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Hawkatana
@hawkatana.bsky.social
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Australian, 24, Bi, Writer, card game player, RPG fan, hobbyist graphic designer and professional shithead. My views are my own.

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Hawkatana @hawkatana.bsky.social · Oct 22
Anyway, I should probably elaborate on a little thing I've been working on.

I've been writing up a book for the past few months (very loosely) based on the French Revolutionary War called "Knight of the Red Lion". It's about soldiers from a newly-established republic fighting against (1/2)
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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airbagged.bsky.social
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
Sabrina walking the dog
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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bajamut-blast.bsky.social
bringing back this classic
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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disneyprimevideo.bsky.social
Rachel Dolezal (2015)
Nkechi Amare Diallo, born Rachel Anne Dolezal, November 12, 1977, is an American former college instructor and activist known for presenting herself as a black woman despite being born to white parents. She is also a former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter president, and dumb.
February 15, 2024 at 1:27 PM
hawkatana.bsky.social
At this point, the only reasonable explanation as to how Jared Leto keeps getting work despite being as bad an actor as he is a person and despised by audiences and the industry alike is that some Hollywood execs are in his cult.
boxofficereport.bsky.social BoxOfficeReport.com @boxofficereport.bsky.social · 21h
Disney's Tron: Ares has ended its domestic run with a total domestic gross of $73,161,014.

#TronAres #BoxOffice
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
But the memes are somehow still worth it right gang
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.

More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
People need to boycott this show and not just half ass. Shame everyone who plans on watching it. This isn't about Eurovision, it's about Israel getting away with committing genocide because THERE ARE NEVER ANY CONSEQUENCES. They should be untouchable by now. Everybody needs to walk the fucking walk.
popcrave.com Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d
Eurovision has allowed Israel to compete in 2026.

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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mattmcmuscles.bsky.social
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heirakka.bsky.social mimi 🗡️ @heirakka.bsky.social · 2d
I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.

Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
A quoted tweet from a user named Sam that reads: "How Twitter is rigged Type in all caps because you're excited? Lowers your reputation. Include links? Your score goes down. It's like the Credit Score system from Hell. And given Cisgender is treated as a slur & MAGA boosted, you can guess what's categorized as 'offensive'" The tweet they quoted is from user SADIQ and reads: "Tweepcred is X's reputation system Based on your behavior, you get a tweepcred score It determines your reach Break the algo rules, you score goes down and your reach disappears What are the rules of the X algo tho? Glad you asked." SADIQ includes a photo of Twitter's algorithm code that calculates a user's reputation. SADIQ continues: "Post 'offensive text'? 80% reach reduction Offensive username? 80% reach reduction All caps tweet? That's seen as 'shouting. Major penalization. Include links? Yup, penalized"
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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ferretperhour.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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rincewind.run
I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
Pete Hegseth * G @PeteHegseth X.com Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat. Andrew Kolvet • @AndrewKolvet • 3h Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean. x.com/SenSchumer/sta...
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
Looking to read more of Failure to Launch? You can get a copy here!: store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... Take your breaks at work, people worked for those!
I bet you're wondering: "how did Harry trick Iron Circus into letting him write a pro-luddite story for their anthology about technology?" Well, I'll tell you. Because the Luddites weren't against technology! They were for a world where this technology improved people's lives. A new machine replacing thousands of jobs should be a good thing! A world where people are freed to do more and better! Instead, it's mostly good for whoever saved money firing all those workers. The Luddites simply observe earlier than most that it doesn't have to be this way. We didn't even make the work holding the world together less back breaking, we just exported that work somewhere else. This is the capitalist version of progress: people doing shitty jobs for no money. But elsewhere where you don't see it. When people question the way technology is being used - feel their opportunities and autonomy getting smaller - the world luddite gets dusted off for reuse. When the used states took Microsoft to court for being a monopoly and illegally crushing their competition, Microsoft's lead attorney John Warren called it: "Not really an antitrust case but a return of the luddites, 19th century reactionaries who... went around smashing machines with sledgehammers." Microsoft lost incidentally. But the sentiment is clear: criticism of the future modern tech giants are building, even their crimes, is opposing progress itself. But the reality is people are still being looted by factory-masters. The industrial revolution massively increased productivity, but the profit from doing so went directly to the hands of the Owners. Take the same measurements of the 20th century's innovations and what do you get? The extremely simple truth - that it doesn't have to be this way - is terrifying if you benefit from the way things are now. An old ghost starts to feel close at hand. So have a little sympathy for the owners of the world. It's a scary time for them too. They're really panicking. (listed is several headlines of Union-targeting actions by multi-billionaires and their accessories) Companies the world over have spent hundreds of millions trying to stop unionization efforts. Soon it might even be cheaper to just pay people more. Amazon even tried to ban words like 'injustice', 'compensation', and yes, 'UNION', from their internal apps. They must be vigilant - the old ghost cannot be killed. Only kept at bay. Looming over Elon Musk, who the writer of this alt text truly hates, Ludd brandishes his sledgehammer with glowing red eyes. Elon looks like he doesn't know what to do without hundreds of thousands of people willing to get hurt for his money or acknowledgement. "--We used to shoot these people in the dick." Thank you for reading this comic! Be sure to always take your scheduled breaks. Do not let some 50+ year old slug tell you that you aren't "a team player" because you are not letting them take just a little more. Each break and benefit you get to take is written in blood, and you're only pissing off those who came before you and making someone who isn't paying you smile by doing extra. Want to read more of Failure to Launch? we've got that here: https://store.ironcircus.com/products/failure-to-launch
September 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
Be sure to follow @hbomberguy.bsky.social and @skutchdraws.bsky.social ‬if you enjoyed this comic!
In the early days of the movement when machines were found destroyed, people would joke "Ned Ludd is back! The secret union ran with it, now they were the Luddites. I don't think people recognize how fucking FUNNY it is a massively popular social movement named themselves after a joke. FUN FACT!: There's recorded instances of the police actually searching for 'Ned Ludd', criminal leader of the Luddites, in Sherwood forest. Some even claimed to have glimpsed him. Cops were really smart back then. In Ludd's sights was Enoch Taylor of Marsden, West Yorkshire. The Taylors built machines for the textile mills that abused their workers. Luckily, the Taylors also made Sledgehammers. "Enoch made them, and Enoch shall break them!" I sweat this stuff writes itself. William Horsfall, a Marsden factory owner, once boasted that he would love to "ride up to my saddle in luddite blood!", Horsfall was later assassinated by Luddites, during an altercation in which he reportedly received a "groin injury". In history's greatest L, a rich guy talked shit about murdering Luddites, until they shot him in the dick to death. Mills were being stormed by hundreds or sometimes thousands of protestors, the movement was GROWING. A spectre haunted England - the spirit of Ned Ludd. To the rich the answer was clear- kill all the luddites you can before people figure out they have a point. In 1812 Parliament found the time to pass an 'emergency measure": the Frame Breaking Act which made smashing machines punishable by death. The tens of thousands of soldiers were sent to deal with Luddites in mills and factories across the country. This was a sizable amount considering Britain was CURRENTLY FIGHTING NAPOLEON. Parliament happily went to war against British Luddites when they were supposed to be fighting actual wars. In 1813 17 luddites were hanged in a day, with more than 14 sentenced to be transported to Australia which was even worse than that. Historians view this as the point major Luddite activity started to die down. A portrait of goofy, crown wearing Ned Ludd, covered in weaponry used upon him in a 1700s art style. "But here's the problem: they couldn't kill Ned. You can't kill people's ability to question how the benefits of automation have been distributed. He's still out there. And One day he'll be BACK."
September 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
Happy Labor Day!

Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...

Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world. Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it. "Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed. Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight. And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it. Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job! Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime. If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.
September 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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aplante.com
someone asked if they could buy this and use it as signage at their table. my answer is ABSOLUTELY YES. i explicitly designed it as something to display at my own table so i would be honoured and thrilled if others did as well!! may it bring you wealth and good fortune!!
aplante.com Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 2d
okay these actually turned out so sick i'm so sad i can only ship to canada

aplante.com/shop
my hand holding a sticker that looks like a brightly-coloured "no parking anytime" sign vandalized to read "NO AI ANYTIME" instead a pile of stickers (see other photo for description)
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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markoraassina.bsky.social
Nerd and Jock costumes
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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rumongray.bsky.social
I FINALLY FOUND IT.

Been looking for this stupid video for fucking EVER but GOOGLE SUCKS SO MUCH SHIT NOW
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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heirakka.bsky.social
I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.

Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
A quoted tweet from a user named Sam that reads: "How Twitter is rigged Type in all caps because you're excited? Lowers your reputation. Include links? Your score goes down. It's like the Credit Score system from Hell. And given Cisgender is treated as a slur & MAGA boosted, you can guess what's categorized as 'offensive'" The tweet they quoted is from user SADIQ and reads: "Tweepcred is X's reputation system Based on your behavior, you get a tweepcred score It determines your reach Break the algo rules, you score goes down and your reach disappears What are the rules of the X algo tho? Glad you asked." SADIQ includes a photo of Twitter's algorithm code that calculates a user's reputation. SADIQ continues: "Post 'offensive text'? 80% reach reduction Offensive username? 80% reach reduction All caps tweet? That's seen as 'shouting. Major penalization. Include links? Yup, penalized"
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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winston.cc
it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work

www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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jennanewman.bsky.social
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided. Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all. The study warns that when writing is delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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jonkk.bsky.social
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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pokemongems.bsky.social
the life of dunsparce
Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing a screenshot of dunsparce and kids sitting on a bench looking a book Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing a screenshot of a dunsparce picture book with text reading “In the morning, dunsparce eats breakfast and goes to sleep.” Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing a screenshot of a dunsparce picture book with text reading “At noon, dunsparce eats lunch and goes to sleep.” Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing two kids reading the dunsparce picture book with text and the bottom reading “And at night, dunsparce eats dinner and goes to sleep.”
December 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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alexrochonva.bsky.social
Sue they ass.

AI's adoption by megacorps is built entirely around force and deception because they know how unpopular it is otherwise.

An individual suing Amazon is one thing: a whole company doing it has sturdier legs to stand on.
December 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
4 panel comic Panel 1: Red Guy looking way way too happy yells “Hey Guys! Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” Blue Guy next to him calmly says “Shhh” Panel 2: Blue Guy tenderly puts his arms around Red Guy and says “You don’t have to do this” Panel 3: Blue Guy still holds Red Guy tightly and repeats “You don’t have to do this every year”. Red Guy begins to break. Panel 4: Red Guy dissolves into Blue Guy’s embrace, sobbing. He finally feels the weight of Christmas Discourse lifting from his shoulders. He is finally free.
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM