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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My friend just posted this and now I TOTALLY WANT A PROSTHETIC ROBO DINOSAUR TAIL.

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Kooks @coupleofkooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Another art done for the lovely folks at the Cantrip Candles. The God of Crossroads this time :)

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 01/08/2025

He bit me 17 times while I was putting it on him

a very very angry godzilla toy in a soft christmasy sweater of light beige, with a golden christmas tree with little gold beads embroidered on it

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Instead of shrieking about the death of fiction, I am begging columnists to look real hard about the actual aims of publishing, because to my eye, the Big Four are not actually interested in publishing books, but rather maintaining capital holdings.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

“it’s bad not to degrade the work of people who actually know things and produce that knowledge for others” bzzt. wrong

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Can’t believe I had to discover Labubu and Lebeebee in the same month 🫩 #murderbot #labubu

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Cats are and always have been cyberpunks

Newspaper photo of a group of cats huddled together on a satellite dish with the headline, "Outdoor cats are using $500 Starlink satellite dishes as self-heating beds."

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It's almost like it's the diff between a generation who got calls mostly from friends and one that gets calls mostly from scammera

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I use this image when I teach about the consequences of biodiversity loss:

A “house of cards,” where the lower tiers of cards display images of plants and animals and the top level shows a person standing next to a house with a speech-bubble saying, “Why should I care about the extinction of species?”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

genuinely hilarious how the literal most populous country in the world gets a green shade and "uncertain" because the white race scientists never bothered to figure out anything about it

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Ah yes, the King of Good Times lmao

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/07/2025

We should probably be clear eyed about the fact that Microsoft purchased a huge roster of some of the world's best game development studios only to turn around and use them all as kindling for its ill-begotten AI boondoggle

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I've started an art journal so I can scribble without having to worry about it being good or clever and it's such fun. Even if I don't paint today, I get to Play With The Colours #artsky

Open spread of an art journal with lots of jumbled drawings of bugs, frogs, a snake and some made up critters as well as a few self insert cartoons saying nonsense. It's all very colourful

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Racoon: what is this stuff? Me: it’s our garbage Racoon: it’s delicious, I understand why you chase me away from it, do you eat it? Me: no we’re trying to get rid of it Racoon: ok I guess I don’t fucking understand at all then

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Came back to Bluesky to see what everyone thinks of the #Murderbot show so far and...am I the only person who DOESN'T love it? Why have they made smart, empathetic people into ridiculously naive hippies? Why is there weird sex stuff inserted randomly everywhere? Script screams Written By Men fr 😭

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Okay so far the French name for "Murderbot" (Assasynth) is by far the best

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Mr Murica looks like he straight up wants to murder all the others...why 😭

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Returnal is absolutely wild. I'm obsessed. #videogamesky

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

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WIRED @wired.com · 02/05/2025

A WIRED investigation found that dozens of YouTube channels are using generative AI to depict cartoon cats and minions being beaten, starved, and sexualized—sparking fears of a new Elsagate wave. www.wired.com/story/dozens...

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Dozens of YouTube Channels Are Showing AI-Generated Cartoon Gore and Fetish Content

A WIRED investigation found that dozens of YouTube channels are using generative AI to depict cartoon cats and minions being beaten, starved, and sexualized—sparking fears of a new Elsagate wave.

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Interesting but isn't there also a pretty big overlap?

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I have been in a real life cocoon because I couldn't handle any more News, but I hope all of you and your pets are well :)

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

to the tech bros coming into my replies on three social media platforms to defend gen ai with their whole chest and who are evidently very big mad that no one creative supports their thievery or considers their stolen slop art and never, ever will, i have only to say,

a picture of bells with text that says, 'go ahead, go to the bell factory, since you wanna act like a ding dong'

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The Terry Pratchett Estate @terrypratchett.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Happy Terry Pratchett Day, on what would have been his 77th birthday.

Photo of Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring his quote: "Reading is the way up. Knowledge is the key to everything."

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Ah, the historically *checks notes* better reviewed and better paid authors? thank heavens someone has arrived to help the under-represented from that (as oppressed modern thinker Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote) ‘damned mob of scribbling women.’ #booksky

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

*peeps cautiously into Bluesky* Hello

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Just started watching the #BahrainGP after work and did Jacques just say "...both Mercedes one place grid penalty for some boring admin" 😂 LOL #F1 🏁

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 13/04/2025

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

a sign with an M on it that is definitely Mario adjacent

an upside down m, also known as a "wario symbol"

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Also I was offline for like 2 days due to art and binge watching and the #Murderbot trailer finally dropped!

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Watching Dexter season 1 after years and it feels oddly aged? A lot of bits couldn't happen now because of the prevalence of CCTV. Some of the jokes haven't aged well and the colour contrast on more recent shows isn't as high. But the thing I keep noticing is how sweaty everybody is all the time 😂

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Ooh, looks like Sainz and Tsunoda have figured out their new cars. And what a great quali. Tomorrow's race is gonna seem extra exciting post Snoozuka 😂😭 #F1 🏁

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

me every time someone posts gen ai stolen slop and calls it ‘art’

Tolkien against a field and blue sky background. Text says, ‘Damn!!!!!! SHUT THE FUCK UP’

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Z. BoogeyMann Zilla, Semi-Pro Ghoulball @pandangit.com · 07/04/2025

Harrison Ford should be the patron saint of inexpensive small-studio video games. Think about it: he's a carpenter who played Indiana Jones and Han Solo. He's an indy rogue-like deck builder.

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Living as a minority in one teetering democracy run by a fascist wannabe dictator and having every single one of the hobbies and interests I use to self soothe be negatively affected by the actions of the fascist wannabe dictator of another spiraling democracy. Seems unfair 🙃

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

future historians debating whether dow jones, nasdaq, and S&P 500 were three separate gods of ancient America, or just three aspects of the same god

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Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com · 06/04/2025

Hi. Books are incredibly important. Please let them be.

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

So, it's okay for a cat to run away and hide under the bed when visitors come, but, when I do it, it's "rude" and "antisocial."

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Unfortunately he'll probably go on to kill millions of people too.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Brittany Vesterback @bvesterback.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Talking with a friend about #murderbot and how all the Skarsgards seem to be handsome big guys who are spiritually weird lil guys, and we agreed that if there is ever another #dndmovie one of them should play Holga’s new halfling husband.

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The Arting Ace @theartingace.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

another All Systems Red favorite scene, #Murderbot trying to get its face/emotions under control the first time Mensa is kind to it in a way it can accept. The more I reread this book the more I adore Mensa 😩💜

a grayscale image of two figures, one tall and in scifi armor looking at a shorter feminine figure in a simple space suit. She is telling it 'It would be better if they could think of you as a person who's trying to help. Because that's how I think of you."

A portrait of Murderbot with its helmet on and faceplate down. Behind it are faded images of various memes of wobbly-eyed crying and terrified figures. A speech bubble comes from it simply says "..."

the same portrait but with the helmet and faceplate retracted to show Secunit's augmented human face with a neutral expression looking at Mensa, a darker skinned human with lighter curly hair who is smiling gently at it saying 'Thank You'

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