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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 9h

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 3h

*raises voice very slightly* TODAY SEEMS LIKE A GOOD DAY FOR PEOPLE TO READ THIS BLOG POST, FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON

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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 5h

🧵Every now & then I pick up Serious Professional followers and it floors me. I know I've spoken at academic conferences, co-taught college classes internationally, done podcasts & been published in worthy non-fiction things but fact is: That's down to being friends with folks smarter than me

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 7h

Tech companies are trying to use the ELIZA effect and cute animation to sell you devices that will surveil you constantly, convince you they're your best and only friend, sap you of your cognitive capacities, and push your purchasing habits and opinions in whatever way they please. That's it.

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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 9h

Ironically, WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE is a British export, but that's rather the point because it was marketed to sell as an international format (and did so) which means it partook of certain norms of structure and rules of late-stage capitalism which began as Anglo-US export

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 10h

One of the most underappreciated unforeseen consequences of the smartphone/streaming/social media era is the elimination of boredom as a key driver of creativity. Without boredom, there just isn't enough impetus for most people do go out and learn and do things.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

don't waste your life trying to pursue political or military greatness: way way more people in 2026 know who Ea-Nasir is than like, the guy who was the king of Ur when he was alive

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

Something I often mention when talking about these popular-level magical manuscripts is that a significant portion of their content is reproductive health. Spells for fertility and neonatal care are especially common, but we also have ones for dealing with menstruation and miscarriage.

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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 10h

@vajra.me consistently blows my tiny bearded mind in everything he does. Cannot wait for this, and that cover just *oozes* style.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 10h

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 11h

Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13h

But if they aren't actually understanding, then the whole thing is an illusion, and I imagine that is a really uncomfortable thought. So, many people are motivated to try to "disprove" what is just a simple description of what the system does. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13h

I can't say for sure what's going on in other people's heads, but I think it's because for so many boosters & doomers, it's become a core belief that their chatbot buddies/LLM-enabled supertools are understanding and reasoning. >>

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caitliwinx ⚔️🍂🪾 @caitliwinx.bsky.social · 16h

Determined now more than ever to draw women with big fuck off swords

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 16h

Lukewarm genre take: the desire for precision when tonally sorting or categorizing books has led to a trend in avoiding categorizing something as part of a broad genre (e.g. "fantasy"). Sometimes a book is best categorized as just "fantasy" vs. grimdark or cozy. I think a discomfort

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

"ohhh noooo it's toooo powerful! it's gonna hack ur dudes!" style fear-hype for the governments, "invite this adorable bastard demon into your home; we super swear it can't and won't steal your true name (PII)" style lies for the plebs

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 23h

The latter is, to be clear, a deeply reactionary stance that promotes ignorance and the violation of the freedom to read — even when the information sources themselves are deeply embroiled in and beneficiaries of the political economy of supremacism.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 23h

There is a meaningful difference between boycotting an information source or digital platform as an act of digital resistance (e.g. not promoting substack articles or not subscribing to the NYT), and telling people that they aren't allowed to read or discuss those things as information resources.

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Jenna{MentalHealthBreak} @thesleepysuccubus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

wish more of our society (who supposedly values sexual freedom) - actually had solidarity with sex workers, in active practice and not just in talk/performatively.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026

oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”

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America.gov

Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”

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Dox for Me, O Muse

Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gotta rep my girl Audrey Stollings: bsky.app/profile/mini...

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 29/09/2026

Especially when the Reconciliation word means "go back to being friends" to many, INSTEAD OF "reconciliation" in the sense of "giving an account of what happened and checking it before it goes in a formal record". The latter is also muddied by popular understandings of "accountability" too

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is extremely encouraging to know the Youngs understand Bookshop Girl is an erotic icon. Some things *are* eternal.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh this is lovely.

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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 28/09/2026

So many of these prove this fellow (Jacob Coxon, ex Anthropic "whistle-blower") is just an attention seeking edgelord, and his AI-warning is just an evolution of that to put him on the gravy-train

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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

introducing the new garmonbozia (pain and suffering) blizzard treat from Dairy Queen, for a limited time only

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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A Tesla in a parking lot. Its California license plate reads "DELEUZE"

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the ole "depiction is not endorsement"/"people want moral reassurance" discourse, the simple fact of the matter is ya gotta make your guys interesting or entertaining I don't think this Don Draper/Al Swearengen/... does a lotta good but gosh darn it I enjoy watching their escapades!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

No but literally and seriously

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 26/09/2026

The problem with knowing things early is everybody looks at you like you've got three heads, and they never admit when you were finally right: Worse, they still remember you as three-headed and will punish you for your intuition until you are trained to ignore it.

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

📚️⚔️ NESS NOVELLAS 2026 ENDS TODAY AT 12pm EST⚔️📚️ Because shipping is paid months later, there's a free bonus zine, and then all the other crowdfund exclusives the crowdfund is the best time to get these books. 🖼️And we are so close to unlocking Double Art!🖼️ 👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

A crowdfund promo graphic saying that the crowdfund ends at 12pm EST today.

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ngl dawg i am BLESSED someone as talented and smart as Audrey is my friend, she's got insanely good takes on the sword & sorcery genre (and in general)

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was an awesome interview. You want to meet Audrey. Into Gothic? curious about Gothic's input into Sword & Sorcery? Into sad monsters? Watch.

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

not wanting to get sick(er) or get other people sick is a normal desire and I have zero interest in litigating it with people who'd rather ally with the fascists pathologizing or mocking it.

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it's not hyperbolic to say that if the ways you talk and think about disabled/sick people (as well as the COVID precautions we may take) are indistinguishable from how fascists talk about disabled/sick people—even down to the same statements—then you have a fucking problem.

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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 25/09/2026

Genuinely, part of the problem we have is that "myth" and "story" have become synonymous with "untruth" & so in our current capitalist hellscape, their intangible message is regarded as "useless and irrelevant with nothing to say except momentary entertainment" instead of things that can teach

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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 25/09/2026

Biggest mastodon instance there is. Yikes.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026

Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

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