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@blacksphinx.bsky.social

aro ace // 30+ // she/her // Seraphina Sphinx @ Crystal FF // Gothic Book Lover // What am I even doing send help

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Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · 8h ago

The HWA has apologized for the AI article and specifically apologized for the inclusion of Indigenous water rights struggles in the AI column, and removed the newsletter writer from their board position. I’m deeply appreciative of the apology and of all who expressed solidarity in my post about it.

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 10h ago

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

Buckinghamshire Archives@bucksarchives.bsky.social · 18h ago

If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.

Rolling stacks in the archive with some lovely old archive boxes on them. On the right of the image you can see the handles that have to be pulled to move the stacks, activating the connection with the chain beneath the floor.
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterday

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

those rolling stacks you'll find in any big state school library
Sovereign Tower - ✨Launching TOMORROW!✨@sovereigntower.bsky.social · 14h ago

Our game launches tomorrow, and we hope you all enjoy! We put a lot of hard work and passion into it, but don't take our word for it, see what others are saying! 👇

CGMagazine@cgmagazine.bsky.social · 15h ago

"Sovereign Tower is a fun and deep management RPG with great writing and a strong time travel mechanic that pulls at you, for better results or for worse." https://www.cgmagonline.com/review/game/sovereign-tower-pc/ #SovereignTower #GameReview

Space Witches, Esq.@popelizbet.bsky.social · 12h ago

I'm just steeped enough in folklore and myth that if some slick talker comes to me telling me I can have my dead relatives back, just like they were, promise, i don't care if they're disguised as tech execs, that's just the Devil trying to get one over. I don't even believe in the Christian hell.

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Gavin Newsom is trying to sneak through an SCE-sponsored bill that aims to make it impossible to sue your utility company when they burn your house down. It also adds a $100/year "pay for the next fire we inevitably start" surcharge to your power bill. www.latimes.com/california/s...

L.A. fire survivors say Newsom is trying to help utilities reduce their wildfire costs again

Survivors and the insurance industry slam purported last-minute bills to shift wildfire costs away from utilities.

latimes.com

Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · yesterday

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

“Sure. Sure. Yes, we know AI is using up resources. So does driving a car or a planes so does building a new home. So do a lot of things. Humans have always used up Earth’s resources and usually not nicely. There are reservations and other Indigenous communities in Canada that have never had clean water and have been ravaged by pipeline construction. But somehow that’s been okay for the past fifty or a hundred years, and very few people scream about that. But suddenly, AI is the enemy, not everything else we’ve been doing all along. Suddenly YOUR water might not be clean, so it’s a Big Deal”.
Shepherd@neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 24h ago

In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian @doriantaylor.com air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*? like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*? 2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026