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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When your Murder Book loot arrives on your birthday! (@mostlybree.kitrocha.com)

3D printed red dragon curled up on top of a stack of three books (yellow, orange, and red). The yellow book lifts off and there's storage inside!

3D printed dragon - The Endless Void - is black and red and pointy. It rests on the back of my hand with its head on my wrist.

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So I found something besides clouds that can be ominous: this bathroom graffiti.

Beneath the hook on the inside of a bathroom stall door, "do not intervene." is written in all caps.

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Rupert is very pleased with himself (his catnip mouse has dried out from its attempt at swimming in his water bowl, and he got new tissue paper)!

A mostly white cat lies sprawled on his side, exposing his very fluffy belly. His front paws are crossed and held up in front of him. Behind him is his donut shaped tunnel. A black catnip mouse with yellow ears is by his feet. By his head, a toy with feathers peeks out from under a crumpled sheet of red tissue paper. He's on a multi-colored rug (kinda splatters on a light background).

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Went from "sashiko class at the local yarn store" to finished object in... less than a month!

A fabric glasses case sits next to aqua glasses on a grey background. The glasses case is made from small grey gingham embroidered all over in orange, yellow, turquoise and purple-y fuschia, forming a sashiko pattern of a grid of little crosses connected by a diagonal grid of lines.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This weekend we hit two years since Rupert came to live here!

A buff and white cat is lying down (on a mottled multicolored rug), looking at the camera. His paws are wrapped around a long kick toy that has little tiny cats and larger dumpster fires printed on it. His donut cave is in the background.

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Ruth Harley @ruthh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

At this morning's Newcastle Christians at Pride Service we were invited to reflect on what Pride means to us. My answer has changed over the years, as I have changed and the world has changed. This is part of it now:

$A lesbian priest goes to Pride “Are you a real priest?” You dance towards me shimmering with sequins and sass, and courage that comes hard won. “Will you bless me?” And something dancing in your eyes that looks like longing, long denied. I raise my hand. Around us hands raised with the beat of defiant joy. I raise my hand: “The blessing of God…” more than almighty, more than holy, wild and free and dancing out of reach, weaving us into the crowd. This blessing bounces off a glitter ball, refracted with the light, broken shards of glory clinging to our clothes, snagging on fishnets, sliding over slicked-back hair, landing lightly on tattooed biceps, scars, jackets worn like armour. It follows me home, this blessing, trailing after me as if reluctant to leave the party, follows me to the altar with the dawn, dancing through stained glass: cracked beauty on immaculate linen. I raise in my hands sparkling silver and bread: “this is my body.” In my hands, my body, this body, the blessed and broken meet: the pulse of last night’s music echoing into shining silence. Yes: I have never been more real. Ruth Harley$

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Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you see this, quote a pic of you in sunglasses.

White woman in a black tank top wearing black sunglasses with rainbow starburst on the upper outer corners of the frames. Her brown hair is short and messy, with long bags. She's sitting in a car, and there's something purple in the back seat.

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The energy I'm bringing to this manuscript review is apparently "let me explain why your 4 word short hand phrase is grammatically ambiguous and thus hard to parse".

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Favorite dialog exchange in recent memory: "You want me to beat up their airplanes," I said. "Yes. I want you to punch them until they're broken."

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I got my renewed driver's license in the mail today. It expires in 2031 which is obviously a fake year.

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

i fell down a deep and winding rabbit hole on the General Hospital wiki to bring you this... ... and it was all so, so worth it type-click-type.ghost.io/john-oliver-...

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A Non-Viewer's Guide To John Oliver's Appearance On General Hospital

It's nice to sit back and watch a man have the time of his life.

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Snickerdoodle chocolate chip cake! (from Snacking Bakes)

A square cake sits on parchment paper on a blue plate. One corner is cut out. It's a light colored cake with mini chocolate chips inside and cinnamon sugar on top.

A small square piece of cake on a green plate. You can see cinnamon sugar on top and melty chocolate chips inside.

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

KOSA is back on the table - please take a moment to call your representatives today. All 3 calls took me less than 5 minutes - you can do this.

