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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

I like this framing. It gets at the asymmetry of the conservative civil society and the 70 year attack on the public sphere.

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 3h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are just coming home, arriving at their parking spot to find that the car next to their spot is parked just on the border painted between the two parking spots.
Blue: Ugh, the neighbour has parked right onto the divider line again.

Blue frowns behind the wheel, while Green sits on the passenger seat, looking unbothered.
Blue: Would you mind getting out of the car so I can park?
Green: Sure.

Having parked his car right next to the line as well, Blue peers out of the driver's seat. Green is standing outside, observing the parking job.
Blue: Am I still in our spot?
Green: Yep, you're in.

Blue's car is now parked right onto the border of the parking spot, so close to the neighbour's car that it would be impossible for the neighbour to open the driver's side door. Satisfied with the work well done, the foxes leave.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 5h

One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age

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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 3h

Character botfrens.com/collections/69/content…

Remedios Varo's "Character" captures a mystical, androgynous figure enveloped in swirling, fiery textures, evocative of both transformation and introspection. The artwork reflects Varo's interest in surrealism and esotericism, highlighting her unique style that intertwines fantastical elements with metaphysical themes.

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Vertical Slice @verticalslicenews.bsky.social · 2h

"A past version of you is reflected back at you in the terrible code you made, or the artwork you now hate to look at, or that jump feature you thought was good but actually hated making. If that process gets abdicated to a machine for one-shot prompts, that introspection and consideration is lost."

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"A perpetually self-feeding meat grinder:" The futile search for developers who adore the latest prompt-gobblers from Unity and Google

We asked developers to weigh in on the latest generative AI platforms from Google and Unity and heard nothing but disbelief and despair. So, who is this for?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Recently, I enjoyed this video of a professor, comparing the socio political context of hillbilly music and drill music. If you wanna know what passes for a good time over here.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 2h

FYI people watching from abroad, the Society of Authors statement was also signed by Australian Society of Authors The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc The Writers’ Union of Canada The Association of Illustrators

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 2h

by Fukuoka-based resin artist Sakae, this hair ornament (kanzashi) depicts a cluster of gentian or bellflower-like blossoms

Crafted with sublime, crystalline precision by Fukuoka-based resin artist Sakae, this hair ornament (kanzashi) depicts a cluster of gentian or bellflower-like blossoms suspended above a soft, rippling watery surface. Two fully opened trumpet-shaped blooms radiate in translucent sapphire-blue, their ultra-thin resin petals framed by dark, delicate wire contours that capture ambient light along their flared edges. Tiny, glistening resin droplets cling to the inner throat and petal surfaces, mimicking fresh morning dew. Nestled beneath the blue petals are delicate, chartreuse-green leaves and closed buds extending along a slender black pin (kanzashi-foot). Below, the smooth, pale-blue background reflects the soft ripples of liquid water, casting a shadowy, blurred reflection of the ornament into the depths.

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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 2h

Lunar reflection botfrens.com/collections/69/content…

"Lunar Reflection" features a mystical forest scene illuminated by a swirling orb of light, reflecting the surreal and fantastical style typical of Remedios Varo's work. Against the backdrop of a starry sky, a delicate crescent moon is mirrored on a tranquil pond, inviting contemplation of the boundaries between dream and reality.

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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 3h

I'm going to elaborate on this in as calm and reasonable way as possible, but sincerely: fuck off

the society of authors' feedback form about why you're not renewing your membership. In the write-in box, I have written: "I was shocked and deeply disappointed to see the magazine issue and now charter statement on genAI, which both seem totally full of waffle and apologist compromises.

This is a technology being used to put authors and illustrators out of jobs, using stolen work, and depleting the capacity for critical thought in people who use it. I get that you’re trying to make industry bodies agree to the charter as a ‘small step’ in the right direction. But I fundamentally disagree with the idea of some ‘ethical’ use becoming possible - look at the companies running these things, the severity of its environmental and community harms, the exploitative processes used to build and maintain the databases and server banks required.

