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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Mauro Entrialgo @tyrexito.bsky.social · 2d

Viva Greta.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Greta:

"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

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Jazzy Oliver - Voice Actress @ladyjazzington.bsky.social · 2d

Read that number again. Only 43 families in a school with 160,000 students.

Even if we're generous with the number of kids these families have, that number still pales in comparison to how many families had NO issue with LGBTQ+ education.

We outnumber them. Stand strong.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 2d

Give him a knife in the movie please! That would be so funny!

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 3d

"Nothing really happened... just a little pepper taste... I'm Mexican, what do you expect?"

Why the outfit? "I like frogs!"

Legend.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

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Elizabeth 🐂 🏳️‍⚧️ @elizabethbich.bsky.social · 3d

Genuinely the best news I’ve seen today

Shoutout to Indigenous people you guys rock

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 3d

When someone says a movie villain is too cartoonish, direct them to the last 15 years of real life.

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Nicole 🐸🌿 @ smalltalestober 🐸 @munespice.bsky.social · 3d

what are they up to with that cauldron!! #smalltalestober

An illustration of moomintroll, spice the frog dressed as snufkin, the groke, and hattifatteners around a cauldron

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · Jan 19

If anyone has come here from #booktok, welcome! 📚

You might enjoy my YA cozy-horror graphic novel THE GHOSTKEEPER, it’s about a therapist for ghosts who helps them cope with grief, death and loss, while also learning the importance of self-care and setting boundaries. 👻

theghostkeeper.carrd.co

THE GHOSTKEEPER, a graphic novel by johanna taylor, one of kirkus reviews best YA books of 2024

Lucy: “ but I don’t wanna be sad or neutral, I want to be happy”

Dorian: “ you certainly deserve to be happy. But going straight from sad to happy isn’t easy to do. That’s like climbing a staircase from bottom to top in a single jump. And how do you climb a staircase?”

Lucy: “ one step at a time.”

Dorian: “ precisely. One step, one moment at a time, you’ll get there.”

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Sprouts 🌱🔜 BLFC DD @coolartcorner.bsky.social · Aug 7

📌Hi, I’m Bengly/Sprouts!🌱

I’m a Chinese American small business owner & illustrator who likes to draw little guys!✨

🏡Store: coolart.store
🎏Sticker & YCH Club: patreon.com/coolartcorner
🍃Telegram Channel: t.me/coolartchannel
🔗More Links: linktr.ee/coolartcorner

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Sprouts 🌱🔜 BLFC DD @coolartcorner.bsky.social · 3d

currently the mood rn

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Hausu M.D. 🎥👺📼🍉🖤 @suspiraserhead.bsky.social · 3d

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 6d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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Warriors Wiki @warriorswiki.bsky.social · Jul 18

Concept artwork for the upcoming graphic novel, “The Prophecies Begin #3”!

Concept art: as the last book in the trilogy, volume 3 had a lot of big emotions to convey…my favorite way to do that is with color! While writing and drawing the script, I created some painted color sketches to keep track of what I had in mind. Here are some of my favorites.

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Johis @johannatarkela.com · Sep 3

Got to do another Polish Warrior Cats cover recently, this time a novella, 'Mothwing's Secret'. Here's the final cover and the full spread!
AD by @missdako.bsky.social , published by Nowa Baśń ✨

Two cats sitting by the river, the colour scheme is sepia/brown. There are a lot of fireflies flying around them.

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Warriors Wiki @warriorswiki.bsky.social · 12d

Check out the allegiances and first few chapters of "Hidden Moon" - set to release November 4th!

warriorcats.com/content/arti...

New chapters! Hidden Moon | Warrior Cats

warriorcats.com

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Warriors Wiki @warriorswiki.bsky.social · 6d

Sneak peek at "The New Prophecy #1" - set to release June 30th! #warriorcats

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Brambleclaw dreams of drinking water from a stream. Suddenly, a flash flood surges towards him, sweeping him off a cliff into the sun-drown-place.

Purdy: Just keep heading towards the sunset and you'll get where you need to go.
Crowpaw: Yeah, we knew that part!
Brambleclaw: What an odd cat.
Squirrelpaw: Do you think we'll see him again?
Crowpaw: Sure, next time we need some cat to get us lost.
Feathertail: He did get us here, though.
Brambleclaw: Purdy says the sun-drown-place is on the other end of this forest.
Tawnypelt: I say we go. I feel well enough to walk.
Stormfur: Rest another night. Build your strength.
Tawnypelt: Yes. One more night sounds good.

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Wings of Fire News @wingsoffirenews.bsky.social · Jul 3

#WingsOfFireNews!

The Japense Cover for The Dark Secret has been revealed! This book is set to release July 23rd!

Art is by Lē Yamamura

映画『ダーク・シークレット』の日本版ジャケットが公開された！単行本は7月23日発売。

amzn.asia/d/9AtFBAO

#WingsOfFire

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 3d

If you missed this, this is a conversation we need to be having as an industry. Right freaking now.

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 6d

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

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Matt Acuña @acunamattata.bsky.social · 3d

Time for the monthly job hunting post! It’s been about 6 months (half a year!) since my last studio gig, and this writer is on the hunt for the most dangerous game… EMPLOYMENT.

If you want guy who write good and funny some time, I am guy for you.

✉️: [email protected]
📝: www.mattacuna.com

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Tom Rogers @tomrogers.bsky.social · 3d

I wish all YouTubers a very "please stop using genAI for your thumbnails. It's bumming me out."

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