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@alunbweird.bsky.social
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He/him. Elder millenial. Cameras, cartoons, heavy metal, books, nerdy stuff. Liberty, human rights. British, European. Health professional. No Tories/TERFs/AI/Crypto chuds/other bastards. https://www.tideoptics.com/?ref=aevIv3XN discount code: ALUNB
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themorrancave.bsky.social
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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emmascottjewellery.com
Day 15 #Artadventcalendar

Shadowbox pendant to fit a pocket watch chain. Created as a retirement gift. I LOVE this idea, instead of having a traditional watch as a retirement token, you have a pocket full of magic instead. Sunstone, moonstone, silver and keum boo.

#art #artyear
Shadowbox pocket watch. Sterling silver pendant deep to create layers in the pendant with a textured and oxidized background silver moon, and clouds, keum boo guilded stars and sun with a sunstone center. A moonstone moon, textured crescent moon foreground and silver clouds.
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social
A+ pantaloons
December 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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troubledminnesotan.bsky.social
An old journal comic repost to remind myself that the time is now and I’m not stuck
Panel 1 A character looks at their phone, bombarded with scary, sad and bad news. “I can’t tell if I’m in denial or just stubborn.” Panel 2 Character pours themself a steaming cup of coffee. “…but I don’t want to just give up.” Panel 3 Character talks to someone on their laptop using their headphones. “I want to keep doing what I can.” Panel 4 Character sits at their desk drawing on a digital tablet connected to their laptop “So that in the end I can be proud that I did the best I could with whatever time I had left.”
December 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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lizardguy64.bsky.social
Hey you! Stop playing Fortnite!
News article snippet from May 30th 2025, written by Alice Linehan, that states "J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fun anti-trans organisation". Then a picture, then more text reading "J.K. Rowling is using her wealt to finance an organisation dedicated to removing trans rights. the Harry Potter Author has an" next line is cut out, but you get the picture.
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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astridoverthere.bsky.social
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
An interview with Twitter's Chief Product Officer title "X Wants Its Haters Back"
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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positivemoneyuk.bsky.social
3/3 No matter where we shop, we all have a right to decide how we pay.

Cash is a crucial tool for helping millions of people to manage their money, and it must be protected.

Sign the petition to #KeepCashAlive today 👉
Sign the petition to Keep Cash Alive
Millions of us still use cash – and we should all have the right to. But more and more places are going card-only, leaving people locked out.  Cash is a lifeline, especially for the most...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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placecalledbliss.bsky.social
Hey a just a reminder my 20% off discount code HOUSEKEEPING is still active and I'm shipping stuff out almost every day so if you need a cool handmade piece of jewelry or art you know where to go----->
Placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
reading about genAI slop brokers makes me want to draw more weird manual art. extremely realistic brachiosaurus reconstruction for you
drawing of Brachiosaurus, a long necked quadrupedal dinosaur, rendered in colorful squares of green and blue with a subtle gradient getting lighter towards the underside
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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warandpeas.bsky.social
Christmas Chainsaw Massacre
4-panel-comic by War and Peas Panel 1: Santa Claus stands on the roof of a decorated house and asks the Grim Reaper, who is on the ground, "Hey! You're coming to this house, too?" Panel 2: The Grim Reaper responds, "Yeah." Panel 3: Santa Claus, still on the roof, says, "What a shame. They're getting a lot of presents." Panel 4: The Grim Reaper, holding a scroll, says, "Let me guess. One of them is a chainsaw."
December 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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hemiole.com
A qui offrir le Gardien ?

C'est bientôt Noël et vous cherchez le kit de broderie idéal ? Ne bougez pas

Le Gardien, c'est un kit qui s'adresse aux brodeureuses un peu expérimentées et qui n'ont pas froid aux yeux

www.hemiole.com/Bout...
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Broderie dans le style médiéval d'un dragon coloré sur toile blanche. Le dragon est brodé en différentes nuances de vert, en jaune et en rouge. Il est de profil dans une position d'attaque, la gueule ouverte avec des cornes et les ailes déployées. Sa queue s'enroule sur elle-même.
December 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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placecalledbliss.bsky.social
I'm a really rough day today so if you don't mind sharing my shop I would really appreciate it. I still have a 20% coupon code that's good for everything, just use HOUSEKEEPING at checkout 🖤
Placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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moonkist.bsky.social
stand for something, u piece of shit 💖
December 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
alunbweird.bsky.social
A very fine thread of gateways to magical places:
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28d
THREAD.

The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.

1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
I took this photo on the Teign Estuary in Devon in spring 2022. I thought I was just taking a photo of an attractive hole in an old tree. It was only when I got home and looked through my camera roll that I saw the leaping dog, who I'd caught perfectly framed, mid-leap, totally by chance. I remembered the dog immediately, because of what an annoying twat it had been.
December 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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crits4cats.org
What I would love more than anything for the holidays is for our two most shy mama cats to find their forever homes.
Porsche, mom of the Auto Club kittens, since May this year.
Shoyu, who is the mama of last year’s wonderful little grass Miso & Dashi, has been in our rescue since October *2024.*
Porsche, a pretty brown tabby cat with splashy white markings from her face down to her feet. Shoyu, a cute, round shaped brown tabby cat with a white bib and little white mittens. She is sitting politely looking up at the camera.
December 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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cyberciti.biz
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
A screenshot of repo web page that reads: Title: Remove Windows Ai Why? The current 25H2 build of Windows 11 and future builds will include increasingly more AI features and components. This script aims to remove ALL of these features to improve user experience, privacy and security.
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
alunbweird.bsky.social
New book day! This just arrived from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

#books #fantasy #swordandsorcery #booksky
Sometime Lofty Towers by David C Smith. Front cover with a painting of a man welding a sword two-handed on a set of steps. A body lies supine at his feet. Rear cover of Sometime Lofty Towers.
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
🏰Will you dare to enter THE GLASS CASTLE?🏰
Just one of the gorgeous illustrations @carlydraws.bsky.social drew for a new story from sorcerous @saracentury.bsky.social.

⚔️ Find all this and more in issue six of New Edge Sword & Sorcery: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 📖
Crop of a black and white illustration by Carly A-F, @carlydraws.bsky.social on Bluesky, showing the back silhouette of a lone, cloaked figure surrounded by wild flowers & tall grass to each side, staring down a tower, crystal city dominating the background of the image, night sky above all.
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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culturecrave.co
"Fuck AI. It’s something that’s making everything worse in every single way — I don’t get it ... what the fuck are we doing?"

— Rian Johnson

(via THR)
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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mjrichards.bsky.social
#filmphotography friends: Where did you get your cameras CLAed? How much did it cost? What about light seals? I made a mess of trying to do it myself, so I’m wondering what it costs to have it done.
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
alunbweird.bsky.social
"Press barons can meet the prime minister, but the people who have suffered at the hands of them can't." Don't think that's right? Demand the PM stops cozying up to press barons and restarts the inquiry to put victims first NOW. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
Don’t bow down to media billionaires: protect victims!
Madeleine McCann’s parents, the families of Hillsborough victims, and Caroline Flack’s mum all know what it is like to be targeted by an intrusive press. That’s why over 30 high-profile victims wrote ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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brandtandstein.com
Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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shmupdb.bsky.social
Jewel Master (1991) for Sega Mega Drive. Art by Hiroaki Shioya.
Fantasy illustration of a cloaked warrior with blonde hair and brown boots perched on a large ornate silver ring adorned with red, blue, and orange gems, inserting a glowing sword into its center while gazing at a majestic golden castle atop a cliff through the ring's portal, set against a misty purple sky with distant mountains and flying bat-like creatures.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM