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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 3h

reading the visual studio code patch notes is nuts because like 90% of it is AI shit every time any time i ever bother to check it. what about features that are useful like omggggg

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 3h

Art, especially writing, is fundamentally about cultivating an experience within the viewer and approaching it from a detached, "objective" point-of-view is always going to miss core aspects.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 10h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 7h

The vampires in my series are diverse. We start off with elegant, aristocratic Blood Mages, but that's only the veneer. Slowly, we unveil the rot underneath, the hunger that turns man into beast as vampires are born, and we don't stop there.

Interested? The story starts in MISTRESS OF LIES.

Cover for Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright, The Sunday Times bestseller. Black cover, with a scowling long-haired woman in a Gothic style red and gold headdress and brocade sleeves like wings against a background of red and white roses. Her hands are tipped in gold claws and she holds a long dagger. Blurbs from Melissa Caruso — “Dark, dangerous, and entrancing” — and Sara Hashem — “A decadent story that won’t let you go.”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 16h

With it's price, it better be 😝
It's a special treat~

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 17h

Oh no 😰

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 18h

We are going to Win

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 19h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 19h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 1d

New at Lesbians With Teeth: a feminine apocalypse does it raw by @strigarosa.bsky.social. lesbianwithteeth.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/g...

Guest post: A Feminine Apocalypse Does It Raw

This post is a guest contribution from Lhuzie Fénix. One may recoil at defining something by what it is not, to think that is poor practice. However, that is just dishonest. Artistic movements are …

lesbianwithteeth.wordpress.com

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 17h

The first time I ever used a hair mask was literally mind blowing. I'd never known hair could be so soft.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 20h

the thing I find most irritating about discourse regarding Hasan is that 99% of his haters hate him for stupid reasons, unlike myself, who hates him for totally rational and good reasons

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ʙᴇᴄᴋʏ🔞 @beckymastery.bsky.social · 17h

I'm just a rat easily caught in a cheese trap but instead of cheese it's lesbian porn

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 18h

Are sugar cubes still a thing? Do people still use them? Why did we use them? Is it just that they can be proportioned easily?

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 22h

Porn addiction isn’t real
It’s just not
All of the ”science” about it comes from groups with religious ties, anti-sex worker ties, or grifting “therapists”

A compulsive relationship with porn is about the individual, not the porn

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 1d

They’re talking about “porn addiction” on bluesky as if it’s real LORD GIVE ME STRENGTH

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 1d

They’re talking about “porn addiction” on Twitter as if it’s real lord give me strength

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 2d

oh my god?? it feels completely unreal to have someone running for office actually stand up for us like this

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 20h

In less than 3 weeks, I'll officially be moving to Quebec. And I'm still raising money for moving expenses and tuition. Anything you can spare would really help.

I have a GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...

And a book bundle: itch.io/s/159177/the...

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 4d

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
• Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
• Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
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• Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
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• Visa (US+ Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
• Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa
• PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
• PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all. I just realized.
Silent Hill f is like... a better version of Callisto Protocol?

Beat-em-up combat, trade in high value items for level up points, weird gross fleshy monsters...

Not that Silent Hill f is perfect, but... Its funny how similar they are, at least gameplay-wise in my mind.

Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

It comes naturally to those who view their children as property.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

Oh yeah, I have a short story about this very scenario (well, trying to prevent it from happening). The research was both fun and horrifying?? Mostly horrifying actually. Less fun.

IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 3d

Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

Could never pick. It's too hard. Too unclear. Both sides must be the same after all.

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote another body-horror short story. It got mommy issues, dolls, mutilation, isolation and gore. Sounds like fun? Only one way to know for sure~

www.scribblehub.com/read/1895618...

savikawrites.itch.io/patchwork

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote another body-horror short story. It got mommy issues, dolls, mutilation, isolation and gore. Sounds like fun? Only one way to know for sure~

www.scribblehub.com/read/1895618...

savikawrites.itch.io/patchwork

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 1d

30-something? I kinda fell off as the year went on but that's still way more than I honestly expected I'd get through. And there's still 2 months left too!

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