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M.L.Farrier
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UK Writer/Photographer/Editor/Filmmaker and aspiring artist
https://blacksmithpro.wordpress.com
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November 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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shipwreck75.bsky.social
Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.

time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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markchilcott.bsky.social
WIP
#gandalf #lotr #artwork
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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leegarbett.bsky.social
Variant for Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez’ BATMAN series
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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neilaglet.bsky.social
Detail
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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joshcrewsreally.bsky.social
Bob's Burgers with a Fantastic guest. Commission by @neilaglet.bsky.social.
#comics #art #animation
Full color illustration of Bob, Linda, Tina, Gene, and Louise all inside the restaurant with The Thing aka Ben Grimm sitting down for a burger and giving Bob a big ok sign. Teddy is outside looking in utter amazement.
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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yildiraycinar.bsky.social
Winter is here
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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cinephiliabeyond.org
30 years ago today, Casino (1995) hit theaters—a brutal, opulent Scorsese epic about power, greed, and the fall of a Vegas empire.

⬇️⬇️⬇️

cinephiliabeyond.org/casino/

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Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 30th Anniversary • Cinephilia & Beyond
By Tim Pelan This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting Bob De Niro and Joe Pesci and making a 90-minute picture about only one aspect of one story out of Vegas for the past ...
cinephiliabeyond.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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vgiangiordano.bsky.social
Miles and Gwen - Inks and White Gouache
#marvel #spiderman
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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wsstamey.bsky.social
Link study.
2014.
Pencil on tea-stained parchment.
11”x14”.
SOLD.
#legendofzelda #link #gameart
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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leftistwonk.bsky.social
AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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annijyn.com
you have no power over me 🌞🔮✨
a line drawing of a woman with long hair wearing an odd the shoulder dress and a black thin crown on her head. a black owl sits on her shoulder. swirls of reds and golden yellows cover a teal background, white hanging stars line the top of the image.
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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tartcherryart.bsky.social
“Bunny”.
Painted in Procreate
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
"Write a horror story in 5 words"

Do it in one. Bamboo
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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tristansbones.bsky.social
Xenovember day 21! Getting near the tail end, but this is the coloured (by @simongough2099.bsky.social ) version of one I posted earlier, in tribute to Mike Mignola's iconic Aliens vs Predator cover art from the orgiinal Dark Horse comics.

www.instagram.com/p/DRW4hFAEimi/
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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superactionfunboy.bsky.social
Hey guys, is drawing while horny bad?? The previs is so much worse and I will not be posting a timelapse 🤣 day 22 of #xenovember #darkart
An illustration of an Alien in classic crawling pose. Picture is flipped upside down, as she is hanging from the ceiling. She blends from Alien downward, lower torso is a nude woman.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
These people need jail
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room. Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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ryankelly.bsky.social
Bride Of Frankenstein small 8x10 gray sketch. I’m working around the clock to get everyone’s sketches done.
Small ink sketch of the Bride from the 1935 film Bride Of Frankenstein
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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malkintrash.bsky.social
Several reasons why we don't talk about British state oppression in Malaysia but one weird detail here is that the Malaysian Chinese anti-colonial resistance were branded bandits & terrorists for *insurance reasons* (avoiding UK gov having to do payouts to rubber firms instead of private insurers)
Malaya was described by one British Lord in 1952 as the “greatest material prize in South-East Asia”, mainly due to its rubber and tin. These resources were “very fortunate” for Britain, another Lord declared, since “they have very largely supported the standard of living of the people of this country and the sterling area ever since the war ended”. He added: “What we should do without Malaya, and its earnings in tin and rubber, I do not know”.
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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richtate.com
MIDNIGHT MASS is the perfect small town horror. You’ll find places exactly like it down dirt roads across America. The cultishness? The passive agressive nature? The blind faith? All dead on. Flanagan manages to destroy my emotions every single time.

“God will ask horrible things of you.” 🎥 🩸
Midnight Mass poster.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Maurice Tillieux
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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seanfhall.bsky.social
I do a comic and I think it's neat.
agnesfromspace.com

#webcomics #art #kidlit
Agnes, a nine year old in a spacesuit, and Gob, a blue slime creature sit on a tiny space rock playing uno. Agnes is losing badly and not happy about it Agnes and Gob sit under a rocky outcrop while a tentacle alien with tiny hands lurks above them. Agnes is holding a rock ready to defend them if found.
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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markchilcott.bsky.social
Final Versions.
#killbill #tarantino #art
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
me everytime Ghost of Yotei tells me to collect bamboo after today
a man with a beard is drinking from a bottle of water .
Alt: a man with a beard is drinking from a bottle of water hands shaking uncontrollably
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November 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM