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@silvershoelaces and @cretaprinceps on Twitter I swear I’m multifandom, but knowing me I might just share a bunch of Genshin stuff 90% of the time.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hi folks-- We're starting on our next indexing project, and we're building our volunteer team! If you have some degree of Japanese fluency and want to help index periodicals for VGHF, hit me up here
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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 19h
It’s not a recent story—just a recent interview—but this is the kind of thing I want to read about in the news. Human kindness still exists, we just don’t talk about it much.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sometimes, Genshin co-op is fun. Sometimes, your teammate doesn’t notice you got run over by a train, so they board it and leave you behind to suffer under the tracks. #原神 #Snezhnaya
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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
First I cleared with the teams I expected to clear with, then I thought, “But what if Lohen can do it?” In conclusion, Lohen can do it. #原神 #StygianOnslaught
The first team was a 5 cost team.  Qiqi had Sapwood Blade, Miko had Skyward Atlas, Odette had Alley Flash, and Cyno had Disaster and Remorse (Lohen’s signature weapon).

The second team was a 6 cost team.  Furina had Fleuve Cendre, Escoffier had Mountain-Bracing Bolt, Shenhe had Tamayuratei, and Skirk had Haran (Ayato’s signature weapon).

The third team was a 5 cost team.  Ineffa, Columbina, and Traveler had their signature weapons, and Flins had Skyward Spine.  Notably, Traveler is just in the team to enable stellar-conduct and has level 0 Heart of the Furnace artifacts.There were two changes to the first team, and the team has gone from a 5 cost to a 6 cost team as a result.  I got around to activating Yae Miko’s c2, which I had obtained from the previous To Temper Thyself but hadn’t actually activated yet, and the Disaster and Remorse on Cyno was replaced with Staff of Homa, because Lohen took his polearm back.

The second team is now a 9 cost team, the most expensive team I’ve ever cleared with.  Nicole and Lohen had their signature weapons, Xilonen had her signature weapon at r2, and Durin had Moonweaver’s Dawn.

The third team is unchanged.
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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s not a Pokemon ripoff until you use it to rip off Pokemon.
The Digimon Adventure logo, but it says “Pokémon Pokopia ポケットモンスター”. (Pocket Monsters)The Pokopia logo, but it says “digimon アドベンチャー” (Adventure).
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Kee The Tom and Jerry Guy @drummerfromfife.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember how the old song goes?
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isaaccahn.bsky.social @isaaccahn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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olyester 🌼 @cco00oo.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
Delicious Water
A digital painting of a meowscarada unaware that it is failing to drink water
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/10/2026
The big tech companies want you to believe that their default software offerings are the only option, but spoiler alert, there’s a wide array of fantastic software out there. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...
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How to Opt Out of Software Made by Big Tech
Big tech companies make the devices we use and the operating systems that come on them. They also make the bulk of the default software that comes packed into those operating systems. But spend even
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みこりん mikorin @paintoolsai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
pose practice 🔪 #diluc #watercolor #traditionalart
a photo of a traditional watercolor painting of an anime-style character with long red hair in a ponytail, wearing a red jacket, grey vest, and black pants, wielding a knife.
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Mattheyn Jobson @matthyen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Inktober 2026 Day 4 - Cactus Character: Togemon from Digimon Adventure Context: Well, self-explanatory
A drawing of a angry cactus with boxing gloves, behind strangely cute plant-like creature
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リン | Rin 🍎 @rinringosan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Summer Khaslana☀️ #Phainon
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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mcc @dryad.technology · 25/09/2026
Why is billionaire-owned media suddenly coming all at once with pieces against drinking fluids. What is this manufacturing consent for. Is it building toward something. Should I be afraid
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You don’t need to make drinking water a part-time job since too much of it doesn’t have any real health benefit. @washingtonpost.com‬
Is asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette?

We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out:
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Rick Desolate 🪦 | The D-Pad @ricdesi.dpad.fm · 22/09/2026
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Oddarette @oddarette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Strawberries and crème manta crepe 😊🍓
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piaf. @patapiaf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don’t really feel creative right now but have a small mareep doodle #pokemon
Three Mareep sleeping on top of each other
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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#punoftheday
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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m so hyped for next patch. #HonkaiStarRail
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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Imagine being angry that muslims can eat cheese 🧀 For cheese to be halal, it just needs to use microbial rennet or rennet from a halal-slaughtered animal (from what I understand). Lots of products in the US have kosher and halal certifications on them.
A block of Cabot cheese showing the tablet-k dairy kosher certification and a halal certification of a crescent moon with an M with the word "Halal" underneathTillamook kosher medium cheddar with Kehilla Kosher's stylized C with a K and dairy
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
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MAGFest (Unofficial) @magfest-unofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's dead, Jim
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MAGFest - The Music and Gaming Festival @magfest.org · 18/09/2026
Y'all. We did know we would sell out eventually but we did NOT know we would sell out in less than 12 hours. We are currently SOLD OUT of badges. Please stay tuned into our social media accounts and newsletters for any and all updates we may have. We just need some rest. 🥲
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Remember folks, take notes here: ✅ When your company hacking another one helps with marketing, its "OMG rogue models gone wild hacking other companies." 😱 ❌ When a hacking incident doesn't raise your valuation but shows you to be massive thieves, it's an internal "ah nice"


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OpenAI's President Greg Brockman, when told his company had hacked the NYT paywall to scrape the site, responded with "ah nice."

That's a straightforward criminal violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. OpenAI executives in jail.