As a full-time author who's marginalised and severely disabled, I do also find the idea that genAI companies are somehow making my job more accessible - not looking to undermine and destroy it - insulting and patently absurd.

I thought the SoA was supposed to advocate for authors' rights, and pleading with industry bodies to use this tech, but nicely, feels like a massive concession, and not one I'm able to be at all associated with."

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 2h

by Fukuoka-based resin artist Sakae, this hair ornament (kanzashi) presents a glowing Japanese lantern plant or winter cherry (hōzuki) suspended from a slender metallic pin.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 17h

Show a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie.

An illustration of a cartoon frog looking like it's seen some shit. Headline over frog "Don't want to be human. I want to be frog" Underneath the frog is says "Eat bugs. Swim whenever. Sing "hello my baby" and then in smaller letters it says "We live in a factory that produces death and destruction at an industrial scale"

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🎃mahnah🎃 @mahnah.bsky.social · 18h

To be privileged enough to see the love of your life safe and comfy 😌 #ofmd #ofmdfanart

Drawing of Ed Teach lounging nude in bed, back facing the viewer with the sheets pooled a lil on his thigh, covering his butt. The blankets are spanning the bed, and Ed lays on 2 pillows. There is a lamp and frame hanging on the back wall. A streak of light shines on his head, back and shoulders, also on the wall and blankets. The art is done in teal hues.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 13/10/2026

After a woman obtained public records indicating a Google datacenter would cover only one-third of the cost of a new solar plant to power the facility — contradicting its promises that ratepayers would not be on the hook — her electricity company sued her.

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An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.

Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 16h

you can buy fake respect & people who pretend to love/like you, you can collect hangers on / lackeys / ass kissers. what you can't have, no matter how much dough or power you have, is people around you who ACTUALLY like or love you & respect you, not if you're a selfish, toxic, destructive assclown

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 16h

it's not just that they get to hoard/take all resources, time, attention, power, influence and oxygen, we HAVE to love them too. That's what breaks them -- we don't! If they are unrepentant full-on jerks hurting the world, we can, at least some of the time (for now), nope out of even LIKING them!

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WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 20h

When you listen to women.

His solution was to leave the design of the iroha to his female employees, who make up 45.5% of the company.
For iroha, TENGA formed a dedicated development group that obsessed over details men had overlooked in
women-oriented adult goods like "whether the switch is easy to press with long nails." The overall verdict was that women preferred something that gave them control instead of a feeling of being controlled by a machine.
That's why vibrators like TENGA's iroha mai or iroha
TSUKI feature much narrower and flexible tips that make them "easier to insert," Matsumoto says, concluding that
"I would never have thought of this."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/10/2026

in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 15h

This was a tweet from Michael Hobbes a while back and I’ve seen nothing to contradict it yet: “I think we'll look back on the last decade as a time when social media gave previously marginalized groups the ability to speak directly to elites and, as a result, elites lost their minds.”

A hand pointed a graph, and the words in black are, no lies detected

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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🚨 Public good alert: I put together a list of 100+ free datasets for social science research, spanning a large number of topics. I hope it's useful for students, researchers, and anyone looking for interesting data to explore. It's on GitHub - contributions welcome! github.com/toddrjones/d...

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GitHub - toddrjones/datasets: A collection of free datasets useful for use in applied microeconomics, data visualization, etc.

