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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owlet about to pounce on a dirt mound.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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WIRED @wired.com · 22h

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

remember when every company was like "we're gonna make a leaderboard for uses the most AI" until someone looked at their budget

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Ale @alepresser.com · 02/10/2026

The black ink was running low when the second cat was made.

Two calico cats with theirs backs to the camera. One is white, orange and black, and the other is white, orange and gray.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you want to know how much people hate AI, my local Facebook group just banned it

Fairhaven, MA
Hometown Fairhaven, MA
Around Fairhaven • 55m • ::
There are exceptions, for example if an official agency posts an emergency announcement.
Otherwise please use human made materials made with real intelligence. Text, photos, art work just fine without stealing intellectual property and ruining the environment the way A.
I. and their huge data centers do.
We are now removing posts created with A.I.
Please use text
and/or human-made art and photographs.

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Cincinnati Zoo @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rozi the cheetah purrs 😻 Sound on for beautiful cheetah purrs! Cats can either roar or purr, they can’t do both. Lions & tigers can roar, but they can’t purr. Cheetahs can purr, but they can’t roar.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's spooky season which means I can finally bring this piece back 🎃🐈‍⬛

A pumpkin patch featuring multicoloured pumpkins, some with carved faces, and black and white cats, frogs, crows and foliage

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/08/2025

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 01/10/2026

“The White House defunded cancer research so they could spend your tax dollars rehabilitating Nixon” writes itself.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I maded diss. It's about one inch tall 🧶

a tiny bud vase gold on the bottom and blue on the collar

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They literally think they're fighting a holy war, and this should terrify anyone with a functioning brain.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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cya 西田 🩵 working on comm/zine @cyanishida.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm a watercolor artist and a full time illustrator 😸 my ko-fi, any tip helps me a lot! ko-fi.com/cyanishida and the original piece below is still available for purchase bsky.app/profile/cyan... 💛

meow mwah
the kiss from klimt as cats in watercolor
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R. Blaylock Art @meanderingunicorns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yay, Thursday Art Show! I take commissions for pet portraits and character art. I love drawing kitties! Please check out my Ko-fi if you need a custom portrait: ko-fi.com/rblaylockart...

Illustration of an anthropomorphic Siamese cat lady, gazing at a butterfly resting on her paw.

Illustration of a fluffy black cat with feathery wings sitting on a stack of books.

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Larchives have a lot of stuff but especially for Hallowe'en and Christmas. I'm excited to share more of that with my Patreons this month :) Patreon.com/LardeSouza

cartoon: a pumpkin headed driver in his old timey jalopy enters the month

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Moth Mouth @placecalledbliss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're looking for cool spooky jewelry or an acrylic cat portrait, I've got you covered~☆ DM me if you'd like a spot for $50/$100 pet portraits or go check out my shop for jewelry and original paintings! Placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy First Day of Halloween 🍂 Throwback cartoon. Circa 2023

A black and white illustration of me driving in my car happily. Beside me, buckled in, is a carved pumpkin. It's an old cartoon. But a goodie.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To sum up: My publishers failed to register US copyright on many of my titles I am doing all the work in making the claim on those titles they did bother with They take half of any compensation anyway

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wichita chinaman @swaggy.website · 01/10/2026

bizarre in a state where it's illegal to record a phone call without the consent of both parties. i fucking hate this guy

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Funkit Toys @funkittoys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it's cocktober buy dildo

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 01/10/2026

I was just about to post this! Ask JAN is very helpful in looking up what accommodations you can ask for. You can actually ask for a lot and the ADA is fairly strict in what an employer can say is "unreasonable" under the law.

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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's one of my cat propaganda posters. If you like what you see please follow me here for more and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com - Thank You, Cats of Yore.

A cat poster done in the style of a mid-20th-century communist propaganda poster. A line of three cat faces face left in unison. Below them is a large crowd of cats marching. They represent various kinds of cats, ages, and jobs. The background is a large red flag. Text at bottom reads: The purrletarians have nothing to lose but their collars. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, Unite!"

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The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ask not for whom the Smudge lurks, he lurks for thee

Smudge at the top of the stairs, lurking, face only half visible

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Kelly Dawe @corncolors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The UGA Genetics Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Associate Professor/Professor in Genetics, Synthetic Biology, and Biological Engineering. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!

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Beadwork By Kay @beadworkbykay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am currently trying to sell enough to cover my 2 month overdue hydro and phone bill. I need to come up with $350 for hydro & $160 for phone before the end of the weekend 🤞🏼 I have lots of great pieces on my website! You can head to beadworkbykay.ca to see everything available 🫶🏼

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

Now look, I understand that you want to know why we haven't all Entwifed out of this shit, and frankly, sometimes I also want to know that. But there are many reasons for that, and one of them is that YOU FUCKERS WILL NOT LET US DO THAT.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2026

as in so many parts of the country, the Mainers holding up immigrant communities need more people to join in — but people aren't talking about ICE as much. amid DHS's "quiet crackdown", ICE arrested more people in Maine between January and July 2026 than from 2024-2025 combined. @us.theguardian.com

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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too

ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach

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👻spOOokika👻 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Urban blue voters need to understand that if farm workers could vote, rural farming areas would turn blue overnight. But they can’t. Stop punishing rural America just because only landlords control the vote.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Three inerrant indicators that the GOP is about to get crushed in an election are a “migrant caravan” in September, discourse about the deficit/debt being the priority issue, and these “isn’t the important thing civility?” thinkpieces.

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Picard diversity tip: The fact that a crewmember looks alien to you does not make them any less of a Starfleet officer.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The only ones who ever want to “pick your plan” are the ones who have minions who do all their paperwork FOR them. Regular people do not want to spend hours of their time agonizing over what plan will leave them the least fucked, especially when it’s just a matter of DEGREES of fucked

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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.

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Tyrone @thetyrone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The whole genre of "this person sucks morally so it's ok to make fun of their appearance" needs to die

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Elizabeth @nightshaderose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Any time I’m throwing myself at a platformer because I like the art and just can’t make my hands do the right things in the right order to get to the last level when it’s time. (I once made it up there early but never could again.) I like platformers in theory, but my hands betray me every time.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 30/09/2026

positivity is great but it's not enough. you have to have a strong defense for the numerous assholes that pop up in the course of a day. your boundaries have to be strong as hell and so do you. confidence comes from knowing you can deflect any and all bullshit by whatever means necessary.

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The same reason why maga will never be smart enough to leave maga is the same reason why JCO casually speaks down about other writers: they inherently think they are better than others. I don't care if AI harms me eventually, they can harm romance writers NOW and it's fine.

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