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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 4h

Some writers that made me:

Bruce Coville
JRR Tolkien
Lois Lowry
Eoin Colfer
Markus Zusak
Ray Bradbury
CS Lewis
Mary Pope Osborne
Suzanne Collins

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Mar 22

who are some of the writers that made you?

jrr tolkien
libba bray
jd salinger
ken follett
cs lewis
joanna campbell
lemony snicket
richelle mead
stephenie meyer
kurt vonnegut jr
eva ibbotson
se hinton
lois duncan

you? 📚💙

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · Mar 22

who are the five writers that made you?

Matt Christopher
Sam Kieth
Kevin Smith
Denis Johnson
Brian Evenson

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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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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 12h

The slop machines have taught me one thing--and credit where due, it is an important thing: I'd rather die than surrender that which makes me human.

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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Dave Scheidt @davescheidt.com · 11h

If you want one of these bad boys before HALLOWEEN now is the time to order!!!! Shipping starts next week.

Dave Scheidt @davescheidt.com · 16d

Introducing RACCOON CITY PUNKS. A book Sean Mac and I have wanted to make for YEARS.

A group of teenage skater punks try their best to survive a night in Raccoon City filled with loser cops, bio-engineered monsters and hordes of flesh-eating zombies. square.link/u/p4AYAuGj?s...

44 pages. Riso.

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Ryan Kelly @ryankelly.bsky.social · 11h

Panam Palmer Cyberpunk (video game) patreon sketch request, detail, ink on paper. Thanks all for the sketches and commission business.

Character from the Cyberpunk videogame, inks on paper sketch

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 16h

AI freaks literally forcing their plagiarism slop machines down our throats. They know most people don't like their garbage machines so they have to force their slop onto us.

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 4d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 12h

What they don't know is that the real leader of ANTIFA is a sentient Frog and these protestors are just paying homage.

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Meredith McClaren at ROMICS Oct '25 @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 13h

Look.
The frogs work.
The frogs are brilliant.

Are they shitposting?
Abso-fucking-lutely.

But you gotta make the other guy feel so stupidly ridiculous.
You gotta make him wake up, every morning, and go 'Today, I gotta lay out an inflatable frog' and experience the worst kind of existential dread.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16h

It is hard to walk the line where we simultaneously recognize that these are NOT serious people, but also that they do have their hands on serious levers of power so they can do serious harm.

Both are true. But these are losers who are praying they can scare us into giving them what they can't take

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16h

They know they are ridiculous people and the thing they hate most is being laughed at. They want everyone terrified and intimidated by how MANLY and LETHAL they are, not laughing because they got got by a grating frog.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 20h

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 14h

Trump and his goons acting like petulant dipshits at the Nobel Peace Prize thing is both funny and terrifying considering they're in charge of the country right now.

What illegal and horrific thing is this baby man tyrant going to do to make himself feel better?

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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 15h

Only people in the cult buy this nonsense now. And I bet the same thing was true back then. The people with power just push it so relentlessly, to create an illusion that the he public think it’s a problem.

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20h

As someone who has studied the circulation of terms “subversive” and “communist” in the lead to and through McCarthyism as empty signifiers to justify violent suppression I feel like I’m both amazed and unsurprised how transparently and unsophisticatedly “woke” and “antifa” are now doing the same.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

But frankly, if your business is entirely run on Stealing Things That Don't Belong To You And Selling Them, I'm fine with you not having a business anymore.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 16h

AI doesn't make money, it burns it. And unlike every other big tech innovation of our lifetime, it actually gets LESS profitable as it scales larger and larger.

It's the opposite of a viable business model.

Sun God Bran @branbuilt.co · 16h

All that money being poured into AI somehow tells me there's no money in AI lol

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Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 16h

The value of AI is that it gives every corporation in every industry an excuse to lay off workers and cut payroll expenses, which Wall Street then rewards by increasing its stock price.

That's why the ENTIRE corporate world is lining up behind a product/business model that simply does not work.

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 16h

I don't understand why they are so dead set on alienating every single community that moved onto this site.

It's like they wish they were less successful Mastodon instead of a growing Twitter replacement.

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Dan Membiela @danmembiela.bsky.social · 21h

Mynocktober Day 10
The last puzzle piece of the seller's identity in place, the Mynock races to his location.

#Batober
#BewareTheMynock2025

The Mynock in his cockpit flipping an overhead switch and manning a lever with the other hand.

Batman
Star Wars

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 17h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Cody Badders • Commissions Open @seebadd.bsky.social · 16h

AI freaks literally forcing their plagiarism slop machines down our throats. They know most people don't like their garbage machines so they have to force their slop onto us.

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 4d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Dr Artyom Trakhanov - SHARP EYE IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER NOW @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 18h

It’s so fucking exhausting how goddamn stupid & ignorant American celebrities are. There’s a whole class of personal managerial parasites flocking around every single one of them 24/7, robotic ghouls paid to think FOR them, yet there’s still only half of a functional brain per each of these nitwits

Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 4d

this AI crap has exactly the same vibe as Chili Discourse, a bunch of bad faith shitheads trying to make nothing into something through sheer volume

I'll be doing my part by blocking every single AI advocate that crosses my path bc I simply do not care enough to sort them out

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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