"Wicker" is now at the top of my must-see list. If anyone tries to light that man on fire I will kill to stop them

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 23h ago

Is this supposed to discourage me from seeing the movie?

was just talking about this with @indrapramitdas.bsky.social

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last wk.

Absolutely, there are a bunch of global networks still on Twitter, it's not 'all nazis' as westerners love to claim because they left Their nazis on there (which is not to dispute that the place is absolutely infested with nazis of all nationalities).

turns out the real National Treasure was the Nicolas Cage we made along the way

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’

I had to quote to fix the number.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago

Man named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

This is really important, so I shared it with alt-text.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is democratic backsliding?

David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.

Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...

Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody

Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.

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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w ago

ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, I repeat, Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, this is not a drill. #Isaias

I MEAN

This is not a real person! There are THIRTY TWO books here that 'Andrew V. Smith' has shat out in the last year alone, all of which have AI-generated covers and most borrow or straight up rip off titles from other more popular (and more importantly: human) works like my own

YES HAHA YES

MC Squared@mcsquared.bsky.social · 6d ago

It’s time to pick a side

genuinely, my favourite thing in the world is the "pass the same $20 around the arts" where you take money made from the arts to pay someone else to make more art & they take money to pay someone to make more art &...what I'm saying is commission Fell next time she has them open, you won't regret it

Fell Hound@fellhound.bsky.social · 5d ago

Invest in human art like commissioning your very talented sculptor friends for a custom figure of your fave blob son 🥺♥️

I'm 40 and got almost exactly those lessons from Mormon leaders growing up. I will NEVER abandon trans people; the arguments we're hearing against them now are the ones I heard against all queer people when I was young.

Ken Burnside@kenburnside.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm 56. I was raised in an Evangelical rural town in Alaska. We got sermons about the evils of Satan tempting people into eternal hellfire with the sin of homosexuality, and how AIDS was a gift from God showing that wickedness had real world punishment.

In case anybody wants a source for this story that *isn't* on a website using AI and doesn't read like it was written by AI, here ya go: heritageheadlines.com/rare-west-vi...

Rare West Virginia Chestnuts Sit Near a Massive AI Data Center Plan - Hopewell Heritage Headlines

Advocates warn that blight-surviving American chestnuts near Mason County’s former state nursery could be lost to AI data center construction. State…

heritageheadlines.com

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 5d ago

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions

Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

nytimes.com

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4

Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers

gofund.me

“These signatures are maybe the most on the nose reminder of how AI models were trained on a vast corpus of writing, images, videos, and artworks that were scraped without permission.”

ChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated Comics

ChatGPT is churning out New Yorker style cartoons and slapping the name of real artists on them without permission.

futurism.com

I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.

Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 5d ago

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5d ago

oh my GOD

Actually, ya know what? Fuvk Unity. Go kickstart the horror game I'm editing. If it funds, I will contribute a Horror that steals your name and turns you to ad slop. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cof...

The Decay: Survival Horror Roleplaying

A tabletop roleplaying game of weird horror and the struggle to survive it.

kickstarter.com

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 5d ago

The video advertising Unity's ew AI-driven autocomplete game maker has 'Mari' who has a game idea they "always wanted to make" and that idea is "Space Corridor" and it looks like this, and that's the strongest argument I can think of for keeping game dev out of the pro-AI crowd's hands.

Do not mistake me for the Mari in this ad. I contribute to human-made TTRPGs, not AI slop.

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 5d ago

The video advertising Unity's ew AI-driven autocomplete game maker has 'Mari' who has a game idea they "always wanted to make" and that idea is "Space Corridor" and it looks like this, and that's the strongest argument I can think of for keeping game dev out of the pro-AI crowd's hands.

acab and goddamn them all also, holy fuck, could American politicians have a tenth of this courage and moral fiber please

LorennaCleary.bsky.social@lorennacleary.bsky.social · 6d ago

Even the mayor desperately pleads with police to not hurt the students. Others also plead. The violence French police have exhibited to the world and upon children is inexcusable.

If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to the last 1.5 years well, yknow, just organizing with my coworkers to unionize the most celebrated & beloved TTRPG and TCGs of all time 🥰✊ this took buckets of blood, sweat & tears but we DID IT!!! If you want to support us, sign that petition and BOOST!

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA@uwotc-official.bsky.social · 6d ago

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

Accountability “need not require another death,” they write: dioet.org/2026/10/01/b...

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 6d ago

In a joint statement, Tennessee’s Catholic Bishops joined the US state’s Episcopal Bishops to ask Governor Bill Lee to spare Christa Pike’s life and prevent another attempt to carry out her death sentence: www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

I know everybody is outraged about the Cornell case, but this rape at LSU isn’t getting the same attention it deserves. And the school did find the student guilty of forcible rape. youtu.be/SI35s6GKbL0?...

EXCLUSIVE: LSU student says university failed her after Title IX finding in alleged sexual assaul...

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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Seán Ferrick@seanferrick.bsky.social · 7d ago

I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.