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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Kick the football, Charlie Brown!

A Peanuts parody comic, in which Charlie Brown prepares to kick a football held by Lucy.

Charlie runs for the ball, but the energy is different here. He looks focused. Determined. Even Lucy looks surprised.

Just as Charlie is about to kick the ball, a gigantic foot comes in from off panel and punts him. With his token "AUGH," Charlie has exited the scene.

We cut back to Lucy, turning in fear to look at who --WANT-- kicked Charlie.

From Lucy's POV, we see a gigantic humanoid figure, backlit by the sun. They have six fingers on each hand.

We end on a large wideshot, revealing the full scale of the massive creature, with Lucy dwarfed by them.

Their face is implacable, a wisp of wind blows some leaves across the otherwise peaceful scene.

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The words of the day: ophthalmologist and exteroception (only related coincidentally)

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

(Also reading this book while also restarting my yearly read of Camus, this time Myth of Sisyphus, is giving me a lot of chew on in terms of what it means to exist in a world that seems very focused on stripping humanity of its crucial features for the sake of productivity)

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"The nonconscious imagery becomes necessarily conscious because the organism that owns it is conscious. Consciousness is a welcome side effect of the indispensable process of regulating life. " ~ Antonio Damasio, Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness 3/3

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Consciousness is not being generated in a separate part of our organisms solely dedicated to "making consciousness." My proposal is that it comes, instead, as a direct consequence of homeostatic feelings being alongside nonconscious mental imagery. " 2/3

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I feel like Damasio in writing parts of this book was anticipating the inevitable projection of consciousness on LLMs with passages like this: Pg 45-46: "Trying to find the source of consciousness in a dedicated 'consciousness-making' device is futile. " 1/3

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This past of my thread has attracted a lot of responses of the form "Nuh-uh! You have to prove *your* claim!" and I think it's worth reiterating that the burden of proof lies with the people making the claim, not those of us refuting it. Why bother refuting it at all? >>

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think I have needed reading glasses for like a decade. This is so much more pleasant. Also the word of the day is : Perspicacious

Reading glasses on top of a pole of books.

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Went to a fantastic black vampire drag show.

Drag group photo of various black vampires

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah man the US is not beating the trans genocide allegations

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yuko @aidosaur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

✨ You're invited to the Feast of the Unicorn 💌 A new comic from the creators of BARBAROUS, Johnny Wander and more! ✨ Back the Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh...

Feast of the Unicorn

Nao shizuka + Shesha

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Diva @hyxpk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I made a Little Nuns puppet show! It turned out to be a cute, handmade video! Please check it out! youtu.be/-YPhEvPx15o

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PUPPET NUNS

YouTube video by Diva

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Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe holding independent creators to the same standards that we do huge soulless corporations was never really fair. We could have let everyone draw their big tiddy OCs in peace.

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I broke my rule about eating outside, but in my defense it was really tasty.

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I had a dream the other night that I got stung by a bee, and like a prophecy today got stung in the neck.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nat Turner was a terrorist. At least, that's what they'd expect the Black community to call him if it were today. He was born October 2, 1800....or 236 years ago today. And somehow they expected a man born enslaved to never want to rebel. To escape. To take revenge.

Four books with Nat Turner as the subject. Left to right, top to bottom.

1. Ten Black Writers Respond to William Styron's "Confessions."

2. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

3. Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion by Herbert Aptheker.

4. The Resurrection of Nat Turner. Part 1 by Sharon Ewell Foster

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Found out Antonio Damasio released a book this year. Instant get, excited to get started

Photo of a book with a gradient blue and green background and a white abstract doodle. The text reads "Natural Intelligence & the Logic of Consciousness. Antonio Damasio"

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My print from Risograph club last night. Titled "We got Smash bros at home"

A risograph prints of sonic the hedgehog and megaman facing off on elevated platforms with the text "sonic vs mega man"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminism has been a net positive. Period. Let's move along.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm afraid the Doomer discourse has persisted for another week (UN "AI" briefing, etc) so in case you missed this when we first put it out earlier in this bananas news cycle, I'm reposting it: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism

Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“AI” IS impacting labor, but not in the ways you think. In some cases, people generating “workslop” are making their colleagues’ jobs more difficult. Snippet from my video Myths of AI and Productivity, in which we at dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BO0...

There are three stacked screenshots from a video of Alex, a brown trans woman, sitting on a pink chair and speaking into the camera while holding a small microphone. She has short black curly hair and is wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and light tan pants. Behind her is a cat-shaped pillow with an image of a tuxedo cat on it, and behind her chair are rows of books on a light blue wall. Underneath are captions from the video that say: “But generative AI can also reduce wages in other ways, namely by punishing workers who use the tools and pass on ‘workslop’ to their colleagues.”, “...researchers report that receiving generative AI text or images from colleagues results in lower perceptions of the competence of their colleagues.” and “Getting slop from your colleague makes you think worse of them. And if those workers are women or older, or people of color, then it confirms their co-workers’ biases against them.”

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A doodle of @dickdebonair.bsky.social who is cursed to enjoy some of my movie recommendations

Cartoon bear with glasses and afro saing "That's fucked up..I kinda like it"

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A thing I think about a lot is: we’ve known how fucked up things are for decades and we just sat and let them get worse and worse and worse.

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AnnK @agentannk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sad Cat: reading Silly Billy

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𝔾𝔼ℕ⭑｡𖦹°‧ @papayaya.online · 13/09/2026

my commissions 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣!! ദ്ദി◝ ⩊ ◜.ᐟ it's that special time of year, where I have to wait until Halloween for my day job to give me a Real paycheck~! ✦ check out my form here! tinyurl.com/3phnunjt ✦ or my ko-fi if thou hast extra coin laying about~ ko-fi.com/papayaya ✦ 𝒾 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊

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STARTING @25USD

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this MAGNIFICENT animation, by the talented James Baxter! Note how each of the THREE SECONDARY MOTIONS are slightly OFFSET to emphasise different parts of the action: HAIR jumps UP, SKIRT billows DOWN, RIBBON wraps ROUND! #anime #2danimation

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

After some address redirection issues, got a big crowd source comics delivery

Assortment of graphic novels on a great chair.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just finished The Disordered Cosmos by @chanda.blacksky.app . What an amazing book. The perspective of black queer feminism in physics really re-ignited my passion to learn science in hopes for a better world. Had to orfder The Edge of Space Time and look forward to another insightful read.

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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

From a star astrophysicist and author of the national bestseller The Edge of Space Time, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos - and a call for a more just, inclusive practice of...

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I need to get back to posting art here. Took a risograph class taught by @papyrjam.bsky.social

Black and pink risograph prints of various pictures of a boxer dog with a title that says "Lucas". A mini zine of a cartoon dog called "bread thief"

Work in progress of the images for the risograph

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Ushi @ushiart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I completely agree with your choices. After catching up with things I may also need to evaluate that communities integrity. Don't want to stir anything up, but its sad to lose a fur-friend.

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The Diepod @thediepod.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

RIP Peter Cullen

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Y'know a place where DC is kicking Marvel's entire ass? The library.

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dot_lvl @dot-lvl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

if you can't take me at my right about now the funk soul brother you don't deserve me at my check it out now the funk soul brother

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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𝑀𝓇. 𝒜𝓊𝓉𝑜𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓅𝒽 @murphagator.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm researching softlocking video games and I'm looking to the internet for help! If you know a game that can be softlocked, I'd appreciate responses to this form: forms.gle/Qz9TihR5BgTG... Feel free to respond as many times as you'd like! The full info helps but just game and description is fine!

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Softlocking Games Research

I'm working on researching softlocking video games, including the various ways it can happen and how different they can look, and I'd like help in finding ones I may or may not have seen and how they ...

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Nerd mutuals probably already know about this, but just in case: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4I-...

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'Weird Al' Yankovic: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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revolver ocelthot @rnaboursiii.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is what datacenters are taking from you

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The thing I just don’t understand about students who can’t read is why they aren’t being held back. I bet by the time they repeat fifth grade for the fourth time they’ll know the alphabet inside and out.

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