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Fuss @fusspot.rip · 6h

This was worth sitting and typing out the alt text. Even Cookie Monster gets that genAI is worthless.

A photograph of an article from The New Yorker magazine.

It is headed by a stylized illustration (by Luci Gutiérrez) of a nervous-looking Cookie Monster facing the viewer head-on and raising a circuitry-covered cookie to his open mouth.

TEXT: Me resident cookie expert on Sesame Street, so me responsible for telling everyone about cookie—how to eat cookie, how to make cookie, and, most important, how to slow down and enjoy cookie. But then me get new boss, Matt.

Matt here to “implement technological solutions that improve productivity.” Me don’t understand. So me ask Big Bird for translation. Big Bird say this mean Cookie Monster has to use A.I. for cookie work now.

Me confused. Me know cookie inside and out! Me never get complaint about cookie duties before. Now me not enough? Me spiral.

So me talk to Elmo. Elmo say not to worry because me cookie experience still very valuable. Elmo also remind Cookie Monster that me always have good cookie idea, like making chocolate cookie, or coconut cookie, or oatmeal cookie, or tiny cookie, or macaroon. Wow! Me making me hungry. Me feel better now.

Next day, me record episode of weekly cooking show with Grover. In episode, me eat VERY BIG cookie. Everyone laugh. Me proud!

Then Matt ask why me not using A.I. to write script for cooking show. Matt say A.I. smarter and faster than Cookie Monster. Me explain that me already cookie expert, and me always done good job of bringing joy of cookies to everybody. But Matt say that if me no use A.I., me fired. Me panic!

So, me try it. Me tell A.I.: “Write about cookies.”

“When it comes to cookies, it’s not about the taste—it’s about the experience.”

What this mean? Taste of cookie very important to cookie experience. Me frustrated. Why Matt say robot would be good at cookie?

But me try again. This time, me tell A.I.: “Write about cookies passionately!

“Some people only eat cookies on the weekends. I eat cookies all day long. Because the cookie grind never stops. Agree?”

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zidane @zadayaz.bsky.social · 18h

i feel like it doesnt come off a strongly in screenshots but ffxi is genuinely so pretty that when i was trying to take tulia pictures to compare to ffxiv’s version i got distracted by how pretty the sunrise looked and went to go watch that instead

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Zant Balisong @phlashdark.bsky.social · 23h

Y'all should know the play by now. They start off with whatever seems the most socially acceptable kink to cry bloody murder over, then it's just a hop and a skip and a jump to everything suddenly being criminalized. Kink content is important. Even the kinks you don't like. Remember that.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This may be the favourite slide I have designed for our first year core module this year.

Screenshot of a Powerpoint slide. On the left hand side is the heading 'your voice is more important han the computer's voice, and a list of bullet points explaining that AI generated prose isn't very good. On the right is a photo of a person in a Hello Kitty costume, wearing a pink princess dress, holding a sledgehammer and about to smash a laptop that is sitting at her feet.

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🌕 Vicious Emotion 🌕 @originalzin.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

You're stronger than you think. (1/2) #Mothman

A comic page with three panels. The first panel shows a pair of legs in black boots and jean shorts walking towards a round figure in the background. The girl walking says "Hey dad, I'm back."

The second panel shows the round, dark figure in the background stand up to reveal itself to be a massive winged creature with moth antennae, the artist's interpretation of Mothman. The figure who was walking in the first panel is revealed to be a furry dog girl with pink hair and glasses, as well as a pink flannel, a spiked writs bracer and a spiked collar. She stands at about a tenth of the size of Mothman. She says, "Sorry it's been a minute. Weird fucking year."

In panel three, we get a close up of her. She holds a duffel back behind her back and looks off to the side. She says, "I meant to call."

A comic page with two panels.

In the first panel, the dog girl sits on her duffel bag as Moth man begins to envelop her in his wings. She says, "I just wanted there to be good news, I guess."

In panel two, Mothman's wings begin to glow a ghostly green as green fog envelops the dog girl. He says, "You are here. This is not good news?"

A comic page with three panels.

In the first panel, the dog girl shrugs and says, "I guess?"

In the second panel, we see her from above as she leans over herself, her figure becoming smaller as it hunches over. She says, "Feels like all I did this year was survive."

In the third panel, a now brightly glowing Mothman looks down at the dog girl and says, "That is not good news?"

A comic with three panels.

In the first panel, the dog girl sits on her duffel bagm holding her body with both arms and looking off to the side. "You know what I mean," she says.

In panel two, we get a close-up of Moth man's eyes, and we see the dog girl's reflection in them. He says, "I do."

In the third panel, we see a ghostly green trail of energy that flows forward towards the camera, with several ghostly green images of the dog girl placed along the trail. They all look sad, in pain, or timid. Surrounding them are several words in various shades of green. They read, "Fear, self-doubt, depression, transphobia, chronic pain, loss, poverty."

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The people who closed the Academy of Natural Sciences Public Museum want all of us to get over it and stop talking about it. But we aren't going to do that. Philly kids deserve a world class natural history museum. It’s our job to get it back for them. Take these actions today.

A slide that says take action to save the academy, post about re-opening the academy's public museum and tag drexel university, and the academy of natural sciences, call mayor parker at 215 686 2181, call Josh Shapiro at 717 787 2500, and contact Drexel President Merlo, 215 895 2100

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Diana Chan @thingsbydiana.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

✨⚡️ Cyberpunk Skeleton Dragon ~

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026

If you still have the Epic Games Launcher on your system, don't update it and get it the fuck off of your computer. There's no telling what damage it can do or what vibecoded landmines are waiting in it.

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Gary Erskine @garyerskine.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The Murderbot: ALL SYSTEMS RED graphic novel is GO! We're fully funded in five hours so the book will happen. You can still access Early Bird offers until Friday 17h00 BST. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos... #murderbot

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Biscuit Wolf Games @biscuitwolfgames.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Magic Knight Rayearth you say? I'm in!

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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Moonpatch 🏳️‍⚧️ @moonpatch.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Casual toxic yaoi vs ranked, competitive yuri

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adrienne ✨ Truth Scrapper @insertdisc5.com · 14/10/2026

answering the question every ISAT fan is asking about cool upcoming visual novel about toxic girls Truth Scrapper: is it gonna be more toxic than sif/loop (well, yes.)

Anonymous asked:
On a scale from healthy & functioning to sloop, how toxic can we expect the yuri to be in TS?
whatever siffrin and loop are doing is gonna look like child's play compared to the toxicity the girls are engaging in. and i know this sounds like a funny brag but i am 100% serious.
#ask tag #truth scrapper #let's put it this way: i didnt read books on abusive behavior to write isat lmaoooooo

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 14/10/2026

You guys, I just really love October 🧡 Tisha Mark ©2026, Autumn Ablaze, oil on gessoboard, 8"x6" This one-of-a-kind original seascape oil painting is available: tishamark.com/product/autu... #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Autumn Ablaze" oil on Ampersand Gessobord, 8"x6" (2026). This seascape painting has an orange-toned sunset sky with grayish-blue cloud formations over a dark sea meeting a reddish earth-toned rocky shore on the right. There is much texture throughout the painting.

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Death and Gravity @bushidosquirrel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

YES ON 40! NO ON 41! NO ON 42! SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 15/10/2026

I keep forgetting part of my job is to sell my book. I wrote and edited it, I feel like my work is done, but this is not so 🤣 Here is my book. It is gothic and weird and the monster is kinda hot if you like manipulative contradictory shapeshifters. Pls buy. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/cl-h...

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The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen

A gripping tale of a descent into darkness as two siblings enter a world of magic, secrets and twisted loyalties – for those who loved Starling House by Alix…

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The diversity of the Japanese PS1 and PS2 libraries was no accident. Smaller budgets and team sizes helped, but so did those publishers who served as curators. They had the money to take risks on smaller games and in turn, more mouths were fed that could keep making games for sustainable audiences.

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Swirl @swirlingflight.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The alt text really sums it up

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If you’d like to join us in calling on leadership to reconsider yesterday’s decision and help us build a better Wizards together, you can encourage them to do so by signing our petition and sharing it! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the…

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O'B. J. Dart @objdart.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Lambert street does it up. Every day, new scenario.

Skeleton bike rider ready ro jump over several skeletons

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 13/10/2026

Dogcatcher xkcd.com/3309/

Comic. [Three people seated at table.] PERSON 1 with ponytail: Once we break this story, he won’t be able to get elected *dogcatcher*. PERSON 2: Why do people always use “dogcatcher” as the example of a worthless office? Animal control officers are valued professionals. It just seems unnecessarily insulting. PERSON 3 with shoulder-length hair: Well, their job *is* catching strays.

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 13/10/2026

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

A white cat is sleeping curled up in a med that has five fluffy white lobes of a flower petal, the cat has half her face peeking upwards and otherwise has filled the pentagonal space in the center of the bed completely

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"ADHD label risks lifelong harm to children." If you don't label the disorder, then what we will be labelled instead is "Lazy." "Underachiever." "Doesn't live up to their potential." "Bad student." Those labels come with pain, shame, and abuse. The ADHD label comes with a chance for support.

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Swirl @swirlingflight.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

2nd grade, when some social ostracizing highlighted ways I was different from most of my class - and that I was disinclined to hide or change it all to fit in.

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Toñi Gil 🎃Blueberrymaps @blueberrymess.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

RPG Trader has a new bundle! My #Battlemap The Graveyard is included, along with a bunch of spooky stuff for your TTRPG sessions. Check it out here: rpgtrader.com/products/972...

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Spooky Season Bundle on RPG Trader

A large collection of tabletop games and modules with creepy, horror, and halloween themes

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

I am, Sir, your faithful Servant.
Charles Dickens".

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/10/2026

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Nimasprout 🔜 LBX 213 @nimasprout.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Finished this wave piece on wood panel. Tried out an oval format with Acryla gouache and color pencil. 🖌️✨ This one is available in my shop 🌊✨ nimasprout.shop/products/cas...

Hand holding oval painting of waves cascading down rocks

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

she said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring

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매요내주 @nomain050.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

팬아트에 벨트 잡아당기는거 있어서 놀라움에 무릎을 침 세상엔 똑똑한 사람들이 많구나

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Writer Beware is a great resource for looking up potentially problematic publishers. They published this updated history of MRM’s rights grabs yesterday. Their history lesson on MRM will be better than mine.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When you write an original short story, you own it. You don’t usually sell it. You sell *rights* to it. When you sell to Clarkesworld, you continue to own the story, while they have the right to publish it for the period stipulated in their contract.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

"Ohhhh nooo! Our 'AI' 'Agent' 'went rogue' and deleted all the student loan records and paid off every remaining tuition acount by draining football coaches' salaries! Ohhhh noooooooo!"

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The Witch of Art @thewitchofart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gotta love the idea of Ralsei being the adopted queen's child #deltarune

In the top panel, it shows Queen looking at up, while her hands raising together, saying "I feel the femenine power"
In the middle panel, it shows Queen smiling, and said "And I'm so"
In the bottom panel, it shows Queen starts to shake her hands, and said "Accepting..." while looking at Ralsei well dressed with a dress with a fire theme.

Queen thought, "Finally I got a daughter"

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A Korean king ordered a bunch of linguists to come up with a written language to increase literacy due to the difficulty of chinese and they came up with one of the easiest to read languages in existence.

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

Hot Take: I think leaving Magneto as a Holocaust victim who is a very slowly aging mutant akin to Apocalypse is leagues better than changing his race, religion, and ethnicity or taking him off the table.

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Solaire @GATEway FATE 🐏 @solairelunaire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this is a man of unparalleled dedication and overwhelming strength of will

screenshot of a back of a roegadyn man in limsa with the username "Justherefor Mahjong"

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

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