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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I mean if Elim Garak wants to recommend me a podcast, obviously I'm compelled to check it out

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“It’s okay to let AI write trashy formulaic books while humans handle the proper literary fiction” is such a shitty, insidious take, not least because we know what is defined as “not real literature” can shift. For one snob it’s romance, for another it’s horror, fantasy, all genre fiction.

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

May these assholes never know a moment's peace for the rest of their waking lives. Fuck this abhorrent cult of rape apologists, and fuck the systems which enable them.

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have Strong Opinions about the use of sexual violence against women as a narrative device, because too often 1) it's SO clumsily handled, 2) it feels needless, and 3) it's added in service of telling us about the male characters whilst failing to really tackle sexual violence as a theme. [2/2]

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You're SO RIGHT tho, this absolutely threw me going through the game for the first time. Iirc there's even a point when Hien is confronted with the truth and learns about brothel owner guy and says something to the effect of "ah but he's always been a good guy otherwise tho, soooo"? [1/2]

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Please get back in the clown car, sir, you're causing a scene."

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Still feeling pretty normal about this character btw

Sepia portrait of Rustin Cohle, staring off somewhere, probably into an abyss of some description. The background is terracotta watercolour; the character is framed by the outline of antlers, which probably symbolise good and normal things.

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"if we have E and D then the best people won't get the best jobs". Get to fuck you absolute weapon. You sound like an imbecile. Matt Hancock used to run the NHS for fucks sake. Gavin Williamson used to run education. He couldn't run a fucking bath

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Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Now, buying Harry Potter crap means that you are openly defunding the NHS rofl

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I read the reviews on the website and cringed so hard I think I've done my back in. Very "a woman looked at meeeeee!" vibes

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It is just unacceptable that the NHS may have to find funds to fight potentially a slew of nuisance lawsuits funded by one extremely wealthy person with an obsession.

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Mike W @mkmike.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I see the Stockholm metro is celebrating Yorkshire Day too

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"This assessment stage isn't indefinite, we just can't say when it will end"

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Finally discovered True Detective, a mere decade after the rest of the world

Quick, loose monochrome pencil & chalks sketch of Rust Cohle, wearing the expression of a man who is about to say the most unhinged shit you've ever heard before injecting himself with cayenne pepper just to feel something.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."

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Megan Gallagher @megangallagher.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What's your sign?

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jade ✨🌙 @rivalwings.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

saw this post years ago and will never ever forget it. sometimes you need to tend to the place from which you create, before you can create again

Screenshot of a tumblr post by user aureliobooks that reads: My dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. Sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This gent, a Lunar Hornet Moth, popped in for a cup of peppermint tea last week and mentioned that he knows you, but has been avoiding your calls as he's regrettably not yet read your latest book and is consumed by guilt over it.

A Lunar Hornet Moth and professor at a local university. Finding his workload a bit overwhelming recently, he claims to be trying to cut caffeine out of his daily routine to see if it helps with his anxiety.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Only three more centrist pigdog Labour Prime Ministers til Christmas!

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laura @ mica art market @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

if you ever wonder what it's like to be an artist: you can draw your favorite drawing one day and then the next day, every line you draw is the ugliest line that has ever been created

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Friend lamented a lack of gay vampires on their feed. Well NOT ON MY WATCH #lestat #iwtv #thevampirelestat #samreid #art

Greyscale painting of Lestat, also known by his stage name of Sam Reid. He's framed by a crimson crescent moon in the top right corner.

Lestat is looking directly at you - you, specifically - with the expression of a man who is intent on causing problems.
This is because he is.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I strongly believe layoffs should be severely restricted during and after a major corporate acquisition. If you can spend billions adding a new plaything to your mistreated collection, you have the money to save all those jobs. Also, you can’t just close that company down. Also, fuck you.

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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham locked in heated arguments over which of them should get to be the one to do nothing about the pogroms

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Feeling very normal about that announcement and feeling very normal about these characters, felt compelled to make a quick sketch of a character I am particularly normal about #ffvii #aerith

Loose greyscale sketch of Aerith against a pale yellow splash background

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The shit bsky is currently flagging as mature content is 1) wildly inaccurate, and has already censored SFW artists for ?? reasons, and 2) a warning shot, because this kind of nonsense is often a slippery slope to censoring anything LGBTQ+ Anyway, for unrelated reasons, please enjoy this link

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AllyMcK @allymck.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The lady opposite me on the train was reading this. To be fair she was only on the first chapter.

A book called german shepherds training made easy with what looks like a large bite taken out of the top right of the book.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The billionaire lifestyle is unnatural and dangerous. It leads to moral decay, flies in the face of family values, and has been known to encourage criminal activity. Billionaires are a sexual threat to our children. Their agenda must be stopped. I’m not a bigot, I am merely Spender Critical.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/05/2026

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

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jude paw picture diary 🔜 TFCON ORLANDO @judepaw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Castlevania posting and the cursed mousemat

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Can you expand on this point? I’d love to learn what you consider an ethical way to exclude a marginalized person and deprive them of support.

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Lisa DuBois-Thompson @joaniejabronie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

not drawing comic: oh how i wish i was drawing my comic drawing comic: how stupid of me, how foolish of an endeavor. each passing moment is agony. the sin of creativity which i have committed so naively has banished me to this purgatory of endless torment, that now i must draw a cash register

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Sefirot @sefirotgame.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

That´s right folks: We are officially looking for more freelance artists to help us with upcoming projects.✍️ Here are the requirements:

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Thanks for the share! I've already found some lovely new artists in the thread to follow :D bsky.app/profile/poss...

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belladona 🎃 @donav.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hi, dear #PortfolioDay! I'm Dona, a freelance illustrator from Serbia. I paint fantasy art, with a touch of the surreal and the eery. 💗 for the Victorian era, birds, and nature. Open for commissions (both private & commercial) and art licensing. Get in touch: ✉ dona@duck.com 🌐 dona.neocities.org

Portrait of a young woman wearing a tattered green moth mask with glowing orange eyes. She is leaning against a mirror and looking at the viewer with a strange glow in her eyes.

A blue-toned illustration with lightly iridescent details. P is a puppet that looks like a young man, with dark, fluffy, chin-length hair. He is wearing a puffy white shirt and crouching down, looking up and away from the picture. A blue-white magical butterfly is on his hand resting on his knee. A bright white moon is behind him. Shining ribbons of light swirl around him. There are many blurry butterflies flying around him.

A glittering blue dragon pulling a silver spaceship through space, riding along the bright pink energy river, leading to an aquatic planet.

Four drawings, one for each season, each done in a monochrome colour fitting for the season. Spring (mossy green): Jon is showing off his shadow puppet skills and projecting an angry dog (a hound, one might say) onto the wall to an amused Sherlock. Summer (emerald green): the scene is framed as if it's seen looking up through a house window. Sherlock is hugging Jon and he looks upset about something. Autumn (warm sunset): A gentle kiss under the shadows of ivy. Winter (cold white and soft warm light): Sherlock is leaning over the piano that Jon is playing and they both look happy.

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

That blue palette painting of P is so 😍😍😍

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Possums Made This @possumsmadethis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Ah ty for the share, it's lovely to have lots of art collected in the one thread! bsky.app/profile/poss...

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🍎 hindasavra ✦ comms open @hindasavra.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hii #PortfolioDay 🌱 I’m Hin, a character artist who’s in love with fantasy. I find huge inspiration in capturing a piece of individuality in every character I work with and breathe life into them through my style! 📎: hindasavra.carrd.co #art #digitalart

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