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Jaime Mosquera 🏚️ @elsombreronart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I know times are weird and bad for everybody, but I would really appreciate if y'all bought or supported my art in any way you can and are willing! Or if not just sharing this post is super appreciated!

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Lu🌝 | Comms open! @moonnogginn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#thelovers

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World Champ Game Co @worldchamp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We should make a game jam where we all try to make the game Jeff wants, genuinely

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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

i currently have $803.71 and i’d like to express how extremely grateful i am to each and every person who contributed ❤️❤️❤️ i still need $612.29 to secure this room i have to move out TOMORROW, so please, if you can contribute anything, that would help me so much ❤️ paypal.me/thelongestroad

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Pay RMM Creative using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/thelongestroad and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ben Gvir posts material like this because it appeals to Israeli voters. This is, literally, a campaign ad. He posted it with a caption in Hebrew that translates to “We promised - we delivered!”

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@itamarbengvir
Translated from Hebrew by Grok We promised - we delivered!

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virgil (school hiatus) 🫆🔮💫 @vigilnaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

daily reminder ✨

DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD. instead ask: is it SINCERE, is it CATHARTIC, was it FUN TO MAKE, is it MADE BY ME, and don’t forget to stay silly

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

In a short span of time we went from people speculating that companies were listening to their conversations to companies offering listening to your conversations as a feature.

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Plaud is launching AI earbuds

An AI wearable, but for your ears.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Over the weekend, 404 Media turned 3 years old. Honestly, when we all quit our jobs at VICE to go independent, I did not expect it would last even one year. Here is the NYTimes coverage about our launch, where we all pitched in $1000 to try to create something new: www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/b...

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After Vice’s Downfall, Top Journalists Start Their Own Tech Publication (Published 2023)

They are joining a recent boom of publications owned and operated by the reporters and editors themselves.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This weekend we hit a milestone. I'll elaborate in the thread, but we're throwing a party in New York that is FREE for 404 Media subs. - Friday Sep 4 (NEXT WEEK) - Threes Brewing Gowanus, Brooklyn Get your tickets here before they sell out: www.404media.co/three-years/ As for the milestone...

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You're Invited: 404 Media's Third Anniversary Live Podcast and Party!

We're celebrating with TWO NIGHTS of good times: A live taping of the podcast, and a party the following night! Paid 404 Media subscribers get free and discounted access. Details below.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

At this point, it feels quaint to call out Keighley for trying to play both sides, calling attention to rising hardware prices and widespread layoffs while showing off games that are embracing a contributing factor to those issues. As long as the checks are good, and we know they are, it doesn’t seem like he cares that the events he hosts perpetuate genAI sanewashing.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You’ve got to understand the WNBA’s dilemma here: on one side are the hardcore, dedicated socially liberal fanbase who supported the league during the dark days when it was barely profitable and on the other side are the people who hate women and don’t think the WNBA should exist.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A man angrily says "DEBATE ME!" A baby responds "GA." The man shouts "APPEAL TO EMOTION!" The baby, angrily says "BA." The man retorts "AD HOMINEM"

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Vidya2 @vidya2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'll vouch for this one; it is both pretty queer AND pretty fun! A well done take on the classic Mario style.

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

climbing into the medieval torture rack and going "this is gonna be so good for my spine"

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Alex Jaffe ➡️ NYCC @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Run Ray Run 🏃🏾‍♂️ @ray-nard.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

These NFL owners are notorious freaky frogs who have done some really nasty things…they are changing this to prostitution when he was being investigated by the human trafficking division.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 21/08/2026

Who are we to tell if this video game is using AI on its cover and in its trailer, we are but human being with eyeballs and brains: aftermath.site/james-pond-ai/

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mr. cannoli @boner.ink · 22/08/2026

oh you lost all your money on crypto well i lost my money in ways you can't even imagine, ways that defy all economic theory

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Heads up, this labeler is not operating in good faith if this amount of evidence is not enough to cause them to remove the label

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Emoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW @emoria.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here’s the absurdly exhaustive interrogation they put me through pt 1

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026

Dr. Jonathan Flowers who has been suspended by bluesky without being given any reason & without having any email communication from bluesky on his suspension as far as we know, with a track record of behaving according to community guidelines, was my mutual & is my comrade as a Black philosopher.

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farner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

maybe that 1 year old “baby” should pull themselves up by their velcro bootstraps and learn how to read

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Look, are we the laughing stock of the world? Yes. Are we losing a war we should’ve never started? Yes. Is all our food poison now? Yes. Are all the jobs going away? Yes. But the important thing is a blue-haired college student I made up in my head feels bad about memes.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

READ: If you read (& perhaps clutched your pearls over) that Tyler Austin Harper piece in The Atlantic about DEI and Bates College, then I hope you’ll have the integrity to read this rejoinder by Andrew Baker, a Black male professor who preceded Harper at Bates. open.substack.com/pub/thedrift...

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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story

Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper

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sylvia @sylvibullet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

massive controversy among the television viewing audience when Hadrian kills that skeleton in the first episode of Seasons of Hieron

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 14/08/2026

let us not forget that luigi mangione has been pressured from day 1 into admitting guilt for something that theres minimal evidence he actually did. the case has been virtually rigged against him from the start

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New working paper w/ Hanna Folsz In Jan 2025 Trump issued an executive order targeting corporate DEI programs. Many companies ended DEI fearing financial risk We find that firms that kept DEI performed just as well in financial markets, revenue, etc democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

The Trump administration has used executive authority to influence the behavior of civil society organizations such as law firms, universities, and corporations.
Do corporations that resist executive orders perform worse financially? In January 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal
agencies to investigate and compel firms to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Some firms complied with the order, whereas other firms
resisted by reaffirming their DEI programs. We find that S&P 500 firms that
maintained their DEI programs performed just as well as compliant firms, both
in terms of stock market returns and revenue. The results are robust across various measures of maintaining DEI, including measures based on executives’ public
statements about DEI programs, interest group ratings, firm financial statements,
and shareholder rejections of anti-DEI resolutions. The results suggest that, at
least in some areas, firms can resist pressure from the executive branch with
minimal costs to financial performance.

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Esther @dungeonminister.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Some news: I'm starting a blog dedicated to critical writing about Actual Play! It's called Critical Bearings, and my first post is up. I talk about my relationship to criticism, AP, the shape of current critical landscapes in Actual Play, and my hopes for this project. :)

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Getting Our Critical Bearings

Welcome to Critical Bearings, a place for critical engagement with the art form of Actual Play. I’m Esther, and I love Actual Play and media criticism. My relationship with criticism began to take sh...

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Mikhail •°☆*` @eidolonartt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

aha and if you want one of these for yourself dont forgoet.... ko-fi.com/eidolonartt/...

A screenshot of a ko-fi commission listing for $20 Skeb style busts

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Mikhail •°☆*` @eidolonartt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

OK SOUPS ON!! ko-fi.com/eidolonartt/...

A screenshot of a ko-fi commission listing. The title reads: [skeb] Dead wife wallet picture. The description says: A half-body(ish) commission of a character of your choice depicted in a dreamy happy scene reminiscent of how dead wives are portrayed in action movie flashbacks. These are discounted from normal half-body comms because a) I like making them b) skeb.

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Jucika @jucikacomics.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The thing about the comics industry under the boys club, those 60+ victims are probably more “blacklisted” than any of these guys ever will be. Then w/ this announcement, it tells all their future victims, don’t bother either. Never forget, a lot of these victims just wanted to make comics too.

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

As the game Horses found out: Adding sexual content to your game, even artistic nudity, creates a whoooole lot of problems if you want to sell your game on the same marketplace as regular guns-and-violence games

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Why is HORSES Banned from Steam?

First person horror adventure HORSES was unjustly refused by Steam prior to release with no path to appeal.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 12/08/2026

I'm so tired. 😑 A direct link to the setting (next to last from the very bottom): www.twitch.tv/settings/sec... And more details in their Account Settings FAQ: help.twitch.tv/s/article/tw...

From Twitch's Frequently Asked Questions

What are "generative AI content models," and what does it mean for my content to be used to train them?

Generative AI content models are AI tools that can help create or synthesize content outputs like text or images when given instructions or prompts because they are also trained on content. When you allow training, that means that your content may be used for future Gen AI model improvements. An example of what happens when you allow your content to be used for training a GenAI content model is that your audio might help refine models that create speech to text, which would help improve captions at Twitch but would also help improve captions across Amazon.

From Twitch's Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly does opting out cover? What doesn't it cover?

If you opt-out and decide to not allow your channel content to train Generative AI content models, your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel will not be used in future training of a model developed by Amazon whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video.

Opting-out of training generative AI content models does not opt you out of all AI or machine learning uses at Twitch. For example, Twitch will still run AutoMod, which helps keep our community safe, but does not retain your data and use it to produce content. Twitch may also still use your data to run AI-supported features, like captions, which automatically generate captions for your Clips but does not retain your stream or your clips to train a model that can generate new content.

From Twitch's Frequently Asked Questions

If I opt out, will other AI-powered features like Captions or safety tools still work on my channel?

Yes. There are two important differences between Generative AI content models and AI-supported features at Twitch.

1) AI-supported features at Twitch do not retain your content and then use it to train models that create new videos, images, or text.

2) Twitch users have separate controls for many of the AI-supported features we're releasing. For example, streamers can turn on AutoMod and can adjust captions settings.

From Twitch's Frequently Asked Questions

Why can't I opt-out of all AI uses at Twitch?

Where AI works to help you create content or to help viewers understand your content, you do have controls over how it is used, and you can manage those in your settings.

Other AI works differently. Some of it runs the service itself, the same way our servers and our code do. Some of it keeps the service secure. And some of it, like AutoMod, protects the whole community. Turning those off for one person would weaken safety and security for everyone else on the platform, so they are not individual settings.

What channel content (clips, chat, metadata, etc.) is eligible to be used for generative AI training?

Your stream and the stream's chat, your VODs, your Clips, Highlights, and any text or images on your Channel may be used. If you chat on someone else's stream, their opt-out preferences govern if that chat can be used for training.

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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 12/08/2026

Very excited to announce that I am a @mozilla.org Fellow working on @blackskyweb.xyz to create community spaces on the open social web (e.g. @atproto.com) Personally proud to represent the ATmosphere as a part of this cohort and on a global platform.

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Rudy Fraser

Rudy is a Mozilla Fellow who builds open-source tools that give communities more control over social media.

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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more

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The Violet Index @thevioletindex.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One of the quieter reasons people don't submit is that they freeze on the bio. They feel like they don't have enough to say which means the submission never gets sent. Write three sentences. Name what you make. Say why you make it. Tell us where you're from. Submissions close August 31. Link in bio.

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Andrew @swandre3000.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

@carberry.deals , in character: Well what if we just did *insert cockamamie scheme* @austinwalker.bsky.social , playing a character who is very over this guy's shit:

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This week’s stuck on stupid news: The Trump administration agreed to pay German energy firm RWE $1.22 billion to surrender three federal offshore wind leases off the coasts of NY, California, and LA. In exchange, RWE will redirect its investments into U.S. fossil fuel projects. | NY Times

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Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases (Gift Article)

It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

small town that arrested a resident opposing data centers for clapping during public comment period has canceled public comment & moved its meetings virtual for "public safety" www.404media.co/city-that-ar...

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City That Arrested Person for Clapping at Data Center Meeting Moves to Virtual Meetings for 'Public Safety'

A small town in Kansas took its city meetings virtual and ended public comment after city leaders received a wave of death threats.

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