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🪩🫁Disco Very Normal Muppet Nurve 🪩🫁 COMMISIONS OPEN

@nurveart.bsky.social

Here in Spain we remember every year that 7291 old people died because Madrid unfair protocols for nursing home when COVID cames.

Old people dying with pain, without treatment, stacked bodies everywhere.

So, yeah, It was bad, very bad.

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · Oct 19

there’s a thread on reddit right now called “was COVID really that bad?” and it is interesting to read people’s accounts five years out

there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died

someone called it anticlimactic

January 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM

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John Scalzi

@scalzi.com

Today in Oh Hell No

The Verge @theverge.com · 7h

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records

But it’s “not intended for diagnosis or treatment.”

buff.ly

January 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM

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A.R. Moxon

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

Anyone using "woke" as a pejorative hasn't left white supremacist framing in their own mind.

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21h

The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway

THE FRONT-RUNNER

Californias Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak.
By Helen Lewis

(Header for an Atlantic article about Gavin Newsom, it features a picture of him looking like a real smart politics guy)

“GAVIN NEWSOM HAS A 30-PAGE FILE of reasons the Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election. Bounding across his Sacramento office, he starts listing them: incumbency, inflation, interest rates, Israel—and that's just the letter I. "Yes, too woke," he adds. "Yes, 107 days, referring to the short campaign after Joe Biden's forced withdrawal.
But the California governor distills his party's problem down to one word. *Weak.*”

(On the last paragraph the text starts to fade from black to gray)

“Newsom slaps his hand on a marked-up hardback of Bill
Clinton's memoir, brought down from the shelf a minute earlier.
"Given the choice," he tells me, summing up a crucial Clinton insight—one many Democrats still can't quite seem to grasp—"the American people always support strong and wrong versus weak and”

(The text gets lighter and lighter until you can barely read it, that’s how huh kiwi you’ve hit that paywall baybay)

January 7, 2026 at 10:08 AM

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The Hag that Rode Ya

@mz2euceboss.bsky.social

Baybeeeee we love to see it. Pay this man

January 6, 2026 at 11:05 PM

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Kristina🍉

@iraganaart.bsky.social

this is like when every big industry artist, and i mean big names whove worked in movies/tv shows were backing N/F/Ts and when criticized or just gently asked why, they doubled down hard

what i mean is, every person in the creative industry defending AI just sound like theyre doubling down

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 1d

"We don't need to demonise it" - actor Troy Baker believes gen-AI could drive people to seek out "authentic" experiences www.eurogamer.net/actor-troy-b...

Troy Baker giving Neil Druckmann a piggy back on the set of The Last of Us Part 2

January 7, 2026 at 10:30 AM

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Jessica Olin is Tired but Still Masks

@olinj.bsky.social

With alt-text now.

Bulleted list:
-AUP Enforcement: PayPayl strictly prohibits the sale of sexually oriented digital content. The word "commission" can trigger manual or automated account reviews to ensure the content being "commissioned" isn't NSFW.
-Shadow Bans & Holds: Many artists report being banned or having funds held for 180 days with no specific explanation often attributed to "high-risk activity" detected by bots.
-Potential Fines: Violating the AUP can lead to permanent account deactivation and, in some cases, fines of up to $2,500 per violation deducted from your balance.

drowzistatic IMPORTANT PAYPAL PSA FOR ARTISTS & CLIENTS
Hey, please read this because a LOT of people don't know until it's already too late. PayPal actively scans payment notes, and accounts are getting flagged, limited, or permanently banned over certain keywords. When that happens, they can freeze your money for 180+ days.
For clients / commissioners:
DO NOT put these in the payment note: "Commission" "NSFW" <- PAYPAL IS STRICTLY AGAINST ANY SORT NSFW CONTENT AS IT VIOLATES THEIR TOS.
"Tip" or "Donation" (if you're paying for a service)
AS MUCH AS US ARTISTS APPRECIATES OUR CLIENTS SUPPORT, PLEASE NEVER SPECIFY A TIP.
PayPal uses bots /AI that look for these words (especially anything tied to adult content) to enforce their AUP. (Acceptable use policy)
For artists:
-ALWAYS use vague, SFW descriptions
"Digital Illustration:
"Artwork Services"
"Creative Services"

January 7, 2026 at 1:25 AM

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SCOOPS 🍖

@sundogscoops.bsky.social

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now

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browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
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extensions.ml.enabled
browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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🍂 Soturisi 🍂 Comms open!

@soturisi.bsky.social

If you want to support me a bit more in this day I have commissions open and if that is too much I also have a patreon (this year I want to give it a boost returning to comics and spicy art) and I also have kofi ^^

Thank you! ❤️

🐟 vgen.co/soturisi
🐟 www.patreon.com/soturisi
🐟 ko-fi.com/soturisi

Soturisi (@soturisi)

Check out Soturisi's commissions and portfolio! | Illustrator and Concept artist on videogame industry. Watercolor and digital paintings. Vibrant and strong colors are my passion. ...

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January 6, 2026 at 10:48 AM

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Kory Bing

@korybing.bsky.social

SKIN DEEP IS BACK! Happy 2026!! Time to continue this family squabble. Www.skindeepcomic.com

January 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM

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JoCat

@jocat.net

Artist looking for work below:

Majo R♡ @tricksterbear.bsky.social · 1d

Twitter sucks I barely get any attention and that’s where I get most of my commissioners out of all sites😔the struggle euiuiiiuu

January 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM

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🪩🫁Disco Very Normal Muppet Nurve 🪩🫁 COMMISIONS OPEN

@nurveart.bsky.social

January 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM

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Zack Polanski

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

"The only flags Farage and Starmer have been waving this weekend are white."

Written for the Metro 👇🏼

metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/z...

Zack Polanski: Starmer and Farage have proven their craven cowardice on Venezuel

This weekend has proven it beyond doubt - Keir Starmer is a coward.

metro.co.uk

January 5, 2026 at 6:06 PM

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Kory Bing

@korybing.bsky.social

It is really important for high school kids, especially poor high school kids, to not get swindled by the recruiters. They were relentless in my tiny rural high school in 2002 and most advertised the military as a "way out" of poverty or a way to pay for college. It was insidious, you don't want it.

EMERGENCY CAT SURGERY, SHARE MY PINNED 🏳️‍⚧️ @pavlovforgoths.com · 3d

If you need a reason not to enlist, there's many.

The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.
The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.
The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.
The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.
The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.
The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.
The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.

Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.
The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.
If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.
You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.
The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.

Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.
Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.
Veterans' benefits suck these days.
Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.
The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.
The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.
A lot can change in four years.

January 5, 2026 at 8:35 PM

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Mundra

@mundra.bsky.social

The Crow Witch is glad to see you here, stranger.

#conceptart #fantasy

September 26, 2024 at 3:58 PM

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Nash

@radiodeadair.com

Every fucking IT admin in the world is going to be inundated with "what happened to Office I can't find it" and I'm sure that's going to help keep that bubble inflated.

vx-underground (automated mirror) @vxundergroundre.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft is so fucking stupid.

Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App

I'm not joking

January 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM

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🪩🫁Disco Very Normal Muppet Nurve 🪩🫁 COMMISIONS OPEN

@nurveart.bsky.social

How a company can fuck up a tool everyone recognize and use It because they have to put AI on everything because they invest so much money on It to realize they lost a lot of money on that for nothing.

vx-underground (automated mirror) @vxundergroundre.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft is so fucking stupid.

Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App

I'm not joking

January 5, 2026 at 9:35 PM

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Casey Explosion

@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

Hello, Glorbo CEO here again, we know a lot of you rely on one of our core products, but we've decided to rename it and fully integrated our collection of dead Victorian orphan children at the smog matrix facilities connecting you to their souls!

Glorbo™ - Powered By Forsaken Children

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 21d

Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu

January 5, 2026 at 9:38 PM

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TechCrunch

@techcrunch.com

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.