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Marta

@martasrsly.bsky.social

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mostly about books, video games (Dragon Age) and D&D. writer. she/her. ENG/PL

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Marta @martasrsly.bsky.social · Apr 24

I should have a thread of books read in 2025 but of course I lost it/didn’t start it, so. Better late than never, I guess! Books read in 2025 LET’S GO 💙📚

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Marta @martasrsly.bsky.social · 9h

I have a couple of her books in my backlog but I remember I read The Hands in 4 days and cried in public while reading it ☺️

Marta @martasrsly.bsky.social · 9h

Have you read the sequel?? 👀

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Newt 👁️🦎 @eyeofthenewt.bsky.social · 3d

help there is so many of them
#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart

digital drawing of 8 characters from Critical Role Campaign 4. the background is dark and they are in shades of muted green/orange/yellow.
Characters left to right: Bolaire, Occtis, Wicander, Azune, Tyrrany, Kattigan, Julien, Teor.

same drawign but now monochrome on cream coloured background. the lineart is stylised, expressive and messy and the brush used is thin, scratchy and with one set line thickness.

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mksimnka🌿 @mksimnka.bsky.social · 4d

I'm on episode 79 of Vox Machina and still have a lot of catching up to do. But watching the campaign live was a completely different experience and I absolutely loved it.
Bolaire is next🤭

#criticalrole #dnd #campaign4 #thimble #dungeonsanddragons #art #fanart #fairy #fantasy

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Marta @martasrsly.bsky.social · 1d

Cannot stop thinking how two biggest artists (at least in my corner of the internet) are the same coin, but different sides
Taylor Swifts who shares (arguably) too much of her life, especially on her latest album
And
Sleep Token who share Nothing. Nada.

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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 1d

As a birder this breaks my heart. As a citizen of this extraordinary planet, this breaks my soul.

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Rachel Reid @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social · 1d

You guys saw the trailer right?

youtu.be/ADi1iextoUM?...

Official Trailer | Heated Rivalry (Crave Original)

YouTube video by Crave

youtu.be

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Marta @martasrsly.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO I met most of my friends through Twitter (RIP)

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Marta @martasrsly.bsky.social · 1d

tylko GDZIE JEST YASHA?!

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2d

can someone just make a "does the dog die" but for "did this movie/series/videogame/book use gen AI" so i can avoid them

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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Altorina @altorina.bsky.social · 4d

"Without me, all existence would
be a curse. I am the necessary end."
#Hades

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Kerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t really know where to start with this, except to say that higher education should not be solely intended to produce better employees, but more competent thinkers and problem solvers.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3d

Take the 5 min. I access everything except slack, the public library, medical device monitor, and email from my browser these days

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day

You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

www.pcmag.com

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Marta @martasrsly.bsky.social · 4d

As a treat have another

A black na white tuxedo cat laying on a pillow with her head on another pillow looking chill

Marta @martasrsly.bsky.social · 4d

Hench was truly amazing and I’m sooooo excited for Villain!!!

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 4d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

Marta @martasrsly.bsky.social · 4d

Ursula K. Le Guin: We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine rights of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings…
Me [cont. and screaming]: RESISTANCE AND CHANGE OFTEN BEGIN IN ART. VERY OTTEN IN OUR ART, THE ART OF WORDS

Picture from Words are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin. Highlighted in grey are words: we live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of the words.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 4d

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

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Marcela Medeiros @marcelamarts.bsky.social · 4d

The Hades franchise has been everything I could’ve wished for since 2020.

I always wanted to thank Supergiant Games with a fanart, but I was always short on… time?

Maybe now, time won’t be such a troublesome thing for me anymore.

Death to Chronos!

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 4d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Bluesky Announces New Slogan “Not as Transphobic as X, But We’re Working on It”

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 4d

/adds to lexicon/

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Marta @martasrsly.bsky.social · 4d

Life might be worth living because I bought more books!! (Queen Demon by Martha Wells, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers and The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow)

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 4d

The games industry sucks, but it could be worse, we could be in the animation industry

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