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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 18h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Slurms MacKrueger @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's NEW ALBUM DAY everyone! My new album, MAKE THIS OUR OWN, is out now! Various streaming links below and a reminder that any Bandcamp sales will be donated to Gendered Intelligence @genderedintelligence.co.uk

open.spotify.com

Make This Our Own - Album by Leech Comforts | Spotify

Leech Comforts · album · 2026 · 10 songs

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Been a rubbish morning, so taking the time to start the latest season of The Big Man Of No Fixed Abode Wot Punches The Baddies Until They're Not Being Dicks Anymore.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone was finally good enough to actually name the big song that's been doing a discourse lately (Choosin' Texas fwiw), so I gave it a listen, and it's just a standard country and/or western song. Am I missing something? We need a better standard of music discourse.

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Star Trek's Bajoran people are in such an odd place spiritually. Unlike most everyone else, they have real demonstrable proof that their gods are real, but those gods keep showing that they're also kinda unbothered dipshits. Must be a bit disappointing for the poor downtrodden Bajoran.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the fun games to play when you have a cat and a small kitchen: Where the hell do I put this pie to cool down that is safe from having a curious paw stuck in it?

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our government thinks you're a terrorist if you protest this.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I didn't really watch horror films when I was younger, so every year @ajschilds.bsky.social gives me a Horror Education around Halloween time. We decided to start early this year with Deadstream, a thoroughly daft but effective found footage film that could easily pass for an Evil Dead film.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Head and the shoulders, the knees and the toes, I slam in the back of my Dragula.

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Slurms MacKrueger @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good morning! I have another BRAND NEW VIDEO for you all. Crutches is another song off Make This Our Own, my new album coming next Friday. Please watch and share!

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Leech Comforts - Crutches (Official Video)

YouTube video by Leech Comforts

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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh, so all the talk of scrapping the triple lock and even the state pension itself is picking up steam. Cool, guess I'll just die then. How is anyone supposed to have faith or hope in the future in this fucking mean and callous country full of spiteful bastards?

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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can get angry at the WB/Paramount merger. And you should. But it's also important to not crash out over things you cannot control. Your own life is more important than corporate interests.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Old person picks old game. Not the first game I can remember liking, but the one I associate/blame for my interest in video gaming as a hobby/habit. Was it good? Probably not, but that didn't really matter, it was there.

Boulder Dash. In all its CGA graphics glory. A top down puzzle game where a weird stripy jumper goblin looking fella digs through trap-laden levels to collect diamonds.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I let slip that I'd never seen Hackers to @ajschilds.bsky.social, and so now I am bearing witness to THE FUTURE™®©

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My Tomb Raider first time play through brings me to Angel of Darkness. This is the best one, yeah? The one everyone adored? That didn't nearly kill the series? That did so well it kept Core Design in business? Hold on, I'm being handed a note...

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The HMRC, with a friendly smile, bathed in soft pleasing bright colours: Tax doesn't have to be taxing. The colours fade, the smile turns into a snarl, discordant violin screeches as the HMRC turns away: But fuck you, we'll make it so anyway.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Finishing off the final final for real final this time edit of my next book, Ephemeral, and getting very excited to be able to share it with everyone. Very happy with how it's turned out, something a bit different to my previous stuff.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I would like to thank my boiler for breaking now (rather than in the dead of winter as, is traditional) when it is still mild enough out that the cold showers can be described as merely bracing rather than the frigid fingers of death itself tearing my soul asunder.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Another set of tombs raided in my 1st time play of the thrilling adventures of Lara Croft. Chronicles is probably the weakest of the ones I've played, but it's still got a lot of charm and is a fun old clunky time. Except the Red Alert level. Red Alert, and that goddamn shooting range, can fuck off.

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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

No well functioning democracy should allow this kind of buying of politics by wannabe plutocrats.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Baby Lara levels of Tomb Raider Chronicles has a bunch of Baby Flukemen running about, and I find that just adorable.

Young Lara Croft, from Tomb Raider, sat by a campfire smiling a little tubby bellied white skinned monster with a lamprey like mouth and red claws, not dissimilar to the famous Flukeman from The X-Files.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reasons I like running: -Good exercise. -Good endorphins. -Cos I can right now. -Get to touch grass. -Get to see all the silly birbs in the park. -Don't want to have brain cooked spending all my time on social media. -Bad doomy thoughts can't get me if I outrun them.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are serious issues for Parliament to resolve, to make legal and practical gender recognition for trans people a reality again in the UK. My letter to the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: www.sianberry.org.uk/news/monitor...

sianberry.org.uk

Monitoring the impact of new guidance From The Equality and Human Rights Commission - Sian Berry MP

I have once again written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, asking questions of how they plan to monitor the impact of their new guidance, the Code of practice for services, public function...

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh, AI will kill us all will it? Sure, whatever you say champ. Wake me when it can successfully convince insecure AI bros to wash their butts or not to be weird about their chat bot girlfriends.

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Kat Bristow @kathrynbristow.uk · 08/09/2026

I don't think that Stats for Lefties was suspended for being trans. I say this as someone that was suspended by the same Green Party body as Eleanora, in my case it was for being trans back in 2021 when the party was in a very different place than it is today. www.opendemocracy.net/en/trans-uk-...

opendemocracy.net

‘I lost my candidacy because I’m trans’: English Green Party member Kathryn Bristow

‘I’ve been deemed a risk to the party’s reputation for being transgender,’ Bristow tells openDemocracy in an exclusive interview

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 08/09/2026

This really is the fundamental toxicity of this technology that just can't ever be escaped; even if it wasn't the object of economically destructive hype, even if it wasn't being overdeployed in environmentally harmful ways, etc, it's like asbestos for the brain

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Josh Moretto @joshmoretto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Art by @reforest-kelley.bsky.social. A reminder for Labor Day.

Fan art of Chief Miles O'Brien, Leeta, and Rom from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The three are seated in Quark's bar. Miles is explaining something to the other two. The upper caption reads, "The boss needs you, you don't need the boss"; the lower caption reads, "Labor is entitled to all it creates".

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That's a wrap on Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, AKA Lara, girl, what have you done!? Only prior knowledge was what I could remember of @steveofwarr.bsky.social's retro, wasn't sure if I'd manage it cos it looked A LOT. Ended up really liking it, despite the sometimes baffling 90s puzzle design.

Screenshot of Tomb Raider The Last Revelation. Lara, in an ancient Egyptian tomb, kicking in a bunch of mummies that are swarming her, rudely.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My thought is that this was a test. The fash have put 300 masked guys on the streets to block the country's biggest port, the police haven't intervened and the government's has just shrugged and said nothing.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There are groups of masked cunts dressed in black going to block a port for racist reasons. Fascism in the UK is out in the open these days, and I don't trust our leaders to do anything to tackle it in any meaningful way.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Classic Evri delivery today. Didn't bother to ring bell. ☑️ Didn't bother to send message saying delivery complete. ☑️ Package left on doorstep in full view of street. ☑️ Package torn. ☑️ Sticker boasting next day delivery on item ordered mid-week. ☑️

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is definitely one of the greatest #horror related videos I’ve ever come across on IG.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The full thing. This beautifully goofy Sam Raimi adaptation of that goofy old folk tale that Mark Twain popularised. It's stupid, and I love it. youtu.be/um5IZ2fgKTE?...

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50 states of fright..The golden arm ( full length version)

YouTube video by Jass Singh

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 18/08/2026

So pleased with all the love this clip has had! The film itself is *achingly* close to breaking 100k views on YT and while reaching this number will achieve absolutely nothing (tangible) it will make me, a buffoon, very happy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vZ...

youtube.com

DUCKS | Award Winning Animated Short Film

YouTube video by AJ Jefferies

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We are entering a golden age of GTA VI discourse, and this is an early contender for the most pathetic and unhinged hot take in what is sure to be a very crowded field over the next few months.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dude at the shop wearing a red t-shirt with an American flag and text "A swift kick in the balls will cure your gender confusion". Wondering just what possesses someone to go out, in public where others can see you, with a deliberately demeaning and hateful slogan over your maga-coded slop shirt.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The cruelty is staggering. I had a delay (due to GIC fuckery) of six months when I was on the waiting list many years ago, and that was utterly devastating, cancelling would've destroyed me. My heart goes out to all those affected. All because the media is out hunting for a new "scandal" to make up.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's more like it, Strange New Worlds. A classic Star Trek story archetype, told well with actual stakes and characterisation.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For fuck's sake, Universe, stop taking the good ones.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Back in the 90s, my Nottinghamshire grandparents were spitting fumes at the disrespect over a local newspaper article on Hollywood digging up the Major Oak to ship to America for a Robin Hood Prince of Thieves 2. An April Fool's story, obvs, but I can only imagine how furious this would make them.

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A Stenson-Childs @ajschilds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They decided to quote the anti-Dolly Parton, the Wario Parton. Dolly is no longer here to shine her light and do good, and we mourn. Rowling is still here infesting our planet, and we mourn.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh fuck off. We all see what is happening here.

BBC article. Why Pride is facing a backlash - from inside and outside the LGBT community.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1. When will they get to the fireworks factory. 2. As was the style at the time. 3. I just think they're neat. 4. We're through the looking glass now people. 5. All I've done is enter my name. Thrillhouse.

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