Vinayak Varma
@eyefry.bsky.social
Writer-illustrator, BSFA and CWSS finalist, lapsed magazine editor and craft beer branding guy, design prof., music nerd, cat wrangler, tragic anti-hero.
#createdontscrape #humanart #illustrator #kidlit #SFF #music #design
www.mixtape.in
#createdontscrape #humanart #illustrator #kidlit #SFF #music #design
www.mixtape.in
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OpenAI is an evil company and ChatGPT is an evil product.
Excise it from your lives and yell at any institution that tries to make you use it.
Excise it from your lives and yell at any institution that tries to make you use it.
August 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
OpenAI is an evil company and ChatGPT is an evil product.
Excise it from your lives and yell at any institution that tries to make you use it.
Excise it from your lives and yell at any institution that tries to make you use it.
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Paleo EP, by Djinn and Miskatonic
3 track album
djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Bangalore folks! My band Djinn And Miskatonic is playing on Saturday at the Bira Taproom, along with a lot of other excellent bands in a variety of heavy genres. Please consider attending.
www.skillboxes.com/events/vehem...
www.skillboxes.com/events/vehem...
SkillBox - Everything live!
www.skillboxes.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Bangalore folks! My band Djinn And Miskatonic is playing on Saturday at the Bira Taproom, along with a lot of other excellent bands in a variety of heavy genres. Please consider attending.
www.skillboxes.com/events/vehem...
www.skillboxes.com/events/vehem...
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these owls are astoundingly sexy. just fyi.
Releasing Sep 1 for POST PRANDIAL RIOT Patreon subscribers!
A COMPENDIUM OF LESSER SEXY OWL GODS
by Kuzhali Manickavel
www.patreon.com/PostPrandial...
A COMPENDIUM OF LESSER SEXY OWL GODS
by Kuzhali Manickavel
www.patreon.com/PostPrandial...
August 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
these owls are astoundingly sexy. just fyi.
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Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.
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Heinous, heartbreaking, and made a hundred times worse by the fact that the US have the power to end this senseless slaughter any instant but they won't.
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Heinous, heartbreaking, and made a hundred times worse by the fact that the US have the power to end this senseless slaughter any instant but they won't.
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Reporters killed in Vietnam: 63
Reporters killed in WW II: 69
Reporters killed in Gaza: 186+
And counting.
Reporters killed in WW II: 69
Reporters killed in Gaza: 186+
And counting.
August 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Reporters killed in Vietnam: 63
Reporters killed in WW II: 69
Reporters killed in Gaza: 186+
And counting.
Reporters killed in WW II: 69
Reporters killed in Gaza: 186+
And counting.
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Palestinians like Rima's brother have to risk their lives to get flour from 'aid' points set up in Israeli-US operated killing fields as Israel starves them to death in their genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can, Rima's brother needs urgent treatment for his injuries:
August 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Palestinians like Rima's brother have to risk their lives to get flour from 'aid' points set up in Israeli-US operated killing fields as Israel starves them to death in their genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can, Rima's brother needs urgent treatment for his injuries:
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🚨!! This is my family final call for🚨 help !!
Donations to my campaign are very low😭😭
We are in desperate need of support
My family is dying of hunger and no one I'm counting on you cares
Please don't ignore me!!
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Donations to my campaign are very low😭😭
We are in desperate need of support
My family is dying of hunger and no one I'm counting on you cares
Please don't ignore me!!
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August 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
🚨!! This is my family final call for🚨 help !!
Donations to my campaign are very low😭😭
We are in desperate need of support
My family is dying of hunger and no one I'm counting on you cares
Please don't ignore me!!
✅Verified by
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1400...
Donations to my campaign are very low😭😭
We are in desperate need of support
My family is dying of hunger and no one I'm counting on you cares
Please don't ignore me!!
✅Verified by
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1400...
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The other journalists killed: reporter Mohammed Qreiqeh, videographers Moamen Aliwa and Ibrahim Zaher and operator Mohammed Noufal.
