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Almost every hobby or passtime I've had my entire life - comic books, action figures, trading cards, personal computers, even *the movies* - has been consumed by a bunch of gambling addicts desperate for some new speculative market and we should make gambling illegal because it's their fucking turn

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 8h

"But A.I. programs are not human; they are human creations." Correct. And a loud, not-so-gentle reminder that if people had just listened to Black women technologists like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app from jump, we would be living with AI guardrails right now. 🤷🏿‍♀️

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 9h

I need you to understand how utterly unsurprising this is. On every level, this is an insight you would have never needed to share with me. This man has spent his life hungry and thirsty--no, ravenous and parched--seeking success through attention. The greatest tragedy in his life is that it worked.

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MrBeast Told Billionaire Mark Cuban He ‘Spends Millions of Dollars Reverse Engineering the Algorithms on Each Platform’ So He Never Runs Out of Ideas

Cuban is impressed by how much effort MrBeast puts into understanding social media algorithms.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a lie, and it's a lie they've been telling since the 1950s. They push the story that technology will give the white-collar populace 4 or even 3-day work weeks, but that never materializes. 5-day work weeks with exponentially greater output expectations does.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Because all media is rightwing so they forgive or dismiss the real corruption of the right and hammer the supposed corruption on the left.

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 08/10/2026

disingenuous and utterly misleading reporting by RPS here: Discord did not suffer any kind of breach this is a completely-unaffiliated-with-Discord service

Gaming chat app Discord has suffered another user data breach, with a suspected 1 million email addresses stolen alongside (potentially many more) user IDs and IP addresses. While Discord was not targeted directly, third party security service Double Counter have reported a "deliberate, multi-stage attack" wherein hackers spent nearly six hours poking around their infrastructure before the vulnerability was closed.

Double Counter essentially acts as a bouncer bot for Discord servers, promising to detect and block unsanctioned alt accounts and prevent hostile 'raids' by large groups of malicious users. While its efficacy in that mission is debated by Discord users, and the service has previously been accused of selling user data for revenue, the fact is that Double Counter can collect and store personal info of the users that visit its 'protected' servers. Info that, now, has been partly or entirely nicked by Internet miscreants.

By Double Counter’s own estimates, around 1 million user email addresses have been affected, with databases of Discord IDs, usernames, IP addresses, and even location info for up to 28 million users also "partly" copied by the hackers. Security breach trackers Have I Been Pwned further report that 275,000 of the pinched emails and usernames have since been posted publicly.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.

Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every time the "why should we just forgive student loans?" question comes up, the answer will always be "Because you promised them jobs & careers that would pay them off and then destroyed the economy, job market, and careers they went to school for right as they graduated and we never recovered."

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this all could have been avoided!

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The Azure Guardian 🔵🛡️ @theazureguard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bro... What the fuck is the dothacknetwork doing, supporting Generative AI? This is a comment on their video announcing/revealing the piney_apples decomp, which was coded using the Claude AI and is a buggy mess of a "decomp" of the .hack//IMOQ games.

Screenshot of a YouTube comment by user @TheSmilingOne7 tagged as being made "3 days ago":

"AI was the best thing that has happened to decomps / recomps since they started. It's so much faster to have a codebase to debug than having to create that base from scratch.

And is very fitting that the team probably used it in this project, like Aura "herself" bringing a gift to the players lmao"

The comment has 1 Like and was given a Heart reaction by the dothacknetwork's YouTube channel, revealing the comment was made on one of that channel's videos.

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BA Roth Spooktacular 🏳️‍⚧️ @uncannyzuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So, I uh started drawing up a crossover. Here's a one-page gag

Five-panel comic:
Panels 1-2: panning shot from left to right of Green Lantern Jon Stewart eating lunch in the Watchtower cafeteria. Across the table (panel 2), sits the Flash, Wally West. Between them, oddly enough, is a Robot Master, Quickman. He's just watching
Jon, talking to Wally: "I can't believe a kid like you had never played a Megaman game. I know I still fire up my copy of Megaman 2 on my days off. Even if I still can't get past those lasers without the Time Stopper."
Wally: "Listen GL, I was a Sonic kid because Genesis does what Nintendon't."
Panel 3: Batman approaches their table, holding a tray.
Batman: "I did a Buster-only speedrun for Gotham's All Games Done Quick."
Panel 4: the other three characters staring in shock
Panel 5: Closeup on Batman
Batman: "It was for charity."