A collection of free datasets useful for use in applied microeconomics, data visualization, etc. - toddrjones/datasets

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17h

I need someone to give me room to write about this moment in anti Muslim hate because there’s a reason Nidal Hassan is who is being killed by live firing squad. And it’s the same reason Ilhans house was raided.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 13/10/2026

Time for my monthly soapbox. Ahem. 🗣️ MAKING FUN OF THE BODIES AND UNALTERABLE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF PEOPLE YOU DISAGREE WITH IS SOFT PHYSIOGNOMY. INTERNAL MORAL CHARACTER IS NOT VISIBLE IN THE BODY. ENGAGING IN THIS FOR 'GOOD' REASONS HAS THE SAME EFFECT AS ENGAGING IN IT FOR 'BAD' REASONS.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15h

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 14h

Fascinating how bosses will often try to frame layoffs as a positive thing. “We’re now a leaner, meaner, hungrier team” as if anyone has ever enjoyed or done their best work while being overworked, stressed, and hangry

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 15h

ngl a fantasy job right now is sitting around in Ossoff’s office helping to write these burns

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14h

"Am I depressed because my periods are ending, or did my boss use my emails to train my AI replacement and then fire me with no severance the day before I was supposed to have spleen surgery?" buff.ly/oLdL54C

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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?

“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14h

Holy shit ASOS released an adaptive clothing line specifically for people with disabilities?!?!!! Magnets instead of buttons, special pockets and holes to hold wearable medical devices that have tubes, and zippers to make them more comfortable for wheelchair users. www.asos.com/women/fashio...

A woman in a wheelchair with a brown suit that has zippers on the leg openings

A woman in a wheelchair with a grey marbled dress

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

I don’t know that I want Ossoff to actually win the nomination but at this point I do want him to run because I think seeing the response the base has to his obvious contempt for Republicans will make the entire rest of the field better

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13h

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

Everywhere, people want better for themselves and everywhere they are being met by the violence of policing.

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legal cat 🐾 @legalcat.bsky.social · 15h

this shirt is incredible

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pearwaldorf (looking for work more slowly) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 19h

I bought some hemming tape so I can hang some curtains without them catching on fire. But I need my iron to use the hemming tape. Which I cannot find, for some reason. #adhdlyfe

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 19h

I love this advice. Applies to creative writing just as much as academic.

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 13/10/2026

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

A white cat is sleeping curled up in a med that has five fluffy white lobes of a flower petal, the cat has half her face peeking upwards and otherwise has filled the pentagonal space in the center of the bed completely

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 22h

We also gotta get out of the panopticon mindset and start reading and dancing to music again and stop video-ing each other doing anything slightly weird and taking pictures of strangers on the subway like volunteer cops. Documenting an uninteresting life nonstop instead of living interesting life.

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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 23h

So you hate plant based waffles?

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 21h

Talking about verbs in class when my Yiddish teacher suddenly announced that Yiddish has SO MANY words meaning “to die” and just rattled off half a dozen and ranked them by which conveys a worse death and this is why you should take a Yiddish class

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 23h

The most important reply I’ve had to this post. We’re now in a society where any trans person could be decided by the press to be their target of the day, and so every trans person is potentially at risk of this level of extremely public harassment. It’s so fucking grim. bsky.app/profile/goth...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h

True life it happened to me: I was about to do Too Much for Someone today and instead I did Less to match their effort and role in my life. It only took therapy, lifting, thirty years and a good nights sleep.

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the haunting of andrea🔜MIGS @asaraviapt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Having worked in journalism for a few years, the work independent sites bring to our industry is *needed* . Sites like Chris's, @aftermath.site, @butwhytho.net and @stephentotilo.bsky.social's Game File bring fresh perspectives and insights championing great causes. Go support independent sites~

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19h

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

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Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org · 20h

💀After our IRE Journal tee launched, members wanted it cozier. Meet the “Dig Deep. Bury Them.” sweatshirt, designed by Jan Diehm of The Pudding. Every purchase funds IRE’s training for journalists. Just $35. Made on demand. Order NOW: investigative-reporters-editors.mys…

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pearwaldorf (looking for work more slowly) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 21h

LRP: Genuinely, Rachel Reid needs to thank her lucky goddamn stars somebody like Tierney loves and believes so much in her books. I've read them, they're perfectly fine. But the show elevates the source material in a way that is beautiful and poetic and awe-inspiring

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