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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 2d

85% drop in US spirits sold to Canada, and a 92% drop in sales of US wines. We were the largest market the US had, and now it's *gone*. Also: 29billion in losses this year so far for tourism to the US. The Boycott is working, Canada, keep it up!

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2d

many years ago i wrote a song about transhumanism. the recording is a little rough around the edges but i think it basically holds up

Transhuman Blues, by Anthony Moser

from the album Transhuman Blues

anthonymoser.bandcamp.com

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 3d

i really think the whole reason they're trying to make human-made porn illegal is just to force everyone to buy it from the water-sucking slop machine, but joke's on them: my imagination is free and the government can't read my thoughts lol

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 3d

October 2025
AI gooning is the master of the Internet
Only Claude stands against it
Waifus are now battlefields

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lieke marsman @liekemarsman.bsky.social · 6d

Ik zou het fijn vinden als mijn regering iets liet weten over hoe ze hun relatie met de VS zien nu, en in de toekomst, nu daar dagelijks mensen op gewelddadige wijze worden opgepakt door extreemrechtse gemaskerde stormtroepen.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6d

.........I would have assumed that in the climate space specifically, where we got absolutely WRECKED by a massive engine of fabricated disinformation, that we might have our guard up about this sort of shit

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6d

It is really, really, really stunning to me how the first part in particular has already become so incredibly noticeable.

In the climate space alone I am spending more of my precious remaining life hours convincing ppl that the output of a word generating program is not the default truth......

onion person @junlper.beer · 7d

i’ve been trying to think of the real actual applications of generative ai in it’s current state and the two things i have so far is it makes everyone more dumb and also every more paranoid

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 8d

It's pretty pathetic that bluesky instantly censors jokes about elon "make comedy legal" musk, but ultimately i guess this is kinda funnier with the [censored] tags so maybe they're doing me a favor by coddling that incontinent nazi

The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 8d

M. Lopes da Silva: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of what if elon musk got [censored]
Aubrey Wood: ah yes what if melon husk got unalived, hypothetically, in Minecraft
Wood: lol just kidding!
wood: .... unless?

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Reinder Dijkhuis @reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social · 8d

I'll probably write a couple of non-newsletter feature articles on Steady, like maybe some reviews, so the newsletters themselves don't get too long and rambly.

Reinder Dijkhuis @reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social · 8d

Sent out another one of them newsletter thingies:

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New Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan page, last week's Greyfriar's Isle page now free to read, some stuff that interested me this past week, old ROCR page. I want to write more, a lot more, and show more art, but I've been sick.

Comics by Reinder: Tapestry

The latest Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan comic is a special one: Tapestry Aggie Janicot drew a couple of dozen pages for me in 2008 through 2010. I’ve since redrawn all of…

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 8d

Lmao how can you make a movie where the villains biggest sin is hoarding water and then shill for AI.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 9d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 9d

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 9d

I did a WW1 one as well, as there was a real flurry of "find out your role in [X] war!!!" type stuff for a while.

Asked about ten questions then 70% time replied with "killed by artillery while doing [random mundane daily trench task]"

People got angry with that one as well.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 9d

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 9d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Reinder Dijkhuis @reinderdijkhuis.bsky.social · 10d

Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan has updated on Comicfury with "Tapestry"; guest art by Aggie Janicot.

rocr.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/25...

I'm too exhausted to make any tapestry #puns here; talk among yourselves about it.

#webcomic #fantasy

Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan

Tapestry

rocr.thecomicseries.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 11d

Anyway I’m reading all your posts about me while I was away and you are all very sweet and kind and I am very grateful for you.

I wish we could know 100% why this happened but one thing we can say for sure is that moderation here isn’t great and that definitely has a chilling effect.

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YfirheimArt @yfirheimart.bsky.social · 12d

Pillowfort have specifically taken measures that have negatively impacted their reach to support NSFW.

- They pay more for a high-risk processor.

- They are not on app stores to avoid censorship there.

- They are 100% user funded to avoid needing to appeal to advertiser whims.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12d

the fascists are coming for free expression, bodily autonomy and self determination laser-targeted at racial and gender minorities. time to move some damn copies of Lord of the Flies

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 16d

today i learned dorothy thompson was dragging trumpy tradwives in 19-hundred-and-fucking-41 in Harper's, the same magazine which would 79 years later publish a letter decrying precisely this kind of drag as illiberal cancel culture

A screenshot from a 1941 Dorothy Thompson piece for Harper's reads: 'Mrs. E would go Nazi as sure as you are born. That statement surprises you? Mrs. E seems so sweet, so clinging, so cowed. She is. She is a masochist. She is married to a man who never ceases to humiliate her, to lord it over her, to treat her with less consideration than he does his dogs. He is a prominent scientist, and Mrs. E, who married him very young, has persuaded herself that he is a genius, and that there is something of superior womanliness in her utter lack of pride, in her doglike devotion. She speaks disapprovingly of other “masculine” or insufficiently devoted wives. Her husband, however, is bored to death with her. He neglects her completely and she is looking for someone else before whom to pour her ecstatic self-abasement. She will titillate with pleased excitement to the first popular hero who proclaims the basic subordination of women."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 13d

I have been saying for a few years now that people really need to take a seriously long look at the center of that venn diagram where the circles are marked "AI Culture" and "Disregard For/Violation Of Consent." The whole "AI Actress" situation is more of why.

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 13d

The computer is not talking to you
Immigration good
Climate change real
Transgender is not hurting you or others
Women freedom good
You deserve better things
The boss is not your friend
Medicine good

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that.

—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 14d

- We need cheaper printed black and white comics for the love of god
- Comics for adults could do crazy numbers if they actually had support, pubs are leaving money on the table
- Prose authors shouldn't be hired to write comics based on prose chops alone
- Cartoonists should be paid 700x more

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 15d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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