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Marc J Thomas
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Woodcut printmaker. SF & Fantasy lover. Head currently full of Pratchett, N K Jemisin, and Martha Wells. He/Him
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
It’s always the ones you most expect.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show
Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2012 and 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s island
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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pcgamer.com
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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brucespringsteen.net
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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theophite.bsky.social
we are going to need to prosecute all the people who paid bribes to Trump.
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6d
Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week.

This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
Melania Documentary Flops as Crew Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Chaos
The first lady’s documentary was a mess in production—and now it’s struggling at the box office.
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January 28, 2026 at 4:28 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
marcjt1969.bsky.social
This book is wonderful.
womensartbluesky.bsky.social womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d
'Reframing Women Printmakers' a book with beautiful images, 20 artist interviews & a text that shares the neglected story of women's print art - pioneers, nature, city & protest! At any online or local bookshop e.g.
www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781913... ❣️
Waterstones, Amazon, Bookshop.Org 🧡💛🧡💛❤️
January 27, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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'Reframing Women Printmakers' a book with beautiful images, 20 artist interviews & a text that shares the neglected story of women's print art - pioneers, nature, city & protest! At any online or local bookshop e.g.
www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781913... ❣️
Waterstones, Amazon, Bookshop.Org 🧡💛🧡💛❤️
January 27, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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astrokatie.com
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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garius.bsky.social
Creating opposition to the actions of the state or a political cause is rarely about changing the mind of 'the other side'.

It's about making time- or information-poor people aware of the horrible shit. The 'undecided centre' is rarely neutral. It's underinformed, consciously or subconsciously.
January 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM
marcjt1969.bsky.social
Believe what you see.
vicderbyshire.bsky.social Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 8d
The man ICE officers shot and killed in Minneapolis is 37 yr old Alex Pretti

Mr Pretti is a US citizen and worked as a nurse

10 shots were fired. The video of what happened is out there
January 25, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
Reminding you all that Nigel Farage has proudly claimed he is going to be setting up a British version of ICE here in the UK to terrorise us just like American ICE if he ever becomes PM. He has openly said he wants to deport legal migrants.
January 25, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
The image is a meme styled like a framed painting of the philosopher René Descartes, with his long dark hair and clothing visible but the central part of his face blurred out. At the top, in bold black letters on a white background, the text reads: “Descartes when he realized that people who don`t think also exist.”
January 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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mitchbenn.bsky.social
In honour of Dolly Parton’s 80th birthday tomorrow, I’ve made this: it’s my own interpretation of how Elvis’s version of I Will Always Love You MIGHT have sounded, if it had happened…

EVERYBODY re-post this so it reaches Dolly…

#dollyparton #elvis #coversongs

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I Will Always Love You (imaginary Elvis version)
YouTube video by Mitch Benn Patreon
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January 18, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Data is correct, causal agency is (IMO) incorrect.

The vast majority of ppl who use AI to make images and video have never touched and would never touch Photoshop/AfterEffects/Illustrator/etc. The issue is Adobe trying to squeeze its users with subscriptions, and other customer-hostile behavior.
nihilcurtis.bsky.social Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 16d
From Dare Obasanjo on Mastodon. Adobe is hitting the floor. #AI
Image of Adobe share price plummeting. Obasnajo writes: Adobe is becoming one of the biggest losers of the AI era. In a world where you can ask Gemini or ChatGPT to create any image you want, the need for Photoshop or any of Adobe’s other creative products has dwindled. This is a slow motion train wreck that the company may not survive as AI disrupts content creation.
January 17, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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thelifeofsharks.com
Dear Donald Trump

Shove your tariffs up your hole.

Thank you for your attention in this matter…asshole.

Europe
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16d
Breaking news: The U.S. will impose tariffs on countries that have sent troops to Greenland in recent days, President Trump said, dramatically escalating his effort to acquire the territory despite assertions that the Arctic island is not for sale.
Trump announces tariffs on European countries opposing Greenland takeover
The move escalates tensions between the U.S. and longtime allies that have been sending Trump a message that the territory of Denmark is not for sale.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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nycjayjay.bsky.social
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
January 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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sleepwalkingdog.bsky.social
Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.
chrissteller.bsky.social Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 18d
Wikipedia is 25 today.
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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whiteroseafa.bsky.social WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 18d
Their challenge coin is a laughing skeleton wearing a crown, with vultures on it's shoulders.

Looks less like something you'd give "law enforcement" and more like something you'd give to the death squad of a king.
January 15, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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whiteroseafa.bsky.social
Their challenge coin is a laughing skeleton wearing a crown, with vultures on it's shoulders.

Looks less like something you'd give "law enforcement" and more like something you'd give to the death squad of a king.
January 15, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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lizforleicester.bsky.social
Sharing, or threatening to share, a deepfake intimate image without consent is a criminal offence.

This offence, created by the Data Act last year, will be brought into force this week, and I will make it a priority offence in the Online Safety Act too.

www.gov.uk/government/s...
Secretary of State statement to the House of Commons: 12 January 2026
DSIT Secretary of State statement after concerns over Grok AI.
www.gov.uk
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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lauragraceweldon.bsky.social
One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com
Man standing in field of sheep holding rainbow flag.
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Anne Frank, 1943:
January 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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magicmooshka.bsky.social
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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mezentine.bsky.social
The contradiction at the core of the current AI product scramble is that many people like using AI tools to generate outputs and nobody likes being on the receiving end of someone else's AI output. You can understand just about everything that's happening once you start looking for this dynamic.
magicmooshka.bsky.social feeb 🍓 @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 24d
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 9, 2026 at 6:10 PM