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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 1d

Snap from this evening’s stroll.

Adam’s and Valkyrie’s shadows on a field of harvested wheat.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 2d

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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 youre 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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 2d

Valkyrie says hello from Sleepytown.

Valkyrie sleeps on a grey couch with her black and white ghosts pillow beneath her head.

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Sexy Samuel Whiskers @woolbotherer.bsky.social · 8d

Zombies, they're making themselves zombies

Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 8d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“All of this feels ridiculous because that’s exactly what it is. But the larger goal is to inure you to the strangeness of it all so that when these products — be they movies, shows, or TikToks — finally come to market, your reaction is ‘Sure, why not?’”

Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop

The point is to normalize generative AI in your mind.

www.theverge.com

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 12d

This Saturday, I’m performing my children’s story BUTTERFLY ON THE WIND at the Telling Tales Festival in Burlington! Hope to see a good crowd.

tellingtales.org/presentation...

The Majesty of Sign Languages: Butterfly on the Wind

Join Adam Pottle for a powerful and immersive Main Stage experience. Before bringing the story Butterfly on the Wind to life in American Sign Language, Pottle will guide the audience through a brief a...

tellingtales.org

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 12d

This Saturday, I’m performing my children’s story BUTTERFLY ON THE WIND at the Telling Tales Festival in Burlington! Hope to see a good crowd.

tellingtales.org/presentation...

The Majesty of Sign Languages: Butterfly on the Wind

Join Adam Pottle for a powerful and immersive Main Stage experience. Before bringing the story Butterfly on the Wind to life in American Sign Language, Pottle will guide the audience through a brief a...

tellingtales.org

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 12d

Chillin’ in the kitchen with the pup.

Valkyrie the goldendoodle lies at Adam’s feet on a hardwood floor.

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 19d

My new horror play OUR MOST PRECIOUS DEMONS will be read in public at Persephone Theatre in January. Looking forward to sharing this play with audiences. 👹

Graphic announcing the season lineup for The First Monday series of plays. January to April. Adam’s play OUR MOST PRECIOUS DEMONS will be performed January 5th.

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 15d

Yep. This.

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 16d

I’m only like 15 minutes into John Wick but I can guarantee he doesn’t kill enough people.

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 19d

My new horror play OUR MOST PRECIOUS DEMONS will be read in public at Persephone Theatre in January. Looking forward to sharing this play with audiences. 👹

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 21d

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

U.K, Canada and Australia formally recognize a Palestinian state, breaking with the U.S.

The announcements Sunday marked a significant shift in foreign policy, with several other European nations and U.S. allies set to follow suit in the coming days.

nbcnews.to

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 22d

Today’s the 2nd anniversary of the day APPARITIONS came out. It was my first horror novel (the first of many!) & marked a significant change in my writing career. I’m deeply proud of it and hope many more people discover it.

Cover of Adam Pottle’s APPARITIONS, featuring eyes floating around a mouthless face.

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 23d

Someone donated $15 can anyone match or double that? I've only raised $25 in 6 days which doesn't even begin to cover my overdraft

I desperately need #MutualAid

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 29d

I am queer and disabled. Abuse has made it impossible for me to work. I currently have a $175 deficit in my bank and no money to survive the rest of the month I desperately need #MutualAid this is an emergency

please give and share

paypal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...

A young German Shepherd lying on a dog bed looking up at me but all you can see are my knees

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 22d

Today’s the 2nd anniversary of the day APPARITIONS came out. It was my first horror novel (the first of many!) & marked a significant change in my writing career. I’m deeply proud of it and hope many more people discover it.

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 23d

Out and about with the pup.

Black and white photo of Adam and Valkyrie, his goldendoodle.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 24d

Today is a good day to cancel Disney+

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 24d

I have raised nothing in 5 days and the situation is serious.

I have no food for the rest of the month

even Tobey's food is about to run out (you can buy him more from the Amazon wish list in the quoted thread)

I desperately need help

#MutualAid

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 29d

I am queer and disabled. Abuse has made it impossible for me to work. I currently have a $175 deficit in my bank and no money to survive the rest of the month I desperately need #MutualAid this is an emergency

please give and share

paypal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24d

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 29d

I am queer and disabled. Abuse has made it impossible for me to work. I currently have a $175 deficit in my bank and no money to survive the rest of the month I desperately need #MutualAid this is an emergency

please give and share

paypal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...

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Dr. Adam Pottle @adampottle.bsky.social · 28d

Went for a walk with Valkyrie this morning and saw that someone had taken books from the free little library in front of the school and destroyed them. Not for the first time, either. It’s terrible that some people aren’t taught to value books.

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · Sep 12

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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