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blueJane @bluejane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I drew a smol Persephone!

A short girl with black hair, big round glasses, green eyes, and a purple dress with a pink sash.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026

It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026

This, exactly: if you're an author and you say "but that would be horribly unprecedented!" It would not. There would be some kind of statutory license that would amount to pennies on what you'd get from a lawsuit.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026

This is my take on almost every single pending copyright case: settling for a few billion is what we will have to do because the alternative is probably that Congress rewrites copyright law so that we have to give it over for free.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

True. Used to be you had to really work to run up huge IP liabilities. Now? This 30-second video probably infringes at least two trademarks, between two and six copyrights, and - somewhat remarkably given that there are only three speaking roles - six people's NIL rights. Truly incredible progress.

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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Castle Pfauenfels

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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Home of the Alchemist 🌔

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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Gut Falkensee

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blueJane @bluejane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And the third commission requested by OWD: Argenta and her friend group and lovers and little sister prepping for dinner!

A short comic depicting the hero Argenta preparing dinner with her friend Red and her little sister Aurelia, while Argenta's girlfriend Roxy naps in the background. Red and Argenta then fetch their respective significant others, Cassidy and Castor, away from mad science. The final panel depicts this found family eating together happily.
Dialogue in the middle two panels:
Cassidy: But I'm almost done!
Red: Sure you are.

Argenta: Castor. Dinner.
Aurelia: Yeah, dinner!
Castor: Is it that late already?

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blueJane @bluejane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've just completed three commissions today featuring fanart of Brighter Side of Gray! Big thanks to OWD on Sufficient Velocity for commissioning these. These are the first two; the third will be on a following post.

Three superheroes and a new hire relax after a difficult day. Dialogue is as follows:
Hammer: Gonna take ages to get all this soot out of my hair. Maybe I can give Argenta a call.
King In Embers: Blugh, hate those old buildings. I can still taste burnt mold.
Counterforce: What's the maximum range on your powers? Search and rescue will go more smoothly if you can pinpoint trapped individuals for us.
Kayla: If it's just detecting minds, I should be able to pick up on anyone within 300 yards.

Six corporate superheroes sit in a board room meeting discussing recent public relations events. One seat is conspicuously absent, with only the youngest other superhero noticing. Dialogue is as follows:
Redfinger: "No complaints about the interview, but the crowd Q&A after was... er...
Executive Assistant: "Heard. We'll have plants next time."
Orion: "Speaking of crowds, I'd like to bring up an issue with the meet and greet last weekend-"

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Copper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My friend got a picture of them all together.

Sailor Moon cosplayers in a Mexican themed variation

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely lost my shit at this co-op mode for Hearts of Iron, which you play as the Army, Navy, Emperor, and Government. All have their own win conditions aside the Government, which lost the game automatically in 1925. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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True Imperial Japan Experience

True Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/09/2026

Hi everyone! The latest update from the Lynne Freeman circus has arrived. It's a terrible circus and it appears to have only one act (bad faith conduct), but it does keep going on and on. Lemme explain what the NEW bad faith conduct is.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OK, a day later than planned, here we GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! What time is it, kiddies? That's right, it's Litigation Disaster Tourism time! And whoah nellie! there's a lot here. Ground rules: 1: I'm going to do this until I'm too tired or bored to continue. No telling how long that will be.

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🌸MurmurLilies🌸 @murmurlilies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

flying battleship concept 👀

concept artwork of a flying battleship for my GlassBorn project. two versions are shown: the normal version at the top, and the "possessed" version at the bottom. the Japanese battleship "Yamato" was used for reference. several key details are pointed out, namely that the ship has seven grav plates on each side, rear thrusters, and a tail fin. the words "Utmost Good Faith" are emblazoned on the ship's side. in the possessed version, the ship has been overtaken by Empty Vessels. three large Evies are seemingly grafted to the top of the ship, with several smaller ones growing across its surface. the bow of the ship has been converted into a terrifying face, as the Evies have overtaken the ship's interior.

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dapperdog @dapperd0g.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

shimmer to glimmer communication #xenoblade

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bit late to post this, but a few days ago I went to look at some historic vessels in Lowestoft - and amazingly nobody had warned them I was coming. Consequently they were unexpectedly light on the traditional greeting of flaming torches and pitchforks.

Two old trawlers and a sailing fishing smack, the latter fully dressed with signal flags.

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EndSky @end-sky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Out of morbid curiosity and deep stupidity, I decided to make possibly the worst financial decision of my life and bought a copy. It's already a lot. I think it might break me.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026

Everyone saying that AI is good for nothing is wrong. It's absolutely revolutionizing the spam and scam market. Micro-targeted scams individually targeting specific people using their exact relationships and anything they've ever posted online, and harder to detect by software than ever before.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026

This is such a great question, and it reminds me that people who meet my dog are better at asking his pronouns and/or apologizing if they make an incorrect assumption based on his swanky purple harness than they are about human beings.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I read today in an article in The Daily Beast that some military leaders have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spit my drink out. I then realized that everyone should have the knowledge to appreciate this ruthless nickname. (thread)

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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The United Nations has voted to formally phase out the #Mercator #map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays the relative size of #Africa. 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no There were six abstentions.

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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The NYT literally has a policy against crediting other outlets when at all possible, it's fucked

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsk... May 5, 2025

I took an investigative reporting course during grad school from a senior NYT journalist. Maybe the best class I took from a skills perspective. use what I learned all the time

Also: we got marked down for linking to local reporting instead of using NYT Authoritative Voice in assignments

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/09/2026

The NYT lost the Pulitzer for their transphobic podcast series with Azeen Ghorayshi to Pablo Torre and his reporting on the Clippers. They're salty about it so of course they're not going to properly credit him.

Screenshot of an X (Twitter) post by journalist Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist) criticizing coverage by The New York Times and The Athletic.
The post text reads:
"It is shameful that @nytimes @TheAthletic buried the fact that the biggest punishment in NBA history was the result of an investigation by journalist @PabloTorre. And to call it the result of a 'podcast episode' is a further slap in the face. He won a Pulitzer for this story and they call it an 'episode' instead of, at the outset -- crediting him with exposing this scandal. Really really lame."
Below the text, the timestamp shows "8:18 AM · Sep 3, 2026 · 32.7K Views".

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

To the layperson aerodynamics might as well be witchcraft. And these tubes here, designed to set Matthew Hopkins running to the nearest haberdashery, are the peculiar abuse of physics known as the Flettner rotor.

You can tell this is a Flettner Rotor ship by the way it says "Flettner Rotor" on the side. Two huge cylinders stick out the top of a surprisingly small vessel.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Them: We want to start a fume hood back up. Me: Okay, not really my thing unless it was a former rad lab. [starts pulling contact info of the correct person] Out of curiosity, which room? Them: Seaborg's former space. Me: [hands freeze] I can already tell you that you don't have enough money.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One of the less acknowledged casualties of the Thirty Minute Description-Masquerading-As-Analysis Video Industrial Complex is that folks who get their media interpretation primarily from those videos seem to end up struggling with the idea that sometimes artists do things on purpose.

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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 30/08/2026

SungWon Cho seems like a pretty chill guy who doesn't easily get mad so it's kind of sad that he's had to make this

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a formal request for anyone who sees me in public

YouTube video by ProZD

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

(I also find it bleakly hilarious that self-attested DOB is so inadequate for websites that we have to enact all these massively overcomplicated laws forcing us all to spend millions on third-party age verification, but launder the self-attestation through the OS and suddenly it's fine.)

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Okay, I have to read the exact text of the law to see if they specify a percentage, but I think, hilariously, this may also exempt Android and MacOS

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/08/2026

we asked americans to have an opinion about something that has absolutely no impact on their lives and here’s what they said

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You've been hearing the story about how Dolly Parton turned down Elvis when his people demanded a chunk of her royalty rights in exchange for recording "I Will Always Love You". That reminded me of something I've wondered about for a long time. The guy who actually put the ask on Dolly was a ...

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1/ The Russian government is now penalising companies for failing to protect their facilities against Ukrainian drone attacks. Court papers show that both state-owned and privately-owned firms have been fined under anti-terrorism codes. ⬇️

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/08/2026

Lynne please remember that you have to save some money to hire an attorney for when the plaintiffs sue you and your husband for fraudulent conveyance which they are going to do

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/08/2026

Something happened today in the Case of Oh My God This Is Never Going To End, aka that time someone sued because her book contained all the shit that you'd get if someone smashed Harry Potter together with Twilight and then someone else had (shock) the exact same things, but successful.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm not saying it doesn't HAPPEN, but "all weird indie TTRPGs are a kink thing" is reductive. There is also "designing RPGs to publish your worldbuilding bible", "designing RPGs because you invented a neat dice trick", "designing RPGs to win an argument", and "designing RPGs as an act of self harm".

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Ted Hoffman's Actuarials @tedhoffman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think your position was "take the current SCOTUS, repurpose them to hearing only cases about the 3rd Amendment, create a new SCOTUS." IMO, that's too moderate. I would repurpose the current SCOTUS to only hearing cases involving the 18th Amendment. Leave nothing to chance.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Honestly I've reached a point where I think court-packing is the overly cautious conservative option 😅

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I wonder what Roberts thinks will happen when he decides that Democratic presidents need to obey the law.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I did not turn it into a career, but if you're wondering about the effect of luck: I was sick on Thanksgiving Day, 2020, was self-isolating in my house, and because of that I was basically the only lawyer shitposting online when the crazy "Kraken" election suits dropped.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 21/08/2026

FOR THE RECORD: If you did not immediately understand that sentence, you still have a chance to save yourself. Take it! Run! It’s too late for the rest of us, but you can live free!

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