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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was hoping I'd see one of these on my trip to visit my parents. This is a MLP from my childhood. I'm curious on an identification from @seananmcguire.bsky.social, bluesky's resident MLP expert.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Every company, LITERALLY EVERY FUCKING COMPANY, please read this. Nobody goes "oh, this used gen AI, I totally need a thing made by a soulless planet killing machine that's not even as good as a human intern despite totally ripping off a bunch of actual humans who are way more qualified."

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hello, excuse me. I'm overdue for my midlife crisis, but I can't, in good conscience, take it until the National crisis is done. Please stop voting for bigots, so I can buy a ridiculous over priced piece of junk that I don't need, to try and make myself feel better about getting old.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's been a while since Statistics class, but I don't think he's using "Bayesian priors" correctly here. Oh, and even if we accept all the premises, this argument is still an Ecological Fallacy. You cannot apply statistics to individuals. What are the odds? Who cares, that doesn't determine truth.

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Brian F'n Patterson @d20monkey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reminder: Fuck AI.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

thebetter.news

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What the fuck, @patreon.com? You're just sending me emails about Quips from authors I'm not subscribed to, with no way to disable these emails? Are you trying to get me to stop giving people money on your platform? This is how you get me to stop giving money on your platform.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You've gunned your last shiny toy.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You've citied your last owl. You've sailed your last sky.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Is it just me, or did all of #Webtoons' RSS feeds suddenly double the last twenty updates? I woke up to 400+ RSS notifications because Webtoons added duplicates of the last 20 comics. Hopefully it's just a one time thing, rather than getting double notifications for every updated moving forward.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

@hagofbolding.bsky.social Did you know page 19 is somehow inserted between page 12 and the release today for the two part page 13?

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rhodeath || READ RIVERINE @rhodezero.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

happy pride! read my trans webcomic!! people keep shouting that it's rad and funny and relatable! also a billionaire gets eaten by a water dragon serpent www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ri...

a young masked woman in a green jacket with yellow accents is making a triangle in front of one of her eyes with her fingers. her hair is short and brown. the trans flag is behind her.

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rhodeath || READ RIVERINE @rhodezero.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

hello please check out Riverine, a comic about a trans girl becoming the world's first superhero while still being closeted to her family #webcomic www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ri...

a masked woman in a jacket with short brown hair holds out her hand. falling from her fingers are streams of water with a number of faces reflected in the water. it says "RIVERINE" about the woman, and her eyes are glowing yellow.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I find it hilarious half the commenters think Jeph bought a Ferrari.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Just finished reading #AsYouWakeBreakTheShell by Becky Chambers. I got an ARC from #NetGalley. Becky Chambers once again delivers a magnificent tale. Like all her books, this is a tale that centers people, not events.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Fortran, and Javascript.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Ann is a wonderful writer, and a wonderful person. She's giving away an ARC of her upcoming book, The Hocus Pocus Handbook!

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

LOOK WHAT I HAVE! (This is the long-awaited sequel to The Only Purple House in Town!) If you want this, @ me here! Random drawing in 1 week. Please @ & repost so lots of people have a chance to enter to win! No caveats to entry, will mail ANYWHERE. (Yes, it could be costly. You're worth it!)

A photo of an ARC of The Hocus Pocus Handbook.

The cover is purples and pinks and hints of cobalt blue. It has the title in an elegant loopy white font. Fantasy art with a castle and plot points from the book depicted including:

a pixie
a ship in a bottle
a pooka
a mushroom cottage

The book is standing vertically on a pink surface. Background is blurred, with dining chair and patio doors in background.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Holy carp, I was approved for an eARC of Becky Chambers upcoming book As You Wake, Break The Shell. So freaking excited!

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Please, please, please! Cute vulture drinking tea! What more could you want!?

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Please back this so I can get a cute vulture drinking tea in plushie form.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Hey, @bsky.app, how do I get rid of this latest update to images. I want to see a preview for all four of them, not have a weird scrolling thing I have to click and drag to scroll.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Alright, listen. This comes up a lot. Forgiveness is not something you can get. It's something someone else can give you. You are not entitled to forgiveness, no matter what you do. You do not get to define how hurt someone is, nor how long they're mad about what you did.

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SigsegV @sigseg-v.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Being sad generally comes with the thinking

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Julian Martin @julianmartin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

No author worth reading uses AI.

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 28/03/2026

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Meg for President! ...Sorry, Meg. I know no sane person actually wants that job.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Does anyone else trying updating their device time zone the night before a book you really want to read is released in order to try and trick it into thinking it's now release date? If not, it doesn't work anyway so good for you being smarter than me wasting my time. <.<

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Hey, @creditkarma.bsky.social, maybe separate "insights" from "changes" in accounts monitoring. I care if there are changes to my accounts, I don't give a single fuck how I compare to the average or any other person in the world, but as far as I can tell these are the same notification option.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Everyone should subscribe to Riverine imo.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I was lucky enough to get to meet Ale in Portugal and get my book signed. Not sure how to get @kbspangler.com's signature... Maybe I have to fly to NY next month?

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Ale @alepresser.com · 14/03/2026

Ok, everyone, this is the LAST WEEKEND you can preorder SideQuested Book1! All preorders help us convince our Publisher that we should publish the WHOLE series, not just the two first books! Plus, the book is BEAUTIFUL, has spot gloss, an exclusive chapter, and it's CHONKY!😱 sidequested.com/book/

Side Quested Book1 in my hand. It's mostly a blue cover with Charlie on it.

A side view of the book. It has 304 pages, it's quite the chonky book!

A tiny crop of the "book exclusive" chapter! No spoilers revealed, tho.

Detail of the cover with some light reflecting on the gloss spit in the cover. It's all over Charlie!

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

What happened to @patreon.com? It used to let me select the billing date, and charge all my stuff together. I assume that saves them money on transaction fees, and hopefully that could be passed on to the creators. I'd also get an e-mail listing every creator and how much my pledge was.

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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*

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dredecopp.bsky.social @dredecopp.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I'm glad for different reasons. None of us should be using AI, especially people working with classified information.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This reminds me of the time my wife took a pig's head through airport security. Supply and demand as a concept is very real, and also extremely regional. We lived in a very white rural area at the time. Pig's head was much cheaper, since white people don't use a lot of cuts until they're popular.

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rhodeath || READ RIVERINE @rhodezero.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I am once again saying you should read Riverine Riverine.thecomicseries.com

A young masked woman has her hand out. Streams of water fall through her fingers, with images of people reflected in the water.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

stone-soup.ghost.io

Time to Fight: H.R. 7661

Call To Action

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Julia Kaye, lovergirl era @upandoutcomic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

man, fuck the tax-prep industry's lobbying to keep filing taxes overly complicated

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Ale @alepresser.com · 20/02/2026

Hello! I'm Alexandra, and I do comics (with my partner-in-crime @kbspangler.com )! Our first Book together - 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝟭 - comes out this March! To read online *for free*, preorder links, promotions, and all the information: sidequested.com/book/

sidequested.com

Side Quested Book 1 - Side Quested Webcomic

About the Book The course of true love never did run straight…For fans of The Owl House and Critical Role comes the first volume in the lighthearted and epic adventure…

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Smell like a medieval city? If I wanted to smell like I rolled around in human waste that has always been an option. But I don't.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

What will happen is she, and other gAI sloppers, will destroy the market for self-published first time authors. Readers will stop reading books by authors they don't know, who aren't from an established publisher. Alternatively, people will get better about checking reviews, and spotting AI covers.

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Needs Books (he/him) @needsbks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

What's really sad is my software company is trying to win this race to the bottom, too. If anyone should understand the limitations and risks of this technology... But no, gotta invest over a billion dollars in negative productivity gains.

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