store.ironcircus.com/products/failure-to-launch

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

YOU WILL WATCH THIS I AM NO LONGER ASKING

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Chirs but sexier @chrisnsfw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

sex sells! until the storefront bans you and the subscription sites ban you and the payment processors ban you and the social media sites ban you and your webhost bans you and your bank bans you and your state legislature bans you and the supreme court bans you and all you were trying to do was draw

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Chirs but sexier @chrisnsfw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the age-old sentiment of "lol I might have to start drawing porn in order to make a living" is so disconnected from our current reality that I first misread this post as saying "I might have to STOP making erotic art in order to make a living" and I was like "yeah I've been thinking the same thing"

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TECFUZZ @tecfuzz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

none of the original devs and writers are on this and its being worked on with some vague AI engine, just save your money for something like Stupid Never Dies in 6 weeks or just emulate the original game with all the license music and costumes on the ps3 emulator, it's surprisingly easy to do.

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Ferah 🧡 @ferahntics.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Beach vibes! 🏝💫 #tadc #theamazingdigitalcircus

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

believe in the HRT of the cards

the spell card Change of Heart from Yu-Gi-Oh except the letters have been blacked out in its title to show simply H RT

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Italian Cold Steel Synquedea @mismagireve.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

getting back into the dcau and it's wild to me that at least two shows so far, batman the animated series and batman beyond, straight up show drug deals happening on a children's animated series—batman beyond's even shows the junkie being a teenager dealing with the trembles and shakes of addiction.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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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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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Millions of Americans may not receive their mail ballots in time, or at all, because of a secretive, court-defying system being rushed into place by the Trump administration. Two months before the midterms. This isn't by chance. It's a blatant attempt to steal an election. Share this everywhere.

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USPS rush to implement Trump order could cause ‘catastrophic failure’ of mail voting, whistleblower claims

A whistleblower claims in a new report that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has embarked on a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s mail voting order ahead of the midterms,…

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Crisppyboat @crisppyboat.ca · 01/09/2026

It's always "I hate A\i" until a trend comes along and all of a sudden everyone thinks it's the funniest thing to slap slop filters over things and share it for social media points, doesn't make it any better if you do it as a joke, still counts as contributing and normalizing it

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Vergolophus, truly. @vergolophus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#tadc #showtime Autistic rizz.

Caine and Pomni are sitting at the bar. Caine is droning on and on and on while Pomni just sits there and squints her eyes at him.

Caine: "So about 87.5% of Combee are male instead of female, which are the remaining 12.5% of the population. Of course this makes sense
because only the female Combee can evolve into Vespiquen... Untiiiiil you realize that Apis mellifera, also known as the Western Honey Bee, is comprised of mostly female workers with fewer drones. In fact,
not every female Combee SHOULD be able to evolve at all! It really
should be special Combee that have been fed royal jelly. Honestly,
I'm surprised that you humans don't even really get this right in fiction?
It's so obvious yet it's kind of glaring misinformation to have in a video
game all about catching monsters based on Earth's ecology. I mean..."

Pomni: (In her thoughts) "I can't NOT fuck him.

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Girlygo2 @girlygo2.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Optative" A program startled the CMD open for only a moment. Your display stalls, flicking off and on before being met with darkness... and something else. A generic, outdated text window opens. It was talking to you. It... He... was watching you. #TheAmazingDigitalCircus #Caine