The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away
The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away
Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli strike, while he and other journalists were inside their tent
Al Jazeera Says Its Correspondent Anas Al-Sharif Has Been Killed In Gaza, And Israel Confirms It
Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.
www.huffpost.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The other journalists killed: reporter Mohammed Qreiqeh, videographers Moamen Aliwa and Ibrahim Zaher and operator Mohammed Noufal.
The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away
The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away
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A reminder that the Israeli government does not allow any international journalist into Gaza. That’s how they have killed more journalists than most conflicts combined since WWII while claiming that all the journalists they’ve killed were actually enemy combatants.
August 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A reminder that the Israeli government does not allow any international journalist into Gaza. That’s how they have killed more journalists than most conflicts combined since WWII while claiming that all the journalists they’ve killed were actually enemy combatants.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Wafaa. Wafaa and her husband owned a grocery. She recently lost her son Tariq in a bombing, he was only five (she told me he would have turned six 10 days ago). She has four other children, Mohammed, 12, Rahaf, 11, Waseem, 9 and Tulin, 6.
August 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Wafaa. Wafaa and her husband owned a grocery. She recently lost her son Tariq in a bombing, he was only five (she told me he would have turned six 10 days ago). She has four other children, Mohammed, 12, Rahaf, 11, Waseem, 9 and Tulin, 6.
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Abdul Mati Klarwein (1932-2002)
August 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Abdul Mati Klarwein (1932-2002)
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I don't know how a box of cheese or a little sugar can make us so happy in Gaza. How did this happen? I think we just have reached the edge of the abyss.
August 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I don't know how a box of cheese or a little sugar can make us so happy in Gaza. How did this happen? I think we just have reached the edge of the abyss.
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This gave me chills. Because among the things that bother me about the universalization and over use of gAI has always been how it will strip/has stripped us of originality, resistance and will. And watching my students become so dependent on this is horrifying.
In 1990, Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov popularized the term "mankurt": a former human with an enslaved mind.
Big Tech wants to make us mankurts and AI is their weapon.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
Big Tech wants to make us mankurts and AI is their weapon.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
August 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This gave me chills. Because among the things that bother me about the universalization and over use of gAI has always been how it will strip/has stripped us of originality, resistance and will. And watching my students become so dependent on this is horrifying.
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Palestinian families like Waseem's are being starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege, & risking their lives to get flour from 'aid points' in US-Israeli operated killing fields. Bluesky couldn't care less & deletes them. Please help by sharing & donating if you've anything to spare:
August 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Palestinian families like Waseem's are being starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege, & risking their lives to get flour from 'aid points' in US-Israeli operated killing fields. Bluesky couldn't care less & deletes them. Please help by sharing & donating if you've anything to spare:
Watch out, strange cat people.
August 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Watch out, strange cat people.
This looks amazing.
Gretchen got suspended, so we have to extra spread the word about Black Flame's release. I had the chance to read it a few months back and it's such a brutal hard look at cultural trauma, assimilation, self hatred, revenge, and the messiness of history. It will knock your socks off
August 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This looks amazing.
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In Western art the term 'overshadowed' does not reference any lack of women's creative talent but is representative of the systems of art which have favoured their male counterparts in terms of education, resources, representation and value.......
August 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
In Western art the term 'overshadowed' does not reference any lack of women's creative talent but is representative of the systems of art which have favoured their male counterparts in terms of education, resources, representation and value.......
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Another article from the vault: because more fans of horror scores need to know who Wendy Carlos is. Article by @ladiazforever.bsky.social #horrorsky #musicsky
Wendy Carlos Pioneer of Horror Movie Synth Soundtracks
Some musicians actively strive to be the ones brought up in every conversation and fought for in every debate. Some of them even succeed. That some is John Carpenter. You can’t walk more than five fee...
horrorpress.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Another article from the vault: because more fans of horror scores need to know who Wendy Carlos is. Article by @ladiazforever.bsky.social #horrorsky #musicsky