What I wouldn't give for old Google. My daughter competes in showjumping. We select the shows with her trainer at the beginning of the season and I know I needed to sign her up for this next one. So I google the show name. These are BIG shows. They ALL have websites. And yet...

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

It's honestly the lowest possible bar.

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 6h ago

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.

One of my favorite things about Tom Holland is how incapable of keeping a secret he is and how the studio works around it. ❤️

GeekTyrant@geektyrant.com · 2d ago

Tom Holland Thought There Was No SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY Script When Everyone Else Had Already Read It

SPIDERMAN! ❤️💙❤️💙 (They did such a great job!)

Kids have the hardest times finding books they want because so many book stores put all kids books together like it's a monolith, instead of specific genres and age groups. Let's face it, MG kids don't want to shop with the potty training picture books. And YA graphic novels are not the same as MG.

Keezy Young🌼@keezyyoung.bsky.social · 6d ago

my fav local shop puts everything from 4-18 in the same "children's" comic section so that it's mostly middle grade stuff but also hello sunshine and Clementine (the walking dead comic by Tillie Walden) show up next to an entire row of dogmans and dude I just. there's gotta be a better method haha

I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...

Another Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your Writing

Back in February I did a long post about “AI” and why I wouldn’t use it for my own writing, and one of the reasons I gave was “the fact that ‘AI’-generated text …

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OMG. Fb just tried to show me moving AI versions of my profile pic. That is disturbing!!

This is disgusting. Literal comic book villains.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

What degree do books burn at again? Was it 451 F°?

This was a great one!

Kathy Palm@kathleenpalm.bsky.social · last wk.

Meet 12yo Will of WITHIN THE BLACK, The Nowhere Series book 2... An artist. Loves drawing other planets, aliens, and spaceships. Always lived in the town of Gray. Has a little brother named TJ and an older sister named Abby, both annoy him. His mom died of cancer. He's desperate to stop hurting. 📚🩸

@gdbee.bsky.social uses the best color palettes! 😍

geneva 🖍️@gdbee.bsky.social · 3w ago

Spectra Knight

a few good Jessica’s

Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 3w ago

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Abolish ICE is the moderate position.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 3w ago

Today ICE fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine. This is the 11th person they’ve murdered this year—that we know of. He did everything he was supposed to. He was authorized to work in the US. He served his community. ICE still murdered him in broad daylight. Abolish ICE.

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

19thnews@19thnews.org · 4w ago

Trials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.

Go Green!!

Vermont Green FC@vermontgreenfc.bsky.social · 4w ago

VERMONT, WE’RE GOING TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!

Me too!

Helen Whistberry@whistberry.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have many times... *many times* bought a book because someone I follow on here was so enthusiastic about it That's the kind of advertising money can't buy... just touching a reader so much that they feel compelled to share their love and shout about it 💜

Go check out all of the front-facing horse art over on the @cpsc.gov page! I love when humans use the internet for good! ❤️ (Also, in fairness, front facing photos of horses are tough too!)

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 4w ago

Artists of Bluesky, show us your best front-facing horses.

Stopped by my favorite indie, @phoenixbooks.biz on the spur of the moment to pick up the next Dungeon Crawler Carl book and had a lovely chat, signed some books, recommended others, and of course, visited my friends books! Support your local indies!

Night out with a couple of my kids and a good friend for some fabulous local theater!

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

As I get older, it's harder and harder to not do this. See also, hanging up. People should appreciate my self restraint

Allison Boggs Marion 🇨🇦@coffeeandabagel.bsky.social · 4w ago

The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.

28. The Democrats should go on the offensive, demanding that the immigration system be burned down and rebuilt so the burden of proof is no longer on the masses yearning to breathe free but on the government to assume the humanity of "new Americans" so their pathway to citizenship is just details.

Before the Democrats can free immigrants, they must free themselves from the GOP

The GOP has taken a maximal position that requires a maximal counter-position.

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6. I think it's up to the rest of us to push the Democrats, because they tend toward inertia, not action. The party's mainstream – think Chuck Schumer – will interpret the Supreme Court's decision on birthright citizenship as the end of the story. Fact is, it's probably the beginning.

For the people saying critics of Democrats on immigration from the left don’t have an alternative, I always say “go look at the Statue of Liberty, that’s our immigration policy.”

Thos.@sizzlechest5.bsky.social · last mo.

We are a nation of immigrants and we should welcome anyone who wants to come here to make a better life for themselves. If you reject that idea you reject the very idea of America.

I've been learning to back up a horse trailer (which sucks by the way) and I think about it all night. I think I'm getting sleep regression like a baby learning a new skill. I get it now, babies.

As a born and baptized Catholic who refused to be confirmed and then left the church but got married in the church, and then left it again, this is fascinating!

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last mo.

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

a) there are, like, single digit trans girls in sports in most states (sometimes literally one!), this entire thing is made up so that one girl who wants to play sports with her friends can't do it b) do not, under any circumstances, make policy based on angry sports parents

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."