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patyt reyes 🍉 @blackholeness.bsky.social · 9d

Check out this crowdfunding: donate, share, support Sickhouse!! 🤲 💕 ✨ every euro counts!

Sickhouse @sickhouse-nl.bsky.social · 9d

We have exciting news!
After years of moving, Sickhouse finally has a permanent home on Oldenzaalsestraat, Enschede! Renovations were delayed by asbestos, but with your help we can make the last push and open our playful doors in early 2026! 💖

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sickhouse.creativefunding.nl

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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UTwente Philosophy @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social · 21d

UT philosophy PhD candidate Patty Reyes (@blackholeness.bsky.social) to give talk at Gogbot Festival on social media mobilization:
www.utwente.nl/en/bms/phil/...

UT philosophy PhD candidate Patty Reyes to give talk at Gogbot festival on social media mobilization

Patty Reyes, Philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Twente, will be speaking at the Gogbot Festival in Enschede on 20 September 2025 on the topic "Mobilizing in a Post-Social Media Era":

www.utwente.nl

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patyt reyes 🍉 @blackholeness.bsky.social · 23d

I love doing this

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23d

Writing something on to my to do list after I have already done it just to get the pleasure of crossing it off my to do list. The advanced play.

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patyt reyes 🍉 @blackholeness.bsky.social · 23d

I'm back in actionnn this Saturday at the #GOGBOT festival, and in collaboration with @sickhouse-nl.bsky.social; I'll be hosting a talk/discussion about mobilizing for political action without social media. (is it even possible?! 🥴 Let's talk about it!)

+ info: www.gogbot.nl/symposium/mo...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jul 6

reminder: climate fatalism becomes starkly absurd when you put it in literal, immediate and physical terms.

Oh no there's just no way we can ever stop handing billions in subsidies to this coal mining company. Damn, we're doomed. Guess we just keep on doin it

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 15

You realise "climate change is inevitable" is absurd when you reword it as "fossil fuels are inevitable" or "Exxon is inevitable" or "Rishi Sunak is inevitable"

It's a threat built of causes which we can identify and fight. Fatalism is pro-fossil. Be pro-fighting, instead ✊🏽

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Adverse impacts from human- caused climate change will continue to intensify
The extent to which current and future generations will experience a hotter and different world depends on choices now and in the near-term.
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patyt reyes 🍉 @blackholeness.bsky.social · Mar 20

Excellent take on the possibility of digital self-determination and breaking free from the "incellionaries" web: ⤵️

www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fedivers...

The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a h...

www.joanwestenberg.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Mar 13

This is also known as invading Panama.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Mar 13

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, officials say.

Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say

Potential plans range from partnering more closely with the Panamanian military to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News

nbcnews.to

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Dr. Michael Nagenborg @mnagenborg.bsky.social · Mar 12

If you are aware of curious and critical students looking for a unique interdisciplinary #MSc Programme which combines #PhilosophyOfTechnology, #PhilosophyOfScience, #EthicsOfTechnology, #HistoryOfTechnology and #STS ...

Poster for the Open Days on March 20th at the University of Twente. You can see a colorful image of a person with a cybernetic hand. The colours are pink, purple and black. It looks a bit cyber-punk-ish. The text says: Visit us at the Master Open Day! MSc Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Society. March 20th, 18:45-19:45, University of Twente

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NRC @nrc.nl · Mar 5

Raadslid Marianne Schouten kwam niet meer naar vergaderingen omdat ze in ‘klimaatstaking' was. GroenLinks zette haar de fractie uit

Nadat ze een staking uitriep en openlijke kritiek uitte over een partijlid, werd gemeenteraadslid Marianne Schouten uit de GroenLinks-fractie van Enschede gezet. Ze wil dat het college de klimaatcrisis erkent.

www.nrc.nl

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Mar 3

did Lucifer write this?

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · Mar 3

It's theologically fascinating and terrifying

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patyt reyes 🍉 @blackholeness.bsky.social · Feb 13

I'm so tired of all the online services boasting about their AI-powered features. I truly could not care less about your AI-powered features. In fact, I have an absolute disdain for your AI-powered features. I'd be more likely to pay for your services if you didn't have those.

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patyt reyes 🍉 @blackholeness.bsky.social · Feb 12

where are the creative writers on Bluesky? 👀

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 4

You don't have to scroll anymore to get your full serving of doom.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Feb 5

Current US regime a mix of unabashed gangsterism, ill-defined populist impulses towards machismo and bigotry, and 17th century Mercantalism.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Feb 4

aaaand now it all makes sense

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Paul Lehmann @plehmann.bsky.social · Jan 24

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform!!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

www.nature.com

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patyt reyes 🍉 @blackholeness.bsky.social · Jan 30

sweet, sweet karma

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Jan 29

Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine

search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...

Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data

Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...

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patyt reyes 🍉 @blackholeness.bsky.social · Jan 30

here's a great essay! 💯

Marleen Stikker @marleenstikker.bsky.social · Jan 29

Techno-fascism at the heart of silicon valley, forseen in 1990 www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

www.theguardian.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · Jan 23

hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago!

you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)

signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.bsky.social · Jan 22

The Pixelfed + Loops Kickstarter is live!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pix...

Pixelfed & Loops: Authentic Sharing, Reimagined

Beautiful sharing platforms that puts you first. No ads, no algorithms, no tracking – just pure photography and authentic connections.

www.kickstarter.com

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · Jan 21

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 21

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Jan 21

Take back your attention.

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Kawamata Ryo @kawamataryo.bsky.social · Dec 4

Hi, I’m the developer of Sky Follower Bridge👋

Recently, a company that once impersonated my tool's site to redirect users to ads released a paid tool with the same name as my tool. I’d like to share my thoughts on this.

It's a bit long, but I'd appreciate your time.

🧵 (1/5)

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patyt reyes 🍉 @blackholeness.bsky.social · Jan 22

Pro-tip for anyone who's recently joined Bluesky, use the "Sky Follower Bridge" extension to find out whom from your Twitter community is already on this platform 💓

www.sky-follower-bridge.dev

and kudos to @kawamataryo.bsky.social for such a brilliant tool!

Sky Follower Bridge

Instantly find and follow the same users from your 𝕏 followers on Bluesky

www.sky-follower-bridge.dev

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patyt reyes 🍉 @blackholeness.bsky.social · Jan 22

yes and it's such a loss 💔 I'd never seen a platform with such advanced features for content creators before (it made video creation & editing so ridiculously easy!). I hope we can replicate such helpful features in a newer, collectively-owned digital space soon! 🤞