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Folarin Akinmade
@akingmade.bsky.social
Making stuff up for a living.
https://linktr.ee/akingmade
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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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... and to everyone on our side of the date line who observes - a solemn Ash Wednesday and an ecstatically ascetic Lent.
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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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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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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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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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.
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
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
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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February 14, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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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You should sign up to get notified about my incredibly talented friend Folarin’s new project! Do it now!!
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
Re-Upping this with the warning that the self-promo from this account is about to become insufferable. I apologise in advance 🙏🏾
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
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
February 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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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.
February 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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i often think about this review
February 14, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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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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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
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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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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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.
They're Letting Cancer Patients Die to Fund Concentration Camps

www.thefarce.org/theyre-letti...
February 11, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?
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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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.
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
February 7, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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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