Reposted by Nicholas R.Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026They are becoming more and more explicit that creating dossiers on you and graphing your relationships is the whole point. “Agents” indeed. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/m... 21388151
Reposted by Nicholas R.FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Banned Books - Gator Days 6186291977
Reposted by Nicholas R.Brooks Kohler (Writer) @brookskohler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I love it when a #creative person archives their work on the Internet Archive. I began doing it years ago with my stories, and it's enriched my life. Sell your #books. Sell your #music. Sell your art, vids, etc. But also consider future generations. Add your creations to the #InternetArchive. 522058
Reposted by Nicholas R.Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators. 51072332
Reposted by Nicholas R.✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026God I hate all of this so much 617742
Reposted by Nicholas R.Noisy Pixel @noisypixel.net · 06/10/2026noisypixel.netFinal Fantasy XVI's Clive Joins Rain In New Final Fantasy Resonance Artwork Celebrating 16 Days Until LaunchSquare Enix has revealed new Final Fantasy Resonance artwork by Kazuya Takahashi, featuring Final Fantasy XVI's Clive and Rain to mark 16 days until launch. 0104
Reposted by Nicholas R.Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026ProPublica has made a database of all the incidents they could find where ICE detained citizens. Important work. This kind of data is too often hidden and lost. 0214118
Reposted by Nicholas R.West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 06/10/2026A free and charitable clinic in Charleston, West Virginia, will offer a full day of medical, dental and vision care to the public this month at no cost and with no income restrictions, reports @lorikerseywv.bsky.social.westvirginiawatch.comAnnual free health care day returns to Charleston clinic; increased demand expected 13421
Reposted by Nicholas R.Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025The most likely place one of the US scientists fired by a 19 year old will end up isn't in some other country's version of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but like, McDonalds or Doordash. The brain drain will be mostly into shitty gig jobs, not picking up that research elsewhere. 51082341
Reposted by Nicholas R.M3BIUS//F0X (Commissions Open) @m3biusf0x.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I feel like the whole "larp" thing has become the new "name 5 songs" for fandoms This is why newcomers are afraid of being casual fans cuz everything has to be a competition on being the "biggest fan" of something 22511
Reposted by Nicholas R.🌙StripesCat⭐ @stripescat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Felt like doodling my boy :) 💜 #myart #spyro #spyrothedragon #furryart #dragon #undescribed 08339
Reposted by Nicholas R.affa @affa014.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I'm watching it tomorrow Very calm about this 1415
Reposted by Nicholas R.Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Went down the rabbit hole to read the article (it's on the Bulwark) and these people are so evil in the most childish fashion 06518
Reposted by Nicholas R.Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What they’re hoping for and acting for is germinating the seeds of extreme acts of violence against South Asians. That’s why they use the explicitly Nazi framing of the ‘Indian question’. They want the same results. Their followers are pretty open it on social media, too. 05123
Reposted by Nicholas R.alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gears games had pride flags in 2019, but the people who monetize rage bait don't want their audience to know that -- maybe they don't even know that themselves, because they don't do research; they just react. If more people recognized they're getting played for revenue, we'd be in a better spot. 215624
Reposted by Nicholas R.Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What's the quality of these jobs? Are they low wage jobs? 1615018
Reposted by Nicholas R.AndresPlays @andresplays.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Every person I know that has played Demonschool has loved it. Plus, this quote by its creative director is all you need to know to support it. 731979
Reposted by Nicholas R.Victor Lipman @vlipman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026an endangered species: a decent person in a position of power 🤔 121
Reposted by Nicholas R.I Bid You Good Day @ibidyougoodday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I feel like it's so common in the US to see political actors actively cede the power they've acquired to be in thrall to some oligarch or other that it's almost confusing to see someone preserve their political power in their best interest. 0485
Reposted by Nicholas R.I Bid You Good Day @ibidyougoodday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Leo seems like a real one, as you describe, but at a fundamental level it is also shocking to me to see a political actor operate in the best interest of their own State. "Oh yeah guys this Clear Rival and False Idol you made is pretty rad" that's what these losers expected him to say? 1575
Reposted by Nicholas R.Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience. 311421260
Reposted by Nicholas R.Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Fascism's appeal has always been the promise to end social conflict by "returning" (always a lie) to an ethnically/religiously/ ideologically homogeneous "people's community" in which old hierarchies are retained but somehow racial/religious solidarity provides all the equality anyone needs. 2105
Reposted by Nicholas R.Uncomfortable Creatures @lewdcreatures.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Shit like this has fueled my conspiracy theory that mass data theft/harvesting for the purposes of tracking people to create more effective advertising is one of the biggest, longest running grifts in the history of the internet. Where is it? Its been decades since they started doing it! 1227
Reposted by Nicholas R.P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It is. The data economy of silicon valley went to major corporations and produced a series of reports saying that advertisements have a HARD CAP of how many buyers brought in per dollar spent, and since then its been a game of trying to min max results based on a pivot to video style scam 1144
Reposted by Nicholas R.doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026seriously, the number of publishers who've said "i'm sorry, you want to pay people a living wage? no, that's far too much. we'll take half all profit to post about you" is like, that's not a publisher, that's a parasite. you can hire a PR firm for a fraction of that and they'll do better 27612
Reposted by Nicholas R.Honee Vaughn-Valchez @honeewoozle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don't share a lot of stuff like this, but this is a friend of mine! She is legit and needs help for getting her kitty medical attention so any shares would be appreciated. <3 www.supportnow.org/biopsy-proce...supportnow.orgSupport biopsy proceedure for kiara the catHello family and friends! Kiara the cat needs help. She has a big tumor in her mouth and she needs a biopsy. Her owner loves her very much but is on a fixed income due to a disability and can't afford... 49066
Reposted by Nicholas R.Angel♡ Comms Open! @halfheartxi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026FFXIV commission I did~ #FFXIV #art 81295210
Reposted by Nicholas R.Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ 🏳️🌈 thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think they had a little help from the people who benefit from a rigged economy. 001
Reposted by Nicholas R.Arvo Blärt, Mall Cop @redactedparker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No, but they are responsible for paying literal billions of rubles to fund pretty much every major far-right movement in Europe 011
Reposted by Nicholas R.allysmith.bsky.social @allysmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Exact same global dynamic as 1910s-30s, refugee crisis and economic hardship. And the USA did a lot more to fuel the rise of fascism 1919-39 than they did to fight it 1942-45. With aid of Westminster they put Mussolini in power to start with. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard... 001
Reposted by Nicholas R.Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's not just that the US has elected a Fascist, but that he has been busy busting up the economic, cultural & military alliance system that is known as "The West". And the East? It was broken by US pressure & internal economic failure in the 1980s. 1/2 101
Reposted by Nicholas R.Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"The West" has fallen. Trump destroyed it from the inside - not only with his unilateral actions, but his open hostility to Europe. Recognising this doesn't make one a dupe for Putin. It means recognising that the struggle against Russian absolutism will have to be conducted without Washington. 111
Reposted by Nicholas R.ampallanguk.bsky.social @ampallanguk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Even as that party wont ever fuck things up for the very important rich people and lords and landed gentry... they will only fuck things even harder for the "plebby cunts" - including the ones that voted for everything to be fucked up. There is no winning, the press see to that. 001
Reposted by Nicholas R.HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"For decades, electorates have been mis-sold a fanatical ideology: the prerogatives of the private sector must override the collective interest, and anything less is tantamount to Stalinism"theguardian.comThe Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world orderA journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach 719698
Reposted by Nicholas R.Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 30/09/2026New Spider-Man, Spider-Gwen, and more Marvel manga are coming!animenewsnetwork.comMarvel, Kadokawa Unveil More Art, Story Details for Spider-Man, Spider-Gwen MangaManga will launch in Kadocomi before end of year 0134
Reposted by Nicholas R.Tricksy Spirit 👻🤍🖤 @tricksyspirit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’d rather no more Doctor Who than some AI slop 0337
Nicholas R. @trinityxaos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It would be nice to see the Final Fantasy summons appear in Kingdom Hearts as themselves instead of Heartless forms. Kefka can be fine with his final form as a heartless. 000
Reposted by Nicholas R.Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One small, but powerful way that LLM's are supercharging scamming is by allowing scammers to write perfect context-appropriate prose - emails, invitations, "hey checking in" - that before AI would have this slightly *off* uncanniness that would alert the victim. No longer! 4244161
Reposted by Nicholas R.David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We need to stop reaffirming that we don't expect Trump administration figures to face legal accountability for their misdeeds. Expectations produce reality. We need to start creating the expectation that they in fact will—indeed, must—face legal accountability. 25115
Reposted by Nicholas R.Marcia @marciaillust.bsky.social · 22/07/2026i like her a bit tormented #DungeonMeshi #MarcilleDonato 4861309
Reposted by Nicholas R.JJcanvas @jjcanvas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Another sketchbook page #graphite #sketchbook #drawing #pencilonpaper 216115
Reposted by Nicholas R.Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026one of the reasons that I warn researchers away from adapting commercial LLMs into their pipeline is that Big Tech has a history of sunsetting popular, usable products and replacing them with worse ones. (i'm trying to ween myself off of google scholar, but it is hard). 1021980
Reposted by Nicholas R.Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Why is the far right rising? The West rigged the economy, then launched a series of catastrophic wars. The far right found someone else to blame. 1222092
