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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 6d

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 6d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 6d

pathetic

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 6d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 7d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 8d

Umm, Canada, are you taking notes???

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · May 16

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.

Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.

"She probably doesn't mean me"

I do.

sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · May 15

I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this;

most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!

well, we do. so fuck off.

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 13d

Has anyone else noticed that many non-writers don't seem to have a sense that there is anything between "full time writer who writes for a living" and "total amateur who writes for funzies and never shares it with anyone" even though the middle makes up like...almost all writers?

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · Mar 30

I've taught many people new to gamedev from kids to adult, from a practical educator lens I believe the main difference people credit to kids learning faster or easier than adults is they aren't yet consciously trying to avoid temporarily looking like a beginner at something

adding alt text to help

comic of two paths from an idea to results. the top shows a person sitting on a ledge labeled "idea," separated by a gap labeled "being cool" from another side labeled "results" with a plain vase on it. the bottom shows a person over on a filled in hole from "idea" to "results," with the fill labeled "being cringe" and the vase is sparkling.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16d

Important info on scams for authors here.

Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 16d

My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet.
www.patreon.com/posts/139940...

Genre Grapevine: Book Club Scams Are a Warning of Emerging AI Super-Scams | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine

www.patreon.com

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 19d

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19d

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 19d

It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story.

Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19d

Hundreds of people who were once detained at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, have disappeared from government records.

We speak to a reporter and an advocate about what we know.

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Becca Gomez Farrell @becca.gomezfarrell.com · 20d

This is the way

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 20d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Psy Costanza @ganondalf.bsky.social · 20d

You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 22d

David Lynch from his 8/28/2020 "Weather Report" video, where he is wearing a black button down, black sunglasses, and saying: "what a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqHREWzwnA

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 22d

Hey, Rapture's today. This could be your last chance to tell me I'm pretty

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Sep 1

Typewriter Monke
@tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
April 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 22d

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

a small brown dog leaps up from behind a pile of crunchy brown leaves. her eyes and mouth are open wide, and her big floppy ears are extended out like wings to either side.

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 25d

All genAI should be banned, and no magazine or book publisher of any kind should use it for anything whatsoever. Utter trash fucking up everything.

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 26d

“It’s really, really frustrating, and it’s really setting us back as far as the community’s info literacy.”

www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI ever since the release of GPT-3.5 in late 2022. But the problem escalated over the summer after fielding patron requests for the same fake book titles from real authors—the consequences of an AI-generated summer reading list circulated in special editions of the Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer earlier this year. At the time, the freelancer told 404 Media he used AI to produce the list without fact checking outputs before syndication.

As much as library workers try to shield their institutions from the AI-generated content onslaught, the situation is and has been, in many ways, inevitable. Companies desperate to rush generative AI products to market are pushing flawed products onto the public that are predictably being used to pollute our information ecosystems. The consequences are that AI slop is entering libraries, everyone who uses AI products bears at least a little responsibility for the swarm, and every library worker, regardless of role, is being asked to try and mitigate the effects.

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 25d

I recently learned that my local Canadian library is connected to Hoopla! I had thought Hoopla was an American thing. The number of ebooks I can borrow without ever having to leave my house has just multiplied tenfold. It's great. (And audiobooks, comics, movies, shows...For free! In a legal way!)

wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 26d

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25d

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in

if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad
if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good

it's not about what you do, it's about who you are

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 26d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 29d

Authors:

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Spicymochi @spicymochi.bsky.social · Sep 9

Little pumpkin thieves

Illustration of a fluffy skunk and possum carrying a pumpkin in their mouths

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · Sep 8

"but art should be accessible" it is, you can learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, make pixels. right now, starting today. art has never been more accessible monetarily nor physically than it is now in this age. access to artist labor and machine production is not an accessibility issue.

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Boolair Thorboorn 👻 @oiblair.bsky.social · Sep 9

in ~17 years, the writers and narrative designers have consistently been the kindest, smartest folks I've worked with in game dev.

they take some of the stupidest interference from leadership while delivering, time after time.

diminishing their contributions is a short road to worse games.

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's really important you read the article because it's easy to miss what's happening *in the headline* -- because a lot is happening here.

Words I never thought I'd say but the Edmonton police are 100% correct here.

Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · Sep 9

SCOOP: Edmonton police have sent a letter to the provincial minister in charge of prosecutions objecting to a plea deal in the case of a woman charged with murdering an 8-year-old Indigenous girl.

Never seen anything like this before.

edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

In rare move, Edmonton police object to Crown accepting manslaughter plea in Indigenous girl's homicide

Edmonton police object to the Crown prosecution service's planned plea deal in the case of a mother charged with murdering her young daughter.

edmontonjournal.com

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Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · Sep 7

join the war on chicago on the side of chicago

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