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Keir

@8dawntreader8.bsky.social

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Lifelong Londoner
Drawn to the weird, strange and colourful
Shakespeare and Poe fanatic
Expert on poetic meter and Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Intro to meter, with further links: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-use-2-syllable-words-in-iambic-pentameter/answer/

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CrazyMyra

@outonthemoors.bsky.social

Meme showing two suits of medieval armour in diaphanous frocks.
Text above:
"Knights In White Satin"

January 6, 2026 at 8:51 PM

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Lis

@thewritegame.bsky.social

Several people have died in ICE custody and because of ICE detention. Renee Goode’s murder is a crime everyone could plainly see but make no mistake, there are many families who will never see their father, mother, sibling, or parent again because of ICE.

January 8, 2026 at 6:01 AM

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batkaren

@batkaren.bsky.social

I just want one pic of me in 2026 that’s half as flattering as this.

A bear in the wild smiles adorably with its paws crossed in front, looking like an Olin Mills studio shot. Photographer Johanna Turner for Cougarmagic.

January 2, 2026 at 3:32 AM

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CrazyMyra

@outonthemoors.bsky.social

That's enough 2026 thanks

Six-panel Buni webcomic cartoon by Ryan Pagelow from 2019.
A greenish cocoon hangs from a branch, looking something like an acorn.
A purple butterfly emerges from it and flies away.
The butterfly returns with a cup of store-bought coffee.
It re-enters the cocoon and seals itself in with a "Zip".

January 2, 2026 at 4:16 AM

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Emily Blake

@emilyblake.bsky.social

I gave my 13-year-old niece a book of Shakespearean insults I got at The Time Travel Mart in Echo Park. Now she & her 5-year-old brother are nonstop insulting their parents in iambic pentameter. This is the spirit of Christmas.

December 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM

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CrazyMyra

@outonthemoors.bsky.social

New Year's resolutions don't have to be about socially acceptable change.
Break the mould: resolve to become a troll, or to gain 10kg at the doughnut shop.

December 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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CrazyMyra

@outonthemoors.bsky.social

The writing's on the wall

A wall of old TVs in an outdoor setting. None of the sets is functioning as a TV set, but all the screens are painted white with red lettering on them.
These range from "Turn Me On", to "The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized", to "Dear God No".

(At the East Jesus art centre in Slab City, California)

December 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM

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Vincent van Gogh

@vangogh.bsky.social

Self-portrait - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14646

December 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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Lizzie Kodpuak née Acid Lich (Gröbnerpilled era)

@acidlich.bsky.social

Of course I want to learn to play the khaen, just listen to it. It’s the greatest sound ever

เดี่ยวแคนลาย ลมผัดไผ่ อาจารย์ แดงต้อย สายข่องขาด

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December 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM

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Movies Silently

@moviessilently.bsky.social

The Dodo discussed its no AI stance with this video and talked about how to spot AI animal videos.

What's interesting about the AI video (beyond what they bring out) is that everyone's body language, young, old, man, woman, is identical. They're digital puppets.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1Q...

Can You Spot Which Animal Video Is AI? | The Dodo

YouTube video by The Dodo

www.youtube.com

December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM

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Movies Silently

@moviessilently.bsky.social

A toddler, an old man and a younger man all clap their hands to their faces, overjoyed by the dog. The puppetry is identical, even though it isn't realistic at all, because the AI doesn't understand the difference between these people.

December 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM

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Josh Foreman

@josh-foreman.bsky.social

Tumblr user nocryptographer:
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...
then it's real.

December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM

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Him Over There, Now Over Here

@snathe.bsky.social

Despite what some people on here have been saying recently, this is an absolutely magnificent Christmas song and I will defend it and its lyrical structure and scansion to the heat death of the universe

December 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM

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😈Sarcastic momma and really fucking inappropriate

@sarcasticmom69.bsky.social

What happens in 2025 stays in 2025...

December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM

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Bevan Thomas

@bevanthomas.bsky.social

"Only to a magician is the world forever fluid.... Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power."
- Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn"
#BookologyThursday