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Here for art and you. Hate is the enemy, fight for justice. He/They

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Residual Self-Image @noinktechnique.bsky.social · 13d
An Illustration of John Brown and a model 1832 Ames foot artillery sword that may have been used by his party during their skirmishes. The text below the illustration reads: Militant abolitionist and anti-slavery freedom fighter Captain John Brown advocated violent opposition against pro-slavery brigands. Leading raids and liberating enslaved people during the guerilla war known as "Bleeding Kansas" John Brown's name would come to evoke fear and rage in the enemy. Slavery apologists in Kansas would justly suffer under the destruction and mayhem caused by the fighting and Kansas would eventually enter the union as a free state. John Brown continued his crusade, culminating in a raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry that if successful, enslaved people and their allies could be armed and perhaps made ready for full-scale revolt. Captured during the raid, John Brown would be the first to hang for treason in this nascent United States, but his martyrdom for the cause would prove a potent example that the depths of inhuman cruelty that was the structure of American chattel slavery could only be defeated by violent opposition against those who enabled it.
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pattymo.com
“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it
February 9, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
YT shorts are what has finally convinced me that actually some gatekeeping is v good and preventing the laziest and stupidest people in the world from sharing their brains with everyone else was a great thing for the world and the human condition
nameshiv.bsky.social Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16h
YT shorts legit spread more misinfo and lies than both Twitter and Tiktok at this point
February 8, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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bootsriley.bsky.social
I Love Boosters.
In theaters May 22nd.
January 28, 2026 at 5:24 AM
noinktechnique.bsky.social
An Illustration of John Brown and a model 1832 Ames foot artillery sword that may have been used by his party during their skirmishes. The text below the illustration reads: Militant abolitionist and anti-slavery freedom fighter Captain John Brown advocated violent opposition against pro-slavery brigands. Leading raids and liberating enslaved people during the guerilla war known as "Bleeding Kansas" John Brown's name would come to evoke fear and rage in the enemy. Slavery apologists in Kansas would justly suffer under the destruction and mayhem caused by the fighting and Kansas would eventually enter the union as a free state. John Brown continued his crusade, culminating in a raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry that if successful, enslaved people and their allies could be armed and perhaps made ready for full-scale revolt. Captured during the raid, John Brown would be the first to hang for treason in this nascent United States, but his martyrdom for the cause would prove a potent example that the depths of inhuman cruelty that was the structure of American chattel slavery could only be defeated by violent opposition against those who enabled it.
January 26, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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themorbidzoo.bsky.social
Some semi-organized thoughts about The Bone Temple and today’s events: morbid-field-notes.ghost.io/writing/some...
Some Thoughts About The Bone Temple
Earlier today, ICE agents in Minneapolis shot VA nurse Alex Pretti 10 times and killed him. The last thing he ever did, the act that signed his death warrant, was try to help a woman ICE had pushed to...
morbid-field-notes.ghost.io
January 25, 2026 at 4:09 AM
noinktechnique.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
noinktechnique.bsky.social
Old Snake
January 17, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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rickaytickay.bsky.social
I tried something different and kinda redid lines
January 17, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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jaws-stone.bsky.social
Fix Your Hearts Or Die
2025

One year ago, we lost a link to the lodge.
An illustration of director David Lynch, smoking a cigarette
January 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM
noinktechnique.bsky.social
Harry, come get your boy
January 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Tomorrow: My 13,500 word historical and financial analysis on how the AI Bubble is magnitudes worse than the Dot Com Bubble, with a contagion that will spread throughout the global markets and our society.

Here's $10 off annual.

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I Am Deeply Worried About How Not Like The Dot Com Bubble This Is I spent hours and hours reading old articles through broken paywalls and archive.org links in the hopes I’d find some sort of positive spin - a way that the AI bubble wasn’t as bad, some sliver or nugget of joy, some shred of hope, and everything I’ve read has made me more and more worried. The real problem is that there are similarities, but only with the worst parts of both bubbles. We’ve got stupid amounts of money being sunk into stuff. We’ve got stupid companies that want to IPO. We’ve got hopeless startups juiced up by credulous venture capitalists and marketed by even-more credulous journalists. Except this time we have the worst margins this side of a vineyard planted in Las Vegas Nevada, and despicable boosters that will go to war with you to try and prove you wrong using ghost stories, fairy tales and pixie dust. I realize I’m being a little cavalier and colloquial about this, and that’s because I feel utterly emotionally drained by this - things are so much worse than I thought. I really felt like I’d dig into the past and find that there were direct, obvious similarities, and thus have some degree of hope that things wouldn’t be apocalyptic. Instead, I’m convinced that things will be much, much worse. The dot com bubble was relatively distributed, and created useful infrastructure. The ideas of some of the most prominent dot com startups were valid, but based on stupid hypergrowth business models that didn’t make sense and were only sustained through mass hysteria and ignorance. By comparison, AI startups are fundamentally illogical, selling unreliable software that’s best-known for its consistent mistakes and active harms backed by the corrosive and ever-worsening infrastructural costs. And they’re the customers of the largest company on the stock market, that can only keep its valuation, on which the markets depend, by selling more of an expensive-to-buy and more-expensive-to-ins… The Logical Endpoint Of My Argument Depending on how right I am, I worry that the following will happen: NVIDIA will lose anywhere from 40% to 90% of its revenue, which will annihilate the value of the S&P 500. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta will face massive, multi-billion dollar impairments within the next few years. Oracle will face potential bankruptcy or at least a severe, horrendous series of layoffs and restructuring efforts to try and right the ship after agreeing to $248 billion in lease obligations primarily to get the revenue from its $300 billion, 5-year-long deal with OpenAI, a company that is going to run out of money in the next year. Venture capital is going to take such a severe haircut from the AI bubble that it will effectively kill any chances of raising a round after Series B for many, many years. Those $178.5 billion in data center debt deals will be predominantly underwater, leading to massive losses for private equity and banks (leading to a chill in effectively all debt markets), and massive job losses across the many, many construction projects that have started as a result of the AI bubble. If OpenAI or Anthropic can manage to go public, every investor will lose out as they collapse under the weight of their bullshit assumptions. Every partner, every company relying on them, every infrastructure provider will be burned. I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff. The amount of bosses, influencers, movie stars, politicians and other individuals of note that have fallen behind generative AI and claimed again and again that it can do things that it can’t and perpetuated myths that will lead to massive societal harms both today and in the future have revealed themselves as fucking frauds. It’s been obvious since 2023 that generative AI flat out does not do what many people say it will and obvious since 2024 t… And believe me, even if I’m half right, things will likely be so much worse than when the dot com bubble burst. I don’t see a scenario where anything survives the collapse of CoreWeave, let alone the collapse of OpenAI. I don’t see a scenario where any more than a few AI startups survive, and if that happens, there won’t be any customers for those GPUs - not that anywhere near enough existed to fill even a tiny percentile of the demand. On some level, I hope I’m wrong. I just don’t know how anymore.
January 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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kingsevil.bsky.social
Aaaaand we're done.
Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
apnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:34 AM
noinktechnique.bsky.social
Time to never pay for this again

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January 16, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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jeffgerstmann.com
#$HIT
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · 24d
Also new in v1.114 today: cashtags! Like hashtags, but for stocks.

Tag your posts with #$AAPL, #$NVDA, whatever, then tap to see everyone else's equally unqualified analysis!
January 15, 2026 at 8:35 PM
noinktechnique.bsky.social
Some sketches are WIP, some are just sketches.

40K.
January 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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jaythechou.bsky.social
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1765
Paddington in Godzilla Minus One (2023)
January 13, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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doctorbutler.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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unusualwhales.bsky.social
BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph
January 11, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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selazuma.bsky.social
Buff feline sketches—my hand was injured so I didn’t draw as much as I wanted to these past several days. My hand feels better now, so I’ll be posting up more artwork. Gonna keep the fan art to Fridays (for the most part)

I meant to post this yesterday

#pokemon

pokemon--Incineroar-- 1/9/26
January 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
noinktechnique.bsky.social
Do you have any idea how badly you need to destabilize your own nation for an Australian who was alive during Port Arthur to be looking for one of these mythical well-regulated militias y'all wrote about?

Cultivate parallel power. What else is left?
January 11, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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jeffgerstmann.com
It's not quite ready to be a full-on Explorer replacement just yet, but File Pilot is dang close. Really slick, super fast, the sort of thing you wish the Windows developers were working on instead of jamming more Copilot shit into every corner. Check it out! filepilot.tech
File Pilot - Next-gen file explorer
File Pilot is a file explorer built from scratch for light-speed performance, with a modern and robust interface.
filepilot.tech
January 11, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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tiny.baby
coming around on the idea that a politician is a type of cop
January 10, 2026 at 6:33 AM