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Folarin Akinmade
@akingmade.bsky.social
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Making stuff up for a living.
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mharrisondupre.bsky.social
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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gingerest.bsky.social
... and to everyone on our side of the date line who observes - a solemn Ash Wednesday and an ecstatically ascetic Lent.
theradr.bsky.social Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18h
Ramadan Mubarak!

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Laissez bon temps rouler!

Hodesh Adar tov!

Y'ALL

⭐
February 17, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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akingmade.bsky.social
Did you know that you can sign up to be notified when the Kickstarter for my latest comic book goes live???

Well? Did you? Answer me, you coward!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fol...
Coming soon: Even The Stars Will Fall #1
Will the city state of Ara retain its sense of self as it comes into contact with the imperial power of The Radiant Empire?
www.kickstarter.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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akingmade.bsky.social
Fancy supporting indie comics in the UK?

We're launching this Kickstarter very soon, and you can sign up to be updated when it happens!

#MakeComics #IndieComics #AfroFuturism #EvenTheStarsWillFall

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fol...
Coming soon: Even The Stars Will Fall #1
Will the city state of Ara retain its sense of self as it comes into contact with the imperial power of The Radiant Empire?
www.kickstarter.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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billamend.bsky.social
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.

"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
akingmade.bsky.social
Fancy supporting indie comics in the UK?

We're launching this Kickstarter very soon, and you can sign up to be updated when it happens!

#MakeComics #IndieComics #AfroFuturism #EvenTheStarsWillFall

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fol...
Coming soon: Even The Stars Will Fall #1
Will the city state of Ara retain its sense of self as it comes into contact with the imperial power of The Radiant Empire?
www.kickstarter.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:39 PM
akingmade.bsky.social
Did you know that you can sign up to be notified when the Kickstarter for my latest comic book goes live???

Well? Did you? Answer me, you coward!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fol...
Coming soon: Even The Stars Will Fall #1
Will the city state of Ara retain its sense of self as it comes into contact with the imperial power of The Radiant Empire?
www.kickstarter.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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smilingtom.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 10:11 PM
akingmade.bsky.social
Nice when woman reveals her BF and he's like a handsome guy, roughly her age, where you can literally see him working himself and his look out alongside her, rather than being some old MFer where it just feels weird.
February 15, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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andywpoliver.bsky.social
Yes. Next question.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Dutch love four-day working weeks, but are they sustainable?
The Netherlands has the lowest working hours in Europe, but some say it is harming its economy.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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meganmay.bsky.social
You should sign up to get notified about my incredibly talented friend Folarin’s new project! Do it now!!
akingmade.bsky.social Folarin Akinmade @akingmade.bsky.social · 4d
I'm launching a Kickstarter to fund the print run of 'Even The Stars Will Fall'. Check the link in my bio to get notified when it goes live. #EvenTheStarsWillFall #Comics #MakeComics #IndieComics #Kickstarter
February 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
akingmade.bsky.social
Re-Upping this with the warning that the self-promo from this account is about to become insufferable. I apologise in advance 🙏🏾
akingmade.bsky.social Folarin Akinmade @akingmade.bsky.social · 4d
I'm launching a Kickstarter to fund the print run of 'Even The Stars Will Fall'. Check the link in my bio to get notified when it goes live. #EvenTheStarsWillFall #Comics #MakeComics #IndieComics #Kickstarter
February 14, 2026 at 4:41 PM
akingmade.bsky.social
Comic book mutuals! Let me know if you'd like to read Even the Stars Will Fall ahead of the Kickstarter campaign to fund the print run. Just be warned that if you like it, I might ask you to say so publicly 😈

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fol...

#MakeComics #IndieComics #AfroFuture #Kickstarter
The cover of Even The Stars Will Fall. It features a young Black woman in a painterly style, against a bifurcated, purple and white background. The right side of her face (our left) is giving off streaks of flame. The authors 'Akinmade' and 'Alliu' are credited.
February 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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danwhitehead.net
To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.
"I say! Are you Georgina?" The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and “Famous Five 01 - Five On A Treasure Island” By Enid Blyton 7 her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's. "No," she said. "I'm not Georgina." "Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?" "I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if you don't." "Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway, you look like a boy."
February 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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mikexnichols.bsky.social
i often think about this review
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
February 14, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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rexhuppke.bsky.social
I want the youngster in the brown hoodie to head the DNC. I want folk songs written about him. I want him to never stop receiving enthusiastic high fives.
February 14, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
akingmade.bsky.social
I'm launching a Kickstarter to fund the print run of 'Even The Stars Will Fall'. Check the link in my bio to get notified when it goes live. #EvenTheStarsWillFall #Comics #MakeComics #IndieComics #Kickstarter
February 13, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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propublica.org
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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kjephd.bsky.social
That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.
thefarce.org 🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 7d
They're Letting Cancer Patients Die to Fund Concentration Camps

www.thefarce.org/theyre-letti...
Veterans → Goons Trump cut VA positions and froze hiring for nurses and psychologists—while 94% of VA facilities report severe staffing shortages. That money instead paid thousands of militarized agents to invade Minnesota and shoot Alex Pretti, a VA ICU nurse, dead while he lay prone on the ground. Veterans who earned their care are denied it so goons can terrorize American citizens. Care for Starving Children → Fascist Influencers Trump killed USAID funding, creating a $60 billion gap. The Lancet estimates 22.6 million preventable deaths by 2030, including 5.4 million children under five, as a result of all the funding cuts in 2025 around the world, as allies aped the Trump regime’s cuts. In just six months, 600,000 people died preventable deaths, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Where did some of that money go? To fund far-right movements in Europe. We’re literally taking money from starving children and giving it to Nigel Farage, supporting Nazi-ish parties in Germany, and funding that weird mix of fascist and Putin-purchased movements across Europe. Cancer Research → Measles Outbreaks Bobby Jr. terminated or froze 320 grants researching cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and heart disease—$561 million redirected away from cures. Meanwhile, measles outbreaks are hitting detention centers holding children like five-year-old Liam Ramos. We’re trading the possibility of curing cancer for the certainty of preventable disease spreading in camps where we’re holding American children.
February 11, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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kaye.zone
I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7d
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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michellicopter.bsky.social
I'm looking at the applications we've had so far and there are so many fabulous people, but I KNOW there's more women and femmes of colour in the European TTRPG scene than this. There has to be!

Come and play on our channel, we are super nice and cool.
euphoriaap.bsky.social EUphoria Actual Plays @euphoriaap.bsky.social · 11d
Casting is still open for our 6 amazing all women and femme tables! We've got gothic horror, team sports, arctic horror, bittersweet road trips, space and DRAGONS, all with our facillitated Session 0s, European-prioritised tables, and POC applicants go to the top of the list!

tally.so/r/Pd9a4x
An 80s synthwave background with, neon purple, pink, and purple grid as far as the horizon and a blazing golden sunrise with hotpink stripes. Large black and white QR code directing to the TTRPGirls player application form. Header reads 'Casting 6 actual plays with all women+femme tables. Bullet points below read ' session zero and safety tools, celebrating the European community, priority casting for POC based in Europe (no all-white tables)
February 7, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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kibblesmith.com
Posting a chat gpt caricature of yourself feels like flashing me the std rash you got on purpose
February 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM