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forest donkey
@forestdonkey.bsky.social
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likes friends, movies, music, videogames, the ocean, and a lot of other stuff. kinda weird. librarian. (dealer’s choice, respectfully)
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nathangrayson.bsky.social
in a refreshing change of pace, both bandcamp and games workshop announced this week that they've banned AI to varying extents. these stances are crucial during a time when AI is being rammed down our throats at every turn, and some people are starting to accept it
Bandcamp’s stance is a crucial one as the popularity of AI-generated music, regrettably, explodes. Take, for example, neo-soul artist Sienna Rose, who has three songs in the Spotify top 50 despite not existing. “She,” unfortunately, is just the tip of the iceberg. This does not mean AI has reached a standard of quality such that it’s an acceptable substitute for art made by people with hopes, dreams, and, well, souls; rather, decades of paint-by-numbers pop formulated by the same nine producers and the hyper-commercialization of music by services like Spotify – turning artists’ blood, sweat, and tears into disposable background noise – have primed people to accept watered-down, machine-made gruel. It’s not unlike the way SEO and algorithms turned numerous websites into barely sentient content mills before AI swooped in and finished the job. The powers that be have been trying to build this world for decades. AI was just the missing puzzle piece. All we can do now is support the people and organizations that prioritize authentic human ingenuity while doing the slow, hard work of constructing something, anything, better than the modern internet – preferably somewhere else.
January 14, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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chriswarcraft.bsky.social
This is why those of us who live here keep telling you he cannot be our president. For every fun “anti-Trump post” there’s something like this.
daviddarmofal.bsky.social David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 1d
Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California

Gov. Gavin Newsom said he was working behind the scenes to block a proposed tax on billionaires’ wealth and was committed to defeating the measure if it reached the ballot.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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simonroy.bsky.social
Just some pointy hatted wizards, keeping to themselves (based on some marvellous Scythian headwear)
January 13, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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dungeonbitch.bsky.social
What monster from Exterlien are you? Pt4: 13-16
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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archive.org
"Dead concert recordings have also maintained a cult following online, where nearly 18,000 digital files with concerts since 1965 are part of the Internet Archive." www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Listen: archive.org/details/Grat... 🌹💀
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead founding member and a jam band icon, dies at 78
Weir had been diagnosed with cancer in July and beat it, he but "succumbed to underlying lung issues," according to a statement on his website.
www.nbcnews.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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merrittk.com
a lot of people are being radicalized by ICE this week so please remember that the most important thing when someone comes to any kind of radical politics is to immediately scold them for doing activism wrong as someone who has been doing it much longer
January 12, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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muccegai.bsky.social
More cards
January 7, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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onlyyotes.bsky.social
#hourly #yote https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/yotes/22958502975_05fe4b277b_c.jpg
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January 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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disneylandhourly.parkendium.com
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January 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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tomishunter.bsky.social
Orcs of Minas Morgul
January 5, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Sunlight Winter Landscape, Pekka Halonen, 1911.
Snowy landscape with trees in background, painting.
January 5, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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heavenmirror.bsky.social
Cabaret de l'Enfer, Montmartre, Paris ca. 1900. Opened in 1892, it was torn down in 1950 to make way for a Monoprix supermarket.

#Paris #night #history
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social
Osamu Tezuka
January 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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kelatonin.bsky.social
let’s try this again:
January 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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wendyo.bsky.social
Katze by Celestino Piatti
Lithograph of a green tabby cat with yellow eyes
December 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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ritasnep.bsky.social
heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community

go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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26mfhpod.bsky.social
I put a wee Santa hat on Colin
December 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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kanizo.bsky.social
Collecting Star Flowers ✨
Top view of a white rat with purple eyes collecting star shaped flowers, with a bunch held in their mouth. The background is filled with blue/green leaves, and flowers varying in pale colours.
December 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're on the USS Enterprise D, and see the bridge from the POV of the front looking back at all the officers and work stations. (POV stands for "point of view" but I like to abbreviate to save characters and space and also time because life is moving so fast these days if you can shave off even a little bit by abbreviation then you're just that much further ahead) Ok, so we see Data and Geordi up front at their navigation and science stations sitting, in the back are some extras and Tasha Yar and Worf and betweeb them there's Picard in the captain chair and Troi is next to him. They're regarding one another and Troi is smiling. Closed caption reads, "Sleigh ride?"
December 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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dimshores.bsky.social
I watched this with no context - absolute pro click. Two and a half minutes of season-appropriate weirdness. Thanks to @orringrey.com for sharing. (If you haven’t, read his books!)
December 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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frankcifaldi.bsky.social
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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ascalaphid.com
decided to model the abbot after an otter shrew
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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megelison.bsky.social
And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association AMENDED RULES for the Nebula Awards Dear Meghan, Earlier today, you received an email titled, “Note from the Board on This Year’s Nebula Rules.” To be clear, SFWA does not support the use of LLM generative models in the production of creative work. The Nebula Award Rules did not reflect our current policy and deeply held beliefs and values, and they were amended to reflect that. With further input, today, we made an important change to the Nebula Awards Rules in two board votes that we would like to share with you: Previous Text: "Works that are wholly written using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible." New Text: "Works that are written, either wholly or partially, by generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible." -and- Previous Text: "Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and the nature of the technology’s use will be made clear to voters on the final ballot" New Text: "Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and those works will be disqualified." We will update our posted rules in the coming days to reflect this change.
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM