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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 8h

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 10h

HARDSHIP FUND UPDATE - Applications close on Oct 6 so we can triage existing applications - We've disbursed funds to over 100 applicants! - If you've applied Sep 24 or later, check your inbox for next steps! For questions, please reach out to treasurer@uvw-cwa.org uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...

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Game Worker Hardship Fund

Who is eligible to apply for this fund?This fund is for game workers in the US and Canada impacted by record layoffs & other hardships in the games industry within the timeframe of January 2024 to the...

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 24/09/2026

I'm joining the war on slop with cheap, fast flyer commissions. If you know someone who is asking the computer for event posters, tell them to ask me instead. Get the guarantee!

A poster mocked up as if it was offset printed in black and red roughly 60 years ago. The header reads "AVAILABLE NOW! FLYERS DESIGNED BY A HUMAN BEING!" and the subsequent text is pitching $50 flyer designs with a "SLOP-FREE GUARANTEE," incorporating some vintage Henry Volk clipart of people looking at a poster and saying how well it reflects on the event organizer.

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 29/09/2026

It's my birthdaaaaay!🎊 As an artist, it's often difficult to acknowledge how much I work and how much I improve, so today I want to be nicer to myself and share some of my favourite pieces I made since my last bday.💙 If you'd like to share, it would be a lovely gift!🙏✨

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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally the -tober prompt that I can follow to my heart's content

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Random Trek @randomtrek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020) Season 2, Episode 8: I, Excretus Released: 9/30/2021, Paramount+ 00:10:19.833

Caption: Can you resist your own temptations and save the ship?

Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020)
Season 2, Episode 8: I, Excretus
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Released: 9/30/2021, Paramount+
Studio: CBS Eye Animation Productions

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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Jessica the Bestica 🏳️‍🌈Thought Bubble TM Hall A5 ☕Trying My Best @anireal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎉🌱🍄 Poison Ivy cover 50 🍄🌱🎉 A new era~ We made it y'all ♥️ Thank you so much for the support and sharing stories of how art has connected with and inspired you~ 🌱

Character Poison Ivy holding a needle filled with green liquid in front of her face.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026

in the age of AI, making art is a radical act

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 29/09/2026

College fraternities and coaches who don’t give water breaks are all much, much bigger threats to college athletes than trans people.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

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Suzanne Helmigh | Art Director @suzannehelmigh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PORTFOLIO SHARE!: TTRPG projects. I'm looking for artists that can adapt to an artstyle that is custom made for projects. (regarding multiple projects). I've attached the styles I'm looking for! You don't need to demonstrate these exact styles, just a versatility that shows you can.

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moka !! @mokadevs.itch.io · 28/09/2026

really frustrating when i open up a video and it starts off with “x person made y game completely alone- admittedly with help on music and art-“ like okay. So they didn’t make it completely alone

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: In January, I was sent a threatening and absurd email by Bobby Kotick's lawyers It was unsettling I've wanted to tell readers about it, but didn't want to step on Mikhail's toes. Now that his report is out, here's my experience of standing up for my work www.gamefile.news/p/bobby-koti...

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Bobby Kotick’s lawyers sent me a bad email (and later apologized)

Part of a broader strategy by the former Activision CEO to shape press coverage

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Katch @katchdraws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'd love to get some more tabletop game work *bats eyelashes*

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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dear young artist that might be scared to try: Natural inclination exists. Natural talent does not. What they call talents are just skills, and skills are only a matter of time, repetition, and passion. Try. Keep trying. The rest will sort itself out.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Gijs Brekelmans @gys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meta removed a video by a satirist wearing Meta glasses asking unrecognizable Meta personnel about Meta glasses. Meta's ground for doing so - and please appreciate the irony here - is... harassment.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If there is one lesson to be learned from a similar battle in the UK, high-profile members of the creative industries make a difference. They get your argument on the front of newspapers, in the news bulletins and on social media. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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British celebrities beat AI companies lobbying to get free use of their work. They have a warning for Australia

‘People care about the songs, books and pictures that influence the critical moments in their lives,’ says the architect of the fightback in the UK

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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026

The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Da Real Juicy J @realjuicyjay.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

This is my favorite genre of social media content right now Some dipshit who was trolling online getting the absolute shit beat out of them by the professional they were talking shit to 😌

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/09/2026

The worst part about twitter is there are a number of people who think they have to be active there who are left-leaning but have had their brains absolutely cooked by the site. You can't inundate yourself in exposure to that stuff without it having an impact on you.

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Briar Darby Sinéad Madarch (fae/it/he) @sineadthefae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

bodily autonomy now bodily autonomy always bodily autonomy forever 🖤❤️‍🔥~

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Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

american elections are in a month and change so please get registered to vote/take a minute to check your registration if you live in the US. takes 5-10 minutes to do!!

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 27/09/2026

YESSSSS I love that they’re in complimentary colours! And I LOVE that my boy hasn’t gone zero body fat! He looks so good!

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chef, the online tits @cheftips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

freaky fucking pillow

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Might fuck around and do unto others as I would have them do unto me

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Greg Stoll 🌈 @gregstoll.com · 26/09/2026

Libraries are so cool

A flyer about Tough Topics (like abuse, LGBTQ, etc), where you can find these books, and a reminder that you can use self-checkout if that makes you more comfortable ❤️

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

my birthday is on the 2nd but I will be on a plane so I'm doing my birthday post early. honestly the best present ever would be to just share hello sunshine with somebody in your life, whether gifting them a copy, recommending it, leaving a review, telling a local bookseller about it, etc haha

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

big dick energy beings

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Myth busting about Scotland's 'need' for data centres feat. angry moorhen (Follow us on insta at stopaidatacentres.scot)

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.

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