This can also apply to artists. Stuck on a painting? Try a different medium or draw or grab some clay

Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1h ago

Yet another update: Understand that I'm not telling you to give up your computer. I'm just saying that there are options when it comes to composing text. The different methods use different parts of your brain, so switching between them can be a good way to get past writers block.

Mama black bear and her cub visiting the water bowl early this morning. ❤️🐻❤️ #mammals Water = Life ❤️

Arthropod Photo of the Week: August 5, 2026 Weevil Hylobius abietis Coleoptera: Curculionidae Observed in Saxony, Germany By Ruediger Schulz (www.foxbird.eu), Saxony, Germany #arthropodPOTW

We just added 15 more artists to the Hire Human Artists directory! 💪 We're working our way through the current batch of 100 as fast as we can! #HHA

Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists

Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.

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Time to update my resume again! 😄 Still loads of cool things to add... eventually. But for now here's what I can share 😊 #voiceactor #voiceacting

When you hear that dad is leaving again tomorrow for busyness trips but also that he feels guilty & will give you extra treatos

One of the (few?) perks of owning your own newspaper is you can run the GEMS 4H Hop to it Rabbit Club article on the damn front page if you want to! Check it out and support young GEMS reporter (and spring fair winner!) Julia Butler! GEM indeed! upperrogueindependent.com/2026/08/05/h...

Hop to it GEMS 4H Rabbit Club has success at Spring Fair - Upper Rogue Independent

The Hop to it GEMS 4-H rabbit and cavy club had a very busy and successful Spring Fair. The Spring Fair started off with club member Tyson Tomich winning Grand Champion market rabbit pen. The reserve ...

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NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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On the one hand, maybe Black-headed Grosbeak seem so charming because they're here so briefly... On the other hand, hell no! They'd be charming 365! 💛 This juvie has extra charm tho! #birds #becurious 🪶

This edition of Unexpected Aquarium Jobs features our bilingual editor, Rosario. Her role on our Exhibits team helps advance the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s mission of ocean conservation.

Alan @alan678.bsky.social has set today's #BirdOfTheDay theme as #RedOrDead, any bird with red in the capture but not on the bird. So here are some berry bandits aka Bohemian Waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus). All taken in Edinburgh, Scotland. #Birds 🪶 #Nature #Photography #Nikon

“To be called out by the most powerful person in the world…. and called a sick, violent vandal when all I had done was pick up a piece of trash was awful.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/08/04/woman-recounts-reflecting-pool-arrest-says-she-was-humiliated/

Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken

Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped.

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Omg LOOK AT MY BABY

I had to go back 6 months to find some #FabulousWaders, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by @helenbennett.bsky.social. Here's a Ruff, photo bombed by a Black-tailed Godwit. #UKwildlife #birds

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral #Macro #MacroPhotography #Bee #WeeBee #ECK The moment between being here and being gone 🐝😉

Fallen mangoes were abundant under the large and very old mango trees. Often we would see Polybia wasps (among other things) feeding on the sweet fallen fruits.

Shining Waxcap - Gloioxanthomyces nitidus As far as waxcaps go, this one's quite distinctive due to its slimy stem, gill shape, and depressed caps. This one's somewhere in the common to uncommon range, and occurs in temperate eastern North America.

I have been saying this for ages! Misinformation robs people of autonomy. When applied to women’s health it means it is inherently misogynistic!

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · yesterday

Hear, hear‼️ Health misinformation erodes autonomy‼️ Vaccine mis- and disinformation isn’t just a threat to public health, but also to our autonomy theconversation.com/vaccine-mis-... "If we value autonomy for what it really means ... we must take action to address mis- and disinformation."

Julius Cheeser 2.0 at the water dish. ❤️🐭❤️ Some of the best video I've got of J.C. #mammals Water = Life ❤️

August 4th is International Owl Day so Happy Owl Day to You'Owl. #Birds #Photography #Owls #InternationalOwlDay #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Birding #BirdPhotography

Two tailed spider in harder mode: you can see how cryptic they can be on a complex surface!

The cameras really shouldn't have been out that time of night. What were they wearing? 💀

Here's another hersiliid looking camouflaged against the moss and lichen

For more cryptic spider goodness, try to find the uloborid in this picture

Libraries are good. Nice work Seattle.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 16h ago

Seattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.

Professional writer organizations should not send out pro-AI propaganda in the form of tantrum-having "essays" to their members, and I don't think that's controversial.

Regarding The Pro-AI Tantrum In The HWA Newsletter

Today I, and every other HWA member, received the HWA newsletter in our inboxes. In that newsletter was an essay (“essay”) of pro-AI propaganda that made a number of specious points in …

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Good Morning from this adorable Nightsnake we encountered while walking transects this morning. #fieldwork #herps

I think that Swamp Sparrows have a very understated beauty. #birds #birding #sparrows

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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The youth claim to hate capitalism yet they purchase goods and services in order to survive ahaha and I am very Fortune Magazine