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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 4h

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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isaac @sevier.io · 2h

Really important point i hadn't seen yet, which is that AI data center proposals are concentrated in gas reservoir basins, bypassing federal permitting altogether by avoiding the need for interstate pipelines. All of the smoke about transmission costs reforms look different in this light.

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Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change International

In short:

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 9h

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 5h

1/ Over the weekend, there was a reported case of plague in Russia. I’m seeing a lot of rumors about the event being spread without facts to back it up, so I wanted to jump on here to break down what we do and don’t know about this situation and whether or not you should be concerned.

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 8h

Meet my newest fabric art creation: Thundercloud Cuckoo the Neolithic Bird Statue. I designed and hand-sewed him, and I first created this style of bird in a dream a few months ago. Thundercloud enjoys appearing to people in their dreams. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of Thundercloud. He's a fabric art bird. He's a mottled dark and light gray, sort of like granite. He's a roundish bird with two tiny wings and a little face in the center of his body. He has two light gray eyes of slightly different sizes and an open light gray beak. There's green fur in the background.

Here's another lovely photo of Thundercloud where he's resting on my palm.

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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 7h

A Hark! A Vagrant classic

Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Disabled people are over twice as likely to experience sexual assault than non-disabled people. In the US specifically, 2 in 5 women who experienced rape are disabled. Among US men who experienced sexual violence, 1 in 4 are disabled. Sexual violence is an issue of disability justice.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 5h

Amen! And end the nonsense of closing them “for the winter” as if humans only need to excrete when it’s warm

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 5h

some questions you can ask to evaluate a new "public bathroom" 1. can a child use it without an adult? 2. can you use it at night? 3. can a disabled person use it? 4. is it owned by a vendor? 5. does it require technology? 6. are people being paid to clean it?

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 5h

No grandstanding, no cover, no coordination… Hmm How to balance keeping them in the dark with regards to each other with wanting to know how our reps voted

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 5h

Watching the neighborhood blogs blow up at the idea that the Russian plague is the "real" pandemic we need to be scared of and I'm just going to start throwing shoes. Millions of people SHOE died from covid SHOE you back alley SHOE squidsquishers SHOE SHOE SHOE

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 12h

The idea that better things aren’t possible is fertile soil for reactionary politics.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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OwenTat Draws @owentatdraws.bsky.social · 5h

I don't mean to spring Christmas on you already but... I really wanted to show off these Long-tailed Tit decorations I made! While they do look great on a Christmas tree, I've been having a lot of fun hanging them off random things around the house 🌲 #birds #birdart #sciart

Three wooden Long-tailed Tit decorations hanging from a lit up Christmas tree. They are composed of three shades of orange/brown.

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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 8h

We have the technology! #wheelchair

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7h

This is genuinely cool and I love bike lanes and agree with everything in this post except the first two lines. Not every disabled person is capable of independent mobility and if you tried to invent the device my legally blind mom needed, it would probably look like a car.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 6h

It's National Fire Prevention Week! Ebikes, escooters, and hoverboards use lithium-ion batteries that need a little bit more care than how you treat your other batteries. Learn something and avoid a battery fire at home.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 7h

I know I say it all the time, but quite often if you read something that seems to be a totally ridiculous opinion from someone who should know better, you should consider the possibility that *that very incongruence* is evidence it's a joke.

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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 7h

"Never buy dice from a wombat", from @nathanwpyle.bsky.social

a happy (?) looking wombat sitting behind a counter next to a pyramid of dice and in front of a can of white paint with a brush in it. Behind it is a sign saying "All sales final"; below it is a "NO REFUNDS" sign.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 7h

came across this fact while doing crossword last night: wombats poop perfect cubes. how come i did not know this before?! here to fix that for you, just in case you didn't either.

9 cubical wombat poops in slightly varying sizes

Four cubical wombat poops, almost identical looking, on grass

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7h

Sorry I’m not gonna do idea landlords discourse today. You want authors to not get paid? Cool go totally rework society so that we also don’t have to pay for things.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t think teaching a canon is bad, and studying intellectual traditions as historical phenomena is important to understanding culture, past and present. What’s bad is teaching a specific canon as if it’s above history and somehow universal. The frame matters, as does what’s available beyond it.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 7h

Honestly, this stuff makes me agitata, to little purpose Tell me more about what the people I can vote for plan to do, and less about their campaign tactics, odds, etc

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 7h

I had lunch with a friend over the summer where we talked about being people who deeply want to understand things that are real, and how disconcerting it is to us when that's ... not a priority.

