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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

When I post the Monsters of Ohio art, some dipshit will bray about it being "AI" despite my crediting the artist (Michael Koelsch), there being many examples of his work in the pre-"AI" era, and my long-established "No 'AI'" rule regarding my work. These "AI" finger-pointers can go fuck themselves.

The really excellent cover for "Monsters of Ohio," by Michael Koelsch. It has a tentacle monster using coupons!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

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Işıl Arıcan @isilarican.com · 02/10/2026

Quick and easy guide on how to prevent sexual assault. You are welcome.

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Hannah is a chaos gremlin @aciddotexe.com · 01/10/2026

Re: Jacob Geller - As someone who has experienced sexual assault myself, I personally still believe in rehabilitation for perpetrators who can admit they've fucked up. I think it's super unfair that the victim wasn't considered in ANY of this stuff being dug up, and maybe has been retraumatised...

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Susanah Grace @susanahgrace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Stop fucking using genAI. Not even for a joke, not even for that oh so cutting political satire. Every time you use it, you are actively taking food out of our mouths. You are using the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it.

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James Mendez Hodes @lulavampiro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

master, please, you have to train me to wield the weapon *not* as an extension of myself. i have so many allergies. new car scent makes me feel nauseated. i get headaches when it's about to rain. my sword deserves better

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R. A. Meenan (Sammie)(She/They) @zyearth.com · 07/08/2026

Bluesky's Trending Page collecting lyrics for the next generation's We Didn't Start The Fire remake.

A screenshot of the Bluesky trending page talking about ICE misconduct, Flock cameras, SpaceX, ketchup slices, and AI-designed viruses that are gonna kill us all.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

When they photograph larger bodies, is it only pregnant people? What angles do they photograph larger people from? Is there a balance in their portfolio between plus size clients and straight size clients? Sometimes the answers to these questions are ... depressing.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It tells me a lot about what kinds of bodies the photographer thinks are beautiful, which tells me - as a plus size person myself - a lot about whether I'll be able to trust them with my time and vulnerability. Because getting photos taken can be vulnerable.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My partner and I are talking about getting couples portraits done (since we have almost no photos together), and when browsing portfolios I'm checking to see how many, if any, plus size people are in their galleries, and where they're positioned in the photo.

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/08/2026

amazing. no notes.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I don't count myself as either a fan or a hater of her music and brand, and I'm definitely not trying to be parasocial about this, but just as one human to another: Ariana Grande is not okay. If the fiction needs to be "I'm stepping back due to scrutiny", fine, as long as someone gets her real help.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The posters saying "wait till you hear how many books the librarians shred" are being disingenuous. The destruction of books is not by itself what's causing outrage. It's in combination with many other factors, chief among them AI companies' history of unethical and even blatantly illegal actions.

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

No data centers, no ai, NO BILLIONAIRES Fave commission so far this year.

Two rats saying no data centers and fighting for their community

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Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 28/07/2026

Seen people talking about “sex addiction” and “porn addiction"? These are not real medical diagnoses. Dr. Amy Marsh explains, with information for people who are concerned about the role of sex and porn in their lives. www.scarleteen.com/read/sex-s...

Text: "Want the fact on porn and sex 'addiction'? Dr. Amy Marsh sets the record straight on a misunderstood term. Read it on Scarleteen," alongside a person squinting one eye into a magnifying glass they're holding up to their face.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Okay, but did you learn the actions that go with it? Absolutely wild. I can't believe what just got dredged out of my memory.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 25/07/2026

So much for SDCC’s anti-AI policies — I’ve been complaining to show management about this booth for three days.

A booth with an AI backdrop and AI posters

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Arcturus SaDiablo @asadiablo.me · 26/07/2026

If you have a "no AI" policy, but let this kind of nonsense go on, you don't have a "no AI" policy. This should make every human who makes art of any kind furious.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

But they can't say "hidden gem in [town or village] because the population is too small for a town or village. Its address is the highway. It doesn't have a named road of its own. But if you have visited it, and you liked it there, I'm genuinely happy for you. It seems to be doing well!

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Also, hidden gem in ONTARIO? Bro, I don't know if you've hummed the song to yourself lately, but Canada Is Really Big. You can hide anything in a province. That's a lot of land!

