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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026

While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Exactly. I am tired of seeing the “I always knew”/“their work was actually bad” takes whenever allegations emerge. Sometimes—often, actually!—bad people find their way into good spaces and make good things. And you’re not better than the folks who were taken advantage of for “always knowing”

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always ask if people think hearing a digital piano programmed to play a concerto is the same as hearing my dad — who’s been playing for 79 years and still practices hours a day — do it. And funnily enough no one has ever agreed that it is.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

I am glad that everyone has fun with name/pfp changes for October but unfortunately my brain immediately forgets who you are if those change at all

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you can't adopt there are lots of other things you can do to help. Foster, volunteer, fundraise, do a supply drive, sign up for your local shelter's newsletter to find out other ways to help. Remember that volunteering doesn't necessarily mean physical labor - shelters need all kinds of skills!

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

Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026

it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show

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Eromancer @eromancer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Please follow the instructions to contact your representative and tell them to vote NO on the KIDS Act. The US House will vote on it at 6:30 PM on Monday. There is no time to waste. The free internet is at stake. See replies for how to look up your representative.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Imagine that someday your witty post offends a thin-skinned fascist who wants to use his authority to ruin your life. Now imagine that he has easy access to everything you personally have ever posted, bought, liked, or read on the internet, with no anonymity or incognito mode available.

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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I cannot emphasize enough, no matter how deep in the kindle/audible market you are, you need to get out ASAP lol. If you need recs for eink devices I can talk your ear off figuring out what to get, where to get books, etc etc.

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Ren @rainbowboots.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

We keep searching for One Easy Rule to immediately spot genAI at a brief glance and it's just leading towards "Oh, you use proper grammar and punctuation? BOT!"

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Ren @rainbowboots.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I cannot speak for everyone, but when *I* say "read another book," I mean you should become well-read, not that you should choose a different children's series to make your entire personality.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 31/03/2026

Repost with Alt Text If you want to know why I'm generally pissy about Game Key Cards, this is why. Nintendo hasn't given me a reason to trust that they won't just turn shit off at some point. This isn't Steam, where I can download the games I bought in 2003 Purchases should not have time limits

How to Redownload Wii Shop Channel Content on Wii
In this article, you'll learn how to redownload content already purchased/downloaded in the Wii Shop on Wii.

Important: The Wii Shop is closed for new purchases. Previously purchased titles can still be re-downloaded. However, this option will also be discontinued at some point in the future. (Exact date TBD)

Complete these steps
From the Wii Menu, select the Wii Shop Channel icon.
Select Start, then Start Shopping.
Select Titles You've Downloaded. The full list of titles which have been purchased on the console will be displayed.
Select the desired title(s), then select Redownload to begin the download.

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Maru is tired 🫩🥊🚬 @marureviere.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

them: why don't you date? me:

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

everyone, please, they say they "don't want politics in media" the same way they say they "don't want to use pronouns." they are not using the word to mean the word. you can try to point out that there's politics in the media they like/make, but they don't mean "politics" they mean "freaks"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/03/2026

"I am Very Online, so I remember <obscure feud from 2007> - people who are Offline only remember <obscure feud from 2015>, right?" is a very common attitude, it's difficult for folks as steeped in this stuff as we are to understand how little a lot of it has penetrated to offline normies

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Just a helpful reminder to everyone: Wednesday is April 1st. If you see a news story or something that looks like a news story that makes you think "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!??" ...the answer is probably yes, yes they are, that's it exactly.

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🍀Clover Teapot🍀- Waitlist full! @cloverteapot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I'd like to say to these people, and this comes from a genuine place of a lesson I myself had to learn: It is all right to have these sorts of thoughts. But they're inside thoughts.

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Ren @rainbowboots.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Roughly in the order I played them... #my9games Only just now remembering that Tales of Phantasia and Animal Crossing Wild World should be somewhere in there, but heck if I know what I'd swap out for them.

Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Pokemon Crystal, Sonic CD, Persona 3 FES, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, Final Fantasy V, Dragon Age: Origins, NieR Automata, Sky: Children of the Light

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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Ren @rainbowboots.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I fr thought of you when I heard the news, like oh I hope Rosie is excited about this. lol

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

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Donryu @donryu.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

solidarity with all marginalized people in Kansas. you are not alone. together we are going to build the better world we all deserve.

SOCIALIST POSSUM SAYS:
writing off conservative states as hopeless does nothing to fight against fascists: it only accelerates regression & suffering.

fascism is already here, it just hasn’t reached you yet.

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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

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Chiaki Mitama 🐾🌭 @terrible.moe · 02/03/2026

Regular reminder to you folks who write Japanese on your art because you think it's cool. the ー needs to be vertical when writing vertically. ❌　⭕ ラ　ラー　｜メ　メン　ン

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lux ΘΔ @littlefox.pet · 27/02/2026

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you: you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

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Dave@Not-Convention Recovery @sasuraiger.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

the anime "filler episode" was a real and very specific thing that largely died in the 2000s. the way the phrase "filler episode" was interpreted by anime fans-- "anything that does not move plot forward"-- became a contagious disease that did immense damage to serialized storytelling as a whole

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/02/2026

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books? good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader you won’t regret it

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Humble Book Bundle: Best of Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld by HarperCollins Encore 2026

Experience Sir Terry Practchett’s beloved Discworld series! Get 35+ books covering all corners of this comic fantasy universe and help support Room to Read!

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 17/02/2026

These detectors are rubbish, they're LLMs too and they're trying to sell the poison and the cure. It said my book was 70% AI-generated. It was published in 2016.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19/02/2026

This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.

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Leo 🦁🧙‍♂️🔮 @midwestwizard.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Discord's customer service email is no longer supported but their contact forms are open! Fair warning, you have to create a seperate Discord Support account in order to file a complaint If you have a subscription with them too, cancel it. If their users can't reach them, loss of profits will

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Also, you should block agitators.

Peaky Blinders

No posting that you can go to jail over

no fucking posting that you can go to jail over

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/01/2026

If you're taking to the streets to protest, know your rights.

"KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS: You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don't need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. You have the right to photograph or film anything in plain view, including federal buildings and law enforcement, so long as you are not trespassing or violating a lawful order. You should not interfere with the actions of the government officials you are recording. If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries. If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away. If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present. If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement officer at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you'll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney-no matter your citizenship or immigration status."

"If you interact with ICE in public: Ask if you are free to leave. If so, you may calmly walk away. You have the right to refuse consent to a search. You have the right to remain silent. You do not have to discuss your immigration status with anyone, such as about where you were born, whether you are a citizen, or how you entered the country. If you have valid immigration documents, you should show them. Never provide fake documents. If you are arrested, say that you wish to remain silent until speaking with a lawyer. You have the right to record your interaction with immigration agents as long as you do not interfere."

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

For years I would constantly tweet and tweet and retweet about politics. I didn’t help a single person doing that. It just eroded my mental health a little every day. I promise that actually DOING something, even one small thing, feels a lot better than reposting a million memes.

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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I wish people were as horrified about immigrants being kidnapped and killed in detention centers as they are about this shooting at the same time I am very glad there is finally some larger momentum building against this and I hope it sustains.

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Cully Hamner @cullyhamner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 13/11/2025

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

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Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Using it to make political Satire/insult (regardless of target) is using gen ai Being a "small/indie" studio & using it is still using gen ai Using it for "Ideas" is still using gen ai Tracing over it is still using gen ai USING THE DAMN THING REGARDLESS OF REASON IS USING GENERATIVE FUCKING AI!

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mcc @dryad.technology · 07/11/2025

I could try to make moral arguments about spending your Spotify fee on one Bandcamp album a month. But let's go simpler. It is *so easy* to just switch from Spotify to Tidal, Apple, or Qobuz! You won't barely notice the difference! You can move your playlists! The audio quality is better!

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