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Nana Moon { game dev } - WISHLIST BATHORY @moonana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Get $40,000 worth of royalty free commercial use video game music 50% off for only $20 dollars, or $10 per pack! Go here before the sale ends, or share so others can see it: itch.io/s/202927/aut... #gamedev🎮 #ttrpg #vtuber

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Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS KOSA failed to pass in the US Senate (thanks to Paul, R.), but remember this was the FOURTH attempt from American politicians to get it passed. Expect another attempt in the next term; stay vigilant, and do not let the USA adopt ID-collecting laws such as the SCREEN Act & KOSA.

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spooky fruit gochizo @coughdrop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1) This isn't about generating games or assets with AI, it's just about using automation tools for some processes like bug testing which isn't inherently bad 2) IGN should be embarrassed for this headline. It doesn't say "AI generation" as in generative AI, it's 世代, "generation" as in "time period"

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They put my art on a BILLBOARD woah!!!!!!!! That's wild WOW

A photo of the poster for scarf con on a billboard in Sheffield

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

See, this is one of those things where any argument about the practical uses of AI tends to be obscured. You know, because one of its biggest proponents is fighting really hard to make sure it can generate CSAM & revenge porn and states can't stop it. That might be why it has such a negative view.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People want to bag on chicks for liking true crime but nobody wants to talk about how we’re drawn to it out of a sense of survival, whether conscious or unconscious.

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Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m not moved by social media boasts. Help women by helping women. Speak up for them in actual meat spaces. If that’s not possible, then the least I ask is you don’t get offended if I glance back while you’re walking behind me, but a worrying number of men can’t even do THAT much. “I wouldn’t—“

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Jay Pritchett Sprays Manny Delgado

ALT: Jay Pritchett Sprays Manny Delgado

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Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know this is being done with good intentions so I say it with all love: Dudes, when women are expressing fear and disappointment over a predator who was by all outward appearances safe and kind, that’s not the time to, how should I put this, humble-boast about how *you’re* one of the safe ones. ⬇️

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Bex Ollerton @schnumn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not doomed, I'm just late

A comic about feeling doomed. Bex is lay on the floor with her head down. She says, "It's too late for me... I fucked everything up... I took too long..." She suddenly lifts her head and says, "then again, I'm always late..." Sitting up, she says, "And it's usually fine..." Finally standing on her feet, she says, "So why am I worrying about it?"

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Jason Prime @blazingwaters.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Crossposting this here to spread awareness Someone (Pale) stole Life Bottle Production's work for Phantasia Narikiri Dungeon X, used AI to fill in the rest and is trying to present it as their own They also reportedly did this [shitting out AI crap] for a month straight

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McJamie @mcjamie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Men have to call out other men. Men will not listen to women. We had the whole MeToo movement and men made fun of it. If it's "Not All Men" then include yourself in that qualifier and stand up for victims. You being called a White Knight or a Simp is a fine trade to prevent lifelong female trauma.

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well yeah, that's always been the case. America has run on oppression & authoritarianism since its founding. I know it's annoying to constantly hear "well what did you expect" but it's also frustrating from a POC standpoint that Americans do not seem to want to understand or acknowledge this.

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They can't lie about this either and once their lies continue to not work, they'll pivot to "oh get over it" which also doesn't work. This is also why "the economy is actually doing great" is a terrible thing to tell people who are concerned about the cost of eggs. Just food for thought.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026

funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.

Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"

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Spooky Eldritch Ryan @dearzeus.gay · 29/09/2026

It's also *always* the people who don't know Japanese who do this. I do know Japanese. You know what I do? I use the fuckin' English name unless I'm *talking to a Japanese person*.

