If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

do not funnel your grief over this death into trek and x-men merch, paramount & disney dont need your money. go to plays, give to charities, vote for candidates who will fund public art, and you will make it possible for people like patrick stewart to exist and keep existing. a rising tide lifts all

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 23h ago

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

That's what enrages me every time when chuds go "AI will democratize art" NO!! if working class people can't make a viable career and support themselves by making art the only people who get to do it are rich assholes.

Natalia (娜塔莉)@wrycritic.bsky.social · 21h ago

There WILL BE less people like Patrick Stewart or Dolly Parton, given widening wealth inequality, loss of jobs in creative sector, austerity, privatisation of education (especially arts) & financial exclusion. Art of the near future will be less diverse & restricted to the privileged few.

Hey Etsy, I love how you tried to placate artists by implementing new changes and then quietly added bullshit to your ToS, which I highlighted below. After this month, I will be moving my shop. F*ck off.

Hello! If you are looking to assist, please reach out to our Volunteers Committee and detail your skillset in technical support and what systems you've worked in. Hopefully one of our recruiters gets back to you soon. Thank you! www.transformativeworks.org/contact_us/?... - Mod Tiana

Would making bots identify themselves stop harmful scraping? Not necessarily. A bot can identify itself and still overwhelm a website. Target harmful behavior, not access, urge Lila Bailey & Tess Vartanian in @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Read ➡️ www.techpolicy.press/breaking-the...

I hope people remember that with AO3 down how much fanfic has a place in their life and are able to leave comments on whatever works they were in the middle of it when it comes back.

With AO3 down and a lot of fics being shared as downloadable files, I want to caution y'all to ‼️REMEMBER INTERNET SAFETY‼️ Make sure you trust the source of where ever you're getting your links and downloads from! Malware and viruses are real and can be very quickly spread

Just when I thought Etsy was turning a corner by trimming AI content on the site, they issue a new Terms of Use (starting Dec 16) which grants them & their vendors rights "to use Your Content to develop, train, test and improve AI." Could not find an opt out to this in their privacy settings.

Sir Ian McKellen has made a statement on the tragic passing of Sir Patrick Stewart. “He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.”

Copyright orders from a French court have led Quad9 to withdraw its privacy-protective DNS service from the country—a loss for internet users.

French Court’s Site-Blocking Orders Drive Quad9 Out Of France

A nonprofit service that protects internet users’ privacy is leaving France. Quad9, a free DNS resolver, has said it will reluctantly stop serving users in France on November 24. This follows a French...

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Spotify's new AI agent will leverage listeners nostalgia & personal habits to build a surveillance dragnet that tracks where, when and why you are listening to music. In other words, biometric profiling. musically.com/2026/10/23/s...

‘Spotify is now an agent’ – Co-CEO outlines company’s AI plan

We’ve been following the burst of launches of personal agents – Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet – with keen interest recently. Unsurprisingly, so has Spotify.

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Rip to a legend, giving one of the most important lessons I still need to hear every day.

🥹 i lost it all 2 years ago because of the economical crisis here and YOU all have given me the possibility of keep on living, and I do really mean LIVING when I say it. without your comms (that helped me maintain a roof, meds and food) i would’ve left time ago. I can’t thank this community enough

mytbrisgrowing@mytbrisgrowing.bsky.social · 2d ago

@kyloremus.bsky.social amp always does such amazing work and is so generous with her time and talent. Her edits are always so creative and inspirational. Now is a great time to commission or simply donate to her if there’s any space in your budget, to allow her to continue ko-fi.com/kyloremusss

The UK’s ban on strangulation in porn is so far reaching that porn sites are removing pretty much anything that could “inhibit” breathing, including face sitting…

Woke up to the US government running my fanart through AI and posting it. Obviously I completely disavow this, and did not consent to it.

The man was a lifelong campaigner against domestic violence because of what he saw his mother go through. A king, a champ, a feminist icon, he deserved all the love he got and more. www.theguardian.com/society/2009...

James Hell Brooks@kleinman.bsky.social · 24h ago

NOOOOOOOO www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Good night, sweet prince. I can think of nothing more Patrick Stewart than his appearance on Sesame Street, matching a wry wit with Shakespearean perfection. Never met him, wish I had.

I'm really fucking devastated right now so instead here's the picture Patrick Stewart posted nearly 13 years ago to the day with the caption "happy halloween" of him dressed as a giant lobster in a bathtub.

Patrick Stewart in lockdown reading my favorite sonnet, Sonnet 73, “That Time of Year Thou May’st in Me Behold.” RIP.

Reminder during these trying times that some stories are now shelf-stable? 😅

deeply relevant to today's AO3 events

So what can be done now? Keep the pressure on. KOSA’s supporters benefit from every moment lawmakers aren’t hearing from you. 📲 That’s why it’s important to keep calling in & demanding they drop support of KOSA & attack Big Tech’s capitalist business model instead www.bigtechloveskosa.com

Big Tech Loves KOSA

Big Tech Loves KOSA

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So now KOSA’s sponsors (including famed transphobe & bigot Marsha Blackburn) are busy behind the scenes undoubtedly trying to force this bad internet bill into a format that’ll appear to hold Big Tech accountable while really handing the government more power to censor the internet. More on that 👇🏽

⁉️What the hell happened with KOSA ? This bad internet bill is currently locked in a major House-Senate standoff. The Senate advanced its version with its "duty of care" & age-verification frameworks intact while the House advanced their version bundled in the KIDS Act…🫠

Sharing this and also adding. Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to public domain resources. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Inkling@printinkling.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In this era of AI slop, I DESPERATELY want to encourage you to embrace the kitbash in your work there is free software to play with take public domain pieces and mix 'em up download free brushes and fonts and get weird make it chunky and funky and gritty and punk Let us usher in a new era of Zine.

Ah, yes, it is that time to remind folks that NaNoWriMo sold out to predatory vanity press in 2022, and then to AI in 2024, and then collapsed in 2025, and has since risen like a sketchy phoenix looking to steal aspiring authors' work.

Lili Saintcrow@lilithsaintcrow.com · 6d ago

So, wait, has NaNoWriMo rebranded as "Novel November", paid for by ProWritingAid, which used to be a spell/grammar checker but now is (you guessed it) an "'AI' grammar checker"--in short, yet another way for a griftslop machine to grab human-written text? Do I have that right?

Quad9 helps protect internet users from malware and phishing. Now copyright site-blocking orders are pushing it out of France.

French Court’s Site-Blocking Orders Drive Quad9 Out Of France

A nonprofit service that protects internet users’ privacy is leaving France. Quad9, a free DNS resolver, has said it will reluctantly stop serving users in France on November 24. This follows a French...

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Blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI scraping, writes Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle in The Atlantic. But it can undermine a vital resource for journalists and researchers. Learn more 👇 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #NotAllBots #ProtectTheWayback

"The idea that unwanted #fiction should be removed simply because somebody finds it objectionable is precisely the attitude that makes an #archive necessary in the first place." www.michigandaily.com/arts/digital...

Fur Affinity, Archive of Our Own and the war on freak

The internet is getting less horny, more puritan and more beholden to advertisers.

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