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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 11h

Working on some character art and WHY ARE ALL HAIR CUT PHOTOS AI NOW 😭 I just want a reference for a real haircut on a real person, and I KNOW people still have hair and get haircuts in real life, so WHY is every single image AI?????

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 14h

Just finished going through my editor's notes on my next book 🥳

One week left if you want to sign up for the ARC for it! A Mutual Connection is a contemporary romance about online friends who then meet in real life when they both start working at the same tattoo studio. And they're both nonbinary 🏳️‍⚧️

Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, coming out 19 November, preorders and ARCs now open, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends

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Doki Rosi 🌷🌷🌷 @dokirosi.bsky.social · 15h

A PRESS TOUR DE WICKED VEM PRO BRASIL!!! 💚💕✨ #wicked #fanart

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 1d

Word wants me to change "all nighter" to "nightery"????

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Cyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, AI usage melts people's brains, costs jobs, and costs trillions, but at least it... also consumes ridiculous amounts of energy and water. :/

Gawd I wish we invested that money in something useful, like high speed rail and public transit. And healthcare. And education.

#sigh

Engadget @engadget.bsky.social · 7d

Why do AI data centers use so many resources?

The facilities supporting the AI boom present a novel strain of wastefulness.

dlvr.it

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 4d

I also did a version of them with new outfits 💙

Digital art of Cedric and Rueben of All Roads Lead to This dressed in warmer clothes

Digital art of Cedric and Rueben of All Roads Lead to This dressed in summer outfits

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 4d

I took some art I drew of Cedric and Rueben of All Roads Lead to This is 2021 and fixed them up a little!

Digital art of Cedric and Rueben of All Roads Lead to This done in 2021

Digital art of Cedric and Rueben of All Roads Lead to This done in 2025

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 4d

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Natalie de Corsair @nataliedecorsair.bsky.social · 4d

Werewolves vs pumpkin carving

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 5d

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 4d

I also did a version of them with new outfits 💙

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 4d

I took some art I drew of Cedric and Rueben of All Roads Lead to This is 2021 and fixed them up a little!

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 5d

October is #ADHD Awareness Month and

hey, is that an ADHD #Book bundle? 👀 Mostly ADHD authors, ADHD characters? 22 books for only $25?

There's some #LGBTQ rep in there too

💙📚📢 #BookSky #PromoSky

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction
by Mostly ADHD Authors
Most with 1+ significant ADHD Characters

Beastiary Beas - A Valentines Story
Sebastian Noël

Sidetracked: Part 1
SK Kelley (intpsam)

The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle
Steve Westenra

He of the Trees
Rob MacWolf

The Weight of Her Gaze
RJ Martin

Ancient as the Stars
MayaDarjani

Wizard's Debt
Niranjan

Tales of Yamato
Odessa Silver

Manipulator's War (Ruarnon Trilogy 1)
Elise Carlson

Song of the Wolf
T.C. Smith

The Harmony of Falling Snow, A Polyamorous Romantasy Novel
Andora Brokaw

Blood
D.C. Hart

Lantern
Burgundy Athena Pendragon

Trans_lucent
Stefanie Carter

The Lady and The List
Elizabeth Briars

A Demon to Save Me: Book One of the Found Humanity series
H.S. Kallinger

Rage from a Cage
Joachim Heijndermans

A Dark Hole Darkly
Drew Melbourne

Heart of Stone
Johannes T. Evans

War of the Space Dragons (An Empire of Dragons Collection)
dragonperson

Ants Waking
rjhuneke

The Players Act 1: All The World's A Stage
voxdumnonia

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 5d

I am a gay disabled transgender man from the South of Wales, and I write a LOT of fiction across the erotica, fantasy, romance, and horror genres!

Hundreds of short stories and essays are available to read on my website, and here are some eBook bundles to buy!

johannestevans.co.uk/product-cate...

Trans & Gender Feels eBook Bundle
Original price was: £19.85
Current price is: £10.00.

A bundle of 15 eBooks featuring trans characters, intersex characters, and/or characters who are depicted as experiencing difficulties with their gender incongruity or dysphoria.

Neurodiversity eBook Bundle
Original price was: £22.36.Current price is: £10.00.

A grab-bag of 14 eBooks featuring variously neurodivergent characters. Some of these characters are explicitly labelled or reference diagnoses within their stories, but the majorities are written with certain traits and personalities in mind.

Disability eBook Bundle
Original price was: £14.91
Current price is: £7.00.

Bundle containing 10 of my eBooks featuring different forms of representation of physical disabilities, especially those that require canes and other mobility aids.

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 5d

I'm planning to put the series it's a part of on Instagram for paperbacks, but will probably only be able to do so in January!

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a transmasc author from South Africa with a new T4T romance coming out next month!
Preorders: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ68358J
ARC sign ups: forms.gle/f7pz5tmbKfhV...

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 5d

It was a great new spot to go birding! 10 min drive from the house (somewhere I can potentially drive to by myself!), lots of buck in the area, and I got 2 new lifers: a black-bellied starling and a Cape grassbird

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 5d

I went on a bird walk today and heard this call just before leaving, and I DESPERATELY want to know what it's from

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Rodrigo Fernandez @fernandezamsterdam.bsky.social · 6d

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 6d

Guess I need to post more trans porn on here in protest (on my other account @kayworxxo.bsky.social)

TheCongressman @thecongressman.bsky.social · 6d

bsky ceo's crashout shows they can not handle simple criticism, so keep doing it. bsky wants the marginalized people that built this site to shut up or leave, don't give them an easy way out

LeeTaeRyeo @leetaeryeo.com · 19d

BlueSky does not currently have advertising or any real monetization. Doing a boycott/blackout will have absolutely no impact on them due to this, other than users who would be impacted by the censoring doing the work for them.

The real way to impact would be to post more. Trend. Make them moderate

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 6d

We're at an Italian restaurant by the beach, and they put small bowls of garlic, chilli and parmesan cheese on the table. The table next to use has a wagtail on their table eating the paramsan cheese directly out of the bowl 😭 (they know and are filming the bird)

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 6d

Stopped at a plant nursery on the way to Plett and got a new bird added to my life list 🥳 Grey cuckooshrike. I was lucky there was a raptor rescue place there and the guy working there was able to identify this photo for me

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TheSouthAfrican.com @thesouthafrican.com · 7d

WATCH: Mandla Mandela’s son sends heartfelt message to abducted dad

WATCH: Mandla Mandela's son sends heartfelt message to abducted dad

Former member of Parliament Mandla Mandela’s abduction by Israeli forces while on board the Global Sumud Flotilla has sparked strong reactions.

www.thesouthafrican.com

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 8d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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