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Drew Shields (commissions closed) @gnarlyghost.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Cyberyuri commission

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Drew Shields (commissions closed) @gnarlyghost.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Cyber punk

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 1h

#boktober 002 (sorry I am late)

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

We must defend voting rights - Big P Politics - to the bitter end, but we need to defend organizing - small p politics - just as ferociously.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The right's leadership understands this very well, which is why they've spent years attacking unions, community organizers like Acorn, and activist institutions like Planned Parenthood.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Voting for Mamdani was important. It got him elected. But staying organized - in unions, neighborhood clubs, affinity groups, DSA chapters and mutual aid groups - is what's letting him get stuff done, and stopping him from bailing on his promises as politically infeasible.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Of course the downside of this is that when Mamdani reneges on his pledges, he is loudly and furiously held to account for it: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/02/19/m...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Mamdani is the anti-Obama. He shows what happens when a progressive candidate nurtures and co-governs with their base after the election, using millions of passionate, committed, everyday people to steamroller anyone who gets in the way of his agenda: www.nyc.gov/content/100d...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

he last thing they want is a militant, organized, mobilized base pushing Dem politicians to take the stands that are wildly and widely popular in America, from Medicare for All to an end to ICE - the Mamdani agenda, in other words.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The right's political leadership is terrified of its own grassroots, and rightly so, because those people are *maniacs*, and they're the reason the GOP has been pushed into its most extreme positions. The right's grassroots, meanwhile, are afraid of *the left's grassroots*. T

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Liberals are often contemptuous of grassroots movements (cf "basket of deplorables," "Green Lantern" scolding), but the right is *terrified* of them.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

It's like Obama heard the story about post-election FDR telling civil rights leaders, "I want to do it, now make me do it," and concluded, "I don't want to do it, so I'd better not let anyone make me do it": www.quora.com/Did-Franklin...

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Did Franklin Roosevelt ever say, "I agree with you; I want to do it; now make me do it"?

Answer (1 of 2): Yes. Like much of FDR’s career, it’s more deft than it looks. The gist of the story — the context — is that some folks that we might now call Social Justice Warriors went to see Ele...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

But even if you accept the Green Lantern apologetics, the fact remains that Obama *could* have had a clamoring army of ardent supporters in the streets, defending his agenda against recalcitrants in his own party and wreckers in the GOP. He *chose* not to have that army. He sent that army home.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

I think that Trump's presidency has shown us how much power the president really has even when the legislature won't play ball.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Whenever I raise this, Obama's apologists come out of the woodwork to tell me that "the president isn't the Green Lantern," and that Obama couldn't act without help from Congress and the Senate, who wouldn't back his plays.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Indeed, Obama's genius was summoning up an army of door-knocking, phone-banking small p political activists and then euthanizing that organization after he won the election: newrepublic.com/article/1402...

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Inside the Fall of Obama’s Grassroots Army

The untold story of Obama’s biggest mistake—and how it paved the way for Trump.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 2h

On RARE occasions, a journo will share a transcript of an interview with, like, one individual other journo who needs it for something like a book about a person who is dead or doesn't do interviews anymore. But that's only if you REALLY trust the other writer. This a.i. pooling is different and bad

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 2h

This thread is horrifying I am a journalist of 20yrs' vintage and I can tell you I have never heard of practices like this before

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Ranaroth @ranaroth.bsky.social · 2h

David S. Garnett, Time in Eclipse, Arrow, 1976. Cover: Chris Foss. #DavidGarnett #ChrisFoss

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ceej @ceej.online · 11h

incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time

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Flayin’ the Flannel @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We’ve updated our woims and conditions

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Kodo and Sangha! @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 5h

Some of us said this would happen. I, personally, was called “irrational” and “crazy” for stating it would occur.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4h

Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 19h

So grateful I get to include this comic in my book as a way of saying thanks ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 3h

Bsky is such a weird place to be a trans, anti-Zionist journalist. Most outlets would never publish the views I freely express here, and I agree with most of your criticisms of my peers and industry leaders… but also… there ARE ethical journalists, and the last of us are on HERE. Support us?

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Protection From Elephants (Abj; Wiz/Sor3; Comp: V, S, DF) @mxmarkargent.bsky.social · 2h

last night i had the best sex dream of my life and im pretty sure the dreamy hyper-technicolor aesthetic of it was at least partially inspired by rereading the Doncarlo Incognito arc of Swan Boy

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FRUiTS bot @fruits-bot.bsky.social · 3h

fruits issue 143 77.jpg

a scan from FRUiTS magazine, most likely images of fasionable people in Japan.

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Protection From Elephants (Abj; Wiz/Sor3; Comp: V, S, DF) @mxmarkargent.bsky.social · 2h

"how did you get into ttrpgs" they were better value for money than most comics

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 17h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

wolfman on halloween. infinitegossip.substack.com/p/wolfman-on...

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🧛‍♀️🐺Marceline🔥🪭 @marceline2174.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Witches

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Protection From Elephants (Abj; Wiz/Sor3; Comp: V, S, DF) @mxmarkargent.bsky.social · 2h

every couple years i reread Book of the New Sun. my last read was alongside the Shelved By Genre podcast from @rangedtouch.bsky.social and it was the most fun i'd had reading Wolfe since my first time

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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 3h

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 2h

Note: We generate a lower-bandwidth web-friendly version of the MPEG4 file that Jordan uploaded, so be sure you are getting the right one. Download the MPEG4 link, not the IA H.264 link. You'll notice the size difference.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 3h

One day, Jordan Koschei of HVconnect announced he was releasing 450+ 4k drone shots completely lacking watermarks and public domain, just to encourage use and beauty of what is my home county. Now, the Internet Archive has mirrored it. Lovely shots! Full metadata! archive.org/details/hvco...

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ConnectHV Drone Footage Collection

Mirrored drone footage from https://connecthv.com/ - created by Jordan Koschei, licensed drone operator. Released to the public domain for all uses. Original collection at https://connecthv.com/drone-...

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 10h

#MÖRKTOBER, day 2, is "curse" so what better day for vengeful warriors, returning from hell to kill the Sixth Heaven Demon King in ... Nobunaga's Black Castle! Translated from Japanese and available in English for the first time.

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Nobunaga's Black Castle

A Sengoku Doom Metal Fantasy TTRPG for MÖRK BORG, now in English!

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 2h

Can someone in Taiwan send me something I got a real need for this.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7h

BTW when I say "seances for the AGI god" I'm not speaking in metaphors or exaggerating. Ilya Sutskever did these at OpenAI, you can read Karen Hao's Empire of AI for details.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 8h

work and other resources on the topic ✌🏽 Hinton's student was doing seances for artificial general intelligence at OpenAI but no its me who has to justify my self 🙄 dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

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The TESCREAL Bundle

The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 8h

However, the racist and sexist public consciousness says that whatever these men say MUST be true. No one asks them for evidence, and WE, those who don't say that the Cookie Monster is coming, are the ones who are asked to justify ourselves. You can feel free to read my extensive peer reviewed...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 8h

Ray Kurzweil also told us hidden Markov models from the 80s were going to bring us to the singularity. Hinton also said radiologists were going to be obsolete by 2023 (he said that in 2018). He had the nerve to say his concerns were much more serious than mine when asked by Rolling Stone.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 8h

This is my whole work and my research area. I have written multiple papers, documents, op-eds and all sorts of things discussing the history of the existential risk narrative, the eugenics connections, and why it's dangerous. Just because Hinton said the messiah is coming doesn't make it true.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 9h

An incisive and very clarifying interview with @rightlivelihood.org 2026 awardee @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Very well worth your time‼️

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 28/10/2025

🍂🎃

over the garden wall fan art poster, a sketchy illustration of wirt and greg - they were their red pointy hat and their teapot hat. greg is holding his frog. the background is deep orange with pale swirls. curved text reads “by the milk light of moon”

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 14h

If you write critically, you have to do something besides get excited. You have to examine what's in front of you. What you see is a movie industry in decay, and they decay gets worse and worse. (2001)

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READ RAVEN'S DOJO - Raven Perez @ravensdojo.bsky.social · 9h

HERMAN AND LILLY MUNSTER

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 7h

This is him the other day when his sister Freya smushed him

A white and grey and black tabby cat being smushed by his little sister, a fluffy grey cat named Freya, who is sitting directly on top of him. Theo does not seem to mind though.

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