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woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. 
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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Not good, OpenAI. "Read this NYTimes" article.. "Summarize" this NYTimes article... (NYT content in red). /3
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Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here:
 "ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4

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The character of Defendants' conduct weighs further against fair use.
The transgressive and deceptive nature of Defendants' efforts to acquire Plaintiffs' content confirms that their purpose in doing so was fundamentally to avoid the cost of acquiring lawful
copies. OpenAI employees devised and implemented strategies to circumvent paywalls without
detection when scraping websites. For example, when Nick Ryder informed Mr. Brockman about
, hack to get around nytimes paywall" to help with Mr. Brockman's efforts to "scrape[]" The
Times's site, Mr. Brockman responded "ah nice." SF791. OpenAI's corporate representative on
the subject was unaware of any "method for detecting paywalled content" in its da…
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MAGFest - The Music and Gaming Festival @magfest.org · 18/09/2026
We’re expected to potentially sell out of badges at some point throughout the night. I know, we’re as shocked as you guys are. Try to get your badge as soon as you can! 😬
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MAGFest - The Music and Gaming Festival @magfest.org · 18/09/2026
⚠️ Super MAGFest 2027 Pre-Registration is LIVE! 🏹 super.magfest.org/attend/regis... Please remember that you must have a MAGFest ID in order to register this year! We recommend everyone have their own MAGFest ID, but one MAGFest ID can buy badges for several people. More info on the site!
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Siri, please show me an example of “the opposite of toxic masculinity.”
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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(I know Beit Shammai says it's best to just drink normally until day of, take the 1 day awful headache over the week long mild headache, and break your fast with coffee, but I go with Beit Hillel on this one)
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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Coffee-drinking Jews: This is your annual PSA that if you plan to fast on Yom Kippur (note that you should absolutely *not* fast unless it's mentally & physically safe for you), you should start tapering your caffeine now. Your Yom Kippur self will thank you.
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チカチャ @chikachakacha.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#Layla #GenshinImpact
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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Whenever it's overcast/rainy, my cat looks at me as if to ask "can't you turn on the outside light today?"
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GENC @genc.newgrounds.com · 13/09/2026
Grim
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 11/09/2026
More details about what this will do, some context about Twitch's AI always listening, plus my thoughts! tos.gg/twitch-ai-st...
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Twitch AI Stream Coach
Twitch is running an experimental AI Stream Coach for creators. The Stream Coach will provide you with "personalized feedback after every stream based on your broadcast. It highlights what's working, ...
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 11/09/2026
Twitch is testing an AI Stream Coach. Stream Coach will give you personalized feedback after every stream on what you did well and what you can improve. It will also recommend ways to better engage your community, learn Twitch culture, and use monetization tools.
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Mirri @himirri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The art / The artist
Long rows of brackets and backslashes on a laptop computer screenA tabby looks up with wide, innocent eyes from next to a laptop keyboard
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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TBSkyen Shorts @shorts.tbskyen.com · 08/09/2026
Why does the Zelda remake look like that? | #legendofzelda #tbshorts
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楓 @kaedegnsn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
ドゥリン
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shin'on @shinon-shn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
nintendo released a game boy and a gamecube. therefore, the two genders are "boy" and "cube"
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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Make a band bigger Beach Men
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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is great to see. Hopefully all these platforms start to listening to their users instead of forcing things down our throats and telling us we want something. They did a lot of damage to their credibility but at least they are making changes.
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sleepyhart 🦌🏳️‍🌈 @sleepyhart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
*waving hands* woO0ou! Scwary! Our AI is going wouge! If ours is swentient, imagine what the Terrorists™'s AI will be doing! You cahnt wet the bubble burst, mister pwesident - who ewlse will stawp the evil scwary terrorist AI? Pwease keep bailing us out, daddy. OpenAI's a hungwy wittle kitty uwu
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Defector @defector.com · 02/09/2026
It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...
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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but…
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m kind of shocked that I was able to clear Stygian with these builds. I expected at least another week of farming to finish leveling talents. #原神 #StygianOnslaught
My first team was 7 cost, with Nicole and Lohen on their signature weapons.  Lohen was the onfield driver to ensure the team had enough cryo application to handle the enemy’s shield mechanic, Odette enabled the stellar glimmer reaction, Miko did the damage, and Nicole sustained, buffed atk, and enabled Lohen’s Hexerei passive.

My second team was 4 cost; Fischl was on Elegy but that was my only 5* weapon.  It was pretty tricky to run the team without Nicole, but Chevreuse’s buffs were still enough for Arlecchino to win.

My third team was 5 cost, with Ineffa and Columbina on their signature weapons.  Flins had the ever trusty Skyward Spine.  This node was extremely easy since I had the exact team the boss was promoting.Odette has a skill level of 5 and she’s only 79/80, because I didn’t finish farming for her before Stygian season began and I spent all my resin on artifacts instead.  I also haven’t leveled the craftable sword I intend to give her, so she’s holding The Alley Flash as a placeholder.  It performed extremely well due to its high base atk and the r5 boosting its passive, but I’m still going to farm for that craftable sword for her.White Tassel is an underrated weapon for Arlecchino and I even prefer it over my Ballad of the Fjords since the latter’s passive doesn’t work on a Chevreuse team.  Despite her talents being leveled no higher than 5, she still destroyed the second node due to the enemy’s debuff serving as a massive buff to her damage output.

Her artifacts could be better, but she frankly didn’t need good artifacts to win the fight.  The actual challenge of that fight was dodging the enemy’s attacks without losing too much DPS.  Ideally I would have put Nicole on her team instead of Chevreuse, but I needed Nicole on Lohen’s team.
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Not joking: I think this is a legitimate form of living history for online games. It's like an old-timey pioneer town where people pretend to be blacksmiths. This is a more accurate way to experience what WOW was like 20 years ago than being in an empty server
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