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FANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Issues 1 and 2 of ‘Fag School’ – a queerzine by Brontez Purnell. It was originally published in Oakland, California, United States in 2003 and reprinted in 2017. Read issue 1 online: issuu.com/poczineproje...
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce
mzsibyl_® › •: Al Threads 3d
Tired of the Prompt Thieves in the Al art community.
Seriously, the moment a great prompt is public, someone immediately copies it, shares it, and pretends it's their own genius work.
It's not about gatekeeping, it's about
giving credit where it's due. Stop stealing and start creating! #PromptStealer 1/2OscarAl
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Never do this:
Passing off someone else's work as your own.
This Grok Imagine effect with the day-to-night transition was created by me — and I'm pretty sure that person knows it.
To make things worse, their copy has more impressions than my original post.
Not coolsubscribe
@Artedeingenio
I don't know what you think, but this seems a bit unfel to me.
My original post with the Saori Kido Athena prompt has 4,000 impressions, while @dvorahfr's post with an image created with my prompt has 30,000.
As for not quoting me as the author, I'm not saying anything, because she has apologised.
I would like to understand that it was an unintentional mistake, although I think I'm well enough known around here to use a prompt of mine without knowing it's mine.
If I wasn't so well known, would there have been a rectification? I am afraid that many small accounts are stolen on a daily basis and nothing happens.
But for a copy to be more widely distributed than the original is a very bad symptom.
Without focusing on anyone, I think that some big accounts hardly create original content and just post other people's content, often without quoting the author, and that's very uncool.
Respect and honesty above all else. Let's play fair.
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k @xeroxerox.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
allpunkspleaseleavemeta.com JANUARY is the month that punks will try out the fediverse and leave corporate social media behind~~ check out the tools for microblogging, bandcamp alternatives (Bandwagon.fm), media reviews (reviewdb.app), message boards like reddit (Lemmy/Piefed) and more!
fediverse punk month. fuck corporate social media, I'm spending January on the fediverse! alternative, decentralized, open, not-for-profit. DIY social media. all punks please leave meta.com
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We’re not running out of good ideas, but the tech fetishists who have no ideas other than “but I put a lot of money and emotion into this basket” always do, and their narcissism does not allow them to consider that their failed ideas suck, and the flop sweat is palpable.
A graphic for a Vox article saying, literally, “America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?” Then the lede is, “We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.”
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 05/12/2025
thinking about him 👑
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Just remembered that today is my one year post op!! 🔪✂️
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
As all of these apps should!!
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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We recorded an episode of @drawingadialogue.bsky.social where remus talked about the AIDS quilt and cartoonists who were involved in AIDS activism, I learned a lot in this episode and it's one I think back on often: comicarted.com/blog/2022/8/...
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Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 44: AIDS Activism + Comics — Comic Art Ed!
I n this episode, remus discusses the way queer AIDS activists used art and comics as part of their activism during the the 1980s-1990s. They specifically talk about four art projects: the AIDS memori...
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Last night someone told me I remind them of Rachel Dratch - something about my facial expressions. Would you take this as a compliment?
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Love to wake up, watch the dog show and get obsessed with some new kind of guy (this year: brussels griffon)
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Eric @smallestoceans.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I been slacking (this is all mostly last week & the week before!)
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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
RACOONS ARE EVOLVING TO BE CUTER, ALERT www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
scientificamerican.com
City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets
City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals
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iris myandowski @420b00bs.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
one way ticket to ai-induced religious psychosis, and if i recall the basic christian foundation correctly… hell
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Starbucks closed their super famous tourist destination Reserve Roastery in Seattle in September with no notice to retaliate against unionized workers. Don’t cross the line! (Plus we never stopped boycotting for Gaza RIGHT? 😇🧐)
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
NEW ROBYN SINGLE 🚨🚨🚨
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
ART BRUT REUNION!!!!!
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I bleached my eyebrows & my bangs & fear this is the first sign of an oncoming deep depression
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
still no updates here
U.S. President Barack Obama revealed possible plans to privately perform "Gangnam Style" for his spouse Michelle Obama.[141][142][143][144]
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Another Cleveland recommendation if you’re looking to donate.
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
My work’s food bank (& others in Seattle) got blessed with funds from the city to help purchase supplemental food for the next two months/until SNAP benefits are restored & it’s really filling our team’s hearts right now 💜
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
“He’s like the Mr. Bean of sadness” - Christian describing a character from a Nabokov novel
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k @xeroxerox.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
If you have: 🥫🥬🧅 Extra food (unopened, not spoiled, etc): Drop off at a community fridge macommunityfridges.neocities.org 💸💵💲 Extra money (literally any amount): Donate to food banks directly ⏰️🚗💪Extra time/transportation/spoons: Volunteer for a community fridge or pantry or soup kitchen
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Hated every man at Turnstile. Every woman was so gorgeous & stylish.
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k @xeroxerox.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We need EVERYONE to start making their empathy and understanding and love for our unhoused neighbors infinitely louder than these loser nimby fucks
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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
TRANSGENDER FOR EVERYBODY 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Immediately too sad to function the second the sun goes away 😭
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Goddammit
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QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project @qzap.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Woke up thinking about this sticker that we've got in the archive here: archive.qzap.org/index.php/De...
Sticker depicting actor Divine holding a pistol. Text reads "Destroy Fascism - Eat Shit Nazi Scum" and has a rainbow flag and a black flag in the upper left with the words "Antihomophobe Action"
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sold @glorbis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
in the phase of fascism where TV shows are getting canceled by the government for having opinions they don’t like and I just don’t wanna know how much worse it’s gonna get until it can get better, if it even can
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Dancing to Sextile tonight felt possibly like the closest I’ll ever have gotten to attending a rave in the 90s
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Finally part of the members only goth club 🥀🖤🪦
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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
NEVER FORGET!!! On this day in 1973 the Arch Cafe in Springfield, MA was firebombed and destroyed.
Cover of Gay Community News from September 22, 1973 with an article about the bombing of the Arch Cafe in Springfield, Massachusetts on September 11th.Early Tuesday morning (Sept. 11) at 5AM, one of Springfield’s gay “hangouts”, the Arch Cafe was completely demolished by a bomb explosion. Owner Louis Lake had received an unusual number of obscene phone calls, as many as “12 to 15 daily prior to today’s mishap. Lake said, “You’ve got to expect a certain number of calls, mostly from straight people who object (to homosexuality.)

Lake estimated damages at between eighty and ninety thousand dollars, and said that his insurance would “in no way” cover losses.

State police bomb squads are said to be investigating the source of the explosion and witnesses reported the smell of flammable fuel permeating the rubble in one section of the bar. Firemen suspected bombing after they combed through the debris and found the gas main and meter servicing the building intact. A fire inspector, when asked if the blast was the work of an explosives ex-pert, said “if it wasn’t, it sure as hell was a good amateur”.

Several residents of the neighboring Charles Hotel, mostly elderly people, were knocked from their beds by the blast. Authorities said that some of the occupants were shaken but there were no injuries. The bar was unoccupied at the time.

GCN contacted Rep. James Boller (D., Springfield) at the State House. He remarked upon viewing the wreckage Wednesday morning, that the former Arch Cafe was “completely demolished”, and that both adjacent buildings had also experienced damage. When questioned on the perpetrator of this act and his possible exper-tise, he remarked that a pro
“could not have done such a good job’. He labeled it a “fool-ish’ act done by some “wierd” person whose motivation “could have been anything, an argument or something”

Boller added that they “knew what they were doing” , implying that the bomber was taking deliberate action against the gay com-munity.
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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
My dad died of an overdose & I don’t wanna murder people for it 🤷🏻
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We were in the studio making Shake the Sheets the day Reagan died, and friends, we danced and danced and danced. (And ordered in from Pepe Giallo, and ate a ton of pasta.)
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Find someone who looks at you the way Gerard Way does at Billy Corgan while playing “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” together
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iris myandowski @420b00bs.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
please, begging my fellow millennials, PLEASE financially ruin this entire industry!
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Oops forgot this app still doesn’t have a private/friends only mode
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
How does someone who is nearly 40 & works full time living in Seattle find people to play music with? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Man, I really need to play music again
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Tried to do a cute look back at my style evolution via photos but instead just got extremely sad about the life I once had, friendships gone, hobbies lost.
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Today my mom randomly asked me if I remember where I was when MCR announced they were breaking up… (The answer was yes.)
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Wow King of Drag is everything, I am so glad I listened to a random TikTok that told me to watch it
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Rian Dearest @riandearest.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“God Must Have Spent Too Much Time On You” - Out of* Sync
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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