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Juno

@jsketch12.bsky.social

THERE IS NOTHING* THAT CANNOT BE FIXED WITH ONE JUSTICE PUNCH!!!

January 20, 2026 at 6:09 PM

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Mars

@errinnys.bsky.social

Edit scene from a Simpson’s episode with the memes Steamed Hams scene where Chalmers and Skinner look at an aurora boeralis in Skinner’s kitchen

January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM

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kat

@katbamkapow.bsky.social

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/

January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM

EldritchZoe, changer of usernames

@eldritchzoe.bsky.social

AI Bros Go Into The Oubliette Cave To Atone For Their Quake Crimes

austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · Apr 5

Microsoft is the real offender here, but anyone who writes even a news post about the copilot "AI" Quake 'tech demo' without describing how it actually functions (or fails to) it is is doing unpaid PR work.

January 20, 2026 at 4:51 PM

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austin_walker

@austinwalker.bsky.social

Microsoft is the real offender here, but anyone who writes even a news post about the copilot "AI" Quake 'tech demo' without describing how it actually functions (or fails to) it is is doing unpaid PR work.

April 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM

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WinterSound

@wintersound.bsky.social

January 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM

EldritchZoe, changer of usernames

@eldritchzoe.bsky.social

Pokémon Legends Z-A stream, because my depression is bad and I refuse to let it win. Funny anbimal game! www.twitch.tv/eldritchzoe

A thumbnail for "EldritchZoe streams Pokemon Legends Z-A, Part 7". It features the official art for the daylight mode, with the additions of Plush Mary Rabbit holding a progress pride flag, Zoe's mask and a scarf drawn with the brush tool on the game's protagonist. Urbain has been placed into a bin head-first. Because being a he/they lesbian does not mean you can kidnap me for four hours, Urbain. Included BSK's pixelated face on a Gastly, and FranOpossum in the bin looking cute as heck. There is a Gardevour's face over Chicorita's using the Pokémon Shuffle icon. There is also a gen 1 artwork of Dragonair in the corner.
In this version, a screenshot of Alpha Larvitar is rapidly approaching.

January 19, 2026 at 7:51 PM

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Phineas

@phineas.bsky.social

A digital recreation of a panel of the comic Nancy by Olivia James. The titular character, Nancy, is riding a hoverboard-type scooter, holding a digital music player in one hand and a phone on a selfie stick in the other. She's wearing those 80s Venetian blind sunglasses. All the colors are weird inversions or variations from the actual panel colors. In a large speech balloon above her head Nancy is saying 'Maybe it will happen today'.

January 19, 2026 at 2:27 PM

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Cosmic Symbol

@bombsfall.bsky.social

You didn't name the horse during that entire trip through the desert? Is this a joke to you

January 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM

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Dr Kat Day (she/her)

@chronicleflask.katday.com

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

Screenshot:

serialephemera
Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part! should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.

January 18, 2026 at 3:11 PM

EldritchZoe, changer of usernames

@eldritchzoe.bsky.social

A lot of bad people want you to give up.
Don't give them the satisfaction.

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2d

As a member of the trans community, I'm aware of how dire things are right now and the ways governments are trying to hurt us. That's why it's even more important to not let ourselves fall for fake stories or hyperbolic reporting that does nothing but increase the overwhelming doom we're all feeling

January 17, 2026 at 8:08 PM

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (Not very scary)

@ela-bambust.bsky.social

There's a mod for Skyrim that just has this in the description:

• Fixes a bug where All Star by Smashmouth was not playing when draugr exit their sarcophagi.

January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM

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✪ New Years Gray ✪

@jongraywb.bsky.social

I’m not even disappointed anymore. I’m just extraordinarily tired.

Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry to the bearer etc etc. I'm not happy about it either. Source: Vermont Conversation: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel on hope, humor, and 'waking up' in dark times - VTDigger
vtdigger.org/2026/01/14/v...

"Interestingly, I used AI for the first time as I was writing that New York Times cartoon—one of the panels is about how to generate your own electricity, given that now the AI data center down the road has jacked up your electricity rates. So I drew myself on a treadmill with my flock of goats and we’re generating our own renewable energy. I asked ChatGPT to make me a drawing of goats on a treadmill, and it did, and I sort of copied it. So who knows where I’m going now—I’m just going right down a chute to hell."

January 17, 2026 at 12:39 AM

EldritchZoe, changer of usernames

@eldritchzoe.bsky.social

Pokémon stream! Shorter stream hopefully due to headache! www.twitch.tv/eldritchzoe

A thumbnail for "EldritchZoe streams Pokemon Legends Z-A, Part 6". It features the official art for the daylight mode, with the additions of Plush Mary Rabbit holding a progress pride flag, Zoe's mask and a scarf drawn with the brush tool on the game's protagonist. Urbain has been placed into a bin head-first. Because being a he/they lesbian does not mean you can kidnap me for four hours, Urbain. Included BSK's pixelated face on a Gastly, and FranOpossum in the bin looking cute as heck. There is a Gardevour's face over Chicorita's using the Pokémon Shuffle icon. This time, Zoepoke has been swapped out for some gen 1 artwork of Dragonair.

January 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM

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Lau ╶⃝⃤

@fuskybutt.bsky.social

This reads like a YouTube poop

William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 6d

Fucking Austria, man…

January 15, 2026 at 6:11 PM

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Icy 🔞

@iseenudepeople.com

AND SO I WAS!!!! never doubt me

January 15, 2026 at 6:22 PM

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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!

@standplaatskrk.pl

visenyaism on tumblr: "Honestly fuck A1 for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I'm some kind of protestant"

January 8, 2026 at 5:30 PM

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Misha🧡🤍💖 🦇✨

@mishacak3s.bsky.social

me: surely seasonal depression won’t get me this year
the dastardly mid january:

January 15, 2026 at 12:05 AM

EldritchZoe, changer of usernames

@eldritchzoe.bsky.social

Stream! Pokémon Legends Z-A! I have a brain made of putty and my off-screen grinding may have increased my pokemon levels a touch. www.twitch.tv/eldritchzoe