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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 4h

Best case scenario, the AI bubble bursts and the global economy crumbles like a house of cards before the US supreme court has a chance to rule on AI and copyright. Worst case scenario, the order is reversed, no artist will ever make money again, and all media will be AI slop forever.

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 3d

- put down the damn AI.

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Elizabeth: Ghost in the City @kikutowne.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t stress this enough, it’s really easy to get fooled and it doesn’t make you less smart for not spotting it, but it is possible to get better at spotting it the more you learn about what to look for.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 4h

City budgets don’t directly pay teacher salaries. But I don’t know how to cost out the parts of education a city does pay for, so I’m doing the math I know how to do.

JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 4h

You could hire seven teachers for the price of this one guy. Teachers don’t get paid overtime. You could hire… two and a half? Math is hard. For just his base salary. Seven teachers means 175 more kids being served. That’s half the teaching staff of an average elementary school.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Jeff-O-Lantern 🦇🎃👻 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @jeffreyellis.ca · 17h

When people say "you can't put the demon back in the box" in relation to AI, I agree with them. I don't think AI is going away.
But we still have nuclear bombs too, but we also heavily regulate and control thag technology.
What I oppose, is this wild west of plagiarism and pollution

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Bobcat Arts w/ 30% more spooky @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 17h

Creativity is the birthright of our species. From murals to music, from sculptures to sandwiches, from drawings to dances and everything in between. Making the world more beautiful, making each other's lives richer in so many ways is what we were born to do. All of us for each other, not just a few.

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 4d

Banned Books - Gator Days

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jam @jammyness.bsky.social · 19h

Good Morning fellow Canadians this one is another official government survey seeking input on Canada's "AI Strategy" open until the end of Oct!! I'll be taking a look later today

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 19h

Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole, by Isabel J. Kim

This short story is great, although you need to be familiar with the story it's riffing on, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24

Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 19h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 1d

well there you go libs, there will in fact, not be a 2028

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

Oh shit, ANTIFA is suiting up

From the sound of music. Seven children stand in a line inside a grand house, wearing identical light blue sailor-style uniforms with dark collars, neckties, and knee socks. They are arranged from tallest to shortest, standing at attention on a patterned rug with a staircase and ornate wall paneling behind them.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't know Mamdani's wife was a comics nerd! New York, you have to vote for him now because I need at least one person in comics to have good health insurance.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jun 25

This is Zoran Mamdami’s wife’s portfolio site and she is very good

HOME | Rama Duwaji

Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NYC.

www.ramaduwaji.com

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 3d

KPop Demon Hunters is a brilliant film, but it’s also lovely seeing its voice actors, songwriters, and singers become stars after years of struggling in the industry

It’s pretty bonkers this is not a real band, and EJAE (lead vocals) hadn’t performed in a decade until this
youtu.be/8y-ViyUk7Dk?...

EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami from KPop Demon Hunters: Golden | The Tonight Show

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d

Like, this is literally the opening to Nausicaa. Quaint and nonthreatening, this is NOT.

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 2d

Not only have editors prevented me from showing my ass in public, so has hiring sensitivity readers. I’m a big fan of both. Having someone be honest with you while also keeping your best interests at heart is something to be valued not dismissed

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, we are in for a DECADE at least of "I Was Just Following Orders, How Was I To Know"

Tim Just Tim @timkrauss.bsky.social · 3d

Waiting for all the assholes to start with the "I was NEVER MAGA!!" bullshit like "good Germans" after WW II

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 3d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 3d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 5d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Brigid Keely She/Her @brigid.bsky.social · 3d

Miyazaki: in this movie two young girls (one is a toddler) are uprooted from everything they know to start new lives near the rural hospital their mother is in; she is possibly dying of TB. Their dad works several hours away and they are largely unsupervised.

AI Bros: so homey! So comfy!

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 3d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

three panels from the nausicaä manga depicting ohmu & giant insects

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Jeff-O-Lantern 🦇🎃👻 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @jeffreyellis.ca · 3d

Carney has capitulated on all reciprocal tariffs and taxes, gutting our social services and infrastructure and is prepping us to become the 51st state, of course Trump loves him www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

ANALYSIS | Trump's tone shifts on Canada. What does that signal for tariffs? | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke more positively about Canada on Tuesday than he has at any time since winning the election last November, but whether that signals any imminent relief to punishing ta...

www.cbc.ca

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 4d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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