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BA Roth Spooktacular 🏳️‍⚧️ @uncannyzuck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I CAN HOLD MY COVER IN MY HANDS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW GIDDY THIS MAKES ME

Photograph of two co.ics sitting side by side in an open cardboard mailer. Both are of Shredder #11, the left without text and the masthead

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Pina ✨ ADHD Alien @adhd-alien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Was going to make a comic about a funny ADHD situation but you know what, it wasn't funny and I cried because I'm just so exhausted before the day even starts (I have a book linktr.ee/adhdalien/)

Kiki is standing in a messy kitchen with a plunger in one hand and a stuffed crocodile in the other. She looks deflated, saying "Why did I come to the kitchen with a plunger and a croc- no you know what I don't care."

Kiki is drawn in a more detailed, black and white style, looking pretty rough and tired. Text says "ADHD isn't funny and I'm an adult and I just want to get things done. I'm tired."

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

no yeah it looks good. yeah man it looks fine, really

A Kirby block toy that appears to be screaming, its face contorting around its mouth

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If a candidate for President / Congress isn't running on a promise of tribunals, I'm not interested.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we're trying something

To begin, we are still, first and foremost, a subscription-based business. We always will be. Loading websites with ads and other intrusive nonsense doesn’t work anymore, to the extent that it ever did. Social media now rules that arena, and there’s no going back. Also, we want Aftermath to be slick, clean, and fast. That’s part of the appeal, and we’re well aware.

But money is tough to come by these days, especially as many regular people find themselves beset on all sides by economic hardship. Ads, we’ve learned via conversations with peers at other independent sites like 404 and Defector, can help supplement income and smooth over annual rough patches (seasonal subscription downturns, etc). In an ideal world, that bit of extra money will also bring us closer to hiring additional staff and growing Aftermath into something bigger and bolder.

Now to put it on concrete terms: We’re copying 404. They display a few ads on the version of their site that non-subscribers see—and no more. (You can go over there and look right now if you want an example.) We’re gonna do that. We do not plan to increase the ad load or push programmatic ads on subscribers; they’re already doing their part. As for when this will occur, we’re still getting it set up, so we don’t have an exact date yet. But we’re working with the same partners as 404. Moreover, they’ve assured us that, should an ad about AI or some other dumb bullshit pop up, we can have them zap it. This approach is tried and tested by people we immensely respect. We wouldn’t be doing it otherwise.

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Sigma Posting @sigmaposting.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

#WheresProtoMan Source: Source: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1) by Konami

An edit of the throne room opening scene of Symphony of the Night replacing Richter and Dracula's heads with Mega man and Wily respectively. Wily speaks (featuring a portrait from a painting in Mega Man 7) "Where's Proto Man? A miserable little pile of circuits!"

Proto Man is definitely not hiding behind one of the pillars.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 24/09/2026

And having a very valid conversation about removing toxic or abusive people from a space *doesn’t* need to be done via a right-wing reporter turning some Western Mass he/him lesbian into a global mockery

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Neo Monster Island @neomonsterisland.com · 24/09/2026

South Carolina State Fair Entry Number Two Kaiju Girl

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 24/09/2026

Playing right into what they want. Fucking hell. Also like every single niche subculture community space probably has dealt with a ton of dysfunction at some point but for some reason it’s only global news when it lets people point and laugh at queer leftists. Funny that.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 24/09/2026

I just think that when a reporter stirs up shit about some random dysfunctional lesbian bar people ought to check out how said reporter hangs out online with monsters like Jesse Singal and Chris Rufo before sharing it to mock all the dysfunctional drama shit

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 24/09/2026

all I wanna say about the Boston Globe lesbian bar drama bs article is that the author follows a lot of noxious transphobes and I saw queer Bsky users sharing it saying things like “all these freaks have mental disorders and should be locked up in institutions” and that all really fucking sucks

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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Music/dance/theater people: there is *one week* left to add your voice to the Impact of AI on the Performing Arts survey.

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GenAI Usage in the Performing Arts

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ATTENTION BLUESKY! Annie says they are really hoping to boost the number of artists (crew, performers, creative teams, anyone) outside New York who are filling this out to get a broader sampling. If you are in the arts please take a second and fill this out!

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