Emma Bolton
@ebolton.bsky.social
Artist and writer based in Granada, Spain. She/they
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Emma Bolton
@ebolton.bsky.social
· Nov 4
Making the most of the early fall sunshine with some urban sketching in the Albaicín, Granada
More of this please!
When do you actually just see two men on a screen talking about how much they love their partners?
Jordan Stephens talks learning to love and be loved by Jade Thirlwall on the latest episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski 💚
Jordan Stephens talks learning to love and be loved by Jade Thirlwall on the latest episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski 💚
December 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
More of this please!
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This is timely. I visited Northeast Health Wangaratta in Victoria yesterday and got my first ever box of state-funded vending machine tampons. NSW should get with the times
December 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
This is timely. I visited Northeast Health Wangaratta in Victoria yesterday and got my first ever box of state-funded vending machine tampons. NSW should get with the times
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This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
June 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
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i teach comics to teens & chatgpt is banned in my classroom bc as i tell them, "i am more interested in your ideas instead of what a mechanism backed by a giant corporation tells me that you think"
The former NFL player's Lumi Story AI, aims to help middle and high school students work with an AI-powered chatbot to write their own stories, comics and graphic novels.
AI platform from former NFL QB Colin Kaepernick finds playing field in Portland schools
The former NFL player's Lumi Story AI, aims to help middle and high school students work with an AI-powered chatbot to write their own stories, comics and graphic novels.
www.oregonlive.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
i teach comics to teens & chatgpt is banned in my classroom bc as i tell them, "i am more interested in your ideas instead of what a mechanism backed by a giant corporation tells me that you think"
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THREAD
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I’d like to share a small publishing milestone.
My book ‘Drystone - A Life Rebuilt’ has gone into a second print run.
And as there are so many wildly unrealistic ideas out there about how it all works, here are the numbers in plain terms
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Publishing #Books
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I’d like to share a small publishing milestone.
My book ‘Drystone - A Life Rebuilt’ has gone into a second print run.
And as there are so many wildly unrealistic ideas out there about how it all works, here are the numbers in plain terms
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Publishing #Books
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
THREAD
1/
I’d like to share a small publishing milestone.
My book ‘Drystone - A Life Rebuilt’ has gone into a second print run.
And as there are so many wildly unrealistic ideas out there about how it all works, here are the numbers in plain terms
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Publishing #Books
1/
I’d like to share a small publishing milestone.
My book ‘Drystone - A Life Rebuilt’ has gone into a second print run.
And as there are so many wildly unrealistic ideas out there about how it all works, here are the numbers in plain terms
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Publishing #Books
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I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
"Last month marked the third time since 2008 that layoffs in November exceeded 70,000, with the other two times being in 2008 and 2022."
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
Employers seemingly disregard etiquette, laying off employees right before the holidays
The once common ritual fell out of fashion following the Great Recession, until this year.
www.hr-brew.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
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Got flu problems?
Try this.
Try this.
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Got flu problems?
Try this.
Try this.
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I’m today’s instalment of vanishing Palestinian craft work, I bring you beading. These examples are from Margarita Skinner’s book Palestinian Embroidery Motifs 1850-1950 A Treasury of Stitches.
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I’m today’s instalment of vanishing Palestinian craft work, I bring you beading. These examples are from Margarita Skinner’s book Palestinian Embroidery Motifs 1850-1950 A Treasury of Stitches.
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Tawny frogmouth
Little penguin
Coati
Kangaroo
Ibis
Tawny frogmouth
Little penguin
Coati
Kangaroo
Ibis
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Kangaroo rat
Ptarmigan
Spider Monkey
Bighorn Sheep
Moose
Kangaroo rat
Ptarmigan
Spider Monkey
Bighorn Sheep
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Coyote
Roadrunner
Tarantula
Crested caracara
Night heron
Coyote
Roadrunner
Tarantula
Crested caracara
Night heron
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Tawny frogmouth
Little penguin
Coati
Kangaroo
Ibis
Tawny frogmouth
Little penguin
Coati
Kangaroo
Ibis
Yes, I loathe when someone says something negative (& usually racist) about immigrants, I point out that I'm an immigrant, and they say, "I don't mean you."
Those of us who have some privilege have to push back on comments like that - either we all have rights or none of us have rights
Those of us who have some privilege have to push back on comments like that - either we all have rights or none of us have rights
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Yes, I loathe when someone says something negative (& usually racist) about immigrants, I point out that I'm an immigrant, and they say, "I don't mean you."
Those of us who have some privilege have to push back on comments like that - either we all have rights or none of us have rights
Those of us who have some privilege have to push back on comments like that - either we all have rights or none of us have rights
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Importantly, racist dehumanisation was at the heart of both cases.
41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Importantly, racist dehumanisation was at the heart of both cases.
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Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide
December 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide
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Spain is coming through. Bravo.
Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Spain is coming through. Bravo.
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New! free! essay by Donna Glee Williams, asking pointed questions about Joseph Campbell's conception of the Hero's Journey...
Read it now! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey
Read it now! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey
December 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
New! free! essay by Donna Glee Williams, asking pointed questions about Joseph Campbell's conception of the Hero's Journey...
Read it now! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey
Read it now! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey
This whole thread is a delight (just like the show)
“Heated Rivalry” is immediately such a delight, I’m halfway through episode 1 and I am having the best time
devastated to report that there IS a stunning boss bitch MILF but I am NOT on her side. this always hurts
devastated to report that there IS a stunning boss bitch MILF but I am NOT on her side. this always hurts
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This whole thread is a delight (just like the show)
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Ditched Spotify & Amazon this year. This is not me preaching or signalling. It's increasingly hard to detach ourselves from all the complex forms of evil that make our lives so convenient. I'm not great at it, myself. But I want to be better & I don't want to support a system that shits on artists.
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Ditched Spotify & Amazon this year. This is not me preaching or signalling. It's increasingly hard to detach ourselves from all the complex forms of evil that make our lives so convenient. I'm not great at it, myself. But I want to be better & I don't want to support a system that shits on artists.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I have a new 40-page comic book out that is a love letter to the brain, a visual exploration of the joys of thinking and perceiving, and also giant middle finger to AI, on sale today, too, for $6 alexandragallant.itch.io/brains
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I have a new 40-page comic book out that is a love letter to the brain, a visual exploration of the joys of thinking and perceiving, and also giant middle finger to AI, on sale today, too, for $6 alexandragallant.itch.io/brains
"It’s radical to resist making yourself palatable and acceptable to people who care least about you and your art. That energy is better spent making art for people you care about."
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"It’s radical to resist making yourself palatable and acceptable to people who care least about you and your art. That energy is better spent making art for people you care about."
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🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Hacienda retrasa a 2027 la entrada en vigor de Verifactu, el sistema de facturación electrónica para autónomos y pymes
Hacienda retrasa a 2027 la entrada en vigor de Verifactu, el sistema de facturación electrónica para autónomos y pymes
Los contribuyentes del Impuesto sobre Sociedades no estarán obligados hasta enero de 2027 y el resto de empresas y autónomos, hasta julio de 2027
social.elpais.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Hacienda retrasa a 2027 la entrada en vigor de Verifactu, el sistema de facturación electrónica para autónomos y pymes
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At 404 Media, we also talk to experts and those impacted by policies like book bans while the US government continues to push through safeguards on AI with tech giants.
Here, author @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and president of @authorsabb.bsky.social gives us perspective.
Here, author @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and president of @authorsabb.bsky.social gives us perspective.
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
At 404 Media, we also talk to experts and those impacted by policies like book bans while the US government continues to push through safeguards on AI with tech giants.
Here, author @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and president of @authorsabb.bsky.social gives us perspective.
Here, author @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and president of @authorsabb.bsky.social gives us perspective.
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Fun fact: The Nightmare Sequence was mentioned in The Conversation’s Best Books Of 2025, thanks to Jen Webb. Another fun fact: this is my first book released in Aus, UK, and the US in the same year and so far it’s gotten zero reviews in mainstream papers and outlets.
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Fun fact: The Nightmare Sequence was mentioned in The Conversation’s Best Books Of 2025, thanks to Jen Webb. Another fun fact: this is my first book released in Aus, UK, and the US in the same year and so far it’s gotten zero reviews in mainstream papers and outlets.
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It's not ideal (to say the least) that OpenAI's success may depend on big companies using it to replace human workers at huge scales. How will people pay for OpenAI if nobody has a job? The business model is a negative feedback loop.
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It's not ideal (to say the least) that OpenAI's success may depend on big companies using it to replace human workers at huge scales. How will people pay for OpenAI if nobody has a job? The business model is a negative feedback loop.
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
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"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
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The look on my face in this photo is the look I make when I'm jumping in the air at just the right time to catch the auto shot after 2 seconds while trying to remember to have the best form I can in midair so the archers don't get mad and also not dry fire the bow.
And don't forget the knee!
And don't forget the knee!
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The look on my face in this photo is the look I make when I'm jumping in the air at just the right time to catch the auto shot after 2 seconds while trying to remember to have the best form I can in midair so the archers don't get mad and also not dry fire the bow.
And don't forget the knee!
And don't forget the knee!