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Graphic Design • Writing • TTRPGs • Video Games • Comics • Horror • LOLZ • Shut Down TERFS & Punch Nazis
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prajxl.bsky.social
Emma knew not to play with Storm 😂
February 4, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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nicanstett.bsky.social
I’d be willing to rethink my stance on AI if it wasn’t actively killing our planet, leading to measurable cognitive decline and psychosis, being used to generate revenge porn, plagiarizing the work of millions of writers and artists, threatening to end thousands of jobs, and actually worked.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3d
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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angus.bsky.social
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 4d
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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exeunt.press
Feels like a good day to remind everyone that there's tons of human-made public domain art available for free. Perfect for TTRPGs and board games!

Where can you find it?

Right here!

Part 1: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-dom...
Part 2: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/more-publi...

#ttrpg
Public domain art resources
Using public domain art in tabletop game design
www.skeletoncodemachine.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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aftermath.site
The movement to remove voice actor who has admitted to sexual assault has Yakuza fans at their breaking point: aftermath.site/yakuza-kiwami-...
a screenshot from yakuza kiwani 3 feature series main character kazuma kiryu
February 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 6d
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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hazelmonforton.com
A screengrab from Garth Marenghi's Dark Place with the author captioned with the line "I'm one of the few people you'll meet who've written more books than they've read." However all of Marenghi's books have more value than this lady's slop. So maybe it's an unfair comparison.
February 8, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Taylor Rehmet's win in a Texas state senate shocked pundits.

But, as I found in interviews with people close to the ground, it's not so surprising.

A lot of it is about the books bans. People hate the book bans. Even some Republicans! An analysis.

www.salon.com/2026/02/06/s...
February 6, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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stevoisiak.bsky.social
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
Google with AI buttons Google without AI buttons
February 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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jamellebouie.net
i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15d
disturbingly plausible
Fascism is a literally suicidal ideology, one obsessed with purging the body politic to the point of total self-negation. What’s funny about Suicide Rightism is how direct it is about all this. You don’t need some big theoretical analysis; there’s no level of abstraction to move through. It’s just pretty straightforwardly pro-suicide. I don’t think you have to be a professional psychologist to understand why dramatic, attention-grabbing suicide might be appealing to semi-employed guys who spend 14 hours a day watching Asmongold or whatever. Its promise is that all the pain and frustration you feel can be visited on the people you believe authored it--and then ended. Not to put too fine a point on this, but this is school-shooter ideology. And as the D.H.S. tweet of the penguin meme makes clear, the Suicide Right case for Trump is that he gets this. The reward for supporting him is oblivion. He and I.C.E. and the C.B.P. are the armored bulldozer giving you the chance to kill immigrants and liberal white women and male nurses before you put a gun in your mouth. His administration is the plane, just waiting for you to get inside. I guess 2024 was a Flight 93 election, after all.
January 30, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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alyossan.art
I got followed by an AI-generated yaoi porn account this morning. Instant block. Fuck you. If the yaoi smut isn't being created by an insane perverted fujoshi or fudanshi putting every ounce of their love and freak fetishes into it by hand then I don't fucking want it
January 31, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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minnmax.com
This Friday at 5pm Central, we're streaming an ICE Out charity stream from the MinnMax Studio with @giantbomb.bsky.social to raise money for VEAP - a nonprofit who is stepping up with meal delivery and rent assistance to immigrants in Minneapolis.

You can donate right now! bit.ly/iceoutminneapolis
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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wychstreet.bsky.social
I don’t mock anybody for looking after their health - you do what you have to do. But I don’t agree with the lectures to ‘be kind to yourself’ & ‘not watch the video.’ If possible you do need to see what the state does in your name, with your money, to people you know & who look like you.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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libankerdc.bsky.social
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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minnmax.com
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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apnews.com
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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markpopham.bsky.social
of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible
jessothomson.co.uk Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Oct 9
It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
October 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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amuzi.blacksky.app
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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lindsayowens.bsky.social
Big/bad news for consumers. Google is out today with an announcement of how they plan to integrate shopping into their AI offerings including search and Gemini. The plan includes “personalized upselling.” I.e. Analyzing your chat data and using it to overcharge you. 1/2
January 11, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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dansheehan.bsky.social
Last week, I drove to Minneapolis to spend a few days reporting on the aftermath of Renee Nicole Good's murder for Rolling Stone. What I saw was a city forced to grieve a horrible loss while simultaneously strategizing to protect itself from the ICE reinforcements to come.

Full Story Here:
Minneapolis Is in Mourning. It's Also Very, Very Pissed Off
In the hours after an ICE officer shot and killed Rennee Nicole Good, the city came together — and found a difficult balance of grief and rage.
www.rollingstone.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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lukemeister.bsky.social
Here. Some context in the OP would've been nice.
The End and After
The rules I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him ...
flaminghydra.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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intersectionscch.bsky.social
This time with proper alt text because this is important.
A screenshot of a passage from a book "The rules I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him out with a steel chair. The only others watching were either fascists themselves or the people trying to fight fascism with the power of love and kindness and they weren't having a great go of it either. I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn't likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts. None of it helped. I was on my knees now bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. It spilled out of me onto the snow in a pattern that if you sort of squinted at it from the right vantage looked like a cartoon heart. See that I pointed. Look how beautiful the world can be I tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a gun. I didn't think we were allowed do that.
January 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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nikostratis.com
"A song like this, built of stories and theories and wild conjecture, means everything to those who hear it day after day." ICYMI, new @pastemagazine.bsky.social column started yesterday, about working in a grocery sore in the 90s, and Toadies "Possum Kingdom"

www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
The eternal offering of Toadies’ “Possum Kingdom”
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM