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Annie Bellet

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USA Today Bestselling fantasy author, artist, nerd, and armchair medievalist. She/her. www.anniebellet.com

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · Nov 7

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4h

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 44m

Seriously. The number of times in college my unmedicated adhd ass spent 4 or 5 hours before class in the library handwriting a paper I should have written two weeks before...

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 1h

Though my greatest achievement was writing a ten page lit crit paper where I used the thesaurus and my bullshit powers to make it too dense to read because our prof was the most hardass pretentious dude ever.
Got an A- cause I won, his comments ended after page two and resumed in the conclusion lol

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote a whole paper on Hamlet for a 400lvl class arguing it is a play about divorce while blackout drunk and got an A.
(I woke up before class, realized I was screwed then saw the file on my desktop and was like welp hope that's good, printed it & went to class)
AI could never.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Liam Jeffries @sorathecyclist.bsky.social · 3h

This is the absolute dream challenger to Jeffries. Please, please, please let this happen.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 5h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 1h

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Jeff Miracola @jeffmiracola.com · 8h

A welcome statement from a legend at a challenging time for creators everywhere.

“DC Comics will not support AI generated storytelling or artwork. Not now, not ever as long as I am in charge.” - Jim Lee

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"DC Comics Will Not Support AI Generated Storytelling Or Art"- Jim Lee

"DC Comics Will Not Support AI Generated Storytelling Or Artwork" - transcript and video of Jim Lee's speech at New York Comic Con

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 10h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 13h

Is it the season for pumpkin spiced flycatchers? 🍂

Cinnamon Flycatcher 📷🌿🪶

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 9d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 15h

“Dear editor,
I asked an algorithm designed to mimic patterns it had learned through the plagiarism of billionaires if it could spit out something that looked convincingly like the stories it had stolen, and it burned through an ocean to deliver whatever this is. Thank you for your consideration.”

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 17h

I can't afford to buy a house but like if I just take a random house suddenly I'm "stealing" and "a criminal"
So weird my excuse that it's too expensive if I have to pay doesn't work

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 18h

The vast majority of the country has no idea how out of control ICE is right now. Yes, there's reporting on ICE raids and protests, but most people are not seeing photos and videos of horrific incidents like this, or the apartment building raid.

If most people did know they'd be horrified.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever that praying means for you, get it done. That includes scientifically cheering for her wellbeing. Don’t fuss about it, just make good thoughts for a good woman.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

I confess I don't understand, and don't wish to understand, the moral principle which states it is disrespectful to protest genocide today, but not disrespectful to commit one.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

if you've ever found value in the work of any anti-fascist writer or researcher today, you owe something to Leonard Zeskind. he was absolutely foundational.

Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 1d

For nearly half a century, Leonard Zeskind risked life and limb to expose the danger of white nationalism and stem the far-right’s march from the margins to the mainstream.

Join us on Nov. 9 to share your memories and celebrate his life.

Register today.

actionnetwork.org/events/leona...

Leonard Zeskind Celebration of Life, Sunday, November 9 – 2:00 to 4:00 pm

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 1d

The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter.

They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

this is so fucking gross i don’t even have words to process how fucking gross it is

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 1d

We've all been watching a genocide happening and it's still happening.
There is a point at which witnessing violence ceases to enact change i feel

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

How many videos have you seen of protesters being brutalized? Pretending this imagery still changes the math the way you wish it would is an insult to the people whose bodies you would treat as props. Ghandi's era was more complex than many of you make out. This is not the 60s either. Things change.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 1d

Amazon tried too with Kindle Serials and then quietly killed it in the night after it went nowhere