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Renewing my car registration online is not "convenient and time saving" if I have to wait 5-7 days to receive a paper letter as part of setting up an account in your new system.

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Vincent Riemer @vincentriemer.social · 21/06/2026

Hanging this up in my office as I prepare to start my job search

Cartoon of a woman behind a laptop looking at "camera" with the text: "QUIZ: Are You Even Good Enough to Have Imposter Syndrome?"

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Having to take the trash out so Rupert (cat) stops trying to pull the corn tassels out of it. (Apparently non-toxic, but not good for cats to eat - hard to digest. I don't think he got much.)

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This lets you look up reciprocal library memberships: reciprocard.com YMMV based on your library has (Boston cards get you access to 7 other regional libraries, Jax has none), but it's easy to look and add them to Libby. (This was on my "figure that out" list, but this makes it easy.)

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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There is a problem with the stories we tell & the way we perceive how change happens. The Union of Pinnacle Tenants, the largest tenant-led union in NYC—are the reason Mamdani took action. Organized people power is pivotal. Top down stories of elected heroes (even ones we like) are not sufficient.

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Rupert wanted to smell the flexicube, but stole my new hex fidget! @mostlybree.kitrocha.com

A buff and white cat faces away from the camera and extends his front right paw to tap at a dark pink hexagonal fidget toy that's sitting on the wooden floor (upon which it makes intriguing noises).

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

CVS pharmacy tech over here trying to overcharge me $110 because "they didn't think the discount card would work". I read them the text of the discount card. They shrug in a "humoring the crazy customer" sort of way, looked mad that it worked, and made me wait 15 minutes while they reprinted label.

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"... she had so many amazing old purses! Like so many 2000's coach..." overheard at the ice cream shop. And I mean, I *know* but...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Name a song with "girl in the title but replace girl with squirrel: Not a Pretty Squirrel

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

"A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication." arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/i...

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Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags

The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.”

Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.”

Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.”

“He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT.

In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.)

The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school.

“I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I may not have time to immediately make an owl bear club, but I think it's important that I immediately order the means to make an owl bear club. (The gelatinous cube is also adorable.)

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

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Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages

A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 07/04/2026

"No," the swordmaster said. "One does not refuse the king," the herald said. "I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war." "You will regret this!" "No," the swordmaster said.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/03/2026

Hey all, we still have a limited number of these charming stickers left over from our last Romancing the Vote. In honor of SCOTUS fuckery on today, the Trans Day of Visibility, we'd like to offer you the chance to get one. (Thread continues.)

A light green sticker that says FUCK SCOTUS. The "Fuck" is made up of capital letters that are actually composed of flowers. Underneath this, in small print, it says "(with an ethics code and six more justices)"

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/03/2026

Y'know what, I'm still with it "War don't sex" that's right brother, peace fucks

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

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This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 14/03/2026

A story in four parts. 😭

Text reads chem test today, I’m prepared to cheat on the whole thing. They’re already in the classroom and it seems too late to stop them from cheating.

They’ve decided to cheat with ChatGPT, saying: “Hello chat, I’m going to upload four pictures and a couple of minutes (they probably meant in.. omg 😭) I need you to give me the answers for every problem, do not explain how to get the answer, just show me the answer and the slight work for it if it needs it. If it’s an ABCD question, immediately give me the answer.”

ChatGPT replies: “Got it” and gives them the instructions back in full and tells them to go ahead and upload the images.

They got their test back, their result is an F, who could’ve seen that coming right?

This text to ChatGPT reads: Chat let me know how I got an F.

ChatGPT: You probably got an F, because many of the answers I gave you earlier were wrong.

It then proceeds to show them the correct answers from the test.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Just realized "There's a clown in the attic" scans perfectly as a replacement for "There's a hole in the bucket." Dear Liza, dear Liza

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Tonight is the night. Place your clock on the altar. Light the black candle and say the words that bring the wolf that eats the hour.

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paperkingdoms @paperkingdoms.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This was a lot of fun! Consider watching and/or donating.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

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