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RavenNemain

@ravennemain.bsky.social
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They/them Nonbinary dog mom, reader, crafter, gamer, nerd Neurodivergent rage-poster

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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 22h
New Casefile of Jay Moriarty!! New @inferiorwit.at.app.wafrn.net !! This is not a drill!!! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
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The Safecrackers' Take ebook by Kit Walker - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Safecrackers' Take" by Kit Walker available from Rakuten Kobo. When the young Beddington twins rob a tanning salon in east London, the last thing they expect to find there is ₤500,000...
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nice to see even our most conservative paper exposing this traitorous bullshit
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/10/2026
Anybody accusing Loish of using AI is just admitting that they never paid any attention to online art spaces for the last couple decades.
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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey look, new metaphor for genAI just dropped.
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Bex @bexg93.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🚨 The archived version of the suppressed Amnesty report into the anti-trans network operating to dismantle human rights in the UK has been "excluded" from the Wayback Machine. JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.
A screenshot of the Wayback Machine page when trying to access the suppressed Amnesty report into anti-trans organisation and networks in the UK saying "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine".
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 02/10/2026
Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
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Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
Vancouver, BC – Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced more than one billion dollars in federal funding to keep the ocean safe from the consequences of his own actions.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Memorial Cloth is a 60-metre commemoration the honours the names of thousands of children that died as a result of residential schools in Canada. It is displayed each year as part of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event on Parliament Hill.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jeannie Ehaloak shared some of her experience as a survivor of residential school, including being so young that by the time she returned home for the summer after her first year at the school, she had forgotten who her parents were.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The nhl would rather do whatever the hell this is than have a dv/sa policy www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
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NHL winks at hockey romance subculture with ‘Hot for Hockey’ campaign
The NHL is rolling out a series of short stories on audiobook platforms throughout the season that present real-life NHL storylines in the style of romance novels.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They sure are!! Also one of my favorite representations of autism - Oliver’s sensory needs and disability are acknowledged, but the text does not infantilize him or deny his agency.
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E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please sign this official legislative petition so we can work towards getting some regulation on this slop generating crap.
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Public shaming isn’t near enough for these pathetic assholes
A flow chart showing how to punch a nazi
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Residential School denialism is done in the service of white supremacy and they are very, very clear about this link.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Saw the documentary NAZA, made in secret, with interviews of members of Israel’s intelligence services testifying and showing how they created a system to perpetrate genocide in Gaza. The filmmakers and their families have been threatened by Netanyahu himself. I wrote my thoughts here boxd.it/gvDEIR
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A ★★★★★ review of NAZA (2026)
Merely a film. A film that has led Netanyahu himself to threaten the citizenship and safety of its Israeli filmmakers and even their families, simply for the act of filming veterans of Israel’s intell...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That feeling when you’re reading a book that you’re enjoying, but then it has one of those phrases that is in common use but has super racist origins…
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/09/2026
we’re gonna beat the cute little animated avatar to death with hammers sorry
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Straight up if these orcas die, I will never forgive this government. It’s genuinely devastating to contemplate — and make no mistake, the west coast pipeline and port expansion WILL kill them. We have to draw the line somewhere and these orcas deserve to have us fight for them.
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ding dong, etc etc Don’t let the door hit your transphobic, racist ass on the way out. Now we just need to ditched her white supremacist husband www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigns as leader of the B.C. Conservative party | CBC News
It comes amidst speculation of a snap election and turmoil within the Conservative caucus, with 14 MLAs resigning since August.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
I would simply like to live my quiet little life as a trans woman and buy fruit and sing and walk my dog and wave to my neighbors and watch movies and use restrooms without being the subject of a culture “war” where both political parties agree I’m a disgusting freak who doesn’t deserve civil rights
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you see this, post your fav Disney character currently
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Cassian Andor's Determined Stare
Alt: Cassian Andor's Determined Stare
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NBC News interviewed a plank with a face drawn on it and asked if it could fall in love with humans
Plank from Ed Edd n Eddy
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Maki 💚🤍🖤 @makiokuta.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A new sticker design I'll have at Fan Expo in Toronto and Edmonton this year! ;3 #MKart
An illustration done in a lineless style of four Canadian Geese angrily ripping and biting apart the letters A and I. Feathers and chunks of letters are flying in the destruction. Truly poetic.
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Jay 🏞️🔜 Howloween @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy national fox day 🦊 I didn't even know that was a thing until after I finished this design, ahah! #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart #nationalfoxday
A formline design of a red fox. The background is a gradient dark teal, and the fox is a striking rust-orange, with gradienting darker umber on its snout and tail, and pale yellow chest/ear fluff and tail tip. It has it's tail wrapped around it's body, hiding its legs. It's head is angled to the left side.
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bicon Billie Joe
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We truly live in the dumbest timeline
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026
Why AI will never be able to write, by Nathan Munn flaminghydra.com/issue-650
AI content cannot be, and will never be, real art, and no one has nailed the reason why as well as Madonna did in a recent interview:

“Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks, and to me, that is the opposite of making art.”

To risk expressing oneself, or to witness another person do it, in pursuit of a singular vision: that is inspiring, invigorating, life-affirming. It shows us we are real, and this is happening. Even a system as dismal as economics understands that when something is hard to attain and is scarce, it becomes more valuable.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah, riiiight, it’s not a move to protect our sovereignty or our economy or our culture… it’s just spite and animus against DT personally. How completely absurd. (Honestly, even if we were acting purely out of personal hatred, I’d still be into it. Fuck that guy.)
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yeah, so Susan Collins can eat shit. “Yes we are cutting off our trade with you, but it would be a bad respond to that by seeking trade elsewhere.” So, just ignore it, let our economy spiral, do what he wants? Got it. No fucking thanks. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Republican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC News
A long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union.
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m writing a book about teaching reading and what it even means to be “a good reader.” I want to talk to as many teachers, librarians, parents, and students as possible. If you have thoughts about reading, please get in touch at readingmachinebook@gmail.com. (And please pass along!)
THE READING MACHINE By Megan Greenwell
Imprint: Dey Street Books
August 10, 2026
Former Deadspin editor-in-chief and author of BAD COMPANY Megan Greenwell's THE READING MACHINE, a narrative investigation into how policy and profit reshaped the relationship between American children and books, changing what literacy is for and leaving millions of students behind in the process, to Libby Burton at Dey Street Books, at auction, by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary (NA).
Rights: kent@neonliterary.com
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Remember when the worst thing everyone said about Ed Sheeran was that his music was boring? Hahaha, good times. Anyway, fuck that guy.
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible: Soy Division
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s incredibly strong, welcoming, and important. But, it’s not even defying. Indigenous people have rights enshrined in the Treaties. They are simply asserting their sovereignty. Zero defiance. The laws of Alberta do not and cannot override Treaty rights. Ever. Full stop.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
LANDBACK
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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Every time you use an LLM, you are exploiting someone else's unpaid labor. *EVERY TIME* As long as LLMs are built on data sets derived from stolen work, THEY CANNOT BE USED ETHICALLY. You are committing an ethical violation every time you use one.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Was talking to someone about the new Astarion book from T. Kingfisher, and decided to finally play BG3. Got home, paid an exorbitant amount, downloaded it … and hated the game mechanics. Oh well, I’m glad it worked so well for so many people, and am sad I’m not one of them.
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How to say “I’m selfish and creatively bankrupt” without actually saying “I’m selfish and creatively bankrupt”
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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 06/09/2026
Well you’re a tit then, aren’t you Danny
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This thread is *such* a good analysis of why some people still cling to the potter books no matter what. (Without letting them off the hook for their shitty choices). Click through and give it a read!
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