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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This shit is actually like 13 posts long. Please read them all. The corruption is insane and so deep and so pervasive and it will affect you!

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Forgot to include this gem of a screen shot. There is evidence of Alpha's success--which is specifically that it is highly successful at failing to prepare students to even pass the incredibly flawed state mandated standardized tests. Its failing at their own metrics!

ProPublica and the 1ribune recently reportea
that Texas was among at least nine states that rejected Alpha leaders' applications to open oublicly funded charter schools that would use ts Al-driven learning tool, according to an Instagram post from the company's co- founder.
The newsrooms also found that students performed significantly worse on state- mandated exams than Alpha leaders predicted at the one charter school they got approved, in Arizona, and at an existing school in Texas where students used the Al program last year.
Morath's agency knew about results in at least one of those charters, Texas Preparatory School in Austin. Last year, state test scores compiled by his agency showed just 21% of students passed. The TEA then gave the charter its third consecutive F rating, mostly based on those scores
David DeMatthews, an education professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said it was "disheartening" and "painful" to learn that the TEA was promoting the product when the company has not yet publicly shown its success in public or charter schools, where there are likely to be more students who have learning barriers or struggle academically

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fire Mike Miles, sue him, end the takeover, return HISD to local control, and for fuck's sake, stop inviting him to pontificate on his "success" in HISD while he bleeds our district dry!

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is coming for you too! Don't be fooled by Miles's educationese and weaponization of the langusge of the oppressed. Help us fight it! Listen to actual parents, students, teachers. And go fucking vote! We need Gina Hinojosa to win! But we also need dems to win at every fucking level!

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Miles is a reformer in the sense that he is responsible for major change: in 3 years HISD went from 2% to 25% uncertified teachers, lost 21,000 students, lost more than half its teachers, has shuttered 12 schools, and has gone from 217 school libraries to 44 (most without cert librarians)

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They, quite literally, want your children to be illiterate idiots who can't analyze, can't parse nuance, can't function without an AI chat bot explaining life (through a conservative filter) to them. Like Trump himself, they utilize the language of oppression against those they oppress.

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If for no other reason, you need to care about what is happening in HISD because it could be your future. You need to understand the depth of the depravity of Mike Miles and his education reformer ilk--they care about kickbacks and lining their own pockets and that is it

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have been screaming about this for years but this lock step, AI "taught", zero full-length books curricule and "system" will be exported from Texas to YOU. As it 5.5 million Texas public school students are suffering under Abbott's festering "leadership"

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Texas is a massive education market, only behind California. This assholes aren't going away unless they lose their elections and are sued into oblivion. If Republicans retain control of Congress, Mike Miles's shit will continue to spread outside Texas.

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Miles, Mike Morath, Greg Abbott don't care about your students. They only care about lining their pockets and retaining power. They will ruin your child's education with useless edtech payback while claiming they care about screen time in classrooms. This is the future of "education reform"

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So maybe the Alpha school TimeBack program is being given to the district freely? Surely thats fine, right? Well, after the state board of education rejected Alpha's public charter request, they just went around them. Directly to Mike Morath, after donate 1.5 million to Abbott's reelection campaign

The platform's expansion into traditional public schools comes as government officials across the country, including in Texas, have taken an increasingly skeptical view of Al use in schools. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently banned generative Al for elementary and middle school students in the nation's largest school district. Leaders in Los Angeles mplemented a similar restriction. In August Texas Gov. Greg Abbott proposed further limiting screen time in public schools,.
Abbott, who has received over $1.5 million in political donations from Alpha co-founder MacKenzie Price, did not agree to an interview or directly answer whether he supports the Al platform in Texas schools
"A great teacher in the classroom is the most important element of a quality education," Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott's press secretary wrote in a statement to the newsrooms. "Any tool a district deploys must keep teachers at the center of the classroom, limit unnecessary screen time, and prove results for students."
Abbott's Democratic opponent in the November governor's race, Gina Hinojosa, recently had a press conference opposing the use of Alpha's Al program in Houston ISD. That came after she'd already made a campaign promise to fire Morath if she is elected

obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune through public information requests
One email revealed that Morath offered to personally introduce an Alpha |eader to the superintendent he appointed to lead the yearslong state takeover of Houston Independent School District, the largest in the state.
"I'd also like to set up another site visit to visit ooth your Austin secondary and primary with my team,' wrote Morath. "The Superintendent of H.I.S.D. would also like to do a site visit. so l'II connect y'all separately. And hopefully we can schedule them to happen on the same day."
The emails show that state education officials and Alpha affiliates approached at least 10 school districts about the Al program. After the coordination. at least three of those districts - Houston: Fort Davis, in West Texas; and Aldine near Houston - launched pilot programs incorporating the Al tool

Emails show the commissioner visited Alpha's campuses again with six other TEA leaders. His staff coordinated to go on the same day as Houston Superintendent Mike Miles. Not only nad Morath chosen Miles to lead the Houstor district in 2023, but the two had workec together at Dallas ISD when Morath was a school board member and Miles was the superintendent.
From: Morath, Mike Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2025 4:57 PM To: @studient.com cc Dstudient.com ; Rivera, Nicole ; MacKenzie Price
Subject: RE: met at event
d love to schedule a follow-up discussion. I've followed up w/MacKenzie and separately started to schedule a follow-up re: 1882 partnerships
Sut I'd also like to talk more about your Tier 3 MTSS/academic intervention work, which is what I believe you're loing with a bunch of schools around the country. I'd like to learn more about that, to see how it dovetail vith the systemic approach taken in Houston and in a few other places in TX
've cc'd Nicole Rivera who can set something up for us
Thanks, Mike
Obtained by _ProPublica _and The Texas Tribune, Redacted by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.
Morath follows up with Alpha associates to discuss how their Al learning program could be used in Texas public schools
As of August, the TEA said it could not find any documentation of Alpha or its other companies applying for or running an 1882 partnership. But after the school visit, emails

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Turns out HISD is allocating 500,000 in additional funding to each Future 2 campus, while simultaneously cutting budgets by at least $200 per student throughout the district, forcing more staff layoffs and program closures (like choir, band, debate, even more libraries)

click2houston.com

HISD cuts hit campuses across Houston as schools begin notifying families of staffing and program changes

HISD budget cuts are affecting schools across Houston, with campus notices detailing staffing, classroom and program changes.

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All Future 2 campuses are elementary or middle schools. Currently, 2 of those 9 are using Alpha's TimeBack technology--the same technology the public charter in another state used and which only had a 21% pass rate on state mandated standardized test. HISD says it costs us nothing, but...

EDUCATION
Two Houston ISD elementary campuses will pilot Alpha School's Al- powered education program this fall
Clemente Martinez and Gregg Elementary schools will utilize "TimeBack," a two-hour learning tool developed by Alpha School that has come under criticism in other states.
BIANCA SEWARD | AUGUST 3, 2026, 4:31 PM

Houston ISD plans to use the Alpha technology for students with strong test scores "to evaluate whether this instructional approach can accelerate academic growth,' according to Its press office The office said Houston ISD wasn't paving Alpha for the pilot but did not provide more details. The district asked the Texas attornev general to withhold the contract from the newsrooms under the state's public records
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District leaders say the program will come at no cost to HISD, adding they will evaluate the instructional approach to inform future decisions about the program
The district added in its announcement 'Houston ISD teachers will remain the teachers of record, and the pilot does not replace classroom teachers."
Houston ISD has shared minimal details about now the students will spend their day at Gregg, Martinez and the other "Future 2" schools. The district's 2026-27 budget allocated $500,000 per school in the pilot program, totaling a $4.5 million investment by the state's largest schoo district, which has been under the control of the Texas Education Agency since 2023 pecause one of its high schools received a string of failing academic ratings from the state.

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After two years of plummeting enrollment, last year Miles introduced his new pilot program, Future 2 schools, whose focus on and use of AI are supposed to prepare students for our AI future. While there are currently only 9 Future 2 schools, he hopes to expand to more than 100 in the coming years

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As part of bringing his New Education System (NES) to more than half of HISD schools, Mike Miles closed those school's libraries and turned them into Teams Centers, instituted draconian lock step teaching throughout the district, and drove more than half of HISD teachers away.

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

More than three years ago, the TEA took over Houston ISD, the largest school district in Texas. Mike Morath, Abbott's favorite idiot, appointed Mike Miles to be HISD's superintendent and replaced our democratically elected board with state appointed yes-people with big old "approved" rubber stamps

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone remember Alpha school? Guess what?! Mike Morath and Mike Miles (the state appointed superintendent) colluded to introduce Alpha school's AI tool, TimeBack into Houston ISD! SBOE rejected Alpha's request for pilot charters, so Morath went around them to his favorite lackey: Mike Miles! 🧵

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know im all over the place today. Posting about being raped in college, posting about some idiot in the hospital, posting about the rationalist assholes. Its connected for me tho. Men who dont understand consent and act on lack of understanding that to much greater, and much lesser degrees

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday I was at the hospital attending to a dying family member. At one point, I had the audacity to thank a man for holding the door for me of an elevator he was leaving, and for smiling at him. He took it as permission to hold the door longer and tell "how beautiful, just so beautiful" I was.

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Twenty fish, the more I learn about these fuckers, the more I realize they are the same little boys they've always been: intellectually incurious, trapped by their priors and thought patterns, unwilling and unable to grasp the magnitude of their own self-inflicted stupidity. How. Fucking. Pathetic.🤮

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our college had a zero tolerance for underage drinking policy so if you were in any way inebriated when you reported it (and under 21) not only would the college do nothing to help you, you, yourself and all your friends, would get punished. Nothing fucking changes I am so furious

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was raped in college. Of my ten closest friends, five more were raped in college. Of my ten closest friends, seven had been raped/SA'd before college--two by brothers. My best friend's boyfriend blamed her when she was raped in college. I begged him to listen. I should have stomped on his nuts

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San Antonio Express-News @expressnews.com · 01/10/2026

Large urban-area school districts have seen the most students leave. But the effect could be felt more acutely among smaller school districts, where losing a few students can be big financial hit.

bit.ly

Exclusive: Texas schools could lose $227M from voucher exodus, estimate shows

Large urban-area school districts have seen the most students leave. But the effect could be felt more acutely among smaller school districts, where losing a few students can be big financial hit.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio

The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.

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Lance Ellisor @ellisor.net · 29/09/2026

yeah, this is the last straw. they're all going down. hard. completely sick bastards, every one of them. warning: I got literally nauseous reading this. if you're like me and have strong empathy for little kids, you may wish to skip this. the text of the post pretty much sums it up.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.

A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Because of the Texas state government's error, Texas "counties are now dealing with nearly a year of backlogged voter registration tasks to process. They could include new registrations or simply updates to voters’ existing records, like a change in address..." www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...

votebeat.org

Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error

Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.

BREAKING NEWS
UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some background on Bennett, his funding of the TASB alternative known as Texans for Excellence in Education, and the consultants that have helped politicize nonpartisan school board elections www.texasobserver.org/school-board...

texasobserver.org

Partisans Are Politicizing Our Schools

A network of PACs, and political consultants and lobbyists has quietly infiltrated school board elections. From Steven Monacelli.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Right-wing proponents of school vouchers are very upset that Republican Texas State Rep. Gary VanDeaver, who opposed vouchers and recently resigned from the lege, is now executive director of the Texas Association of School Boards. Among them is Monty Bennett, who helped create a TASB alternative.

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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just weeks before the pivotal midterm elections, Texas election officials have discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications have not been processed due to an error by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

houstonpublicmedia.org

Texas DPS failed to send voter registration applications to county election officials

It’s not known how many applications have been unprocessed. Counties will receive a backlogged surge less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 deadline to register for the Nov. 3 election.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is like eight stories in one breaking news alert. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The Washington Post

Breaking News
September 22, 9:38 PM EDT

ICE officer who shot Venezuelan man in Texas was new recruit not using his body camera
The officer had previously worked at another federal law enforcement agency and joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement during last year’s hiring spree, two former Department of Homeland Security officials said. The Venezuelan man was shot after ICE officers attempted to make a traffic stop in Austin on Sunday.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ATTENTION, NERDS ANOTHER DINO-MUMMY HAS BEEN FOUND IN THE HELL CREEK FORMATION IT IS A T-REX AND THE PALEONTOLOGISTS WORKING ON IT ARE TEASING INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE OF FEATHERS THIS IS NOT A DRILL www.youtube.com/shorts/PQ0dg...

youtube.com

Rex Jr | A T. Rex Mummy May Reignite the Feather Debate #animals #dinosaur #evolution #fossil

YouTube video by Zeke Darwin

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A.J. Carrillo @ajcarrillo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The AI search results point to Talarico's official AB page, Hickenlooper's AB page, and Schumer's joint fundraising AB page. Hick's AB page was designed to look like it's Talarico's AB page, and 100% of the donations go to Hick's slam dunk senate campaign. At least the scampac's split it 50/50.

Screen shot of Hickenlooper for Senate using SEO to steal donations from Talarico's senate campaign. This isn't a Joint Fundraising ActBlue page, it's Hickenlooper's AB page designed to look like it's a Talarico AB page. Hick's slam dunk reelection for Senate is taking 100% of the donation!

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Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Imagine this happening in the Gulf. No one’s evacuating for a trop storm but it could turn into a 5 in less than a day.

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Man.... I just want to make my daughter a Halloween costume and am confronted by the scamminess of our entire economy at every turn. Fml

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Trained on a teacher’s material, courses, and papers, these digital twins will live online, becoming a “copy of yourself that you can then use to scale your time.”

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Update on the condition of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at the South Texas Ice Processing Center. He’s being taken to the hospital. He is in tremendous pain and tells us that the bullet is still inside his left side. He can’t move the left side of his body.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@nytimes.com A #pancreatic cancer pill now has full FDA approval. The pill doubles median survival for deadly pancreatic cancer, with some patients living for years. The approval compressed a process that normally takes months into weeks because the benefit was so large, and the need so urgent.

nytimes.com

F.D.A. Approves Drug Poised to Transform Care for Pancreatic Cancer (Gift Article)

In a key clinical trial, patients who got the pill, daraxonrasib, lived twice as long as those who got chemotherapy.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

npr.org

Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas

The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How do I explain that the light looks weightless and shallow?

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I also find it highly disturbing that all the AI gen images of children have nearly identical faces. And that the children have adult features (like massive curvy hips). Its so messed up. Our kids are going to have such fucked body images 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I dont use Etsy often cause they suck, but figured I'd at least try to peruse/try to find sellers there and order directly from them instead. But nope! Just AI slop image after AI slop image. Spent a good 20 minutes explaining how I knew they were AI to youngest so not a total waste I guess

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We need a word for that particular light quality that nearly all AI images seem to have. The weird, amorphous, diffused golden hour light that seems to come from within the subject as much as it does the "light source"

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