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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 12/09/2026

Me IRL

Sonic the hedgehog lounging and saying "I want to play Symphony of the Night (1997) and I'm not kidding"

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13/09/2026

We cannot trust AI companies to self-regulate. They’ve already proven incapable and unwilling to do it on their own. Congress needs to intervene.

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Tech companies must be primarily responsible for AI safety, Mike Johnson says

The future of AI drew a range of strong comments on the Sunday morning TV shows.

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Police Story is an action masterpiece, Grand Budapest Hotel is Wes Anderson's best, Before Sunrise is a perfect romance movie, and The Third Man is just...so good.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Illinois is beautiful ❤️

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I saw too many Final Fantasy/Washington Reflecting Pool mashup memes this week, and am throwing my hat in the ring for #makeaterriblecomicday2026.

4 panel comic featuring Cloud Strife in a poorly drawn crayon style coming across the reflecting pool in its poisonous green state, only to reveal Emerald Weapon was hiding inside

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Kevin K Gomez @kevinkgomez.com · 15/11/2024

MAGIC must defeat MAGIC must defeat MAGIC must defeat ONE~ MORE~ THING~🎵 MAGIC must defeat MAGIC must defeat MAGIC must defeat ONE~ MORE~ THING~🎵

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Brian Rosenworcel @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Steve Kerr spot on as usual

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 12/04/2026

can't stop thinking about how casually these monsters are dismantling everything good and useful the government does in a year and a half and comparing it to Joe Biden who couldn't even manage to fire Louis DeJoy in four

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De-Katie and Cat-Boo!-ger @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We’ve lost all concept of this, but government services are not supposed to be profit making enterprises. government services are not publicly traded corporations. They are, and I can’t stress this enough, government services

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Kat might've lost the district but the guy endorsed by Elizabeth Warren won over the shadow money candidate so I'm not totally bummed. Now, finally... my mailbox won't be 15 political ads a week...until October. Also lol Raja get dunked crypto money dork

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

2026 Oscars are fun! Conan O'Brien still the best host, had a crazy tie (in a field no one saw, but still), and Frankenstein won the exact Oscars it deserved. Train Dreams shoulda won Cinematography. Still don't understand the One Battle hype.

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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

one of the simple pleasures in life is saying 'wow it looks like silent hill out there' when it's really foggy

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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

regarding the recent news

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A defensive-focused snooze fest of a game with 5+ AI companies, crypto, de-aged celebs, gambling, and appetite suppressants as the main ads? Awful! At least I ate some deeeeelicious snacks.

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Read Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social. It's one story you probably know (Toys r us) and three that you might not know all on the extent of private greed and shortsightedness. Could be a huge bummer but she finds great stories of people banding together to reclaim the mission from the business.

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My old campus had more pro-Trump chalk art than you'd expect during 2016 and after, so this isn't hugely shocking. There are some awful folks in this great state!

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Top 2 priorities should be solar on every roof and bidets on every toilet.

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

whenever i see the quarterback matchup for the super bowl this is all i can think of. sorry.

a poster for Hey Arnold, but it says "Maye-Darnold," the two quarterbacks in the upcoming Super Bowl

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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 20/01/2026

i want to go back to the good old days when the only person i thought about this often was scrooge mcduck

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally

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Peng, the Dark Souls of People @pengautomata.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The last thing you see right at 11:59PM new years eve.

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Mega64 @mega64official.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

HAHAHAHHA u thought THE YEAR WAS OVER LMAO NOPE TODD AND AARON ARE BACK LOL SEE YOU ON NEW YEARS EVE BABEY

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

scrooge boopin' a little muppet mouse on the nose while souls text reads "MEESES CHEESED"

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Yeah...every new game has to compete with everything else in its release window...and every other game before it. It's rough out there.

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

What a horrible time to be an artist of any kind. Already, every creative pie has been sliced into ever-tinier pieces by the huge number of people making art. Games, for example, published per month on Steam have DOUBLED since 2020! There's only so many new buyers!

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Baffling move. Pathetic abandonment of all artistic soul and short sighted to the extreme. The only ways this makes sense are to cut costs and quality (obvious; terrible long term strategy) or to enter into some agreement to demolish OpenAI if they can't keep its IP secure (I can hope).

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Disgusting escalation of misinformation!

Gen ai makes up 35% of responses and can't say no!

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 15/11/2025

Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

YES this is perfect because I keep thinking that he was in Season 1 of American Vandal anyway, the connection finally makes sense!

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Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 06/11/2025

Everything about making video games is harder than you think.

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Depressing end to the FlyQuest season. That second game was a jungler's nightmare! Interested to see who sticks around for next year.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14/10/2025

Vaccines are safe and effective. Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support. When you want information, ask your doctor. It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Lindsay @neomeruru.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I don’t care if its name is Marill and has been for 25+ years, it will always be Pikablu in my heart.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This bodes well.

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Tom Fornander @tom4nander.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Would you believe...it's still pretty funny even today? Some canned bits get stale across episodes but Smart's such a good buffoon.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved

Michael Love@elkmovie.bsky.social • 6m
I thought this sounded familiar and it turns out it literally just found an old George RR
Martin quote and wrote a short story out of it:
George R.R. Martin > Quotes > Quotable Quote (?)
"I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners.
The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing
designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect."
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- George R.R. Martin

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