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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 3d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Pal/ぱる @pal-pi.bsky.social · 6d

I can't be by your side

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Yole ❄️🌰 @ylge.bsky.social · 5d

You are the most precious person to me 💕
#khunbam #bamkhun

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 6d

More writers need to watch all the seasons of HOW IT'S MADE because they for whatever reason have NO idea how the world works, or how things work, or how things work in the world, and then it shows up in their fiction and makes me yell and swear and pace and weep and rend my clothes in despair.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Yole ❄️🌰 @ylge.bsky.social · 8d

#towerofgod #rakkhunbam
Ready to take off! 🛫🇨🇴

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Marudyne @marudyne.bsky.social · 10d

What pisses me off the most about this type of surveys is the conflation of machine learning and genAI- obviously they do this so that they can pretend that the good impacts (like healthcare diagnosis *aid*) can also be ascribed to gen AI and lie about its benefits to convince people to welcome it.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 11d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 10d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 10d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 9d

I heard someone on a podcast say that music is boring now and, look, I am saying this as kindly as I can…skill issue.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 13d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Yole ❄️🌰 @ylge.bsky.social · 17d

Best present ever!!
#bamkhun

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Pal/ぱる @pal-pi.bsky.social · 20d

Considering the possibility of Bam being promoted to Slayer in Season 4

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ToG Turtle Treats @togturtletreats.bsky.social · 22d

✨𝗧𝗼𝗚 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱✨
Turtles, time to submit your Halloween prompts!

Each submitted Form is a Recipe. Submit up to 3 until the Oct 20.

This event welcomes all writers, artists and other creators. Look forward to the final prompts!

Form - forms.gle/zPoNgme2ksRE...

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Veda Scott @vedascott.bsky.social · 19d

PSA: you don’t “deserve a little treat”

The world is endless horrors.
You deserve endless treats of all sizes.

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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 21d

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

SLEEPTOBER 2025 COMING IN CINEMA NEAR YOU

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Pal/ぱる @pal-pi.bsky.social · 19d

Wavering
#towerofgod #tog

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 20d

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

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MelodyMP @melodymp.bsky.social · 23d

If an evil billionaire intent on destroying the planet for profit is trying to convince you that trans people are your problem... and you believe it...

Then your problem isn't trans people.

It's you, kiddo.

It's always been you.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23d

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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AO3 Status @status.archiveofourown.org · 23d

[update] Completed: #AO3 is back sooner than expected, and we have new and improved options for browsing collections! Get the details on collection tags at AO3 News: https://ao3-news.org/collection-tags

AO3 Maintenance

#AO3 is back sooner than expected, and we have new and improved options for browsing collections! Get the details on collection tags at AO3 News: https://ao3-news.org/collection-tags

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 24d

Reminder: Oppose and repeal all the age/ID verification laws. They're not protecting their kids but they are censoring you and demanding your personal info.

Tell them to stop.
Tell them to get rid of this shit.

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 24d

There are still people at conventions telling me, "They won't ban porn!" but these ID verification laws already have. Because there is no federal, safe and secure way to make those verifications happen; we will simply see site shut down or ban porn all together. You have to be realistic.

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 24d

Finding out that so many people have purchased my books but never backed them up anywhere safe?! People really thought porn wasn't in trouble, huh? They really thought that Itchio could go on forever with anti-porn bills breathing down our necks... 😭