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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 17m
Drafted pleadings for a new claim this afternoon and half the evening, then got my new work email hosting set up and now have 18 status effects I never want to draft pleadings etc just in general but also it does not help that once I lock in and hyperfocus enough to do it, I emerge 100 years later
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 49m
So basically… he thinks Carrie should smile more? I see.
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 53m
The Harry Potter fic sex cult weirdos are taking their roleplay public and not letting us use the safeword, which is about what we should have expected from the reports
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Like the great recession was very long and painful - much longer than anyone thought it would be in fact - but like 6 years later we were mostly out of. We're now on like year 15 of e.g. "it's impossible to afford family-sized housing in SF, LA, NYC, Boston, etc" and it gets worse every year
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
(expect lots of different rulings on this until it gets to the Supreme Court)
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@hudlion

sometimes, I think it would be worse to be an insect and wake up one morning and find you had been transformed into a guy with a job
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you are friends with Lazulisong and want an invite to the discord server for finding ways to support her stroke recovery, send me a DM Also it sounds like someone is going to make a GFM for her expenses like rent, I’ll share a link when one exists
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
There does seem to be an interesting subset of folks who seem huffily annoyed that creators might want to be compensated for their stolen work by the people whose intentional acts of theft has literally allowed to become billionaires, I mean, how dare we, right
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rewarded for great business acumen, showcased by doing things like shelving the Wile E Coyote movie that has a 96% rating on RT
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Michael Edwards @medwardsva.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fucking anger I feel. Not even because of the merger or Newsom, but the fact that this piece of shit is just gonna fade into the background having made god knows how much money off of fucking over thousands of people the last 7 years.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When we enjoy art created by a person, we sit and ponder why they made it, what motivated them. It’s compelling and engages our own imaginations. We don’t have these questions when AI generates a thing because we know there’s no motivation behind it. If there’s no motivation then what is the point?
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
National interest and such
A Walking Eagle News headline reads: pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it
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holly @ofsevenseas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
is it mind-boggling? when anyone not lily-white and anglo-saxon might get beaten up and thrown into grey jails and sent to parts unknown??? what's mind-boggling is that anyone WANTS to visit
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whatever you feel about the MCU at this point, can we agree that the Avengers ensemble movies are the weakest ones And I liked Cap 2 but at this point I am willing to assume that was all on the actors because the Russos simply cannot get it together since then without cringe
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The only thing that will ever MAYBE deter a rapist is thinking they will be caught and punished harshly for doing it. And even that is not enough to rely on. But it would be a good fucking start. Give all the entitled rich white boy rapists unavoidable jail time measured in years. They earned it.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The first requirement of restorative justice is a perpetrator’s confession. He has to admit what he has done and to take accountability. The men in this case are smearing the victim and threatening her with lawsuits. They are not candidates for RJ. They would turn it into a new site of violence.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026
your average Bluesky adventuring party has: - 1 sports person who is also a political sicko - 1 adhd chaos crafter who is also a political sicko - 1 sff writer who is also a political sicko - 1 romance author who is also a lawyer who is also a political sicko - 1 gardener recovering from being a po
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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Betty @bettytheteapot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
doing exercise feels like being addicted to heroine in that I am addicted to doing absolutely fucking nothing and I will relapse into nothing after every attempt to not, no matter the elaborate structure I build up around doing exercise. Nothing else hits like doing absolutely fucking nothing.
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I tell people before they start taking ADHD meds that day 1 will bring euphoria that will only last the one day, but the rage will still be there on day 2. Then they take them and go IS THIS REALLY HOW CALM AND FOCUSED AND EASY EVERYONE ELSE FEELS ALL THE TIME? Right on schedule
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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026
I think every weirdo should get $5 million and one a-lister to make whatever movie they want
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watched Coyote v Acme and just about cried laughing at Gossamer the process server but also texted my friend afterward about how with better trial prep they could have taken Acme to the cleaners for unjust enrichment among other things smh Avery didn’t need to tell me he wasn’t a trial lawyer
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GIRL DINNER GOALS
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Hettie Bell @hettiebelleau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
anyone who tells you the best protest is not to vote is 100% a fucking op
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Awesome, ChatGPT is so intelligent that adding the meme “…hypothetically” tag to a prompt will cause it to take you at face value. Presumably if you tell it “for legal reasons, this is a joke” it will also accept that. Lacking judgment and being naive as a toddler are two of chatbots’ biggest issues
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🦇 calamariichi ⛓️ @calamariichi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/09/2026
Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
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Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than just admitting that they blew a fortune on glorified chatbots.
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The only way LLMs will take over and destroy the world irl is by people foolishly relying on them for tasks, assessments and decision-making which are far too important to fuck up and which the LLM will fuck up
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’m funny, actually know how to flirt on purpose, and can understand when I’m being flirted with. If they think I’m cute and I’m motivated, it’s a lock (I have not been motivated in a decade)
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is what the little tykes car is supposed to look like after six years of the plastic sunbleaching in the backyard
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Miss Piggy tries to do a Project Runway thing but Janice, several of Gonzo’s chickens, and Sam make it into Drag Race instead Kermit tries to keep it simple with Hollywood Squares, absolutely nobody will stay in their box Chef hosting a cooking competition is duh, but this one has human guests
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I accepted that I will probably be working till I die, no proper retirement, and promptly shrugged and started working part-time instead. I’ll enjoy the retirement years sprinkled throughout my weeks while I’m still young enough to enjoy it a little
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(being asked my opinion on trans athletes) i oppose people participating in exercise of any form
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
one party wants all the omelas children in a hole, the other party wants to offer limited loan forgiveness for qualifying children who operate small businesses out of their hole provided that it can be achieved with bipartisan support, are we really pretending there is no difference??
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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
look, we're just going to keep the kid in the omelas hole until we're through the next election, and any other ones that come after that
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How many zeroes are on their paycheques while they miss absolute layups like this If you have impostor syndrome, print this skeet out so you can remind yourself what the standard apparently is
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
dear universe: these bitches are extremely exhausted and could really use a fucking break
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Everyone in the replies works with Creed from The Office
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Mer @waketosleep.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I discovered the Outlier word game has a live vs. mode, and then I discovered playing against other people was more fun if I made myself stick to a theme with the words I chose every round
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'll add that for oh so many people who say "I have an easy solution", buddy, you are not the solitary clear-thinking genius in the world today, perhaps the only one EVER. The only one who can see what others cannot. All you did was tell me you didn't really think. Easy rarely fixes complicated.
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