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Angela Collier

@acollierastro.bsky.social

so is it a common experience that the same dudes who were super into crypto like 7 years ago are the same dudes that are super into ai hype now?

is it just the same group of guys getting scammed over and over while they lecture us normies about how we are missing out because we are stupid?

February 9, 2026 at 2:43 AM

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Onmyoji Wiki (EN)

@onmyojiwiki-en.bsky.social

Kuzunoha CG cinematic - "Ballad of the Returning Fox" (归狐谣) Part 1/2
Official post: weibo.com/5896401674/Q...
#Onmyoji #陰陽師本格幻想RPG

February 9, 2026 at 8:28 AM

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baja yaga

@clove.bsky.social

EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT

February 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM

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Guidemyoji

@guidemyoji.bsky.social

「CN SERVER」

Yao Bikuni new Skin Deluxe Ebisu Boutique Version- same as previous Yorimitsu/Kagura skin.

Obtainable through Ebisu Boutique Vault Lottery:
- Must own any Ebisu Boutique Onmyoji Skin + Yao Bikuni new Skin normal version to unlock Ebisu Boutique Vault

#Onmyoji #阴阳师手游 #YaoBikuni

February 8, 2026 at 12:25 PM

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Forest Archaic Collective

@forestcollectiv.bsky.social

its #RuinedPrioryFriday & there's this curious quartet of monastic sites in a crescent around Shrewsbury which deserves a bit of a thread

🧵👇

February 6, 2026 at 10:29 AM

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Andrew Selbst

@aselbst.bsky.social

If the product were that good you wouldn’t have to force people to use it. This is insane.

Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 5d

Meta now forcing all employees to use AI tools and tying it to employee performance, according to @theinformation.com.

HR said "this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter"

That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.

Businesses such as Microsoft are increasingly nudging their employees to utilize AI to get more done. Others are forcing the issue.

One of the biggest firms to take the more aggressive path is Meta Platforms, which at the end of December had 78,865 employees.

At a companywide meeting last month, Meta leaders briefed employees on a new performance review and bonus system closely tied to their AI usage, according to a recording of the meeting.

For instance, the company’s AI-powered performance tracker, Checkpoint, looks at how many lines of code are generated by software engineers using AI tools, along with over 200 other data points. They include the number of errors or bugs associated with engineers’ code; the amount of code an engineer wrote themselves without AI.

Checkpoint is supposed to reduce the time it takes to prepare performance reviews, according to the meeting recording. It uses data from tools employees already use, such as Google Workspace to provide a summary of an employee’s work.

“To be clear, this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter,” said one HR leader during the meeting. Managers then evaluate employees’ impact based on these checkpoint summaries and assign a rating.

To help employees accomplish such goals, Meta has expanded their access to AI models made by other firms, such as Google’s Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT-5, alongside Meta’s own Llama models. Employees use such models for coding and other tasks.

February 4, 2026 at 1:07 PM

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Stevoisiak

@stevoisiak.bsky.social

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

February 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM

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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam!

@failbettergames.com

For your reassurance, here's the Fallen London AI Transparency Statement and the portion of the Steam page which states that we're making Mandrake by hand.

We don't use generative AI. <3

AI Transparency Statement
We do not use generative AI in the creation of any of our games. When we say Fallen London contains over 4.5 million words, please imagine fifteen-plus years of graft by a team of writers around the world: their calloused typing-fingers, their candles low and guttering, their hair and clothing rent over the use of an em-dash.

Also if you see artwork in Fallen London with too many eyes or fingers, rest assured that those are there on purpose.

Founded in 2009, we’re an indie game studio known for quality storytelling and highly atmospheric art. You might know us from our other games: Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies and Mask of the Rose, which are set in the world of our long-running browser game Fallen London. In a break from studio tradition, this is a game where you can't eat people.

We are making Mandrake for you, by hand, in the UK and Ireland.

February 4, 2026 at 10:05 AM

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John Scalzi

@scalzi.com

I DON'T LOOK LIKE THIS WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANY ACTUAL COMMERCIAL SITE MAKE AN "AI" PICTURE OF ME WHEN THERE ARE DOZENS OF PICTURES OF ME AVAILABLE ON STOCK ART SITES AND EVEN SOME GODDAMN CREATIVE COMMON PICTURES FOR FUCK'S SAKE THIS PERSON LOOKS LIKE A HUMAN BOOGER

DON'T FUCKIN' USE "AI" Y'ALL

A generated picture that looks nothing like me at all, it kinda of looks like a pug in human form WHICH I DO NOT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH

February 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM

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Guidemyoji

@guidemyoji.bsky.social

「CN SERVER」

Chinese Zodiac Skin Series - Year of Horse:
SP Momiji & Guijinyang

3 weeks limited avilability (S-jade).

#Onmyoji #阴阳师手游 #SPMomiji #Guijinyang

February 3, 2026 at 11:52 AM

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Bruno Dias

@brunodias.bsky.social

Anyway. The people spamming bluesky with this slop don't identify themselves at all, because they're cowards. But I have set up a moderation list for the automated accounts. bsky.app/profile/did:...

February 3, 2026 at 6:50 AM

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Bruno Dias

@brunodias.bsky.social

I won't link to it but someone on this website is running an annoying grift where they have LLM agents pretending to be shakesperean characters spamming people's replies, and personally I think whoever is behind it should be beaten to death

February 3, 2026 at 6:37 AM

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

@golikehellmachine.com

apple devs and product managers make several multiples of what i make working as a municipal contractor, couldn’t you folks, idk, maybe do a single fucking round of regression testing in between your long sabbaticals?

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

my watch dies in half the time than it did a week ago, my phone regularly can’t perform basic functions it did a week ago, my ipad can’t function as a tablet, ten years ago, this would’ve been thought a conspiracy; now i just think it’s complete idiot incompetence

February 3, 2026 at 7:45 AM

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

@golikehellmachine.com

I WAS NOT HOSTILE TO AI SHIT UNTIL APPLE WRECKED MORE THAN A THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF HARDWARE I OWN, BUT I AM SURE AS SHIT HOSTILE TO IT NOW.

great work, dickheads.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

i am very genuinely mad as fuck about this, they managed to fuck up more than a thousand dollars worth of my shit because of fucking sloppy shitass development and engineering

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

another couple of cool things about this pants-shitting iOS release is that my watch now runs out of battery at 10PM (this was not a problem before the upgrade, we are night owls) and my mini can’t actually load the kindle app, which is one of the primary reasons it exists in my home

February 3, 2026 at 7:07 AM

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win

@planetoffinks.bsky.social

you can tell the AI revolution is going well because every CEO is begging you to use it in the same tone as the government asking good citizens to buy war bonds in the 40s

February 2, 2026 at 9:21 PM

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Matthew Noe

@noethematt.bsky.social

"Libraries can balance the need for new technologies like AI with sustainability..."

See, you've already lost me, because describing AI as a "need" is not it.

February 2, 2026 at 6:49 PM

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生田目和剛(Nabatame Kazutaka)

@nabatamekazutaka.bsky.social

Sea Urchin and Salmon Roe Rice Bowl
/ Isomaru,Atami
(2019)

February 2, 2026 at 5:25 AM

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Guidemyoji

@guidemyoji.bsky.social

「CN SERVER」

Kuzunoha 3D Model & Skill Animations -
VA: Endo Aya

AOE DMG + immunity skill + transformation of 1-3 shikis + multi-hit AOE after transformation (´-ω-`)

#Onmyoji #阴阳师手游 #Kuzunoha

February 2, 2026 at 12:26 PM

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Guidemyoji

@guidemyoji.bsky.social

「CN SERVER」

SP Momo 3D Model & Skill Animations -
VA: Mizuki Nana

#Onmyoji #阴阳师手游 #SPMomo

February 2, 2026 at 12:39 PM

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Kristi Yamaguccimane

@wapplehouse.bsky.social

February 2, 2026 at 1:36 AM

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Charles Logan

@charleswlogan.bsky.social

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused.

So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.