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theo @theoplum.bsky.social · 9h

my gay fantasy romance comic about two scholars surveying an ancient cursed castle is out on itchio! here's the first 15 pages theo-plum.itch.io/the-quiet-en...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8h

This hearing thus far is a waste that helps the companies. They WANT to talk about bullshit AGI sci fi scenarios - they DON'T want to talk about current harms from their slop tech like theft from creators, cognitive decline, fraud, environmental damage, disinfo, and links to murder and suicide.

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 10h

Mini marker Moo Deng from this day in 2022 🦛

A marker drawing of Moo Deng the baby pygmy hippo

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⚔️excalibur!⚔️ @ COMMISSIONS OPEN !!! @knighthearts.com · 8h

btw would anybody be interested in like 6 halloween icon slots? thatd be the cap for the whole month bc i have a lot to do already. it just feels almost like a tradition to take halloween icons is all lol. plus itd be a means of extra income in the event i need it later

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Ivy Lily Creative @ivylilycreative.bsky.social · 9h

Umbrella cockatoo dressed up as a sugar skull girl for Day of the Dead and some tape peeling sounds. 💀 #dayofthedead #diadelosmuertos #cockatooparrot #cockatoos #tapepeeling Art merch shop: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1540...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 8h

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 8h

Not to mention the radar network has been underfunded and life extended for a long while before the latest stupid cuts to NOAA. Or that industry generally only likes to get involved in things with huge profit margins these days.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 9h

Ohio, today is the last day to register to vote for November’s election. Register online or drop off your voter registration form at your county board of elections office TODAY by 9PM. For more information, head to iwillvote.com/OH.

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I Will Vote

Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 9h

I met the founder of the Schools Consent Project a couple of months ago and they do important work in this area. They’re lawyers who go into middle schools and high schools and have frank conversations with student about ethics and legality

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 8h

MAGAZINE MONDAY | A closer look at John James Audubon’s ambitious, inventive — and seriously heavy — books of winged things. Read more. ⬇️ lcm.loc.gov/issue/september-october…

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Big Birds

Audubon’s ambitious, inventive — and heavy — books of winged things.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 8h

Here are some nice mushrooms

Two colonies of young and healthy splitgill mushrooms grow from the underside of an upturned stick in a sunlit forest. All photos by me

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🌱Sita Art🌱 Comms open @sitaart.bsky.social · 8h

Alolan Meowth

A close up of the face showing off the large golden coin on the forehead

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Silly Rookie @sillyrookie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every discussion about the tech has been intentionally frontloaded with generations of fiction, and so for people who know nothing about the tech, the arguments they hear or participate in are about fictional concepts instead of anything genuine, which all the grifters benefit from.

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C. Bukowski @thishurt.bsky.social · 10h

Crying because Chewy just refunded me $200 for Loki’s veterinary diet food that was delivered the day before he died with their deepest condolences for losing him. They aren’t even making me return it. Going to donate it to a cat who needs it. 🥺

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 8h

Doesn’t mean I don’t want to see it and share it—I do!

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Lëspreüh @lespreuh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Work in progress

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 8h

You know how when you have a big appointment in the afternoon and you can’t do anything the rest of the day until it’s over? That’s how I’m feeling about jury duty at the end of the month

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 12h

You ever have that thing where you're reading a book and you can do the lift for suspension of disbelief for the entire fantastical premise of the thing but then you hit one detail and your brain is like "absolutely not"?

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing satire at a time when satire is becoming nearly impossible.

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Heknitt @heknitt.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve been so excited to share this lil guy with you! 🥰🖤 #cottagecore #spooky #fallvibes #whimsy

Knitted frog wearing sweater with a skeleton embroidery on it, and pants with skeleton legs on it

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 10h

The true sign that Chicago's Spookiest Season is upon us

A pile of the Injustice Watch "Check Your Judges" newsprint supplement, in a coffee shop

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 10h

This is excellent. He could have chosen to be ANYTHING other than a famous person and the public does not owe him time and attention in the name of a “restorative” justice you only seem to care about for this specific crime, weirdly enough.

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