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I saw a clip about a "hidden gem in Ontario", and I looked up where it is, and it's over a five hour drive from me, in the middle of nowhere. The sort of place that nobody knows about because unless you live there, it's too far.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

When you look at how many liberals in the comments are going "they should remigrate him!" You can see how absolutely effective Nazi dog whistles have been on the liberal mind. "Remigration" is a Nazi term, it means Nazi shit, and they repeat it uncritically and enthusiastically.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

People need to be more like Batman.

Batman breaking a shotgun and saying "THIS is the weapon of the ENEMY. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it."

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A digital illustration. Seen mostly in silhouette (with some hints of detail if you zoom in) we see Sisyphus in his classical Greek togs against a reddish orange background. He is working very hard to shove an extremely large, roughly spherical boulder up a very steep grade. Large letters carved into the side of the boulder facing us read ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Some digital hand lettering swooping out into extruded 3D shapes from the right to left and angled down a bit. It’s colored in very mites tones of grayish-blueish-pinkish with some faint yellow glow behind. Of course it reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 30/11/2023

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

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Wisewillow (still 😷) @wisewillow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Found it!

Screenshot of a tumblr post by moonachilles that reads Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 08/07/2026

PSA If you do NOT want your Instagram posts to be AI fodder, do this: -open Instagram - tap your profile - tap the three lines in the top-right - scroll down to “Sharing and reuse” -turn that sh*t off (screenshot below)

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We've got ONE WEEK left to go and we're just ✨63 people✨ away from reaching our base goal of 200 new sign-ups on Patreon! This Pledge Drive is how we're raising funds for our tiny publication to afford another year's worth of comics- & patrons get EXCLUSIVE comics! www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy/...

Text: Oh Joy Sex Toy's 2026 Pledge Drive Comics.
1) My Life in Sketchbooks - Jey Pawlik
2) Smiles Before Miles - Ripley LaCross
3) Day in the Life - Hien Pham
Image: Samples from each comic.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I have other examples, but I wanted to focus on those two because folks will hear "Oh Joy Sex Toy" and think, "Sex toy review site? Porn comics?!" And yeah, those are there, but it's educational first and foremost. And I'm so grateful that it is.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Learning that there were forms of hormonal birth control that aren't the pill? Literally life-changing. The birth control patch has been liberating for my ADHD brain, and I never would have asked my doctor about it without OJST, because I didn't know!

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Canadian public sex ed in schools is so laser-focused on "please oh please don't have a teen pregnancy" that they miss a whole slew of helpful information. Like, what are signs of a yeast infection? How about a UTI? Bacterial vaginosis? This Easy Bake Oven inside of me can be upset in so many ways!

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

OJST is holding a pledge drive! Please support if you can. I can confidently, with concrete evidence, say that this comic has changed my life for the better. www.patreon.com/posts/oh-joy...

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Oh Joy! Our 13th Birthday Pledge Drive by Oh Joy Sex Toy on Patreon. Join Oh Joy Sex Toy's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I need someone else in my life to become really weird about The Lovecraft Investigations so that I'm not the only person I know who has listened to it. Twice.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Bless her, but every time I've spoken to my doctor on the phone or in person, her first words are, "Hi Jessica, how are you?" and my response is, "Great, if you ignore the reason I made the appointment." "Ah, right, that's true," she says, completing the greeting ritual.

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Frances Stewart @ronelyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A suggestion: if you feel a criticism is aimed at you, consider if there's any part of it you could usefully apply. If there isn't, ignore and move on. If there is, apply, nod in acknowledgement, and move on. "Perfect" is what we DO, never what we ARE.

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Jess | From the Desk of House Stalwart @stalwarthouse.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I saw a reply on here from someone trying to mention Palantir, but they didn't remember its name, and it cross-pollinated with "Palpatine" in their head, so in their message they wrote "Palpantir". Which I think is just the perfect marriage of 'incisive metacommentary' and 'charming mistake'.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I’m genuinely fascinated by these occurrences. Like I’ve worked with major brands and licensees over the years and they always used to be so exacting over the smallest details, and then I think of the many many people who are all presumably paid pretty decent money who happily signed off on this

“Thank you for your comments. We just wanted to confirm that all Moleskine notebook covers are created by our designers, while Al was used to enhance the background of these images. We hope The Lord of the Rings inspires you!”

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Moleskine used AI to generate their Lord of The Rings collection, by the way. Don't buy their products.

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