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Nobilis Reed

@nobilis.bsky.social

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Podcaster and author of erotic speculative fiction. AudioThrust is at nobilis.libsyn.com Anyone involved with crypto or LLM's will be blocked. I don't always follow back; sometimes I add folks I discover to lists and get their posts that way.

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · Apr 26

A frame from a cartoon depicting a sign reading "No kids. Weird adults only!"

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Littleevil0ne *COMMS OPEN* @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 20h

Someone get Brennan lee Mulligan, Matt Mercer and Devin Stone (legal eagle) on a DnD campaign together RIGHT NOW
The rules lawyer-ing debates between the 3 of them would be PHENOMENAL

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 2d

That kind of baloney is why I unsubscribed.

They're dead to me now.

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2d

Would it surprise you that the owner of Scientific American's parent company, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, invested $37 million in Inkitt, an AI firm?

What a SHOCK

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed, that was a missed opportunity.

Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 2d

White text on black background, reading "Halloween is coming. If you want to scare me, I'm afraid of titties."

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 2d

You could be a manager.

You're good at riding someone's ass.

Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 2d

Can you imagine?

Who would be his Morticia?

andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 2d

If Pedro Pascal played Gomez Addams they'd have to replace all the seats in the theater

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

I just don't know how you see a story like this and think "yes, this is exactly the kind of technology I want in the classroom."

NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 2d

Two families are suing AI companies after they say chatbots contributed to their children's suicides.

‘He would be here if not for ChatGPT': Grieving parents sue AI companies

It has become a trusted companion for millions of teens. But it’s not a person. It’s an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence – one that’s trained to generate human-like responses. And some fea...

www.nbcwashington.com

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't that how Brennan usually does it, though?

Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 2d

If we called them often? Yes. If not, we carried around little notebooks with that information.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 3d

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Donate to Support Kickstarter United Workers, organized by Kickstarter United

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 3d

two reasons for this:

1) some people tried to give really helpful advice on making sophisticated and interesting villain characters and that eventually morphed into "the villain should be just like the hero if the hero messed up" (dark mirror shit)

and 2...

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 3d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 3d

I gotta wonder if stores are running out of inflatable costumes.

Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 3d

Any other authors find something they wrote ten years ago, and mostly forgot about, and it hits you right between the eyes?

Whew.

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∘⊰ Spooky the Orc ⊱∘ @roogytheorc.bsky.social · 4d

Whether you believe it's real and need to understand why it's not, or you already get it and need a link to arm yourself against misinformation, here ya go ♡

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

An article from Psychology Today

Headline: Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too

Subtitle: What does it mean that religion, not porn use, predicts porn-related problems?

David J. Ley, Ph.D

Updated April 4, 2025

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 14d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 4d

NUNS
Sister, in my studies I have inventede a Niewe Letter
Indeede sister
It is to Followe the Letters U and W. I call ite The Triple-U
Uuu
Exactlie

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 23d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 4d

Set fire to it and claim the insurance. They'll never be able to prove it wasn't spontaneous.

Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 4d

Does he, though?

Does he *really*?

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 5d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 5d

Is that a sample, or a quote?

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Nobilis Reed @nobilis.bsky.social · 5d

Every accusation is an admission.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 5d

When Obama was president the right wing acted like masked government agents were coming to kidnap them and take all their rights away.

Then Republicans get elected and actually do that shit for real.

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 5d

[Doctor looking at chart]

It may be —for now— a mild form of fatal hemorrhagic fever.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d

It may be—for now—a mild form of fascism. Political opponents aren’t being jailed or shot, entire opposition media outlets aren’t being shuttered, and books aren’t being burned.

But from Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America. trib.al/a0i8hTE

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 5d

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

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