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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 8h

Sci-fi / horror film & TV and futurist magazines were the life blood of a kid throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s

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Mika is eepy 🌱🌿 @potatokyukun.bsky.social · 1d

Daaamnnn I love art so much and how everyone has their own style and techniques 😩🤲💕💕

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Owls die, Jack. @phosfate.bsky.social · 16h

Beatrice.

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YamiNOOOO 😱🔪🩸 @yamino.bsky.social · 1d

Cowards. I would have loved this so much

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Kindle is running a one-day deal for our book in the U.K., if you've been waiting to snap it up! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CW1MKNV...

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

“Frog,” asked Toad, “was that a true story?”

“Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t,” said Frog.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 1d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 2d

I finally remembered the best one - PG Wodehouse learning of Jack Kerouac's recent death during a 1969 interview with the Paris Review and having a perfectly Bertie Wooster-ish reaction: 'those chaps sure do go quickly, don't they'

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

We save each other

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 2d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Owls die, Jack. @phosfate.bsky.social · 2d

Reading the manga Blood on the Tracks, even though I was warned. I WAS WARNED.

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Owls die, Jack. @phosfate.bsky.social · 2d

My mom learned to drive in a Model T, and the last movie she saw was Revenge of the Sith. In my defense, I tried to talk her into going to literally anything else, but "I've never seen a Star Wars."

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Owls die, Jack. @phosfate.bsky.social · 2d

Fuckin' loved Moby Dick.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 2d

Mood

A panel showing Tawky Tawny (the talking tiger) holding two suitcases and walking away from Captain Marvel. Cap shouts "Don't go away, Mr. Tawny! Please!" Tawny responds "Bah! I have lost all faith in mankind! Goodbye forever!"

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WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social · 2d

WFMU's Hellraiser Fundraiser continues through October! There's new swag, and special programs and events will happen throughout the month. Help us out with a donation and grab one of two new T-shirts. pledge.wfmu.org/donate/

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3d

“where’s the whale? did he get the whale yet?”

lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 3d

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 2d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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Owls die, Jack. @phosfate.bsky.social · 2d

You should probably use water.

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HawkmothMoon @hawkmothmoon.bsky.social · 2d

“You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all the while folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume”

DAMN 💯💯💯

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 2d

Rock out with your Spock out. 🖖🏻🤘🏻

illustration of my hand raised in the air giving the Vulcan hand symbol. the hand is wearing a studded leather cuff and the sleeve is a leather jacket. the text says "For those about to Spock."

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 2d

As a lemony cloth for my brain’s art hands, it’s Matthew Corbett and his family

Mathew Corbett with Sooty Sweep and Soo, an energetic oil pastel drawing based on an innocent 80s publicity photo of a white man with reddish hair and three small famous hand puppets, a yellow bear a grey dog and a femme panda

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