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Gwyan Rhabyt

@rhabyt.bsky.social
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Immigrant, Prof of Interaction Design at Cal State East Bay. 3-time Fulbright Scholar. Games. Politics. Science. No One Lets Go of Anyone's Hand

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a *lot* of top priorities for Dems in the next Congress but forcing the administration to follow the law on spending is probably the top of the top priorities.
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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the IP rush was driven by faith that a culture is just a pile of Stuff, and if you own that stuff, you own culture. the AI rush is driven by faith that if you can automate the creation of stuff, you can automate culture.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic
Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.
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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
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UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
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Gravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The tragedy of late capitalism is that it's not enough to be a profitable investment. You need to be more profitable than literally any other use of capital, including speculation on magic beans.
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Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This 👇. It is very funny. You will smile.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 21/09/2026
This is the 28th time I’ve posted this Doonesbury since 2015.
Doonesbury
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Count Trashula @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What the actual hell are you talking about?!
A WSJ headline reading “George Lucas’s museum confuses illustration with art”
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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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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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/09/2026
Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880–1945), “The City in the Sea” www.tumblr.com/charnel-grou...
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Talespinner @talespinner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it just says so much that they think making literal Jesus a woman takes away from his essence more than making him ... y'know ... a fucking lion.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 17/09/2026
He’s not looking at a placard about lowering grocery prices. He’s not looking at a placard about end the Iran War. He’s not looking at a placard about reining in AI or ending the Canadian Trade War or expanding healthcare. He’s focused on what he thinks matters most: His grievances.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Skipping the 2026 vote because of cynicism is a luxury belief. It is the view of those who do not face ICE vans, dying lakes, or surveillance cameras tracking family to clinics. Your apathy is a comfort they cannot afford. #GetReadyToVote #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Capn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope
A nilgai standing loud and proud
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him, or as flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane. Although the one experience precedes the other, it in no way prepares you for it."
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inaction
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.
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eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why do all these Nazis keep showing up on Republican campaigns, it's a real mystery washingtonsun.com/senate/huste...
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Husted Fires Political Director Over Past Nazi Posts
The former staffer had posted profile photos featuring Nazi officers and wore the attire in a group photo in 2018.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sarah McBride: Being a Democratic politician who decides to speak at Trump’s midterm convention is like boarding the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair. www.tumblr.com/publicdomain...
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
guns are what turn small horrors into big horrors
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Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Standing room only for Historical Fiction Meets SF/F at @laworldcon.bsky.social Monday morning doesn't stop enthusiastic fans!
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And there you have it. Google Maps is calling Lake Ontario Lake America, despite having NO obligation to do so. Cowardly, unnecessary, corporate capitulation.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/08/2026
USAID was a free space for tankie and tankie adjacent dingbats to score edgy contrarian points by wildly exaggerating how imperialist it was, confident in the belief that it wouldn’t just disappear, except now it has and everyone is uncomfortably looking elsewhere
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026
The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors
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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 28/08/2026
5/5...modern corporations in this late stage capitalist nightmare we're wading through would rather engage in social engineering to make us buy a middling product than actually innovate. And the longer we let them, the harder it will be to actually innovate.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.
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metacogito.bsky.social @metacogito.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How do we rebuild a viable, principled, and institution-preserving republican party after all this? I'm all for Dems winning and running things but we really can't survive if half of our tw-party system is willing to enable and defend all this.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/08/2026
I have two conflicting opinions these days 1. there is too much infighting on the broader left, we are all on the same side in the fight to remove these fuckers from power 2. it is existential that the moderates who want to hamstring serious attempts at reform lose that fight
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Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sooner than this, I believe that we will see figures on the Right claiming that Trump was a Democratic plant to discredit MAGA
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/08/2026
"a Yale University study showed the program would save 114,000 American lives and $1 trillion every year" Hakeem dgaf as long as the donor spigot keeps gushing cash into his account & that's why the democratic party is my enemy
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
True.
Jamie Bonkiewicz: E. Jean Carroll has done more to hold Donald Trump accountable than the entire United States Congress.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is ALWAYS THE CLUE. Our journalistic class is (mostly) self-aware enough not to publish stories that are pure bigotry and resentment, but some stories give people a facially-plausible pretext to indulge in bigotry and resentment. You notice that these stories tend to get covered A LOT.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/08/2026
exact same shit as when a teenager commits a crime and if they’re Black they’re a danger to society who must be locked away for life and if they’re white they just made a mistake and why should we ruin their life over it?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Abolishing ICE is now the official position of the Democratic Party
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Donald Trump is stupid. America operates on the misbegotten assumption that being rich, white, and male means you’re also smart. If reporters had pushed back on Trump like they did with Sarah (not rich, not male) Palin, things might be very different. Instead, we have a moron as president.
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Steven Glaros, M.A. @stevenglaros007.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Dems must always be in disarray. The immutable law of political reporting despite any and all evidence to the contrary. Every outcome must be bad for Dems.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas. Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK. X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
"Nearly a third of all 43,000 posts on X relating to the two incidents contained racist or anti-immigration comments. Almost one in 10 relating to Belfast contained calls for violence or paramilitary or vigilante action.

Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, said the data demonstrated that X had become “a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking and divisive content.

Their goal, he added, was “to amplify local tragedies and crises, intensify racist narratives, and incite violence in communities they have never set foot in and to whom they have no real connection.”"
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