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Iron Spike

@ironspike.bsky.social

January 30, 2026 at 4:31 PM

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Stars

@starsinmycoffeeart.bsky.social

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A girl in a blue and yellow dress, a hat, and with large wings, sits on a swing. Beside her is a white moth, and behind her are trees, with a crescent moon shining in the sky. This drawing is inspired by The Swing painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

January 30, 2026 at 10:24 AM

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Sos Sosowski

@sosowski.bsky.social

"Ethical AI" does not exist. There is no reality where you can have generative AI that's "ethically trained". There are ZERO AI models trained ethically, and there will never be any.

The term has been made up by people who want a pass on using AI. You don't get that pass, slop peddlers.

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 5d

Women in Games CEO says 'ethical AI' should augment human creativity

WIG's 2026 manifesto argues women should be involved in "building and governing" AI to prevent "bias" from going unchecked.

www.gamedeveloper.com

January 30, 2026 at 9:11 AM

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Egg

@eggpower.bsky.social

January 30, 2026 at 11:00 AM

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PC Gamer

@pcgamer.com

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'

The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

www.pcgamer.com

January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM

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sarah margaret 💕

@sarahmargs.bsky.social

This is the thread for my minicomic, Into the Bladelands! I will be posting updates of anywhere from 2-4 pages here, hopefully to be finished before the end of the year.

Sky disappears. Ari gets left behind. Five years later, the door to the Bladelands opens again.

Ari (vo): When I was sixteen, my best friend disappeared. We grew up together in the woods between our houses. Sky could have fun no matter what.
Sky: Pick up your sword and fith me like a man!
Ari: Wait for me!
Ari (vo): My favorite thing to do was just live in his world.
Bully: Whatcha drawin, faggots? The map to your honeymoon?
Sky punches him. Later, Ari tends to his wounds.
Sky: You probably think I'm really stupid.
Ari: I just think you're really brave.
They kiss.
Sky: We can't tell anyone about this, okay?
Ari: Yeah, of course.

A couple years pass. Sky and Ari are looking at the stars.
Sky: Y'know, I think about it all the time.
Ari: What we've been doing?
Sky: No, man, the Bladelands! We'd run shit over there. Be warriors or kings or whatever.
Ari: Heh, too bad it's not real.
Sky: well, it could be.
Ari: Dude.
Sky: I'm just saying! Maybe we were picking up a signal or something. Like a radio station from another state, but with dragons. It feels like that sometimes. Y'know, I turn 17 tomorrow. And I'm starting to freak out a little because, like, this is it? I thought I could be more than this.
Ari: Hey, you can be! When we're 18, we can get out of here. We'll move to the city. Together.
Sky: I guess... it still just all feels so small. At least in the Bladelands, there's magic. And prophecy, and swords, and danger. You can be an adventurer. You can at least be, like, an important person.
Ari: You're important, Sky. You're important to me.
Sky: Heh. Gayyy.
Ari: Shut up.
Ari (VO): That was the last night I ever saw him.
Ari walks away. Sky spots a mysterious portal behind a tree and reaches out to it.

Ari (Vo): The next day, he was gone.
We see a montage of Ari's lonely life. Sky's parents mourn and move away. Ari graduates. Gets a job working at a bookstore. The impromptu memorial for Sky rots.
Ari (VO): And the next. And the next. And the next. And the next. And the next. And then five years were gone.

November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM

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Iron Spike

@ironspike.bsky.social

Quick warning for Kickstarter users below.

KS Trust and Safety will literally NEVER contact you via DMs. Report this message if you get it.

Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 8d

Head's up, there is a #Kickstarter phishing email going around.

The email is saying your account is restricted because your bank information hasn't been fully verified with a link!

DO NOT CLICK IT or go to that URL!

It came through as a MESSAGE with the name NotificationBot with the KS logo.

January 27, 2026 at 6:39 PM

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Omnia Ostia

@omniaostia.bsky.social

The American Dream adage of "you can be rich if you work hard" serves only to convince the rich that they have worked hard.

January 27, 2026 at 6:40 PM

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

A drawing by a 5-year-old child in detention:

Drawing in black on white paper of four frowning small stick figures behind bars. One of them has a speech bubble saying “Let s go”.

At the top written in a child’s print handwriting are the words, “I am 5 years old.”

At the bottom left corner is a box with the name of the child’s attorney, Eric Lee.

Source: Maddow

January 27, 2026 at 6:34 PM

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Snitty

@clofsnitville.bsky.social

You can't reform this shit. This is a death threat.

MinnMax @minnmax.com · 7d

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."

ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

January 27, 2026 at 5:55 PM

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r o o

@jakepaulsartre.bsky.social

I'm sorry I can't stop thinking "all democrats know how to do is fund police, do means test and lie" on repeat now

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 7d

Unfortunately Democrats only know how to give cops more money, technology, and staffing. They only have one button to press and they’re making a very concerned face as they press it

January 27, 2026 at 4:58 PM

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Fight for the Future

@fightforthefuture.org

insurers are on the front lines of tracking your every move and pricing you accordingly.

tesla's surveillance-mobiles are their dream come true.

⮕ 'ethical' insurance company Lemonade will be able to analyze "every minute, every second" that tesla owners drive, reuters reports fftf.link/1n9qtp

Lemonade to cut insurance rates for Tesla drivers in endorsement of EV maker's software technology

U.S. insurer Lemonade said on Wednesday it would offer a 50% rate cut for drivers of Tesla electric vehicles when the automaker's Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver assistance software is steering because...

www.reuters.com

January 27, 2026 at 6:52 PM

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Brendel

@brendelbored.bsky.social

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

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January 27, 2026 at 6:14 PM

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

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screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

January 27, 2026 at 6:11 PM

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Jaypeg

@jaypegplays.bsky.social

If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund