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@psiten.bsky.social
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40+ yo, they/them. too many ideas, too little time, too much stress. Also psiten on Dreamwidth! Ask to connect on discord. Writing fic since I was about 5, probably won't stop. See my AO3 (still psiten) for an idea of my fandoms, but there are always more.
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mattgoldberg.bsky.social
I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.
Kaiju press conference
August 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
psiten.bsky.social
One of the things that's kept me on DuckDuckGo is the fact that I can turn off AI, and it keeps it off. Right now, they're letting people vote live *and NoAI is winning in a landslide*. Check it out.

voteyesornoai.com/vote/no
Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.
voteyesornoai.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
hey bestiessssssssssssssssss

voteyesornoai.com
No AI on DuckDuckGo. AI is turned off and AI images are removed.
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
psiten.bsky.social
#2ha

I've never understood the criticism that Chu Wanning is "too wooden." He has so much vitality, and I love how he'll never let anyone chop him down to size. The opportunity to see him start to put down roots, grow, and eventually blossom in Husky is immensely rewarding.

😉
January 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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edzitron.com
Tomorrow: My 13,500 word historical and financial analysis on how the AI Bubble is magnitudes worse than the Dot Com Bubble, with a contagion that will spread throughout the global markets and our society.

Here's $10 off annual.

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I Am Deeply Worried About How Not Like The Dot Com Bubble This Is I spent hours and hours reading old articles through broken paywalls and archive.org links in the hopes I’d find some sort of positive spin - a way that the AI bubble wasn’t as bad, some sliver or nugget of joy, some shred of hope, and everything I’ve read has made me more and more worried. The real problem is that there are similarities, but only with the worst parts of both bubbles. We’ve got stupid amounts of money being sunk into stuff. We’ve got stupid companies that want to IPO. We’ve got hopeless startups juiced up by credulous venture capitalists and marketed by even-more credulous journalists. Except this time we have the worst margins this side of a vineyard planted in Las Vegas Nevada, and despicable boosters that will go to war with you to try and prove you wrong using ghost stories, fairy tales and pixie dust. I realize I’m being a little cavalier and colloquial about this, and that’s because I feel utterly emotionally drained by this - things are so much worse than I thought. I really felt like I’d dig into the past and find that there were direct, obvious similarities, and thus have some degree of hope that things wouldn’t be apocalyptic. Instead, I’m convinced that things will be much, much worse. The dot com bubble was relatively distributed, and created useful infrastructure. The ideas of some of the most prominent dot com startups were valid, but based on stupid hypergrowth business models that didn’t make sense and were only sustained through mass hysteria and ignorance. By comparison, AI startups are fundamentally illogical, selling unreliable software that’s best-known for its consistent mistakes and active harms backed by the corrosive and ever-worsening infrastructural costs. And they’re the customers of the largest company on the stock market, that can only keep its valuation, on which the markets depend, by selling more of an expensive-to-buy and more-expensive-to-ins… The Logical Endpoint Of My Argument Depending on how right I am, I worry that the following will happen: NVIDIA will lose anywhere from 40% to 90% of its revenue, which will annihilate the value of the S&P 500. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta will face massive, multi-billion dollar impairments within the next few years. Oracle will face potential bankruptcy or at least a severe, horrendous series of layoffs and restructuring efforts to try and right the ship after agreeing to $248 billion in lease obligations primarily to get the revenue from its $300 billion, 5-year-long deal with OpenAI, a company that is going to run out of money in the next year. Venture capital is going to take such a severe haircut from the AI bubble that it will effectively kill any chances of raising a round after Series B for many, many years. Those $178.5 billion in data center debt deals will be predominantly underwater, leading to massive losses for private equity and banks (leading to a chill in effectively all debt markets), and massive job losses across the many, many construction projects that have started as a result of the AI bubble. If OpenAI or Anthropic can manage to go public, every investor will lose out as they collapse under the weight of their bullshit assumptions. Every partner, every company relying on them, every infrastructure provider will be burned. I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff. The amount of bosses, influencers, movie stars, politicians and other individuals of note that have fallen behind generative AI and claimed again and again that it can do things that it can’t and perpetuated myths that will lead to massive societal harms both today and in the future have revealed themselves as fucking frauds. It’s been obvious since 2023 that generative AI flat out does not do what many people say it will and obvious since 2024 t… And believe me, even if I’m half right, things will likely be so much worse than when the dot com bubble burst. I don’t see a scenario where anything survives the collapse of CoreWeave, let alone the collapse of OpenAI. I don’t see a scenario where any more than a few AI startups survive, and if that happens, there won’t be any customers for those GPUs - not that anywhere near enough existed to fill even a tiny percentile of the demand. On some level, I hope I’m wrong. I just don’t know how anymore.
January 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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natepentz.bsky.social
Folks the man illegally taken when ICE rammed through the door on Sunday is free!!
7:15 p.m. | Judge orders release of Garrison Gibson Judge orders release of Garrison Gibson A Minneapolis man is out of jail Thursday, days after masked federal agents illegally broke down his door and arrested him.
January 16, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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jonathanhoefler.bsky.social
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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amymebberson.bsky.social
The underestimation of the American people this administration is trying to screw over is incredible. They throw the idea out there just HOPING people won’t notice and yeah… the hate and backlash is only gonna grow.
January 16, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Twin Cities Leather (and adult toy store Smitten Kitten) have stopped regular operations to become a staging and delivery space for food and supply donations- they are requesting monetary donations to keep them afloat without any income

www.paypal.com/paypalme/kpa...
Pay Kurt Kopatich using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/kpattonleather and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
psiten.bsky.social
Any friends on my tl who are curious about voting in the Hugos, but don't know who to ask...

You can ask me!
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 10d
Did you know that you, yes YOU, can vote in the Hugo Awards??

@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here's How - Reactor
You — yes, you! — can nominate work and vote for the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!
reactormag.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Did you know that you, yes YOU, can vote in the Hugo Awards??

@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here's How - Reactor
You — yes, you! — can nominate work and vote for the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!
reactormag.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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djotaku.bsky.social
Funny pen name story. I've had "feed" by Mira Grant on Goodreads "to-read" list almost since the day I joined GR. It sounded neat, I just haven't got around to it. Meanwhile I've been reading all of @seananmcguire.bsky.social October daye and wayward children books. Turns out: same person!
January 13, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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arthur.baron-clement.com
Hi #PortfolioDay!
I'm a french illustrator specializing in landscapes and sceneries.
I'm available for freelance work.
✉️ arthur@baron-clement.com
🔗 arthur.baron-clement.com/en/
Composite of nine digital scenery paintings: 1. Rough landscape digital painting of an old castle overrun by nature. In the foreground a couple of children are holding bouquets. 2. Rough landscape digital painting of a field covered in snow. A golden yellow tiny person is leading their horse through it. 3. Rough landscape digital painting of a couple of houses surrounded by trees and lost in the mountains. 4. Landscape and cityscape digital painting inspired by Bar-le-Duc, France. 5. Rough digital painting of an orange cat taking a nap in an old oak tree. 6. Landscape digital painting of an old train station surrounded by nature. An old rusty railway leads there from the foreground. 7. Rough digital painting of a girl up a hill, standing next to a human-built old source. A green valley extends up the horizon while clouds and a bird fly by. 8. Rough digital painting of a girl jumping from rock to rock across a river. In the background a forest is slowly changing to its autumn colors. 9. Rough landscape digital painting of a little house in a valley lost in the mountains.
January 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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lauragraceweldon.bsky.social
One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com
Man standing in field of sheep holding rainbow flag.
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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hormiga.bsky.social
It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:

They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.

The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
wajali.bsky.social Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11d
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January 11, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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peark.es
Four Republican Senators, three of whom sit on Senate Banking, have now expressed public opposition to the criminal investigation of Chair Powell.
GOP angst grows over Powell investigation
Senate Banking Republicans are set to meet Monday night about crypto legislation, and some members expect to discuss the Powell probe as well.
www.politico.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
psiten.bsky.social
@stoat.chat hey, stoat team! I'm looking into new homes for an artist/writer/reader server after the hullabaloo about Discord maybe integrating genAI apps.

Can I ask here about your user content usage policy (e.g. - thoughts about scraping/selling data to train AI)? Where you are on genAI overall?
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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thebadspot.bsky.social
Ok character artists, where you at?

Might have some work.

Feel free to link others.
a man sitting in a chair with the words " i need to see it " on the bottom
Alt: a man sitting in a chair with the words " i need to see it " on the bottom
media.tenor.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:34 PM
psiten.bsky.social
I just backed Let's queer the internet together with .meow on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dot...
Let's queer the internet together with .meow
a queer-owned, queer-operated non-profit with one goal: Turning internet infrastructure into community support.
www.kickstarter.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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lexmcmenamin.com
since it's the chatter this morning, @kimkelly.bsky.social from 2020
There’s No Room for Police Unions in the Labor Movement
No other union employees are allowed to kill other human beings.
www.teenvogue.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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scarletmagus.bsky.social
EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY

MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE

DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
"If Discord added more AI featurss, would that change how often you use Discord?" "I'd consider leaving Discord."
January 10, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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strictlychristo.bsky.social
Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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webanalyst.bsky.social
In the budget discussions, Dems should refuse to fund ICE unless agents can’t wear masks, they must identify themselves and must read people their Miranda rights. Even with these conditions, ICE funding should be limited to border operations.

Stop further shootings.

Repost if you agree. #BlueCrew
January 9, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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dailyshapolang.bsky.social
Pre-orders for the French Edition of Sha Po Lang are now available on firstprint.komogi.com/projets/star...

Note: The VIP Pack is only available for everyone for 48H, then only for VIP members.

#ShaPoLang #杀破狼 #살파랑
Stars of Chaos (T1 & T2)
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January 10, 2026 at 9:08 AM